I was late getting to my selected stand on the morning I killed my buck. My farm has a geography of wooded ridges separating by hollows which are pastures. But one of them had been badly overgrown previous to my purchasing it. My father and I invested a lot of work cleaning and clearing this area to make a series of undulating food plots down this hollow. Each of these hollows runs out into a creek bottom and across the creek is a brushy overgrown field that I don't own. My stand was located at the base of the ridge separating the food plot, and overlooking the creek.

     I had come over the top of the ridge, stalking my stand, knowing I was late, when a doe broke from cover and passed by me at about 5 yards, immediately followed by an 8 point buck, hot on her tail. He completely ignored me. Both dropped off the ridge into the creek bottom and the buck stopped. I nocked an arrow and took a shot at him at about 25 yards. My arrow hit a thumb size overhanging limb and went into outer space. The buck took off.  I was not very happy, and cussing myself under my breath, I proceeded to my stand which was only about 50 yards away.

     I  was in the stand only 10 minutes when I saw another 8 point buck coming in from my left from the food plot area into the creek bottom. He was moving at a fast walk and looked big, but nothing was stopping him because the air had to be thick with doe pheromones. So I took a shot at about 25 yards while he was moving. It completely passed through, but too far back. He bounced out a few more yards and stopped behind a tree. His back legs were buckling as I nocked a second arrow, but he turned and started walking away from me toward the brushy, overgrown field. I took another shot at him directly going away at about 40 yards. He ran another 60 yards and piled up. I found him 20 yards inside the brushy field.

     The second arrow had passed through the pelvic bone and went up into the chest cavity. I heartily recommend Wensel Woodsman broadheads. They are tough and fly perfectly. I was using a Bighorn one piece recurve (63#) and 545 grain carbon arrows, which I am also completely sold on. Dipped, crested and fletched with turkey feathers they have a traditional look, even though the latest technology. An arrow that stays perfectly straight is more important to me than the bow I shoot.