[Tenn47]

I think there is another thread with did someone loose a rage. That is a very cool mount though.

 

[MNmike]

Was Jeff Foxworthy hunting there?

 

[vonfoust]

"I hit him perfect, maybe a bit forward."
"Just gotta get a Rage in 'em somewhere and that will kill it."
"Musta hit the 'void'."

 

[jcaporaletti]

That is a cool mount.

 

[Mossy-Back]

That looks like a broadhead, not a bullet...

 

[omoore]

@Venari Cervorum would you like to offer some analysis on this failed headshot for the betterment and learning of the AT community?

 

[omoore]

I'm guessing they backed out after the shot and planned to return the next morning...

 

[PALongbow]

I actually did a similar thing.... Several years ago I had hit a large 10 point buck in the vitals and it took off and stood at 70 yards. I shot another arrow as a follow up and hit the buck in the antler. It actually broke off one of the points and wedged in the opposite antler. The buck was in the process of expiring but fell over in its tracks when I hit the antler. I told the taxidermist to leave the G5 Striker in the antler.

 

[LetThemGrow]

Infalt?

 

[BuddyKMI]

People are crazy. In one of my deer the taxidermist found a 22 in the deers neck.

 

[Venari Cervorum]

@Venari Cervorum would you like to offer some analysis on this failed headshot for the betterment and learning of the AT community?

This picture came up in another thread and I touched on some of the mistakes I made on this deer in my formative years as a sponsored headshooter.

I don't want to make excuses, but I'll go into a little more detail so aspiring headshooters can shorten their learning curves.

1. I forgot to clock my bareshafts and put the wrong helical on.

2. I wore my HECS shirt, but forgot my HECS pants. The buck was on alert because he could sense the static electricity coursing through my leg hair.

3. I wanted to be completely scent free, so I had my 4 ozonics machines pointing down at me in my saddle. I had a crushing headache and vomited into my Traverse hoody while at full draw from all of the ozone I had been breathing.

4. Aluminum riser was really cold, thus making my sensitive hand uncomfortable.

5. My 19 closest hunting buddies without tags kept texting me GPS locations of other big bucks in the area.

We all learn from our mistakes. I followed his bone trail for a few hundred yards until the chips dried up. The tracker I called stopped answering me and got a restraining order after I yelled at his teenage daughter in a pharmacy parking lot. I feel like I did everything I could do to ethically recover that deer.

 

[Pruittfarms]

"I hit him perfect, maybe a bit forward."
"Just gotta get a Rage in 'em somewhere and that will kill it."
"Musta hit the 'void'."

Just a tad high also.

 

[pulleye16]

Just goes to show what happens when expandable meets bone… 500 grain single bevel would have sliced that antler off!

 

[Crowely]

he shot where he was looking....lot of deer get shot in the antler with a rifle

 

[Dafis]

Still like to know if the guy who shot the deer made that shot too. Like as a second shot.

 

[2bwhnt]

TV hunter at extreme yardage?

 

[LetThemGrow]

TV hunter at extreme yardage?

Doesn’t even need to be extreme for their skill level…

 

[omoore]

I'm glad I asked. Thanks for my daily laugh. Much needed.

This picture came up in another thread and I touched on some of the mistakes I made on this deer in my formative years as a sponsored headshooter.

I don't want to make excuses, but I'll go into a little more detail so aspiring headshooters can shorten their learning curves.

1. I forgot to clock my bareshafts and put the wrong helical on.

2. I wore my HECS shirt, but forgot my HECS pants. The buck was on alert because he could sense the static electricity coursing through my leg hair.

3. I wanted to be completely scent free, so I had my 4 ozonics machines pointing down at me in my saddle. I had a crushing headache and vomited into my Traverse hoody while at full draw from all of the ozone I had been breathing.

4. Aluminum riser was really cold, thus making my sensitive hand uncomfortable.

5. My 19 closest hunting buddies without tags kept texting me GPS locations of other big bucks in the area.

We all learn from our mistakes. I followed his bone trail for a few hundred yards until the chips dried up. The tracker I called stopped answering me and got a restraining order after I yelled at his teenage daughter in a pharmacy parking lot. I feel like I did everything I could do to ethically recover that deer.

 

[deadquiet]

Actually it dodged a broad head........lol