No hunting reports??? Guess I will get it started.. Not much to tell about deer hunting, but last week when I was hunting deer, something else walked into my feeder pen. I noticed movement on my right thru some cedars and the color of the animal did not alert me to deer. Thought it may be a hog due to the dark color. Not a Hog!! In walked a very impressive male auodad. I have seen, hunted and killed an auodad before,but this guy is impressive. Where the heck did he come from? Why have we not seen him before? His chaps caught my eye. I shot a very good auodad a few years ago with my bow. He was shoulder mounted and is hanging on the wall, but,,,,,this guy has chaps on the legs covering his hoofs, his neck chaps are close to the ground, and I am in dis-belief that this magnificant animal walks into my feeder pen in Williamson County on a low fence ranch. Where did he come from??? Who cares, I quietly draw my bow, touch the release, and let the arrow fly. All I remember seeing is the lighted nock half imbeded in this animal and thinking I hit him high, but when he crashed thru the pen panels, and hearing a loud crash in the cedars, I think I made a good shot and was hoping... As I forgot my cell phone I had no way to communicate with Darrell and knowing I may need help, I walked into his hunting area and made contact. I had already given the animal 20 minutes after the shot, we decide to give more time before tracking. Going to the truck, we drive to my stand location. 30 minutes have passed, but hearing the loud crash in the cedars, we start the tracking and we hope the auodad is down. We immediately find blood at 5 yards, find my arrow with the lighted nock at 10 yards but no blood. Darrell follows the hoof prints in the direction I heard the loud crash. We see the cedar limb about 5-6 inches thick freshly broken in half. Scan the flashlight and see my trophy on the ground not but 38 yards from when the arrow made contact. By the way. I shot a mechanical Spitfire thru shoot-thru screen without a problem. Thanks Darrell. The auodad has been caped, and I am having a half body mount made to remember this awesome time in my archery hunting.
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