Both men briefly backed off the chase when movement was heard in the dark woods, and then the search commenced again. The pair of hunters quickly found a good blood trail and began searching for the mortally wounded buck. He asked where I shot it and we started looking for the blood trail." "I told him that I thought it was a keeper, but I didn't get a good look at it. "I told him that I had shot and he wanted to know how big," Henry said. "That's when I really started to get nervous and I wanted to get down and start looking for him right away."Īfter a five-minute wait, Henry climbed down from his stand and waited for his friend Jeff to arrive at the stand location.
I put my gloves down and tried to find the string to let my bow down," he said. "That's when everything hit me and I started shaking.
A few seconds later, the archer thought he heard the deer go down in the damp woods. Really, it happened so fast, I drew the bow, put the sight pin on him at 20-yards and hit him right where I was aiming for."Īfter the shot, Henry sat down and listened as the deer bolted from the stand site. The only shot I had was in the front part of his body. "I was looking to see where I could get a shot off. "I really wasn't looking at his head at all," he said. Henry doesn't recall getting nervous while being in a stare-down with one of the largest typical whitetail bucks in hunting history. 'I really wasn't looking at his head at all' I probably would have dropped my bow and fallen out of the tree-stand if I had." I just don't remember seeing his rack when he was looking up at me. I was up probably 25 to 30 feet up into the tree where I was. When I turned around to get square, he was 15-yards in front of me and looking right up at me." "I turned around and by that time, he was breaking the timber and had heard me take my bow from the tree-limb. "I got my bow and put my release on the nock," Henry recalled. Still, he could tell that the buck was a shooter and turned to trade his optics for his bow. He tried to find the deer in his binoculars, but brush kept him from getting a clean look at the buck as it closed in. But around 5:25 p.m., Henry picked up a deer moving in his direction at a quick pace. "I wasn't feeling real good that I was going to see anything."įor a while, it seemed that Henry would not see any more deer for the day. "After that last one at 5 o'clock, I was worried about the fog because it was limiting my sight to about 100 yards out and it was starting to rain," Henry said. Around 5 o'clock, the archer went through his calling routine one last time. Shortly thereafter, Henry made his first grunt call and rattling routine from his stand. Around 11 that morning, a few does and a small buck popped into sight. Henry got his climbing stand up into the tree and settled in for the day after hanging some scent canisters.įor the first couple of hours, the hunter saw no deer activity at all.
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