I harvested my first archery deer this past weekend on my lease. Shot a doe at 20 yards from my tree-stand.

I actually got away with a poor shot, as the arrow hit high and back of where I wanted. The doe dropped dead in her tracks, as I guess the arrow severed the spine or some nerves. She couldn't move her back legs at all, but obviously the shot wasn't fatal. I had to climb down and finish her off through the lungs/heart.

I didn't think an arrow could have enough energy to break a deer's back, but I'm very pleased with my broadhead which saved my arse. I was using the G5 Montec CS heads. The bow is tuned perfectly, I just made a poor shot. I think my anchor was off or I torqued the bow do to poor body position.

Anyway, my cherry is broken, so now the addiction is even stronger!

great job...post a pic, lets see the lucky lady!

ac

congratulations! bows are more powerful than ever these days. A buddy of mine shot a caribou in the femur (he's usually an excellent shot) and it shattered it. I mean...fragments everywhere like it exploded or something. Massive blood trail too and the thing bled out within 100yds. he was using slick tricks. I've seen a pic of a broadhead lodged in a spine too. at 20yds with a properly tuned bow, you could hit a deer just about anywhere and get great penetration.

Thanks, fellas. Sorry, no pic. I keep forgetting to take a camera to the lease, and before you know it I already had her quartered up.

From now on, I need to take pics for sure because posts are worthless without pics!!

Congratulations on your first bow harvest. You'll never be the same again.

Congrats!

thats so weird, that exact same thing happened to me in oklahoma's opening bow weekend with a doe. hit spine, she dropped and army crawled for 40 yards, i got down and snuck up on her and put another one in her..