He's Still running

Since I am about the only one still hunting I thought I would share an update. This morning Jesse and I sat in a stand on Spring creek. This stand is about 75 yards from where Dad set up his ground blind. Toby was in another stand. He saw nothing except a calf that came to his grunt calls. At 8:45 Jesse tapped me and pointed north. I looked and saw nothing. When he pointed again I realized I had looked past a large 8 point buck. This deer was larger than any I have shot. He was at 35 yards and looking right at us. I think he saw Jesse pointing. As he looked away I drew. Knowing something wasn't right he started to leave giving me a quartering away shot. I used my long pin and released. The arrow went quite a bit low. It actually hit him in the lower front leg. I could not believe I had shot so low. After retrieving the arrow I realized that by the time I released he was actually 41 yards out. Definitely too far for my sight pin. At home I took a shot at the same distance and shot in exactly the same place except that I missed the leg two inches to the right at home. Right after the buck ran we had a spike come in to about 15 yards responding to my grunts calls. He never offered a shot. Later we saw three very nice bucks about 150 yards. They completely ignored my grunt calls. Hopefully my next update will include pictures of the big one.