wstrntines
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Last weekend I was fortunate enough to punch my tag on the extended archery. I had this buck at 30 yds the week before but he busted me. I found him in the exact same spot the next week and started my way down the mountain and when I got 200 yds from him and his hot doe the wind hit my back going straight to them. So I circled around and got my wind right. When I came up the draw to get back on him he left his doe and another buck picked her up. At this point my buddy had the buck and I in the spotting scope he was 30 yds and I couldn't see him. Again he busted off. So I worked my way down the backside of the ridge he ran down. Making my way across the flats I ran into the buck he was standing in front of a tree at 81 yds. He took a couple steps and stopped and I made a perfect shot. The buck jumped and bucked when i hit him and all I could see was fletchings buried in his shoulder. I waited about an hour to retrieve him. When we went back in at dark to track him we couldn't find any blood. I searched for about 25 minutes in all the thick trees and found nothing. I was about to back out for the night and decided start dropping elevation and found him in the tall grass piled up. I'm glad I was able to tag out on the front and have been fortunate enough to do so the last 3 years. Hopefully I can share some pictures of an elk kill sometime here in the next few weeks on the extended.