Performance Outdoors

One of our outfitters -- Performance Outdoors -- recently posted a video on YouTube that is pretty impressive.  One of the guys takes a dandy 160-class buck with archery equipment.  There is a slight infomercial in the video for Smart Scouter Trail Cameras, however it's still a quality video of the harvest of a really nice buck.  Also, I wish we would get a little better and longer look at the buck on the ground. 
 
Here's the link:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHv8rTh-XuM&feature=channel_page
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve

That is a very nice buck, for sure. I think it would have been a better harvest video without the Smart Scouter infomercial but it is what it is I guess.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Nice buck, but I would have to question the shot. Looks like a pretty steep down angle and he did not get much in the way of penetration. With where the arrow went in, it should have blown right through that deer. I would have to say that I wouldn't have taken a qtr'ing to shot like that. MPO 

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

Gary---I don't do that much bowhunting, but I agree 100% on your take of that shot!!!

Mike Stephenson
aka Topgun----30-06

I agree that the arrow did not get a ton of penetration but more than likely what happened was the arrow glanced off of the shoulder blade and got hung up in the rib cage not allowing the arrow to pass through completely.  That's just my guess. 
 
I shot a north Missouri buck in similar fashion in 2005 from approximately 5 yards.  I was sitting at around 25 to 28 feet above the ground in a tree stand.  Fortunately I put the arrow right where I was aiming and it passed completely through the buck and I watched him tip over in a hay field not 20 seconds after the string left my fingers.
 
On the angle of the shot you have to remember that we are seeing the cameraman's angle to the deer.  If you go back to the beginning of the video you will see that the cameraman is positioned to the left of the hunter or on the left hand side of the tree, so the hunter being on the right side or the right hand side of the tree is actually getting a more broadside view of the deer than what the cameraman is getting or what the video is showing the viewers.  Also when the hunter pulls back his bow the cameraman is taking the shot from the hunter's left hand side.  I would imagine the tree would not allow the tree stands to be positioned for an over the shoulder view.
 
A further guess is that the arrow would have passed completely through, but the hunter missed his aiming mark by about 1 to 3 inches, which can happen when you have a buck of that size in your sights.  If the impact of the arrow would have been 1 to 3 inches to the right I believe the arrow would have completely passed through and we would have seen it sticking straight up in the ground covered in blood.  Either way, that is one heck of a nice buck. 
 
I also agree that the Smart Scouter commercial takes away from the accomplishment somewhat and to go a point further they should have showed more of the deer without the arrow sticking out of him.
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve  

Steve---I think you are right on the button!  I went back and ran the film again a few times and the shooter had a lot more of a broadside shot that I initially thought.  I stopped the action a number of times and actually caught the arrow at impact.  The shooter missed his mark a good 6" to 8" to the left or it would have probably been a passthrough just like you mention!  It is hard when you watch these videos to remember that the camera is not usually getting the same angle as the shooter. 

Mike Stephenson
aka Topgun----30-06

Very nice buck. But I think the guy rushed the shot as it didn't look like a very good shot angle. I guess maybe BUCK fever set in or something. I would have waited till he turned a little more before taking the shot, but that's just me.

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Paul Snyder
LM NAHC,NRA,SCI,DU

That's a beauty, wish he was on my wall, lol....

Old Cowboys never die, they just keep riding the Range.

Yeah, my bad also. I ALWAYS forget that the cam man is sitting in a diff postion than the shooter, but he did miss by a bunch. I have seen so many shows that have a guy or girl saying perfect shot after impact and from what I saw, it could not have been worse of a shot. I have seen so many spine their animals and claim a perfect shot that I changed channels just so not to have to listen to the bs. Those of us that do watch and do partake in the sport know better.  LOL  I tried videoing my wifes hunt once, and it is not easy to show the hunt, tell the story, get her in frame and get the shot all at the same time. My hats off to those that do.....

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

The camera definitely has to put a whole different aspect on a hunt.  I have seen some of what Gary mentions and it's like those people don't think the audience can see where the arrow hit!  The worst I have seen is where they actually showed a guy shoot at a grizzly from way too far for a bow and the bear was broadside walkng to the right.  He stopped and looked right at the guy who proceeded to sling an arrow and the bear went right down.  He walks over and the arrow is in the right eye of the bear!  A couple inches off and he would have been dealing with one ****ed off grizzly and you sure can't tell me that's where he was aiming.  I can't believe they showed that and it had to be a real negative for anyone watching!!!  I wonder if he had hit it in the jaw if they would have shown the bear eating him alive, LOL!!!

Mike Stephenson
aka Topgun----30-06

You can only wish.

"It is better to rule than serve"

That was a great buck, like the one I'm going to take when I go to Manitoba with Steve next year.
You guys that hunt in town are lucky to have cell tower coverage to use a camera like that. The places I hunt I have to drive 10- 20 miles to get a signal. Dose it work on a satilite signal?
SD

Gary Gray, Rapid City,SD hrd.rock.miner@frontier.com, NRA, NAHC LM

No sir that looks like  the buck I will be taking next year with Steve
 
Either way they should of pulled the arrow out of the deer looks bad IMO

Y'all are smoking some pretty good stuff.............I already have my bags packed.  LOL

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

Top,
 A jaw hit, bet all you would have see would have been the ground in the next few frames. Maybe some backsides running for thier life. LMAO

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

I swear I have seen big name hunters on TV take a shot at a deer that plain just sucked and when they recover it it was not the same deer I know I have seen it at least two or three times.  

Here too, along with some pretty terrible shots that would not be lethal but when found, they were dead. Things that make you hummmmmmmmmm.

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member