Air ball

The stuck stalk

Dad finally got to feeling better after several days of nausea and headaches and went hunting last night. He still-hunted in the same spot as Saturday evening when he saw 5 jakes and 14 does and yearlings near the upper end of Ralph's corn field.

While the deer weren't as active as they were on Saturday night, one lone yearling did offer a quartering away shot at about twenty yards. Unfortunately, the still and quiet conditions when combined with the deer's nervousness at the time caused the deer to "jump the string" and jump nearly two feet away by the time the arrow arrived. Dad's note to self: don't concentrate so hard on the "spot" without paying attention to whether the deer's head is up or not. In this case, the deer was on high alert and didn't have to first raise it's head before jumping. Usually, if a deer's head is down, it has to first raise it before reflexively jumping.

There's always and excuse, isn't there :)

The fallen log where the shot was taken from

The shot lane into the cornfield