Seymour, TN
United States
Nick Lucas
Submitted On:
1/26/2010 8:15:21 PM
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This year I had the opportunity to hunt in Ohio with my friend, Logan. Having been an archery hunter since the age of 14, I have hunted in many great areas including Canada; however, this was the first time I hunted in Ohio. I also experienced another first with this hunt … the use of a mechanical broadhead. This was not just any merchanical broadhead, but a Rage Two Blade. I have over 40 years of hunting under my belt and have always used a fixed blade.
November 15, 2009 and the day could not be a more beautiful fall morning. As I anxiously sit in the stand, at 8:17 am I see the tips of antlers moving through thick scrub and CRP grass. At a distance of approximately 45 yards, I get a glimpse of the left side of about 4 inches of tine. The deer then emerges from the thicket and I realize he is a giant. This massive deer begins to move away from me. I quitely grab my grunt tube and give it one quick grunt. The buck immediately stops in his tracks. I grunt one more time, and the buck begins to take out his aggression on a decent size sapling. We now have a standstill. From my viewpoint, I see only the sapling being thrashed about . Once the sapling stops moving I catch sigh of the monster buck retreating down a small draw. I think to myself this was the last I will see of this buck. I patiently wait a few minutes and give a couple grunts hoping to again see the buck. It is then I notice a small tree in front of me with yellow leaves raining to the ground. Thoughts of the squirrel I had seen earlier in the morning pass quickly through my mind, but to my surprise out steps one of the biggest bodied and antlered deer I have ever laid my eyes on. This deer is heading straight to me. I begin to immediately go into shooting mode hoping for a quartering away or broadside shot. As luck has it, the buck turns at approximately 19 yards and gives me the quartering shot I was hoping for. I release the arrow and the shot is perfect. The monster buck kicks up his hind legs and takes off running. He heads straight across and in front of me and then stops about forty-five yards in the high CRP grass. The last sight I see is the deer heading into the thicket. It was 8:30 am when I call my friend, Logan, and whisper, “I just shot a monster, a giant!” I tell Logan I will stay in my stand until 10:30, and we agree to meet and recover the deer. After a short time tracking, I look up to my left and see the buck laying under one of the thick bushes of his bedding area.
As you can see from the pictures, RAGE TWO BLADE did it’s job. The buck travelled only about 60 yards from the point of impact. The old saying goes “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, but this old dog learned a new trick … hunt with a RAGE BROADHEAD. In the end, this deer grossed 160 1/8, and that is all the proof I will ever need. I hope this convinces other hunters to try the RAGE BROADHEAD.
Happy Hunting!
Nick Lucas, Sevierville, Tennessee
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