Noland Outdoors

  I arrowed this "spike", we'll call it, today January 8th, 2011.  Mike Williams and I went hunting on this cold, frosty morning with this buck being the only deer seen.  I was hunting the edge of a cane thicket when the deer came sneaking up behind me at 9:30am.  The deer was of average body size and I shot it thinking it was a doe, not seeing the antlers, which had not broken the skin.  The deer was quartering too at 20 yards but I had a clear lane and the Muzzy MX-3 went through the heart and exited behind the liver.  The deer ran 50yds before expiring.  Only when I got my hands on the deer did I realize that it wasn't a doe after all but the biggest "knotty head" I've ever seen.  I hate that I shot this immature buck but it happens to all bowhunters from time to time.  We show the good and not-so-good, keeping it real.