LTWL Hunter Online April 2014 | Page 15

Jeremiah thought he put a good shot on him and said “When I saw him running away, I lost it - all the joy and the hard work that went into this”. Even retelling the story to me, I could feel the emotion from that moment. After the shot, Jeremiah waited for two hours, he wanted to give him plenty of time to expire, he had put in all that hard work, he didn’t want to bump him. Nine Lives in the field Getting down from his stand, he retrieved his arrow. Five yards from the arrow, he found blood. He went back to his house and regrouped, came back with more people and easily picked up the blood trail and followed it to a CRP field where he found his buck. www.livethewildlifetv.com 15