“I got a little upset over that, but we decided to call in Longspur Tracking. She found the arrow with virtually no blood and was disheartened. He came in to about a 30 yard shot, but he was quartered away,” she said.Īshley had never shot a deer quartering away and when she let the arrow fly, she was worried about the outcome as he leaped on into the woods. “I was thinking, he’s not going to come in close enough to shoot, but then he did. He exposed himself at about 50 yards just before the daylight disappeared. However, the wily buck made a different move, ultimately a mistake, and showed up just a tad early. Therefore as darkness fell on October 16th, she assumed it would be the same old story. “Every evening about a half hour after dark, he would come into the stand,” she explained. Therefore, the pressure on the buck would be rigid.Īshley’s positioning was right, but her timing was a mess.

It was the first time she had seen the buck, but knew others in the area where she hunts had seen him on trail camera for the last two or three years.

He’d come in right after dark,” she explained.Īshley had spotted the massive buck on camera ahead of the season and decided he was the one she would pursue in 2021. Ashley Mullens of Hacker Valley, was fairly certain the buck she was after had outsmarted her again. Darkness was quickly falling on the rugged mountains of Webster County on the evening of October 16, 2021.

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