I have hunted these game lands for some 10 years, and taken some nice animals off them. I have done my scouting and I knew for the eveing hunt, I wanted to be on the hill that is used for transition from bedding to feeding grounds. My summit climber went up the tree with ease and I was set for the last 3.5 hours of light. At 5:10 two does crossed higher up the hill from me, about 30 yards away. I let the first one pass and waited till the second put her head behind a tree and I stood, put an arrow on the leather shelf of the Wes Wallace custom take down bamboo longbow. The doe moved a bit further and was framed between two small saplings, her vitals offered to me. The draw was smooth and the follow through perfect for the thirty yard shot.
As the arrow traced the sacred arc, created by God's physics and the dynamics of the materials crafted by a master, the thought in my mind was "she is closer than that". The arrow's flight was quiet and the doe didn't hear the whisper of the bampoo that propelled the sure death towards her, standing perfectly still framed for my view. The arrow hit with a solid thud after passing OVER the backstraps of that beautiful doe. 23 yards up hill, when I am 25 feet up a tree, yields a miss on a perfect 30 yard shot. The math now firmly etched into the nerons of this anicient soul. The two does spooked a few yards , then continued along their way.
30 mins later, a lighter colored but much larger deer passed going in the opposite direction, about 60 yards away. This buck stayed up the hill from me, bedding down and then eventually moving on. It was this buck that kept me from taking a shot at the other 4 does that passed within the flight path of that first arrow. No deer backstrap for dinner tonight but....
There were Bison backstraps thawing at the house and I was so looking forward to having them for dinner. I marinated the straps, cut in strips, and added the usual spices. The grill was fired up, threw some sliced mushrooms in some EVO, added garlic salt, and then quick seared the back straps. Eight mins for the shrooms to get done, just 4 mins for the meat. Pure heaven I tell you!!!! Melted in my mouth, the shrooms topping each piece that went into my mouth. I had about 8 strips and about a dozen mushrooms, with a side of applesauce. Wow was it ever good.
Good time I'm sure though. Your dinner looked fantastic too. 
