Backyard Junior Bow Pro: Joe Lasher Jr.

Man, I had a great time with my Dad this past week.  It was the last week of the Central NC Deer Season.  Although I was tagged out in Western NC, I did have one more doe tag for Central NC.   I got a new Mathews Drennalin for Christmas, all tricked out with red dampeners and more and was dieing to try it out.  Thanks to Backyard Billy, we were able to go down to one of our Backyard Bow Pro Communities to try to take out a "broke leg" doe that the property owners and neighbors had been seeing.  She was pitiful....and nobody likes seeing that.

We got to the property around 2:30, spoke to the home owners, then got in the tree.  By 3:30, we'd already seen a nice  buck and a few does.  Then,  we saw the one we were after.  She was with three other deer.  They made their way below us about 100 yards and out into a field and began feeding.   It wasn't long after that and there were at least 10 deer feeding close to us at one of our feeders.   In NC, it's legal to use, and hunt over, corn feeders.  We use them quite a bit in our Backyard Communities.  These folks have enlisted us to do a job, which is to take out as many does as we can quickly and efficiently.  Feeders make that job just a bit easier.

All the deer milling around the corn feeder must have attracted the broken leg doe and her friends because they came right in on a string.  I was able to make a great shot on her.  When the G5 broadhead hit, it sounded like a whip cracking.  In fact, it was so loud, my Dad (who was filming) thought that I might have missed and hit a rock or a tree.   The doe didn't go 60 yards and piled up!

Needless to say, my Mathews did the trick!   Dad and I were both pretty fired up.  We had time to switch and I took the camera.  Nothing came in the rest of the evening....I think it had a lot to do with the lady walking her dog through the woods about 75 yards from us! 

Taking out this broken legged doe was a big win for everyone involved.  Of course, she's much better off....turns out, it was probably a car collision that injured her.  Our property owners and their neighbors don't have to watch her struggle everyday just to survive, so that makes them happy.  I got to score with my new bow!   And, this makes 27 does we took out of that community, which equates to about 5,400 meals of lean, healthy, hunter harvested venison donated through our chapter of Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry!  WIN - WIN - WIN - WIN!

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Here's a short video clip of the hunt!  Hope you enjoy.....Rock On!

- Joe

Man, i'm really excited to be a part of Team Backyard Bow Pro.  I'm one of two Junior Pro-Staffers on the team.   I've had an awesome year in the woods.  Here in Western North Carolina, we're allowed two bucks and 3 does....I'm happy to have filled ALL my tags!   What's really cool is that all the hunts were caught on video and will be featured in our "shoot to grill" video series.   Here's one that you might like called "Smoke Pole Smack Down".  

Me and my dad went to the woods on the last day of the WNC Black Powder Season to harvest a big doe.  I ended up taking my first buck with a black powder gun.  I was so jacked up, I could hardly talk after it was all done.   I guess that's why we love it so much.  

Here's a picture of the buck.  He was a very heavy and older deer with a smaller 6 point rack.  I'm proud of him and dude....did he taste GREAT.   We fried his heart and ate it that night.

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