Very cold calm morning. 8am a lone button buck tried to sneak through followed by 2 small doe. Wife told me I had to put some blood on the ground today so I figured the first one would do. At the shot I saw my arrow knock end fly up in the air about 5 ft from the deer then the rest of the arrow graze the top of its back. No idea what the fmj hit but it broke the arrow in half and I for sure didn't see any tree limb around.

The doe decided to mosie around for 10 minutes under the brush and it's sister decided she wanted to stand right where the first was on my messed up shot. I was just about to draw back again when the first turned and came straight down my trail so I put the sight on her again and when she stopped at 10 yards I let the 2ND arrow fly. She didn't move. Dropped in her tracks and flipped over once and that was it.

Great story Dave and congratulations and what time will dinner be?
 
Heard four shots today, not knowing if anyone got lucky.  My short Haired Pointer is standing on the back deck looking in the back door so I think somebody may have just fired a shot close by.   Must go see and chase the dog off the deck which has two gates at either side which she has no problem jumping.
 
Loads of luck to all.

Still have no clue what happened to the arrow on the first shot. It broke about 5 inches from the knock. What's odd is my wife had the same thing happen a few years back and we never figured out what broke hers either. Only thing I can figure is it maybe broke when it hit the ground and I saw it catapulting back up in the air?

 Your arrows are to light for your bow,my guess.You seem to have trouble getting broadheads to fly. How fast does your bow shoot? I'm guessing you hit that fawn high in the spine. Heavy arrows have more kinetic energy,and fly better and easier to tune in, I hate fast bows and short brace height,and 80 let off. I killed 5 bucks in one year in 4 states with my bow turned down to 50 lbs and a whopping 197 ft per second. It was and old new then XI bow made by Myles Keller.

I'm shooting 400 Easton full Metal jackets from a 60 lbs pse axe 7 that Ken at field and stream set up. I figured out the broadhead problem. I had the between the limb dampeners on it and after removing them my arrows all shoot fine.
First shot only grazed her back not even 1/4 deep across her back. 2nd was perfect double lung top of the heart shot.

Found the issue. Flexed my arrows found 2 more bad ones. I think I'll retire all the blue labeled fmjs.

Back at it bright and early this afternoon, 74 degrees with a strong wind out of the south. Not much going on except the tree swaying one direction and my ladder stand going in another, making weird muffled thumps and bumps.

Not overly concerned as I once read a report where more climbing injuries ocurr from people standing on their kitchen chairs then do from a ladder.

Which I can not imagine to be correct... who the hell hunts deer standing on a kitchen chair?

Dammm- good luck one of them isn't sticking outa your -or the wifes- hand.
Complete arrow change in order ??
Ranem over with the truck??
Or are they getting stress cracks when shooting???
That's unusual stuff for too many arrows IMHO.

I have 6 of the blue labeled ones about 5 years old that are getting trashed. Have 6 I picked up last year I'll use then replace after the season. First kill with a rage chisel tip. I'm impressed with the hole. May try out a swhacker next

I tried fmjs hated them heavy arrow but they bend I used them in 2013 not a fan cool concept but bad results