Hunter: Noah Cordell
Points: 7 (3L, 4R)
County: Walton
Season: 2024-2025
Hunt Story
Friday, September 27 I should’ve been at school but it was canceled because of the hurricane. I took advantage of staying home with no football and decided to grab my PSE Drive Compound bow and go hunt. While I was in the stand, I was looking at my phone and nature around me, listening to the birds and watching the squirrels crawl around in the trees before a fawn walked in that didn’t really do much and mostly just stood there eating corn, but it was a little too small for me to shoot, so I decided to wait it out. Before I knew it, I saw the body of a deer. I expected it to be the mother and I had already thought about shooting her until it walked out into the open and I saw the large pair horns above his head and that’s when I knew. A good size buck walks in and started eating on the corn as the baby ran away. I waited with my bow drawn back to get that perfect angle on its side, and after some thinking and a few nervous shakes, I tried to stay as still as possible so it wouldn’t notice me. The buck quarters to me and I let go of the release and it drives straight into its heart. I used a Magnus stinger buzz cut broadhead and it left a solid blood trail about 100 yards straight to the deer, took about ten minutes to find. I texted my parents and they told me to wait a little bit and they will come out to help me track it. My mom, dad and baby sister (3) came out and tracked it with me alongside the creek. It left a solid blood trail about 100 yards then we found it and I was so excited to have put a good heart shot on my first bow buck!
