Congrats Mate! Looks like a fun time, thanks for sharing 

Awesome.  Congrats a couple of nice harvests.

Well said and nice looking arrows... although I kinda like the looks of the bloody one better.

BBQ pit time.

Yesterday afternoon the wind was good once more so I ventured out again and approached from the same direction. I spotted a lone boar straight away and dropped my pack. He foraged right to me and gave me a shot at about 5 yards. Shot looked a bit high and back and their wasn't much blood. I didn't fancy my chances of finding him with the orchard being surrounded by long grass.

I looked for my arrow and couldn't locate it and decided just to follow his exit path while looking for any blood. As I walked out the other side of the orchard there was a small clearing of short grass and to my surprise there he was, dead.

I field dressed him and found that I actually got the back of both lungs and the liver. Not as far back as I thought it was.

Looking forward to some hot smoked pork.


Used my Border Black Douglas this time. Magnus 1 head. Found my arrow too. Had a lumenock on it. Handy in long grass.

So, I've seen the draw length/limb+riser charts for ILF, and the mfg info for my Bosen longbow limbs (long 62"-17" riser) was not quite as generous; meaning I should keep the long/17 combo for my 28.5" draw length...
Question: If I can draw this bow to 29.5/30" before stacking, do you think it will stack on a 15" riser?

Thanks all, and Happy Thanksgiving!

The perfect post, just what I was looking for, the same 45#/28.5".
I'm sure my bow isn't as efficient as your Widow; I'm shooting 75+125 up front on a 500 Axis.  You hit the nail on the head with having to leave the next spine-up long...took forever for me to figure that out!
My same 29" 460gr 500 arrow, jumps to 670gr 400sp when I keep the same length...It's like it just refuses to bend until you give it no choice?? (275 + 115 insert).

Glad to read adequate performance on the rounded Magnus SB's, I'm doing anything pointy and serrated, hoping for the best but no actual results from me.  Going to have to try Victory Trad 450's, probably be a better compromise on weight and speed.

Like Fred Bear's Restless spirit says, we like old orchards.

I've been hunting an abandoned apricot orchard lately. It's loaded with fruit and has been pulling in pigs on a string.

A couple of weeks ago the wind was right to approach the small grove of trees that was providing the food. Slowly making my way to the edge of the orchard I soon heard them feeding and moving around. There was a group of small pigs having a great time blissfully unaware of my presence. I managed a 20 yard shot with a Simmons treeshark and they disappeared into the long grass surrounding the orchard. I managed to find the little pig which didn't go far. 

This was the first kill with a new to me bow. Satori riser with Border hex6.5h limbs. It's my backup bow.

Beautiful bow, beautiful deer. Congratulations! 

Very nice