Kirk, at the moment I am in the process of moving all my stories to a personal forum so Rob can tell me how to save them all onto an external hard drive and make duplicates on thumb drives.  I'm doing this so my girls and grand kids, when I have them, can read about my hunts and adventures.  I'm pulling them from all over the site as they are scattered everywhere and I have moved a few to the 'Tarz Antics' forum.... link below to this said hunt.....

https://www.tradgang.com/tgsmf/index.php?topic=60516.0

BTW, there is also a few comments in this story about trusting your gut instincts.

Profile says he registered in 2005. That would be 17yrs ago, when he was 21.

Bisch

Yeah, sorry Bisch, I was typing as you were posting and I missed your post.  Correct, either way its cool! 

I've always mounted them horizontal so I don't have to look through the blade at my target.

Additionally, I like to tune and cut my arrows to be within a 1/4" of my actual draw. (I just don't prefer a lot of useless overhang) Mounting the broadheads horizontal allows you to slightly overdraw (if you get too excited) as a vertical mounted head will hit your arrow shelf well before a horizontal head will hit the side of your riser on many broadheads.

For those that prefer a substantially longer arrow length than your actual draw its a worthless point. Yet, a lot of folks sometimes obtain arrows that are just a little too short; and mounting broadways horizontal (such as a Zwickey Eskimo) will allow a little more than an additional 1/4"draw than a vertical mounted on many recurve bows....maybe on some longbows as well but I'm not sure.

Here you'd have to have it up a few days before hunting it.  Pigs would walk right by but deer it would spook them.  Anything different throws them for a loop for a few days.

I also see 22 stamped on the bow, I’ve not seen this before ?