Trad Gang
Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Terry Green on January 08, 2008, 09:29:00 PM
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Have at it guys.......I'll start it off with this little doe I got in TX......
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/solana0818.jpg)
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This is my first ever Traditional Bow kill. I was using Wensel Woodsman screw-ins, on 250 Red Head Carbon Supreme Arrows. My bow is a custome bow from Bayou Buck Bows of Marietta, OK bowyer G.W. Flanagan. 45#@28 64". Cool thing is, my son (who is in the picture) was with me in the stand.
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Headshot right before he got into the palmettos.
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LOOK at that bow backing material, Excellent !!! :thumbsup:
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Good god man..........now thats a snake.bd
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i got just rabbit trails and missed ducks. I need to come to usa
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(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w129/Trooper_026/resized2.jpg)
This is my 3rd bowkill with the same old Bear broadhead this season. Here's my story:
While everyone was watching the "game" last night,(LSU vs Ohio State bowl game) I was tracking this 5 ptr. He came out pretty late, last of light. When I shot I heard what sounded like the arrow hitting a branch or tree. I could not see what the arrow hit or where it went.
I set a compass reading in the direction I heard him run. When I got down I could not find my arrow or see any blood. I pulled out my compass and started tracking at 6:30PM. At about 50 yards I found my first drop of blood and then the blood trail really started. I tracked him for about 100 yards and jumped him up. This was at about 6:45. I sat on the ground and waited until 7:00 and started again. At 7:30 I heard him jump up again so I sat and waited until 7:45. Normally I would have backed out and returned in the morning. But the weather channel showed rain for the morning plus I could tell he was hit good. I started tracking again. I could tell it was a lung hit! Finally at 8:15 I found him.
He was quartering away from me when I shot, his left side was to me. The arrow entered about 6 inches behind the left shoulder and hit the far side shoulder bone, making that noise when the broadhead hit the bone.
I took pictures, quartered him out and with the quartered deer in my rucksack on my back I headed for my jeep at 8:45. After stopping twice to rest, I finally made it to my jeep at 9:30PM.
WOW, what a rush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Trooper. Nice story. Do you want to try for Javalina in Mexico after the deer season ends here?
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Guys, this thread is for 2008 kills only....there was a 2007 thread that has now been archived.
Please only post kills from this year....thanks.
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Sat. nite,last hunt of my season,packed my stand and 2 sticks of ladder back in a switchgrass field of CRP,and hung it in a big oak 8 yds from a beaten path. Nearly froze to death over the next 2 1/2 hours,just when I was gonna call it quits 15 minutes early(gettin old I reckon)a smallish doe came ambling up outta the brush. I wasn't gonna shoot,but it turned off the trail,stopped 6 yds from my oak and I did. Turned out it was a button buck,but I'll bet he'll be quite tasty!
Sorry,no pics. Good luck all for the rest of your season! :thumbsup:
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I got to spend the weekend in southern Georgia exporing the swamps along the Chickasawhatchie river with my TBG buddies.....
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Know how sometimes a song gets stuck in your mind? Well, resting peacefully and watching the water flow south, I kept hearing " 'Ol black water, keep on rolling, Mississippi moon gonna keep on shinin' on, 'ol black water......"
By this part of the season, the deer and hogs are no longer found in the green fields...
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nor in the open woods under the live oaks with their draping Spanish moss....
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No, there were only found deep in the thickest, nastiest cover available, where they could safely slurp up the abundant crop of acorns and crabapples...
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/SCJeff/GA/P1010479.jpg)
I walked many miles the first day but saw only a few deer and dozens of squirrels. I found fresh rootings on the second day, but just couldn't catch up with the piney woods rooters. I did see some more deer and had unfilled tags in my wallet, but didn't get any closer than this to a buck....
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/SCJeff/GA/P1010466.jpg)
At least 3 hogs were killed this weekend by the Traditional Bowhunters of Georgia and I heard of one nice buck that was missed, but this was the only trophy that I claimed, the remains of a true swamp monster whose skull was about 6" wide....
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/SCJeff/GA/P1010471.jpg)
How I love those Georgia swamps, and sharing a campfire with fellow Tradgangers and traditional bowhunters! A kill, although always welcome, is secondary to such an experience for me.
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That is a BIG snapper.How old do you guess it was ?
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Well,it ain't gonna get any older... :bigsmyl: :campfire:
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The only arrow I've shot at a critter so far this year......
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NOTE: Trad bow kills only, please!
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LOL!!!!!!! :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
That was way funny!
Tonight I was blessed with a bunny. A good friend sent me a 60# Martin Mountaineer that he didn't use anymore. Tonight was the first time I got to play around with it. I sent a cedar tipped with a nut/washer combo into a 4 inch hole surrounded by a thick briar tangle and made good on the shot.
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I forgot to add this also. I shot this squirrel a week ago near the same area as the rabbit. I used a McCullough longbow and cedars tipped with a washer/nut combo.
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Nice rabbit and skwerl. I like that camo,is that dutch or british.Like them red leaves. :thumbsup: :campfire:
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shot this nice little eating goat the other day with my toelke whip - 46lb@30"
arrows were blackhawk carbon shafts with 50gr brass inserts, 100gr steel adaptors and 100gr tusker spirit broadheads - 525gr total.
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Shot this small hog in Oklahoma on Jan 19. 46# and a GT 525 gr with a stinger on the end.
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Great kills and stories guys! Thanks for sharing!
Nigel :bigsmyl: :thumbsup:
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agree, nice kills. That kind of takes lives only in my dreams.
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Not much to brag about but I did stick an opposum this afternoon. Lost a cedar shaft to the bugger. It exploded on a rock as it went through. Perfect chot though. 20 yards quartering away. double lunged.
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Eat more possum....LOL That's good shooting.
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nice animals guys!! good shooting also
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Here is this years buck.
(http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/4662/111720073eh8.jpg)
And a few hogs this year.
(http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/3043/hog205wi6.jpg)
(http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/2609/hogandherters22006hn7.jpg)
(http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/7895/hogpicnov1gd3.jpg)
(http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/7943/hogsteve06bs5.jpg)
All were taken with my 1978 Herters recurve.
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A beautiful buck and 4 hogs already this year - WOW!!
Congratulations.
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Congrats... still waiting to get my first kill for the year...
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TexasBubba,
Nice hog. How far did he go after the shot?
John
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nice Hog..Congrats..
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Javelina showdown...
I was driving around the ranch this weekend (2-10-08) with my grandfather when we spotted two javelina about 300 yards down a scendaro. I decided to make a stalk on them so I grabbed my bow and two arrows and dove into the brush on a jog. By the time I edged out of the woods to where they had been they were gone, however I noticed a very worn trail leading into the brush on the opposite side of the scendaro. It was still early morning and the light mist had been coming for a while now. On the sandy trail I could just make out dry spots of sand where the javelin had kicked off the wet top layer. I was hot on there trail!
Slowly creeping into the brush I made about 30 yards before I spotted a black back up ahead. It was seconds later that I realized that these two had been the stragglers of the posse and that I had come up on over 10 of them! They were all feeding away from me and seemed relaxed now that they were in the thick cover. The morning dew and mist made my footsteps silent as I crept closer and closer. It was at this point that I realized that in my excitement to catch up to them I had left my shooting glove in the rhino. I would have to shoot bare fingers. Not knowing how this would affect my shooting I wanted to get as close as possible for the shot and at ten yards I drew and let one fly at a baby...
I missed! My arrow caught the twig that I had squatted down to miss and deflected my arrow off course. Everything froze and the javelina all gained 20 pounds as their long hair brisseled up not knowing what was happening. I quickly nocked the arrow I was holding in my left hand and fired again at a good sized female about 15 yards from me. It was a bad shot but I got lucky and caught her in the jugular. I watched her going down not ten yards from where she was standing not realizing that I had javelina circled halfway around me and I was the center of attention. For what seemed like ten minutes but was probably more like 10 seconds we stood there sizing each other up. My initial thought was TREE but after no one made a move and cursing myself for not bringing my quiver with more arrows I decided that trying to reach my first arrow would be the best bet. It didn't happen as with my first movement they realized they were dealing with a cold blooded killer (ok they probably just decided I wasn't worth it) and took off in every direction.
Thanks for reading and for all the stories and information on everyone posts.
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Also, my Uncle and I are interested in trading a Javelina or night hog hunt for a daytime hog hunt. We are just looking for some different terrain and some stick and string fellowship. We are near Falfurrias TX if anyone is interesed.
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Congratulations. You should have just said that you shot the jugular because you wanted a very big, very short, blood trail :)
John
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Spot and stalk Texas hog taken with a Wes Wallace Royal 55# @27", Ash arrows with a Grizzly El Grande 190gr broadhead. 10 yard shot.
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Nice, TexasAg. You have a flair for writing, too.It sounds like a great place to have fun.
Thanks for sharing!
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:clapper: congrats.
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Here is a javelina I shot last week in south Texas. He was a monster old boar, the outfitter said he was 8-9 years old. I watched him for about 35 min. till it got light enough to shoot. I used a 52# Great Northern Fireball, larch arrow, and a woodsman head.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a378/jackdenbow/Texas2008009email.jpg)
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"Smilin' Jack"...congrats bud :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Here is a bunny that I took during the 2008 Michigan Bunny Stomp... what a great time!!
(http://www.pixofnature.com/photos/bs08/bunnystomp08-bunny.jpg)
Kevin.
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Nice kill and stories guys! ;) :thumbsup:
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JANUARY 2008 - RED FOX
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Way to go Jack. Good pics guys, Congrats
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congrats all :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
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This is my first ever bunny, taken February 15th. Shawn is a great guide!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Killdeer/TG%20Uploads/JLMBH/Img_5337.jpg)
This is my second bunny, taken on the run the next day.
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Killdeer~I never get to post HERE! :scared: :bigsmyl:
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Nice job Killdeer!
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Nice Killy. :clapper:
Sure is a perty bow, can you fill me in on the nock point?
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The nocking point is a fairly new, high-tech development made famous by Bob Morrison. Bob is well known for his innovative and painstaking manufacturing skills, and all of his bows come with this feature.
Killdeer.
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oooooohhhhhh..............and here I thought it was tape errrrrr sumpmm :knothead:
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Uh, umm.....Right! :bigsmyl:
Killdeer :jumper:
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Hi Killdeer,long time no hear from...
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Not on THIS thread, anyway!! :thumbsup:
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nice pic's....Thanx
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http://trad
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Shot this hog on a hunt in Texas with the Wensels. Robertson stick 63# @ 29. Great hunt, had a ball. The Wensels are always a lot of fun.
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Nice pic! :thumbsup:
Killdeer
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My 1st trad kill of the Year...... (http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k209/rickybob_2006/DSCN0331.jpg) (http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k209/rickybob_2006/DSCN0333.jpg)
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Dad and Chloe Beth on a big adventure...... (http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k209/rickybob_2006/RSCN0342.jpg)
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Congrats to Skyler and Killdeer! Nice shooting!
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Congrats to you too Terry! Nice hog.
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I went out yesterday and today to see if the reds up my way had started to make any noise yet and to see if I could get a bit more access in the area I already hunt.This time Michael my 8 yr old son decided he wanted to come so we headed off sat morning for the hour and a bit run to the area in the Brisbane Valley for a look around.I have access to about 2500 acres along the escarpment ridge line but back off the ridge a bit over the road that runs north along the ridge but have always wanted to hunt the country on the other side of the road as that country leads down into the gorge and runs along the side of the state forest.Last roar I spoke to the old guy that owned it and he had been hearing them roar every morning just below his house and didnt like the idea of people hunting them so his place was off limits.
Anyway over the last year he moved to the coast and now his son has the place so it was definitley worth a visit to see if things could be turned around for this roar.I had the boy with which seems to help at times to soften the land owners a bit but it was not needed. I introduced myself and said I hunt in the area and before I could even ask he said yer thats fine and started to draw a mud map of the best spots on the place.You could have knocked me down with a feather to say the least and when his son came out of the house and said he saw 15 does and a white stag down there during the week I almost couldnt speak.
As we got back in the car it started to rain but we followed the instructions and where soon pushing the car through the lantana along the sides of the logging track heading down in the gorge and after about 10 mins found the spot he had been talking about and sat watching the rain on the windscreen for a few minutes until it stopped.I could not believe it, even where I had parked was covered with deer tracks and some big deep ones at that.We had a bit of a scout around and found some nice looking walking tracks heading off in the bush almost all with deer sign on them this was unreal.
The only thing it lacked was a nice flat spot for the tent so he headed back up on the ridge and found a nice cleared spot with no lantana growing and set up the camp.That night the ownes son came down and saw us and said he had come down to do some more clearing here on the ridge as he was building a small hut right where my camp was and soon I would be able to stay in it instead of camping if it rained.(could this get any better or what?)
All in all it was a great trip and Michael enjoyed his first trip away finding a scorpion and some wild rasberries and an old tractor to play on in the scrub so he was in heaven and it just topped the trip off when we left this morning just out of the property we spotted 5 does in great nick on the side of the road.
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March 2008!
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can't beat those javie's for a fun hunt.
doug77
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good one kim - glad to see michael getting interested in the hunting side of things as well.
cheers - brian
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Awesome!!!!!! to all!!!!
The Red deer pics are awesome. As well as the Javie's!
Happy hunting,
Todd
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Great stuff guys! Great story and pics Auzoutdoors! Excellant trophies Raw Hide! Thanks for sharing guys! ;) :thumbsup: :clapper:
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Great pics guys (and Gals). For someone like myself whos just getting into traditional archery from compound, threads like these are very enjoyable. I love seeing what everyone getting with their longbows and recurves. Now I just got to get me longbow. :p
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No telling what you might stumble across when doing a little stump shooting.
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3-15-08 My buddy (TexasAg) and I took a couple javelina down in south Texas. This was my first longbow kill and hopefully there will be many more to come...
Me
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TexasAg
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Nice pictures guys!
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Scared me 'til I saw that you had a nice-guy-type smile! Sharp hunting there! 'Em javies are all haid! :eek:
Killdeer :wavey:
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As much as I wanted to head out to my new red deer spot I had been told that Easter W/end was going to be family time so it took a bit of thinking to come up with a plan that would cover the family thing and mabey give me an oppertunity to have a shot as well.I managed to look away when the stare was put on when the bows went in the car with the other gear so all was good I mean after all if the kids were playing in the canoe why would I have a bit of a walk around the river bank?
After recent rain and flooding in the Moonie district I thought the river might still have enough water to give the distraction the kids need when camping to keep them out of Mum and Dads hair. :D I even put the canoe on hoping the trouble of carting it all that way would be worth it.I have only ever fished from it and had not really given any though to hunting from it but that was to change that is for sure.After setting up camp and putting up the new tent(its amazing the money you can spend when it is FAMILY stuff) :wink: it was into the water with the canoe and a bit of paddle up the river to get my sea legs so to speak before taking the kids for a bit of a paddle.The water hole we camped next to was about 100mtrs long so I headed upstream to the end and turned around to come back but was suprised by some noises coming from the reeds under one of the trees left laying over from the recent floods on a sandbank at the edge on the main flow.It was 3 slips and a large sow that I had woken up from their midmorning knap and they burst from cover and made short work of getting over the bank to disappear into the scrub that closes in on the river at this point.I paddled back to camp and through on the camos and grabbed the bow telling the misses that the water was shallow enough for the kids to play in there by themselves(yes I DID check really) and I was going for a quick walk.
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It took me about ten minutes to get to the area on the far bank I last saw the pigs and sat and listened and watched to see if maybe they had stopped after getting over the high bank.As the wind was in my favour in the canoe they should have only seen me and not smelt me and if that is the case often they settle down quickly.As I sat sweating and listening to my heart beat I spied some little black legs slip through the bush heading back to the river and I knew it was game on.I now had a real advantage as I knew the nice little shady spot they where heading back to so angled across to ambush them as they settled back to sleep in the reeds.I made it to about 15 yards from the edge on the bank when I stopped at the sound of movement coming back toward me and had to freeze as the 3 little pigs came over the bank heading straight toward me.
I had been caught very much in the open but the advantage camo was doing its job and the little mob was just standing there grunting to each other as they do when not sure what to do next.As I came to full draw the wind made up their mind as they got a snout full of me they decided the scrub was the best place after all and ran toward me along the track I was standing on.I was forced to hold at full draw until they all passed me and as the last little pig veered to avoid my leg I guess I released as I dont remember the shot just the arrow burying to the fletches behind the shoulder on a rapidly departing pig.The shot was spot on and the run was more of a pig on a tread mill as they do when hit well so I started off quietly but quickly to follow the pig as it crashed through the scrub.There was no blood trail so I was keen to keep it within earshot as the scrub here was very think and had swallowed a well hit pig before today.She only made it about 30 meters and I could hear that she had stopped and then the prolonged squeal they sometimes give when they dont know why but just cant keep up with the others in the mob.I had another arrow on the string but there was no need as by the time I got there the life had drained onto the ground next to the arrow that had now passed right through undamaged apart from some very messed up feathers.(Just got to love carbons).
I sat and had a big long drink from the camelback and a few deep breaths and noticed the shakes come on as they do for me at this stage of the game.It was only a small pig and many guys will see the pics and say whats the big deal but its amazing the way this sport can throw things at you as you practice at 20 yards every day and end up shooting at THREE after holding for what seemed like 10 seconds(more like a compound shooter)So I was stocked as I headed back to the river with my prize to get some pics as I had not had a chance to grab the camera before leaving camp.I left her on the side of the river and came back with the canoe to pick her up and though it very fitting that the trophy was carried back to camp in the canoe as I would have never found the pigs without it.
Thanks for reading....Cheers KIM
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PS..Bow is a Robertson Vision Falcon #63 shooting carbon express arrows 650 grains with a Woodies Outback Supreme b/head
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That was an awesome story! Thanks for sharing
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Luau time!!
Great story, beautiful bow. Looks like good eating, too.
Killdeer :thumbsup:
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I have no pictures to look or to share with you but have many in my memory. It was one of the best sits in October I can remember without the taking of a whitetail. I got to the stand about 1:30pm and climbed up in. Let me try to discribe what I was looking at. I was just off the edge of a field about twenty yards in the hardwoods. There was a poplar tree that had fallen down and was about fifteen yards to my left that went across my shooting lane to the field. That was ok, I could still see deer if they walked in on it. I sat there about an hour and heard "noise" behind me. I sat motionless and could tell the noise was moving toward me and to the right. I then heard the familiar "putt", "putt" and realized it was turkey. I sat with my bow limb in front of my face and had 13 turkeys foraging all around me. Very cool I thought! They stayed under my tree and around me for about 5-10 minutes and made their way off. I sat for another half hour and saw motion to my right. I thought my eyes to be playing tricks because I saw nothing where I saw something! Then it moved and proved my eyes to be ok when two partridge came in around me. Hard to see in the Autumn leaves. They stuck around for awhile and went their way. Time went on for awhile and once again I saw movement only to my left this time. I glanced real slow over to my left where that Poplar tree was at the ground leaning toward me and saw a small black ball walking up from the roots right toward me. Oh Boy just what I need.. a bear cub! As I wrestled in my mind just how I was gonna handle this little dilema the "cub" came thru the leaves and turned out to be a porcupine! That guy sat 5 yards from me and never new I was there. It was real cool to watch this guy and how he lived for that half hour. It was getting dark and the old familiar yip of the coyotes were ringing in the night air so I got down from the stand. Geese had flown over,red and gray squirrels were making their runs for the winter and all in all it was a sit for the memories. I did get grief when I got back to camp as to why I didnt snap a turk or whack the porckie but felt it to be perfect just how it ended. I hope I did ok without polaroids and painted pictures in your mind about my sit
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great pic's & stories... God I love the Place.
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Raw Hide I see you've been givin' that Kim Sha a workout!!
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Originally posted by atlatlzoom:
Raw Hide I see you've been givin' that Kim Sha a workout!!
Yea, had a heck of a good time!
Here's one more picture of the trip with Ole "TP" in it behind me.
I got him building me another Shadow T/D. I love his bows!
Mike
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Very nice.
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This is my first turkey taken last weekend, took many years to get one of these guys...Craig
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congrats!
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CONGRATULATIONS! :clapper:
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Congrats! :thumbsup:
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Congrats or "Weidmanns Heil" as we say in Germany. (By the way: has nothing to do with the Nazi-time like "Heil Hitler" or something like this brown stuff)
We have a very small and decreasing population of wild turkeys in the area of our former capitol, the city of Bonn at the River Rhine. Do not know how they got there. Probably by your fellow country men who wanted to have some fun with turkey hunting while on duty overseas.
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And hopefully this turns out...my first pig ever... killed in Macon County, Georgia. I killed it the next to last day of deer season...& i know, the pig is prettier than me! (http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z287/rastaman1953/030508008.jpg)
Randy
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Great first Pig....Congrats
Elmer, are they legal to hunt? Ever think of writing to the National Wild Turkey Foundation, see if they can help bring back the Turkeys to better numbers... Just a Idea...
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As long as the turkeys don't eat the barley, malt, hops, etc. that make Becks Dark. :jumper:
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After three days of watching this fella strut just out of my shooting range, he finally got a little too inquisitive. Man those tree sharks really put a womping on em! Just look at that right wing. :eek:
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Originally posted by mysticguido:
Great first Pig....Congrats
Elmer, are they legal to hunt? Ever think of writing to the National Wild Turkey Foundation, see if they can help bring back the Turkeys to better numbers... Just a Idea...
Yes, they are legal to hunt in a short hunting season. But I think that they are not interested in any efforts to let the population increase.
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Summary from a study concerning turkey:
In the past centuries attempts have been made to introduce various of the six subspecies of wild turkeys inhabiting North America into practically all countries in Europe. Particularly many trials were conducted during the period 1880 to ca. 1914. Except for the trial in Grafenegg/Lower Austria which lasted from 1880–1945 all others were of short duration. At the end of World War II there were no occurrences of wild turkeys in Germany nor in Austria.
In the Federal Republic of Germany including the former German Democratic Republic 11 naturalization trials were conducted during the period between 1953–1993. Some of these introductions were to be permanently established and others existed for only a short duration. Five trials were conducted in North Rhine-Westphalia (Bönninghardt, Senne, Kottenforst, Mindenerwald, Ochtentrup); two each were in Rhineland-Palatinate (Bassenheimer-Wald, Taunus) and Lower Saxony (Gartow, Springe) respectively; and one each in Baden-Württemberg (Schutterwald) and Schleswig-Holstein (Wacken). At the present time (1993) only four occurrences including a total of 150 turkeys (spring populations) are still extant. All of these occurrences are endangered due to the low number of birds. This is especially true for the trial at Bassenheimer-Wald.
The cause of the population declines in the naturalization trials despite early success during the 1980's is not lack of suitable habitat, but rather high predator pressure, especially from foxes, hawks, and wild boar. Of interest is the fact that the trial conducted in Taunus using wild turkeys caught in and imported from North America had no better success than attempts using birds raised in flight cages.
Since many free-living wild species at present show signs of isolation, the four still extant occurrences of wild turkeys in Germany should continue to be under scientific observation. The wild turkeys present the ideal possibility to conduct population ecological investigations and also represent an attractive game species.
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Congratulations David! We know how difficult those Easterns can be.....can't wait to see more pics....
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My first Turkey with a bow! 11" beard, 1" spurs, 25 lbs.
The full story can be read here. (http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=059484)
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Kevin.
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Nice! Congrats Kevin! That's a beautiful bird!!!
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Great looking first bird. Very exciting times for you!!Tripper
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Great photos and I like showing the broadhead that was used! Ken
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April 20, sunday morning I found myself on 154 acres south of the Llano river about 10 miles with no high fences and surounded by big ranches.It was breaking when I came up to the feeder and could see hogs running around the protein feeder. I circled with the wind in my favor and walked to the 5' tripod. Just when I got even with it the feeder went off and a herd of over twenty hogs ran over from the protein feeder which was about 50 yards away. Was that exciting with them crunching corn while I steped up to about 18 to 20 yards and picked out the biggest spotted boar. The MagnusI filed to right beval went in and out avbove the front legs and onto the ground. I had another arrow out and it cought a sow a little back, but the big Magnum 1 1/2" went up to the feathers.It was like being in Africa as they took off. I found both hogs about 80 yards and no blood from the two blade and light blood from the 4 blade which both would shave. My longbow is 47#@ my 28" draw and shoots the 500 grain carbons at about 158 to 160 fps. Both hogs were hit on there right side and arrows exiting on left as both photos show.The 4 blade shaft was broken when found. This hunt was exiting (http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc91/kenadenton/DSCN0461.jpg) (http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc91/kenadenton/DSCN0463.jpg) (http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc91/kenadenton/DSCN0467.jpg) (http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc91/kenadenton/DSCN0466.jpg)
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Nice bird, Kevin.
Exellent report, Ken.
Gongrats all around.
Todd
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Good friend shot his first turkey with a Chek-mate and I managed to hammer a couple fish with mine.
Nice shoot'n bows for sure.
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Bunch of good stories and pics. You guys have me ready to go. Come on elk drawing.
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Got my first turkey, with a bow, yesterday. The story is here: http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=059925
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David
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Way to go. :thumbsup:
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WOW!!!!! :clapper: you all been out killing some nice game.
A tip of my camo hat to you all.
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The first weekend of April, my son Reed wanted to go to Georgia to hunt pigs. We loaded up and went up to Edison, but the pigs would not cooperate. We ended up bowhunting for wiley armadillos.
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The closest we got to a pig was this guy who had run into something scarier than us some time ago. Maybe next time.
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In the old days we made our armadillo arrows out of fishing arrows(solid fiberglass) with broadheads because they were breaking or bending so many. Reed, good work! That will be several less holes for me and livestock to fall into. Ken
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Here's a picture of my 2008 Black Bear.
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Congrats on your bear oldway, he looks huge,how much did he weigh? Great looking bow also. Buck
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Hog of a bear! nice
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My Alberta bear of last Wednesday. Great time in Canada. First the next morning with myself cleaned up.
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Where the bear fell. Gets dark "early" after 10pm, lol..
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nice bear you gona hook me up with some bear meet
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Oldway, that bead is Big... how much did it weigh?
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There is more to my bear story. After a dbl lung pass through (the bear never bled a drop!) my bear ran 60 yards, then 30'up a poplar tree. I would guess the bear died within 30 seconds of the shot, while falling out of the tree it caught its back foot perfectly in the "V" of a small limb. What a bear recovery. LOL
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I've never seen any animal that has been shot with a lung pass thru that has not bled at all. NO blood trail what so ever. This is under the tree and the only blood. Bears are just tough!!
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Nice bear John, Congrats!
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hopefully you and I can get antoher in september
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Stalked to about 10 yards and the zwickey did the job. No more cat food for this one.
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Nice pics. everyone. Thought I would add my first for the season.
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TX pig at Brush COuntry Bow Hunting.
Great operation, great facilite, and lot's O'pigs
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Shot this pig in Texas on the Wensel pig jig in Feb.
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Man, Y'all been puttin' the KILL on some stuff lately!! Way to go, folks!!
David
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Here are a couple of sandwich pigs that I arrowed in the last two trips to Refugio Texas. They are plentiful there and are delicious. I chose the sandwich variety because they gave me the best shot first. The rose hedge was in full bloom and I snapped a few pics of that also.
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Great pics. :clapper: (http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii237/recurver167/DSCF2504.jpg)
Fall hen turkey
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nice kills,and some nice animals.
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Longnose gar I got in Lake Champlain.
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Late season doe #50 herter's bow
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VTer,
Ya sure that's not Champ? :bigsmyl: ;)
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I finally get to add to this post!!! First fish of the year for me...With my Bingham kit bow, that KennyM helped me build!!! 6# carp, 3 yd shot, from the bank...lol...didn't even git me feet wet!!!
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Had to go back and try again for more fish...took the Widder this time!!!
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black bear..Saskatchewan Stiles Harper 18 yrs old first big game kill with tradbow.
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That's excellant, Ray! That's a very nice bear and a really great 1st trophy! :D Congrats to Stiles! :thumbsup:
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Thanks, Leopard...the bear's skull is around 19 inches...and he squared just shy of 7 feet..6 3/8 inch wide front pad.
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Nice bear... Congrats on Your First Trad Kill
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Here are a couple bunnies that me and Two Hats got early this year. Both were taken on the run!!
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T Sunstone, what's the story behind the hand in your pig picture in your photobucket :scared:
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This ram horned Billy Goat was a great looking trophy I took him on a hunt in South West New South Wales (Australia)in April while on a Fallow deer hunt.
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Tusker great lookin trophy. congrats.
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sweet
doug77
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Very nice looking goat there, Robert! Well done! :thumbsup:
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Congrats to everyone on some fine trophy's!
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Great photo.Which broadhead did you use and how far did he run? Ken
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My first ever selfbow kill!!!! And yea, that is one whale of a muley, thanks for posting it!!!
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Got another fish with da Hickory stick!!!
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Three photos from three different days. I normally have time to squeeze in an hour or so of fishing at a time, and average around 4 per trip.
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them some nice fish
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Little California pigs.
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Curlis, very nice! :bigsmyl:
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Hey TEX O BOB....I don't care how old that picture is....man what a deer!!
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Curlis, them's tasty little porkers right there! Perfect size for the grill.
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Can you say baby back ribs?
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It didn't take me long to test out my New SuperShrew longbow on this 80lb wildhog. I stalked within 15 yards of this Wildpig and then made a perfect shot on the hog as it was slowly walking away. Arrow made a complete pass through hog was down in 35 yards. Special Thanks to Ron for seting me up with My SuperShrew Deluxe truely the best hunting longbow I have ever used.
56" 47lb@27" SuperShrew longbow
AD Lite Arrow with 150gr Magnus Buzz cut 2 blade
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Very nice!
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Hey Steel and Kingfisher, Textbook arrows guys, great job!!!!
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Nice pig and bullfrog!
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Here is a short version of the hunt we had near Glenrock, WY. There were seven of us from Michigan that shared this hunt. Four of the seven had never been pronghorn hunting --- green horn rookies when it comes to pronghorns. We had the good fortune and pleasure of going with some bow hunters with several years of experience hunting goats and we also had a terrific outfitter that has many years of experience as well. There were numerous pop up blinds, box blinds, elevated box blinds, and tripods scattered on the property over water and salt. The outfitter would place us where he thought we would have the best chance of seeing nice animals up close and personal. The first two days of the hunt the weather was outright cold and wet for that part of the country and hopes were not high that first morning. None the less there were 4 animals taken on the first two days of the hunt, and two taken on the third. At least two of them will make the P and Y. Oh ya, I missed a close shot on a nice buck the third day but I will blame it on the lack of experience. Not knowing that compared to whitetails you can move around quite a bit on pronghorns if done right. So being ignorant of that I didn’t capitalize on the weakness and blew the shot. Bummed me out.
I was the lone man out on Monday, our last day of the hunt. I hunted a ground box blind, one that had been seeing quite a bit of traffic when the weather finally warmed up. At around 8:30 five nice bucks showed up at the water but acted very nervous and didn’t stick around long enough for me to feel comfortable taking a shot. A minut later I found out why the were so nervous. When they took off this guy came running down from the ridge to my right and chased all of them away except for a small 1.5 year old buck. After several nervous minutes the bigger buck calmed down and began to circle the water hole and stuck his head in the water giving me a slightly quartering away shot. I can remember seeing the arrow disappear into his right side in the area of the liver. He of course took off like he was shot out of a canon for about 80 yards, stood there for about 30 seconds, and then lay down. A minute later his head went down and I knew at that time the arrow must have taken out the left lung as well as liver.
I didn’t know this at the time but the outfitter and four of my hunting partners were watching the entire episode from a distance through their spotting scopes and binos! LOL. Good thing I didn’t know that at the time!
The shot was 10 yards and I made it with a 54 lb MOAB Thunderstick and a Magnus Stinger tipped 2213.
It was one of those once in lifetime hunts that I will never forget, nor will I forget the new friends made and good times shared with some very close friends. I’m a most fortunate, lucky, and very grateful bow hunter.
Tom
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Good story Tom and a good antelope. Antelope hunting is one of my favorites.
Jack
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what did that bow set you back bubba ? web address ?....thanks
nice hog
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Do misses count?
First shot with new (old) Bear Kodiak Hunter today. Spied the devil groundhog sneaking across the lawn. Strung the KH and grabbed an old 2117 arrow which was much too stiff and screwed a Bear Razorhead on it and touched it up with a file quickly. Groundhog had moved across the parking area so I could retrieve a tab from the shed.
Pulled off a perfect stalk and got within 10 yards of his den when he went out of sight. Outwaited him and he popped up from his other hole and presented me with the perfect standing up shot at 10 yards. Sight picture was perfect.
The over stiff, slightly bent 2117 flew so fishtaily it slammed the stump next to him to the left and stuck in a stump to his right.
Lesson: Use a good arrow next time.
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Bill
Nice Pigs! I'll bet you don't miss the New York Hunting. You were right about liking the more usuable day light in Michigan. No more getting out at 4:30am now sunrise is @8am.
Tom G
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Hey Tom,
Told you so. LOL
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South Dakota Antelope longbow chase- 08/2008.
I had a buck and an extra doe/kid tag. A couple of does coming in...
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I just could not shoot a doe with kids so I let them all walk. This was the wettest spring/summer in memory in SD. 23" of rain year to date and normal for a year is 13". The Antelope just did not need to come to water. We geared up and went after them spot n stalk. 90 degree plus with bugs eating us alive. FUN and more fun.. I got close to making it happen twice but of course all must be perfect to sneak within 25 steps of a mature buck Antelope. I thought to myself this is the most fun I've ever had bowhunting. I didn't even shoot an arrow. Getting close was good enough.
I played a bit of tourist on my way home. (http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m123/JDS3_2006/100_1745.jpg)
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This summer,a red fox and I.
Longbow-bamboo-ipe 57 #
Approx. 64" tip-to-tip (without arrow rest)
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Cool, was it happenstance or were you looking for him? That'll be a neat mount!
Jeremy
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"was it happenstance"
Yes, I was waiting on the edge of a gloomy woods when a fox arrived (roe deer hunting)
The little fellow was busy with burying a mouse and he didn’t saw me at all (he was against the light)
I shooted him on a small opening through the edge of the wood.
The grass was too dense (and high) and it was a difficult thing to follow the blood and to make matters worse the night began to fall.
I lost the last bloodstain near a field of wheat and worried I decided to call a friend with his blood tracking dog.
“Shanz” the labrador made a good job and after a while found the dead fox in the field of wheat
(109 yards blood)
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Very nice fox, Frenchy! Well done! ;) :thumbsup:
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Gotta love Wyoming!!!
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Very cool! I used to shoot 3D at the Marshall shoot.
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Bravo Frenchie, doctor Max i presume ?
Is that a home made bow ?
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Originally posted by kibok&ko:
Bravo Frenchie, doctor Max i presume ?
Himself ;)
Greetings to you Kibok.
This bow has been made by Pierre Lansac (a geek of primitive archery)
Here on his website (French language,sorry) :
web page (http://www.archerie-primitive.com/)
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Originally posted by curlis:
Very cool! I used to shoot 3D at the Marshall shoot.
The budshoot was over the top hot this year!!! Holler at me if ya make it back this way to shoot!
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this was my first animal bigger than a rabbit with my bear montana longbow(and my brittany trooper who helped me retrieve my bird)Please feel free to leave comments
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Excellent!!!
A turk was my first "big game" too...even took him with a Montana...
Again, congrats...
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Good job, way to start working your way up!!!!!!!
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A friend of mine said "Awe come on,,, let's go fishing". I thought he said "Bow fishing".
Ohio river carp/york 70lb glass bow
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Originally posted by Frenchy:
Originally posted by kibok&ko:
Bravo Frenchie, doctor Max i presume ?
Himself ;)
Greetings to you Kibok.
This bow has been made by Pierre Lansac (a geek of primitive archery)
Here on his website (French language,sorry) :
web page (http://www.archerie-primitive.com/) [/b]
it's look like a constructive hobby ! very nice bow
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Originally posted by bearbowfan:
this was my first animal bigger than a rabbit with my bear montana longbow(and my brittany trooper who helped me retrieve my bird)Please feel free to leave comments
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Bravo !
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real nice John,congrats. :clapper:
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Had a great evening. Went to my "A" stand as the internet weather was calling for a perfect wind for it. After 30 minutes of the wind blowing in the opposite direction and directly into the bedding area I climbed down and went to the other side of the farm to my "C" or what I thought would be my third string stand. Got settled in a 6:00. At 6:30 a velvety six point was coming up the hill toward me on his way to the clover field. I was swatting at a mosquito at which point I noticed him as he was noticing me. He did the old head bob a few times trying to figure me out and I knew I had to do something or he was going to bolt and possibly spoil the evening. I mouth called like a yelping hen. My trick worked as he immediately relaxed thinking there were turkeys already ahead of him on the watch. He made his way up right in front of my stand. At 7:00 a group of bachelor bucks made their way up the hill and right through my set. The back one was the pick of the litter of course. The two front bucks a small 6 point and a nice 8 stopped suddenly when they saw a racoon that was close by. The got spooky and bounded off about 15 yards. The buck in the back just stopped to watch for everything to calm down. The first two bucks then came back to the trail after a few minutes and proceeded to the clover field. The target buck then came on down the trail right in front of my stand. He stopped broadside surveying the field for danger but didn't know it lurked right above him. My Whisperstik Mojo stick sent the arrow perfectly right behind his front leg. I knew I'd made a great shot and immediately got down and called two friends to come and join in on the recovery. As we walked about 10 yards down the trail one of my buddies chimmed in with "Ray Charles could follow this blood trail" Haha. We found him at about 80 yards.
58" Whisperstik Mojostick. 400 grain gold tip 3555 with a 50 grain brass insert and a 100 grain Magnus Stinger. Thanks to J.D. Lund at Whisperstik for making a shoot where you look bow, it performed flawlessly as usual.
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"this was my first animal bigger than a rabbit with my bear montana longbow(and my brittany trooper who helped me retrieve my bird)Please feel free to leave comments"
A promising start :thumbsup:
Sounds like you had a great time chasing this bird
Good little doggy !
Bravo for both of you.
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KentuckyTJ, that is a great looking deer!! Way to go!!
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No kill pics yet.Yesterday was the first day out.These guys were bedded about 50-60 yards from the blind.My tag is for a doe. (http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a140/jbrandenburg/Hunting2008007.jpg)
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Another shot from the blind. (http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a140/jbrandenburg/Hunting2008002.jpg)
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Sept 5 2008 doe. Kota Prairie Nomad, 51# @ 28", Magnus Stinger 150 grain 4 blade on a Beman ICS Classic Woodgrain shaft.
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No kill pic just a few pics from an afternoon in elk country. While eating lunch on the hillside I thought I would snap a few to share. I always enjoy others photos so here are a few from Tue afternoon.
My lunch spot
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My afternoon sit, a hot wallow, I saw elk in this area in the morning.
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There is a blue grouse in there.
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My weapon of mass destruction.
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I didn't have any action that afternoon but any day out in this country is a good day.
Hope you enjoy them and good luck to all this fall.
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I know that this isn't a bow hunt, but I am very happy and proud of my wife's first harvest. She is thinking of taking up the traditional bow hunting gear...I sure hope that she chooses the recurve bow.
(((((Sorry bud, but non trad kill pix aren't allowed. Been that way since day one. Congrats to your wife!))))
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Nice Pic's, They are all Great.
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ak3blade,
Good for your wife! A hunter of any strip is welcome in my book.
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Very nice pics. Congrats. to all. Great buck, TJ!
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My son and I on recent bear hunt in Thunder Bay Ont. Plan was for my son to take his first big game with his longbow. First night on stand he had a shot at a good sized bear but shot just over. Second day we had one good bear make a quick appearance in the early afternoon but Gray was not comfortable with the one quick and only chance presented so that one walked. That same night we had two bears come in at last light. Gray was not comfortable with the low light shot so he said you shoot em. The 800gr grizzly stick - 300 extreme combination did the job. Bear ran about 80yrds and piled up. Gray will try again next year.
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Congrats again Dave....Gray couldn't ask for a better mentor. Way to go Dad :notworthy:
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nice bear
always wanted to hunt them with a bow
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And your bow is.......?
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hello everybody, yersterday was the general opening day il french South-Alp. No mouflon or chamois for me but i was lucky enough to put a good arrow and get this female roe deer
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arrow : 29 inches carbon express / grizzly broadhead 125 grs + 75 grs adaptator + 75 grs insert / recurve bow 52 pounds
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My bear from the Whitshell Provincial park in Manitoba. The story can be found at.
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=064618
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I just got back from my Utah elk hunt and want to share it with all of you.
After applying for the limited entry Utah elk hunt for 12 years I finally drew a tag. This is truly a trophy hunt as Utah has done a good job of managing their elk herd. The tag I drew is one of the most sought after tags in the country.
Since this would the best chance I will ever have to hunt trophy elk I wanted to give it my best shot. I got together with fellow Proffesional Bowhunter Society member and traditional bowhunter Aram Barsch(pronounced: r am). He operates Wolf Hollow Outfitters. He would be my guide for a twelve day hunt on Boulder Mnt. in south central Utah. Our hunt would be on foot in the nine to ten thousand feet of elevation range. Aram knows this country like the back of his hand and is gifted with a fantastic sense of direction. On any given day we would cover at least seven miles and often more than ten. I can't begin to to tell you what a joy Aram was to hunt with.
Main camp was at 8800ft. and was about one quarter mile off of the main paved road making it easy to access, but yet very private. Main camp consisted of a couple wall tents for guides and hunters, another tent for the ladies, and a very complete outdoor kitchen. Aram also had a spike camp set up three and a half miles up the mountain from the main camp. We used this camp twice which saved us a lot of walking and got us back into the elk early in the morning.
On any given day we would get into at least two to three different bulls(5x5 or better) and often more. Hunting methods consisted of calling(cow call and bugling), stalking, ambush, and just plain bumping into them.
Although we had seen many bulls I didn't get my first shot until late on day nine. It had rained in the afternoon making stalking easier. In the evening we located a couple bulls that were bugling about two hundred feet above us on a bench. After the thermals changed direction and were going down hill it made it possible and surprisingly easy to stalk them in the low light. I managed to miss both of them(6x6s) on steep up hill shots. Those shots will forever haunt me. Oh well, I had my chance, and two good ones at that. We went back to main camp that night intending to hunt close to camp in the morning then regroup and go after those bulls again in the evening since I hadn't spooked them too bad. We hunted across the road the next morning. Aram drove in on a logging road about a mile, and then we walked in a couple more stopping to cow call and listen occasionally. It was a very quiet morning, not one bull had bugled. finally about 8:30 we stopped on a high spot I think mostly to enjoy the view and cow called again. After a few minutes with out a response I took off my pack and pulled out my bag of TP and went up hill to find a private place. No sooner had I found it, Aram came running up, told me to grab my bow, a bull was coming fast. The bull was about two hundred yards down hill from us to the south. I quickly moved down hill a bit and found a spot on the north side of a pine tree about eight feet in diameter. Aram took up a spot up hill and north, north west of me to pull the bull past me.The bull continued to come with a little coaxing from Aram. When he was about forty yards down hill I could see him through the tree and now Aram could no longer see him but he could see me. I readied for the shot by crouching down and getting my bow up and in front of me so all I would have to do was draw and release in one easy motion. When the bull cleared the tree he was down hill about twenty yards away angling towards me. He spotted me and looked right at me, the stand off began. After nearly a minute he forgot about the cow and turned and made a loop away from me and back to where he came from. When he was facing away from me I rose up a bit and moved to my right in case he would give me a shot before he left. Seeing me move like that Aram thought it might be a good time to call again and that stopped the bull now about thirty yards out but facing straight away. Aram called again and now the bull turned to his left giving me the opportunity I was waiting for. I quickly picked a spot, drew and sent the arrow on it's way. The arrow penetrated to the fletching. I hit him high behind the liver with the broadhead angling down and forward into the center of the chest cavity. Two steps and he was gone.
After a good half hour we took up the track. Blood was sparse, but thanks to the rain the day before we could follow his tracks in the dirt. He went down hill in a fairly straight line plowing through the oak brush. Three hundred yards from the shot we found him in the oak brush. He is basically a 5x5 with an extra point on the right side. After many pictures Aram made quick work of skinning, quartering, deboning, removing the head and hanging all of the bagged meat in the shade to cool. That all took only a bit more than an hour and a half.
All in all I could not have asked for a better hunt. I saw many big bulls and lots of elk(over seventy five on day three alone), got to hunt for ten days in some of the most beautiful country I have ever seen, had chances at big bulls, got a nice one, and met many fine people I now consider friends.
On a side note, I used my homemade recurve and aluminum arrows with Woodsman broadheads. (http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh38/gszalewski/ElkHunt2008144.jpg) (http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh38/gszalewski/ElkHunt2008159.jpg) (http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh38/gszalewski/ElkHunt2008166.jpg)
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Greg congrats on a great elk. Looks like he was worth the 12 year wait.
bhfp
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It was a nice evening in the woods... On a GA WMA, I decided to ease in the backside of a 150 yd wide oak bottom that has a couple crabapples and persimmon on the field side and grown up cutover on the other side...
I got about 50 yds from the biggest crabapple, picked a nice wide oak with another oak about 3 yds in front of it for some cover... right near the bottom, but still on the slope. I turned to the east to avoid the sun, started scraping some leaves away from the base of the tree and enough room to ease to either side of the tree... I got out thermacell and checked the watch 6:15 p.m., just about the right time to be in place for the evening earlybirds... Grabbed the torges tree seat (padded of course..) and slipped it around the tree...
I sat there watching the squirrels and was thinking that this one fox squirrel with a black head and silver patch forming a nice prominent V on his forehead would really make a kewl mount... but then I thought that since I only had broadheads... it wouldn't be a very good mount... About 30 minutes into my vigil, I hear something over my left shoulder... I force my self to turn my head ever so slowly and see a lil buck with about a 12 in spread and only 2-3 pts over an inch ease under an oak and begin to scour for acorns,,, I look further up the other slope and see a lil 3 pt working his way down to join him... Its going to be a good day... But since this mgmt area has a 4pts on one side with a min 15 inch spread these boys were safe... next year may be another story...
The lil guys mill around grabbing some acorns, check the muscadines about 18 yds away which seem to be about gone and they slowly begin to ease away working their way down the bottom... I am happy for the experience and pause to say a lil prayer of thanks... The squirrels begin in earnest now as the sun begins to set, some chatering, two over that way playing chase and others content to cut on hickory nuts...
About 15 minutes after sunset, I hear the unmistakable shuffle that says something bigger than a squirrel, but think to myself... probably a dilla... Ease my eyes to the left and see a doe walking right bye the muscadines and another bout 15-20 yds behind.. I slowly stand when shes 30 yds out as she's headed down a trail that comes to about 8yds in front of me and then continues on to the crabapples. I ease to the right side of the oak in front of me but allow enough room to draw. A quick peek shows no bone on the head of this lil gal, and bout the perfect size to make the 600 yd walk uphill back to the truck bearable- Green Light as soon as she is shielded by the popular tree out in front of me I'll draw and pick a spot as she emerges.. There she goes, back comes the string, I settle and focus on the spot tight behind the leg as I don't have much luck stopping a deer while hunting from the ground- arrows away... The arrows sails and the deer bolts for about 15 yds and then begins to walk... No thwack thunck or anything... No sound of the arrow skipping along the ground through the leaves... what happened? There she is, but her tail is up. _Good Hit! Doe no 2 is almost in position as I find another arrow on the string and slight tension as I ready to draw again... I think to myself WOW- how did that arrow get there? Just as doe no 2 begins to enter my zome of death, doe no 1 falls over and gives its life up begrudgingly with just a couple of kicks of the leaves. Doe2, stops and then spins a 180 degrees and darts 20 yds back up the trail... She blows, yet stays scanning the forest floor for doe 1. I pause but slowly shift to the otherside of the tree waiting to see if she offers me a shot... The second shot never materializes.. yet she works her way behind me looking for doe 1.
At this point I gives thanks for such a bountiful day afield and for the venison my family so loves. The seal of this season is cracked and the its time to gather up my things and break out the trailing light... I saw her go down, but go to where she was standing and find my arrow stuck into the ground and examine the blood and sign... It's an easy trail and I follow it the 25 yds to find my deer. Its smaller than I would have liked, but I know how much the family will enjoy the tender cuts on the plate, in the bowl, and how each deer is truly a gift. As I pull her from under the brush, I notice it's not a she, but a he... I feel a dull ache.. down inside... but know to accept it with joy... However, I wish I would have looked harder and let him pass and grow, and taken his momma instead.
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Great story, sorry you got a BB, but it is still a gift from the Creator. The Great Spirit gave you the deer, Knowing You & Your family will use it well.
Congrats on a great hunt.
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My cousin shot this bull a few days ago with a Pronghorn longbow. I deleted his face because I don't know if he would like it to be on here, but I wanted to share this magnificent bull.
OTC, Colorado.
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Great Bull, Tell Him Congrats
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Took this cow in southwest Colorado during the first week of elk season. Bow used was a BW PTFX 59@29 with a Carbon Express Heritage 350 arrow tipped with a Razorcap 125.
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Bill and Mr X
Congrats on the fine Elk...
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Arghhh it's a nice animal ! Congrats !!!
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Alex, Congrats Brother....
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hello again from south french alps ... good news anyway !!!
a young "sanglier" ... some speculation about his future rotation above a wood fire .....
The NO MERCY SB made a half rotation inside ...
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The urban archery deer season started up on the 6th and i got out last Fri in lynchburg. I set up in my stand at around 4:30 and watched a turkey feed on some old corn cobs at around 200 yards. Well, right at about sunset i hear her commin. the doe stepped out into the field at about 15 yards. she stood perfect, broadside and askin for an arra. my heart is going and im feeling confident when i see the arrows fletching fly between her legs and in a flash shes gone.So i get down from the stand making sure to be a loud as possible and when i turn guess what i see. the exact same deer is standing in the exact same spot just watching. i scramble to get an arrow ready and when i finally do... i missed again. it was low again but i even noticed me dropping my bow arm as it happened. Well, i guess it just wasnt meant to be
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Well done the lad from France!
AK.
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Saw three doe last Saturday night and three again tonight. Too far for a shot with a stick bow but great to be out there again. Really don't care if I get one or not this early. Did pop a groundhog with the .22 this morning :-).
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I took this Connecticut 7 pt. Friday Sept. 26 at 6:05 pm. Used my trusty Blackwidow SAIII 60", 62lbs @ 28, 2117 gamegetter II arrows and 150 gr. W. Woodsmans. (http:// [url=http://www.imagehosting.com/] [img]http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/4144/7point2008uh4.jpg)[/url] [/IMG]
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Nice dark horns on that buck. Looks like a big bodied deer or is the camera playin a trick, any idea what he weighed dressed out? Nice deer Good shootin!! Congrats Joe
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I originally started a 2008 Success Post but now realize it should have been here all along. My bad. I've had a good start to the season, taking a solid buck on just the third evening of our NE season, and followed up by two mature does since then. First doe allowed for my daughters to blood trail and "help" with all the post-kill tasks. Fun day! Doe tags are darn near unlimited here in NE this year and I'll probably take a few more before it's all over, and still looking for an even bigger buck on second either-sex tag.
64" Pronghorn takedown longbow at 55#, 2018s, four-fletched 5", Woodsman heads.
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Hey JoeM, Thanks, Can't beat those chocolate horns aah! The camera is playing tricks. He went just 146 dressed, the next doe don't stand a chance. My 4 kids need more meat! Good Hunting, Bill
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Nice work Wary Buck! Great post!
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No Deer Yet, But My Bow has MoJo (http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=065201)
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Wow....been catching up since page 4.....
GREAT STUFF!!!!...I LOVE IT!!!!
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Man! Some of you guys are killing rabbits and squirrels and I can't hit something as big as a deer. I sure do need more practice :(
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Congrats to everyone on their fine trophy's!
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Congratulations to all.
So far this fall I have shot a black bear, 2 antelope, 1 elk, 1 coyote, and this.... A dream come true for me. I'm pretty cheap when it comes to taxidermy (http://home.comcast.net/~kbsmith9/08goat6.jpg) mounting things but this one is going full body. Practiced for 20 years for the shot. (http://home.comcast.net/~kbsmith9/08goat3.jpg) (http://home.comcast.net/~kbsmith9/08goat1.jpg) (http://home.comcast.net/~kbsmith9/08goat4.jpg)
Good luck all.
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Doug,
That's a fantastic trophy! Congrats and well done! ;) :thumbsup:
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Doug, Congratulations, those goats have got to be north america's greatest trophy. Job well done. Buck
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congratulation DOUG S !!!!!!!!! fantastic !!!
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October 4th was our opener for bow season. It was the first time out hunting deer with my Green Mountain longbow that I picked up this past winter. I had hung this stand on an oak ridge a month ago after finding lots of acorns and a nice trail. Around 7 am, this guy came in, and it seemed like he was on a mission. To fill his belly. He didn't stick to the trail but came in straight to my tree. I thought he was going to my left and I started to adjust my position. Just as quickly he turned to go across in front of me. He was only about 15 feet from my tree and I was worried about him catching my wind which, true to Vermont form, had changed in a bad direction. So I took the first good shot I had, a steep angling shot into the top of his right side angling to his left side. It was a good hit but I only got about 12" of penetration. As he was running off I immediately started to worry that it would be a tough trailing job because I knew I had no bottom hole. Very quickly he ran over a small rise and I heard him pile up. It was a good sound. While waiting my 25 minutes, doubts crept into my mind again. Did I really hear him go down? Would I find him w/out a good bloodtrail? Did the other deer that was with him and never saw till after the shot make the crashing noises? After I got down, I did a quick ground search and as I figured, no blood. I very quietly sneeked up and looked over the rise and there he was, not 45 yards away from where I shot him. What relief! I walked up to him and was amazed at the size of him. We have a 3 point rule in VT and I gave him a quick look to make sure he qualified, but I never new he had 8 points when I shot him. Of course I only got 2 field photos of him before my camera battery died so I had to take pictures of him later. This is one of them.
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Great shot Greg. Those steep shots always leave me a bit worried too.
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Congrats :thumbsup:
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Pa opener was one of the best and one of the worst for me. I started the morning off deep into the Tioga State Forest on a flat of oaks that the deer have been hitting hard. Started seeing deer right off the bat, nothing that I felt was worth dragging out or had a shot at. At 10:30, I had a lone deer, what I thought was a doe, approach, and as it went down off the ridge, I could have sworn I seen it staggering. Thinking my eyes were playing tricks on me, I decided to still hunt my way out to my vehicle.
When I got there at 12:30, there was a another hunter and his son having lunch. We exchanged tales, and he told me of a nice buck that his son had hit, but were unable to recover. I didn't think much of it until I got about 2 miles away and I thought about that lone deer that wasn't acting right. I turned around, and went back to where I was parked and the man and his son were still there. I asked them about where they lost blood, and sure enough it sounded like it was only about 200 yards from where I spotted this deer. I told them about it, and we decided to go have a look. Sure enough, about 40 yards down over the ridge from where I had last seen this deer, he laid deader than a doornail. The kid hit him a little to far back, but had just caught the liver. That young man sure was a happy camper when he laid eyes on that six pointer. I couldn't believe that I had missed those antlers when I seen him.
Now the bad part. I purchased a new hand climbing stand made by one of the most popular standmakers on Friday night. Saturday afternoon I decided to try it out. What a mistake. Going up wasn't so bad, but at last light when I decided to come down, I got into some trouble. It seems that when I tried to play contortionist and bend my body in ways that no hefty 51 year old man should try, I may have herniated a disk. I have 3 bulgers so as it is, and I'm pretty sure that I blew one out. Will find out this week after a Dr visit and MRI. I knew I should have purchased the sit and climb model. :mad:
So, it looks like I may have ruined my season. Hopefully maybe I can pray for a miracle. But at this point, I can barely walk 20 feet much less hunt. So keep those stories coming. I'll surely be reading them.
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1st of 2 does and a ferel house cat shot last night. Passed on a really nice 8 point that'll be a doozy next season.
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Congrats :thumbsup:
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Nice doe, that thing looks like a mule :thumbsup:
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Doug WOW!!!!! that is a real dream, you made into real life.
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I punched my second NE buck tag with this dandy 4x4 (actually two add'l 1" stickers that are hard to see) on Oct. 4. Brand new property in Butler Co., NE about 640 acres but about 550 acres are crops and the rest CRP and a duck pond. Biggest trees are thigh-sized (at the base) cottonwoods and only a handful of them will support only certain tree stands. It's totally different than anything I've hunted before, but I spent a couple afternoons scouting it in late Aug/early Sept, and then slipped in Oct. 4 with a stand on my back headed for a tree I'd picked out a month earlier. Long story short, I got the stand put up (but only 8' high...impossible to go higher)
and then just after sunset a good-looking 115" 4x4 and this big guy step out of a little sandy/scrubby/weedy bedding area just to my south. The wind's blowing 25-35 mph and I'm swaying up in this sapling and videotaping both bucks, trying to decide on the larger of the two. They eventually end up directly under me at 4 yards, which is dang close when you are 8' up. The video is on nightshot and the view is surrealistic and BIG...and I'm changing my mind...so with the winds covering me, I switch weapons and drill the big one. The Woodsman hits where I'm aiming, and next thing you know I'm out of NE buck tags and we haven't even gotten to the best part of the season yet. I've still got basically unlimited doe tags, but I'm exploring a couple NR options while still on cloud nine with these two bucks. Keep the photos coming; stickbow men and women are getting it done.
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This is the tree I was in. It's only 8' tall, so picture a 6' guy up in the tree (okay, only 5'10), and the buck just 4 yards from the base of the tree where the grass is all stomped down.
And here he is.
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Way to go Bryce. You are a deer killing machine.
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Bryce, I'm gettin to where I don't like you very much..........
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No picture, didn't have the camera and wasn't expecting much at noon. I went out for a walk during a light drizzle here in Weston, Missouri hoping to see something. It was about noon as I was walking the edge of a cornfield and just happen to see a button buck layig there on the edge of the corn as it rained lightly. He was looking away which gave me a great shot with a HH bow. Once the arrow struck him he got up and walked 50 feet and collapsed. My first for this season. Perfect day for a hunt, I just wish I could go out this evening instead of work.
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I headed out into these Va. woods Saturaday with good friend Nook.I had in mind what tree to get in,I had found this spot back in august and it looked promising.I slowly treked my way up the ridge to this spot in the dark.I found so much deer sign as i headed in that direction,many times i starte to change my mind,but continued on.
I had settled in for a couple hours when all the excitment started to happen.I had does running back and forth in the pasture beside me,but a board fence acted as a good barrier between us.I finally had a small 8 pt come by at the same ole fence but the shot didn't appeal to my liking,so i passed.
Again the does ran back up the fence this crossing over 60 plus yards above me,finally a shot oppurtunity might occur.They did come my way,the lead doe was a bit unsettling when she walked below me.Well as we all see at times,she couldn't let well enough alone,curosity got the best of her.She came back towrds me,made it to about 12 yds and wheeled back the way she came.Well stopping around 20 yds quartering away was her last mistake,I placed a Magnus in the rear of the ribcage and excited through the oppsite shoulder.The rest is history.I love getting the first one down.Good luck to all and my many more great memories be had by all.
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Maybe these pics will come thru this...Haven't done this in awhile...
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The next one as well..I took her with my Crusader,LBR this one's for you..
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Good shootin Danny. Backstraps for supper, mmm mmm.
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Thanks Peachey..I like them that size,bout the only ones I can drag out by myself.Besides the smaller the target the greater the reward.LOL.Not that luck has anything to do with it..haha.
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Looking a little regge' with those dread locks brother. congrates on a great shot. Let's do it again this weekend.... Jeff
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So is it now Danny Dreadlocks instead of DannyTwoHats???Thanks bro.........
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Well, here is mine. First morning out for me this season. Shot her at 7 yards with my Morrison Cheyenne 50@27, CX Thunderstorm shaft tipped with a Woodsman. Looks like there should be plenty of good eatin' on this old girl!!
Way to go Danny!!! Cool Springs rocks!!
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Well I finally got something to post. :)
My goal this year was a branch antlered bull.
I shot this guy on 9/24. 25yrds. I watched him fall after a 20 yard jog. I was shooting a Dan Toelke recurve 57 @ 29 and a CX 6075 Terminator hunter arrow. Tipped with a Tusker Broadhead single LH Bevel. Total arrow weight was 620 grains. I center punched a rib about 3" above the brisket. My arrow split the rib and hit the bottom of his heart. I didn't realize how big he was till I walked up to him. He is a 6x7 and is my first big game traditional kill.
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WOW what a way to start. Congratulations.
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Branch-antlered? You beat that and then some. Awesome bull. Congrats.
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WOW nice stories/pics.Lady Luck shined on me a third yr yesterday.Out on an evening hunt and I put a nice deer down.Took this doe from my treestand @ 20 yds slight quartering away w/my SAB 60" 46#.Complete passthru and stuck in the dirt!She ran a 15 yd circle then dropped in sight.
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GREAT JOB, Everyone! Congratulations.....Don and Skyler
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Some mighty impressive harvests. Trad guys never cease to amaze me. They step up to the challenge and experience much success. I'm impressed. :)
I'll be back out there in a few days. Lord willing. :)
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Congrats to all! Great pictures and great animals. Thanks for sharing.
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Originally posted by Jack Denbow:
WOW what a way to start. Congratulations.
DITTO!!!! Outstanding bull!!!!!
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Nice pic's everyone...
Way to go Pete
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The old DAS Dalaa made meat last night. Dalaa, 60", 66#@28, Easton axis 400, 125 magnus snuffer with a 75 grain insert. Short blood trail.
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Great pictures and great time to read your adventures
Congrats to all!
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I had a great couple of evenings in the woods chasing turkey. The first evening I slipped into an area where they like to roost up on a hill overlooking a pasture and creek bottom. Like clockwork a group of six hens began making their way toward my set up. About 40 yards out the lead hen let out an alarm putt and stopped them all in their tracks. Turns out a spike buck just around the bend spooked them. They apparently couldn't see each other because the deer froze at the putt alarm and the turkey wouldn't move either. After about 20 minutes, the spike mustered some courage and stepped out a little further. Once they saw each other they all moved off up the trail...in the opposite direction!
The second evening I climbed a stand over a food plot and waited about 20 minutes. Soon I saw little blue heads heading for the corn. It is amazing how fast muscles can cramp up when you get positioned to draw so the only thing left to do is pull the string back.
I would like to say the the old tom tripped over his 12 inch beard at the moment it let the Magnus fly, but I just flat out shot a couple inches too high. Dead center, but too high. I can blame that on the cramps and being in a poison ivy covered deer stand, right?
I was just happy to see two groups of turkey on our little place and offer some of my blood to all the skeeters.
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This was my second year of traditional hunting. I used a recurve last year and a longbow this year. I used a Hornes traditionalist with POC arrows and a WW broadhead.
first deer of the year (good eating)
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a buck that came in to 25yds
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Me with the neighbors kids (who love to help track)
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Been a good season so far here in TX. Tagged out on doe (2)and killed a nice pig with a new recurve that I just finished building right before the opener.
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My hunting buddy Paul (Horneshooter)killed a doe on Friday.
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Took some pics from the stand yesterday. This is the view from 30" up a Hickory tree.
Things got more interesting about 5:30pm.
Planned on hunting this stand in the AM but had some Hunnydos. Heres what happened in my absence. Notice the date and time.
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heres a better shot of him taken the other day while I was on another stand.
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Its been a ton of fun so far and I look forward to reading about all of your successes!
Bonner
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Tom and I hunted Guana this past weekend we had a great time! We saw a lot of deer and hogs. Tom passed on a button buck and the does did not come in close enough. We walked in on a 8 point at Tom's stand on Saturday afternoon all 3 of us were surprised...no shot taken. I saw a lot of hogs...On Friday I shot at two hogs it was a long shot with them butt end to me ...they were facing away at about 28 yars...I just barey missed. On Saturday...I watched 4 hogs feeding on Hickory nuts...ya know even if when you can't see them and when they aren't gruntin and squealing you know it is hogs when you hear the Hickory nuts popping. There is a good crop of Hickory huts and Acorns there this year. Anyway...I shot a black and reddish brown hog about 125 pounds at around 6:30 p.m. All four hogs tore outts there with one doing extra squealing. It was a good shot...heck it was a great shot...right behind the left front leg and buried to the fletching.......but not a drop of blood....we tracked him in head high palmettos until the batteries gave out on our flash lights. We could move in on him and he would start popping his jaws and and sorta growling...it was pretty spooky in those palmettos with the flashlight fading. We tied a white hankerchief to the last area we knew he was in and also some floresent tape to show our way back and went to report in at the check in station. The next morning...I WORE my snakeboots and we stayed in the stand until 9:00 a.m. and then came down and searched and searched for the hog. Unforunately we never did find him. I sure was looking forward to posting a pick of me here with that hog.
There were not many skeeters but LOTSA chiggers, red bugs and ticks and snakes. We saw 3 ground rattlers, a black snake and water mocassin.
We plan to hunt there again and the folks at the check in encouraged us to come back this weekend to see if there were permits available. We are getting ready for our Missouri hunt...and I don't think we can make it back this weekend. It sure was fun though!
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Congrats :thumbsup: to all
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some news from south french alps ... for my last try on a tree stand for wild boar (with all the drive hunt & rifle around on public land the "sangliers" are now almost nocturnal ...
i was lucky just with the last light of sunday afternoon to put this nice one down !!!!!!!!
very happy !!!!
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wow you guys have been keeping very busy outstanding stuff guys. and Doug your success made my week really awesome :bigsmyl: :clapper:
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Congrats to everyone on some fine animals :thumbsup: :clapper:
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Congrats :thumbsup: David
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Another nice fat doe, making this years total 3 does and 1 buck.
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nice. how many more tags u got IA?
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Originally posted by kibok&ko:
some news from south french alps ... for my last try on a tree stand for wild boar (with all the drive hunt & rifle around on public land the "sangliers" are now almost nocturnal ...
i was lucky just with the last light of sunday afternoon to put this nice one down !!!!!!!!
very happy !!!!
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Mon français n'est pas à bon, mais cela est un sanglier agréable. Félicitations ! Bonne Fusillade ! Mes ancêtres sont venus de France dans 1590 à Amérique du Nord. J'aimerais retourner en France un jour et une chasse avec mon arc et mes flèches. Un Américain peut-il chasser en France ?
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nice hog
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Originally posted by Swamp Pygmy:
nice. how many more tags u got IA?
I can buy doe tags for any county until that counties quota is full. Third tag and on are only $12. I can get another buck tag for shotgun or late muzzle.
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cool. That is a good deal. Smart management too. We don't do it like that here.
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Here is alittle Virginia buck I took this past Saturday.After battlling a non stop swirlling wind,I got a swing on this spike.I actully wasn't proud of my shot placement but he expired in a matter of minutes.As he was starting to walk I released and I must have had lifted my head and shot way left.Granite hitting the femoral artery will quickly kill them,but sure makes you feel like crap.I have played this over and over in my head and trying to really figure out how,I must say this was a first and I hope it will be last.I really got lucky,no one said this sport would always be perfect.I'm heading out again and I have to get that confidence back.Thought I would share this not so perfect situation with you all and remind everyone.....Shoot straight and have FUN!!!
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Public Land Pig from South Louisiana. 7:45am Saturday. 15yd from Treestand. Blacktail Recurve and Woodsman Broadheads.
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nice pig bro. I hunt the same area.
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I had a good weekend hunting with family. I got a doe and an 8pt and my twin got an 8 pt.
My buck. River Runner recurve.
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Brother Shane's buck. Osprey longbow.
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Mule deer doe, spot and stalk, shot at 18 yards. Dead in about 7-10 seconds.
Kota Prairie Fire hybrid longbow 62" long and 48#@28", 7595 Gold Tip shaft, 100 gr brass insert, 150 grain El Grande Grizzly broadhead with 100 gr steel insert (250 gr total weight), homemade fast flight string. The broadhead made a 90 degree rotation through the doe.
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Great kills guys! Thanks for sharing! ;) :thumbsup:
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I got this doe this morning. It was about a 10 yard shot I hit about 2/3 up on the left side exiting in the right armpit. She went about 75 yards. I used a 52# Great Northern Fireball with a 640 gr. larch arrow with a 145 gr. Eclipse broadhead.
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I had a little success this evening here in Georgia! Read about it in the pow wow! 52# thunderstick 3 with a pine shaft and a bear razorhead w/ bleeder ( greenie)
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Top effort on the pigs and deer, fellows!
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Originally posted by C2:
Mon français n'est pas à bon, mais cela est un sanglier agréable. Félicitations ! Bonne Fusillade ! Mes ancêtres sont venus de France dans 1590 à Amérique du Nord. J'aimerais retourner en France un jour et une chasse avec mon arc et mes flèches. Un Américain peut-il chasser en France ? [/QB]
Good French C2 ! :thumbsup:
Hunting in France with a bow is now much easier for the non-residents.
So if you plan to come here, don't hesitate to contact me.
I'll do my best to help you.
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Namibia
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South Africa
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team work on this one
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Nice job Andy!!! :thumbsup: :notworthy:
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My best deer with a bow.
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I found a mega scrape and some nice rubs 2 wks ago on top of a mountain in a nice saddle. I tried to get my son to hunt it, but I don't think he likes to climb too much. Since he didn't make the effort to go up there, I hauled my stand up the mountain one evening. Anice six pt and a spike came in before I even had an arrow nocked. I left with a good feeling for the next morning's hunt. Settled in just before shootin light the form of a deer passes just behind me. About 30 min later footsteps are coming from my right down the mountian. I stand and get ready as they are coming on a rope. The buck goes to the scrape and works it over. I can see he's a nice one and my heart pounds harder. I pretty sure he's gonna come under my stand when he suddenly turns and starts back up the ridge. I don't carry a grunt tube, too much to keep up with, so I gave him my best snort wheeze.
He turns on a dime, ears laid back starts a stiff legged walk towards and below me. He's on a mission and won't stop. He walks past me at 18yd. I'm about to panic when he pics up my scent where I had walked in. He goes on alert and back peddled about three steps, right into an opening. It's all a blurr, I didn't see my arrows flight, but heard the impact. He drops right there. I grab another arrow cuase I know I spined him. He rolls down in a ditch with a tree top in it, completely blocking a shot. I figure if I stay still he die shortly.Well, five min later and he's still not out, but he had squirmed into a very small opening. He's about 30yds now, but I know I have to try. My arrow deflects on a limb and smacks a rock next to him. Nocking another arrow, I draw and release...thud. I got him...angling up thru the liver and into the lungs. On the drag out, all I could see was a picture of one of the Wensel boys dragging a big buck with bow in hand that I had seen as a kid. Awesome feeling!
The guys at the outdoor shop totally amazed with my recurve kill.
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Nice shooting Alan i like the over the shoulder pic :thumbsup:
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Great pictures ! :notworthy: :eek:
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tradtusker, is that a shrew you're shooting? Beautiful animals, but really that's one sweet looking bow...
What's the specs?
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thanks. yip its a super shrew deluxe 56" bow bolt take down 63lbs at my draw. love that bow
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Honaker and Bullwinlke, nice work and great pics! Gotta love a smooth, accurate Bob Lee.
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Just had a chance to scroll through this thread. Kudos to every one so far. Lots of great memories being made, lots of great meals ahead.
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Here is my best bow kill to date! Got him 10/21, with my Morrison Cheyenne. Shot was all of 4 yards!
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Had Allen Above take this Picture of a doe I killed 10-22 evening:
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~10 yards with a 55@29lb, 62" Blacktail Elite recurve using Gold tip Traditional 55-75 arrow with 150 gr Wensel Woodsman. Total wt. ~530 gr.
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Saturday 10-25-08
Hunted in rain all morning, only deer sighting was a small spike.
The weather broke at about 2pm so I went to the truck and put on some dry gear. I was set up on two red oaks that had the ground covered with acorns, the hottest feeding sign in the area was under them. Some decent buck sign in the area too.
This was the first deer to come in. 18 yd shot, 100 yd recovery.
Bear Grizzly 60@28" 29.5" 2314s 145 grain snuffers
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Good buck Cove.
How do you like that Grizzly? I was thinkin of tryin one, wasn't sure if it would handle a 30in draw though.
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Robert,
I'm drawing 29.5" and it shoots well for me. As far as it stacking at a longer draw length im not real sure, its the only recurve Ive ever shot.
It's iron tough too, ive hunted with it for 6 or 7 years without any problems, and I am hard on gear.
Zach
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Nice kills guys, thanks for sharing :thumbsup:
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Jonathan Dauler 10 yrs.
Lake Oconee GA
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That's so cool....how old is he?
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Been hunting 4 years with recurve this is first big game kill. Super Kodiak #65 with bow hush and wensel woodsman tipped wooden arrows made by Guru purchased through St. Judes Auction. There is a story in PowWow to but im not sure how to put the link to it in here.
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Originally posted by Budog56:
[QB] Been hunting 4 years with recurve this is first big game kill. Super Kodiak #65 with bow hush and wensel woodsman tipped wooden arrows made by Guru purchased through St. Judes Auction. There is a story in PowWow to but im not sure how to put the link to it in here.
Here's your link to:
STORY (http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=066224;p=2)
Nice First!! Congrats
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Thanks..thanks for linking the story for me to!
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My story. Nov 1 2008. First day in the woods this year. Haven't even scounted, but I am hunting property I've hunted for years. By sunrise the woods are noisy...birds and a very irritated squirrel. About 0830 I see a buck coming down my trail. Heart jumps when I see the rack. He gets off the trail and parralles it walking thru honeysuckle. Thought I'd have to pass or try to thread a shoot if he hit an opening. Well he for some reason he hooks out of the honeysuckle and stops about 10 yards in front of my stand, virtually broad side. I draw and shoot - took out lungs and heart! Down in 50 yards. My best ever.
A funny side note. A lady who also hunts the property with her husband came over and was admiring the deer. She said you're the one that "hunts with that funny bow" and you "don't use ScentLock"...another victim of too much advertising.
My "funny bow" is a beautiful takedown longbow - Firefly from Jim Jones. First shot at live game with this bow.
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Todd
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Congrats :thumbsup:
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Here is the button buck I got on October 30th. Zwickey 2-blade on a cedar arrow went right through from 14 yards. He was down in less than 20 seconds. My second deer this season. I love the stick and string.
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Shot him at 7 yards as he came to my decoy. My first off the ground. It was a rush to say the least. Big body. Blacktail Bow, Magnus two blade.
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What he saw last
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It was a beautiful morning in the woods. Caught this guy checking a scrape about 7:45.
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Took this doe halloween evening. It's been a great season.
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wow just catching up! been a lot of critters taken.... Hey Jack Denbow you can still shoot bud, nice deer. Nook you and Danny are sure hard on them C'Ville deer.... Andy I am still wanting to hear all about the Namibia hunt.... do you want to go back?
Had a little luck on the hunt in Rough Mountain, missed a bunch of you from last year. The weather was great through Friday and the woods were beautiful...
took this dandy little buck Monday morning.
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got this guy coming in to white oak acorns 10/21 about 18 yards with my dalaa 55/75 gold tips and 150 grain wws my biggest so far also got me a small doe good hunting to all this season!!!
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Ok, I was in my stand by 5:00 AM. The weather was great and the sky was clear. I picked this stand from seeing a deer walking that way Yesterday Morning. As I was sitting there I saw a buck come in and turned the other way. I hit the can & my grunt tube. The Buck started to walk back to me. The Buck then turned again and walked off.
About 7:30 Am I was thinking of going to a scrape, then I saw it or them I should say. They came walking in slowly and when the first one came to my stand, I drew, came to anchor, the deer looked at me and I loosed a arrow in to it. I clean pass thu.
It was a BB, and I honored Him well. Here is the pic of me and My Deer & the arrow.
Bow & Arrow
Red Oak Pyramid Selfbow
70" 51#@24"
Birch Arrow
28.5"BOP w/160 grn Snuffer 3x4.5" hybrid nana's & self nock
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Huckbuck, what bow did you take him with? I like the looks of it.
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James, it's a Striker Stinger by Rick Ellis. Great shooting bows. I tried several bows
when making the switch from recurves to longbows and this is the only longbow I could shoot as well as my recurves.
Tony
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Hey Tony, Love those Strikers I have a Striker Select 3 piece take down recurve. Beautiful deer congrats Joe
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First ever Trad deer kill for me! I got a bit nervous and didn't make a perfect shot, but perfection comes with experience I suppose.
I took her with an early 1970's Bear Kodiak Magnum #45, with 150G WW broad heads.
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nice harvest!! I like the vintage bow as well.
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I got this doe this morning. I had a less than perfect hit and no blood. I finally found her after 3 hours by searching likely escape routes. I used a Great Northern Fireball 52#@28" a 145 gr. Eclipse broadhead on a larch shaft for a total arrow weight of 685 gr.
Jack
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Nice job, Jack. She has an expressive face. She looks like a wall mount right there in your hands.
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I just got back after crossing paths with this guy here. I hunted an area for 14 days and only saw does,spikes and small 4-6 pointers. I held off shooting even though my vacation was ending in 2 days. Then 2 nights ago I see this buck here for the first time even though I've been thru the area. Last night I set up just right for him. A nice deer and thanks to him for the sacrifice.
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NICE buck Neven, that rack has some character now!
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Thanks, he's a little diffrent. I wish I could have taken him out of the truck for a photo, but there's no way I was getting him back in.
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Congrats :thumbsup: to all
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I used my Silvertip and a Magnus Stinger 150 Buzzcut broadhead to take this whitetail this evening. Very large bodied whitetail for a Texas deer. Probably the largest bodied deer I have ever taken.
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Got this buck last night. Had passed up 10 smaller bucks in the last month, and boy am I glad I did !
Rattled him in - he came in from behind me and on the wrong side; about got tied up in my safety harness trying to get ready (had only seconds to do so of course), but then he turned and walked in front of me at 7 yards. Hoo-ahh!
The most amazing thing happened next - as he lay 60 yards away in some brush, thrashing occasionally, up walked one of the largest bucks I have ever seen !! He casually walks over to mine, checks him out, and walks away !
58" Dalaa at 52#, swedged 2018's, Magnus 2 blade
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Congrats :thumbsup: Straitshot and Dave
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Louis, that looks like a Kansas buck, congrats.
Tony
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Nice Ohio Buck,,seems like a lot of nice bucks commin from Ohio this year!!!Figgers I'd have to skip my annual pilgramage(sp)this year. KEN
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don't you just love those Ohio bucks!! That one is a great one!
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Tony,
Thanks. Pecans and acorns have been falling and I guess this guy had been gorging himself on them. As I said, very large for a Texas whitetail. I normally can get a deer out and in the truck by myself but I had to get help with this guy.
Louis
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Hello the gang ! congrats to all for those magnifiscent Bucks !
From south alps of France the fighting with wild boar " Sanglier" is still going on !!!
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The one from yersterday !
10 /12 m from a stand i put the same day !
best regards to all
K
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Very nice boar K.
Neven
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Merci !
Thanks you !
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First trad deer. 8 points, 165 pounds dressed. 8 yard shot through both lungs. He traveled about 80 yards after the shot. I used a homemade bow (the build along bow that I made for my Son) Homemade arrows, Homemade 212 grain single bevel broadheads (I think I did a build along here for them) with a homemade finger tab and homemade camo.
I consider this the greatest trophy in my 32 years of bowhunting.
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Nice Marine Corps Birthday (Nov 10) kills, K and RGK!!! Special congrats on doing yours with a Self bow and all that homemade gear, RGK.
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CHEATER CHEATER I SAY!!!
Wasnt your boy supposed to get the first kill with his new bow?
EXCELLENT shot...at least the kid knows it works now lol.
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Here's a doe from Sunday morning. 67# Great Northern Ghost, Heritage 350, and a Griz 190 w/75 g adapter. Hit a bit further back than I wanted to, but the angle was good and she was down in less than 60 yds.
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shot a nice 100 pound (dressed) spike this morning, about 8am.
Rattled and was turning to hang up the antlers, and saw him coming straight in. had to hurry up and hang the horns and pick up my recurve..then he decided to come to the wrong side of tree and I had to do a 270 in the lonewolf. got to full draw and he turned head on...so I had to hold at full draw for what seemed like 5 minutes but was probably about 40 seconds or so. he turn to a slightly quartering/almost broadside and I couldn't hold any longer....let loose and he turned more quartering and half stepped forward just as the arrow arrived, so the hit was high and angled down. got lucky and the arrow hit inside the shoulder blade...took out one lung and the liver and must have gotten a number of arteries cause there was a whole mess of blood in the thorax. the woodsman was sticking out about 2"s on the off side just beyond the last rib so it got a little bit of intestine too... he ran about 40 yards, I grunted and he stopped and a second or two later he fell over.
I was worried about the hit on the shoulder...but once I saw him fall I was ecstatic! MY FIRST BUCK!!! pics to follow.
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(it was pretty chilly up here in Mass this morning so as you can see I broke out the wool this morning....
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Congrats :thumbsup: to all
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Ohio offers a great hunting program, the deer I saw last week was some of the finest examples of the whitetail species I have seen.
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My first Ohio Buck,
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You blokes are too deadly! Well-done to all!
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Congrats :thumbsup:
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My 2008 Oklahoma buck. first time in the stand this year. Shot at 22yds with a Bob Lee Hunter curve with Zwickey Eskimo 4bld. Second pic is of my wife and child. sorry about the pickup pics.
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Congrats :thumbsup:
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nice buck.
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I got this little guy this evening. Our firearms season is in so I have wear some orange. I used a Great Northern Fireball 52#@28", a 640 gr. larch arrow tipped with a 145 gr. Eclipse broadhead. The broadhead cut across the heart on the way through and he still went about 125 yds.
Jack
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I've had a good season.
Kansas buck:
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Missouri buck:
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Missouri doe:
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WOW BMN, You've had a great year. Congrats!!!! Tripper
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Hey guys I just want to say thanks to all of you! I am in the "Big Sandbox" missing my first deer season to date, and its awesome to be able to kind of live it thru you guys. Again thanks alot and good luck to all of you everywhere!
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Congrats :thumbsup: Jack and BMN
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Jack,
Beautiful shot. Keep goin!
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Whats up yall? It has not been an easy process to figure out how in the world to post these pics to the thread. Although I am probably the most computer illiterate person on this website! I definitely prefer breaking arrows and such to beating on a keyboard. The pics are of a nice 8pt. that I connected with in NE Kansas on Nov. 13 at 3 pm. I hit him just a little forward because he stopped at the moment the arrow left the bow. Just over thirty yards(which by the way is about as far as I will shoot) and the 630 grain Carbon Express 350 smoked straight through the deer's chest. My bow of choice is a Fox High Sierra in the 65# range. The buck only went about 75 yards before I got to watch him fall. Still ridin' cloud 9! By the way, the buck scored 160" green, for those that might be guessing.
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He would have been something if you would have let him have another year. :) Just kidding, excellent deer. What county were you hunting if you don't mind sharing?
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Hey SWP! I took this buck in Doniphan county. Been hunting there since the late 90's. This is a good deer of course, but I was in the thick of HUGE deer this year. Almost didnt shoot this deer, but as he got closer I realized just how special he was. He was one of the very few typical racks I saw this year!
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Langhorn, That's an incredible 8 pt!!!!
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Jeez, no kidding..great buck there langhorn.
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Langhorn that is a PIG of a deer. Nice pics too.
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Congrats on a hawg of a Kansas Whitetail. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Tony
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Langhorn, That's about the nicest one I've seen all year !!! I'm still waitin' for my 1st.
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what a great deer Langhorn :scared: :clapper: :clapper:
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Wow, one heck of an 8 point there Langhorn! Not many eight pointers grow to those proportions, I'd guess that guy to score 160 or so.
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Yeah, could you imagine him with a couple of more tines like that...insane :D
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2008 trad kill coming soon. Involves 10 pts and 250lbs.
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Predator1, Can't wait to see it, and if you have not connected yet, good luck.
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Congrats :thumbsup:
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Twosheds, the deed is done but I'm waiting on pics and learning to post em'.
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It only makes sense that if your buck tag is full you will NOT see a doe. :knothead:
These guys hung around me for a while so it was a fun hunt, but, the Thanksgiving doe tag went unfilled.
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Thats great,glad you atleast got out. I had to stay home and cook the birds I shot for Thanksgiving.Hope to go tomorrow for small game.Rifle season starts on Monday here.
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8:36 AM this "doe" gave me a 10 yard shot. Turned out to be a button buck.
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An unmarked bow I bought off Tradgang from Doug S, I assume an early Great Plains model, 53# @ my 29", Magnus Stinger 150 gr I bought off St Jude auction.
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Way to go Chuck. :thumbsup:
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Congrats :thumbsup:
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first traditional deer !!!!!
Yesterday morning at 8:05am
Bob Lee signature long bow with 15" riser 53@27 beeman mfx arrows with 125gr snuffer broadheads
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these is a picture when he walked past my blind 15 min before the shot
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beautiful pics Gerardo. Nice job!
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nice buck!
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Gerardo, nice work, on both shots! Don't get to do that every day; to say the least.
You had quite a day...congratulations.
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Congrats to all on a great 2008. Keep'um coming.
As for Langhorn, that 8 point is a whopper. :thumbsup:
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Gerardo- A photo and the shot. That is terrific. Congrats on your 1st trad deer!
The country scene looks beautiful, where were you hunting?
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Congrats everyone on some fine animal :thumbsup: :clapper:
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Congrats to everyone, enjoyed the pics of some mighty fine animals!
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Awesome job Gerardo.
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Originally posted by Gerardo:
first traditional deer !!!!!
Yesterday morning at 8:05am
Bob Lee signature long bow with 15" riser 53@27 beeman mfx arrows with 125gr snuffer broadheads
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Gerardo, is this a coues buck? what a stroker.
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Congrats Gerardo, what do you think about that traditional gear? When you shoot a buck like that it makes you go CRAZY! Good job on your pic.
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its a texas whitetail , coues have very small bodies,
traditional gear is a way of life ,
and being my first buck after two years trying to get one has been up to these day a lifetime achievement and moment,
I know some of you guys can relate to that and now I am feeling and apreciating everyones pics and stories , GOOD LUCK to everyone and keep them coming
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Beautiful deer! Congrats on you first Trad Kill. :thumbsup:
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Congrats :thumbsup:
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Gerardo, great deer!
Billy
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Gerardo,
What a memory to get a photo of your deer before you shoot him. Beautiful deer!!
Congrats!!
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Precioso ciervo Gerardo, ¡¡¡Enhorabuena!!!
¡A seguir asi!
Pedro
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out standing deer, You are blessed my friend.
Joe
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Kansas '08
Bob Lee Hunter Curve 55#@29''
Zwickey eskimo 4bld
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Sweet! Love the bow!!
Peter
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Excellent deer man! He is a stud! Congrats to you!
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Great Deer!!!!!!!, got love those bob lee`s ,they are taking some highlights
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Is it the second one of the season?
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Geraldo, I harvested a nice buck in Oklahoma and then this one. I've been very lucky this year. Tripper
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Holy crap, twosheds - did that thing have a saddle on it?
Nice!
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What a hoss!!! Congrats!
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these are better than the pick up pics,jajajja great!!!!
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twosheds, congrats :thumbsup:
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Two Sheds,
What did that buck weigh?
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Here's story sorry.
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=068264
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Kentucky, congrats on the turkey :thumbsup:
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great turkey!!!!!! , did you use a pop up?
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Gerardo click on the link under the photo for the story
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Eastern Colorado public land
52# Black Widow SAB
STOS broadhead, 12 yard shot, the deer ran 30 yards and fell over. Jim
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Jimscol congrats,very nice buck.He has a big body,how much did he weigh?
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Congrats Jim! Great deer! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Congrats Jim :thumbsup:
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:bigsmyl:
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Congrats Jim!!! :thumbsup:
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Saw about 8 pigs come out just before dark, moved quickly over to them, then slowed way down.
The sounder split into, well, I mean 3 stayed behind, one moved to my right out of range, one stayed way out of range, this little piggy came to close, and went wee wee wee, all the way to his death.
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Hey king,did you kill a buck this year?and are you going to the TEJON in JAN.
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yes to both, are you going? I'll teach you my supper duper hog call, go's like this ssssseeeewwwwyyyy, they come running
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congrats guys nice shooting
great deer Jim, if you ever get down to Gunnison Look me up
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Jim: Thanks, I don't know what he weighed. Thankfully, I was able to get my game cart to him to haul him out.
Andy: Welcome to Colorado. It is a little too cold in Gunnison for me right now :) If you are ever up in Grand Junction look me up. We have quite a few trad guys around here. Jim
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From a treestand.
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razorsharptokill, are you giving us the bird :thumbsup:
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razorsharptokill, congrats on a fine bird :thumbsup:
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Ha ha Thanks! Almost looks like it huh?
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What I way to spend Christmas morning :bigsmyl:
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Trying this for the first time.
This is my first buck with trad gear. First was a doe a few weeks before. Here is the story.
I'm hunting on the base I work on in Dahlgren, Va.
Same tree I took the doe from a few week earlier. I noticed the acorns were dropping so the next time I decided to hunt the same spot. Got in the tree about 3pm and saw what I think in the same buck I shot on the edge a a creek that has water in in when the stream rises. I saw him out about 100 yards crossing the creek area. Got out my grunt call and gave it a try. Grunted and watched the buck look back and then proceed on his way. About 45 minutes later I hear something coming from the direction I saw the buck disappear from. I first saw him and my heart started beating and I was shaking. He proceeded to tease me at about 20 yards munching on acorns. I wasn't comfortable taking that shot plus there was a fresh scrape 10 yards in front of me that I thought he might come to.
I watched him for 15 or so minutes then he decided to head down towards me. First, I thought he was going to go to my left then he switched at the last minute and went right past my stand at about 8 yards. I was nervous and picked a spot behind his front shoulder. As I released and saw the arrow hit I was disappointed I had hit him too far back. I immediately said to my self that I was not going to push him, but would leave him all night.
Arrived and started my search a first light. I found my arrow about 5 minutes after I started searching. I was feeling a little bit better because the arrow had some blood and most importantly no gut!
I started making a circle around the spot and found him within 5 minutes he was only 60 yards from where I had shot him.
I was using a 56" Mojo Stik 49# @ 26" draw. I was and am the happiest guy out there. I've been trying to take a deer with trad gear for 4 years.
Forgot to mention that the day I shot the doe I saw 5 different bucks and I think this was one of them.
Further investigation showed liver hit.
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Congrats on a fine buck :bigsmyl: :archer:
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Great job your in the right spot,,,zipperman
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Great deer Mel Congrats on a well earned trophy. Joe
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Mel congrats :thumbsup:
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Yesterday my brother in law hunted a tri-pod that I had put up at the corner of a big hay field. He shoots the other kind of bow and always leaves early because he can no longer see through his peep. He call to say he had seen a large buck coming in as he was leaving and did not think the buck had seen him. I knew if the buck would repeat I would have 15 or more minutes of light more than the B in L would have had and might have a chance at him.
He came out about the same time as yesterday and I was able to take him. He was one of two nice bucks I had seen there earlier.
I killed a spike and a doe earlier so I still have one doe tag left. I may just be able to tag out as I have a week left.
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Draco,
Beautiful buck! :)
Mel
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nice high rack. Looks young too, you must have good genetics around there.
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You can't tell from the pictures but his main beams are long to the front. That's what I was looking at and he lo (http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x263/draco044/12-30-08003.jpg)oked big from the side.
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Draco..congrats :thumbsup:
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I finally filled my tag yesterday. I missed a gimme shot at a big ten pointer around a month ago, he was a very large deer and was actually farther away than I estimated.
I went afield yesterday afternoon with my newly made curly Hickory bow that I just finished less than a week ago. A west wind was blowing so I headed for a big Cottonwood blowdown that I could watch a couple of trails from.
Just before dark a group of does and yearlings (seven in all) moved into the area and milled around, crossing back and forth across a small drainage. After about 30 minutes I finally got a clear shot at one of the does at about 20 yards.
I was shooting a bamboo shaft with a 145gr Snuffer and a homemade luminock. It was really weird to watch the green tracer hit the doe. I got complete penetration but no pass through. I watched the luminock disappear as the doe trotted off.
After a wait I got out my lights and GPS and started looking for a blood trail. I scanned the area in hopes of spotting the green glow of my luminock but it was nowhere in sight. At 7:30 I finally left the woods because of a dwindling blood trail and starvation. I hadn't eaten since breakfast and was starting to get the shakes.
Fast forward to this morning. We have an enormous population of coyotes around here so I was pretty much certain that I would find nothing
but leftovers. I left the truck and headed for my last GPS fix which wound up less than 100 yards from the road. While walking in I was scanning the woods and saw a small bunch of deer run off ahead of me. I stopped to watch them and see if maybe there was a wounded deer with them and spotted the doe laying about 50 yards away. I had walked within 50 feet of her last night but never saw her. It was pitch black last night.
The back of the arrow was still in her but I haven't found the Snuffer. I am thinking that she stopped to pull the arrow and maybe pulled it back inside of her. It was 22* this morning and she was fairly well frozen so I didn't even field dress her, I just loaded her and took her to the meat locker.
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Just behind me in this picture is where I saw the deer this morning.
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On the way home I took the back roads and spotted this feller alongside the Neosho River. Good ending to the morning.
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Equipment used:
62" 54#@28" hybrid longbow that I just finished making. Maple core, Curly Hickory lams (from Kennym), and .050 glass. Osage, Walnut, & Hickory riser.
Homemade bamboo shaft with homemade luminock and 145gr Snuffer dressed in turkey feather fletching.
Dennis
Update:
The meat locker just called (3pm) and said the meat had spoiled overnight and didn't recommend eating it. I was hoping the cold overnight temps had saved the meat but it just wasn't so.
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Congratulations! Nice doe, fantastic bow
F-Manny
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Great job Dennis. Didn't take long to break in that new bow! Congrats.
Bill
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YEAH!! New bow broke in!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Contratulations Dennis........... that was a big doe. Too bad she spoiled.
You remember we talked about shooting armadillos. I may just take you up on that offer for a guided "dillo hunt" at your place. We went on a rabbit hunt a few days ago here (about 10 of us stick n string shooters). Didn't get any but I took a shot at a staub about 40 yards away and drilled it. I was feeling real good about myself until yesterday morning when I missed a cayote at 15yds. Gee Wiz!!!
Anyway, still want to drill a dillo!
later ... -Dave
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We do a lot work around our lake and used to see bunches of them before the flood. There are a few starting to show up again and I'll holler if we start seeing a number of them around.
Dennis
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Good job Dennis. You must have done good on the bow. congrats pal, Tripper
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Dennis..congrats :thumbsup:
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PSA III Black Widow, Gold tip 3555 with 100 grain brass inserts and Magnus Stinger head. Complete pass through she ran about 60 yards and I saw her tump over. She was 3.5 years old and had two 1-1/2" long fetuses in her and was bred around Nov. 6th.
More fetus info:
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=068864
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Tom, that looks like a big ole' doe. Congrats. Tripper
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The last weekend, so season is over for another year, but there is venison in the freezer.
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Great buck Louis. Is that a Shafer Silvertip?
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Congrats to everyone on some fine animals :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
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My year ended with "only" a few squirrels and two porkys killed with my bow. This is however the first year I have hunted exclusively with my longbow and my best year ever hunting. I saw over 100 elk and many deer but was just unable to close the deal on them and I missed a nice turbo goat three times (yes, same animal all three shots.) Just being in the woods one on one with game on their level has been very rewarding and I can only hope for as good a year in 2009. If I am fortunate enough to score on big game that will only be the icing on the cake.
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Caribou hunt outside of Kotzebue, Alaska. That's Castle Rock with the sun going down.
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