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Trad Gang Highlights => HIGHLIGHTS 2013 => Topic started by: Terry Green on October 07, 2013, 08:17:00 PM
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I went bear hunting this weekend, wild adventures and experiences to say the least....but those stories will have to wait....
Saturday afternoon around 3:00 I was easing down the right side of a road bed when I saw a doe coming up a bank on my right out of nowhere. She stepped out into the road about 10 yards ahead and looked right at me. Get this,...she acted like I wasn't even there...looked ahead and walked across the road and scampered up a steep bank to the top and just stopped and started looking around left and right.....
I eased up the road a bit and crossed over to the left side of the road trying to find a shot, one which I would have to 'manufacture' to get into the goodies under the limbs. I leaned right, squatted and laid a pretty sever cant on the bow. After all she also was pretty severe...severely uphill and quartering away...
I drew the bow and released all in one motion and the arrow magically went right were I was looking.
The arrow made a very audible 'slice' sound as it entered and I saw the arrow still in her when she made her 1st leap, then I heard a 2nd leap and then nothing, nothing at all. So I backed out.
Like I said, I was bear hunting, and was doing so with Tee Bone of Medicine Bear Archery, and one of his Badger Broadheads. I knew Tee was still at the shooting course and hadn't left to hunt yet so I went to get him to help me as I needed to get back to bear hunting.
Here's what we found 8 yards from the impact....
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/ncfdoe1a.JPG)
Here's the angle of the arrow, from the bottom up. (Note the broadhead almost breaking out)...
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/nfcdoe2a.jpg)
And here's the reason for the shot placement...
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/nfcdoebank1.JPG)
Thanks for all your help this weekend Tee....I had a blast. We'll have to get after those pesky squirrels one day. :campfire:
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Nice shooting Terry!
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You done good
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That's awesome! Nice doe Terry! Way to let loose!
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Congratulations Terry. Great shot !
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For a manufactured shot, it was fabulous !!!!
Congrats Terry!
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Awesome! Nice looking bow, good shot, short blood trail, very nice doe......how can it get any better?..........
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..........Except, maybe, you got a bear too?!?
:thumbsup:
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way cool terry :clapper: :clapper: :archer2:
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Yes Sir, at that angle it must have taken out the pump house. Good shooting Mr.G.
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Great shot Terry!
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Now THAT is a kill shot :thumbsup:
Way to go Tarz :)
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Congrats, Terry!
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A compound shooter would still be trying to figure out how to make that shot...a fellow I know once shot a moose with his longbow parallel to the ground and shooting underneath the cover...hunting in tight and creating opportunities is what we are all about...I am hunting mule deer on the ground in typical whitetail cover and I have a feeling success will only come in much the same way yours did...thanks for keeping me motivated
DDave
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Can't help but think of your form clock on this one...no chance for that on this shot...at the same time all the basics, ingrained from many carefully launched arrows, is what made that shot happen...to me that is the only true instinctive shooting
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Dave....believe it or not...but the clock was keeping perfect time. Proper alignment can be taken to all sorts of positions....that's why it so important. My body and bow might have been contorted, but the clock was 'on time'.
That's why I preach it so hard on the shooters forum and put a segment in the TradGang DVD.
Thanks for the comments...no bear yet, but man I don't see how!!!
Got footage of one that rounded a mountain laurel at 5 yards....again..another story at a later time... bear season aint over yet!!!.. :campfire:
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Cool shot
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Sounded like that Doe was looking but not seeing. Sometimes their mind is expecting to see something else(like another deer). She might of thought you were another deer, or she was so preoccupied that the sight of you didn't compute.I was standing on the edge of a field one day while deer hunting. Three deer which were spooked by near by hunters in the woods, came to the edge of the woods were I was standing in the field. Upon hearing the hunters, one of the Does came into the field, saw me, and trotted right over to me. She stood only 5 ft. from me looking into the woods. She probably stood there for 30 sec. before joining her friends as they broke out into the field and headed for safer turf. I assumed she never really looked at me, mistaking me for one of her cronies.
Big congrats Terry, way to think on your feet and get it done. Nice shot. :thumbsup:
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Congrats!!
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:clapper:
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Yep...that actually makes sense Terry...gonna spend a bit of practice time tomorrow before I head out working on quickly released shots with solid form...that is the sort of shot I am most likely to get right now
DDave
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Dave....have no fear of hunting from the ground...plenty of animals are killed that way. I've had my share. Best of luck to ya.
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Good shooting Terry, good luck with the bear.
-Jay
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She's a dandy. Nice shooting!!
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Congrats Terry!
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Originally posted by Ray Lyon:
She's a dandy. Nice shooting!!
Yep....them 'bottle nose' does are hard to come by!!! :notworthy:
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No yearling there! Nice mature doe, nice shot. She couldn't see you because of the hat :bigsmyl:
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Originally posted by Roger Norris:
She couldn't see you because of the hat :bigsmyl:
Yep....I truly believe so, whether others believe it or not. I was wearing 'the hat'....and Chris Surtess' bow hand glove.
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Good One Terry! Conrats!
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No surprises here. You taught us, perfect form double anchor matters not how much you can't. Congratulations, Mr. Terry.
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Good shooting!
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Congrats Terry! 8 yards from impact, what did you hit... the "Off" switch??? ;) Great shot bud...
Looks like a pretty standard shot in Texas from a tree stand! ;)
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:thumbsup:
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Way to get creative.
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With this being my first year of trad hunting and hunting from a blind. That was no easy task you did! My buddy and I had 8 days on a quota hunt here in Florida and I saw deer and turkey on every sit. Had a doe hear my elbow pop at 8 yards and quite a few bust me for movement. Had a nice 6 point at 10 yards and couldn't close the deal! Getting ALOT of experience though.
Congrats on the deer! :clapper:
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Congrats!
Bisch
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Are you going to try to top that shot on a bear?
Way cool! Congrats!
Rodd
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Nice shooting buddy
Congrats
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That's one way to get it done
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Congrats T! Well placed shot! :notworthy:
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Great shot and deer! Congrats Terry. :thumbsup:
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ya don't see many shot in that location.
Good shooting Terry
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Good shootin Terry!
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Congrats again brother! The text pic never did come through, so I'm happy to see it here.
Now get yourself a bear!!!!!
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good hunting, terry - great story and awesome shot! meat in the freezer! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Wow thats not a shot you see every day!! Nice shootin and congrats!!
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That's good shootin Terry :thumbsup: Stuff like that never happens to me.
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Originally posted by Bowhunter4life:
what did you hit... the "Off" switch??? ;)
I recon...did that once before in 1991 when I killed 3 deer in 13 minutes bowhunting...the last one, a spike, went about 6 yards.
I think she only took two leaps, and just fell over, not sure how long she stood cause I couldn't see her...but there was no disturbance on the ground or sign of kicking or anything.
Wish they were all that easy :readit:
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Originally posted by Terry Green:
Originally posted by Roger Norris:
She couldn't see you because of the hat :bigsmyl:
Yep....I truly believe so, whether others believe it or not. I was wearing 'the hat'....and Chris Surtess' bow hand glove. [/b]
In all seriousness, that hat is awesome. The human profile starts at the head.
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Nice shootin! Congrats on a nice doe!
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very nice , congrats
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What a great way to start the season. Congrats on a great shot. :notworthy:
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Awesome shot!
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Now that is a clean out shot, very lethal, great job and congrats. :bigsmyl:
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Thanks guys....yep...it was a shot to remember for sure.!!!
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Good shooting,and congratulations! I hope to be half that good some day.
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Excellent shot, congrats on the dinners ahead this winter. Do you have winters in Georgia??
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That was really cool. Nice shot Terry.
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Yes...we have winters in GA...gets in the teen every year....and every year or now gets into the single digits.
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Originally posted by Terry Green:
Originally posted by Ray Lyon:
She's a dandy. Nice shooting!!
Yep....them 'bottle nose' does are hard to come by!!! :notworthy: [/b]
I agree, those old does are some of the smartest critters in the woods. One year one of the Shrewhaven gang shot a long nose 'suzy' and they took it in to the DNR check station. They said she was 7 1/2 years old. That's a lot of MI Upper Peninsula winters that old gal made it through.
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wow!
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Great Job Terry, I am looking forward to hearing the story in person!
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Way to go Terry! That was one heck of an angle. Thanks for sharing.