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Title: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 02:20:04 AM
Well, I have actually killed a pig for 6 consecutive weekends, but for the last five, I have used a different bow.  I had used my black and white ebony stickflinger, my RER vortex, my Paul Bunyan 300, my Primal Tech longbow, and this weekend I pulled my one of my Silvertip recurves out of retirement.  I got winded by a spooky boar earlier, but this sow gave me a shot around an hour later.  Gotta find my arrow in the morning, but I put a solid shot on her using an abowyer javelina lite broadhead and an older nitro stinger shaft.  She went around 65 yards through some nasty stuff, but my dogs found her quickly, and it was around 2 and a half hours from the shot to being quartered and on ice.

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Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: Buckeye1977 on September 03, 2018, 06:01:30 AM
You're a hog killing machine!
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: nineworlds9 on September 03, 2018, 08:00:41 AM
 :shaka: :archer2: :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: Possum Head on September 03, 2018, 08:20:01 AM
Fantastic are you able to leave your dogs at your truck for quick access or do you go to a base camp for them?
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: Chumster on September 03, 2018, 08:42:00 AM
Great shot and another nice pig there Pat!

Congrats!!
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 08:49:23 AM
Quote from: Possum Head on September 03, 2018, 08:20:01 AM
Fantastic are you able to leave your dogs at your truck for quick access or do you go to a base camp for them?


LOL. I just call my wife and tell her when to bring them.  Other times, I walk home and get them.
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: Possum Head on September 03, 2018, 09:24:19 AM
I was doing some looking into the Bunyan bows and found this meet pic


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Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 09:36:54 AM
Quote from: Possum Head on September 03, 2018, 09:24:19 AM
I was doing some looking into the Bunyan bows and found this meet pic


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Like this pic, lol.  I am on the lookout for a hunting weight and model 100.

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Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: cacciatore on September 03, 2018, 12:02:37 PM
Well done Pat.
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: Jayrod on September 03, 2018, 12:17:36 PM
As always brother WELL DONE!! :archer2: :clapper:
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 01:06:16 PM
Thanks guys.  Found the arrow.  Friggin arrow destroyers.  Surprised I didn't get a pass through.  Think it may have bumped into another hog standing next to her.

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Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: cacciatore on September 03, 2018, 02:18:56 PM
Do you see a big difference between the Javelina and Brown Bear?
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: Basinboy on September 03, 2018, 02:48:20 PM
Your death no matter what bow you pick up!
Congrats Pat!
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 04:39:44 PM
Just lots of opportunities, Corey.

Felix, I don't think they make the javlina or javelina lite anymore, but I could be wrong.  The profile of the brown bear is better suited for penetration, but I had a failure shooting a cow pelvis that turned me off to the brown bear.  It broke off at the front of the ferrule, and then to add insult to injury my friend broke the pelvis with his ACE broadhead, lol.  Anyway, I am sure that they are fine heads, but I don't use them.  The Javelina is wider.  I think the brown bear is 1 1/8" wide, and the javelina by the chart is supposed to be the same, but pretty sure it is wider.  I will try to compare when I get home.  With my setups, I am not concerned that I won't get the job done.  This particular head has only killed one other animal, but it weighed around 1200#.  I didn't get a pass through, but I got two holes.  I think it would make a great whitetail broadhead. I am glad that I was able to recover the head.  I weighs 230  grains total with the insert.
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: cacciatore on September 03, 2018, 05:16:21 PM
Thanks Pat, on these days I like the Tuffheads and the Simmons on wild boar but I am loaded of Brown Bear.
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 05:19:49 PM
It is always tough to beat a sharp simmons head.  I just like to play around.  2 blade, 3 blade, single bevel, double bevel, wide, narrow.  Just gotta get the arrows in the air.
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 08:00:08 PM
Pics of the brown bear amd javelina lite together
  Same width.

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Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 08:05:37 PM
Now next to a Vandieman and a Simmons Swampshark

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Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: GCook on September 03, 2018, 08:16:50 PM
You're on a hot streak for sure.

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Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 08:27:56 PM
My record is 11 in 11 days,  but there is no way that is happening again with my work schedule.
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: DanielB89 on September 03, 2018, 08:36:36 PM
Pat,

you're a hot slaying man!  Goodness! 

Have you managed to shoot anything with the swampsharks yet? 

are they literally an unvented tiger shark?
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 09:06:57 PM
Not yet.  Just got them last week.  Killed a hog with a tigershark recently.  Really, it us just a solid tigershark that weighs 15 grains more.  Gonna do the same great job that the tigersharks do, I am sure.

And yes, same exact dimensions.
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 09:21:22 PM
I was wrong.  Just took a pic.  Even though the dimensions are the same on the website, the swampshark is a touch longer, and seems to have more of a tapered edge in front of the ferrule.
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Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 09:23:46 PM
Same exact width though.  The swampshark is a little rotated in pic.
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: DanielB89 on September 03, 2018, 10:05:50 PM
thanks for showing the side by side comparison!  I love the tigers.  I will add some swamps when the time comes. 

Were having the hog hunt again in January.  Be great if you accidentally showed up!  ;) 
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: pdk25 on September 03, 2018, 10:42:11 PM
It will depend on my schedule.  6 months straight without a day off, and no endbbn in site as of right now.
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: Thumper Dunker on September 04, 2018, 12:41:53 AM
 :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: DanielB89 on September 04, 2018, 01:00:41 PM
you need to find an end to it! :) 

3rd weekend in January would be a great weekend to end it!
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: Bisch on September 04, 2018, 04:39:42 PM
Pig killin' machine!!!!

Bisch
Title: Re: 5 consecutive weekends using a different bow
Post by: varmint101 on September 04, 2018, 05:19:30 PM
That's fantastic! Nice going! Gotta be some good eats around there!