Trad Gang
Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Wudstix on July 23, 2020, 11:39:20 PM
-
For me it was a 125# hog that I chased down for 75 yards and ran after into a briar patch. Shot was @5’. One of the pigs in my avatar. First one ran by me at about 4 yards. Both on the ground in about 59 minutes.
:campfire:
-
A turkey at 5 yards
A deer at 4 yards
Actually, drew on a small buck at two yards to see if I could pull it off...somehow I did...had first attempted to touch him with my BH then thought better of it when the BH tipped arrow was approximately 6 inches from him and I withdrew the attempt.
-
A fallow doe at 5 yards that I actually had to let get out that far as could not draw the bow while she was closer. And a Buck at about same distance. Very surreal seeing their reactions at that range.
-
A doe directly under my stand.
-
An elk at 3 feet. I thought it was going to step on me! Big cow took one step and rolled down the hill, dead.
-
Doe at 5' from my tree. A straight down shot I wouldn't take again.
-
My closet was 2 yards on a deer. The Mt. Goat in my avatar was 4 yards.
-
2yds in a javelina
4yds in a deer and a turkey
Bisch
-
I’m mostly a climbing stand hunter. Shot 3 bucks one year alone straight down. Actually had to make sure I didn’t shoot my foot. So stand height was it and that’s been done many numerous times. Just 3 in one year was a lot
-
Whitetail doe on the ground about 5 feet.
-
Last years buck was at 4 yards when I loosed the arrow. I took a limb chicken at 3 feet from a ground blind.
-
Jave about 6yds.
whtale. deer 15yds.
pig 12yds.
Oh, and a rattlebug 2yds.
-
Deer 4 or 5 yards under my stand.
-
A nice big 4X4. We were pushing narrow woods. I was standing beside a trail. One minute nothing. A split second later this buck came full speed right at me. I had to literally lean backward as it passed me.
I drew and released in one motion. The arrow was a three blade and hit him in the shoulder and bounced back at me. I took one step and picked up the arrow.
-
Several cow elk at 2-3 yards. We had an funnel the elk went through and as they hugged the higher rocks. We waylaid a lot them as they walked by before they closed the late winter hunt.
Called in and shot a bull moose at four yards.
-
36 inches
Spotted a big boar out in a clearing between thunderstorms
Moved in couple hundred yards
Found myself at the bottom of a steep clay wall covered with Blackberries and Briers - the steep grade was about 16 feet
I inched up slope side stepping one step up half a slide back
When I got to the top with only my charcoal stained forehead and eyes I see the boar 10 yards away and oblivious to my presence
I took one step down - nocked an arrow- intending to rise, draw, shoot in one motion
As I rose arrow 3/4s drawn I see the boar trotting directly at me
I held crouched drew as far as I could and shot directly into his throat
At which he jumped over my head crash landing 16 feet below and ran off
I trembled for some minutes
Got it together- inched along an amazing blood trail - right to him in 10 minutes
Barely enough room for the arrow to clear my bow.
-
Deer on the ground at about 2 yards.
-
2 turkeys at 3 yards one year apart. Guam pig at 3 steps.
-
Another close one was a big boar that dressed 357# and I stalked to @17 yards crouched down, he continued coming and I dropped string at about 10’. Buddy thought I planned to jump on pig and cut his throat. I was glad he ran away. Dropped at 25 yards.
:campfire:
-
A couple of pigs within 10 feet.
-
Tree stand at 6 feet, bear shot at 6 yards, went 40 yards and down!! Exciting !!
-
When I was 16, I was sitting in a brush pile on the edge of a field at 3 yards and thought I'd try drawing my recurve back real slow on what would have been my first deer. But the instant I moved to draw she practically jumped over me. Talk about a let down...
Surprisingly, I still never really learned the value of drawing behind cover and leaning out to shoot until I started spot-and-stalk squirrel hunting with a longbow; and, to be perfectly honest, I didn't kill my first deer until after, and every deer I've killed has been on foot, on the ground, and has used every aspect of squirrel hunting I've developed, and could NOT have been successful otherwise during those hunts.
-
Sharpened my stalking skills chasing groundhogs in PA alfalfa fields. Low crawl and rise to shoot.
:campfire:
-
The 3 hogs I killed that charged me...
Yes, there were witnesses...
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
-
Wow!!! Put 90 pigs on the ground and never have been charged. That probably would focus your attention.
:campfire:
-
Wild piggy @ 4 yards
-
Elk 7 yds, tree stand deer 8 ft., pig on the ground barely enough to get the arrow out of the bow.
fun times.
Mike
-
Caribou at 6 feet. this is what happens when you happen to hide behind the right bush.
-
Another candidate would be yard rat that hopped on my foam block target and shot me the bird, bad move stuck him to the fence from @7 yards.
:campfire:
-
Wow!!! Put 90 pigs on the ground and never have been charged. That probably would focus your attention.
:campfire:
2 of them were wounded by others...Michael Langahans and Curt Cabrera, they just decided to take it out on me and I let em have it...died on the spotso .....the other one was just pissed I was in her bedroom....left out and passed our in 20 yards.
-
Had one run down the trail I was on after the arrow hit, I just stepped aside. It was dead on it’s feet.
:campfire:
-
About 4 yds on a turkey
7 yds on an elk ( first with traditional gear)
-
1 1/2 corn rows... Bedded doe in a corn field. As a kid I would stalk corn fields during mid day row by row with the wind in my favor. Peek into each row and spot the bedded deer and make the approach. Literally got up on her to where the arrow had barely left the string before it was entering her. Was my first recurve harvest.
-
Oh, and I was another “witness” to Terry’s charge shots! Solana Ranch nighttime adventures! :thumbsup:
-
Whitetail deer at 10 feet and a bull elk at 13 yards!
-
A charging groundhog literally at my feet as it came boiling up out of its hole. Micheal Jordan's vertical jump got nothing on me as I shot it straight down through the shoulders with my longbow. I landed already running down the trail.
Some say I screamed like a little girl but I don't remember that part. :o
After 256 sod poodles killed with stickbows that was the only one that charged.
-
Whitetail doe at about 10' from behind a rootwad ground blind.
most satisfying and exciting was stalking to within 25' of a mature doe with 2 late fawns.....but I didn't drop the string.
-
Whistle pigs were a fine tutor.
:campfire:
-
You're all bold-faced liars. Everyone knows that REAL bowhunters never take shots less than 40 yards and only if they always hit'em in the upper left cornea. Y'all need to practice more hunting shots on a football field. MAYBE with hard work and sophistication you MIGHT be good enough to show your face in the woods. Well prob'ly not (I've seen some of your faces). But at least you won't be an embarrassment to bowhunting. As much. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:...
-
Took a shot once from in edge of woods across a bean field at what my eye told me was under 35 yards, turned out to be a tad over 37! Missed low and cut a little white hair of the biggest bodied and largest Whitetail I have ever seen. No blood and watched him disappear over the hill about 3/4 mile away. It’s all subdivision now.
:campfire:
-
4 yards on a turkey. No blind, just sitting on the ground. The tom & 2 jakes walked by at 2-3 yards but I took my shot after they passed.
-
Alaskan moose at 9 steps, alligator at 6 feet, coy-dog at 5 feet.
-
Coyote at two paces
-
My first bow deer I was kneeling on a limb in a pine tree and spike buck walked under me , from arrow to deer about 5 feet.
-
My closest shot was a mature whitetail taken in the heat of the rut, from the ground in a blow down with my single piece bow on public land. It was taken at or just under 4 yards.
I've also had a feral pig charge me after a hit at about 18-20 yards when I was younger that I wound up putting multiple rounds into that got under 1yd from me, but that particular scenario was very atypical and NOT representative of a good, close shot from the ability to get close to an animal.
-
Doe at 3 yards ,a buck at 4 yards both on the ground,got lucky those 2 days