I started this thread earlier this week, saying how I was busting out the trad gear for a late season hunt today
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=069323
Well, my planning payed off! After sitting in the stand for 3 hrs in 7 degree weather I was offered a shot by this big doe at 15yds. I was 17' up a pin oakin my LW climber in the middle of a hemlock grove. She came in and turned broadside. I drew, hit my anchor, picked a spot and the shot was perfect! she ran 30yds and tipped over. there was very little blood but the Magnus did it's job!
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome bro!!! Way to pull it off. :clapper:
Good shot....Its tuff hunting when its this cold, you did good....
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That is awesome bro, a big congrats!!!!!! Nice shootin! :thumbsup:
Very nice. Hunting in 7 degree weather cannot be easy.
Cool! Ditto to what everyone else said above!
Congrats :thumbsup:
awsome, love to see a happy hunter and game taken with traditional gear. congrats
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Very well done!! Congrats :thumbsup:
BTW- what did you do to keep your hands warm enough to make a good shot? Just curious...
Great job! I hunted in 11 degrees in a tree and I thought that was hard to do! :thumbsup: :notworthy:
Awesome...anyone who has spent time in a late season stand knows how difficult it can be.
Congratulations!
A very nice reward for a great effort, Good job.
Nice!! Look at the head on that thing
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Very well done!! Congrats :thumbsup:
BTW- what did you do to keep your hands warm enough to make a good shot? Just curious...
Thanks everyone. It was a lot of fun. I'm headed out again monday to see if I can get on another! when i got out of the stand i saw 8 deer across the field and one was a great 8pt.
I wasn't actually that cold. I still had a few layers in my pack to still put on and didn't need. I never wear gloves when I hunt, have a fleece hand muff and that thing works freakin' great. I just put my arm through my string and into the muff. when a deer comes in I slide my hands out and I already have my bow in my hand. If it gets really cold or I pull an all day sit I will throw a hand warmer in there and it's like an oven
Here is the entrance
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Here is the Exit
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I guess in hind sight I was a little far forward. I always aim straight up the front leg with my compound, but I want to give myself a little more room around heavy bone with my stick bows. The shot took the top of the heart nearly off.
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Nice!! Look at the head on that thing
Hahha. i know, it's a big doe with a huge head. when it first came in I wasn't gonna shoot, cause I thought it was a shed buck. I got a good look at it and when I saw it was a doe i was pumped!
Great job! Looks Yummy!
good shot,congrads
Congrats!
I hope you get a crack at the 8pt you mentioned. If you don't maybe the you'll find the rabbit tracking up behind the big rock.
I wish I was still chasing Whitetails too!
QuoteOriginally posted by Charles Sorrells:
Congrats!
I hope you get a crack at the 8pt you mentioned. If you don't maybe the you'll find the rabbit tracking up behind the big rock.
I wish I was still chasing Whitetails too!
No such luck. Really no rabbits here, but squirrels everywhere you look ;)
Congrats Skip thats a real nice doe. I used to hunt Westchester a lot a few years back in Yorktown, Good Huntin. Joe
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Great job...Is that a schrew?
Nicely done Skip!!
Big old doe huh? Miss hunting the hemlocks and mountain laurel down that way...
Congrats!
Welcome back and congrats on a great hunt! A bunch of us Jersey Guys were out pushing drives all day yesterday it was tuff. I've been hearing there's a ton of deer in Westchester County.
very nice, congratulations!!!!!!!!!! :notworthy:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Gotta love the late season!
Thanks again everyone. this was a really special deer for me. I have taken over 100 deer in my 13 years of bowhunting, but I have only taken a few deer with trad gear. i am making myself promise to hunt with it a lot more next year. It takes more work but it is so much more rewarding. this is the only other deer i have taken with the longbow.....on Jan 31st last year. the very last day of the season. I took a nice buck with the recurve and these 3 deer have been the most rewarding of all of the deer I have taken. they may not be the largest, but the are the most special.
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Congrats on a great hunt, put the weeles down and don't look back. All your harvests in the next season can be as rewarding as this one. Way to go!
Oh God I'm spoiled... 7 degrees?!? You've got to be kidding me.
Nice winter meat.
Good shot. If I was hunting in that weather I would have had on enough cloths to start a Cabelas! You looked like you were on the way to the beach! Hunters from New York state must be tough
very nice , Congrats :thumbsup: :clapper: :clapper:
Good for you!
:thumbsup: Well done! Here in the south, if it gets that cold I'm dun. It's a bone chillin cold here.
Very nice. . . so rewarding!
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I also think you should use that longbow a bit more next year. :goldtooth: Awesome hunt!