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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Hooper on January 10, 2010, 09:16:00 PM
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It was a lucky day for me today, I found a lost arrow. It was from a shot I took at a woodchuck this past summer. I sneaked up to a field edge and didn't see anything so I started to walk out into the field and a medium sized chuck stood up in the grass turned and seen me and ran to a tree in the field and to my surprise climbed up it about twelve feet and sat there. I walked up to about ten yards and missed, shot about three inches to the left and sailed my arrow into ( boy, I will never find that one ) a thicket patch. Well I found that one today while rabbit hunting. It was nice to add a arrow to my quiver for a change.
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Now that is pretty neat!!
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Cool... :thumbsup:
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Sweet!!!!!!!!!
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cool so thats why you guys wait for winter. so ya can find arrows. well i must try that sometime. :biglaugh:
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always a plus when the quiver goes home more full than when it left!
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you should play the lottery.
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Very cool!
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Cool. Thanks for sharing! I have one stuck in a tree about 10 feet in the air from when I missed a buck from an old treestand location. I never tried to retrieve it, though. I walk past it every know and then to remind myself that I am a lousy shot LOL!
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That field point would have only made him mad. They take a heap of killing.
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I had no idea that a chuck would climb a tree!!!learn sumthin new ever day.
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Nice shot! :knothead: :knothead: :knothead:
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Originally posted by Double Tee:
I had no idea that a chuck would climb a tree!!!learn sumthin new ever day.
Oh yes, woodchucks are very good climbers. I've seen them do it too.
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I too was surprised that wood chucks climb trees. I had one spot me during a stalk in a cherry orchard and up a cherry tree he went. The tree wasnt quite high enough and a judo to the side of the head made it a short lived escape. This was several years ago and I had spent alot of time in the woods and had never seen one do it.
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We did that same thing one year in Idaho. Two years earlier we hunted a drainage and ran into some grouse. Many arrows were shot in a few seconds and a couple were not found.
Fast forward two years. Rusty and I decided to try someplace different one evening and drove the 25 miles to a place we call burnt log. Anyway we were a few minutes later then I wanted and had close to a mile to cover to get to the basin.
As we hot footed down the trail we jumped a grouse. Stopped to see if we could get on it and I noticed a flash of yellow in the brush that didn't belong. Well there was one of the flu flus we shot two years before and not in bad shape. I shot a couple of grouse with it before the hunt was over.
Mike
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That's a cool picture!
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I lost 5 yesterday, Only two were lost shooting at bun buns. 5 were lost climbing through garbage. I'm sure they will be found at the JLMBH if we don't get too much snow! I'll bet they are all laying next to each other.
Good find!
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Great story and pictures!!Thanks for sharing.
Wingnut, I loved that you took it all in stride, put it back in the quiver and used it to make meat.
I've seen more of them up a tree than I care to admit..lol My OMCBA dog(Liar) didn't know he wasn't supposed to tree them. I knew if Woog were to come along we'd have it out because her philosophy is if the dogs tree it, shoot it out whereas my preference is to just tell'em "That's not what we're after!" and "to come on".
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God bless,Mudd
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If you missed there has to be something wrong with the arrow, I hope you left it there.
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Chucks are very partial to fence rows. If you get between the chuck and his hole he will climb to hide in a thicket. Not like a squirrel but they can and will climb. I believe they are preferred food for some four legged critter(fox, coyote, bobcat, etc.) Expect that is why they climb when pressured.
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I have a lost arrow story: I made some very small cedars for my son Danny when he was 6 years old (he's 19 now) fast forward to when he was 12....we were across the road from the cabin grouse hunting together, about 1/2 mile from the cabin....and we found one of his arrows. He said he used to cross the road while shooting his bow, but had no idea he ahad come that far...it scared the hell out of me to know my son had wandered that far into the bush. He shot those arrows for awhile, so he may have been as old as 9 or 10 when he lost it, but jeeez. I had shivers.
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Originally posted by Hooper:
It was nice to add a arrow to my quiver for a change.
Yup that is a rarity :readit: Good for you! And great pics of where it came to rest!
Perhaps you were never actually aiming at the woodchuck at all and were aiming at that branch the whole time!! In that case....Good Shooting!!!! :biglaugh:
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Karen walked into the shop a couple of weeks ago with a flu flu that I had shot high into a tree 3-4 years earlier. The arrow was a blunt but it had lodged securely. It was no longer usable as the wood had partially rotted. However it was still good to get it back...like seeing an old friend after a long absence.
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cool! i have quit a few burried around, i missed a buck one year with a beautiful wood arrow and zwickey eskimo, i looked and looked, never did find it. wife lost one to a shot at a grey fox this year. i did find one a few years ago while hunting west viginia, i was burried in the ground like it had been shot through a deer from a treestand and still had blood staines on it.
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"That field point would have only made him mad. They take a heap of killing."
That's exactly what I was thinking.....
And Mike, I didn't know a flu-flu had a range of 25 miles!!!!
Ha ha! Read your post again, it sounds like you hunted one area one year then two years later wanted to try a different area and drove 25 miles away from the first area and found your flu-flu. I'm guessing your "regular" area was 25 miles away from the area you hunted two years ago and when you tried someplace new it was back in the place from two years ago. Had me scratching my head and gave me a good chuckle until I figured it out.
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Hi Dave,
I think maybe Wingnut and I have something in else common..lol
One of my coon hunting buddies always told me one of the reason he enjoyed hunting with me is because no matter how many times we hunted one area he said it was like a new spot for me since I never remembered being there before..lol
God bless,Mudd
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word of caution- I used to go antler hunting in the Boise Idaho foothills; where there was a December hunt for deer- often in snow.
Wood arrows survived the winter- but the aluminum ones weakened bad enough on the side the sun hit them.
I shot one of these from the hip and it blew up on take off. ssssssooooooo be careful with the aluminum ones.
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I was out helping my buddy track a pig he had shot this year . We were following a good blood trail when I heard him say he found his arrow then " This ain't my arrow". 2 years earlier I had shot at my first deer, didn't find the deer or arrow. It was a cedar so it looks a little weathered now but I just stuck it up on the rack for conversations sake. Its always cool to find those lost arrows and reflect on the shot!!
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Be glad you missed the ground hog. Wounding an animal with a field point is not a good thing.
Those things are tough to kill with a broadhead.
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Alway's feel's good to find afew.
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Just like finding a $10 dollar bill.
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That looks just like one of my arrows! I was wondering what happened to it.
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I found ten arrows on the range in the snow today, that breaks a record for me. In about twenty minutes or so.I try to return them if I can but we need to start a lost and found for arrows at Aurora Res. I have managed to return or find good homes for a lot of them over the last couple years. The others I make into stumpers and test arrows.