okay, so what big beast have you got a pass through on? distance and gear specs too.
i suprised myself a little while ago when i got a pass through on a water buff cow at 20 yards. 69# bob lee recurve with 890gr GT carbons with a scalpel sharp blackstump 2 blade head.
come on, fess up....... :campfire:
Good post Clint I will be watching this one.
For clarification what do you call a pass through ? 2 holes in the animal or laying on the ground on the other side of the animal? My self a pass through is laying on the ground.
Jack
yep, stuck in the dirt is a pass through. two holes with the arrow still in is just full penetration.
that's just for the sake of this thread.
perhaps also you have shot something tough with a light bow and got a pass through.
I suppose a big donkey must weigh 200kg? A couple of smaller brumbies of about 150kg. Two or three 70kg to 80kg boars. 78# @ 29" Black Widow PLX, 704 grain carbons with Magnus II 2-bladers; 70# @ 29" Black Widow PLV, 780 grain aluminiums with same broadhead; 83# @ 29" Silvertip, 775 grain wooden arrows and STOS broadheads.
Bull moose. 75# Howatt Hunter, cedar arrow (575-600 grains), 3 blade Bodkin sharpened on a rock... it was a self defense situation.
I got a full pass through on a Canada Moose in Maine from 38 yards. Never could weight it because it needed to be quarterd to tranport it out of the woods. It was a 51" bull and was guessed to have weighed 800 to 900 pounds. I was shooting a Palmer that was 58 lbs. @ 28 inches and I draw 28.I had a alluminum 2215 arrow with a Steel Force broadhead(150 grains) that the total weight was 540 grains. The arrow passed through the Moose and layed on the bank about 10 to 15 feet beyond where the moose was standing when the arrow hit him.
Last fall was my first year to shoot trad so i only can give example. I killed a 170lb 8 pointer with my 50@30 PSA X full length Heritage 150's with 125 grain montec's.
The shot was 25yds and i was in a ground blind and the arrow was over 5ft past where the deer was standing sticking in the ground.
Bull elk, 53# @27", carbon arrow, woodsman bh, 525 gr, 27-28 yd shot.
Legend longbow(Jim Johnson bowyer) 64" 56@28 drawn to about 26 3/4" shooting 500+ grain POC tipped with 145 grain 2 blade Bear Greenie.
The target was an adult male American White-Tailed Deer that we guesstimated to weigh about 120 lbs.
I wish the video that's in my head was transferable to a different media. I'd love to share it with other bowhunters as it was the 1st time for a bunch of things.
1st buck taken with Traditional bow.
1st buck taken from the ground.
1st deer shot without the aid of any type of camo.
1st and only deer I ever had to shoot up at.
I was in a sinkhole surrounded with one or two large trees and several smaller trees. The deer trail was just outside the trees(I mean right up against). I could have touched this buck as he walked by me. He must have caught something out of his peripheral vision when I lifted up my bow because he jumped and turned broadside. There was a small sapling covering the hair that I knew was there that I would be wanted to put that all white fletched POC. He was trying to figure out what spooked him with a couple of bobs of his head then a stomp or two. Then his fatal mistake, he took one step forward and I watched everything in what looked like slow motion. It was absolutely beautiful! The white fletches disappeared into the brown hair and almost instantly the arrow appeared in the air on his offside. It hung in the air momentarily, then slowly dropped straight down to the ground coming to rest on top of the leaves that carpeted the ground in these Ozark woods. An area so special to me, a place I had hunted for years... public ground in 3 Creeks State Forrest. Just a 15 minute drive from my house.
I love it!! Memories are a wonderful gift God allows us to have.
Thank you for allowing me to relive one of my favorites!
God bless,Mudd
PS I guess I did a little more than try to answer your quirey. I hope it doesn't put you off. Please forgive me if it did.
well I have not been hunting long enough to have a "complete passthrough", but my first and only trad whitetail kill. Was a pass through. Now it suprises me, but then it was not. Thank god the deer was quartering away. I was shooting a 300 grain arrow with a 100 grain broadhead out of a 40# recurve!!! It was almost a complete pass through, went completely through the first side, and was almost the entire way out the other, about 3/4ths the way out, almost to the fletching. Double lungs but since it was quartering away I nicked the corner of the liver, didnt need a blood trail but if I did . . . We definatly had a good one!!!
Bull elk 58# Black Widow 2216 arrow, Zwickey Eskimo 125 gr. broadhead, shot at 20yds pass thru and stuck in a tree,
Bull Moose Quebec Canada,67#@27 Firehawk Longbow Yellow birch arrow.Magnus 2 blade vented,640 gr
20 yards.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Dsturgisjr/Eland.jpg)
Eland bull in Namibia. 81# Black Widow PLX, 650 grain carbon and Woodsman head.
woodland caribou Newfoundland 27 yard shot, 51 lb longbow magnus two blade cedar shaft
We had a herford cow on our farm when I was a kid. She had a nack for grabbing stuff out of your hand thinking it was food. That day she grabbed one of my kids style cedar arrows and bit the nock end off the arrow. A couple of days later we found the nock in a fresh pile near the feed bin. I'd say thats the best pass through, I've seen. :D
As far as game(deer). I had an arrow pass through the rear quarter on a quartering shot and exit on the far shoulder blade and stick in the ground. 52 pounds 520 grain arrow 30 yards.
john thats almost as funny as prestons moose story lol :biglaugh:
Denny beat me to it Eland bull in SA.74# Bighorn Recurve 720 gr easton xx75 w/ a 125 gr magnus II,slightly front loaded w a combo of steel & brass(these were home made to fit.) (http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm219/bighorncooch/P9050175.jpg)The arrow in the photo was an insurance shot in the shoulder blade(MISS)from 35ish yds.The bull died with his head hung up in some mopane scrub and my PH had me shoot a second arrow that is pictured(first arrow did the job)The 2'nd arrow did however penatrate 17" thru the scapula I think you can see blood stain on the shaft.I gave the passthru shaft to the head tracker, he said it had good MUTI.
Small Newfoundland bull moose in 1997.
60# longbow, 700-800 grain birch arrow, and 190 Ribtek from 15 yards. Hit high in the ribcage because that was my only hole thru the limbs.
Cow Moose - 65# Recurve, 2020 XX75, Snuffer
Bull Moose - 55# Recurve, 2020 XX75, Woodsman
Cow Moose - 55# Recurve, Patriot Carbons, Woodsman
Cow Moose - 58# Longbow, Patriot Carbons, Woodsman
First Cow was quartering away, hit behind the ribs and came out behind opposite shoulder. The rest were broadside thru the chest.
Those Eland are cool! Definitely at the top of my list if I ever make it over there. I love shooting big critters. Always amazes me what a bow and arrow can do!
Good Post Clint!
Whitetail is the biggest we have in Jersey
Nice Eland pics.
American bison cow. With my first homemade bow 62# 620 Gr loaded gold tip arrow.
Bull moose. BW recurve 61# Bear razor br head. Carbon shaft, 550 gr total weight.
Bull moose. 10-yard broadside shot. Home made recurve and a 499-grain unweighted Beman arrow tipped with a 125-grain Ace Standard head.
I got a pass through on a rabbits ear once. About 15 yards. 50# Damon Howatt Super Diablo, woodie with a 125 grain field point. He shook his head and blasted out of there like a rocket.
That's the way, Jim! Too funny!
Nice Bull Jeff! :thumbsup:
Those Eland are beasts! Cool critters.
Eland are huge!
Getting a pass-through on a water buff is pretty darn cool too.
Thanks Andy I wasn't trying to shoot an eland on this trip but when this brute showed up I had to go to plan B.I was shocked that I got that kind of penatration.
Moose ... 55# Bill Stewart longbow, 70-75 # tapered cedar, wide magnus two blade ... eight yard shot.
Whitetail buck in full rut Nov. 5, 2006! Shot him with a Bear Grizzly 55# @ 28" at 16yds! I was shooting cedar arrows that were tipped with 145gr Ace Standards for a total arrow weight of 600gr even! He came in following a hot doe that was about 5 mins ahead of him, she was looking back all the time and was real nervous so i was ready! He went 15yds and expired, took me 4hrs to get him out by myself! He weighed 235lbs field dressed and had a typical 10pt rack with alot of mass but only a spread of 16"! Still my best buck ever though, turned out he had hardly any teeth and was aged at 7yrs!!!
400lb Red Stag,,,55lb Martin Mamba,Glue on Bear Razorhead,cedar shaft,,,no idea of arrow wheight.
Still havn't got a complete pass through on a Turkey though.
wow, those eland are amazing animals!
Denny and Cooch, :thumbsup: :thumbsup: I'd love to hunt Eland and Kudu sometime!! Thanks for sharing! :thumbsup:
Texas heart shot on a 280# mad black sow used a wapiti 66#@28 3bld snuffer 160/100adp. on a 2212 x7 29.5" you need to be there and seen the show, brother-nlaw shoot a 14 point buck we walked into the waist high grass to start the blood trail he was in front he turned and said run from nowhere she hit me at the knees and I fliped over her she chased him he jumped in a tree the shot was about 18yrds arrow stuck in the tree I had to wear a kee brace for 6weeks
cow elk at 18 yd. Bob Lee bow 56#
325lb dressed Black bear, probably close to 400lbs live weight.
Bow- WindWalker TakeDown Recurve (73lbs at 28")
Arrow and broadhead- XX75 2216 Easton Arrow tipped with a 125 grain 3 blade Snuffer. Total arrow weight- 561 grains.
Distance of shot was 12 yards. The bear was aged at 15.5 years old, very big boned. Took a rib going In and going out. Bear went 20 yards and died, got the lungs and top of the heart.
200lb black bear. 55# shrew and magnus 4 blade on a GT 500gr.
260lb. Black Bear. Zwickey Eskimo, POC shaft and 55# SKY longbow.
My arrow zipped through the bear and buried itself in the peat.. I looked for ten minutes never to find it.
John III
275lb + Bohawg. 65lb Silvertip CE Heritage 350. WW screw in.
(http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w43/silvertip70/IMG_1399.jpg)
Around here we dont have stuff that gets very big. I have killed 7 deer, 5 turkeys and 4 hogs with the same setup and all were pass throughs except 1 hog. All the deer were 100 to 135 lbs. and the hogs were 75 to 100 lbs, turkeys were average turkey size I guess. The hog that didnt pass through was quaetering away and I shot high and hit the spine. My setup is a Dan Quillian Patriot 58 lbs, 31 inch CX heritage 350, 100 grain brass insert, 150 grain Magnus Stinger or Steelforce Hellfire 150. Total arrow weight is about 680 grains.
Two Texas big bucks 9 and 10 pointer(125 lb field dressed ea.). 47#@28"longbow (560 grain arrow) at 145 fps with a STOS 2 blade broad head, real sharp. both at about 14 yards, recovered at about 80 to 90 yards one hour later.same year.Broadhead was sticking in the ground on both bucks. ken
My first tradition kill back in 1992 I think it was.23-step shot from the ground on A 240# Black Bear with a 50#@27" Ben Pearson recurve and a 2 blade Zwickey! Watched the Bear fall 15-yrds away! What a rush!!!!!!!!!
Mature cow elk, 25 yards. 2219 out of a 64# recurve with a 200gr muzzy phantom up front...both lungs, 2 ribs, and stuck in a rotten stump on the other side.
Pretty good size Alaskan bull moose. Slightly quartering away and a bit back. Broadhead protruded out the other side, but arrow stayed in him. 20 yards,4-blade Zwickey, 66# Robertson longbow and 725 grain ash arrow. My hunting partner got a complete passthrough on another bull about the same size on the same trip. Broadside. Ten yards, two blade Zwickey, 700 plus grain cedar shaft, 70# glass laminated longbow of our making. Arrow sailed through the moose and went on down the river. Never did find it.
A bull blue whale in the Sea of Cortez. Used a 50# osage selfbow and a river cane arrow tipped with an obsidian head. Tracked him for 20 miles before he gave up the ghost. Tasted like chicken.
Darren
one whitetail doe I shot was hard quartering away at about12 yards,hit in front of the left hind leg and come out in front of the right shoulder....ran 30 yds. and fell dead.
Kudu Bull. 26 yard shot. Grizzly stick shaft, eclipse head, 55lb. Dakota recurve. I nearly got a passhrough on a huge bull eland with the same setup. Arrow went through the chest and stopped just under the hide on the offside.
Bull elk, 8 yd. shot, 72# Howatt Hunter, 2216 Bear Razorhead. Shot a 500# Black Bear the same hunt with the same arrow with the same results.
Bull elk-34 yd shot bow was 56#@29" shooting a 2018 with a bear razorhead. Total arrow weight-545 gr.
Hog. Ofcorse the bigest thing ive killed is a hog. :bigsmyl:
Going to chase some elk this year for the first time so maybe i can change that.