Alright guys it was quite the weekend. My friend and I went out Friday morning and sat in a nice pinch point between two CRP feilds and a finger than leads from a creek bottom up to corn. It didn't take long for Calvin (my friend) to give me the hand signal that a deer was on his way. As he manned the camera a tried to settle my nerves for what I expected to be a big doe or a nice buck. It happened to be neither it was a button buck. With over ten minutes of footage of him and a fifteen yard shot I could not pass up the opportunity to claim my first traditional harvest. I have shot many deer with my compound, and being only 21 years old I know alot of my friends get caught up in all the "amazing technology" that goes into today's bows. But releasing the arrow with my fingers across the shelf of my 60# fred bear super kodiak was unlike any archery kill I have ever experienced. For lack of better words it seemed intimate (i guess youd say)? It turned out to be a perfect shot (one that I have practiced over 400 times in the fast month my biggest fear is to wound a deer) I double lunged him and he only ran 20 yards before piling up. To say the least I was completely stoked! I had my first harvest on camera, and my first harvest with a recurve!
I would like to add a special thanks to doug77 of Tradgang. I posted a previous topic on arrow tuning and within a day he had reposted and invited calvin and i to come to his house and shoot to help us tune our arrows. He was extremely nice and knowledgable. He was even generous enough to go the extra mile and let me borrow four of his arrows that worked great for my bow, one of which I used to completely pass through my double lunged button buck. To say the least Tradgang as a community and all the members within the forums are first class and I thank everyone for all of your support.
PS as you can see Im very new to the forum so if someone could give me help on getting pictures from my hardrive to the forum I will post one of me and my dinner (//%5Burl=http://images.imagelinky.com/1287597228.JPG%5D%20%5Bimg%5Dhttp://images.imagelinky.com/1287597228.JPG)[/url] [/IMG]
Congratulations. Great news
Many more to come I hope
sam
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Way to go, Congrats! There are instructions on how to post pics somewhere on the site.
Good for you, and good luck with the rest of the season.
Congrats
Congradulations!
The instructions for posting pictures are here.
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=094900
or e-mail them to me jackson2370@sbcglobal.net and I will be glad to post them for you!
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congrats
:thumbsup: Great job!!! Love to see a young person so pumped up and excited about trad hunting. To me the reward is so much greater knowing you did it the hard way. Stay with it and hope you have a long and rewarding trad career.
Picture has been resized and moved to my first post.
Congrats!! One of the first of many I am sure. You will remember this one above all the rest.
Caleb, glad to help you out. Keep up the good shootin
doug77
Man, congradulation! I wish I was your age... So many years in front of you, good writing, good shooting!!
Cheers
Congrats!!! Welcome to the fold!!!
The smile says it all.... SO I wonder if the compound has any place in your future or are you hooked? I liked the word association of "intimate*... never thought of that with hunting, but dang if it isn't accurate
Congratulations Caleb. A trophy's a trophy no matter the size. Congrats again.
Butch L
Pretty cool! :cool:
A big congrats on your first harvest!!!
Well done!
NICE!
Well-done!
Nice job!
Great shooting! :thumbsup:
Fantastic! Congratualtions!
very nice, congrats :saywhat:
In response to slashers post, even though i worked in an archery shop selling and repairing compound bows for a couple of years I believe that my brand new compound will be taking a permanent back seat the rest of the year as long as I continue to shoot as well as i have been. And yes I am hooked. Im at the point where it seems like there arent enough hours in the day because I want to shoot for all of them
Congrats! :thumbsup:
congrats
nice going
Great Job - Congrads
Way to go Caleb! Way to take the leap, from here it is pure freefall. Thanks for sharing.
Luke Strommen
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Nice work! Welcome to the addiction!
Great Job and Great Picture, Congratulations. I am hoping for my first big game harvest this season with my recurve. Fingers crossed.
Great work Caleb and good on you Doug77.
Well done Caleb :archer:
congrats caleb! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Well done :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
Live it up man!!!!
Always be STOKED!!!
Congrats, great shot, and many happy returns of the day!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Man I hope mine is this weekend!! CONGRATS TO YOU!!!!!
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Congrats :thumbsup:
Great job Caleb!