Warning long read and picture heavy.
There is a fellow tradganger on here who does alot of lerking and learning, but never much posting. Some of you may know him...his name is David Chronister (longbowhntr). David is a dear friend of mine, he is the one who taught me how to build selfbows and we hunt together weekly. He has be traditional hunting for 20 years plus. He has been on a slide as of here lately, has not harvested a deer with a trad bow in 9 years. Well this year was the year of change for that. On Halloween David harvested his first trad deer in 9 years, no where near the biggest buck ever but it was a trophy to him.
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And today David official tagged out on bucks for the first time, and with a TRAD BOW. After 9 years of no deer he tags out on bucks.
Me and David were hunting about 130 yards apart, I was in a slough that was logged last year and David was to my south in a pine thicket. About 8:15 I seen this buck come out in the corner and due to cows in the slough the deer headed to David. With my binos up I watched David as the deer neared. I watched David as he drew and reached full draw and hearing the arrow hit its mark. I couldn't have been more exicited. We met at the trail cam and went back to the house for the deer cart and deer dog. We got one of Davids dachshunds (Mickey) to put on his first trail. The blood was light to start and it was hard for the dog to keep focus but after about 20 yards he found better blood and Mickey was on the hunt 50 yards later Mickey led us to Davids second buck of the year!!! I couldn't be more happy for David it has been a long time coming, and best of all I had the best seat in the woods that day!
David, His Trophy and his trailing dog in training.
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David, Mickey and Me
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The Drag Out
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The Tracker and His Prize
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The Last Leg
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CONGRATS DAVID!!!
Thanks
Boswell
Awesome David!!!!
True trophies, Cool dog and I love the camo paint job on the bow.
Very nice. Nothing better than success after a slump. Thanks for sharing.
AWESOME!!!!!! congrats
Great story and great pics...Well done! And man that dog is looks proud!
Great story and pics. Thanks for sharing them and congrats on breaking the slump!
what a cool story thanks for sharing. congrats to david and mickey :clapper:
Very cool, good stuff. Congrats David!
Great pics!
Nice job!
Thats awesome. looking to break out of a slump myself!
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Well done!
Martin
Congradulations...nice story and nice pictures.
Way to go and a Big Congrats!!
Nice story and photos. Perseverance pays off.
Congratulations!!
God Bless,
Nathan
Congrats. Always good to end a slump.
Well done! Way to stick with it! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Great work !!
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Awesome :clapper:
Congratulations :thumbsup: That is awesome!!!
Stick-to-it-tiveness! Congrats and may the drought now be replaced by a monsoon!
Wayyyy Cool!
Don't get better than that. Thanks for sharing. :thumbsup:
Most certainly a trophy! ....Phil
:thumbsup: Congrats! Good shooting!
Good job Dave! :clapper:
I wondered last night why you were asking so many "history" questions.
Thanks Bobby for posting this.
I think I'm more proud of Mikey than anything. Like you said once he got the "blood"...It was on.
The bow is a Dakota recurve made by Rick Welch that I picked up off the classified here on Tradgang. I must say the previous owner had done the camo paint and taken several critters with it so it came with lots of mojo.
:)
Thanks for all the comments, much appreciated
David
Bobby lets hope we get to add some Javie and/or Pig pics to this thread in about 5-6 weeks. :bigsmyl: :bigsmyl: :thumbsup:
These types of posts are my favorite on Trad Gang! I love this stuff! Congrats to you David and for Mickey. I'm headin to Arkansas for a five day hunt next week. Hope to do as well.
Thanks for sharing !!!
Wll Done !!
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Awesome! :thumbsup: :clapper: