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Title: First Traditional Kill
Post by: Todd1700 on January 10, 2011, 08:27:00 PM
Big Boar hog. Bear Grizzly, easton legacy arrows and 150 grain Wensel Woodsman broadhead. Shot distance 15 yards. Thanks to all the guys who helped me with my initial set up.

(http://i52.tinypic.com/12302hk.jpg)
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: GRINCH on January 10, 2011, 08:28:00 PM
Congrats good looking boar.
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: Green on January 10, 2011, 08:30:00 PM
Way to go Todd......give us the whole story.
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: Kenneth on January 10, 2011, 08:32:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Green:
Way to go Todd......give us the whole story.
X2   Let's hear it!   :readit:  

Great Job by the way!   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jayb on January 10, 2011, 08:33:00 PM
Congrats!! Still waiting for my 1st trad kill & hog.
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Post by: Sheffer12 on January 10, 2011, 08:34:00 PM
Very nice kill
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Post by: Two Wolves on January 10, 2011, 08:35:00 PM
Congrats, Todd!
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Post by: rastaman on January 10, 2011, 08:35:00 PM
Nice hog sir!   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bob B. on January 10, 2011, 08:35:00 PM
Todd,

Nice hog man.  Excellent way to start your first trad harvest.  How about a story, let us live through you a bit!

Well Done.    :thumbsup:  

Bob.
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: Bob B. on January 10, 2011, 08:37:00 PM
Randy,

You beat me to punch man!  Nice hog eh.
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: on January 10, 2011, 08:40:00 PM
:thumbsup:  so how did it go down, lets hear it,
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Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on January 10, 2011, 08:42:00 PM
:thumbsup:
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Post by: flyfish1 on January 10, 2011, 09:11:00 PM
Very very nice. Way to go.
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Post by: Koko Bow on January 10, 2011, 09:11:00 PM
He's just missing an apple in his mouth.  Congrats!
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Post by: lilbobby on January 10, 2011, 09:13:00 PM
Way to go!
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: Todd1700 on January 10, 2011, 09:34:00 PM
I was hunting a neat spot that I love. It's where a field corner meets the corner of an old abandoned gravel pit. The wall of the gravel pit is just 5 yards behind the tree I climb and is so steep and tall nothing can climb it. Anything coming from the thick woods below the gravel pit to this field has to come around it and enter the field at this corner. You can face one way confident that nothing can approach from behind you. And the tree I climb is tucked up into a little cubby hole of other pine trees making it next to impossible for an animal to see you until he is in range. I had seen 4 or 5 does, even practiced drawing on a few as they passed me from right to left. I was waiting to see one of the good bucks I know to be in the area. But the only horns I saw were on a little 4 point that proceeded to chased every doe in the field all over. Finally it was getting so dark I had started to gather up my stuff to come down when I heard something walking in the woods to my right. This old big boar came out and stopped broadside at 15 yards. As he stood there looking at the deer out in the field, I drew, hit my anchor point, picked my spot, locked eyes on, and released. I saw my arrow hit him a little farther forward than I would have liked but it looked okay. It did not pass through and I heard him rattle that aluminum arrow on a tree as he ran pass it. I climbed down and picked up his blood trail which was okay but not heavy due to no exit hole. I trailed him to where he dislodged my arrow and kept after him till I reached about the 100 yard mark. I have bow hunted with a compound for many years so I'm not a newbie to bow hunting just traditional gear. If I'm not 100% on the shot and the animal has gone more than 100 yards I back out. Also the prospect of finding a not fully dead boar hog in a thicket at night kinda sucks too. So I returned and picked up the trail the next day. Sure enough he had gone another 100 yards where I found him dead. I caught part of his shoulder and in conjunction with his shield it had limited my penetration to about 8 inches. May have just stuck one lung or he could have gone so far just because he was a tough old booger.

I'm tickled, but with hogs,and big ones at that, always a possibility on my families land I have ordered some Zwickey two blade heads for a little more penetrating power.
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Post by: ti-guy on January 10, 2011, 09:38:00 PM
Congrats
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Post by: maineac on January 10, 2011, 09:38:00 PM
Nice one!!
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: Kenneth on January 10, 2011, 09:39:00 PM
Good shooting!!    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :clapper:
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Post by: S.C. Hunter on January 10, 2011, 10:03:00 PM
Very nice job!  :thumbsup:    :campfire:
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Post by: glass76 on January 10, 2011, 10:08:00 PM
Good job.    :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bob B. on January 10, 2011, 10:11:00 PM
I am glad you posted the story Todd ... pretty cool.

Thanks,

Bob.
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Post by: chopx2 on January 10, 2011, 10:12:00 PM
Awesome!!!!!
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Post by: Friends call me Pac on January 10, 2011, 10:18:00 PM
Way to go my friend.
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Post by: Big Bird on January 10, 2011, 10:24:00 PM
Nice one.congrats!
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Post by: KentuckyTJ on January 10, 2011, 10:24:00 PM
Way to go Todd congrats.
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Post by: eddings220 on January 10, 2011, 10:26:00 PM
Great Job, well done!
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Post by: longbowben on January 10, 2011, 10:34:00 PM
Congrats nice hog  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mudd on January 10, 2011, 10:34:00 PM
:clapper:     :clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: TKO on January 10, 2011, 10:35:00 PM
That's the way to make bacon! Good job. Sounds like you've got one heck of a stand too!

Congratulations,
Tom
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: BlacktailBowhunter on January 10, 2011, 10:54:00 PM
Nicely done. Congrats on a sweet kill.
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: ductape on January 10, 2011, 11:02:00 PM
Sweet!!!
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Post by: Possum Head on January 11, 2011, 06:23:00 AM
Nice hog!What county?
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Post by: Terry Lightle on January 11, 2011, 07:30:00 AM
Good job,now you will never be the same.Just think the hardest 1 is behind you now.
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: Rob DiStefano on January 11, 2011, 08:12:00 AM
way cool, congrats!   :thumbsup:

got a pic of you and the pig?
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: huntnmuleys on January 11, 2011, 09:41:00 AM
thats awesome man!!  my first was a hog using a bear grizzly as well.  cool.
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: Onions on January 11, 2011, 09:48:00 AM
VERY NICE!
CONGRATS

chris <><
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Post by: 1oldbowguy on January 11, 2011, 10:31:00 AM
Congrats, love to see them pigs taken out of the woods.  They sure cause lots of damage around here.  Way to go!!!
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Post by: PA stickbow boy on January 11, 2011, 03:24:00 PM
good job
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Post by: Big Ed on January 11, 2011, 07:15:00 PM
Well done!!
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Post by: Follower on January 11, 2011, 07:24:00 PM
Good Hog Todd.  BBQ!!!!
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Post by: Huntschool on January 11, 2011, 07:37:00 PM
Nice job.

You da man....
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on January 11, 2011, 08:00:00 PM
:thumbsup:    :campfire:    
Congrats!
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: 59Alaskan on January 11, 2011, 08:01:00 PM
That is awesome! Nice set up.
Title: Re: First Traditional Kill
Post by: wooddamon1 on January 11, 2011, 08:13:00 PM
SWEET!When's the BBQ?