This year I set up my two nephews with 2 gently used '69 Bear Grizzly's and arrows all purchased off of the classified here. They both have had a blast shooting them this summer. At first they were not sure that they would hunt with them instead of their wheelie bows. As the summer went along they both decided that they were going to hunt with them. This morning all three of us went hunting on the same property and here is what one of my nephews got. He was so pumped I don't think his feet hit the ground for several hours.
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Congrats to your nephew and to you! :thumbsup:
Congratulations, that is what it's all about.
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How cool is this?....Way!...I'm saying....
I would love to have been there for this event!
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cool! :thumbsup:
Nice. :clapper:
Very Nice! Congrats to your nephew, and good on you for the assist.
Very neat! I'm taking my son on his first trad hunt next weekend. He would be VERY happy to get a chance at and animal like that! You should have some mojo coming your way now!
That's what it's all about.
Congratulations all round.
What Pepper said. Give him a big TG congrats from all of us.
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awesome
Way to pass it on Glenn. Your nephew's are lucky to have such a great coach. :clapper:
bretto
Good stuff steward GH! No doubt your passion inspired your nephews. Think they'll have a hard time deciding? Bet not.
Way to get new people into the greatest hunting adventure ever! Congratulations to all 3 of you!
Glenn
Good job.
Good stuff.RC
Way to go fellas tell em congrats
Way to go guys! I know the feeling! Awesome! :thumbsup:
Good stuff, Glad to hear your nephew connected. Bet he's hooked for life now. Good move setting them up with the bear's.
Congrats all around :clapper:
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That's awesome. Congratulations.
Congrats!
Congratulations to your nephew for taking a nice buck! Also, congratulations to you for passing on the great sport of trad hunting!
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
WooHooooo!
You can't hardly tell from his grin how happy he was. You should call him stoneface. Great job guys. :clapper:
excellent! Congratulations!!!
Now that is cool.
Sweet!
That's great! Congrats!
Good Stuff Congrats!
Way to go!
Awesome stuff there! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Here is an update of the second weekend of my season. I was hunting with my nephews Dan and Dave (and Dave's father-in-law Mike) again on a different property. Walking in we bust a bunch of turkeys on roost and they make a terrible racket as they leave. Dave drops me off at a stand that he had just set a few days before and heads off for a blind a few hundred yards farther. Around 8:30 I have several turkeys all around me but I hadn't bought a turkey tag this fall. :mad: About an hour later two yearlings make their way towards me and bed down about 15 yards away without giving me a good shot. My nephews had other commitments around noon and were planning on trying to move some deer as they made their way out of the woods, so I just planned on waiting till they were to leave and see if they would stand up and present a shot. I had an antlerless tag in my pocket and due to family and work, it had been about 10 years since I have taken a deer with a bow. So with my re-commitment to bowhunting this year I planned on taking the first good shot presented to "get my feet wet" again. As I am watching the yearlings, they suddenly become alert and take off in a direction that I don't have a shot. A few seconds later my Dan comes up behind my stand and starts stomping like a deer. :biglaugh: I start wispering to him about the deer and as I am putting my arrow back in my quiver and preparing to lower my bow to the ground, I notice another yearling walking towards us. I motion to Dan that another deer is coming while I try to get an arrow nocked. He sees they deer and starts blowing his grunt call. This keeps the deers attention on him while I get an arrow on the string and get ready. She hangs up about 25 yards out and is trying to see what is grunting. She starts to circle around us to get down wind and I come to full draw just as she stops with her vitals covered by a limb so I have to let down. From Dan's angle she looks to be in the open and he cannot figure out why I don't shoot. A minute or so later she starts walking again and I draw and shoot as she comes out from behind the limb and I drill her right behind the shoulder. Dan is pumping his arms and trying to control himself as she runs off and we hear her crash into a piece of sheet metal (left over from a tornado several years ago). I look down to see Dan rolling on the ground from his excitment. As we are discussing what had just happened, Mike comes walking up. He was just a few yards behind Dan and I had not seen him, but he had also watched me shoot the deer. Dave heard the crash from his blind and sent me a text thinking that I might have fell out of my stand (these younger bucks think that this old guy is a clutz I guess ;) ). So the first deer I shoot in years is in front of two witnesses. Sure glad I made a good shot! She isn't a big deer, but we have a story that we will all remember for a long time and I got some confidence for if/when that big buck comes by. In fact she was small enough that this is how I got her out of the woods. Dan said that this was my good side...
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What an excellent first few weeks! Good job!
Owlbait,just make sure he has fun!the main ingredient. and Glenn way to go!
Looks good to me,congrats fine shot.