I set out this year to take any legal deer from the ground with the longbow I built over the summer. Id like to thank kenny m. on this sight for the great material and knowledge to make this dream come true.
On opening day I had to work in the morning but made it out for a short evening hunt. My plan was to hunt a spot inside of a corn field with a heavy trail running thru it. The corn didn't grow very well in this spot so it would hopefully offer me a shot. I was on my walk in along the edge of the field when I saw corn stalks moving on a windless evening. A closer look produced a flicker of a ear. It was about 35 yards away so I nocked a arrow and tried to close the distance. I made it about 5 yards when out of no where a button buck ran right out of the corn and stopped broadside at 25 yards, and looked back to the field offering the shot.
The shot was perfect and I watched him run off with my arrow sticking out both sides of him until he disappeared into the tree line next to a good sized creek. I gave it 15 minutes and started fallowing the quite obvious brood trail my simmons tree shark produced. I fallowed the blood just into the tree line when it just up and stopped! A little more searching showed what I had hoped wouldn't happen, he fell into the flooded creek! There was a log jam 15 yard down stream from where he went in so I camped out there until dark and he hadn't floated up yet.
The fallowing morning I was back to get him. About 10 minutes of searching and I found him in the log jam! Now the fun started when I had to wade out and get him. At any rate here's my not so big big trophy!
My bow is a 60" 58@28 binghams design hybrid longbow
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Congratulations cool recovery. You need to down size your pic or it will be deleted. Were you at in OH??
Now last night I got out to hunt again and headed to the same corn field. With 15mph winds and rain in the morning I decided to hunt the corn row by row, hopeing to find one bedded that I could stalk up on.
Not 15 minutes into hunting I found this
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With the wind in my favor I stalked in to make a 6 yard shot which was a little farther back then I liked. I gave it about a half hour and started slowly tracking it was slow going let me tell ya......
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Well in about 100 yards of trackin my second harvest with the bow I built was found
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Well done..... :thumbsup:
Alright! Always a great feeling taking game with your own equipment. Congrats! :thumbsup:
Yeah now thats what a tree shark will do :thumbsup:
awsome, thats how ya git after em! :thumbsup:
congratts!
That is Great, Congrats!!! Thanks for posting the story and Pics.
Wow, I'm not sure that I would have been taking pic(s) while stalking at that range!
Good job!
Congrats
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Glenn
Well done mate!
Good job :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
Great job! And nice work on that bow.
Nice job !
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Nice, congrats.
Good work.
Nice job! Well done. Congrats
thanks for the heads up on the resizing lungbuster. to answer your question im from fulton county oh. Im headed out to finish up my second bow now, hopefully i can put as much good mojo in this one as my first! thanks for looking
david
Congrats!
I dont know for wich to envy you more: building youre own longbow and harvesting game with it, being able to stalk up to 6 yards on a deer or havin the balls of taking picture during the stalk :thumbsup:
Post some pics of your bow when you finish it. Just thought I would see if you was close to WV but your closer to MI
That's awesome! Congratulations!
Glenn
QuoteOriginally posted by saumensch:
Congrats!
I dont know for wich to envy you more: building youre own longbow and harvesting game with it, being able to stalk up to 6 yards on a deer or havin the balls of taking picture during the stalk :thumbsup:
Last thing on my mind would be a pic while stalking. Great hunting. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
WOW! That's Good Stuff David CONGRATS!!
David , Congrats great job. Nice looking bow. Enjoy those back straps.
To be honest with you guys I wasn't sure if I was going to take that second doe due to the fact I was standing in 3 inches of water. Her standing in the row was a 12 yard picture. I was taking the pictures for a fellow trad guy who is laid up with a broken arm wishing he was out so I had to take him on the hunt thru pics. But once I reached the 6 yard line I felt good enough with the shot angle to drop the string.
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Totally awesome, congrats! :thumbsup:
Man that's some awesome hunting right there! Your bow looks sweet too. Congrats on a fine job all around. :clapper:
Nice!!
Awesome! Way to channel your inner "Ishi" and take a pair on the stalk. Very cool pick in the corn field. Real bold that you had the cool head to think of snapping a shot before taking a shot. I would have been so focused on the deer a camera would be the last thing on my mind.
I bet I have snuck and looked down 1000 rows of corn and never seen one like that. I know it works, but so far not for me. I think you have re-inspired me to give it a go in the corn field across the street from my house.
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Great Hunting.
Looks like you did a nice job on your bow!
nice, congrats
Thank you guys for all the complements on the bow and all the congrats! This year has been great so far and I've got 2 tags left to fill. Figured id show you guys a better pic of the bow as well. Its a bocote riser with dark walnut stained curly maple veneers with maple cores. (And yes if you look closely that is a fence in the back ground and no its not to keep deer in! Haha its the property line between my the property I hunt and the city waste water treatment plant)
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I was just fixing to ask for a bow pic.....SWEET!!! Awesome job on the stalking also!!
Congrats sweet bow :thumbsup:
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congrats :clapper:
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...well done
That is awesome!! :clapper:
very nice bow and two great hunts! Congrats!
I always wanted to try hunting in the corn rows but never had the chance. Congrats!!!
Congrats on your two deer! Nice looking bow you made, nice job!
Thats awesome taking two deer like that on the ground. Congrats on your accomplishment. :thumbsup:
Great hunt congratulations!
This is a cool picture.
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Awesome 2 days of hunting right there!!
Very cool!