Trad Gang
Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Possum Head on December 02, 2011, 09:18:00 PM
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How long should it take a man to shoot,track,drag,skin,shower,eat and sit down and type? Enough already! Jooooooohn are you there?
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I don't know how long, but I can tell you I personally love that combination! Centaur + Woodsman= something has been ventilated! :campfire:
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Well, it take's long enough to sit down and type :laughing: Loading a couple of pic's, be back.
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This is like waiting on Mom and Dad to wake up on Christmas morning.I cant stand it I'm going to sleep.Guess I'll have to check in before breakfast.Oh, did I use the Christmas word surely no one was offended if so I'll kindly take the "mas" out of it!
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Ah yeah!!!
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Around my house the kids have to listen to old dad read the Christmas story before opening any present!
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Sorry for the bad pic's this is one of the areas for improvements!
Our season open the 15th of October and i've been at it since then off and on but have had plenty of time in the woods. The weathers been hot as usual with temps in the high 80's and low 90"s through out October and early November plain miserable at times. Be back in a minute My bride just delivered pizza!
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I smell fresh blood!
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Speaking of bride,when she gonna fix me another 20 coarse breakfast? Pics please!
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Last night my boy asked if we were going to go hog hunting and I said we can but you have to help load the canoe. A few more times of asking and hearing him say he didn't want to get up early and he finally decided he wasn't going. About the canoe I had post a thread here recently on canoes and what other were using since me and Kirk (Possum head) had found a great place to hunt hogs. Oh by the way Kirk owe us a story too!
Since my son changed his mind this also help to narrow down my options, since no help to load the canoe i would hunt "The Land".
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The place I decided to hunt came to be known as "The Land" by way of shortening the sentence structure of what was originally known as "The Land I have permission to hunt on due to my friendship with Warren Duncan..." and is owned by two brothers Mr. Wayne and Harold Brown. The simple fact is we become lazy in life and human nature will alway look for the easy way as was the case in the sentence structure so it was with my son in wanting to sleep in.
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And I thought the "Super Committee" drug their feet on deficit reduction!
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The Browns have allowed me to hunt their property for the last 6 years if my memory serves me right. The property started out being 1535 acres and over the years has been reduced to 1235 acres presently due to selling some off. The land has been for sell every since i've been allowed to hunt it and in reality the fact that it is for sale has in a way secured my permission. For you see the Browns only ask of me and the few others who hunt it to come out a few time a year to maintain the place and set up the food plots ect... In this way they see the property value going up and making "The Land" more attractive for a sale.
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The land does have it draw back at times
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And is very hard to hunt due to the deer being mostly nocturnal in my opinion.
Tons of signs but mostly night time photos on the trail cams the other guys use (I don't have one).
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This year starting in early October we had 3 bears using the property mostly due to the other guys feeders, one of the bear (radio collared) would make a huge rectangle every 24 hours, the local biologist was befuddle why he had this routine until he and one of the guys figured it out. The bear was making his round from one feeder to the next making this pattern. Bears are creature of habit too, like us will choose the path of least resistance given the chance.
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Well, the alarm went off at O how I hate 5 o'clock in the morning and I hit the snooze button not once but twice and started to roll over and join my son in the path of least resistance and stay in bed.
As I laid there contemplating soft pillows and warm kivers, that other part of me you know the one within us that moves us to get up and support our families when we would rather lay in bed, spoke to me and said make an effort....
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Now i'm dressed and in the Cruiser a few miles from the land still torn on where to hunt..I go through this every time without exception it seems i'm always undecided on where to hunt.. it seems at time my hunting and my life run parallel.
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I find myself passing the road into the main portion of the land and it is as if i'm being controlled by another force stronger that my indecisiveness. I make the turn on a road nicknamed "Rattlesnake" need you ask why lol.
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My decision to hit the snooze the second times is now having consequences as the gray light is fast turning to the purple hues mixed with soften shades of white.. I must hurry!
The land has been logged in the last 2 years and i've decided to hunt along the edge of the thick branch that runs north and south in relation to the property. The logging company have cut strips of pines out of the land that run east to west and has created somewhat of a checker board pattern. In years pass i've stayed down in the branch and normally get blown out by the deer due to thermal, something i've never paid a mind to.
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Well, this year after gleaming from here how to use the thermals and the wind I decided to hunt the ridges in the morning and bottoms more in the evening.
I fine a pine tree on the east side of the branch and in the intersection of one of the clear cut lanes in the pines. This feels foreign to me as I like the bottoms with the oaks and the activities of the squirrels but i'm learning to resist the path of ease and comfort zones.
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I thinks sometime all the years I've missed out on quality hunts due to taken the route of the "norm" i've seen more deer this years due to a willingness to change and try new things.
I got settle in and looked at my phone to check the time, 0645 and the sun is starting to rise. My stand location wasn't perfect due to I couldn't find a suitable tree that faced away from the East so I knew that around 0715 to around 0830 the sun would be in my eyes, oh well life is like that at times.
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At 0815 or so after not seeing anything I decide to use a little doe in a can and grunt sequence to liven things up. I do so every 30 to 40 minute when at 0920 I hear a stick snap west and behind me.
I look back and a little over my left shoulder trying to see what made the noise and I see movement and make out a large doe then another and finaly a young yearling. They are moving through the pines in between the clearcut lanes instead of taking the easier route :saywhat:
I had just moments before opened one of those cheese stick tubes to catch a quick snack, and now the 2 larger does are 20 yards behind me with their noses in air trying to assess where the danger is :knothead:
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They move on and after they are out of sight I make a few quick grunts to possibly bring them back.. And after a few minute when things looked like they had really moved on I did another seris on the can and grunt tube.
While at the same time watching back over my left shoulder...
At 0935 I see movement again from where the does had just came through and at first i thought another doe than I see a little bone on top.
The young buck appeared to me on a mission as he was coming in at a gait and I would have to make a decision to shoot sitting or stand now.
I quickly eased up, got my hand on my bow in one somewhat fluid motion and started looking for the lane I needed. I'm always amazed at how well a deed can pinpoint the area of sound. He had the grunts located to within a yew yards of the tree and was on a mission to find the other deer.
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As he went behind a patch of low brush and a pine tree, I had one of those moment where everything went into automatic as his head disappeared momentarily behind the tree my bow arm came up and my string hand began to draw.
Within that spit second of being behind the tree to coming out in the clear I was almost at full draw and picking a spot..
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As he cleared the cover and stepped out into the intersection I was in positioned and my mind took complete control and the arrow was in the deer and my ears were confirming what my eyes were seeing.
At the shot the deer dropped, in an instant and I knew he had dropped a little at the shot and I had spine him.
In realty he had not turned to a full broadside angle and the shot was angle more of a quartering to me as he was on the move at the time.
I quickly got a second arrow on the string and rushed the shot deflecting off a limb and into the dirt.
I grabbed my last broad head loaded arrow and took a little more time and sent the arrow into his side but a little too far back and at an acute angle due to him thrashing on his side and me being 18' up.
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As he laid there with heavy breathing I prayed to God to allow his passing quickly but it seemed too long to me probably due to the fact that all of my arrows were shot and I couldn't relieve him of the last bit of suffering.
Lesson: Life is not always pretty and neither is hunting, chances are taken and like life variable are involved and do effect the outcome. (http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy235/jalmay5th/1st%20Longbow%20Buck%202011/IMG_0449.jpg)
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He is still now as I make my way to him, I thank God the giver and taker of life and bless his name! Now the work comes and the ease moves over for the labor and more effort must be made.
This is my first Trad Buck and also with a Longbow. For those who care the spec's are Centaur Triple Carbon 60" 54# @30" (when at full draw).
(http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy235/jalmay5th/1st%20Longbow%20Buck%202011/IMG_0467-1.jpg) (http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy235/jalmay5th/1st%20Longbow%20Buck%202011/IMG_0453-1.jpg) (http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy235/jalmay5th/1st%20Longbow%20Buck%202011/IMG_0463-1.jpg)
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Thank you , nice looking deer .
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Great story. Congratulations on a fine buck.
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I actually was able to sleep last night though even though I didn't get to see the pics.I guess visions of venison danced in my head.The ole Woodsman kinda left a mess.Nice buck now slow down and let me catch up!
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Congrats. Way to make things happen!
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Congrats!
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Congradulaations on your first buck. Good story too.
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Quite alluring to be guided by the half man, half horse of classical Greek mythology.
Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks guys this Trad stuff gets in you!
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NICE! :thumbsup:
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Let me guess,backstraps for breakfast before church this morning?
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I found a local processor in one town over and will give him a try this time. Looking forward to getting it back :bigsmyl:
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Way to go John,nice deer.
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Congrats and nice snake!!!!!!!!!!!!The only good snake is a dead snake.
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Thanks Cecil and Ben,
Ben i’ve had 2 encounters with Rattlesnakes this year.. and so far i’ve won :thumbsup:
I don’t say that lightly their bite is a nasty one and one to be avoided at all cost.
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You owe me the first one you catch next spring to skin my recurve.Simply grab it put it in a sack and I'll come get it.
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Not I said the scared bowhunter :scared:
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i missed this the first time around John...Congratulations sir!
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Thanks Randy for the congrats.
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Oops
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Great story John, congrats...hope youre doing well my friend. Shane
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Thanks Shane and doing good we need to get together and do a hunt.