This doe is special as I had to sit out last season with the stickbow due to my tendonitis coming back full blown. So this year I weeded out all the bows that aggravated my elbows and now I have 2 bows. A 1964 Browning Nomad and a 1969 Nomad 1.
This afternoon I headed to an oak flat with my lone wolf on my back and set up on a trail that followed the edge of a steep drop off down into a brushy bottom. It was raining acorns and my spirits were high, so was the temperature.
At 5:50 a large lone doe showed up over my left shoulder, I watched her walk out of sight into the draw. 10 minutes later she appeared on the trail I was watching. She worked in at 20 yards and started eating acorns. After 10 minutes of watching her eat, I had a case of the shakes hit me out of nowhere, so I sat back down as I needed to calm down. I've taken 88 deer with a bow but sometimes it hits me like it is the first one under me. She finally worked downwind of me and I saw the nose raise and figured it was over. She was now looking for me and on alert.
Just as I thought this wasn't going to happen a squirrel started barking and she turned her attention from me. Before I knew it the arrow was on its way, but then it disappeared out of my line of sight. There was no sound of the arrow hitting anything but the deer bolted and went crashing down into the bottom and all went silent?
I descended the tree and looked around where she stood and there was no hair, blood, or arrow. I forgot my light so I headed home to get it.
The reaction of the deer upon the shot and everything going silent so quick told me I had hit her even though there was no sign. After I returned and about an hour of searching I found her down in the brushy draw below.
I'm beat after a loooong drag, I'll try to add some pics tomorrow. I took her with my 42# 1964 nomad, arrow was a GT 1535 with 175 grains of Grizzly on the end.
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Nice going,don't you just love those shakes??? :clapper: :clapper:
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Congrats on your doe. I like the Nomad Line up!
Congrats!
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PS: I look forward to seeing photos.
Congrats. Browning made great bows. I always felt they were never given the credit they deserved.
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Bisch
Well done! :thumbsup:
I like the way those bows shoot! Some day i will try to get one. :clapper: Congrats!
CONGRATS Larry!!
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I love it when I read about these old bows still making meat.
congrats on the doe. nice old Bow as well
Fantastic! :clapper:
When the bow was made, I wonder if the maker(s) thought it's be still hunting 50 years later?
Congrats on a well deserved trophy.
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:thumbsup: My first bow back in 1967 was a Nomad!!
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: I did that last year with a 63' Kodiak for my 50th. The old bows are still plenty capable. Congrats!
Like when the old bows get it done! Shot one with a 69 grizzly last weekend.
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Sweet!!!
Tom
Good Job
Congrats, Man! Thanks for sharing.
Hey Pitbull, congratulations!
If you don't mind sharing, where did you hit her and how much penetration did you get?
Best regards, Skychief.
Thanks for sharing your hunt...gotta be lots of satisfaction taking her with a 50 yr old bow! Congrats :archer:
Congratulations! Nice doe taken with a nice vintage bow! :thumbsup:
Bernie
Nice! My first bow ever was a Nomad Stalker I, about 1972. Wish I still had it.
Congrats!!
Congratulations!
Awesome.
Nice job - as a 50 (plus) year-old bowhunter, it's good to see a bow of that age range doing so well!
Very Cool!!. I am the same way with the shakes. Lots of deer down and it comes out of no where...just like you said. I figured it was just me :D
Good read and thanks :)
Good Stuff!
Love those old brownings!
Skychief, you asked about where I hit her and the penetration. In my post I said the arrow disappeared out of my line of sight. There was a reason as I found out later finding a sapling that had been cut about 8 yards in front of where she was standing. The shot distance was 23 yards. The arrow had deflected and hit her center of the ham and imbedding 9 inches deep. The grizzly split the femur and cut the femoral artery. She was dead in 10 seconds and had traveled about 120 yards only because she was careening down a very steep slope. Some times better lucky than good. The norm for hits in the vitals is I have an exit hole with the arrow buried to the fletching or dangling out the other side. Hope that answers your question. Thanks for the congrats guys!
Congrats!
Cool. Congrats! :thumbsup:
That is very cool. My Kodiak will be 50 years old this next season and seeing this is making me even more excited for this and coming hunting seasons
I love my Nomad... Makes me want to take it out this afternoon!!!
Great...! Looking forward to more pics.
Congrats! :thumbsup:
congratulations, That tendonitis is bugger isn't it. I have been battling it bad for a year now.
Good stuff! Congrats
Congratulations pitbull. :thumbsup:
Thanks Pitbull. I asked because I am shooting a similar weight. Been there with a femoral artery hit too.
Thanks much, Skychief.