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Title: Primitive kill #2
Post by: scrub-buster on October 08, 2014, 01:26:00 PM

This morning started out bad.  I was running late and still half asleep.  I got all dressed and ready to hit the woods when I realized I had forgot to get my bow out of the house.  I don't wear my hunting clothes inside so I had to get undressed and run inside to grab my osage bow.  Since I was so late I went to the stand in front of the house instead of the one I had planned on hunting from.  I was only in the stand for a short while when I got a shot at this one.  I haven't been seeing much at all in the woods.  I wasn't crazy about shooting a small one but I have been out of meat for months.  It stood there quartering away giving me a clear shot at 7-10 yards.  I just couldn't resist.  When the arrow hit it I saw red when it took off.  It ran up the hill behind me and then took off running down the road.  I got down and followed an easy blood trail up the hill.  When I got to the road I looked and saw it piled up right next to my sisters goat pen.  I had to laugh when I saw it laying there in the road.  The shot took out the liver and one lung.  I was worried I had hit guts but they were untouched.  It ran about 50 yards before dying.  I used my osage hunting bow that I built last year and a hill cane arrow with a band saw blade trade point.  This is my second primitive kill.  It should be some good eating.

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16896.jpg)

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16901.jpg)

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16902.jpg)

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16903.jpg)

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: 2bird on October 08, 2014, 01:30:00 PM

Awesome!!! Good job

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: MR BILL SHORTY on October 08, 2014, 01:49:00 PM

:thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :archer:

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: sweeney3 on October 08, 2014, 01:59:00 PM

Excellent.  I like that setup a lot too.  Nice work with that trade point.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: timbermoose on October 08, 2014, 02:02:00 PM

:clapper:   well done.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Pat B on October 08, 2014, 02:19:00 PM

Way to go, Clint. Well done. I'm still waiting for my first primitive kill.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: ron w on October 08, 2014, 02:30:00 PM

Outstanding.......   :notworthy:    :clapper:

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: scrub-buster on October 08, 2014, 02:30:00 PM

Pat, I think that bear in your yard would make a nice first kill.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Wannabe1 on October 08, 2014, 02:39:00 PM

Wow, that is outstanding to say the least! Congrats on a great doe.   :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Hoyt on October 08, 2014, 02:44:00 PM

Good shoot n'. Didn't have to drag that one too far.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: kevsuperg on October 08, 2014, 02:47:00 PM

that bow is rather nice too.  congrats
 someday i hope to take one with my own homemade equipment.  
 at the moment you're my hero.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: KyStickbow on October 08, 2014, 03:12:00 PM

Well done brother!!

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Matty on October 08, 2014, 03:15:00 PM

Love the primitive way! Good for you!

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Blaino on October 08, 2014, 03:27:00 PM

Nicely done with the homemade equipment!  

I like your broadhead. What is the size on the head?

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: joe ashton on October 08, 2014, 03:30:00 PM

Fire up the BBQ

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Pat B on October 08, 2014, 03:55:00 PM

He's not been around lately, Clint. He must know its hunting season plus with all the acorns on the ground he doesn't need to rob my hummingbird feeder.    ;)

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: scrub-buster on October 08, 2014, 04:36:00 PM

Thanks guys.  This was the first time it I used all self made equipment.  Last year I shot my buck with a stone point that a friend made for me.  


Blaino, that point is an inch wide and a little over two inches long.  Its a single bevel made from a band saw blade the maintenance guys save for me.  It makes a great trade point.

Pat, good luck this year.  Maybe you should hang a bunch of hummingbird feeders around your stand.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Stump73 on October 08, 2014, 04:42:00 PM

Congratulations!

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: KyRidgeRunner on October 08, 2014, 04:42:00 PM

Congrats!  I get excited when the crash close to a logging road, but never had one to run to the blacktop for me

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: on October 08, 2014, 05:42:00 PM

:clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:  

Bisch

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: cmh on October 08, 2014, 06:13:00 PM

Congrats!!!! Fantastic  :)

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Kopper1013 on October 08, 2014, 06:15:00 PM

That's really cool!! Maybe one day I'll do something like that

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: wooddamon1 on October 08, 2014, 06:38:00 PM

Very cool.    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: scrub-buster on October 08, 2014, 08:02:00 PM

Quote

Originally posted by wooddamon1:
Very cool.     :thumbsup:  

What creations are you talking about?

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: RAU on October 08, 2014, 09:42:00 PM

Great stuff! Congrats! I still remember your buck post from last year. I'm hunting the whole season this year  with one of 2 selfbows I made. With any luck I'll get my 1st primitive kill. Again congrats!

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: scrub-buster on October 08, 2014, 09:50:00 PM

Thanks.  Good luck this season RAU.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on October 08, 2014, 09:50:00 PM

LOL tell us how hard the drag was.

Congrats!!

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: typical2 on October 08, 2014, 10:29:00 PM

Nice work!

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Mudd on October 08, 2014, 10:40:00 PM

:archer:

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: achigan on October 08, 2014, 10:53:00 PM

Bambi in th
e freezer, nicely done!

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Mark Baker on October 08, 2014, 10:53:00 PM

:thumbsup:

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: scrub-buster on October 08, 2014, 10:58:00 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
LOL tell us how hard the drag was.

Congrats!!

Easiest drag ever.  Our property is all hills and they usually die in the valleys so it was nice to have an easy one for a change.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Thumper Dunker on October 09, 2014, 12:51:00 AM

That's too cool.   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: stujay on October 09, 2014, 01:38:00 AM

:archer:

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on October 09, 2014, 02:53:00 AM

Awesome! So pleased to see this kind of achievement. My hat is off to you, sir.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: Sockrsblur on October 09, 2014, 06:22:00 AM

Awesome! Very well done!!!

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: frank bullitt on October 09, 2014, 07:13:00 AM

SWEET!

Very nice bow and arrow, too!

Good shootin, to ya!

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: dbd870 on October 09, 2014, 07:28:00 AM

You'll have to tell me how to get them to drop on the road!!! Congrats - well done.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: LONGSTYKES on October 09, 2014, 08:57:00 AM

Very well done congrats.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: twitchstick on October 09, 2014, 09:30:00 AM

:thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: djohnson on October 09, 2014, 09:55:00 AM

Congrats on the harvest.

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: D. Key on October 09, 2014, 10:21:00 AM

Great job.  I bet you were glad she wasn't run over by the Mail Person.     :laughing:    :laughing:

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: wooddamon1 on October 09, 2014, 11:13:00 AM

I meant close ups of the stuff you made, looks very cool. Love that arrow!

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: scrub-buster on October 09, 2014, 12:43:00 PM

Here is the bow

   (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15771.jpg)  

   (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15770.jpg)

   (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15784.jpg)

   (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15781.jpg)

   (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15785.jpg)    

   (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20CLINT-HP/New%20bow%20stuff/SDC15796.jpg)

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: scrub-buster on October 09, 2014, 12:49:00 PM

And my hunting arrows.  Made from Hill Cane that Pat B traded to me.  I use a lanskey sharpening kit to get them sharp enough to shave the hair off your arm.

    (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16875.jpg)

    (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16879.jpg)


I ad the shaft of a 16 penny nail inside the shaft right behind the point for added weight.

    (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16887.jpg)

    (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16891.jpg)

This arrow is a little different than the one I killed the deer with.  The kill arrow has a self nock painted white.  This arrow has a plastic nock.

    (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16895.jpg)

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: HuronArcher on October 09, 2014, 12:54:00 PM

Must be extra sweet when done with gear you've made!

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: TimDougan on October 09, 2014, 07:32:00 PM

:bigsmyl:

Title: Re: Primitive kill #2
Post by: LB_hntr on October 09, 2014, 08:54:00 PM

Awesome!