Today was an annual rabbit hunt with a couple friends of mine. I arrived with bow in hand, ready to hunt. It was than that I realized I was the only guy toting a bow on this rabbit hunt.
At first I was slightly overwhelmed, I have been trying for several years with no success on hitting a rabbit with a bow. And to add to the fact that the gunners would make quick work of any rabbit I may have a chance at.
But I had my bow with me and I was not going to give in that easily. I decided I would rather miss rabbits with my bow than easily shoot a limit with a shotgun. Plus, this was the first time hunting with the recurve that my grandpa gave me, which started my love with trad. With that we went hunting.
I climbed into a old tower stand overlooking a nice area that the guys were going to put the beagle through. The rabbit movement was slow, but after 10 minutes of searching a rabbit bolted out of the brush.
The rabbit was running right towards me, I had no hope of hitting it but I drew back anyway. As the rabbit entered the opening the arrow was on its way. I about fell out of that tree stand when I saw that arrow smack that rabbit!!!
The rabbit ran 60 yards and died. I was so happy to finally connect on a running rabbit!! And to make it better to have the first shot at an animal with my grandpas bow connect was icing on the cake.
I scooped up my trophy and headed back to the stand. A few minutes the dog had another rabbit up. It circled around and started coming down the same trail the first rabbit was on. I drew back and lead it as it entered that same opening. The loud twang I heard when I released told me something went wrong. My bow hit the stand and threw my arrow off track.
The rabbit bolted than cut back towards me. I quickly reloaded and launched another arrow at the fleeing rabbit. I was with the amazing sound of the arrow striking home. The rabbit took off with my white fletching sticking out behind its shoulder. The rabbit made it 40 yards before it piled up in the tall weeds. I could not fathom what had just happened. Within 15 minutes I had shot not 1 but 2 rabbits on the run with my grandpa's bow!!
The rest of the day I missed more rabbits, but I still held my own against the other 3 shotgunners combined. It was a great day to say the least!!! That bow is going to be the front runner in my hunting fleet now. It is quite obvious we do well together! Cheers SS
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Way to go Lucky. Good shooting!
Awesome!
Congrats on the bunnies!
Bisch
Great shooting. Quite a year you are having.
Congrats on some fine shooting and a great story!!! So...what time is dinner?
Who needs a gun to hunt? :thumbsup:
Awesome! Rabbit hunting with a bow is a blast.
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That's awesome, Nice Shooting!!!!!
Hey that's cool. See it just takes a better man to do way. Hahaha!
Now that is impressive! I agree that old bow has earned some tree time. Great story.
Good job buddy!
Great job...nice smile....keep up the good shooting!
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Glenn
Used to love rabbit hunting with beagles, never hunted over beagles with a bow though. It's on my bucket list. Congrats on some great shooting and thanks for sharing.
I can hear those gun hunters talking to their other shotgun friends, "You should have seen that kid! He shot just like Robin Hood!". This was a good hunt. Congratulations on fine shooting.
Nice shooting!!! :thumbsup:
Tracy
very nice , congrats
Taylor you really are a sniper!! Way to go on some fine shooting!
Kenny :shaka:
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Great shooting congrats!
Wonderful outing!
Man, those are some booner bunnies! Congrats on a great hunt!
Big rabbits! Congrats on the double!
Your smile says it all. Nice brace of rabbit too.
Good shooting. Congratulations!
Darren
Congrats! Cool story! I will say I was a happy camper when I hit a running rabbit at the beginning of this year as well.
Vawy nice shots on the waskawy wabbits! That rabbit hunting is fun family fun when they are in good numbers. Thanks for sharing
Good stuff, congrats!
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Great job man. Keep up the great work.
Really good looking rabbits also.
Excellent shooting and thanks for sharing a great hunting story.
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Awesome! Rabbit, its what's for dinner.
Nice shootin!! Dang that'd be fun!!
Steve
Fantastic!! I used to stalk rabbits and loved it, never tried shooting them with beagles driving them, nice job! What type of bow was that!
good shooting lucky!
Way to go, great shooting. Congrats