success in ohio

dlnwohio · October 21, 2011, 04:10:00 PM

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

wv lungbuster · October 21, 2011, 04:17:00 PM

Congratulations cool recovery. You need to down size your pic or it will be deleted. Were you at in OH??

dlnwohio · October 21, 2011, 04:25:00 PM

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

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......

Well in about 100 yards of trackin my second harvest with the bow I built was found

ron w · October 21, 2011, 04:25:00 PM

Well done.....

steadman · October 21, 2011, 04:41:00 PM

Alright! Always a great feeling taking game with your own equipment. Congrats!

wv lungbuster · October 21, 2011, 04:44:00 PM

Yeah now thats what a tree shark will do

October 21, 2011, 04:47:00 PM

awsome, thats how ya git after em!

congratts!

Gen273 · October 21, 2011, 04:50:00 PM

That is Great, Congrats!!! Thanks for posting the story and Pics.

Igor · October 21, 2011, 04:54:00 PM

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

Roaring Reds · October 21, 2011, 04:57:00 PM

Well done mate!

tracker1 · October 21, 2011, 05:21:00 PM

Good job

Green · October 21, 2011, 05:24:00 PM

Great job! And nice work on that bow.

lpcjon2 · October 21, 2011, 05:28:00 PM

Nice job !

A.S. · October 21, 2011, 05:33:00 PM

northern lights · October 21, 2011, 05:44:00 PM

Nice, congrats.

KentuckyTJ · October 21, 2011, 05:45:00 PM

Good work.

Irish Archer · October 21, 2011, 05:48:00 PM

Nice job! Well done. Congrats

dlnwohio · October 21, 2011, 06:06:00 PM

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

saumensch · October 21, 2011, 06:12:00 PM

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

wv lungbuster · October 21, 2011, 06:17:00 PM

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