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Cool story I don't get to tell much

Started by Fireman2019, June 06, 2014, 05:06:00 PM

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Fireman2019

June 06, 2014, 05:06:00 PM
About 15 years ago I drew my first archery bull tag in AZ.  I was hunting a unit that is insanely popular, but also full of elk.  The unit contained a quiet area (no motorized vehicles means no hunting pressure) so I decided to hunt there. After months of scouting I had located a wallow that was being hammered all day.  It was 3 miles in from any rd.  So opening morning I hiked in and set up well before sunrise.  The bulls were going nuts and I knew it was going to be a great morning.  Several small bulls came in just after first light and I passed on shooting one.  Around 11am it started to get hot and it sounded like the bulls had all bedded.  Just as I thought about leaving I caught some movement about 100yds up the drainage.  As the bull came through the trees I could see that he was a massive old 5x5 with the body of a horse.  He was covered in dried mud.  I grabbed my bow (compound) and got ready.  The bull was about 60yds and closing.  Just then I saw an odd looking stick appear from the backside of a large blown down ponderosa pine.  The bull stopped dead in his tracks and I saw a red and white fletched arrow bury into his side.  He ran 50yds right in front of me and dropped.  The owner of the odd looking stick appeared and walked up to the elk.  I gave a whistle and let him know I was there.  We talked for a bit and I was pretty in awe of his bow.  He was using wood arrows and green two blade head.  On my way back to camp that night I couldn't get outta my head how cool it was to hunt with that stuff.  I killed the next day off of the same wallow.  I've finally made the switch to trad and really want to go back there and see if I can do what he did.
Craig
Stalker Wolverine FXT 50@28"
English Walnut and Cocobolo
Black Widow PCHx 51@28"
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Fletcher

#1
June 06, 2014, 05:14:00 PM
Go for It!  Our greatest regrets are the dreams we don't chase.
Good judgement comes from experience.  Experience comes from bad judgement.

"The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing."

"An archer doesn't have to be a bowhunter, but a bowhunter should be an archer."

dhermon85

#2
June 06, 2014, 09:02:00 PM
Cool story. Good inspiration. You should do it

Matty

#3
June 06, 2014, 09:05:00 PM
Ahhhh good testimony!!
And then you saw the light!!

South MS Bowhunter

#4
June 06, 2014, 10:14:00 PM
The will is there now to do is all that is needed.
Everything I have and have become is due to the Lord and his great mercy.

Archie

#5
June 07, 2014, 01:43:00 AM
That's a neat story!
Life is a whole lot easier when you just plow around the stump.

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Cyclic-Rivers

#6
June 07, 2014, 06:50:00 AM
Go hunt!
Relax,

You'll live longer!

Charlie Janssen

PBS Associate Member
Wisconsin Traditional Archers


>~TGMM~> <~Family~Of~The~Bow~<

Mudd

#7
June 07, 2014, 08:40:00 AM
:archer:
Trying to make a difference
Psalm 37:4
Roy L "Mudd" Williams
TGMM- Family Of The Bow
Archery isn't something I do, it's who I am!
The road to "Sherwood" makes for an awesome journey.

T-Bowhunter

#8
June 07, 2014, 08:49:00 AM
Great Story!
William

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jkm97

#9
June 07, 2014, 09:06:00 AM
Nice.

Plumber

#11
June 07, 2014, 10:01:00 AM
I have had things like this happen to me when you see something that looks appealing all you have to do is find out how to do it an presue the dream. good luck

SELFBOW19953

#12
June 07, 2014, 11:20:00 AM
Did you help him carry his bull out?
SELFBOW19953
USAF Retired (1971-1991)
"Somehow, I feel that arrows made of wood are more in keeping with the spirit of old-time archery and require more of the archer himself than a more modern arrow."  Howard Hill from "Hunting The Hard Way"

Fireman2019

#13
June 07, 2014, 02:32:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by SELFBOW19953:
Did you help him carry his bull out?
I offered...he had a camp full buddies that were going to help him pack it out.  I did hang around for a bit and help him get it quartered up and hung.  My pack out was pretty brutal the next day though.
Craig
Stalker Wolverine FXT 50@28"
English Walnut and Cocobolo
Black Widow PCHx 51@28"
Zircote and Tiger Myrtle

Whip

#14
June 07, 2014, 03:26:00 PM
What a cool way to be introduced to traditional archery!  Now go put yourself in that blowdown.   :thumbsup:
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In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln.

elkken

#15
June 07, 2014, 03:54:00 PM
:thumbsup:
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good

TGMM Family of the Bow

Tedd

#16
June 07, 2014, 04:14:00 PM
Yeah,
There is no turning back once you have decided. I never hunted elk with a bow. But that going to be pretty amazing for you.
Tedd

Ric O'Shay

#17
June 07, 2014, 07:57:00 PM
Great story and a nice introduction to a wood stick and string.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.   - Thomas Jefferson
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