Last Christmas I gave a compound shooting friend of mine a Bear Grizzly...He  could have it,no charge..The only stipulation was that he had to hunt with it this season..

His first day ever hunting with a recurve...Blacktail buck rattled into 10 yards...

Some people have all the luck...LOL

 

Congrats to him, maybe now he's hooked.  My first year certainly did not work out that way.     Joe

That is a very nice blacktail!!!!

Congrats to your friend....Maybe he'll get hooked by the trad bug....

Brett

Good 'un!!

Ruined for life!

Great Gesture!!! Great result!

I bet he will be back with the Grizz... He may stray, but I bet he'll get bored and come back...

Beautiful!

cool!!!

Congrats  

AWESOME, very cool thing to do Santiam and congrats to your friend!!!!

Santiam, I don't think you'll be getting that Grizzly back! That's a great blacktail, by the way. Now get your buddy on Tradgang and he'll be hooked for life!

       

"hooked for life".....and I bet someday, after spending thousands of dollars, and thousands of hours trying to get a better hunting experience, he'll look back at this photo and think, "Man, those were the days, wish I never traded that Griz".

Way to break in the new bow! My bow didn't come with that kind of guarantee?!
Beautiful buck!!!

Thats sweet.

I guess the buck saw your buddy without his compound and figgered he was safe.   :D
Looks like a Grizzly I have, early seventies.

Those blacktails sure are a handsome deer. I have noticed that they are nearly always wet, though.
Killdeer  

       

Meant to be.

Friends don`t let friends shoot compounds.

Well done indeed! My hats off to you both!

Great Mojo !! Congrats !