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Cole's Whitetail Harvest (Xmas come early!!)

Started by Cole, December 24, 2009, 10:08:00 AM

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Cole

I've had a vision, a thought, a dream that plays over and over in my head that wakes me up at 4 in morning, endures the cold, and takes my time away from the women that I love; a dream that drives me to never stop pushing myself even in failures and shortcomings.  A dream that one of these days I'll see a deer walking thru the still wet grass and the view from inside my binoculars will be the buck I've been waiting for.  A dream of an opportunity in a place where the advantage is always his.  And yesterday I got that opportunity.  
      At 4:17 in the afternoon as the biting wind calmed to an eery still a dark body appeared thru the thick brush ahead.  With the view thereafter making my heart race as the cold in my hands and feet disappeared.  The buck lumbered thru day old snow in silence knowing his path ahead.  Now at 5 yards this king of the woods felt something.  This feeling of danger I watched come over him as he stopped in his tracks.  This hunch, as if his sixth sense; I hadn't moved a muscle as he looked up so deliberately, I could feel myself holding my breath.  He turned cautiously looking confused of the moment.  And my window of opportunity had arrived.  

Five minutes after his arrival I now stood with my jaw open, bow in hand, in awe; trying to let my brain catch up to what my body just did.  Replaying it over in my head, knowing the arrow hit directly on his shoulder; seeing it buried half way to the fletching as he disappeared into the snow white obis.  His blood trail lead me 150 yards as he expired in the untouched snow.  My 55# Great Plains Reo Bravo recurve armed with a 605 grain carbon arrow tipped with a Woodsmen Elite broadhead blew straight thru his shoulder and broke off as it was stuck in the opposite shoulder.  What a hunt!!! What a year!!!  Two fall turkeys, a doe the weekend before shotgun season, and now a 12 point buck!


     A few thoughts...    When you step into the woods with traditional equipment there's a different set of rules. Rules unbeknown to me.  Rules that come into understanding only after encounters gone wrong, as well as encounters gone right.  This bow becoming an extension of the hunter.  The skill you need you hold within, just you and your bow.  Maybe this sounds a little crazy but this is how traditional hunting makes me feel.  Taking every step with a new found purity in my heart that I can't get enough of.  Thanks for sharing in my opportunity, I hope you get the same.

Gatekeeper

TGMM Family of the Bow   A member since 6/5/09

"I can tell by your hat that you're not from around here."

Casher from Brookshires Food Store in Albany, Texas during 2009 Pig Gig

Warden609

Very nice pictures and story. Merry Christmas

Jim Boettcher

Excellant story telling Cole!. And what a magnificant buck. You truley had a blessed season, Merry Christmas. Jim

Stickbow98

Congratulations, Cole! Great buck, well written story, and very nice pics. Best of all...You GET it! That's as good of an explanation of how traditional bowhunting feels as I've read in a long time!    :clapper:  

Merry Christmas,  

>>--Ron--<>
TGMM Family of the Bow

wv lungbuster

>>>>PICK-N-STICK--->

ron w

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few...So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind...This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.  Shunryu Suzuki

agross1

Great story and pics,  congrats on an unbelievable trophy
Silvertip 60"  54#
64 Kodiak 60"  50#

Gapmaster

Great story. What a wonderful buck. Congrats bro.  :)
"Just passing through"

Acuna

Yeah buddy! GREAT buck and great write up.  Congrats on the early Christmas present!

trad_bowhunter1965

" I am driven by those thing that rouse my traditional sense of archery and Bowhunting" G Fred Asbell

West Coast Traditional Bowhunters.
Trad Gang Hall of Fame
Yellowstone Longbows
Compton Traditional Bowhunters
Professional Bowhunters Society Associate Member
Retired 38 years DoD civilian.

Two Arrows

TGMM Family of the Bow

limbolt

Excellant story and great photos of a fine buck.Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas!!

SlowBowinMO

Great post, great pictures, great deer!  Awesome.   :thumbsup:
"Down-Log Blind at Misty River"

JGoemaat

I was there! I helped celebrate!  Good job cole!

ron snowaert

You have a way with words my friend congrats on a great deer
Ron Snowaert

Keefer

WOW!
  That's a very nice buck congratulations!

Jack Denbow

PBS Associate member
TGMM Family of the Bow
Life is good in the mountains

swp

Excellent picture, thoughts and DEER!! Congrats
"People say you can't go back, its like when you get to the edge of a cliff and you take one more step forward or you do a 180 degree turn and take one more step forward. Which way are you going? Which one is progress?" Doug Tompkins

Cody Schnettgoecke

Congrats Cole! Nice buck, and those pictures look great too!


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