HH bug got me ... Part One!

[David Mitchell]

Claymore, I use the heavy cardboard tubes that carpet comes on.  Most any carpet store will give you all you need because they just throw them away when a roll is finished.  Very tough and sturdy stuff and not real heavy so not bad on postage either. At my local Tim Hogan carpet store the guys cut them to length for me.

[Rob DiStefano]

3" pvc tube works best.  i use the thinner wall stuff, but you can go with schedule 40 and add a good few more pounds - i don't think it's necessary.  i cap each end with a screwed piece of 1/2" ply, but you can buy thin plastic caps and duct tape them on.  only use usps priority!  make sure to insure!  if you know the bowyer, and i see you do, he will email/fax an invoice for the bow should it get destroyed - you WILL need a VENDOR/MANUFACTURER invoice to collect the insurance - ask me how i know this!!!  

[Bob B.]

I am having a hard time getting pics to post, I have pics of my Shelton and my new Owl bow.  Can anyone assist me with posting the pics?

Bob.

[Stone Knife]

Ric, I love the grip, now I'm going to save a few tails this trapping season.

[Shinken]

That HH WILD BOAR is one of the nicest lookin' Hill bows that I have evah seen!  Evah....

Enjoy Danny!

Shoot straight, Shinken

 

[Overspined]

Of course a shelton is Hill style!!  I just shot my dual shelf Hill Robin Hood string follow this evening. I realized a form flaw when I started shooting better lefty!! Oops.  

I am going to order a T/D Hill STYLE, but I am nervous on the draw weight....deciding between HH and NM.  I DON'T LIKE GAMBLING WITH $ and draw weights. NM's often come in light, and HH come in heavy....

grrrrr

[Mudd]

Bob B's Northern Mist Sheldon.




God bless,Mudd

[Ric O'Shay]

Those string follow Sheltons have to be sweet shooters.      

Danny

[Bob B.]

Thanks a ton Mudd!!    

The bow is a Northern Mist Shelton, 68 inches 53 @ 27.  It is like 63 at my draw.  The bow has 4 lams of Yew and brown glass back and belly, bolivian rosewood riser.  She is a sweet shooter for sure!

Thanks again Mudd, I appreciate your help brother.

Bob.

[Eric Sprick]

Sweet lookin' bow there Bob.  Love the Rosewood riser.

Eric

[mikebiz]

That Bolivian Rosewood riser is just plain gorgeous.    And that yew ain't too shabby either.  Fantastic looking bow.

[Molson]

Steve Turay sure does make a great bow.  Those Sheltons are really nice and that one is a beaut Bob!  

[David Mitchell]

I have two Sheltons and they are extremely well made and pleasant to shoot.

[Mudd]

David are you trying tell us that "wrong handed" bows will shoot as smoothly and accurately as "right handed" bows?..lol

I can say that the Sheldons that I've owned were impressive. I might even track down another for the stable some day.

(When my rich uncle gets out of the poor house)...lol

God bless,Mudd

[David Mitchell]

No, Mudd, they really don't shoot as good as "right handed bows"---they shoot much better.  

[Rik]

Hello again boys and girls, this is your Friendly Southwest Idaho Howard Hill Longbow Correspondent with this week's mule deer update.



I have a sad tale to tell this week. It involves that most ugly of human traits----greed.

Greed is never good. I know better than to succumb to its siren call, but this weekend I got greedy, and it cost me.

I had been sidehilling about three hundred yards below the crest of a main ridge and came to a small brushy saddle on a steep finger ridge. That was when I saw antlers pop into view as a buck came running straight toward me. The wind was blowing about 50 MPH and had all the deer totally freaked out, the bushes were shaking violently, the trees were rocking heavily back and forth and thus every deer I saw that day was running to get away from something that had just spooked it.

I had just enough time to drop to a knee, whip an arrow on the string and come to full draw. At that point the buck, a real nice four point (that's a 10 point for those of you living back east) was 10 yards below me, with a few cherry bush branches between me and the buck. I could not shoot until he took two more steps, but at a full run he spotted me, bolted to side and ran 30 yards, where he stopped in front of a boulder. He was looking me in the eye when I released the arrow, which is why he was not standing there when the broadhead smashed into the rock in front of which he had been standing. A prefect shot, but no buck.

I was just starting to stand up to go get my arrow when I saw a herd of five deer running toward me from 300 yards to my right. This time I had all the time in the world. I slipped an arrow on the string, knelt down in the perfect spot, got ready to draw, and noticed that the third deer from the front was a three-point buck (that's an eight-point to you who live back east).

Ah, and that's where GREED took ahold of me.  I was already at full draw when the lead doe trotted into the open at 25 yards. An easy shot, and I should have taken it. But the buck was only 15 yards behind her. The second doe was just trotting into the open when the lead doe hit my scent and bolted right back where she had come from and ran past the buck.

He stopped and was confused about what to do (full rut) and stood there for five or six long seconds, but some cherry bush branches were in the way, and I didn't want to risk it. Then he too bolted and ran back from whence he had come. I let the string down and just shook my head.

As this was the last week of the season, I was actively trying to fill my tag with any deer I could get close to, doe or buck, but I got greedy and let a doe walk in the hopes of nailing what looked like a sure shot on a nice buck.

To make a long story short, I spent the rest of the four-day Holiday weekend hiking and climbing both high and low, in the snow and way below the snow, and the only thing I have to show for it is a black and blue and purple ankle and some photos of high-mountain scenery, which I will happily share with you.







This was the last weekend of the Unit 39 season, but I still have a deer tag, so I am going to mosey on over to a different part of the state, in Nate's neck of the woods, to camp in the back of my Tacoma and hunt a unit that stays open until mid December.

Maybe, just maybe, I can find a cooperative mule deer over there.  I will endeavor mightily to resist the temptation to get greedy, but take that with a grain of salt-----as rumor has it giant bucks frequent the area.

Until then, this is your humble SouthWest Idaho Howard Hill Longbow Correspondent signing off. See you on the next ridge.  Peace Out!

[Kelly]

Should have, could have, would have but didn't have! Oh, the highs and lows of bowhunting. Go get em and report back next weekend.

[swampthing]

Working the wind today. Moving forward at the rate of melting wax  in a 65deg room, I crossed paths with whitetail. Not including the 3 I jumped earlier. Could not see much of it, but, it was definitely a deer, ha ha. I froze, slightly quartering myself for a shot. I waited for it to meander it's way towards me. At what seemed like 30yds, through intense brush screen, the deer stopped, then spun out and trotted off, no snort, no running, just spun and went. I was standing behind  a low growth pine, and wearing wool from head to toe. Wind was in my face sun was to my left, deer was to my right. He must have got a look at the gloss on my bow, cause he seemed to say, "wow that's pretty, I'm going over here!"  

[MikeNova]

Rik you are not alone. This past saturday I rushed a shot on a doe and missed. If my heart wasn't about to rip out of my chest and I would have been patient I most likley would have had an easy shot.

[ChrisM]

I hope that some day I will have enough kills under my belt to have the greed to let anything legal walk.