Bow hunting success pics '08

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Lets see what you've arrowed this year...........and give us some details


Small 8 pointer
Where: Orange Co., NC
Date: Friday Sept. 19th at 7:10 PM.
Range: Straight down
Bow: PSE Nova
Shaft: Easton XX75 2315's (yes I still use aluminum)
Broadhead: NAP Shockwave 125gr.

He milled around for 20 mins before I had any kind of shot. When he first came out he was 40 yds away and through some brush. When I finally had a clear shot he was almost straight beneath me. Not an easy shot to make. Arrow went through and stopped. He broke the shaft about 4 inches from the broadhead and the rest backed out of him when he ran. Never found the broadhead but recovered the broken shaft ~20 ft from where he was shot. Deer ran 40 yds.
 

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Great hunting. I have the stands set up and will be trying the deer out about the first of NOV. Do you black powder hunt? I wish you luck on the rest of your season.
 
I never got into bow hunting due to the hot weather and the skeeters, but I will stay in the woods when black powder and rifle season starts. Dang, I wished I was retired, my wife would not see me from early NOV. to Jan. 1
 
Well season here doesn't open up till Oct 1st. RR, have you had a problems with the ferruls/tips bending and breaking on those shockwaves? My dad did. He never got to reuse one. Several folks I know had the same problem.
 
Nope, I've re-used several of them. I went back looking on Saturday for the one that was lost on this deer. Arrow stuck out of his underside about 4" and broke off. Never found the end of the shaft or the broadhead.
 
Saturday morning I was walking back to my truck. I had hunted from a ground blind for a couple hours and hadn't seen anything. My nephew was in my climbing stand and my FIL was on the other side of the farm in his stand.

I passed one of the recent clearcuts on my way up the gravel road that connects the two main fields of this farm. I look down the edge of the clearcut/woods and I see a VERY nice buck standing there. Looked to be a wide 10 point. He's quartering away from me at about 40 yds. I started easing my way toward him. He doesn't see or smell me. He casually strolls into the edge of the trees and stops. I've got a big oak tree now giving me cover to move forward. I ease forward more. I'm now about 25 yds away. He's still concealed behind the big oak and there aren't too many shooting windows. At this point I notice another deer, nice 8 point, has walked out of the clearcut into the opening the first deer was standing in when I first saw him. I've now got a 25 yd broadside shot on him, but no shot on the bigger deer. I start to raise my bow and draw and lo and behold the THIRD buck (who was behind the second one in the clearcut) busts me and takes off at a trot. Needless to say the two others join him. 2 more seconds is all I needed to take the second one.

What can I say, can't kill 'em all..............
 
Ranting, Great deer and congrats! Tell the nephew congrats also on his doe(great eating size). I was wondering why their not field dressed out? I have been seing this more often and wondering why hunters arent field dressing their deer in the field rite away due to meat spoilage and excess heat not being released quickly as it should plus the yucky stuff thats in the body cavity after its been shot that can make the meat rancid tasting:barf:. We have had real warm weather here up north and we have to immediatly field dress the deer out and pack them with ice to cool them so the meat dont spoil. I also have a seperate room sectioned off in my garage with a real cold A/C unit so im able to hang them for a few days. If I didnt have that, They would have to be butchered immediatly. I am just curious as to why more and more hunters are doing this. Thanks and good luck the rest of the season;). Yummy backstraps on the grill;).
 
Typically we field dress as soon as we recover the deer. Both of these were shot at just about the same time at almost the end of legal shooting light. We got them to the truck quickly and hauled butt to the processor (25 mins away) we gutted there and got them in his cooler.
 
I also think alot of guys who post pics are loading the deer and heading to the hunt camp house to field dress them and many just live near by to the woods.
Cool shootin' there! I don't bow hunt but do the general gun season...
Brent
 
Bowhunting pics:

I took a nice heavy 7 point with my bow this last week in Georgia. I wish I knew how to post pics on The Firing Line and I would send them.
Congrats on your bow kill and good luck rest of the season. Ain't nothing better than taking a whitetail with a bow..........
 
Skydiver, If you can post them on any forum it is the same... From PC to photobucket (or other host) than put em right on here by selecting the picture[IMG] looking link.
Brent
 
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My bow hunting success pics for '08 are blank - got shut out (again) hunting roosevelt elk in Oregon.

Do have some great mental pics of a monster bull that kept us just out of shooting range for 4 straight days, and the biggest black bear I have ever seen in the wild.

It was unsuccessful as far as putting meat in the freezer, but very successful as far as being close to animals, away from work and worries, and restoring my soul.

Rifle deer opens here this weekend...

Good Hunting!
 
Bow season started here in MI yesterday and throw working I finaly got out tonight. And nothing yet :( I didnt even see anything!
 
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