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Trad Gang Highlights => Highlights 2010 => Topic started by: recurvecody on June 17, 2010, 07:45:00 PM

Title: first trad kill ever!
Post by: recurvecody on June 17, 2010, 07:45:00 PM
finally my first trad kill ever! i finally feel like a trad bowhunter. date 6/18/2010 time 5:06 pm,bow was a browning wasp 45# @28, ams fishing reel 29inche fibeglass arrow tipped off with a muzzy gar easy release. i was bowfishing a little creek in sand springs i like to call the "honey hole" i have pulled a couple of carp and a snake out of it before. this week had been filled with so the core decided to flood the river. naturally this little honey hole of mine fills up fast. i had been there about an hour walking up in down the creek looking for gar to surface and checking the weeds for carp. i started to make my way back to the truck i decided to camp out on a large lump of rocks and thought i might see something. a cople of gar rolled a few times way to far to shoot.after about thirty minutes or so i looked down in front of me and BOOM! there was before i knew it i had my arrow fling in his direction. slam splash and a russel in the mudd there it was my trophy in all its glory. i do believe i can call my self a traditional bowhunter now...or at least a traditional bowfishing man.
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Post by: rastaman on June 17, 2010, 08:12:00 PM
Congratulations....but we need pictures!!!!   :)
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Post by: Reggie Catfish on June 17, 2010, 08:19:00 PM
way to go & I second the motion on pics!
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Post by: recurvecody on June 17, 2010, 09:03:00 PM
yeah i cant figure out of to post pics, i think i might have forgot to post the trophy was a 3'10  long nose gar.
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Post by: rastaman on June 17, 2010, 10:34:00 PM
If you can email them to me we can probably get them up for you sometime tomorrow if you want to give it a shot!
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Post by: recurvecody on June 18, 2010, 10:28:00 AM
yeah sound good,whats your e-mail address?
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Post by: rastaman on June 18, 2010, 04:05:00 PM
[email protected]      :)
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Post by: on June 18, 2010, 10:48:00 PM
Congrats!!!

Bisch
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Post by: Jeff Romans on June 19, 2010, 09:21:00 PM
Congrats
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Post by: rastaman on June 20, 2010, 09:36:00 AM
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z287/rastaman1953/recurvecody.jpg)
 (http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z287/rastaman1953/recurvecody1.jpg)
 (http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z287/rastaman1953/recurvecody2.jpg)

Here are Cody's pictures!    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: first trad kill ever!
Post by: recurvecody on June 20, 2010, 09:46:00 AM
thanks for posting those for me randy!
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Post by: Gatekeeper on June 20, 2010, 03:26:00 PM
:thumbsup:
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Post by: Jeff Romans on June 25, 2010, 11:38:00 AM
Great pic.  Congrats!     :thumbsup:
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Post by: Goke on June 27, 2010, 11:34:00 PM
Great Job.
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Post by: Goke on June 27, 2010, 11:34:00 PM
Great Job.
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Post by: chris amos on June 28, 2010, 03:23:00 AM
Well done!
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Post by: crotch horn on July 02, 2010, 09:55:00 AM
Yes, well done. Always remember a tradganger comes from the heart not from the kill. Congrats.
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Post by: Arwin on July 02, 2010, 12:40:00 PM
Very awesome!!  Hitting those skinny gar is tough, not long and you'll be chasing deer.   ;)
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Post by: recurvecody on July 02, 2010, 01:02:00 PM
man i can't wait i've had my far share of misses. thank you for the insight crotch horn.
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Post by: hardtimes on July 02, 2010, 08:50:00 PM
Congrats on a nice fish. I hope to hit the water for a little bowfishing for the first time this year.
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Post by: redneckrampage on July 11, 2010, 12:03:00 PM
looks like a mighty fine eating dinner there
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Post by: wv lungbuster on July 11, 2010, 03:08:00 PM
Great shooting.Get out their and drop the strip on another.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: recurvecody on July 11, 2010, 05:10:00 PM
yeah i just got wait till the waters up a little more.
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Post by: Jason Hansen on July 22, 2010, 11:14:00 PM
Congratulations!    :thumbsup:
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Post by: ber643 on July 23, 2010, 08:07:00 AM
Congrats! The first is always great and you'll never forget it. My first was a rabid Racoon that was at one my Koi Pounds, that I had in my yard then.
(I clutched on my first shot and put the arrow over his back and through the side of the pond -   :o    :D   - 2nd and 3rd shots nailed him though, and the animal patroll guy came and collected him for testing - positive rabies.)
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Post by: tarponnut on July 23, 2010, 08:25:00 AM
Nice fish, good shootin'.
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Post by: NBK on July 23, 2010, 08:36:00 AM
Nice Work!
The first is always the hardest... it's all downhill from here!  Keep 'em coming.
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Post by: Langhorn on July 24, 2010, 03:00:00 PM
Thats awesome! You will only have one "first kill", congrats!
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Post by: Day Dreamer on July 24, 2010, 09:51:00 PM
:thumbsup:
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Post by: SLonbow@50 on July 24, 2010, 10:44:00 PM
:thumbsup:   Nice shot!
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Post by: Don2010 on July 28, 2010, 03:49:00 PM
Wow, great job and awesome fish!
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Post by: ridgerunner_sc on July 28, 2010, 06:56:00 PM
Great shot!!!can you eat those things??
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Post by: recurvecody on July 29, 2010, 11:55:00 AM
yeah they taste alot like catfish, its all in the way you prepare them. i usally just fry them up like catfish.
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Post by: ridgerunner_sc on July 29, 2010, 12:05:00 PM
will have to try the next ones then
have always just gave them to the fellas at the landing...
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Post by: recurvecody on July 29, 2010, 12:28:00 PM
just get you a skill saw,tin snips and a plank of wood with a good size clamp screwed to it. make two small cuts one at the tail and one at the head, make a long cut from the head all the way to the tail and fela the skin back and cut the meat out like you do back strap and enjoy!