Post by: 8upss on January 15, 2019, 09:42:24 PM
I shot it alot as a kid, until I lost all the arrows. Fast forward to last summer, when I saw a piece on tv about shooting antique bows.
“I have one of those”! and the adventure began.
I researched, got a string, arrows, broadheads, quiver, shot and shot and shot some more.
I made it my goal to take a deer with it while dad was still alive to see it.
After several close encounters, one missed shot I shouldn’t have taken, and another I blew, it came together yesterday.
I’ve hunted this group of does several times, but always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time.
This time everything fell into place, and I didn’t mess it up.
The cows in the field, which have intervened a time or two in the deer’s favor, actually helped me, cutting off the south side of the field.
So instead they left to the north, bringing this old girl right under my tree.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190116/55f5911b2ccf1665e31bfb825290e0f5.jpg)
Specs: 1959 Bear Alaskan, 45# @ my 28” draw.
B50 flemish twist string, dyna puff silencers @ 1/4s.
Full length (31”) Traditional only 500 carbon shafts from 3 rivers.
100 grain brass inserts.
200 grain Grizzly Instinct three blade broadheads.
Three arrow strap on quiver by Traditions Leathercraft (found in Trad Gang classifieds)
Thanks to the members of this board.
Your knowledge and experience were invaluable.
Thank you God for allowing me to live in the middle of your amazing creation.
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Post by: SAM E. STEPHENS on January 15, 2019, 09:47:56 PM
,,Sam,,
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Tim B
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Post by: Roy from Pa on January 16, 2019, 04:51:10 AM
:thumbsup:
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Post by: deerfly on January 16, 2019, 06:01:48 AM
I bet your dad is proud as well
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Post by: Bisch on January 16, 2019, 10:17:12 AM
Congrats!
Bisch
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Post by: Duncan on January 16, 2019, 08:05:34 PM
Congrats on the nice doe.
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Post by: 8upss on January 19, 2019, 12:50:16 PM
Dad is a city boy. He bought the bow after The Corps sent him to Ft. Leonard Wood, intending to take a deer with it. He never got a shot.
Within a couple years he was out of the military and working for McDonnell Douglas in Florida.
The bow went in the closet until I discovered it after we had moved to Arkansas in 1971.
I was 11 years old and we lived in the middle of nowhere, so hunting became a big part of my life.
I sent him the picture with the bow and deer.
“Great White Hunter” he said.
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Post by: Ybuck on January 19, 2019, 05:19:03 PM
i just love stuff like this..
inspiring!
congratulations!!!
Post by: Macatawa on January 19, 2019, 07:17:50 PM
:archer2:
Post by: Tajue17 on January 19, 2019, 07:48:45 PM