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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Skipmaster1 on January 17, 2009, 11:06:00 PM
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I started this thread earlier this week, saying how I was busting out the trad gear for a late season hunt today
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=069323
Well, my planning payed off! After sitting in the stand for 3 hrs in 7 degree weather I was offered a shot by this big doe at 15yds. I was 17' up a pin oakin my LW climber in the middle of a hemlock grove. She came in and turned broadside. I drew, hit my anchor, picked a spot and the shot was perfect! she ran 30yds and tipped over. there was very little blood but the Magnus did it's job!
(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g167/skipmaster1/Hunting/IMG_0689.jpg)
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome bro!!! Way to pull it off. :clapper:
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Good shot....Its tuff hunting when its this cold, you did good....
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:thumbsup:
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:bigsmyl:
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That is awesome bro, a big congrats!!!!!! Nice shootin! :thumbsup:
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Very nice. Hunting in 7 degree weather cannot be easy.
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Cool! Ditto to what everyone else said above!
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Congrats :thumbsup:
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awsome, love to see a happy hunter and game taken with traditional gear. congrats
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:thumbsup: :archer:
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Very well done!! Congrats :thumbsup:
BTW- what did you do to keep your hands warm enough to make a good shot? Just curious...
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Great job! I hunted in 11 degrees in a tree and I thought that was hard to do! :thumbsup: :notworthy:
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Awesome...anyone who has spent time in a late season stand knows how difficult it can be.
Congratulations!
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A very nice reward for a great effort, Good job.
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Nice!! Look at the head on that thing
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Originally posted by Guru:
Very well done!! Congrats :thumbsup:
BTW- what did you do to keep your hands warm enough to make a good shot? Just curious...
Thanks everyone. It was a lot of fun. I'm headed out again monday to see if I can get on another! when i got out of the stand i saw 8 deer across the field and one was a great 8pt.
I wasn't actually that cold. I still had a few layers in my pack to still put on and didn't need. I never wear gloves when I hunt, have a fleece hand muff and that thing works freakin' great. I just put my arm through my string and into the muff. when a deer comes in I slide my hands out and I already have my bow in my hand. If it gets really cold or I pull an all day sit I will throw a hand warmer in there and it's like an oven
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Here is the entrance
(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g167/skipmaster1/Hunting/IMG_0686.jpg)
Here is the Exit
(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g167/skipmaster1/Hunting/IMG_0685.jpg)
I guess in hind sight I was a little far forward. I always aim straight up the front leg with my compound, but I want to give myself a little more room around heavy bone with my stick bows. The shot took the top of the heart nearly off.
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Originally posted by Owlgrowler:
Nice!! Look at the head on that thing
Hahha. i know, it's a big doe with a huge head. when it first came in I wasn't gonna shoot, cause I thought it was a shed buck. I got a good look at it and when I saw it was a doe i was pumped!
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Great job! Looks Yummy!
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good shot,congrads
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Congrats!
I hope you get a crack at the 8pt you mentioned. If you don't maybe the you'll find the rabbit tracking up behind the big rock.
I wish I was still chasing Whitetails too!
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Originally posted by Charles Sorrells:
Congrats!
I hope you get a crack at the 8pt you mentioned. If you don't maybe the you'll find the rabbit tracking up behind the big rock.
I wish I was still chasing Whitetails too!
No such luck. Really no rabbits here, but squirrels everywhere you look ;)
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Congrats Skip thats a real nice doe. I used to hunt Westchester a lot a few years back in Yorktown, Good Huntin. Joe
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:thumbsup:
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Great job...Is that a schrew?
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Nicely done Skip!!
Big old doe huh? Miss hunting the hemlocks and mountain laurel down that way...
Congrats!
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Welcome back and congrats on a great hunt! A bunch of us Jersey Guys were out pushing drives all day yesterday it was tuff. I've been hearing there's a ton of deer in Westchester County.
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very nice, congratulations!!!!!!!!!! :notworthy:
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Gotta love the late season!
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Thanks again everyone. this was a really special deer for me. I have taken over 100 deer in my 13 years of bowhunting, but I have only taken a few deer with trad gear. i am making myself promise to hunt with it a lot more next year. It takes more work but it is so much more rewarding. this is the only other deer i have taken with the longbow.....on Jan 31st last year. the very last day of the season. I took a nice buck with the recurve and these 3 deer have been the most rewarding of all of the deer I have taken. they may not be the largest, but the are the most special.
(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g167/skipmaster1/IMG_11161.jpg)
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Congrats on a great hunt, put the weeles down and don't look back. All your harvests in the next season can be as rewarding as this one. Way to go!
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Oh God I'm spoiled... 7 degrees?!? You've got to be kidding me.
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Nice winter meat.
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Good shot. If I was hunting in that weather I would have had on enough cloths to start a Cabelas! You looked like you were on the way to the beach! Hunters from New York state must be tough
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very nice , Congrats :thumbsup: :clapper: :clapper:
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Good for you!
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:thumbsup: Well done! Here in the south, if it gets that cold I'm dun. It's a bone chillin cold here.
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Very nice. . . so rewarding!
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:bigsmyl: :thumbsup:
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I also think you should use that longbow a bit more next year. :goldtooth: Awesome hunt!