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Title: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
Post by: hickry on October 12, 2009, 06:35:00 PM: Great day Saturday! First ever w/ stuff that I made. Pignut hickory bow that I used last year. Bow took some set over the year of LOTS of shooting. After buying TBB4 and reading about tempering... I heat treated the bow... shortened it a few inches... and sinew backed the tips (too thin due to shortening). Arrows were cane taken off a creek just a few hundred yards from where I got the deer. Put a chicken snake on the back.
I was in a tree... and shot the deer at about 5 steps away... quartering away hard. He jumped, paused, and then trotted about 40 yards. I saw my arrow sticking in the back... looked like it only had a couple of inches of penetration... jaw dropped... i was SICK!!! Well, the deer stopped, took one step... and fell over... D-E-A-D. I couldn't believe it!! Turns out the arrow had gone down and took out both lungs... it just backed out when he started running.
Anyway... I started hunting w/ homemade stuff last year. This is a fun ride... thanks to all the guys on here who have helped, and are helping, us new guys!!
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff271/hickry1/HickorySmokedVenison.jpg)
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Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on October 12, 2009, 06:38:00 PM: Kool deal to take a deer w/a bow & arrows you make yourself.
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Post by: owlbait on October 12, 2009, 06:38:00 PM: Awesome hickry! Be proud. :thumbsup: :notworthy:
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Post by: bretto on October 12, 2009, 06:41:00 PM: My hat's off to You!! Congrat's
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Post by: Walt Francis on October 12, 2009, 06:44:00 PM: Congratulations!!
You will never forget your first with a self-made bow.
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Post by: NorthernCaliforniaHunter on October 12, 2009, 06:47:00 PM: Man, now that's a story! Wow!
I really respect that victory. Really good job!
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Post by: Anaconda12 on October 12, 2009, 06:55:00 PM: Feels good dont it? Were you shooting stone heads with that setup or regular broadheads on foreshatfs for the cane?
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Post by: LC on October 12, 2009, 06:58:00 PM: I had a reliable trusted friend tell me he once shot a deer and it honest to goodness looked like it only got a couple inches of pentration and after a few jumps it fell out. Unsure of the hit he and his buddy left it for awhile only to go back a few hours later and find a incredible blood trail and the buck dead just out of sight. The arrow had went through and poked a hole out the bottom and must have came back out as fast as it went in! I wouldn't haven't believed it if anybody else had told me this story but this guy is a stand up guy. Now your story is similar. I've never wittnessed anything like that before with lots of bow kills under my belt.
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Post by: leatherneck on October 12, 2009, 07:00:00 PM: It doesn't get any better than that!!! Congrats!
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Post by: Ricker on October 12, 2009, 07:04:00 PM: Awesome!!!! way to go brother....
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Post by: tradtusker on October 12, 2009, 07:06:00 PM: very nice buddy!
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Post by: joevan125 on October 12, 2009, 07:08:00 PM: Man thats great.
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Post by: yellow bow on October 12, 2009, 07:08:00 PM: :clapper: :clapper:
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Post by: Chris Surtees on October 12, 2009, 07:15:00 PM: That is just awesome. Congrats :bigsmyl: :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bear on October 12, 2009, 07:15:00 PM: Yeah buddy!!!! :clapper:
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Post by: Romans3 on October 12, 2009, 07:57:00 PM: good work! I was in Tyler TX for the first time last week. I'd have looked you up if I knew you were there!
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Post by: hickry on October 12, 2009, 08:12:00 PM: Thanks a bunch. Anaconda... not gone so far as the stone heads yet... but definitely hoping someday! Those were big Snuffers...they definitely do a good job. Romans 3... look me up anytime you come back to Tyler!!
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Post by: K.S.TRAPPER on October 12, 2009, 08:58:00 PM: Congrats :notworthy: :notworthy: :clapper:

Tracy
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Post by: buckhuck on October 12, 2009, 08:59:00 PM: Congrats hickry. :clapper: I hope to post a story like yours one of these days. Killing a deer with gear you have made with your own two hands is something I really want to do myself and seeing your post just gets me even more worked up!
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Post by: Wannabe1 on October 12, 2009, 09:06:00 PM: Very Kool! Congratulations. :thumbsup: :clapper: :clapper:
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Post by: JEFF B on October 12, 2009, 09:11:00 PM: awesome right there!!! :clapper:
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Post by: Buckeye Trad Hunter on October 12, 2009, 09:12:00 PM: :thumbsup: :notworthy:
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Post by: razorsharptokill on October 12, 2009, 09:34:00 PM: My goal this year is to take a deer or turkey with all hand made equipment. I hunted this evening with river cane tipped with a knapped dacite head. Fletched with turkey feathers from my longbow bird last year. Awesome job Hickry!
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Post by: GingivitisKahn on October 12, 2009, 09:42:00 PM: Nice job!

:thumbsup:
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Post by: bowhunterfrompast on October 12, 2009, 09:48:00 PM: Congrats :thumbsup:
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Post by: vermonster13 on October 12, 2009, 09:50:00 PM: There you go! Congrats.
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Post by: Longbow rookie on October 12, 2009, 10:05:00 PM: Good for you brother! That's got to be a proud feeling....Enjoy!
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Post by: waknstak IL on October 12, 2009, 10:58:00 PM: How cool is that!! :clapper:
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Post by: Shaun on October 12, 2009, 11:29:00 PM: You've set the bar about as high as it goes and accomplished the feat. Well done! What a feeling it is.
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Post by: sou-pawbowhunter on October 13, 2009, 01:35:00 AM: Way to go! :thumbsup:
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Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on October 13, 2009, 04:14:00 AM: Well-done!
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Post by: WAC on October 13, 2009, 07:18:00 AM: Way to go !!! I shot a bow/arrow/point combination one year that for whatever reason backed the arrow out on two deer in a row.On close,broadside hits to the ribcage it appeared that I only got 2" of penatration and the arrow was hanging down and flopping around when the deer ran off. I was horrified. they both ran 30yds and fell over. on both instances the arrow stretched the skin on the off side and bonced back.
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Post by: UrsusNil on October 13, 2009, 07:49:00 AM: :notworthy:
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Post by: Wile E. Coyote on October 13, 2009, 11:28:00 AM: That's a good one right there! You've just joined a unique select group that has taken deer with self made equipment. Congrats
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Post by: jcar315 on October 13, 2009, 11:34:00 AM: Congrats!!!!
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Post by: kbetts on October 13, 2009, 11:38:00 AM: Cool stuff.
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Post by: DesertDude on October 13, 2009, 02:43:00 PM: Sweet..... Well done
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Post by: BlacktailBowhunter on October 13, 2009, 03:18:00 PM: That is cool.
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Post by: straitera on October 13, 2009, 04:42:00 PM: Whoh Nellie!!! Good as it gets.
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Post by: Dave Bulla on October 13, 2009, 05:06:00 PM: :bigsmyl: :clapper: