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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Izzy on February 07, 2013, 01:37:00 PM
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I was looking at my pics as I pack my house up. A few of them from way back in the day "Before Fancy Longbows Were Invented" when I only hunted guns and wheels had some odd critters. Antlered doe, bearded hens and such. What do some of you folks remember that really stood apart on some of your critters, colorations, healed wounds, crazy antlers or what have you? Even something that ordinarily shouldnt have been where it was when you killed it. I only have one to post. Other than him, everything Ive killed with trad has been pretty typical. (http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o244/2crazyboys_photos/DSCN1446-3.jpg)
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Dude...that's gross! :(
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Just imagine if he was 50#s, I wouldnt swim in a lake again. I think it was some kind of a vole. The tail seems too short for a field mouse, and if I didnt kill him he probably woulda choked to death. Guess I was doing natures dirty work. :bigsmyl:
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I killed a copperhead a while back that was eating a smaller copperhead. No pictures but freaked me out at first.
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You would be suprised how many cottonmouths that I have killed with other snakes in them. Who'd a thunk it.
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not real strange but when i was 16 my buddy looked out the front window and saw a woodcock in the front lawn. he challenged me to shoot it. my mom was on the couch in front of the picture window so we had to sneak out the back door in stealth mode and around the house. 21 yds with a rubber blunt arrow and my Brackenbury drifter...BOOM, feathers everywhere.
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Originally posted by Tim:
Dude...that's gross! :(
Good thing I wasn't drinking something when I ready this Tim. I would have blown it through my nose!! :biglaugh:
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I killed this big snapping turtle this year.Perfect shoulder shot he tried to jump the string but he was too close to the ground .Good eating they sell for $20.00/$22.00 lb.at the fish dock.Kip
(http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p191/Kip_album/DSCN1576.jpg)
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Some strange things going on up there Northern N.Y.!
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Izzy, that looks like a Short Tail Shrew. Good for you :clapper:
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I will have to think, but that first pic remind me of two largemouth bass i grabbed out of the lake one time. Booth about 16-18" with one's head way deep in the others mouth. They had locked gills. They were both still kicking a little and tasted great.
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Originally posted by xtrema312:
I will have to think, but that first pic remind me of two largemouth bass i grabbed out of the lake one time. Booth about 16-18" with one's head way deep in the others mouth. They had locked gills. They were both still kicking a little and tasted great.
I should say tasted great when I eat them, but you could have interpreted that the other way around and be right. :biglaugh:
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A baboon
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Originally posted by TxAg:
A baboon
X2 on that, clear through the @$$ :biglaugh:
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Couple of summers ago I was in the backyard when I heard my neighbor screaming my name. I ran to her front yard where she is struggling to restrain her large labrador from the mangiest coon you'd ever seen. Stick thin, bald in places and milky white eyes, just standing in her driveway at about 10 yards "looking" at us.
"It doesn't look right," she said, "should we call the police?"
"Nah, let's not waste their time," I replied, "I'll be right back".
A minute later with my longbow and one Snuffer tipped arrow I found the coon now standing in the street. Another female neighbor had heard the shouts and came over so now I had the opportunity to save the day infront of two witnesses.
I nocked the arrow and walked to within 10 yards of the coon, positioning myself so that the inevitable "passthough" would go harmlessly into the far woods. As I drew I reminded myself to still pick a spot even though this was the archery equivalent of fish in a barrel. Years of practice and thousands of arrows resulted in a clean miss of such a wide margin that my neighbor actually started to laugh a bit.
With shattered ego I retrieved my arrow, nocked the dirt off the broadhead, and did the only thing I thought made any sense... I walked up closer.
Perfect shot.
That's the strangest animal I've ever taken with my bow, and also the one story that keeps getting repeated at the neighborhood block parties.
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A Red Duiker in South Africa.... far as I know, never seen one taken with a longbow??? At least I have not heard from someone or seen any pictures???
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Africa%202012%20Tradgang%20size/Africa2012029.jpg)
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I was bowfishing, about thigh deep in the Sweetwater River near Pathfinder Reservoir in Wyoming, when a prairie rattler came swimming right up to me. I literally pushed him away a couple of times, but each time he would swim right back at me. Maybe he thought I was an island :dunno: . Anyway, I finally had enough and did him in with my fish arrow.
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Ha! last year my buddy Gary shot a 6 point buck. He had a pair of 4 point sheds in the barn from a few years back. We zip-tied those to the real rack so they were facing the other way,down close to the skull. It looked like a total freak! Another buddy stopped over and could not get over that CRAZY RACK!!!
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Long time ago my brother in law and me used to go skunk hunting in late winter/early spring with a bow. Pure boredom and no money, but we had a blast. Wait a week and go fetch the arrow then refletch. Ah, the good ole days.
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NBK, Awesome story! I'm glad the 2nd time was charmed.
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Originally posted by NBK:
Couple of summers ago I was in the backyard when I heard my neighbor screaming my name. I ran to her front yard where she is struggling to restrain her large labrador from the mangiest coon you'd ever seen. Stick thin, bald in places and milky white eyes, just standing in her driveway at about 10 yards "looking" at us.
"It doesn't look right," she said, "should we call the police?"
"Nah, let's not waste their time," I replied, "I'll be right back".
A minute later with my longbow and one Snuffer tipped arrow I found the coon now standing in the street. Another female neighbor had heard the shouts and came over so now I had the opportunity to save the day infront of two witnesses.
I nocked the arrow and walked to within 10 yards of the coon, positioning myself so that the inevitable "passthough" would go harmlessly into the far woods. As I drew I reminded myself to still pick a spot even though this was the archery equivalent of fish in a barrel. Years of practice and thousands of arrows resulted in a clean miss of such a wide margin that my neighbor actually started to laugh a bit.
With shattered ego I retrieved my arrow, nocked the dirt off the broadhead, and did the only thing I thought made any sense... I walked up closer.
Perfect shot. :saywhat:
That's the strangest animal I've ever taken with my bow, and also the one story that keeps getting repeated at the neighborhood block parties.
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Might be the same critter that is in your's mouth Izzy... best I can recon it is a vole... have actually taken a couple of them and missed even more... Was when we lived in Oklahoma, infested at the back part of our property next to the woodline...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/Bowhunter4life/68MOAB.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/Bowhunter4life/68MOAB1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/Bowhunter4life/CougarVole1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/Bowhunter4life/CougarVole.jpg)
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Funny stuff fellas. I like that duiker, what a nice mount.
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Dang Jeff, they look like straight up Oklahoma rats to me. Them, cockroaches and ticks are the only critters that really give me the heebie jeebies. Too many Bronx memories I guess. I would'nt mind shooting some though, long as I was using someone else's arrow.
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Haha love the racoon story.
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As long as we are showing rodents...We used to spend afternoons while elk hunting on the Great Mouse Hunt.
(http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac67/peastes/b0ffc6e3.jpg)
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Not the strangest animal but the strangest circumstances.
Awhile back several of us were sitting in my Brother in laws hunting cabin when a mouse came running along the top of the wall. My strung bow was within reach so I grabbed an arrow from my quiver and swung on the running mouse. I was really concentrating on the mouse and was oblivious to the framed picture which I barley missed....but I centered the mouse. My Brother in law talks about that shot to this day.
(http://www.shrewbows.com/rons_linkpics/Runningmouse.jpg)
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Ron LaClair, Awesome shot! Great story too.
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Good thread! The only "strange" thing about an animal I've killed was a gobbler that had an 11" beard but no spurs - not even bumps. He did have an extra tail feather though (19 instead of the usual 18).
Hey Ron... is that a current picture of the mouse (did ya have it mounted like that)? :biglaugh:
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Wet feathers I saw a blue frog once but I have to say it was on golf course and I think some of the chemicals might have produced it.lol Cool pic
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I like shooting dragonflies with blunts. It's a hoot and a half. :)
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4est trekker, that's a great idea! You're gonna cost me some arrows this year!
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Where's RC? He drilled a teeny tiny mouse a few years back. maybe He's still got that pic.
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Hmmmm...I gotta think about this one for a while :confused:
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Well...
Two years ago while hunting elk I saw a little pine squirrel on a log eating a pine cone. Being the genius that I am, I thought I should at least practice hitting full draw on a live critter.(At the time target panic was plaguing me).
I got to full draw with a random aluminum that I carried for grouse, and suddenly the arrow was on its way. Except, I had aimed low for reasons which now escape me.
The shot was perfect, and the poor squirrel dern near died of a heart attack as its lunch got plucked right out of its paws by my arrow!
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Coaster, that is one cool mount. I shot a Duiker a few years ago but I only did a shoulder mount. So you know how small that is!
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No pictures, but I shot a Bullfrog once with a baby wood duck in his mouth.
Yours looks like a very unlucky Prairie Vole to me.
Trap
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I walked up on a big ol cottonmouth that had a big bream in his mouth. It's not really strange. It's perfectly natural. But watching snakes swallowing stuff gives me the heeby jeebies.
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I think the strangest one for me would be the "Fishhook Doe". I had a doe that kept coming to a particular stand. She had some kind of string hanging from her mouth. I saw her several times and thought the string was just a piece of baling twine or something like that caught in her teeth. I finally got a shot at her one day. When I tracked her and found her I was stunned. The string was a 4' piece of 40-50# monofilament fishing line. It was not caught in her teeth. There was a big fish hook on the end of the line which was hooked inside her mouth just like it would have been in a fish. It was wild. I still can't figure out how she got into that one. like that.
Bisch
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I have shot a chipmonk. Thats about the smallest thing I've managed to hit. Also my dad ran over a timber rattler at work and he brought it to me and I skinned it out and it had a half digested squirrel inside it. It was like a cut away out of a science book. The nose was mush then the skull then the muscle layers got thicker to the belly where the skin started then the hair. It was interesting to see how the digestion broke it down like that.
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Ron you are too good at shooting. I think we need to "redistribute" your shooting ability in a "fair and balanced" approach!
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Shot a bat once and also a flying squirrel, but no pictures of those.
I've killed about a dozen weasels. Here's one of them.
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/charlie/menweasel1.jpg)
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My daughter was with me one day while out shooting at my target. I wanted to show off and walked way, way back to about 35 yards and let an arrow fly. Completely missed the bale and shot into the big pile of dirt behind the target. It was quite embarrassing! When I pulled the errant shaft out, there were two little baby field mice skewered on it. I must have hit a nest. I told her "see honey, I hit the mice I was aiming at". She didn't believe me...
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I guess this would be my submission Izzy.
(http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm219/bighorncooch/DSC00614.jpg)
Not strange but darn sure not common.
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Cooch wins!
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Cooch, what do we have there? A Mako?
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Originally posted by juneaulongbow:
Cooch, what do we have there? A Mako?
11'8" blue shark.Somebody bet me it couldn't be done.
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COOCH is a one upper for sure. LOL
That is a trophy shark!!
Weirdest thing I've shot was a blue tailed Skink. My archery club has several outdoor ranges and these little guys get in behind the target faces.
It was a accident that I shot one cause he wasn't visible when I let the arrow go. It center punched him from about 25 yds.
bretto
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Originally posted by COOCH:
I guess this would be my submission Izzy.
(http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm219/bighorncooch/DSC00614.jpg)
Not strange but darn sure not common.
Cooch is that a big Blue or what!
Nice!
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Sky rats ( pigeons ), not here is Jersey, but back in Brooklyn.
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I met a guy at the range one day to sell him a bow. After the deal was done and he'd left, I decided to do a little bit of shooting. No one was around so I took a couple shots at a distant bale from an unauthorized spot. The first shot was way low and disappeared under the bale. Second and third were right on so I wandered over to get my arrows.
After pulling the arrows on the target I looked for that first one that went low. I couldn't see it sticking out from the front so I looked behind the target. I saw the point poking out back there and it was moving back and forth slowly. With a sinking feeling I pulled the arrow out by the point, wondering what the weight I felt was going to be.
When I finally got the arrow all the way out there was a huge rat on the shaft up by the fletching. I'd center punched him in the gut.
I didn't really feel bad about killing the rat, but I could just imagine him sitting under those hay bales, maybe wondering what he was going to do with his day, when I suddenly decided for him that it wasn't going to be a good day after all.
Guy
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A porcupine that kept trying to climb into my tree stand. I threw every thing in my back pack at it and started down by then came back at me.
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Good Stuff! Keep waiting for one of the Florida guys to post a pic of a Nutria! Someone must have killed a few of those with a bow!
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I know a mess of nutria have been killed by Pdk (Pat) in OK.
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Not strange for me as I see enough of these every year to be normal but this one had a surprise as for sheer size and contents.
(http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy235/jalmay5th/Big%20Rattlesnake/file-75.jpg)
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Dang thats a beast.
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It's gettin' stranger...
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Bows: I shot a yellow jacket in half to reclaim my spot under the only shade tree in my friends back yard.
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Yep Cooch wins. Cool stuff guys!
My only contribution would be a flying bumble bee, no pics though
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Izzy, you sure shot something ugly... but it aint half as ugly as my mother in law....
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I have a 3-d deer target in my yard that is pretty shot up and a wren decided to call it home, in the hole right behind the shoulder. Needless to say it was an accidental homicide when i went to pull my arrow. Wierdest intentional kill is an 8' gator in Florida with my ACS.
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When I was about 16, I was shooting spawning Red Horse Suckers in the Fisher River near Libby Montana. I stepped on on a log in a small eddy and saw a big fish right below me with only his head sticking out past the log. I shot straight down and smacked it in the head. Then it just kept coming and coming...
I nearly panicked and backed off the log onto the shore. The fish had headed down stream but I was able to pull it to shore with the fish arrow string.
The fish turned out to be a Burbot or Ling Cod - just shy of 4' long. It was incredibly ugly and I thought is was something prehistoric....
An old fella came up and asked if I wanted it and I said heck no! He took it. Did not find out until years later in Alaska that they are plumb tasty.
I did find out not long after that they are a legitimate game fish and NOT LEGAL to bow fish for in Montana. Oh well, the evidence went away quickly with that old man and the statute of limitations is probably long past since that was nigh on 47 years ago now!
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My hot tub...
I don't have a photo of it but I did get pretty good penetration on it. My daughter used to have this heavy hemp rope hanging in a tree with a bunch of knots tied in it that she swang on. I had gotten into the habit of taking a shot at the bottom know each day as I came in from shooting in the back field. Each time I either missed and the arrow was in the grass or if I hit it the arrow just bounched off and fell to the ground. One day I hit it a glancing blow and the arrow carromed of at a 45 degree angle and picked up velocity. Headed towards my house and punched through the cover and side of my hot tub.
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As a kid I shot a flying squirrel with my bow... no picture of that either.
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(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o244/2crazyboys_photos/th.jpg) If I had a couple more dollars, millions actually I might maybe post up a hero pic of me and one of these fellas. Another dream animal of mine along with musk ox. He is a golden takin, fine looking beast huh?
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In his prime winter coat he looks like a giant, golden colored tahr. Absolutely gorgeous and rather rare.
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South that is one whopper of a snake! Glad I live up North. Would make some nice boots though!
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Yeah Mike you would get one diamond per side with his large pattern :bigsmyl:
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Originally posted by Charlie Lamb:
Shot a bat once and also a flying squirrel, but no pictures of those.
Was either in flight especially the bat? That would be something. I have tried it, but never got close. I have hit a pile with small rocks. They think it is food and try and catch it. Arrows spook them.
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Both were on the side of trees and I smashed 'em with a rubber blunt.
I've tried to shoot bats, but think that's an impossible mission.
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I didn't make the shot, but I sold a bow to a fellow at work and he went home and shot a guy in the leg (thigh) breaking in to his carpenter shop with a field point.
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Any hero pics with the wounded burglar?
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I stalked and arrowed a wild horse in Australia.
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No Izzy, but the Paola police took the bow away from him. I don't understand why since he was defending his property. The guy had broke into the shop before and after he bought the bow he told me that was what he bought it for.
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I killed one of my wife's Christmas nutcrackers that was hanging around on a shelf that evidently was too close to my target. I'm much better now.....
Penetration was negligible, but a kill shot anyhow. :biglaugh:
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I have shot a few porcupines but the weirdest was one that my dog got in to...after removing a face full of quills I went after the porky with my .357 and missed five times. Each miss caused it to climb higher in the tree...disgusted I thought it had a charmed life. Then I went and got my longbow and zipped the first broad head arrow through it....sure took care of the that lucky porky.
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Japanese beetles. Made a special point out of a crimson talon broadhead furrel and guitar strings. Was maybe 3-4" in diameter. Was really fun shooting them in flight.
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A rat at the old Orange City dump. The towns around here used have open dumps where folks had to go dump their own garbage, full of rats. We used to go out with our 22s and big flashlights at night to shoot them. I got it in my head one night to shoot one with a bow. I used a cheap hardware store target point arrow, 25 cents, shot an arrow right through a close one. It turned and came for me. I missed it at 15 feet, I missed it at 5 feet, I stomped on it at 1 foot.
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This one with trad....
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Some cool stuff fellas.
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Time. Killed a bunch of it and nobody told me it was becoming extinct, LOL!
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I broke up a raccoon fight once with a Snuffer. The bigger one had disembowled the smaller one.
The sounds that smaller one made during the battle were horrible(like a baby screaming almost).
Also, shot an armadillo once, talk about a weird looking thing, common down here, though.
I thought of another, a bufo toad, an invasive species here in south Florida. They get to be a couple pounds or more, no pic though.
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Probably an armadillo for me. Last summer while stumping.
My favorite so far is the guy killing time... and not realizing it is becoming extinct. Good one!
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Nice shot placement on the possum
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A coyote one time that walked around the bush I was standing behind and just stood there like "duh". Never moved til I shot him.
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Ive killed a mess of gray squirrels since I was 10 or so and I cant ever recall killing one that had coloration quite like this male. Shot him 2 seasons ago with my old Super Shrew. (http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o244/2crazyboys_photos/DSCN2385.jpg)
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One Time while shooting in my bud Glenbo's back yard, I missed his target, skipped the arrow off the stone wall behind the target and center punched a slug.
Glen and Casey witnessed the carnage :readit: Yep, that's what I meant to do :rolleyes: ;)
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Going to have to take the fith on this. Got a vole but can not find the picture.
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I shot an igloo cooler several times, once. The first shot was by accident.
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I took this YETTI a couple years ago. I didn't make a clean shot because the arrow glanced off a tree branch as it was climbibg up the tree I was in. It managed to limp away into the night and all I could hear was the snarling of the pack of wolves that had been circling me just out of range of my trusty longbow. After an hour of pure horror the ATV with the outfitter finally approached my tree stand and we headed back to the cabin. Next day after a full day of searching all we could find of my trophy was this and some odds and ends of a couple wolves. ....Lloyd :goldtooth: (http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/12170476/640/12170476.jpg) (http://picturepush.com/public/12170476)
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Hes a nice one Idle. Howd it taste? :biglaugh:
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Shot a "Least Weasel", a pine marten, and once a muskrat that was swimming under the ice on a pond. My arrow went right through the ice and I got the muskrat. No picture of that one, but my son was with me and was amazed that an arrow could do that... :archer:
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Wow that maten is the coolest yet! Not legal to shoot in NY and they are very isolated here, mostly in old growth forests. A fisher would be great also. I know that you used to be able to shoot them in Maine but only trapping or roadkill collecting in NY.
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A bunch of boring bubble bees out of the air waiting on the propane man around my granddad's tractor barn....with a Clark's Broadhead creation... Here's a few pics of the ones, or pieces I could find....believe it or not, its easier to hit them than to FIND them!!!
(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/terry/beez3a.jpg)
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I was stump shooting in the yard one afternoon and after a 25 yard shot at a dandelion I found a very small snake dead and wrapped around my arrow. What are the odds of that?
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Killed a young pronghorn buck with jet black fur on his antlers. I thought it was a NC antelope :) until it came out of the briars at about 10 yards. Wish I had a picture.
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What in tarnation is an NC antelope? A speedgoat in briars. Youve got my attention, tell us more.
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I was target practicing at an archery club range about 20 years ago. The target bails were synthetic and had been out in the weather for a few years. I was shooting this particular target right before dusk for about 20 minutes. One arrow at a time, shoot, pull the arrow out and shoot again. I took a shot and noticed something moving around the arrow. I walked up to the target and there was a snake coming out of the target wrapped around the arrow. It must had been in the bail and I just happened to shoot it. I left the arrow with the snake. I went back a few days later and the arrow and snake were both gone.