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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Lee Lobbestael on October 16, 2013, 04:46:00 PM
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Ok this may be a little long winded but I'm a happy hunter. I have limited time to hunt this season because i'm finishing up school and I have a wife and 1year old boy at home and I work 40 hours a week. So I am not to depressed about being tagged out in mid Oct. This morning I decided to sit out for a couple hours and head down to school to take my mid term after. A front came through last night and I figured the cold weather would get some deer moving. This guy showed up at about 8:00 making a scrape fifty yards to the north on the treeline I was in. He lifted his head and I saw an antler and I thought "Shooter!" He started working his way along the treeline and I could see he was missing one side of his rack. He was a mature buck tho and I do not get many opportunities at deer like this. He was ten yards out from my tree line and even with me when I started to draw. I let down as he moved behind some brush and as he popped out on the other side I came to full draw. I was about to grunt to stop him when he hit my sent from where I walked in. It stopped him cold right in my sights! I focused on a spot up tight to his shoulder and began my mantra. I use the Joel Turner psychotrigger technique to beat target panic and let me tell you it works! I felt in complete control. When I reached my psychotrigger (bowhand pointer finger touching my thumb) I released and watched the arrow bury in the bucks chest. He bolted through the over grown farm field I was hunting and out of sight. I was confident on the shot so I waited ten minutes and started looking for blood. The grass was soaking wet and chest high and when I finally found blood it was barely visible and very watered down because of the wet grass. I tracked him for an hour on my hands and knees crawling through brush. It was a tough bloodtrail! he did not bleed much and I was becoming less and less confident on my shot. I eventually ran out of blood and began a body search in the tall grass and brush. I was about to back out and come back after my exam because I was running out of time when I saw a splotch of white up ahead! He was down after a hundred and fifty yard dash. I by this time I was running out of time so I ran back to get a knife, gutted him, took some pics and dragged him into the truck. I took a quick shower and shot off toward school. I dropped the buck off at the processor and made it to class with 3 minutes to Spare! Let me tell you I was much less confident on the results of my exam than I was on the shot I took earlier, but I grinned through the whole exam! I used a 43# 63" osage self bow I made this spring and a bamboo garden stake arrow with turkey feathers from a turkey my cousin shot last year, tipped with a stohs head.
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That is a super buck under the conditions you have going. And shot with a bow You made Yourself. A hunt to remember. Congrats
bretto
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Nice!, I want to take a deer with a bow and arrow I built.
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Congrats, great story and harvest! :thumbsup:
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Congratulations and great story. Hope your exam turned out just as well.
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Congrats!
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:bigsmyl:
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Way to go man! Nice buck
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great job!!
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Awesome just awesome. !
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:thumbsup: :archer2:
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Congrats on a well earned buck! :thumbsup:
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Great job and nice looking buck!! :thumbsup:
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:campfire: :clapper: :goldtooth:
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Lee, You da Man! I am happy for you and the fact you made the bow, arrow and the shot is a true accomplishment.
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Wonderful job getting that buck. Congratulations.
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Absolutely amazing!!! Congrats!!!
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That's an incredible story. Man, the stuff you have going on, I'd hate to see your to-do list each day.
Good work on fitting the hunting in there and picking the right time. Great shot with home made gear. Pretty inspiring stuff.
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great job!!! memories for sure
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Great Stuff,Congrats !!
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Let's see
Wife
Baby
40hr work week
Student
Selfbow
You deserve that fine buck sir. Congratulations!
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Way to go!
Congrats,
Bisch
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Way to go! :clapper:
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Excellent Job! Congrats on a fine buck!
Steve
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:thumbsup:
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Great story made extra special with your homemade equipment. Congratulations!
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
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Good Stuff right there! Congrats!!!
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Thanks guys! Its been a good season! Now if I get some time here and there I can try to kill a turkey or some squirrels or something. :bigsmyl:
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Way cool. :thumbsup:
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great deer.RC
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:thumbsup:
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That's crazy good right there man! Way to go!
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Great deer and man I'm glad that I am not that busy! Lol!
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Nice work and a good looking buck!
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Awesome job! Way to get it done!!! :clapper:
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Good luck with the turkeys.
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:thumbsup:
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Well Done, Congrats! :thumbsup:
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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CONGRATS and good shot!!!
Curious, was the other side broke off, or did not grow?
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Dude !!!
That is just awesome..
Hope you did well on your midterm too..
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Great accomplishment! Congrats.
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That Sir is a real trophy in my eyes. Well done. :clapper:
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Nice work Brother!
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Awesome!! Congratulations! :shaka:
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Very cool! Happy for ya!
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That is great. It is a quite an experience, focusing on picking the spot then the release happens and the arrow goes where you are looking, isn't it ?
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Great story and buck. You should be proud! :thumbsup:
Tom
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Wow! With a self bow? Way to go!
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Thanks guys! Had lots of good luck early this year! But like they say its better to be lucky than good! :bigsmyl:
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Great job! With a homemade selfbow, man, that's a bucket list item there.
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:thumbsup:
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Congratulations, that is a fine deer and a good looking bow.
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Great story brutha! :clapper: Congrats!
Tell us more about your "Psycho trigger"
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That's the kind of thing that 40 years later, you can look back and smile!
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Congrats!
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Nice buck!And with primitive equipment,awesome.
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Great job, congrats!!