Your amazing shots.

[bowdude]

I was watching one of those hunting shows on what is probably most of our's favorite channels.  There was a bear shot with a wheelie bow at what I would have guessed a little low and forward.  The bear couldn't have lived 5 seconds and fell over 2 feet from the bait.  NOT a spine shot.  Now I have seen 12 maybe 10 seconds myself in deer with a reaction flight, but this was just wow.  Anyone else had something like that happen to them?

[Kingwouldbe]

I shot this buck @ 11 yards this year, he spun around and looked at the arrow and fell over dead (you can see him behind the arrow)about 10 feet away
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[m laughlin]

a buddy of mine(after drinking way too much the night before)walked into a bunch of bedded elk. he drew and shot. he misjudged the distance(hungover jitters). the elk was 27 yards away and he hit about five feet low(rememeber the elk was bedded). the elk all crashed off and of course he felt stupid. when he walked up to find his arrow he saw a patch of tan about another 50 yards or so. his arrow richoceted and got the jugular. doa. although he felt lucky and still tells the story, he refuses to hunt on a hangover to this day. i still got to smile at the odds. we both talk about how easy it could have been a bad deal.
matt

[deermaster1]

double lunged a doe at 30 yards w/ a little muzzy 4 blade.  blew threw and the deer took 2-3 steps and died. wish they were all that way!!!

[PSUBowhunter]

We were pig hunting in Florida one time a few years ago. My dad blew through about a 150 lbs sow. She stopped looked around, and flopped over backwards right onto her back dead. She wasnt alive for more than 3 seconds after the arrow hit her.

[robtattoo]

The goat in my avatar basically keeled over on the spot after receiving a Woodsman straight through both shoulders & heart......admittedly, it was the second arrow....the first was waaay too far back. Second shot can't have been more than 30 seconds after the first though.

[Migra Bill]

I went into my backyard last December to fire my first arrow ever with a traditional recurve bow. I marched off 10 yards - drew back and... actually hit the target. My best shot ever.

[Trooper]

The very first deer I shot with my recurve years ago was about 55 yards away and facing me.  I was 27 feet in a tree in a stand I rifle hunted out of.  This was my first year to hunt with a bow (about 9 years ago).  When I shot she ducked the arrow and it hit her spine just in front of the hind quarters.  She dropped in her tracks!  I had to finish her off but remember thinking "what's all the fuss about, this is easy!" (LOL).  I'm a much better shot now and would not take that shot today.

[laddy]

My greatest shot ever,  I found an orange golf ball, threw it over hand and at twentyfive to thirty yards shot it out of the air, in front of three witnesses.  Nope, never gonna try it again, because I know it was a one in a thousand chance of connecting.

[Whitetail Chaser]

I shot at a jackrabbit at 12 yards and missed.  He ran.  Hit him on the run in the head with a Ribtek.  Distance was about 30 yards.

Brett

[T-Bug]

Well, I didn't do it, but my husband did on his first six shots with a Bear Grizzly I bought him the day before.  It ain't an animal, but I thought it was pretty good for his first round with a new bow at 20 yards.

 

 

Yeah, he owes me some new arrows now.    

Me?  I shot my neighbors truck the other day.......at least it was his Jeff Foxworthy special, up on blocks and all.    :D        

[Matt Stuckey]

My first archery deer was back when I was young and still shooting with training wheels.  I had been practicing quite a bit since football season was over and had become a pretty good shot. Good enougth that I had shot the nocks or dented many of my arrows. I decided I should use my dad's since he wasn't shooting much. Well they were way too heavy of a spine a flew very slow, but I didn't know better.  I could hit were I pointed and that was good enough for me.  That next saturday I took them with me to the woods.  Not long after I got settled, 4 does came within about 15 yards, easily within range ,Right?  As they passed by broad side I drew on the last one and let it fly,  only to see her whirl and run off with about 28 inches of the 30 inch shaft sticking out of the opposite rear hip.  Luckily for me she bled out in about 90 yards and it was an easy trail to follow.

[Gordy]

Made a poor hit on a doe. She didn't even flinch....thought I missed.
She started to walk off and started to wobble.
Walked slowly for about 20 yards and tipped over in sight.
I shot right through the femoral artery under her spine.

Much more lucky than it was amazing. But it is cool to seem them drop and expire so peacefully.

[Frank AK]

that guy made a good shot on a bear. Plus they die VERY VERY fast! All 3 bears i was fortunate enough to see get shot with trad gear died within 4 to 5 seconds. I had the honor of bieng the person putting 2 of those 3 arrows in those bears as well.

The bears dying fast has something to do with a very large circulatory system to support all that muscle and of course their brain. So when you put a hole in those lungs they have to expire fast.

[ksbowman]

I shot a doe several years back and got a good double lung hit.She fell over and spun around once like the Three Stooges used to do and that was it,the arrow was stuck in the ground within five feet of her after the pass through shot from a tree stand.  Ben

[Horne Shooter]

About 15 years ago I was hunting with some business associates in Pennsylvania.  They had a hunting club that had only rifle hunters.  They had no problems with bows but just weren't interested.  They were though (in a good hearted way) making fun of the "stick and string" guy.  Several of the members were at the camp for a "cleaning weekend" and were getting a kick out of my primitive equipment.  I had a few chances to kill does but passed them up on the first morning of hunting.  When I got back to camp and told them I had passed some deer they really laughed it up telling me "sure you could have killed a deer this morning with that thing, Ha Ha!".  
I told them (with much conviction) that if they wanted some meat I would go back and get them a deer on my next hunt.  After lunch, they took me to go look at an abandoned coal mine and on the way I said "why not drop me off here and I'll meet you up the road at the next turn".  When they drove off, I took a few steps into the grass and over the first hill; amazingly, there were about 5 does standing there.  They all ran but one stopped to look back, I quickly raised up and shot and hit her in the neck where she fell over kicked once and died.  I set my bow down and walked down the road where my friends were just gettin parked.  I walked up and knocked on the window and they asked me what I had forgotten, it had been about 3 minutes since they dropped me off.  I told them I didn't forget anything, I just need some help dragging the deer up the hill.  They didn't believe me until they walked over and saw the deer there with the arrow in the neck.  I was acting like it was no big deal and that it was what I told them I was going to do.  
I still do business with my hosts and they say that a year still never goes by when the hunt club members don't ask about me.

[The Gopher]

i think its that magical shot that gets you hooked. mine was on a rabbit maybe 20 yards or so but i hit it square with a wimpy little fiberglass target bow, and was so shocked that i hit it, i let it sqwirm under the shed. Even though i eventually strayed to the wheels i came back to the stick and string full force and always remember that first rabbit shot. I also remember a shot (also when i was a kid) i made on a tiny gar, this thing couldn't have been more than 9 inches long and mabe the thickness of a canybar, i nailed him square from about 15 yards. thanks, Dan.

[Brian Krebs]

I think the shot that was most impressive was a shot I took while bowfishing.
 My brother and I were trying to get to a good spot to shoot some carp; and we were over the knee deep in mud and muck getting there.
 I heard my brother yell; and there he was about 30 yards away stuck - but more worried about a pretty good sized snapping turtle that was in full pursuit of him. It was moving in on him; and I put on a steel blunt tip; and when the turtle struck out at him I shot; and hit it right in the head.
  Yeah. Pretty cool. I was the hero that day; but the thing that brought it to mind after 35 years - was that that snapping turtle dropped dead with the shot. Just totally dead.
 If any of you are familiar with snappers; they seem to have a brain in their head and one in their tail or something; because they can take a lot of killing and still be alive.
 This one was dead when its head hit the muck. No movement after that at all.
 It was a snap shot; at a moving target; and the arrow was really close to my brother - yeah OK; but man- that turtle was dead dead right then.
  Tasted great too