OKLAHOMA 2016 Success/Fail Thread

[Michael Arnette]

I'll start the "organized thread" thread for banter and photos from Oklahoma's 2016 season. Post away and good luck this year to my fellow Okie's. BTW if you are out of state and are looking for an affordable/quality state to hunt give Oklahoma a good hard look.

Shot this doe last night at around 7pm from about 20ish yards using TallTines recurve @62# and grizzly broadheads, 570gr GT arrow
       
   

[1kwikstik]

Congratulations Michael! Nice big doe.

[goldflinger]

Congrats Michael, I did not see a deer during my Sit Saturday morning, the mosquitos were horrible. I did see 2 bucks Sunday morning, but they were 100 yards away in an open field. Saw deer both mornings approaching the farm, but none in range yet. Beautiful weather to start the season however.

[Hot Hap]

Congratulations-Quite a snozzola on her-Hap

[Kopper1013]

That's a big girl congrats!

[J. Cook]

Ain't nothing safe when your on stand Michael!!!  Congrats Man - that's one "long-faced nannie" right there.

[TexasTrad]

Congrats on the doe....you are having a good season.  I am a long time Okie who happens to live in Fort Worth.  I hunt in Southern Oklahoma on the  Red River.  No deer this weekend but I did get several hogs.   I only took one pic and it is not the best:

 

I was using my Rick Welch Dakota Recurve 57#@29 and  Axis arrows with German Kenetic 1.5 inch broadheads

I will be following this thread closely.

Thanks for getting it started.

[Randy Strickland]

That's an awesome doe!

Just posted this on my own thread earlier, but thanks for starting this one. This coyote is my first bow kill. I shot it with a Shrew Classic Hunter 58# at 28" with grizzly single bevels on gold tip blems.

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[Michael Arnette]

Very nice!!

[yth-mnstr]

Congrats, gentlemen!

[jabodnar]

I spent opening weekend in SW OK.  This was mostly a scouting trip for me.  Saw lots of sign and glassed up a couple of does including a mule deer doe.

I knew there was going to be some elevation change based on staring at google earth for hours this off season, but I was totally unprepared.  There was a tall mesa/ridgeline that I was trying to get up before light, but had to cross a creek on the way there.  Come to find out, there is a 10' mud bank on the opposite side of the creek.  It took me a while to find a place to cross and I didn't get up top till about 9am.  Think I missed a lot of deer movement getting up there so late on an early season day.

To top it off, every brush that I thought was going to be 3'-4' tall was 6'-10'.

In addition to glassing I put about 10 miles on the boots in a day and a half checking all the spots I marked as possible areas to sit.  Sat a promising looking funnel that night, but didn't see anything.  Wind was perfect, I'm guessing they're just using it after dark.

   

   

   

Also my first trip with a new pack and frame that I made myself.  Worked flawlessly.

   

[PICKNGRIN]

Congrats on a giant doe!

[Onehair]

I haven't had a chance to go out. I hope to go in a couple of weeks. Nice kill

[BowMIke]

Nice big doe Michael. This is proving to be a great year for you bow hunting. Now all you need is a nice buck!

[jmar595]

Anyone in Oklahoma willing to hunt with someone? I need to get some blood on this bow. Next year will hopefully be an all made by me hunting season.

[bloodyarrow]

           

[Tsalt]

I posted this on the double-lunged doe thread but wanted to include it here as well...

 

I drew in to MCAAP again this year so this is a good confidence booster.

[TexasTrad]

Congrats on the deer Tsalt and good luck at MCAAP.

I don't think you could have hit that doe any better.

[TexasTrad]

In sticking to the topic of this thread, I had both a success and a fail in Oklahoma yesterday.

The success was that I shot a doe -- will post pics tomorrow.

The fail was that i drove over a low water crossing yesterday morning on my place on the way to my stand.  When I came back to the crossing, the bayou had risen about 5 feet and I could not get back across!  The red river had risen that much in just a few hours due to some rain upstream more than 2 days before.  The bayou normally runs into the river but yesterday, the  bayou was running backwards because of the rising river.  I had to contact the landowner to the north so that I could cross his land and get home.  Lesson learned!

[TexasTrad]

Here is the doe I got this weekend:

 

I was using one of my Rick Welch Dakota Pro Hunters - this one is 51# at 29". Shooting Abowyer Watipi single bevel 1.25" broadheads -- I am very impressed with the penetration and blood trail -- doe went 30 yards.