well it finally came together for me on the weekend. the culmination of a lot of preparation, both in my bow/arrow setup and 'growing' into a 70# bow.
i went out to a remote swamp/floodplain system to try and find some buffulo.....and i did.
after walking in from the ute a fair way i hit the swamps. i slowed down and started scanning the paperbark area i was in carefully. after walking though the swamp for a little way i heard the crashing of a buff through the water..........he was downwind a fair way. he was only young but it was good to know i was in the right area. i kept moving on and later stumbled into a really good area.
almost instantly i spotted a lone buff in a wallow.....upwind and facing away from me. i quickly closed in but halfway there i spotted a really good bull to my left about 200m away. he was feeding. although he was much bigger i had my doubts as to whether i would get close enough to him. i just felt it wasn't going to happen on him. so i concentrated on the wallowed up bull. i closed the distance to 10m with the help of some handy paperbarks and got ready to shoot. i could have got closer but something told me that "i should just shoot from here, the arrow's got a better chance to be flying perfectly at 10m than 6m".
he was sitting in his wallow chewing cud, slightly quartering away. i picked a spot which i thought was a good one. drew back, got to anchor and let it go. it went real close to the spot i shot for but when he got up i realised then that there was way more of him underwater than i thought........i had hit him quite high, angling forward and down a bit. he was looking around for the "big mozzie" that had just bitten him and walked across me at about 8m, stopping momentarily. i had already nocked another arrow by now and seized the chance of a 2nd shot. this one was right on the money i thought and only about 8" of arrow was showing so i knew it had gone in enough. by now he was out of there. he made it to dry ground about 50m away and i saw him go down.
all of a sudden this dream of shooting a buffulo with a recurve had been realised. i had finally done it.
not huge, but i'm stoked in having done it the hard way.
1st shot is the top hole.
they are truly a thick skinned animal!
the 1st shot went though the scapula and got one lung.
autopsy shows a one lung, double lung and heart kill.
oh yeah!
blackstumps were the b/heads used. man i love blackstumps!
pretty sure i got an exit wound on the 2nd shot. i couldn't turn him over to see but there was blood on trees on the blood trail that i know he passed on the exit side. i'm happy with my rig that's for sure. all the work in arrow building and tuning paid off.
Topic: solo, remote water buffulo (Read 8414 times)
