Daily Hunt Pics and Stories 2007

[Dan Bonner]

Stripstrike1,
I told you I would read the thread tonight! Cant make it tomorrow though the girls have 2 birthday parties. Congrats on the bear bro. You earned it! I knew I should have charged you more for that Morrison. I hope when you post the pics of your first whitetail it will be taken with the bow I am building you now.

Bonner

[jake jr. trickshot]

good shooten boys.
keep up the good work and good form.

jakegrice

[W.Tim]

Osage..nice frog, good shootin

[Long Bow]

Took a nice woods walk a few weeks ago on the family land "Up North" in northern Michigan, and in an hours time I managed get within 10 yards of a whitetail, kicked up a nice ruffed grouse, and after many failed attemps, managed to blood my Northern Mist for the first time! This one was a bruiser, he mst have gone at least 6 ounces!  

[Bowspirit]

Biggest chipmunk I've ever seen...

[BlackpowderJim]

First arrow of 2007. Shot this button buck on 1-1-07
Now it's 'bout time to try for his daddy...
 

[Weekend Warrior]

Broke down and got a deer cam.. This is one of my first bucks with it..Hope to get some bigger buck pics..

[Octavian]

I haven't harvested anything with traditional equipment yet. But I'm planning on it this fall.  

[Mark Smeltzer]

Thought I would put up a couple of pictures of my N. Ca. bear hunt.
I used this snakey osage selfbow I made a few months ago, cedar arrows and zwickey eskimos.
I saw much bigger bears but I found this one feeding his way up this stream (blackberries). I got within 10 yards and he presented the perfect shot. The Zwickey came about 8" out the other side.  The bear shot up a tree right beside me and died about 30ft up the tree.  From the time I shot and the time he was dead was about 15 or 20 seconds, that was the fastest I have ever seen an animal bleed out.  That was probably the most action packed 20 seconds I have seen in a long time.
Mark
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[Mark Smeltzer]

I'll try again.
 
 
 
 

[Danny Rowan]

Good shootin Mark!

Danny

[Osagetree]

Congrat's..... What a memory to own!

[yellow bow]

nice bear,congrats!

[Guru]

Wow, That's awesome!

[Huntrdfk]

Way to go Mark, that is awesome!


David

[BigRonHuntAlot]

SAAWEEET, Congrats on a Great Hunt and Trophy!!!
 Awesome pics.      

[Larry247]

   

[Mark Smeltzer]

Thanks you guys. I appreciate the comments, I had a great time.

Mark

[kennym]

Great job Mark!!      

[V I Archer]

Gorgeous bow Mark, nice bear too.  My first black bear ran up a tree too.  I shot him while he was standing up preparing to climb the tree.  I wanted to get closer, but had to settle for the 8 yard shot before he bolted. I took out one lung and you could hear him labouring to breath, took about a minute for him to tumble. Nothing beats stalking black bear with the bow.