Daily Hunt Pics and Stories 2008

[Terry Green]

Have at it guys.......I'll start it off with this little doe I got in TX......

   

[Peter Zipp]

This is my first ever Traditional Bow kill. I was using Wensel Woodsman screw-ins, on 250 Red Head Carbon Supreme Arrows. My bow is a custome bow from Bayou Buck Bows of Marietta, OK bowyer G.W. Flanagan. 45#@28 64". Cool thing is, my son (who is in the picture) was with me in the stand.  
 

[Biggie Hoffman]

Headshot right before he got into the palmettos.

 

[NorthShoreLB]

LOOK at that bow backing material, Excellent !!!  

[d. ward]

Good god man..........now thats a snake.bd

[Nilirova]

i got just rabbit trails and missed ducks. I need to come to usa

[Trooper]

This is my 3rd bowkill with the same old Bear broadhead this season. Here's my story:

While everyone was watching the "game" last night,(LSU vs Ohio State bowl game) I was tracking this 5 ptr. He came out pretty late, last of light. When I shot I heard what sounded like the arrow hitting a branch or tree. I could not see what the arrow hit or where it went.

I set a compass reading in the direction I heard him run. When I got down I could not find my arrow or see any blood. I pulled out my compass and started tracking at 6:30PM. At about 50 yards I found my first drop of blood and then the blood trail really started. I tracked him for about 100 yards and jumped him up. This was at about 6:45. I sat on the ground and waited until 7:00 and started again. At 7:30 I heard him jump up again so I sat and waited until 7:45. Normally I would have backed out and returned in the morning. But the weather channel showed rain for the morning plus I could tell he was hit good. I started tracking again. I could tell it was a lung hit! Finally at 8:15 I found him.

He was quartering away from me when I shot, his left side was to me. The arrow entered about 6 inches behind the left shoulder and hit the far side shoulder bone, making that noise when the broadhead hit the bone.

I took pictures, quartered him out and with the quartered deer in my rucksack on my back I headed for my jeep at 8:45. After stopping twice to rest, I finally made it to my jeep at 9:30PM.

WOW, what a rush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   

[capt eddie]

Trooper.  Nice story. Do you want to try for Javalina in Mexico after the deer season ends here?

[Terry Green]

Guys, this thread is for 2008 kills only....there was a 2007 thread that has now been archived.

Please only post kills from this year....thanks.

[kennym]

Sat. nite,last hunt of my season,packed my stand and 2 sticks of ladder back in a switchgrass field of CRP,and hung it in a big oak 8 yds from a beaten path. Nearly froze to death over the next 2 1/2 hours,just when I was gonna call it quits 15 minutes early(gettin old I reckon)a smallish doe came ambling up outta the brush. I wasn't gonna shoot,but it turned off the trail,stopped 6 yds from my oak and I did. Turned out it was a button buck,but I'll bet he'll be quite tasty!
 Sorry,no pics. Good luck all for the rest of your season!  

[Jeff Holchin]

I got to spend the weekend in southern Georgia exporing the swamps along the Chickasawhatchie river with my TBG buddies.....

 

Know how sometimes a song gets stuck in your mind?  Well, resting peacefully and watching the water flow south, I kept hearing " 'Ol black water, keep on rolling, Mississippi moon gonna keep on shinin' on, 'ol black water......"

By this part of the season, the deer and hogs are no longer found in the green fields...

 

nor in the open woods under the live oaks with their draping Spanish moss....

 

No, there were only found deep in the thickest, nastiest cover available, where they could safely slurp up the abundant crop of acorns and crabapples...

 

I walked many miles the first day but saw only a few deer and dozens of squirrels.  I found fresh rootings on the second day, but just couldn't catch up with the piney woods rooters.  I did see some more deer and had unfilled tags in my wallet, but didn't get any closer than this to a buck....

 

At least 3 hogs were killed this weekend by the Traditional Bowhunters of Georgia and I heard of one nice buck that was missed, but this was the only trophy that I claimed, the remains of a true swamp monster whose skull was about 6" wide....

 

How I love those Georgia swamps, and sharing a campfire with fellow Tradgangers and traditional bowhunters!  A kill, although always welcome,  is secondary to such an experience for me.

[ratgunner]

That is a BIG snapper.How old do you guess it was ?

[Dirty Bill]

Well,it ain't gonna get any older...      

[Guru]

The only arrow I've shot at a critter so far this year......

 

[TexasAg]

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NOTE: Trad bow kills only, please!

[Arwin]

LOL!!!!!!!          
 That was way funny!
 Tonight I was blessed with a bunny. A good friend sent me a 60# Martin Mountaineer that he didn't use anymore. Tonight was the first time I got to play around with it. I sent a cedar tipped with a nut/washer combo into a 4 inch hole surrounded by a thick briar tangle and made good on the shot.
 

[Arwin]

I forgot to add this also. I shot this squirrel a week ago near the same area as the rabbit. I used a McCullough longbow and cedars tipped with a washer/nut combo.
 

[Dirty Bill]

Nice rabbit and skwerl. I like that camo,is that dutch or british.Like them red leaves.      

[longbow357]

shot this nice little eating goat the other day with my toelke whip - 46lb@30"
arrows were blackhawk carbon shafts with 50gr brass inserts, 100gr steel adaptors and 100gr tusker spirit broadheads - 525gr total.

 

[RayMO]

Shot this small hog in Oklahoma on Jan 19. 46# and a GT 525 gr with a stinger on the end.