Corny title, I suppose, but I am still grinning from how well things went.
A nice guy from NJ had an older Paul Bunyan for trade on another site, and I was able to trade an older Buck knife and some Razorcaps for the bow. He included a like new shooting glove and some napped heads as well. I think that we both were happy with the trade.
In any case, it arrived yesterday and I put it in the car as I headed to work. I strung it up at work and took a couple pics.
When I got home from work, I put a new FF string on it, put it on the scale and got some arrows together that seemed to shoot okay out of the bow. My digital scale agrees with this spring scale at the heavier end of the plastic, so this was probably close to 70# at 29.5#.
In any case, I shot maybe 30 arrows and decided that if hogs showed up, that I would chase them with this bow. Turns out I got some pics of pigs in my plum thicket a little after dark. They were just a little under a mile from the house, but I had my gear staged in my car, so I jumped in and drove about a half mile, parked the car, and quickly made my way to the thicket.
I slapped my Chad Orde string tracker below the grip, and swung around to the North to get the wind in my favor, although it was a very slight breeze, and likely to swirl. I came down through a lane that I have brush hogged leading to a feeder. As I entered the lane, I connected the string to the arrow and made my approach. There is a green light shining over this feeder, although it is pretty faint, so you don't want to be to far away for a shot. Sitting at this feeder is a tough proposition, because they almost always wind you, so it is best to wait until they are already feeding to make a stalk.
Anyway, as I got very close, there was a huge boar that I have pictures of, that was silhouetted but he wouldn't come into the light enough to shoot. I could have shot him, as he was only 8 yards away or so, but I couldn't be sure that brush wasn't in the way. With the wind the way it was, I elected to shoot the first hog that I had an opportunity at before the wind would swirl.
I got a quartering away shot and a small to medium size hog maybe 7 yards from meand took it. I could see that I got a pass through because of the illuminated nock, and line peeled away from for roughly 50 yards before stopping. I was so confident that I got it done, that I called my good friend, dirtybird, around 2 minutes after the shot, basically because I was so excited to take a pig so quickly with this bow.
I was planning on just following the string to the hog, but when I checked the arrow, my excitement left me. The arrow was full of grease and smelled of gut contents, and I couldn't seen any blook. On top of that, the string got cut from the broadhead after it had passed through, so I had no idea how far the hog had actually gone after the string stopped going out. I decided to back out and check in the morning. I was really disappointed.
I got up this mornng, and took our Kelpie pup out for a little tracking experience and hoping to get lucky. I guess we didn't need to get lucky, because the line took us right to the hog that had died only 40-50 yards from the shot. The hog was quartering away more at the shot than I thought, and the arrow exited the offside shoulder, with all of the blood in the chest cavity. I could have recovered it right away last night, but had no idea of that . Anyway, here is the pig. Very happy with this one.
Topic: Letting an old bow eat. Don't be green with envy. (Read 3913 times)
