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SAM E. STEPHENS · « **on:** November 20, 2018, 02:09:00 PM »

This is probably going to be long winded so I hope y’all can stick with me for a bit as the ending is fitting to the title. So far this season I have been fortunate enough to kill 2 really nice bucks with both having a wide spread in the antler department. So it’s been an outstanding season for me could it in anyway possible get any better , I will spoil it now and just say it can and did. Like I say it’s been a awesome year here in Texas so anything else is just over the top at this point. My best friend Donald has also been having a good year with his longbows and has taken a nice wide buck and a few doe and hogs. So I called him up the other night and said the new deal for us was to finish up our season with one piece longbows and wood arrows , so the new challenge was set for us..

Ok we are going to backtrack now on the events that have got us up to this point so here we go. If you don’t know me and the guys I hunt with are pretty hard core 24/7 Trad Bowhunters , me personally I’m eat-up with it pretty bad. The opener of our whitetail season had us at a ranch that has become a tradition for us to hunt every year on the opener. Temperatures were hot and the hunting not so good but I managed to take a nice old wide racked whitetail buck. I did a story here on tradgang on the hunt , he is just a hair under 20 inches wide on the inside spread. Now I can give two craps less on what an animals score is , I just know when I see one I like I shoot it. I do like a wide set of antlers....

SAM E. STEPHENS · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2018, 02:14:12 PM »

Opener buck ......

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awry · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2018, 02:16:14 PM »

Just the first buck is a good year!

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #3 on:** November 20, 2018, 02:21:02 PM »

I'm along for the ride Sam

SAM E. STEPHENS · « **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2018, 03:24:02 PM »

I will switch back and forth with longbows and and recurves but seems like over the last several years it’s been mostly recurve. Along back in the summer I decided I was going all longbow this year for a change. I ended up with some cheap Galaxy bows and have stuck with them as they shoot very well for me. Matter of fact I now have 8 of their longbows and will probably buy more.

I carried my longbow and wood arrows I made on a 33 day backpacking trip in Colorado last September to start off my longbow season. The longbow came through for me and I was able to bring a nice bear home from that trip....

,,,Sam,,,

SAM E. STEPHENS · « **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2018, 03:25:38 PM »

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Wile E. Coyote · « **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2018, 03:32:40 PM »

I'm in Sam!

SAM E. STEPHENS · « **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2018, 03:33:56 PM »

As our deer season continues the weather is all over the place with record rain fall and temperatures and winds from every direction. Made the hunting tough but we were seeing some good deer and hogs on a regular basis. Oh yea before I headed out on the Colorado adventure I did manage to take a Aoudad ram , pretty good hog and a turkey with my longbows....

,,,Sam,,,

Wile E. Coyote · « **Reply #8 on:** November 20, 2018, 03:35:48 PM »

Damn Boy! How many freezers you got?!

SAM E. STEPHENS · « **Reply #9 on:** November 20, 2018, 03:38:51 PM »

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SAM E. STEPHENS · « **Reply #10 on:** November 20, 2018, 03:53:13 PM »

Maybe I should have titled this my longbow season but the ending is about a wide whitetail buck I might have shot the other day. So our deer hunting is going pretty good with sightings but no shooting getting done. The doe have a free pass for now so we are waiting on the rut to kick in that’s when we usually get our shots. While waiting on the magical time of year I was fortunate enough to shoot a monster boar with my longbow. But before I shot him we had some close encounters with a few rattlesnakes , and they ended up on my bow limbs. Both the skinned bow limbs and monster boar had a story on here from me. And just for public knowledge tradgang is the only place I share my hunts...

I don’t fit in well in other places I guess....

,,,Sam,,,

SAM E. STEPHENS · « **Reply #11 on:** November 20, 2018, 04:08:28 PM »

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SAM E. STEPHENS · « **Reply #12 on:** November 20, 2018, 04:09:51 PM »

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SAM E. STEPHENS · « **Reply #13 on:** November 20, 2018, 04:20:12 PM »

Donald needs on the board so he shoots a nice hog with his longbow then several days later he gets an arrow in a nice buck. Story I got on his buck was he was in the stand and the buck was all of the sudden magically appeared like 2 yards away underneath him. The buck worked his way in front of him and he was able to get a shot off into his chest and he watched the deer go out of sight. Upon tracking he found the buck dead down in the creek....

Donalds pictures need some work but here is what I have , it is a great buck also with a wide rack....

,,Sam,,

SAM E. STEPHENS · « **Reply #14 on:** November 20, 2018, 04:27:44 PM »

Donald’s hog and buck...

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SAM E. STEPHENS · « **Reply #15 on:** November 20, 2018, 04:31:23 PM »

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Oscar-eleven · « **Reply #16 on:** November 20, 2018, 05:05:28 PM »

I'd say you had a darn good year. Congrats.

23feetupandhappy · « **Reply #17 on:** November 20, 2018, 05:16:47 PM »

Well, I'm ready for a good story........

Carry on my friend!

arrow30 · « **Reply #18 on:** November 20, 2018, 05:53:30 PM »

go ahead rub it in deep, your a killer!

….go on..

Cyclic-Rivers · « **Reply #19 on:** November 20, 2018, 06:14:18 PM »

Good stuff as usual Sam. You still have my attention


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