A Small Game Thread

[Gordon Jabben]

Yes, I made it the right size but I may have accidentally posted the original.  This picture has a lot of mileage but it's one of my favorites.  I'll try again.

[achigan]

Took this Branch Manager a while back while deer hunting.

[wood carver 2]

Love grouse breast fried in butter with a little flour, salt and pepper...elk camp wouldn't be the same without it


At moose camp, we cut up the grouse we kill and roll them in whatever we have. ( all dressed up potato chips works great.), and we deep fry them. Oh man… 😁
Here’s a picture of my first ever bow kill at moose camp.

Dave.

[Kelly]

Kelly,  that was the last St Jude bow, Miss JT Traditions Hope.

Drop Dead Gorgious.

Terry, what length is that bow? Trying to figure which model that was made from, Apollo?

[Terry Green]

Kelly, yes, Apollo I'm pretty sure.

Hope bow from 19 or 20.  I'll see if I can find her in a bit.

[Terry Green]

Here ya go Kelly.......

HOPE, right hand....APOLLO - 62 inch - 50@28 - FAITH  is the same.

Riser - Stabilized Spalted Maple
Grip - Sapele with Maple accents
Overlays - Leopardwood with Maple accents
2X Carbon - Unidirectional carbon back and belly
Tapered Bamboo cores
Shelf - cut to center

Brace - 7 to 7.75

[F. Dobbs]

 I LOVE these threads!!!  Keep them coming!!! 

[Terry Green]

Kinda what I'm doing now....can't move from this phone, and I'm just waiting on a call....board so thought I's share in this fun I had Monday afternoon...

Just wandering around my grandfathers house waiting for the gas man to show up and fill up the propane tank...wandered by shop n tractor barn and what do I see....a host of boring bumblbees....

         

Yep, made me wish I'd had my bad-mitten racket that I use on them at the house .....when it dawned on me.....I got a bow, flu flus, and a Clark's head in my car.  I didn't get to go this weekend and test out the head on chukar, so here's my redemption...

 
What a blast this was, most shots were from 5 to 8 yards....not going to tell ya how many I hit cause you probably wouldn't believe me anyway, but will show you the ones that I found, or at least the parts that I was able to find....Some had the head missing, and other's the abdomen....and one had both missing as I only found the thorax.

Hitting a bumble bee is much easier than finding it afterward...a large majority are never seen again cause you have no idea where they went....just a 'pot' and a vanishing act...

       

        

           


       

       

           


 
As good at it worked on bees.....gotta figure it would work great on birds of the smaller variety... and seems to be a very durable head cause it got shot into the ground a lot as some of the bees dove from fighting, and they made great targets buzzing low about a foot off the ground trying to re-group...and those were a bit easier to find.

     

Flu Flu shooting is just too much fun.....been a long time since I felt like a kid at Granddad's house....but at 47, I might as well have been 12 again cause that's how I felt.

If ya don't have flu flus....you are missing out on some of the simple fun.

[Captain*Kirk]

Not to overstate the obvious, but it's a heckuva lot harder to hit a squirrel at 20 yards than a whitetail.

Keep 'em coming...these are great!

[RIVERWOLF]

Small game is where the fun is......Mostly Fox squirrel - Rabbit -ground griz this way. Most of our native bobwhites =Gone sadly...non native Pheasant=mostly Gone.......Grouse all but gone ...some in isolated areas south in the heartland....

 Due to loss of habitate & farming (and yarding) practices (herbisides/pestasides/fencerow clearing/urban sprawl etc..)    ...but those topics are for another conversation......


Like many , I cut my youthful  hunting canines chasing small game with bow & arrow , then a few years with my old  .22- and singleshot 410 .....-and
 then making my way  back to the stick and string o so many years ago....It is how I will go out....bow in hand canines worn and tattered .... smiling........

Small game/Roving  releases our Natural  instinct to roam ...explore...learn....HUNT......
  ...Nomadic Rejuvenation......let it shine........

[RIVERWOLF]

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[RIVERWOLF]

enjoy your seasons my friends .........

[RIVERWOLF]

looking at some of my pictures made me feel OLD ....so I thought a pic of a younger Wolf was called for 

No matter your age , small game is always Big on fun......

[Terry Green]

My picture and post is gone.  I guess I broke one of the rules. 

Not that I know of ... I never saw it...repost it.

[Tony Sanders]

  Oh yes a thread and topic after my own heart. I love bowhunting small game. I cut my hunting teeth on small game many years ago back on the old farm, now 58 years later, I am still out after them.

 Tony

[Tony Sanders]

  Especially during the summer for bowfishing and groundhog hunting.

[wood carver 2]

I have killed a lot of groundhogs but that is the biggest one I’ve seen!
How do you cook those stingrays? It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten them.
Dave.

[RIVERWOLF]

Excellent post Tony !

Good to see you posting again .


 

[Gun]

An old one. On the good Ol Mississippi.

[Gun]

One that didn't duck