This thread is for you stick-benders out there who wanted to see one of my new hunting arrows I posted some pictures of a few weeks ago stained with a little natural crimson color. Below is a photo of just that. Some details behind the photo follow it.
Here is me with my very first kill from the ground. I started hunting exclusively this way last year and I finally was able to put it all together this past Saturday morning at my farm in south-central Missouri. The distance was 17 yards. The bow I used is a 60” Thunder Stick MOAB that pulls 55#@28”. The homemade arrow consists of an ash shaft and a 175 grain Ace Super Express broadhead fixed to the end. The total arrow weight is right at 750 grains. The deer was quartering away from me at a pretty good angle and the entry wound is on the side of the doe you can’t see. There is no exit wound and that caused me to pinch a little cotton at first when I saw the deer run off with a bunch of my arrow still sticking out of her side. I shouldn’t have worried. The next couple of pictures are a testament to what damage a heavy arrow tipped with a razor sharp broadhead can do. I will warn you ahead of time, these pictures are not for the squeamish.
This is a picture of the entry wound. It is a pretty standard hole as arrows go. I shot her a little higher than I would have liked but I did end up taking the top lobe out of both lungs. When I lined up for the shot, I focused on putting my arrow through the front leg on the off side. The next picture tells you how that turned out.
This is where the 175 grain Ace Super Express broadhead hit and then bounced off of the opposite shoulder. If you didn’t know better, you would swear this is a gunshot wound! When I pulled the hide off her on that side I couldn’t believe the damage I was looking at! Since I saw the doe run off with a lot of the shaft still sticking out of her, this damage must have happened right at, or after, impact. Heavy arrows and heavy broadheads rock!
Darren