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Author Topic: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story  (Read 633 times)

Offline ThomastaylorIII

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First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« on: November 02, 2008, 09:54:00 PM »
My alarm sounded at 4AM and i shut it off and squirmed back under the covers of my bed. As I lay, unable to sleep, i decided to get up and go give it a try. I was Watching Masters of the Bare Bow II and reading G Fred's Stalking and Still Hunting for the tenth time the previous night before going to bed, and when i awoke late, it seemed like a really good ideal.  I Threw on my clothes and piled into my truck. Turned the ipod to my Hunting Playlist (Ted Nugent and Metallica) and rocked out down the road. I eased into the woods a few mins after daylight and crept down into a low lying area full of pines and spotted with underbrush. I would move from one mobile blind to another, stoping for 30 mins to and hour at each good spot i came too. i settled inside a briar batch with a few small saplings and dissapeared into the surrounding brush. I heard movement behind me and slowly  turned to see a doe slipping in on an adjacant trail. i moved slowly and positioned for the shot, she walked closer and closer untill she stopped around 10 yards and turned broadside. The shot was almost an instinctive action, it just happened. I saw her run off and heard her crash. When the arrow struck she was slightly quatering towards me (I didn't realize this till i looked at the exit wound)My 58lbs shrew and the Ted Nugent goldtip tipped with 125Grain Montec G-5 zipped through her like she was a butter sculpture. She only ran about 35 yards and never bled a drop till she fell.

I dont think i will hunt out of treestands much more, i really like the ground.

 

 
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Offline Dave Bulla

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2008, 10:00:00 PM »
Congrats and way to go!!!
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Offline Wannabe1

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2008, 10:00:00 PM »
Outstanding job! Congratulations.   :thumbsup:    :)
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Offline Brian Krebs

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2008, 10:01:00 PM »
Cool !  I am anterless hunting right now; and you just pumped me up for a stalk  :)  Congrats !
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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2008, 10:02:00 PM »
Nice doe and great story!! You got to love being at their level, thanks for the story.

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2008, 10:08:00 PM »
:thumbsup:
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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2008, 10:11:00 PM »
Congrats and I really like the pics too   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Offline Benny Nganabbarru

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2008, 01:28:00 AM »
Top job!
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Offline L. E. Carroll

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2008, 02:49:00 AM »
Thomas, great job  :clapper:    :clapper:  
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Offline tradtusker

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2008, 04:04:00 AM »
Congrats
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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2008, 04:05:00 AM »
Good job!  :clapper:
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Offline JEFF B

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2008, 04:09:00 AM »
way to go !!!  :archer:
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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2008, 05:45:00 AM »
Good shot, and nice doe!

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2008, 06:37:00 AM »
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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2008, 07:24:00 AM »
Way to go. Awesome deer and like those shrews.
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« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2008, 08:16:00 AM »
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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #16 on: November 03, 2008, 08:48:00 AM »
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Offline ThomastaylorIII

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #17 on: November 03, 2008, 09:38:00 AM »
Thanks guys, this was a very fun one and i will remember it for a long time.
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There won't be a witness if we both fall, Theres never a hero in a battle of evil, there's never a winner of the quick draw.

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #18 on: November 03, 2008, 10:05:00 AM »
:thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :clapper:

Offline Bryant Hollinger

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Re: First Ground Trad Kill W/pics and story
« Reply #19 on: November 03, 2008, 10:08:00 AM »
Congrats   :clapper:   Look like we hunt in the same type woods. sometimes it hard to get a good tree stand set up in a pine plantion expecialy a young one so the ground is the way to go.

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