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Author Topic: First w/ Homemade Equipment!  (Read 1295 times)

Offline hickry

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First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« on: October 12, 2009, 06:35:00 PM »
Great day Saturday!  First ever w/ stuff that I made.  Pignut hickory bow that I used last year.  Bow took some set over the year of LOTS of shooting.  After buying TBB4 and reading about tempering... I heat treated the bow... shortened it a few inches... and sinew backed the tips (too thin due to shortening).  Arrows were cane taken off a creek just a few hundred yards from where I got the deer.  Put a chicken snake on the back.  
I was in a tree... and shot the deer at about 5 steps away... quartering away hard.  He jumped, paused, and then trotted about 40 yards.  I saw my arrow sticking in the back... looked like it only had a couple of inches of penetration... jaw dropped... i was SICK!!!  Well, the deer stopped, took one step... and fell over... D-E-A-D.  I couldn't believe it!!  Turns out the arrow had gone down and took out both lungs... it just backed out when he started running.  
Anyway... I started hunting w/ homemade stuff last year.  This is a fun ride... thanks to all the guys on here who have helped, and are helping, us new guys!!
 
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Offline **DONOTDELETE**

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2009, 06:38:00 PM »
Kool deal to take a deer w/a bow & arrows you make yourself.
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Offline owlbait

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2009, 06:38:00 PM »
Awesome hickry! Be proud.  :thumbsup:    :notworthy:
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Offline bretto

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2009, 06:41:00 PM »
My hat's off to You!! Congrat's
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Online Walt Francis

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2009, 06:44:00 PM »
Congratulations!!
You will never forget your first with a self-made bow.
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Offline NorthernCaliforniaHunter

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2009, 06:47:00 PM »
Man, now that's a story! Wow!
I really respect that victory. Really good job!
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Offline Anaconda12

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2009, 06:55:00 PM »
Feels good dont it?  Were you shooting stone heads with that setup or regular broadheads on foreshatfs for the cane?
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Offline LC

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2009, 06:58:00 PM »
I had a reliable trusted friend tell me he once shot a deer and it honest to goodness looked like it only got a couple inches of pentration and after a few jumps it fell out. Unsure of the hit he and his buddy left it for awhile only to go back a few hours later and find a incredible blood trail and the buck dead just out of sight. The arrow had went through and poked a hole out the bottom and must have came back out as fast as it went in! I wouldn't  haven't believed it if  anybody else  had told me this story but this guy is a stand up guy. Now your story is similar. I've never  wittnessed anything like that before with lots of bow kills under my belt.
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Offline leatherneck

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2009, 07:00:00 PM »
It doesn't get any better than that!!! Congrats!
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Offline Ricker

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2009, 07:04:00 PM »
Awesome!!!!  way to go brother....
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Offline tradtusker

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2009, 07:06:00 PM »
very nice buddy!
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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2009, 07:08:00 PM »
Man thats great.
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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2009, 07:08:00 PM »
:clapper:    :clapper:
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Offline Chris Surtees

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2009, 07:15:00 PM »
That is just awesome. Congrats   :bigsmyl:    :thumbsup:
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Offline Bear

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2009, 07:15:00 PM »
Yeah buddy!!!!    :clapper:
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Offline Romans3

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #15 on: October 12, 2009, 07:57:00 PM »
good work! I was in Tyler TX for the first time last week. I'd have looked you up if I knew you were there!
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Offline hickry

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2009, 08:12:00 PM »
Thanks a bunch.  Anaconda... not gone so far as the stone heads yet... but definitely hoping someday!  Those were big Snuffers...they definitely do a good job.  Romans 3... look me up anytime you come back to Tyler!!
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Offline K.S.TRAPPER

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #17 on: October 12, 2009, 08:58:00 PM »
Congrats  :notworthy:    :notworthy:     :clapper:  

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Offline buckhuck

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #18 on: October 12, 2009, 08:59:00 PM »
Congrats hickry.    :clapper:   I hope to post a story like yours one of these days.  Killing a deer with gear you have made with your own two hands is something I really want to do myself and seeing your post just gets me even more worked up!
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Offline Wannabe1

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Re: First w/ Homemade Equipment!
« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2009, 09:06:00 PM »
Very Kool! Congratulations.   :thumbsup:    :clapper:    :clapper:
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