Found a lost arrow today - pic's

[Hooper]

It was a lucky day for me today, I found a lost arrow. It was from a shot I took at a woodchuck this past summer. I sneaked up to a field edge and didn't see anything so I started to walk out into the field and a medium sized chuck stood up in the grass turned and seen me and ran to a tree in the field and to my surprise climbed up it about twelve feet and sat there. I walked up to about ten yards and missed, shot about three inches to the left and sailed my arrow into ( boy, I will never find that one ) a thicket patch. Well I found that one today while rabbit hunting. It was nice to add a arrow to my quiver for a change.
 
 
 

[Dry Creek]

Now that is pretty neat!!

[Iron]

Cool...  

[BowHuntingFool]

Sweet!!!!!!!!!

[JEFF B]

cool so thats why you guys wait for winter. so ya can find arrows. well i must try that sometime.  

[pcappy08]

always a plus when the quiver goes home more full than when it left!

[jomama]

you should play the lottery.

[limbow]

Very cool!

[ronp]

Cool.  Thanks for sharing!  I have one stuck in a tree about 10 feet in the air from when I missed a buck from an old treestand location.  I never tried to retrieve it, though.  I walk past it every know and then to remind myself that I am a lousy shot LOL!

[reddogge]

That field point would have only made him mad.  They take a heap of killing.

[Double Tee]

I had no idea that a chuck would climb a tree!!!learn sumthin new ever day.

[Gil]

Nice shot!          

[ishoot4thrills]

Originally posted by Double Tee:
I had no idea that a chuck would climb a tree!!!learn sumthin new ever day.

Oh yes, woodchucks are very good climbers. I've seen them do it too.

[DWT]

I too was surprised that wood chucks climb trees. I had one spot me during a stalk in a cherry orchard and up a cherry tree he went. The tree wasnt quite high enough and a judo to the side of the head made it a short lived escape. This was several years ago and I had spent alot of time in the woods and had never seen one do it.

[wingnut]

We did that same thing one year in Idaho.  Two years earlier we hunted a drainage and ran into some grouse.  Many arrows were shot in a few seconds and a couple were not found.

Fast forward two years.  Rusty and I decided to try someplace different one evening and drove the 25 miles to a place we call burnt log.  Anyway we were a few minutes later then I wanted and had close to a mile to cover to get to the basin.

As we hot footed down the trail we jumped a grouse.  Stopped to see if we could get on it and I noticed a flash of yellow in the brush that didn't belong.  Well there was one of the flu flus we shot two years before and not in bad shape.  I shot a couple of grouse with it before the hunt was over.

Mike

[JMartin]

That's a cool picture!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I lost 5 yesterday, Only two were lost shooting at bun buns. 5 were lost climbing through garbage.  I'm sure they will be found at the JLMBH if we don't get too much snow! I'll bet they are all laying next to each other.

Good find!

[Mudd]

Great story and pictures!!Thanks for sharing.

Wingnut, I loved that you took it all in stride, put it back in the quiver and used it to make meat.

I've seen more of them up a tree than I care to admit..lol My OMCBA dog(Liar) didn't know he wasn't supposed to tree them. I knew if Woog were to come along we'd have it out because her philosophy is if the dogs tree it, shoot it out whereas my preference is to just tell'em "That's not what we're after!" and "to come on".

 
God bless,Mudd

[KentuckyTJ]

If you missed there has to be something wrong with the arrow, I hope you left it there.

[Bill Turner]

Chucks are very partial to fence rows. If you get between the chuck and his hole he will climb to hide in a thicket. Not like a squirrel but they can and will climb. I believe they are preferred food for some four legged critter(fox, coyote, bobcat, etc.) Expect that is why they climb when pressured.