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Author Topic: What was your first traditional bow harvest?  (Read 2110 times)

Offline WINDTALKER

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #20 on: February 04, 2010, 01:11:00 AM »
25 years ago a robin off the fence at 15 feet with my first real bow, fiberglass red thing with dual shelfs and a 1.00 target arrow. Got a good beating for that one, mom liked robins
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Offline BlacktailBowhunter

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #21 on: February 04, 2010, 01:41:00 AM »
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Originally posted by WINDTALKER:
25 years ago a robin off the fence at 15 feet with my first real bow, fiberglass red thing with dual shelfs and a 1.00 target arrow. Got a good beating for that one, mom liked robins
LOL.

Yep, back then we use to get beatings not a tongue lashing.

That brought back memories LOL.

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Offline Zradix

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #22 on: February 04, 2010, 02:08:00 AM »
A small turkey in 2008 with a Herters perfection 46
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Offline Cmane07

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #23 on: February 04, 2010, 02:23:00 AM »
About a 4' cotton mouth in the edge of a slough with my ol' 68" long bow and a judo point this summer
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Offline xtrema312

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #24 on: February 04, 2010, 02:40:00 AM »
Chipmunk about 40 years ago.  I could pick them off quite a ways out.  They were cat food for the barn cats.  I got a bow at about 7, and they were my main targets for a while along with frogs.  Then squirrels, rabbits, groundhogs, at lest one possum I recall, and couple coons.   After that it was mainly deer with a few squirrels here and there while deer hunting.  I still try and hit the chipmunks in my yard on a regular basis.
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Offline Earthdog

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #25 on: February 04, 2010, 03:31:00 AM »
Pheasant in 1971.
Out of season and on the ground.
At the time I didn't even know there was such a thing as a season,,or you could just about get yourself strung up for shooting birds on the ground.
Shudder to think about doing something like that today,but it's one of the reasons I think kids should be given a bit of messing up room as they learn the ropes.
Never got a pic',,,but he was fine eating.
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Offline Frenchy

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #26 on: February 04, 2010, 05:04:00 AM »
My first bow kill was a coot in 2000.
Good fortune...I hit the bird in the head at 30 yards (with a Border Khan-45lbs)
I was bow hunting a pond surrounded by vineyards not too far from home.
A day that will never be forgotten!
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Offline rugrat

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #27 on: February 04, 2010, 06:41:00 AM »
My first bow kill was a chipmunk.  I was 9 or 10 at the time and was shooting a 15 pound green fiberglass bow. The distance was less than 10 yards. I still remember zeroing in on his ribcage. Good times.

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Offline DVSHUNTER

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #28 on: February 04, 2010, 06:48:00 AM »
cottontail rabbit, with a homemade bow, homemade arrow and kite string for a bowstring. I think I was seven, but I was hooked for life.
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Offline BowMIke

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2010, 06:51:00 AM »
My first Trad kill was a cottontail rabbit in 1959. 25# fiberglass bow.(9 years old).
First big game harvested was an Antelope in Wyoming in September 2007 with a 55# Black Widow Recurve. Shot my first deer with a Morrison Shawnee Dakota longbow last November. 2 1/2 year old 8 pointer.
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Offline Raging Water

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #30 on: February 04, 2010, 06:57:00 AM »
Armadillo, rooting up my front yard, his amour plating didn’t work as well as he imagined.
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Offline razorback

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #31 on: February 04, 2010, 07:41:00 AM »
Chipmunk this past summer. kept raiding our camp kitchen. Finally put a good stalk on him and snuck up to about 5yrds. Shot from the knees, bow sideways under a porch. Judo took out the front of his brain through the back of his head. City boy cook watching nearly blew chunks. It was great.  :)
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Offline brill16hockey

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #32 on: February 04, 2010, 07:45:00 AM »
A ground grizzly!  I love hunting groundhogs and was about to give up to the shotgun after about 10 misses, then I finally connected.  I still love stalking groundhogs.
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Offline John Scifres

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #33 on: February 04, 2010, 07:49:00 AM »
Raccoon, then squirrels, then the deer in my avatar.
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Offline JMartin

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #34 on: February 04, 2010, 08:00:00 AM »
Garter snake, 1966, S&H Green Stamp 35# fiberglass bow.
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Offline adeeden

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #35 on: February 04, 2010, 08:03:00 AM »
A Possum a long time ago! Little bugger kept raidig the dog food in the shed, and I finaly got him with my little red fiberglass bear bow after several mornings of trying! I think I was 6 or 7 at the time.
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Offline centaur

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #36 on: February 04, 2010, 08:12:00 AM »
Probably a lizard, or maybe some unfortunate bird, back in the 50s. My 30 pound fiberglas longbow was a terror to the small critters of the desert.
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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #37 on: February 04, 2010, 08:19:00 AM »
Cottontail in 1960 and frogs regularily as Pops liked the legs. Carried a bow on my trapline and dispatched skunks, coons, and fox with it. Killed my first deer and my personal best in 1965-dumb luck! Have killed a few deer since then.
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Offline Mudd

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #38 on: February 04, 2010, 08:30:00 AM »
I'll let you know...if and when I remember it...lol
Every time I start thinking about it(ie trying to remember) what pops out in my mind never happened in reality.
I have such vivid memories of my "Lazy Boy buck" it's like it's real.

I think its by far my favorite hunting memory.
 
Weird huh?
 
You betcha....for me too!

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Offline Night Wing

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Re: What was your first traditional bow harvest?
« Reply #39 on: February 04, 2010, 08:40:00 AM »
Mine was a "bullfrog" about 45 years ago. Took it with a one piece 60", 40# @ 28" Bear Super Kodiak recurve bow from a distance of about 10'.
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