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Author Topic: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?  (Read 1320 times)

Offline Tilbilly

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68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« on: June 09, 2007, 11:30:00 AM »
Nothing against short bows. They have their place/popularity. And maybe it's a dog days question as well. But love to see some pics of harvests with your looong bows!
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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2007, 03:28:00 PM »
72" Yew longbow 75#@28"

   
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2007, 03:32:00 PM »
68" Hill style longbows 80# and 85#@28" took a good mess of suckers

   
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Offline bayoulongbowman

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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2007, 03:35:00 PM »
ron isthat jim belcher???marc
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2007, 03:48:00 PM »
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ron isthat jim belcher???marc
 
Nope, it's Doug Thorton. We ran onto a sucker run when we were turkey hunting.
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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2007, 03:53:00 PM »
70" 83#@28" Zebra Longbow

   
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2007, 03:55:00 PM »
68" 85#@28" Howard Hill Big 5

   
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Offline Tilbilly

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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2007, 04:13:00 PM »
:thumbsup:
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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2007, 06:41:00 PM »
Here are some long longbows with kills:

Me with my 68 inch GrizzlyBow- 70@28, a gift from my dad for graduation from UPT:
 

My brother Mike with his Grizzly Longbow- 68", 55@28:
 

My cousin Dave and another javelina kill- 69" GrizzlyBow, 55#28:
 


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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2007, 07:57:00 PM »
love those old pics Ron, looks like you'v had an amazing life! still waiting on your book   ;)      :bigsmyl:
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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2007, 08:25:00 PM »
A young buck (the deer not me)   :) ...  shot while stalking in the corn with a 68" 85#@28" Big 5

   
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2007, 10:47:00 PM »
A cold weather Michigan buck that I shot with a 68" 90#@28" Osage bow by Brian Pridgon. The man with me is Linn Clark who was shooting a 70" 80#@28" longbow of his own make.

   
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2007, 10:50:00 PM »
A double taken in Michigans U P with a 68" 70#@28" bow by Dave Paxton.

   
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2007, 10:57:00 PM »
My wife Nancy congratulating me on my buck. Her 68" 40#@26" and my 68" 65#@28" "LaClair Special" Longbows lay across the deer.

   
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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2007, 11:00:00 PM »


I have had a chancwe yet
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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2007, 11:25:00 PM »
Great pictures Ron! I love the absence of camo in most of them. It CAN be done!!
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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2007, 11:26:00 PM »
Thank you for sharing those, Ron.    :clapper:
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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #17 on: June 15, 2007, 04:42:00 AM »
Great pics. 70-80 pound bows, man you guys are tough.  Bue--.
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Offline madness522

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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #18 on: June 15, 2007, 06:35:00 AM »
Great pics Ron!!!  Yep you guys are tough shooting 80-90# bows but what is tougher is that there squirrel shot with an 85# bow and the arrow didn't go thru it.  Now thats tough!
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Re: 68"+ Longbow Kill-Pics?
« Reply #19 on: June 15, 2007, 07:58:00 AM »
Another young buck pic..me not the deer ha ha. The deer was a 134# dressed Kentucky doe. The bow a 68" Martin ML10. Think the hunter was 38 at the time (much older now)..geez look at that old (new at the time) Crumley tree Bark camo   :biglaugh:  

 
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