Needle In The Haystack

[Rob DiStefano]

I got a call today from Terry Green today, giving me the low down on a purty big "rhino skinned" black hog he arrowed over the weekend over at the Bacon Strip in South Carolina, but he's best to to tell that tale, with its ups 'n' downs.

After getting the scoop about the big hog, he told me to look out for a package due to arrive today.  Huh?  He said it was the needle in the haystack we'd been looking for, 2 years ago. What?

The box arrived late this afternoon, and, well I'll be darned!  It was the arrow that killed my first hog back in 2009!  The Woodsman head was mighty rusted, and the 100gr brass insert was cruddy and tarnished.  While the feathers were long gone, the four fletch taped quills were still stuck to the shaft after over 2 years of laying out in all the elements!  

 

 

 

I was just tickled to hear that Terry found the arrow!  We'd searched and crawled around that briar berry patch for quite some time and never found found nary a trace of it.  And now here it is.  Way cool!  Thank you Terry!  Great memories of that "last day, 11th hour" hunt!

 

[Stone Knife]

Congratulations on getting her back.

[Huntschool]

OK dude... clean it up, get the rust off, re-fletch with thos Rob-O bananas and go kill something

[bentpole]

       

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by Huntschool:
OK dude... clean it up, get the rust off, re-fletch with thos Rob-O bananas and go kill something

heck no!  it's being decommissioned and put on artifacts shelf.  

[Coonbait]

Man the things you find when your not looking for them! Glad to see you got it back! Last year I shot a real nice 8 point that I searched the high heavens for and never found, maybe Terry could come up and work his magic for me! LOL Congratulations
 
Glenn

[Shinken]

That is a nice find and it certainly brings that hunt to *closure*!

If'n you sharpen that WW, you can tape on some new fletchin' and be good to go for the next blood-letting!

Shoot straight, Shinken

   

[jcar315]

Rob, Congrats on a very cool "recovery" 2 years after the fact.

[Rob DiStefano]

if anything, just goes to show the tenacity and durability of fletching tape.  i'm a believer!

[TimDougan]

NEAT!! Nice find. TD.

[SlowBowinMO]

Now that's cool, glad you got it back.  I also killed my first hog with a Woodsman tipped arrow, and although the hog only went 60 yards we could never find the arrow, and I looked for a couple of hours too!  

[amar911]

That makes me feel even better about Fletch Tape. Thanks for the neat story. Terry never gives up, does he?    

Allan

[Doc Nock]

Where's Mudd to say, How Cool is that????  

Only Terry would keep looking and then mail it back. That is a neat momento and an excellent friend!

Congrats on the hog and the "rest of the story".  

[Mudd]

Thank is awesomely cool!

Thanks for sharing.

God bless,Mudd

[Guru]

Terry told me about that this weekend...how cool!

That one deserves a very special resting place buddy    

[5deer]

no no shoot it again, lucky arrow.

[GRINCH]

Retire it to a special memorial it deserves it.  

[ckanous]

Cool deal Rob, glad you got it back. I found my first woodie I shot a deer with 2 years later also. Sorry to say it was a bad shot and couldn''t recover the deer but found that arrow blood trailing a hog a few years later. Those WW sure do grow the rust don't they!

[Ben Maher]

Straight to the wall in the mancave mate !

[KentuckyTJ]

Good stuff Rob