Author Topic: Arkansas 2011 Deer Season (Read 606 times)

m midd · « **Reply #20 on:** October 11, 2011, 03:19:00 AM »

All i saw saturday was 348 squirrels. So i went back sunday with my .22 and now theres 8 less. Didn't see much deer sign. But there is a ton of acorns and the rivers low so i figure there deep in the bottoms. Did see 2 mature does with twins right at dark in the beans.

Mike Yancey · « **Reply #21 on:** October 11, 2011, 07:41:00 AM »

Got this one Saturday, starting to see a lot of movement around the place here.
Mike

Hawkeye · « **Reply #22 on:** October 11, 2011, 08:32:00 AM »

Is that with the bow your friend made you that "needed to make a kill," Mike?
Congrats on an old Long Nose! They are the smart ones...

Mike Yancey · « **Reply #23 on:** October 11, 2011, 10:40:00 AM »

Thats it, I'm going to take it out again real soon and hope to show some horns.

Ark.Buck · « **Reply #24 on:** October 11, 2011, 11:21:00 AM »

I've seen 5 deer so for this year, nothing came close enough to shoot that I was interested in.

sweeney3 · « **Reply #25 on:** October 13, 2011, 04:34:00 PM »

Let's see if this works. This, if it does, will be my first image posted on this forum. I still hate computers, but here goes...

This is the doe I got with the ERC selfbow on Monday.

LeeBishop · « **Reply #26 on:** October 13, 2011, 04:43:00 PM »

Nice. I'm going to the woods tomorrow for a few days. I think I may come back on Monday or Tuesday so I can get some good hunting time in. I'm bound to come back with something this time. I spooked enough deer last time to last the entire season.

I'm going to cut down a honey locust tree to make myself a selfbow. I'd like to go back to using simple technology of just a piece of wood and a string.

sweeney3 · « **Reply #27 on:** October 13, 2011, 04:50:00 PM »

Watch out for the thorns with that honey locust. Black locust is good stuff but touchy on the compression side. Likes to fret/chrysal. I'm a fan of this ERC except that it missed a yearling doe just after dawn this AM. I think I'll try and give it another chance here in a half hour or so though.

arky714 · « **Reply #28 on:** October 13, 2011, 05:50:00 PM »

I got some cedar posts cut almost all red 8 inches through 8 ft long just got cut let me know if you need any for self bow makeing...sweeney3 was your bow all cedar?...Dave

sweeney3 · « **Reply #29 on:** October 13, 2011, 09:04:00 PM »

Yep. All cedar. Well, and a strip of rawhide on the back because it's relativly tension weak. But it was just a solid piece of cedar. And, it did redeem itself this evening. Just tagged and checked another doe. Will see about a picture later.

sweeney3 · « **Reply #30 on:** October 13, 2011, 09:30:00 PM »

There it is. The hole in the bottom of the chest is the exit wound. She was quarting a little, so the entrance is a little better. Was kind of worried when I saw some gut matter on the arrow, but she didn't go far at all.

Widow's Son · « **Reply #31 on:** October 13, 2011, 09:34:00 PM »

I hunt up near Oxley. I've been able to actually sit on a stand for a couple of days. I saw nothing. Too warm and too windy even though I was sitting next to a white oak tree dropping acorns like crazy. The mast crop is very spotty. The ice storm and then the drought really hurt the forest here. I have seen deer while out trail walking with my 5 1/2 year old son but haven't gotten a shot.

DanB · « **Reply #32 on:** October 13, 2011, 11:29:00 PM »

Sat in a new stand tonight. Right below a small pond about half a mile below my house. There are a lot more oaks with acorns there due to the seepage from the spring fed pond. About 6:45, a single doe came down a trail within 15 yards of my stand. I burned a hole in her chest, drew and released. She went down imediately! She did not take one step. It was weird because I saw the arrow disappear dead center of her chest. When I got down, I saw that the arrow had gone through both lungs and logded in the base of the scull! She must have twisted around to scratch an itch when I released.

I was shooting a 55# Bighorn Ram Hunter (50's style bow) with GT 5575 with 100 grain inserts and a snuffer 125gr. Massive off side hole with the BH half burried in the base of the scull.

BTW,found two new scrapes along the logging road the leads down to the pond. Hope to at least get a glimpse of the buck that made them!

Great evening hunt!

sweeney3 · « **Reply #33 on:** October 13, 2011, 11:49:00 PM »

DanB,
Wow! That would be neat to see. Not much of a trail to follow when that happens.

DanB · « **Reply #34 on:** October 14, 2011, 08:38:00 AM »

Here are the pics of the wounds. Definitely strange to say the least. Deer can really twist around when they need to.

PowDuck · « **Reply #35 on:** October 14, 2011, 10:56:00 AM »

Way to go, Sweeney!! You're a doe machine. Glad that bow got some blood on it.

LeeBishop · « **Reply #36 on:** October 14, 2011, 05:47:00 PM »

She made it easy on you. No tracking needed. Must have been a bit of an awkward sight with the arrow pinning her together.

bolong · « **Reply #37 on:** October 14, 2011, 06:02:00 PM »

Congrats to all that have taken deer. Sweeney you are on fire, keep it up.

I have hunted 4 mornings since ARROW and have seen at least 3 deer each time but no shots taken. Probably would do better in the evenings but I've been holding off because it's so hot. Guess I'm getting too soft in my old age.

I just got through hanging a stand on a 20 acre tract inside the city limits for the urban deer hunt. May try it tomorrow.

dixiearcher · « **Reply #38 on:** October 14, 2011, 06:02:00 PM »

Wow that's amazing!!

dixiearcher · « **Reply #39 on:** October 14, 2011, 06:06:00 PM »

Hunting Big Timber WMA in the morning so fingers crossed!


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