A while back I had sent Bentpole a pm about my new Shooting style and Mohawks. He and I share an addiction to Mohawk longbows and also shoot kinda the same. I recently switched to three under simply because it "felt" better. I`ve played with it for years but when hunting season rolled around I would always go back to split.I was not satisfied with my bow being a touch noisy and wanted it quieter without bogging it down with silencers. Bentpole told me he liked wood arrows and told me I should try some.
I got to looking for some wood arrows and Snag at Wilderness Custom Arrows offered to build me a few "test" arrows so I could find out what worked before buying a bunch. He sent me 4 arrows fletched two 50/55 and two 55/60 at a very modest price .
I played a bit and got the 50/55 arows shooting like ..well arrows are supposed to shoot. The 55/60 arrows shot very good as well with just a touch heavier head on them.
Long story short I liked how well they shot so much and how much quieter they were that I put a Simmons Tiger Shark on one and headed to the deep swamp this evening.
About a mile from the road across a grown up clearcut and a run of water is an Island with a lot of pines and Galberry bushes as well as palmettos. A lot of browse and the thickest place around. I hung a loc- on there late September so it would be ready for hunting come "pressure" time so I could slip in quiet I killed a nice 8 pt here years back and had hopes for the same but would shoot any deer that came by. December deer hunting around my house is tuff.
I got settled in the lock-on after moving a lot of pine straw from the seat and platform. Good cover around me and I could shoot to 4 different trails all under 20 yards and a new scrape was about 25 yards upwind...perfect.
A buzzard flew in a tree 30 yards behind me. I thought it was a Turkey at first . I felt funny with a Buzzard sitting beside me so I leaned out and ran it off by waving my hand. I was sitting thinking about a hunting video I watched once where a guy was missing a deer and the cameraman was laughing at him because he had a Buzzard sitting in a tree beside him that was not gonna get to eat.Then I heard footsteps coming...
I got my bow in my hand and cupped my hand to my ear and was trying tell where the deer were then I spotted one coming from my left to right. I turned to shoot if it kept coming by then I heard another deer coming behind me on a trail that comes almost under the tree at probably 5 yards. The first deer went by in to thick of cover so I waited on the second. It came out from under me and started the way the other deer went . Quartering steep I tried to slip an arrow right over the ham and up through the chest.. Done.
The deer spun to the right and tore out hard...
I sat on till dark and eased out of the tree after taking a compass bearing of the last place I heard the deer.Walked over to where the deer was standing and shined my light the way it had ran and saw a reflection...
After looking at the arrow I decided to wait a bit...
I always put reflective tape on my hunting arrows and it makes finding the start of a blood trail easy sometimes. A little farther and ...
Gotta love the Simmons Broadheads...
Deer # 11 for the year. My best year deer hunting with a stickbow. 3 pig and 2 Spring Gobblers and 11 deer ...I think my new shooting style works for me...
Kinda spooky on the way back through in the dark. Thank you Lord for another great day..RC
Topic: Wilderness Custom Arrows ....Made for Kill`n (Read 968 times)
