I have been shooting a bow for 5 years now. Started with a recurve.
I have brought my bow hunting with me every year for at least half the time. Multiple opportunities every year for a shot but something always went wrong...wind shift, someone drives through a field and so on.
I made a deal this year that I wouldn't put down the bow till December.
Yesterday, I was looking for a pig that a friend of my shot with a rifle to find out what happened with it. As I was easing into the woods I heard a limb snap. With hundreds of squirrels, ducks, doves and a recent rain it could have been anything but something inside me instantly said PIG! sit down! 30 minutes later I hear another brush rustle and a light snort. 15 minutes later I'm surrounded by pigs from 10 to 30 yards. I'm hoping for a 5 yard shot at a good eater pig, but nothing would step clear of the brush.
Seconds turn to minutes as pigs begin to dart out of the brush and run across a field. 1, 2...5 pigs then a 120lb sow pops out at 17 yards, my personal limit. Bow has been raised for what feels like hours already. I pull back a string a friend of my just taught me to make, put the nock in the corner of my mouth, put the quill of a turkey feather that I have tied with sinew on my riser for a site over the vitals and realize an arrow is already flying through the hog. I don't even remember shooting.
70 yards later I'm standing over my first kill.
5 years and endless frustration worth it.
For those who still haven't accomplished this, let me say this...
Shooting a longbow has made me 3x better at shooting a rifle an 10x better hunter. I can guarantee I can close the distance on almost any deer to within 60 yards, because it has forced me to learn and evolve. Hunting from the ground with a longbow has brought me from a hunter to a predator. Thanks to everyone that has made posts that I learned from, inspired by, or disagreed with and sought to prove wrong
46# at 28- 175 Zwickey 4 blades - 25% FOC
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Topic: Waited 5 years to say this... First big animal kill! (Read 881 times)
