Author Topic: Whats your greatest bowhunting accomplishment (Read 5576 times)

Bowwild · « **Reply #80 on:** January 25, 2013, 02:59:00 PM »

I'm hoping for a bucket-list check-off this coming October though.

katie · « **Reply #81 on:** January 26, 2013, 06:54:00 PM »

That both of my children shoot.

nutmeg · « **Reply #82 on:** January 26, 2013, 10:50:00 PM »

Teaching my sons to bow hunt and a love for archery. What great hunting and shooting buddies. (nut)

koger · « **Reply #83 on:** January 26, 2013, 11:16:00 PM »

Taking a 8 pt so old, he had brown nubs worn to the gum line for teeth, 175# first week in Sept. I took him with a #60, 66"hickory self bow I made, 16 yards on the ground, from the rabbit blind, a natural blind I planted 20 years ago, my most mature deer to date. 2nd would be taking both spring gobblers, Jakes, and then taking all 4 fall turkeys, 2 in bow season, 2 in shotgun season with a bow, here in KY with my Quinn recurve, in the same year. I still aint over that, cause I aint a great turkey hunter, just lucky and blessed!
I love coaching 4H kids, very rewarding to see them fall in love with archery, and be successful in the field and on the target line, but that aint bowhunting, it is a by product.

Tony87 · « **Reply #84 on:** October 05, 2014, 06:34:00 PM »

I've only bow hunted for 3 years but my favorite was this year I went to wyoming for a 2 weeks on a solo mule deer hunt in the bighorn mountains by myself and slept in a hammok in the woods. I saw a lot of animals and on the last day I was there I got my mully about 5 hours before I had to leave to come back to missouri.

vintage-bears · « **Reply #85 on:** October 05, 2014, 07:33:00 PM »

Accomplishment for me is to TRUST what I have learned and listen to my gut.
I do both.

acolobowhunter · « **Reply #86 on:** October 06, 2014, 04:29:00 PM »

Grizzley in BC - nearly didn't live to tell about it, as it ran back on me and then dropped about 10 yds away.

Bama Recurve · « **Reply #87 on:** October 06, 2014, 05:02:00 PM »

My first deer period was with my grandad's old Wing Thunderbird recurve.
He gave it to me at 18 and we hunted together 5 long years before killing a doe. Unfortunately he wasn't hunting with me that particular weekend and I cried like a baby after finding the deer.
Still, it was a thrill to bring it home.
Day after Christmas, snow on the ground, with Paw paws hunting bow.

3arrows · « **Reply #88 on:** October 06, 2014, 08:10:00 PM »

Master bowhunter instructor and teaching kids archery.

reddogge · « **Reply #89 on:** October 06, 2014, 08:16:00 PM »

Teaching two children, 5 grandchildren, neighbors, friends to shoot archery. Also being an instructor for our club for our youth program.

Oh, bowhunting. Then that would be my first deer with a recurve bow or anything for that matter in 1969.

Horne Shooter · « **Reply #90 on:** October 06, 2014, 09:24:00 PM »

Free range cape buffalo...Mozambique.

jt85 · « **Reply #91 on:** October 06, 2014, 09:48:00 PM »

Getting rid of my compound

Benny Nganabbarru · « **Reply #92 on:** October 06, 2014, 10:17:00 PM »

The compound guys who I meet and shoot with all start out pretty sceptical about traditional archery, but before too long they're hooked and buying their own recurves or longbows. The only bad thing is they shoot better than me!

Teaching a couple hundred kids to shoot is also pretty cool.

My own bowhunting highlights are my two buffalo killed this year with my longbow after leaving bowhunting for about four years.

Ron LaClair · « **Reply #93 on:** October 07, 2014, 09:24:00 AM »

Without a doubt my greatest bowhunting accomplishment has been finding my Soul Mate to share my love for archery and bow hunting. Nancy and I have been married for 55 years.

"Like the bow is to the arrow, we are separate yet we are one"

Bob T. · « **Reply #94 on:** October 07, 2014, 09:35:00 AM »

Amen Ron, Good for you.

TooManyHobbies · « **Reply #95 on:** October 07, 2014, 09:40:00 AM »

Many, many misses before I finally shot my turkey. My only longbow kill so far. No blind. Crawled into an opening, stuck a hen deke up, waved it back and forth to get the tom's attention, crawled back into the woods and got ready. 16 yard shot.

KentuckyTJ · « **Reply #96 on:** October 07, 2014, 10:10:00 AM »

To date getting my brother involved in using trad bows. Then being in the tree with him on his first trad bow kill.

Bowwild · « **Reply #97 on:** October 07, 2014, 07:11:00 PM »

Years ago I would have referenced a white-tail, mulie, black bear or antelope that fell to one of my arrows.

These days though I'm so pleased that my now 35-year old son was brought up a bowhunter and still hunts with me to this day. He called me this afternoon in fact(I'm visiting my daughter about 300 miles away) to report that he missed a turkey.

I've seen some children of bowhunters turn away from bowhunting because Dad pushed them too much or ran it into the ground. I probably came close to running it into the ground but I never pushed...only encouraged and congratulated.

Two weeks ago my 32-year old daughter informed me she wanted to go bowhunting. I'm going to jump at this invitation to take her even though it won't be with equipment I choose to use these days. I just don't have time to get her proficient with curves and I don't want her interest to wane.

todd smith · « **Reply #98 on:** October 07, 2014, 07:59:00 PM »

Nothing yet qualifies... I guess my most treasured is an unsuccessful shot at a Dall sheep. The only shot I ever had on a sheep, and probably the only one I will ever have. The hunt was with my mentor John Dodge. Great hunt, many memories. Todd

todd smith · « **Reply #99 on:** October 07, 2014, 08:00:00 PM »

Good for you Ron - that's awesome! Todd


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