HH BUG GOT ME - Part Two!

[Ray Lyon]

Good work Pat. Congratulations! Beautiful bow.

[ron w]

 Well done.......

[Mud_Slide_Slim]

Nice harvest and beautiful pics as always.  Is that yew on that Heritage?

Bill-

[shick]

Pat, congratulations.  You and your Berrys' are rough on turkeys.
Shick

[Possumjon]

Hill style got it done:) 46#@26" 66" Wesley special

[Green]

Great job Pat.  You're hell on those western Turkeys!

[Charlie Lamb]

You really make that Berry stick work buddy. Turkeys are my nemesis and it tickles me to see you getting it done with a good longbow.

[two4hooking]

Me too Charlie!  Great work Pat.  Beautiful bird!  Love the camo.

[Mudd]

[WESTBROOK]

Pat, you are a Turkey killin sonuvagun!  

Good shootin on the wabbit PJ!

[jwhitetail]

Great work with that Heritage Pat... I am glad your Heritage is getting some action.

Nice work on the Bunny there Possumjon

[Overspined]

I know it wasn't a great pic, but I spine shot this deer at 2.5 yds and had to get it to the butcher pronto before they closed, its over 70 degrees and I have a job to get to in the morning.     :D    I took the pic at 7:55 PM and dropped it at the butcher just before 8:30....I think I can gut a deer in about 4-5 minutes LOL the low chest wound is from a knife. Nice doe, dresses about 100#.
   

[two4hooking]

You knifed a spine shot deer!   Nice job. I bet that was exciting!!  

[Overspined]

Nah, shot it from a tree and you just walk up behind them where they can't kick you and end it with a quick shot to the heart with a knife, or lungs if it's a long enough blade. It slips in and out in a blink of an eye. It's quick and humane, not real excitingly all. I'd rather have double lunged it..

That was a little too close but after a couple years our stand locations have been tweaked a bunch of times and it's really working out.

[centaur]

Bring this one to the top again. Tagged out on fall birds this morning, again with the Berry Heritage. About a 15 yard shot, she went nowhere. Ambushed her and about 20 of her buddies along a fenceline.
 

[shick]

'spine and Pat, congratulations to both.  Great job.
Shick

[Kopper1013]

Centaur you are hard on them birds congrats!!

Also

Congrats to you overspined also

[Irish Archer]

Congrats Pat, nice bird, nice photo.

[Irish Archer]

Matt, congrats on a nice deer, how 'bout sharing the particulars on that bow?

[Overspined]

Thanks, Randy, it's 68" 48#@28", I like a 14" riser with aggressive tapers.  This one was a mix and match because my overhead drum sander broke and I "needed" a bow for Colorado, and had cedar laminations ready. Cedar cores bocote riser and tips. Black belly and some nice bubinga on the back. Typically I wouldn't use just cedar for cores and go to CO and this bow proves why.  Too rough of country to have a softwood core. It has many gouges and dents from a week in the mountains but still shoots great and is fine, but ideally I'd have put a mix of a hardwood or bamboo with cedar to add a layer of protection. So maybe 1 or 2 lams of boo for core and cedar on either side or visa versa. It helps reduce denting and all of cedar which is so soft. If used in MI here cedar is fine. The volcanic rocks just do so much damage but my personal bow I consider a work horse and don't worry about it. I do love bocote, but I enjoy so many core woods I can't pick just one favorite. Bamboo, ash, hickory, and walnut are my go-to cores.