Stumpin with my wife.......

[monkeyball]

Last Sunday afternoon after Church my wife said to me "So, do you want to go to the gym?" I thought for a millisecond and said"Or we could get our bows and go do a walk and some stump shooting????

  She went for it! What a wife!!!!

   First shot is always across the field, You can actually see her arrow in flight...

   

[monkeyball]

We feed the birds through the winter and have had as many as 11 male cardinals at the feeders at one time. Looks like there will be one less.

   

[monkeyball]

As we were walking through the field to get into the woods there was some type of seed pod laying in front of us. Lori shooting again...

   

[**DONOTDELETE**]

You are shooting tweetie birds off your bird feeder?.... Awwww maaaaan!  That sounds sporting.    

I was afraid to open this thread with a title like that... My wife and i used to go stumping long before i got into archery.   :eek:

[monkeyball]

Finally into the woods,we come up on a big softee out in front of us....

   

[monkeyball]

On the incline now,Lori looked at me and said "break time". We are heading up to the first bench so I thought I better let her get a rest.

   

[monkeyball]

We were making our way up through a stand of Hemlocks and I told Lori that I wanted to check out the dead yearling that I found(previous thread). On the way over we came across another doe that was really being worked.

   

[monkeyball]

Notice that the part of the intestines have been pulled out and laying above her,hmmm.

     

[monkeyball]

That makes 3 deer that I have found now all within 300 yds of each other.

  Here is an elevated stump shot,thanks to a Pileated. I shot at the biggest hole x3 and every arrow landed back in that stump to the left. I was consistent.

   

[monkeyball]

Now my nock tips on my Holm-Made are dainty little things(Chad does excellent work)but these are still coming from a good sized deer.

   

[monkeyball]

Come on Hon,you are almost there,you have to see this view. I think she was ready to whack me.

  Here is looking across the big ravine,evrything from Fishers to Black Bear cruise through here.

   

[monkeyball]

It was cold,and my hands were feeling it,my wife was really being a good sport. We stopped to cross the creek. Lots of ice still hanging on this little mountain stream.

   

[monkeyball]

They really look different when you get up close.

   

[monkeyball]

Another view...

   

[monkeyball]

There is always a shot you can't pass up when you are out stumpin. This one was it for me.


   

[monkeyball]

Time to go home!!!


   


   Thanks for looking,
                      Craig

[fnshtr]

Nice pics and thread. Great to do things together.

Thanks for taking us along.

[ron w]

[kat]

Makes me want to get out into the woods. But alas,
we still have lots of deep snow where the sun doesn't reach very much.
Thanks for the ride.

[JJB]

That looks like a lot of fun and some good shooting.
-Jay