P&Y Whitetails with a self bow ??

[Pat B.]

Just wondering if there have been many P&Y bucks taken, in modern times, with a selfbow ??

What's modern times, I don't know, maybe since 1950 or so...  Time doesn't really matter that much..

Anyone know of one or a dozen ????

[Pat B]

Pat, Thad Beckum of South East GA killed a 185#, 138 3/8" P&Y buck in GA with homemade primitive archery gear.
 There is an article by Billy Berger about Thad Beckum that in the most recent PA magazine.

[J. Holden]

I think I kill one every month in my daydreams of this coming fall...

-Jeremy  

[Gun]

FYI the type of Bow doesn't matter.

[Pat B.]

I saw that article Pat, it was very interesting. He must be quite a hunter.. That's what prompted the question..

Apparently it's not something that's done very often....

I have only killed one animal in my life with a selfbow, a warthog in Africa.

Now, I hope to change that this season......especially since I got these in the St Jude Auction a few days ago!

   

I have been daydreaming for quite some time about killing an animal with a stone point, and it just does not seem "right" to do it with anything other than an all wood bow!

Bisch

[Walt Francis]

Though not really common, I believe a greater ratio of those using selfbows kill more P&Y bucks than those using glass backed bows.   None of those who have done it around here "register our deer with P&Y" so they technically are not P&Y deer.  However, I know Mark Baker, Hunter Rung, and myself have all taken whitetails with selfbows that would qualify, should we choose to enter them.  I think Doug Campbell and Lenny Brown have also done it, but am not positive.  That's 5 of approximately 10-12 people I know who hunt with selfbowss in this part of Montana

[Zbone]

"FYI the type of Bow doesn't matter."

Anyone comparing modern compounds with selfbows has to be joking...

[Pat B.]

Walt I thought there was probably quite a few out there...  It was just something that I had not heard about until I read the article in the latest PA..

Congrats on your deer and other game..

Get 'em Bisch !!!

[Pat B]

A selfbow will kill a trophy deer just as dead as a modern compound! Actually I have a hard time calling a compound a bow anyway.

I have a friend here in TX that has taken a deer that would qualify for P&Y with a selfbow and stone point. I would bet, like Walt said above, that there are a lot more of them out there than you would think.

Bisch

[james hoffman]

Not to brag just the fact, I did kill a p&y buck in 2000 witha sinew backed Osage bow, river cane arrow and a jay Massey style broadhead,and yes I did register him to pay homage to the animal. That's what p&y was intended to do.

[frank bullitt]

I'm pretty sure, Richard Jackson from near Terre Haute, In. has shot a few. He's a member here, and is a very fine artist and craftsman, to say the least and hunter! A fine gentleman, too!

[Pat B.]

I've managed to tag a few over the years, my first is registered, none of the others are.

However, if I am ever so lucky as to take one with a self bow I just might reconsider..

   Pat

Bisch, is this the year ????

[Nathan Killen]

Didn't Mark Mitten (Mike Mittens brother) kill a B&C with primitive gear ?

[hitman]

Yes he did, a magnificent animal!

[Herdbull]

My brother Mark took his B.C. class buck with a stone head, but he used his 75# Great Northern bush bow. Mike

[Justin Falon]

I've done it. Four times.  Actually, I didn't kill my first Pope and Young until I started shooting selfbows.

justin

[Pat B.]

Well done Justin !!!  That's quite an accomplishment..

If I recall correctly Marks buck went around 187" and was an outstanding animal.. You guys are great bowhunters !

[bigbadjon]

I think gun meant that type of bow doesn't matter for purposes of P&Y recording. I am very interested in who has bagged them myself but the guys who have done also seem to be the types who don't go online to boast about it.