So.... I have been hunting wheels for a few years and then 18 months ago started to build my own bows. I Practised for a season every week (almost every day) and then decided last year I am not ready to hunt with the trad yet. So I practised another year and build twenty more bows
. Come this year's hunting season I felt better about my shooting and decided to do the trad hunt. I got a chance on a wildebees and after drawing twice, letting down and telling myself I have taken these kind of shots while practising tens of thousands of times. Took a deep breath, focused on the spot, draw and let go without thinking to much in one movement. It is so incredible that when you take a shot on an animal, that you see the arrow as if in slow motion travelling through the air hitting the spot and the fletches disappearing and then the spurt of blood as clear as anything! I think only someone who have done it themselves will be able to relate to that experience. The wildebees ran about sixty yards before expiring. Pass through.
The bow #55 58" forward riser build by myself and the arrow 590grain tipped with Tigershark broadhead.
Cheers
Willem Durand
Topic: First Trad Hunting Success (Read 1041 times)
