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The Singing Bowyer:
I was able to get a few days of trapping and stump shooting in over the holiday. Unfortunately, most of my traps got covered with a coating of freezing rain followed by 8 inches of snow... :o

It warmed up for a few days and melted most of it off, only to have the temps drop and freeze the ground again. I pulled up all of my foot traps, but went ahead and put out a few snares on some fence lines as a last ditch effort to get some skins. As I was checking my sets and doing some stump shooting, I heard some dogs barking up the ridge in a big thicket. I figured it was rabbit hunters, so I beat feet down to a little funnel area where deer often move through when they are leaving the thicket. Sure enough, a few minutes after I set up behind a blind I had made there earlier in the fall, this healthy doe came slipping through. I shot her after she passed me at about 20 yards quartering away. The arrow took her about 7 or 8 inches behind the the right shoulder and hit the opposite shoulder. I forgot how nice it is to track in the snow...especially when the arrow doesn't come through the other side.

My trapping efforts only brought two straggly coyotes, but I will take the fringe benefits.... ;)

hawkbow:
 Great job brother.. looks like some good eating for sure.... fine looking bow and arrows as well... good on you.. Hawk

coyote pup:
Nice kill with nice equipment  ;)      Just out of curiosity, what wood is that bow?

PeteC:
Congrats on a fine doe and great shot. God Bless

The Singing Bowyer:
Thanks, fellars... the bow is osage. I got a new camera for Christmas, and I haven't mastered it just yet.... The photo is darker than I would have liked. >:(

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