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H Rhodes:
Congrats again.  It is a process...  It is very different from hunting with modern gear.  Saturday morning I spent one hour and fifteen minutes with a pretty little eight point feeding and sneezing and scratching himself and hanging around within thirty five yards or so of my stand...  A shot that I would have been comfortable with never presented itself.  Even so, I went home high on the experience.  Don't you feel that switching to primitive gear has made you a better hunter?  Have you ever been hit right on the top of the head with a chestnut oak acorn with a deer staring at you?  You can't get this kind of entertainment anywhere else.  I love hunting whitetail deer!  I think you never stop learning new things about them.

iowabow:
I had an acorn hit the limb next to me when a doe was coming in and that made her look up.  And I had a buck nap 40 yards from my stand and I never got a shot.  This really made me a much better than I though at first but now I can't see me going back to modern equipment in anyway.  It is interesting that you have to make a lot of stuff if you hunt a lot. I am in the process of making about ten bows so that I don't have to rely on one for all my hunting.

iowabow:
OK here is the setup.   I was a little late to the stand and after I got there the sun just started lighting the forest floor.  I heard a crash from the ridge to the south so I stood and tried to see but it was still to dark.  I sat back down and put my head back on the stand while I waited for more light then I heard foot steps running toward the stand and they stopped suddenly.  I very slowly stood and started looking for dark out of place forms around the stand.  I picked out one place that looked dark for no reason and waited for more light.  I thought I saw movement but could not be sure.  15 mins no sound no movement something had to be in close.  Then the sun lit the floor just enough for a glimpse of a form walking in but it did not make sense because that was not where the sound was coming from. This deer walked to 30 yards and started smelling the other dark form which I could tell was a very large doe. Then he move behind and did what bucks do during the rut but she walked out so he was without.  By now I could see very well and she walked my direction and stopped where you see the point of my arrow.  I took careful aim and just before I released I remembered to resight for a lower shot because she was close.  I fired and I heard the arrow hit the tree on the other side of the deer.  At first I thought I just shot high but looked at the point of impact it is not higher than my arrow.  The deers shoulder was behind the large tree and the lungs were lined up with small one behind her.  The belly was lined up with the limb I was shooting over.  OK the point of all of this is we have large deer in Iowa this was a large doe so WOW this doe dropped real fast to keep from being hit! My point also hit in the saw mark of the tree and you can see the flint in it.   I had many markers so I know it was not my aim but the unbelievable ability for a deer to avoid being hit.  How cool is that. I have included a picture of the broken point. 

iowabow:

iowabow:
The flint in the tree and the flint in my havd are two different pieces also the sinew was on the right side of the tree and the broken part of the point. (Seen in my hand) was found 1 foot to the left and 1 foot back of the tree trunk

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