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youngbowyer:
All good things come unexpectedly. I've been trying to get a rabbit all summer but i just couldn't hit one. I got buck fever and i would get shaky and miss the shot. However yesterday was a different day. I had one of those days when my accuracy was top notch. I was hitting coke cans and water bottles from 20 yards consistently. Around 4 i decided to go check my traps and i brought my bow as usual figuring it couldn't hurt. The woods in where i set my traps takes me along a corn field. I spot this cottontail rabbit and the stalk began. I spooked him and he ran into a thicket of thorns. I nocked another arrow and aimed for his head, instead the arrow went flying into his back leg, it screamed and ran further into the thorns, I belly crawled through the thorns into a little clearing which gave me enough room to get a half draw shot. I aimed at his head and the arrow caught him in his abdomen. It screamed and was about to run but i wasn't gonna let him get away. I took of my quiver, dropped my bow, and belly crawled through the thorns. I managed to grab his hind leg and i dragged him into the clearing. I quickly broke his neck and retrieved my arrows. It's my first kill and i am damn proud of it!!

n2everythg:
Congrads. Nice shooting and good hunt.
sounds like a good clean kill. Nice job.
wade

Dazv:
It may not of been super clean but at least you got him. What point are you useing it looks like a feild point??? get hold of some blunts. great job mate.
darren

youngbowyer:

--- Quote from: Dazv on September 02, 2011, 12:40:32 pm ---It may not of been super clean but at least you got him. What point are you useing it looks like a feild point??? get hold of some blunts. great job mate.
darren

--- End quote ---

Yea field points, i have tried blunts with poor results. The rabbits jump and squel but get away so i figured a field point would make a cleaner kill. Ill put some nutters behind the points next time.

Dazv:
Iam sure you will have a much cleaner kill with a big old hex nut on the end of your arrow. How are you going to cook him???  ;D

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