Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Archived Hunting Pics => Shooting and Hunting => 2019 Hunting Pics => Topic started by: WhistlingBadger on September 29, 2019, 03:40:31 pm
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After many years of trying and quite a few near misses, I killed this fat little muley buck this morning. This is my first big-game animal with archery, and my first primitive kill of any kind. 27 yard shot; 60# black locust flat bow by Curt Brisky (with some modifications); home-made sitka spruce/wild turkey arrow tipped with a zwickey eskimo. The arrow went in clear up to the fletchings, took him right through the heart and he went down pretty fast.
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This is a really important kill to me for a few reasons. Besides the firsts, it also marks the end of a long archery losing streak for me. I've missed shots at two elk and several deer over the past few years because my head starts messing with me. A couple times, I've gotten so flustered I made bad shots. A couple other times, a little voice in my head said, right as I was drawing, "You're gonna miss. Something always goes wrong."
Well, that's no fun. This past summer I spent a ton of time researching the art and science of archery, instinctive shooting in particular, and practicing, practicing, practicing. Today, when the time came, my heart was pounding just like other times...and I picked a little dark patch of hair on that deer's boiler room, and put my arrow right into it.
DANG, it felt good seeing that arrow strike home! Tenderloins for supper at Badger Manor tonight!
Thomas
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CONGRATULATIONS! That's a nice body on that guy, lots of table fare! 27 years is a hell if a reach, good job on that too!
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Congratulations, well done.
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Congrats...That is a natural high you will never forget...
Don
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Congrats...That is a natural high you will never forget...
Don
You're not kidding, Don. I think my family is getting a little tired of hearing about it. I'm sure they'll get used to it eventually...
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Ahhhhh! getting the blood flowing just hearing about it!!!
27yrds! dang! my friend is pressuring me into going hunting with a wheels bow but i want my first deer to be with one of my bows, get the high plus the first kill! Remember this day!
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Very nice. Like the dark color on his chest.
HH~
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Congratulations on your first Primitive kill. That's what it's all about. It's what makes hunting like this so addictive to me. Keeping it all together, getting that shot off and putting that arrow where it needs to be.
Bjrogg
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Fantastic! Most of us have or will go through all of the things you have went through. I can feel your new found confidence from here :)
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Congratulations! That is a long dry spell and great persistence on your part! Just seeing game that close gets your adrenaline going! Good hunt!
Hawkdancer
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Thanks for the support, everybody. My wife and daughter are very happy for me, but I think they're getting a little tired of hearing about it. It's nice to share it with people who understand. (SH)
Ahhhhh! getting the blood flowing just hearing about it!!!
27yrds! dang! my friend is pressuring me into going hunting with a wheels bow but i want my first deer to be with one of my bows, get the high plus the first kill! Remember this day!
Stick to it! Or switch to a compound, if that would make you happy. That's a personal decision everybody has to make. My compound buddies certainly get more kills. But compound bows don't make sense to me. If I want to just get a kill, there's always my trusty .270. The whole point of archery, to me, is the challenge, the tradition, the connection to the animal and to my ancestors. I don't get any of that from a wheely bow. And after shooting glass bows for years, I decided I might as well go all the way. My flatbow shoots just as well as my old fiberglass/wood recurve, so why not? If I'm going to use a bow, might as well use a BOW.
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Im definentially gonna stick with it! Its too rewarding! :BB (SH) :-D
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Congrats, WB. Well done. :OK
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Im definentially gonna stick with it! Its too rewarding! :BB (SH) :-D
Don't just stick with it. Stick and string with it!
Nice work on a nice little table buck, Badger. You got something to whistle about now.
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Congrats, very well done. :)
Pappy
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Im definentially gonna stick with it! Its too rewarding! :BB (SH) :-D
You got something to whistle about now.
And it ain't just Dixie
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Congrats... have been through those trying times myself and probably will again. Congrats again....
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Nice shot and congrats! Oughta be some good eating!
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Thanks everybody! It means a lot to be able to share this experience with people who get it.
I've read about the kyudo masters in Japan; they say that concentration is so intense that the spot becomes the entire universe. Then it is impossible for the arrow to miss, because there is nowhere else for it to go. I always thought that was admirable if a little hokey, but I never experienced it until Sunday morning.
I've had the meat aging in a cooler for a week; I'll cut it up tomorrow. Going to save the sinew for future use (I don't know how to use sinew yet--time to learn) and the hide will be going to the tannery an hour up the road for use in a new quiver, and maybe some new mocassins for the Badgerling.
Thomas
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Meat's in the freezer! Ah, don't ya love that top-of-the-foodchain feeling?
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spot and stalk? Ambush?
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Give us your story! what did you feel? where were you? describe it in detail if you may!
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It was a spot-and-stalk with a couple of funny twists to it. I'm writing it up (mostly so I can remember it--stinks gettin' old) and I'll try to get the whole story up today.
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OK, guys, here's the full story. Take the space out of the link. Thanks for your interest.
https ://whistlingbadger2.blogspot.com/2019/10/an-arrow-for-muley.html
Thomas
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Finished the mount. Next goal: Kill something with antlers wider than its own skull! ha ha ha
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Looks nice.
Hedge~
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Thanks, Hedge!
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Congrats on your first primitive kill, Very nice deer with a perfect shot. God Bless
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Congrats on your first primitive kill, Very nice deer with a perfect shot. God Bless
Thanks, Pete! God does indeed bless me. :)
T
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congrats (-S