Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: sweeney3 on October 29, 2012, 10:13:32 am
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Okay, let's try this again. Maybe I've got this picture chopped down to tiny enough to post. I hate computers...
Anyway, got this doe from the ground with my ERC bow yesterday evening. Not a big one but should be good eating.
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Well done man. Looks tasty!
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great job. congrats
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congrats fine looking doe and great shot you put on her. good job
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Congratulations! Meat for the freezer!! :)
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Nice going Sweeney and extra special having taken it from the ground.
Greg
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WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?!?! You simply can't hunt from the ground, you need a digital hydraulic 30 story 3D camo hi-definition satellite hunting condo with jacuzzi in the main bath and optional wine cellar with humidity and temperature control!!!! I'm not even going to mention the absolute glaring failure to obtain a 2013 model wheelie bow! >:D
She's beautiful, Sweeny, just beautiful. You're among friends, tell us the story, even if you leave out where your secret spot is hidden. And feel free to post a few more pics of that ERC bow, from what I can see, she's another beauty!
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Nice doe and very nice shot.Congrats. :)
Pappy
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Good job. The modern hunting industry closes the gap between hunter and trophy deer, via technology. This, of course, only benefits the hunter and his braggin' rights, less chance for the deer. I can appreciate the challenge in hunting a huge buck, but what I like about this site is that there is no judging or trophy buck mentality. We do what real hunters do. Make and practice with our homemade equipment and then feed the tribe. Every downed deer is a success story.
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Make and practice with our homemade equipment and then feed the tribe. Every downed deer is a success story.
Jimmy really said a mouthful. Only problem is, I didn't understand most of it because he was chewing on some deer jerky at the same time! >:D
The best hunting trophy used to be your children grown up and having children of their own. There is something wonderful about that, too. Later tonite, I will serve up some trophy venison brats along with home made sauerkraut. I'll have a bite in your honor, Sweeney!
Again, atta boy, thanks for sharing.
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Very nice harvest and shot!
Tracy
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Hunting from the ground with primitive equipment is the most fun!
Congrats Sweeney!
Thanks for showing the pic.
Kevin
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Thanks folks. It's not a lot of a story really though. The black powder season was still open here, so I was on my own place. Got a sasafras thicket that I have kept a couple of shooting lanes pruned through the past few years. It's hard to see in from outside, but I can shoot out two or three directions (so long as I can get positioned to, anyway. It's a tight squeeze in there.), and deer amble around it pretty regularly in the mornings and evenings. I've gotten two or three out of it the past couple of years. I still stand hunt probably a little less than half the time, but I hunt the ground a lot more than I used to. As long as you are quiet and still and pay halfway attention to the breeze, it can work at least as well and often better than clanking around to get in a tree. Not to mention it opens up thousands of spots where there is no way to hunt from a tree. Or at least no way to do it without pruning, dragging, screwing, bolting, and otherwise conquering nature. Anyway, she and a button buck milled around in front of me for half an hour or so, but I've already burned both my buck tags this year, so I had to wait for her to turn sideways and glance away. She did and I shot her.
There are some more pictures of that bow on here from a couple years ago. It had a 550 cord handle wrap when I first posted it as that's what I had on hand when I got it done, but it's been through a couple of jute cord handle wraps since then. Still shots like an angry rocket and has put four deer and assorted small game in the freezer, as well as killed hundreds of cans, balls, dandelions, leaves, sticks, stumps, hay bales, an armadillo or so, and I forget what all else.
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Pardon my ignorance, but what is an ERC bow.
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Eastern red cedar=erc
Doe on the ground = Awesome!nice shot!
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Ah, thanks.
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Great shoot and great table fare :D
Congrats!
Cipriano
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Handirifle,
Sorry so long. I am just about to post another doe I just got this am and noticed your question on this thread.
ERC is Eastern Red Cedar. It's shorthand that is pretty common on here, rather than typing out the whole name. Laziness on our part. ;) Anyway, it's really pretty, good quality bow wood, if kind of tempermental. Actually a juniper, it's pretty light and elastic, and makes a really fine and attractive bow.