Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Archived Hunting Pics => Shooting and Hunting => 2013 Hunting Pictures => Topic started by: wapiti1997 on January 08, 2014, 09:48:40 pm
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I finally tagged an old doe with my first selfbow. It is also my first selfbow harvest and first from the ground, although I was in a Big Mike pop up blind.
The bow is around 50# at 27" I flipped the tips after the bow was "completed". It added about 5 pounds and I definitely like the feel better. It has elk antler tip overlays and rest.
I cheated and used a carbon arrow with muzzy phantom broadhead, still room to grow... :D
(http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee423/joelacefield/0108141725a_zps4e9fba3f.jpg) (http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/joelacefield/media/0108141725a_zps4e9fba3f.jpg.html)
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Nice deer. Congratulations. ;)
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Yeah, and eating that deer will give you the proper nutrients to grow "right".
The look on your face says it all. Welcome to the clan. Pass it on.
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Way to go Joe! Congratulations on harvesting your first deer with a bow you made by hand! Great sense of accomplishment. Maybe at the 2nd Annual Moontree you can work on some primitive arrows and points :D
Tracy
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Congratulations Joe, Great job, If those canes are working for you maybe we could try some wood.....
DBar
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Nice deer wapiti, congrats.
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Now ya gone and done it !!!!! welcome to the dark side, you do realize that this stuff is way addictive don't ya? Congratulations sir. 8)
rich
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Congrats on your first,very nice doe. :)
Pappy
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Good job! Aint nuttin' like getting a critter with your own handmade equipment.
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Great job!! Enjoy it now because you will soon be thinking of the next one!! 8)
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Congrats!! Gotta love that feelin :) Nothin like it in the world!
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Woohoo!!!! Congrats Joe....way to "stick" with it ;)
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Way to go Joe! Congratulations on harvesting your first deer with a bow you made by hand! Great sense of accomplishment. Maybe at the 2nd Annual Moontree you can work on some primitive arrows and points :D
Tracy
I'm becoming more intrigued by the primitive aspect of the sport. Bill helped me with some cane arrows and shafts last summer. I have difficulty with consistency with them so far, but still improving! I'd love to learn some knapping skills
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Congratulations Joe, Great job, If those canes are working for you maybe we could try some wood.....
DBar
I think the cane will be fine, still taking baby steps!
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Woohoo!!!! Congrats Joe....way to "stick" with it ;)
Thanks, that bow is from the thinnest stave I got from you, figured it was the driest.. "PA Slim"
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Just to follow up a bit with some biology stuff. This may be offensive to some, but the fact is when you take a doe after the rut, she is likely pregnant. Biologists use fetal data to determine conception dates, fawns per doe and the peak of breeding. Normally here some does get bred in late October, some as late as February, but the peak of breeding (statewide) is always a week around the 15th of November..
When you field dress a late season doe, the uterus will resemble the urinary bladder, the fetuses will be inside.
(http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee423/joelacefield/0109140839a_zps491dc4bc.jpg) (http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/joelacefield/media/0109140839a_zps491dc4bc.jpg.html)
The length of the developing fetuses will determine the conception date. The QDMA folks sell these scales, which many active managers use to help with adequate doe harvest and population modeling. In healthy growing populations, twins and triplet fawns are common. I normally only see single fawns in does that were bred as a fawn or yearling. This doe was over 5 years old, based on tooth wear.
(http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee423/joelacefield/0109140843a_zpsdbaaa96c.jpg) (http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/joelacefield/media/0109140843a_zpsdbaaa96c.jpg.html)
My apologies if I ruined your lunch.. :0
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Oh yeah! Thats the way to do it Joe!! Man, how many guys from the 1st annual Moontree stuck their first deer with a selfbow this year? Seems like over half of us. Good mojo.
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Congrats on your first with a selfbow and thanks for the biology lesson.
Kevin
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Awesome Joe! There is nothing like that first one. I think that is 4 of us from the Moontree that got our first selfbow deer. And Blackhawk got his first kill with that squirrel. Definitely something good going on there.
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Just to follow up a bit with some biology stuff. This may be offensive to some, but the fact is when you take a doe after the rut, she is likely pregnant. Biologists use fetal data to determine conception dates, fawns per doe and the peak of breeding. Normally here some does get bred in late October, some as late as February, but the peak of breeding (statewide) is always a week around the 15th of November..
When you field dress a late season doe, the uterus will resemble the urinary bladder, the fetuses will be inside.
(http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee423/joelacefield/0109140839a_zps491dc4bc.jpg) (http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/joelacefield/media/0109140839a_zps491dc4bc.jpg.html)
The length of the developing fetuses will determine the conception date. The QDMA folks sell these scales, which many active managers use to help with adequate doe harvest and population modeling. In healthy growing populations, twins and triplet fawns are common. I normally only see single fawns in does that were bred as a fawn or yearling. This doe was over 5 years old, based on tooth wear.
(http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee423/joelacefield/0109140843a_zpsdbaaa96c.jpg) (http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/joelacefield/media/0109140843a_zpsdbaaa96c.jpg.html)
My apologies if I ruined your lunch.. :0
Like you Joe, I would be eating lunch while collecting crown-rump data at harvest stations during late muzzleloader season ;D A lot of folks don't get to see this side of the harvest so Thank You for posting this! Those are some little loins on the twins >:D
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I'm really weird about food Tracy, well, condiments make me gag. No ketchup, mustard, mayo, salad dressing, etc... but I can eat lunch between field dressing deer without even washing my hands... I'm almost 50 years old and have never eaten a McDonald's burger..
I've pretty much lived off of what I catch or kill since childhood... We do occaisionally get exotic meats like beef and chicken..
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Congradulations man, great job!!