Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Archived Hunting Pics => Shooting and Hunting => 2010 Hunting Pictures => Topic started by: Postman on October 06, 2010, 01:47:16 pm
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Setup sitting against a 3 trunk tree covered in briers Monday on the edge of a giant thicket near a grove of white and chestnut oaks Had a group of 4 does come in, of course the yearling made a beeline for me as they always seem to do. Thankfully it stopped behind a tree as the biggest doe moved into my shooting lane at 17 yards. rose up a bit from my sitting position and let loose . Barely caught the back of the shoulder blade, but the w woodsman point still went thru the top edge of one lung, and lodge midbdy out the other side. Deer plows into the nasty "superthicket" we all hate in our area. Steep sided creekbottom with blowdowns an d deadfalls everywhere.
8:15 - begin to track after waiting 30 min. 915. hands and knees, blood spots here and there. lots of 15 minute hangups circling for new blood. Drop maglite, bulb shorts out after about 100 yards, crawl back out of thicket. Walk home, get new flashlight. 11: 30- back in buisness, quickly loose trail. About 1: 30. Finally find blood in "tunnel' in thicket i never knew existed. Huge piles of bear poop everwhere.(I'll be back in 2 weeks ;D) Trail veers off into the stream portion of thicket. Did she cross? no idea. circle, slip, curse, repeat. Find her underneath deadfall i crossed earlier around 2:30.
it's 47 degreess out. gotta get her back asap. drag her through thicket and blowdowns to powerline right of way and back home. take pics, clean her up and start skinnin'
6:00 last meat goes into cooler with iced saltwater (Thanks el destructo - great idear). *drain the water freqquently
7:00 get kids in car, go to work and teach high school on no sleep, talk smack to wheelie shooting students.
This morning - wife helps me get out of bed and dress myself. Lower back on strike with no breakthrough in negotiations expected soon. Students talk smack.
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That's about the way all my Hunt go also.....don't know what I would do if one went well... :P....great end to an awesome story....and I'm had I was of some assistance also...
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Wooo long night!
Dang thats a big girl! way to go!!
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Good job and nice doe. Congrats.
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A LOT of meat and supplies lying there! Congrats on your first...no turning back now!! ;)
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I love the story. I wish my hunting story ended with a deer. Just lots of missing the deer ( I am having a hard time judging my distances)
How much did she weigh?
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Nice first !!! Ya do know that from now on, there aint gonna be no other way don't ya? Kinda like taking Heroin for an opium addiction......been at it since 1962 and to this day I still get the rush, heartbeat in the ears, and the "wonderment" when it's done.....aint nothing like it ;D what a rush
rich
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Is that a hide backed bow? Can you fill me in on the ice salt water technique?
Tom R
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Great story and hunt......congratulations!!!!!! :)
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Thanks, guys. The bow is unbacked osage darked with permanganate. Bleach does the same, I'm told. I think she was 120-130 lbs dressed, kinda big for our area. Have gotten a few with wheelies and guns on the ground at close range, but this is a whole different and better ballgame - Halfeye said it best ;D
El D's quote - he's in Texas, and usually in some kinda hot water too, so he knows of these things... ;) don't know why I said "salt"- no sleep, my bad. gonna modify it
You'd have to have Pappy's Walk In Coolers to hang one here to age...it's always in the 80's to 90's for Bow Season....this in not Conducive to imparting any sort of Good Flavor to the Meat..... :P....so hanging is totally out of the Question here....I Quarter mine...and then Ice themeat down for a week in 100 quart Coolers...draining the Water as the Ice Melts...this wicks away the Blood...and keeps the Meat from soaking in Water...then I cut it up...make my Tenderloin...Backstrap and Steak and Jerky cuts...then run what I can through my Tenderizer...and grind the Rest...When I am done with a Deer Carcass...and Singin Dog or Buzzard would turn away from it.......... ;D
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Postman....I do put salt in the Coolers with the Ice...Ice cream Salt...or Rock Salt....it makes the Water colder...and helps to leach the Blood out of the Meat....just forgot to put that in there....You must be Psychic (sp)........ >:D
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That's a great story of your hunt Postman.Congratulations to you. God Bless
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Postman, that is a big ol gal! Way to go. 8) Yeah, they never seem to make it easy to recover them. I guess , I would do the same, if someone stuck an arrow in me. :o Well, at least the kids were talking smack, and not doing smack! ;) You definitely got a nice one, and are you going to hang up the self bow, and homemade arrows, and say been there done that , and go back to the training wheel bow? :o I doubt it! ;D You will probably be telling the kids at school, that you have advanced, by going backwards, in bow hunting, by going back to the style of your ancestors, and getting the rush that only the primitive style Boyer knows. I doubt that they will be able to understand it, but once they try it, I think they will put the wheels up on the rack. ;) Have you shown them your bow? You might be able to get some of them to try making one, and then hunting with it......and hook another soul into the realm of primitive archery...... ;D 8) Then homemade arrows, then flint knapping.......poor kids won't be able to roam the streets at night, without looking for bow wood, and arrow material, and stopping to check out some rock, in the ground, instead in a bag. ;) Of course you might not have the weekends to yourself any more either, what with teaching bow making, and arrow making, and planning primitive hunting excursions..... 8) Nice hunt, and story. And definitely a nice deer. Glad you were successful. :)
Wayne
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Congrats thats a good un!Nothin like it huh!!
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Cool El -D. musta read your mind! Was worried, but the meat turned out great, made some stew outta the scraps and tenderloin piccatta already . Wayne - tryin' to convert some of my knucleheads, got at least one on the hook, and my neighbor the school cop is got a line on some osage trees -he wants in, too.
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Congrats on a nice deer, Hooked for sure now. :)
Pappy
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Better than winning the indinnapolis 500.
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Way to go Postman, reel them real s l o w.......feed them a little vineson........let them see your bow, and arrows, show them some pictures of the flint knapping section here on PA, and some of the bows, and arrows......pretty soon, you will have to schedule time for your self. ;)
Wayne
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yep - gotta kid that gets a stave if he finishes up this year and don't quit school ;) he's the real deal - already shoots an old bear for fun but hunts wheelie. Gets a few nice bucks each year with it. A lot of my students are twice the hunters I am.
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Well as for the kids, being better hunters than you......you need to bring in the art of philosophy to them. Also known in some circles as the art of Bulls--t. "Sometimes, when you are in your stand, with your homemade bow, and arrows, and you are smelling the smells of the forrest, and hearing the sounds, a sort of calm descends upon you, and you put your bow down and just marvel at the beauty of the deer, and other creatures, and reflect upon what a wonderful life it is, you feel just as satisfied just watching the animals, while they are oblivious to your presence, and knowing full well that if the whims of human nature should shift, you could at any time pick up your bow, and send forth death, in a most forceful manner, but at the time you simply had no desire to disrupt the serenity of the scene, but to simply revel in it, knowing that you can always return to fullfill a prehistoric need to hunt." No need to let them know you missed four big bucks at under 12 yds, or you almost fell out of your stand trying to get a shot a big ol tom turkey, on the other side of a tree......, or accidentally, dumped your arrows out of the quiver, and had to climb down to get them, only to see a nice buck standing at 15 yds, broadside, with his head looking the other way, :o .......and your bow is still up in the stand..... ::) No, you just smile, and say, "sometimes it is just as good to just sit and watch. Uh huh, yes it surely is......:) You should try it sometime."...... :D
They just don't really need to know some things...... ;D
Wayne
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well put! But i love to tell the screwup stories more than the successful ones! Better laughs ;D Example:
"...Mr. Poster, tell us about the time you had an argument with your brother while your car rolled down a hill into a house..."
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Ooooh, yeah, please, please...... ;D ;D ;D
Wayne
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That is a big 'ole girl. Congrats!