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Main Discussion Area => Archived Hunting Pics => Shooting and Hunting => 2011 Hunting Pictures => Topic started by: sonny on October 02, 2011, 12:02:08 am

Title: first big game bow kill
Post by: sonny on October 02, 2011, 12:02:08 am: 8 am this morning, opening morning of archery season here in Va.

more details in a bit......this one's been a long time coming!
very excited!!
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Post by: Denham Archer on October 02, 2011, 12:11:33 am: Congratulations Sonny! Fine lookin' buck!
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Post by: lowell on October 02, 2011, 12:19:00 am: Good job...like to hear more detail!!! ;)
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Post by: sonny on October 02, 2011, 12:28:27 am: Shot with a maple flatbow (stave given to me by Marc).
First arrow- spine shot- was one that Art Butner sent to me in 2005.
Second arrow was a tonkin cane arrow with a coral point that Eddie (Mullet) gave
or traded to me some time ago, fletched with some of Stringstretcher's turkey feathers.
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Post by: sonny on October 02, 2011, 09:34:16 am: I was hunting on a farm that a buddy and I have access to, nearly to the back of the property in a treeline between two fields.
I have seen plenty of deer from that stand before and have shot AT a couple but never had any success until yesterday.

7:30 am I was in the stand. Just about 8 I caught a glimpse of movement to my right and look down to see this guy standing there broadside at ten yards. His attention was away from me on some dogs barking down in the creek bottom so I managed to get turned around for the shot. I felt myself get nervous just for a second and then it was gone, along with an arrow. Hardly remember drawing the bow....and I see it strike him high, breaking his spine. He immediately fell over, breaking that arrow, then dragging himself out of view. I listened for motion of any kind but couldn't hear any- maybe he's dead I wondered to myself. Deciding that I needed to make sure I gathered my stuff and climbed down from the stand. Crossed the fence and find him thrashing but only forty yards away from where I had shot. Quickly grab another arrow from my quiver and shoot him again just behind the ribs, arrow angling forward into the liver and lungs......
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Post by: Marc St Louis on October 02, 2011, 10:18:13 am: Way to go Glenn. I am so pleased for you.
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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on October 02, 2011, 01:13:24 pm: Alright! Thats a feeling that can never be taken away Glenn. Enjoy every second of it friend.
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Post by: sonny on October 02, 2011, 02:10:21 pm: thanks everyone!
It is a great feeling of accomplishment!
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Post by: artcher1 on October 02, 2011, 04:42:15 pm: Way to go Glenn! First one will always be special. Proud to be a small part of your hunt. Thrilled your first one was with one of my arrows. And you're right, those arrows were meant to be used. Thanks for notifying me about this thread. Would have hated to missed this........Art
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Post by: mullet on October 02, 2011, 08:41:26 pm: Congratulations, Glenn, that one is special. I'm happy for you and like Art's arrow, that point was made to shoot.
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Post by: Pappy on October 03, 2011, 08:26:48 am: Congrats ,very nice job. :)
Pappy
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Post by: Pat B on October 03, 2011, 01:53:54 pm: Congratulations Glenn. Like you I am still waiting for my first with my own gear. Well done!!! 8)
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Post by: coaster500 on October 03, 2011, 08:26:57 pm: Savor it and congrats!!
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Post by: sonny on October 03, 2011, 11:31:34 pm: .....nothing quite like telling the story and retelling the story, especially when I mention to folks that I killed that deer with a wood bow that I made.

thanks again everyone!
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Post by: MWirwicki on October 04, 2011, 12:27:35 am: This is gotta be the best time of the year! Congratulations! Hooray! ;D :) ;) :laugh:
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Post by: Hillbilly on October 04, 2011, 01:53:01 pm: Way to go Glenn, that's a fine lookin' buck!
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Post by: sonny on October 04, 2011, 08:06:30 pm: well I'm sure proud of him.
When I went to get my buddy to help me drag him out (I felt the need to rush a bit as he had to meet his customers at the house he's building for them) he asked if I had found it (likely thinking that I may need help with blood trailing.) "Dead" was my response. So then he asked "big doe ??"
to which I responded "6 pointer." Heck I think he was nearly as proud of my accomplishment as I am,, as he knows it's been a long time in the works.

......more little tidbits are likely to be added as they come to me ;)
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Post by: PeteC on October 05, 2011, 10:37:17 pm: Congrats on your first big game kill.That's great. God Bless
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Post by: Postman on October 06, 2011, 11:56:17 am: That's a fine buck ya got there, Congrats on your first bow kill!
Good story, too. Wherabouts in VA did you get him?
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Post by: sonny on October 06, 2011, 04:26:28 pm: thanks again everyone!!

I was hunting on a farm in Nottoway County (which is southwest of Richmond.)
I hunted out there yesterday afternoon for a while but all I saw was squirrels and mosquitoes. Oh well,
I'll keep trying!
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Post by: nature on February 25, 2014, 05:01:35 am: 很羡慕，在我的国家，只有在森林保护区和动物园才能看到这种动物。大多数这种体型的动物在野外被猎杀都是违法的。
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Post by: nature on February 25, 2014, 05:09:36 am: Translate：In my country ,hunting is forbbiden by law. you can only see these animals in zoo. because there is too much people in my country，people killed too much animals in the past 40 years.
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Post by: Gsulfridge on February 28, 2014, 07:26:50 am: In spite of all the bad publicity, the US is still a land of many freedoms that we take for granted sometimes. We need to stop and count our blessings from time to time and be glad that we can enjoy all this. I feel sorry for people who can't indulge in some of life's simple pleasures the way we do here.