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Offline StickMark

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Arizona Coues deer
« on: December 16, 2015, 01:28:51 am »
15 yards or less with a hickory bow, stave, that pulls 50 at 24.5.  Learning my draw is shorter than 28, and learning to shoot huddled on the ground made the difference.

Thanks to all who share here; I learned much about bows.

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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2015, 04:05:38 am »
Nice job, beautiful deer. :)
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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2015, 07:00:07 am »
Congrats on that harvest. I hear those coues deer are difficult prey, had to be some stealth involved to make a kill on that buck with a selfbow. :)
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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2015, 07:52:03 am »
I've heard all the same Greg. Read several stories describing them as ghosts. Congrats Mark! Wonderful primitive harvest.
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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2015, 08:17:15 am »
Congrats on your kill.
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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2015, 05:34:46 pm »
Excellent. Congrats on a fine deer taken with self-tackle.  God Bless
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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2015, 07:51:51 pm »
Nice job. Congratulations.

Offline Stoner

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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2015, 09:58:40 pm »
Hey stickmark, Nice coues, congrats.

Where are you in Az.? I'm hunting the Superstition range. Also there are a few of us here in AZ. trying to form a trad archery group, send me a pm. John

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« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2015, 10:44:57 pm »
Thats super awesome! Congrats!
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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2015, 09:51:42 am »
Congratulations on a fine looking little grey ghost.  That is quite an accomplishment. 
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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2015, 05:18:42 pm »
congrats on your deer,, I read Jay Massey about 30 years ago,,,evolving from target stance to short floating anchor,,25 inches or so,, didnt quite understand at the time but 30 years later,, I shoot a short bow at about 24 inches of draw,, just took me a while to catch on,, :)

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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2015, 06:11:01 pm »
There are a lot of coues deer that know what an arrow sounds like whiffing underneath them because I thought the 27-28 draw working stiffly upright would transfer to hunting in semi open terrain.  When I recognized that the left arm ( bow hand arm) pain was tennis elbow, I had to switch to drawing with my left hand.  I built 41 lb bows, taped a sight (nail) and tried Olympic anchor type shooting. Did not work in Missouri's open marsh lands.  I kept practicing left hand, ditched the upright stance and ad hoc sight, always remeasuring my draw, and got good at 15 and under with the pictured bow.


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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2015, 06:20:25 pm »
oh, and btw...once in the bucks' bedding zone, I had a shot but the first arrow hit something, and turned nearly parallel, slowing like a slow-motion semi truck wreck in a movie.  Confused, that buck came with in 10 or so yards, trying to wind me.  I had to reload out of my back quiver, and that motion caused the buck to move out at a walk.  The second buck, the one I had stalked upon as I saw him bed at 250 yards in the snow and sleet,  fed into and parallel tome. This buck#2 must have noticed the first buck's anxiousness, and when then second buck looked to move, I grunted low and only once.  That seemed to settle the buck, and I released.

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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2016, 11:35:38 pm »
  SWEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

         Coues bucks with a self bow has been on my list for alone time
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Re: Arizona Coues deer
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2016, 07:28:39 pm »
Very nice deer and story. Congratulations.
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