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Bowhunting Cold Shot Challenge Week 19 Stalking Shot
We are in week 19 and it's going to be a lot of hunting related shots for deer season! 🦌 This is Fri-Sat. Shot! This is a common stalking shot! 🥷 Have fun! 🏹 Thanks to all who posted their shots and our members who posted! Thanks to @Jerry Brown amd @Jarrod Floyd Good job! 👍
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A long time coming.
I have been hunting for most of the past 15 years. Up until this year it was mostly with a compound. I had a handful of cases of coming full draw, but didn’t have a perfect shot so I let down. Closest I came to success was a few years ago I shot at a doe, heard a terrible noise and watched my arrow fly over the back of the dear. Found the top cam bushing broke. Decided to go full traditional only this year and put in many hours and countless arrows down range. Took my daughter Saturday for the season opener and saw some deer but got winded on every one due to swirling light breezes. This morning, I said a good long prayer and walked in the woods. About 30 minutes later, this little one walked up. Of course, the breeze was going right to it. The nose was going to work and I figured it was another bust. To my left, there were a couple squirrels in an argument and a bunch of chipmunks running through. Apparently this was enough of a distraction for the deer to continue its walk. I drew back at my one opportunity with a tree blocking me and waited. At ten yards, full broadside, I waited till the shoulder blade opened up with its steps and let my arrow loose. I was met with a solid smack of an arrow making a full pass through. The deer kicked out but didn’t snort or blow and trotted off. A few moments later I heard it crash and I was slammed with so many emotions. It may have even brought a tear or two to my eye. So much time and work has gone into archery and it has become a part of me over the last couple of years far more than I would have thought. Between backyard shooting with the kids, 3d events, setting up and scouting, it finally all came together. It’s not the biggest, it doesn’t have a basket rack, but it is perfect. I said my thanks to the deer and god and just took it all in. I wish everyone good luck, stay safe, and happy hunting. Double lunged, less than a quarter inch from the heart. If the three blade was rotated just a bit, it would cut the heart. For anyone interested, the bow is a trad al reflex longbow shooting 550 grain TAW safarituff taipans, 100 grain insert, aluminum outsert and nock ring 150 grain ozcut elite 3 blade.
A long time coming.
Bowhunting Harvest/Kill photo standards
Some posting rules to follow for the community. In anticipation of upcoming hunting seasons we are formulating some standards to follow for everyone to benefit from! Lessons learned from our Bowhunting experiences. More than just the kill.. but the total experience. 1- species - tells us about the hunt and species 2- where it was taken/bigwoods/farm/desert etc 3- how is was taken. Treestand/ground/stalking 4- scouting and hunt prep 5- recovery NO bloody kills shots/grip and grins straddling the animal/ arrows in the animal/ piles of animals etc Cheers! - Grant
Bowhunting Harvest/Kill photo standards
A perfect evening in the woods.
Earlier today I scouted a new area I’m able to hunt. I found a pinch point where there was heavy deer traffic on the way to an alfalfa field about 1/2 mile away right on the edge of the Niobrara river. The wind was perfect, light and steady out of the East and the deer were traveling from North to South and then crossing the river. I found a couple cedar trees to make an ambush spot in about 15 yards off the trail. I was kept entertained for the first hour by a flock of hen turkeys as they meandered about chasing grasshoppers and pecking at new cool season grasses. Shortly after they reached their roosting tree, twin fawns with no momma came by followed by a doe with twins, then a young buck came by and grunted at the doe ahead of him, stopping to pee over the spot where she had peed. And finally another doe with twin fawns that were straggling quite a bit. They all went by without a clue that I was there. I never let an arrow fly and to do so would have ruined the entire evening.
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