Mudfeather
Senior Member
We don't have the deer we use to have so I feel a little guilty about just stacking them up when I don't need the meat. It never goes to waste because I always have employees that need meat and I share it... so
I started the year hunting the edge of a soybean field. I took my compound because I didn't have a defined path to put the deer around 12 yards or so. As luck would have it a nice doe strolled under me at about 5 yards. Wishing I had my recurve, I went ahead and drilled her. Meat in the freezer. I didn't take a picture but...
A few sits later and I was hunting a nice funnel. This wide forkie comes by and I send a zwicky tipped shaft his way. he trots about 40 yards and is standing there trying to figure what happened and stumbles. I knew he was close by there but couldn't see him.
I gave my SIL a recurve several Christmas ago. It has never been "broken in". He is still learning and doesn't get to hunt much. I told him it needed to kill something...so I started hunting with it...A nice doe paid the price of christening that bow with her blood...
My SIL did get to hunt Tday and shot a nice buck...his first buck ever..It was a family affair as we were all in the blind together...
Now I have more meat than I need and don't want to over harvest my deer so I have to make my self hunt..I shoot my longbow a couple of days to reprogram the old computer... A 7 point messes up and get sideways at about 15 yards... I have been watching deer with my rifle on and off for a while not wanting to shoot one...but that longbow just brings out the predator in me...A nice big bodied deer sideways at 15yds, a Hill longbow, and a Zwickey shaving sharp on the front of a 440 gr shaft is more than adequate to zip a buck and satisfy the predator instinct in this guy...
I just thought I would share. I kill deer with arrows shot from different bows but I can tell you without error...That the more of yourself you put into the hunt and kill....the more satisfying those kills will be...
I started the year hunting the edge of a soybean field. I took my compound because I didn't have a defined path to put the deer around 12 yards or so. As luck would have it a nice doe strolled under me at about 5 yards. Wishing I had my recurve, I went ahead and drilled her. Meat in the freezer. I didn't take a picture but...
A few sits later and I was hunting a nice funnel. This wide forkie comes by and I send a zwicky tipped shaft his way. he trots about 40 yards and is standing there trying to figure what happened and stumbles. I knew he was close by there but couldn't see him.
I gave my SIL a recurve several Christmas ago. It has never been "broken in". He is still learning and doesn't get to hunt much. I told him it needed to kill something...so I started hunting with it...A nice doe paid the price of christening that bow with her blood...
My SIL did get to hunt Tday and shot a nice buck...his first buck ever..It was a family affair as we were all in the blind together...
Now I have more meat than I need and don't want to over harvest my deer so I have to make my self hunt..I shoot my longbow a couple of days to reprogram the old computer... A 7 point messes up and get sideways at about 15 yards... I have been watching deer with my rifle on and off for a while not wanting to shoot one...but that longbow just brings out the predator in me...A nice big bodied deer sideways at 15yds, a Hill longbow, and a Zwickey shaving sharp on the front of a 440 gr shaft is more than adequate to zip a buck and satisfy the predator instinct in this guy...
I just thought I would share. I kill deer with arrows shot from different bows but I can tell you without error...That the more of yourself you put into the hunt and kill....the more satisfying those kills will be...
