Wyoming Here We Come!

[BOWHUNTER45]

are you filming your hunts rav.  would be cool to see ya stick one.  would be a good promo for your new broadhead to.

I want to see this broadhead in action 

[sebek556]

  I keep hearing about the broadhead, need to see one and what its all about 

[RadSav]

As soon as we finalize the line and fully field test each model I'll make sure H-W members get the first view.  We have to be careful with Del and his Muzzy contract so no info until 2013 on the little head.

I feel like an incompetent boob with a still camera. Not sure I could make a video anyone would want to see.  I do know Del will be producing something next year. He'll be the one you w.ant to watch anyway. I've got a face for radio and a voice for silent film

No wind today so we should be good there.  New blind location I'm a little unsure of. And today is the last day. So now Larry and I are meat hunters.  If its brown its down for the most part._

[bloodhound]

good luck! tell the ole lady i said congrats!

[Johnb317]

Ever need a photographer I'll be glad to come along   

[FSTaxidermy]

Bryan it might be time for a desperation move, you need to toss that hot water bottle over to Larrys blind 

good luck guys, they will probably be coming in the last hour! 

[RadSav]

Bryan it might be time for a desperation move, you need to toss that hot water bottle over to Larrys blind 

good luck guys, they will probably be coming in the last hour! 

Larry is the one having a rough go. At least I could have tagged out if I had wanted.  He has not had one single buck in the normal comfort zone.  And the buck he did try for all the way across the waterhole in front of me was not at all a big one.  He'd have been happy with it if the wind hadn't made the shot too far.  But all previous years we would have given him grief for tagging one like that.

Quite a bit different than two years ago when we saw easily 30 mature  bucks a day.  WDFG is expected to drop the amount of doe tags and possibly buck tags by a good bit next year.  Everywhere in the state.  Will probably take three good winters and a few wet springs to get the numbers back.

[bearpaw]

good luck.... 

[Curly]

Wishing you luck.           

[FSTaxidermy]

Dang, sorry its been so tough for Larry. I had heard that the numbers were down, didnt realize they had been hit so hard.

good luck guys 

[BOWHUNTER45]

Well any update ?

[RadSav]

Well two miles apart Larry and I waited till the last couple hours to fill the tags. 

Larry's 23 yard shot looked perfect, but after a longer than expected recovery inspection showed otherwise.  Even though entry looked like a heart shot the broadhead somehow passed behind the heart and barely grazed the bottom of the lungs.  One of the goofiest things I've seen in all my years of bowhunting.  If I were to draw a picture of where to shoot one it would have been within inches of where his arrow hit.  He followed up with a long shot and put him down quickly.  Great buck first or last day for him.

I had to pull a bit of rabbit out of my arse so to speak on my buck.  He stayed about 300 yards away on the other side of a fence and with less than an hour of hunt left.  It looked like he would live another day.  Wind had picked up and was blowing pretty hard right at him from my location.  Two does came in to drink and decided to stay for a while and feed around the waterhole.  I think the buck smelled them and came for a closer look.  He paced back and forth at the five wire fence 48 yards from the blind trying to find a hole to crawl through.  He finally gave up and decided a doe and yearling were not worth it and he started to walk away.  I've got to take him from there!

I set my single pin sight to 48 yards (distance to the fence) and instinctively aimed for his shoulder.  Looked like the arrow would clear the top wire by about three inches if I took the shot.  I let down, took a range directly off of the buck at 55 yards.  And reset the pin.  Now that damn wind!!  Steady, but blowing around 20 I figure.  Having seen what it did to Larry's arrow the day before I figured about 25 inches of wind compensation was needed.

At this time the buck was standing near 45 degrees quartering away with his head to my left.  I drew, placed the pin about 2" outside the right ham and let fly.  Perfect curve ball for a strike out .  Arrow entered mid ribs and exited out the right shoulder.  The big boy ran 20 yards, stopped, reared up on his hind legs and flipped over backwards.  Never another kick or twitch.

I've taken a lot of animals and just don't get too shaky anymore.  That darned miracle I'd just pulled off turned on the shakes like I was a teenager again.  I spun around and tried to grab my phone to text the guide.  I was shaking so bad I dropped the phone three times before being able to turn it on.  Not sure how he read it with all the spelling errors from my not being able to hit all the keys right, but he did - "Won't need to track this one.  Come get me!"  He texted back, "I'm already on my way."

At dinner that night he said he had been working on a poem after watching me shoot that buck;

I watched Bryan shoot an arrow into the air.
I said, "What's he doing that buck is way over there!"
He said the shot was true, "Look over by the ditch!"
And when I did there laid that dead son-of-a-bitch!
You made me work, you made me mad.
But after it all you ain't too bad!
Billy Hudson- guide

Good food, good people, and good hunting.  Can't ask for anything more than that!

[bearpaw]

 sweet...

[benhuntin]

Awesome

[JODakota]

*censored* man, nice bucks!!!