Complete Pass Thru

[sakoshooter]

Eurasian Collared Dove @ 25yds +/-. Judo pt. Broadside. Arrow hit perfectly centered. Wing socket. Bird fluttered/ran to the back of my property. Part of a wing was laying on the ground where it was hit. Another part of the wing was still attached to the judo pt or maybe a part of the opposite wing about 20' past where it was shot. Feathers stuck the whole length of the shaft. Even a little blood on the vanes. By the large amount of feathers, you'd have thought I shot it with a shotgun.
It was pouring rain out but I figured it was dead in the corner of my yard under my pigeon coop. I let both of my labs out to make a 'real' fetch. They both got birdy but no bird. A look over the fence and I could see a few feathers so the bird must have gone under the corner of the fence. Tough bird to be still alive with a 1/2" hole all the way thru its body center mass.
By now I'm soaked from the rain and I need to go all the way around my fence so I go in the house and put on a sweatshirt and rain coat. Take the dogs and go aound the fence into the brushy property of the electrical substation next door. Feathers and the dogs get birdy but it's raining so hard I think it washed away any scent while I was getting more clothes. We spent about 20 minutes looking and both dogs kept losing the trail right in the middle of an open field area.
We went back home and waited for the weather to clear. About an hour later it did so I took the dogs back over next door but to no avail. Lost the trail in the same spot each time. I'm guessing a hawk or eagle got it since they've been getting my neighbors chickens on a regular basis right across the fence from this spot.
I was even going to eat it for supper but no dice this time.
That about sums it up for my hunting this weekend. Anyone else getting any shooting in?

[sakoshooter]

No comments from anyone? I figured D Rock or someone would comment on how my Mathews was not enough bow to even kill a bird or RAD telling me I didn't have enough KE for doves, LOL.

[RadSav]

No comments from anyone? I figured D Rock or someone would comment on how my Mathews was not enough bow to even kill a bird or RAD telling me I didn't have enough KE for doves, LOL.

Yep, Mathews shooters.  Always making a big deal out of nothing   KE means NOTHING!!

I actually gave up shooting birds and bunnies with judo points years ago.  Too many of those same stories.  Not sure how one single 7.5 birdshot pellet can put them down so dead and a big ole judo just makes them run around.  Old broadheads with an Earle Bateman Adder Point behind seems to work the best for me.

Now if you had Springers or Britts it wouldn't have been such a big deal.  Just need to have the right dog for those hard to smell doves.  Takes one heck of an extended rain storm to shut down a good upland dancer.   We take great joy in following up labs in the pheasant and chucker fields.  Though lab owners aren't very good sports about it after a little angry squaw limits on their pass overs

[sakoshooter]

LOL Rad. I knew I'd get some BS sooner or later.
Yeah, those Judo pts suck. My buddy and I shot some geese in the early goose season last year with them. Complete pass thrus with little damage. Hard to believe they can fly away with a 3/8" hole completely thru them and a couple tiny BBs knocks em down.

[pianoman9701]

The Matthews is the reason the bird ran away. Had it been a Hoyt,...

[sakoshooter]

The Matthews is the reason the bird ran away. Had it been a Hoyt,...

 

[xXLojackXx]

The Matthews is the reason the bird ran away. Had it been a Hoyt,...

No no no, Hoyt's are wayyyyy to ugly to shoot, let alone hunt with. Right, Rad?

[RadSav]

Well, I don't know if shooting a Hoyt or a Mathews would have changed a thing.  But I do know, had you spent at least $1,500 for the base bow and $350 for the sight, that alone would have made all the difference!  Quit being such a cheap Bass Turd sakoshooter! 

[sakoshooter]

Well, I don't know if shooting a Hoyt or a Mathews would have changed a thing.  But I do know, had you spent at least $1,500 for the base bow and $350 for the sight, that alone would have made all the difference!  Quit being such a cheap Bass Turd sakoshooter! 

I might have to run out and buy one of those carbon twisty lookin bows. Then I'll have a real big game bird killer. 

[RadSav]

Ugly is the new beautiful, don't you know   Just wait until I set up my new Bear Agenda.  I think it might put some heat on the carbon pretzel as 2014's ugliest   If only it had hubcaps!!

But you are old like me!  The kids at the local archery shop call me "Old School".  Apparently these days you can buy success instead of having to practice and earn it.  Wish someone would have told me that about 30 years ago!

[xXLojackXx]

I bought "success". Wait a minute, they forgot my record class bull that was suppose to come with my expensive, twisty, ugly, super ugly bow 

[RadSav]

I bought "success". Wait a minute, they forgot my record class bull that was suppose to come with my expensive, twisty, ugly, super ugly bow 

Maybe Cameron Hanes has to validate your warranty card   Although, from my experiences Hoyt shooters generally supply their own record class version of bull.!.!.!

When I received the bill for our ugly bows I felt the breath of a Raging Bull and I'm sure I mumbled something about "Oh Bull Sh**!!" followed by a whole slough of other record class naughty words   I'm pretty sure they charged me extra for the hubcaps, the corkscrew strings, the bubbled paint and the flexing rest mount

[D-Rock425]

I'm not sure how I missed this tread looks like I have some catching up yo do.

[RadSav]

I'm not sure how I missed this tread looks like I have some catching up yo do.

Yes yo do!

[D-Rock425]

So from what I've gathered is Mathews still stinks (new that),  rad and sako are old (school) and you can buy success   I guess I need to get a pretzel bow to be cooler than I already am.  Hard to believe that's possible but I'll give it a try.