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Biggest accomplishment bowhunting
GASoline71:
My biggest accomplishment was actually just committing to it and harvesting a deer. My stepson got me into shooting compound bows and i really enjoyed it. The following year I bought my first archery deer tag. We were hunting in an "any deer" unit in September, and it was really warm that year. Being a rifle hunter it was weird to be hunting in a T-shirt and light pants.
We hadn't seen anything for a few days, and just as I was thinking this I'd made a mistake buying and archery tag, and I really didn't want to be out here. A Blacktail doe stepped out, and she was a decent size, and offered me a 25 yard broadside shot. I'll never forget the "doe fever" I got as I slowly raised and drew my bow without her seeing me. She finally stopped moving, and it seemed like an eternity at full draw. I had the pin just behind her left shoulder, and let loose. She only went about 50 yards and fell to the ground. I was drenched in sweat and I hadn't even relly done anything yet!
When I gutted her out I got a shot directly through her heart. Man, that was one of the coolest things I've ever done as a hunter. One day I'm hoping to repeat that with an elk. This bowhunting stuff is pretty damn fun!
Gary
steeleywhopper:
Killed a grouse at 40 yards with a blunt arrow for my first kill with a bow. It was that moment that I knew bow hunting for big game would be easy. :chuckle:
Norman89:
I got 2 moments that tie for the top spot. One I patterned a forkhorn black tail and was well hidden inside a black berry patch and had him at 40 yards he hung up. A doe with him walked to within 3 yards of me, what a rush I knew I was so well hidden they didn't know I was there. I could see the broad head I had sitting in the whisker biscuit shaking with my pulse and buck fever and the doe finally spotted that after about 2 minutes and boogered out taking the buck with her
Same year I located a heard of elk deep in the timber and slow stalked to within a hundred or so yards. When I started seeing movement I got into a thicket of black berrys and short cedar trees and suddenly realized I had got inside the herd somehow. They were all around me cow calling looking around and the brush was so thick all I could see was legs from the knees down as I was on my chest trying to stay concealed. Felt like an eternity I was there I could hear my pulse in my ears, I could see the steam coming from their breath and the stench of rain soaked elk was so potent I was almost choking on it. Then some other hunters up the hill bugled and the heard went dead silent, I never saw anything and they just vanished. I have no idea what way they went just flat out vanished!
But they never knew I was there. I never released an arrow either time, but easily my most successful hunts ever, 2 weeks apart
ridgefire:
I have always wanted to call in a bull, arrow it, break it down and pack it out by myself. I finally made it happen this year. 28 yard shot and it ran about 20 yards before it went down. It was a lot of work but I loved it.
lewy:
Dedicated my season to killing each of these two old boys archery, both of which I had history with.
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