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Offline elkslayer99

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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2012, 05:37:32 AM »
60 yards from my knee's a doe laying down head shot :tup:
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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2012, 05:48:00 AM »
I was pretty happy with this shot
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25yds complete pass through double lung stuck in tree after
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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2012, 07:13:10 AM »
one yard shot for my deer and a two yard shot for my elk all in the same year.

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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2012, 07:13:59 AM »
5 minute hunt, 60 yards, right through the top of the heart. 

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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2012, 07:54:30 AM »
Another shot that I will always remember was a spike elk out of my treestand.  He busted me in the tree and started to take off I stopped him with a cow call and had to lean out and shoot completely behind the tree I was in.  Watched that arrow hit right in the pocket at 30 yards.  It was probably the most pumped up after a shot I've ever been.

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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #20 on: January 23, 2012, 08:16:26 AM »
Shortest shot 3 feet on my first archery blacktail buck.  He walked  right by the tree that I was hiding behind.  Luckily for me it was in a torrential down pour and he couldn't hear or smell me.  I drew back as soon as his head was on the other side of the tree and released 4 seconds later after he cleared.  The arrow went clean through and only the flethcing was sticking out of the ground.  Best shot on a deer was I nailed a big whitetail buck at 20 yards from my treestand and dropped it in it's tracks.  Best shot on elk, I hit him at 30 yards, he calmly walked 30 feet, bedded down and went to sleep, no running.
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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #21 on: January 23, 2012, 08:26:21 AM »
10 yard shot on a pheasant that had just flushed.. he went straight up and the arrow took him in the neck... I will say I was aiming center body mass but it sure looked cool...
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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #22 on: January 23, 2012, 08:33:08 AM »
Me and a buddy were stumping, he had his Outback and I had my longbow. There was a downed log about 65 yards across a draw. He picked a spot and hit about 6 inches from it. I picked a spot where an old limb came onto the log and hit is dead on, probably no more than an inch from where I wanted the arrow to go. Haven't had any amazing shots on game, other than just a few nice kill shots on some muley does. I suck at bowhunting, but am an ok archer!   :dunno:   :chuckle:
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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #23 on: January 23, 2012, 02:38:15 PM »
I was hunting with a buddy who does archery during elk season..... He's a great shot at the range out past 100 yards.... We snuck in on a herd of Rosie's in dark timber.... I spotted a legal bull and was telling him when it cleared some branches he couldn't see... I was looking through my binocs and ranging for him.... He was at full draw for almost a minute and I knew it was taking it's toll along with elk fever... When I said he was clear at 27 yards and to aim low for the heart.... There were some small branches a little higher that could possibly mess the shot up.... I watched the arrow fly too far right knick the right side of the tree and vere into the bulls hindquarters....  :yike:  The blood trail wasn't very good and the bull took a different direction then the rest of herd.... Two hours later we found him bedded and on the edge of a cut with no way of getting closer because of wind and terrain..... Wind changed and the bull slowly got up and started to walk into the timber.... I told my buddy 107 yards wait for him to clear the tree.... 109 yards he's clear..... Kinda.... Double lunged him quartering away between two trees about two feet apart with small branches here and there.... Turned out to be a nice 5x6.... One hell of a pack out.... Glad he only went down the mountain another 50 yards...

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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #24 on: January 23, 2012, 02:47:23 PM »
70 yards on an already wounded doe. It was my last chance effort to put her down or most likely loose her so i took the shot and made it happen.
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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #25 on: January 23, 2012, 02:50:05 PM »
A swallow at 35 yards a top a tree.  Just got done practicing with my father inlaw and he said bet you a beer you cant shoot one of them swallows...screwed on a blunt tip and poof feathers all over.  when we looked at the bird all it did was tear off one wing and the rest was fine(no I didnt eat it).

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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #26 on: January 23, 2012, 03:08:37 PM »
First bow kill was a bedded down grouse at 10 yards decapitated it.

My first mulie was a button buck that I thought was a doe (still legal) first spotted it broadside and as I drew back it quartered towards and turned strait on as I released, hit it in the neck severing the artery, punched through the chest bone and down the right lung. It only ran a few yards before bleeding out. I kicked myself for taking the shot and was thankful it hit all the right things.

I took a mulie doe this year at 40 yards broadside double lung that too out 4” of rib on exit. Nothing like the sound of bone cracking!

Oh, I robin hooded someone’s arrow while shooting hay bales at 30 yards, didn’t know it till I went to get my arrow.
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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2012, 03:13:53 PM »
Both right at 40 yards, one in a tree, one on a stump.  Bothw with judo points in the noggin.

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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2012, 07:40:03 PM »
End of Dec late season archery deer in WI. 65 paces w/45lb recurve on a bedded spike whitetail . Pass thru. LIver and back of lungs.
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Re: Best bow shot?
« Reply #29 on: January 24, 2012, 12:56:35 AM »
70 yards on an already wounded doe. It was my last chance effort to put her down or most likely loose her so i took the shot and made it happen.
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