Archery Talk

No,but still at it. Second gun season has passed and still no deer. Still bummed about the one I hit on November 26th, but at least I know he is still alive. Changed schedules at work so that will cut into some of my hunting. Waiting for more fridgid temps and snow to push them to the standing beans. Will continue to hunt hard till Jan 20th. What about you...still at it?

 

Holy shit pins

 

Still at it. The gun season has def slowed things down. Saw a few small bucks and some does between seasons. Gonna keep on chuggin. Good luck to ya.

 

too many pins...

 

I think it’d be fun for target shooting long distances.

A 12 pin slider would be awesome

 

Curious? If it's a slider, why 12 pins?

 

Cause you could start sliding at like 140 yards instead of 60 like my 5 pin slider.


Just because why not.


And that’s probably not a slider, I just think it’d be funny

 

I won a 4 day wildlife refuge hunt and got on some decent sign of buck in one spot no one else was hunting, I saw only two bucks while hunting there. The other was bigger. I shot this buck with 10 minutes of shooting light left. All I had was a quartering shot and no time so I sent it to the boiler house. I thought, maybe I missed but I shot 15 yards. No blood. But the angle shot I took I had a gut feeling the arrow was in him and the guts sealed the wound channel up. I saw him run maybe 80 yards and darted to the left. I looked and looked and still no blood. The wildlife refuge said I couldn't keep on him if there was no blood, so I looked in the morning. Zig zagged and followed deer trails and found him about 130 yards away (check the onx screenshot, the blue dots where he was, the 1st red dot to the south is where I shot). Didn't leave a drop of blood! Hauled him 2.5 miles on my bike to get him out. Glad I made it on the board, of 250 hunters. I'm happy!

 

Good of you to stay on it.

 

Is that your arrow shot in his ass?!?! If so, I would consider yourself very lucky to have found him! Not trying to be rude, just pointing out that's usually not a fatal shot.

 

Thanks

Yes, very lucky I found him. The arrow went in a quartering angle, it did its job.

 

I'd like to seen how you got it on the bike... looks like it was through the liver and maybe a lung? Glad you found him...congrats!

 

I had bungeed him on the bike with the help of another guy hunting I met camping, several of us agreed to help recover game. Once he was on the bike it was a easy walk to the truck.

Yeah when I gutted him I saw I hit a lung and the liver, glad I took geometry in high school.

 

I think thats a first time for me seeing one hauled back to the truck on a bike But if it works why not! Did you have to split it with anyone?

 

Thanks! Worked great for a quick ride to my spots as well. I hear that’s how the Viet Cong hauled gear down the ho chi mon trail. I kept all the meat, they went wanted to get back to hunting.

 

Had to search this..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07jfM8vOq5Q

Works and helps keep ya warm..

 

Nice buck!

I wish it wasn't so GD cold here in Michigan. It's now musket season and I'd prefer to use my bow. To cold to to sit in a stand. We use gun blinds with wood stoves here, wonder if I can get a wood stove in my stand haha!

 

would be painful if he wrecked...

 

Thanks man! Ugh I forget the cold like that.

Deer haven’t started rutting yet, another 2 weeks I suppose, I’ll hunt em hard then with the bow then. We occasionally get weather in the 30s but only a day or two and back in the 60-70s.

 

The rut is nothing but a memory here in Illinois.