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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Mark Colangelo on November 13, 2017, 01:41:00 AM

Title: Got it done
Post by: Mark Colangelo on November 13, 2017, 01:41:00 AM
Well this is my first season of trad only, and after passing a lot of easy training wheel shots and waiting for the right moment, I got it done. Unfortunately, I think I may have found a drawback of using a fixed crawl method for aiming in the process. I had a deer come in behind my stand and was following it as it walked, knowing it would pass into a lane at 15 yds quartering away. I drew as it passed the last bit of heavy brush, held my spot, and released. Heard a strange loud crack instead of a thud, and realized there was a finger width branch hanging in the middle of my "lane". Found out the hard way that when I aim with this method, it causes small branches to blur into obscurity and I never saw it. The arrow impacted further back then I wanted, but we put a good track job and found him. Im still amazed the arrow still had that much umph to penetrate enough to kill. Not how I wanted, but I got my first, and it was amazing. Going trad was the right call, can't imagine going back!
Title: Re: Got it done
Post by: Doug Treat on November 13, 2017, 01:47:00 AM
Nice! Well done. Do you have a picture?
Title: Re: Got it done
Post by: TIM B on November 13, 2017, 05:52:00 AM
Attaboy!
Looking forward to the pics
Tim B
Title: Re: Got it done
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on November 13, 2017, 07:00:00 AM
Congrats on your first!
Title: Re: Got it done
Post by: Roy from Pa on November 13, 2017, 07:17:00 AM
Congrats..
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Post by: Kopper1013 on November 13, 2017, 08:21:00 AM
Congratulations
Title: Re: Got it done
Post by: kevsuperg on November 13, 2017, 12:59:00 PM
Yea brother. Nice job, pure adrenaline. I'm seriously considering trad only for the rest of my hunting years.
It's really the only hunting I truly enjoy .
Guns just don't trip my trigger anymore, so to speak.
Title: Re: Got it done
Post by: drewsbow on November 13, 2017, 08:08:00 PM
congrats
Title: Re: Got it done
Post by: CRM_95 on November 13, 2017, 08:14:00 PM
Congrats!!
Title: Re: Got it done
Post by: on November 13, 2017, 10:36:00 PM
Glad it worked out for you!

Congrats on your first!

Bisch