Great pictures guys! Congrats to all.

Nice deer Brad!    
And great story telling to boot!

dean, yer Dad is SANTA!!!!! how cool is that??? at least he shoots  a bow!
BD      

   

Dino , Brilliant effort tell your dad I said Hi and well done , also if I could have a red Bike for Christmas that would be neat. Only joking I have a bike !

A new Black widow would be nice though !

I'm a few days late, but I love that clovis point and your use of it, Flntknp17.  Talk about traditional!

Had a little luck today.

Started off the morning wrong by getting a late start.  I set an alarm on my cell but the battery ran out in the middle of the night so it had no power left to wake me up!

Got to the stand about 1/2 hour after legal shooting light.  No activity for the first hour so and then I caught a 4pt. sneeking behind me and saw another 6-8 does soon after.

Something spooked the does and 2 of them ran in front of my stand.  A decent sized doe crossed my shooting lane and I gave a quick bleat-like noise to stop her.  When she stopped, I picked a spot and shot.  I was high with the shot but hit the spine and dropping her on the spot.  I put another arrow through the vitals to finish things off quicker but I'm pretty sure the first arrow did the job.  Tenderloins tonight!

A productive morning and you got some extra sleep. Way to go!

Congrats Mick, Good Shooting  

Got this guy at 7 AM. He was going below me at about 50 yards and I grunted at him and here he comes, shot him at about 17 yards. Hit him to far foward in the shoulder and thought I had messed up bigtime!!! He went downhill about 100 yards and I thought I heard him hit the deck waited 2 hours and went and found him right where I thought he was. Broadhead took out an artery and clipped the front of his heart. Someone was looking out for me today!!!

SWP

Congratulations Scot! You've just discovered one of the deadliest shot angles in bowhunting. I'm sure you did hear him hit the deck...lol!

They don't go very far when you plunk 'em like that...

Alsea,

Very little penetration. He threw the arrow out within 10 yards. Only about 6" off of my arrow. Shot one in the same exact stand last year that I lost. I was sweating it for those 2 hours. I thought I had just hit him in the shoulder blade and givin him a serious wound. Someone was watching out for me today!

SWP

Yip...that's a better shot from the ground, but there's a lot of vitals up front in the chest and if you don't get the vitals, they have a good chance at survival. Much better than a gut shot.

Anyway, good job! Backstraps! Yum, yum... :D

I spent all of yesterday hunting.  In the morning I sat the tree stand near the gut pile of Brent's elk , hoping a bear might be on it, no such luck.
 
For details on Brent's elk see the Classic Bowhunting thread.
Had shot opportunities at one doe, two fawns, and two forky bucks, but let them pass. Hope will be here in about a month and I am saving my last doe tag in that area for then.  I managed to shoot over a pheasant rooster at ten yards, in front of it at twenty five yards (hit a branch), and just under it at thirty five yards.  Dumbest rooster I ever seen or he just knew he didn't have anything to worry about.  Miner birds were on the gut pile but nothing else so I moved across the valley to hunt an old ranch I hadn't hunted in seven or eight years.  The ranch is in an area where there are now five doe tags available, but it is only open until Thanksgiving weekend.  So it will be closed before Hope is here.
Here is a picture of the doe I killed later in the day while still stalking
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/Slivershooter/Oler1st001.jpg  
Heart shot at twelve yards with hex pine shaft and 190 grain grizzly.  She was quartering away and turned as I released.  Arrow went in at the last rib and came out in front of the off shoulder.  She traveled fifty yards before falling over, breaking the arrow.  This is Pigger's (snakey Osage selfbow, 63# @ 29") second doe.

Walt Francis

QuoteOriginally posted by Aussie_longbow:
That be a cool looker of a pic Terry. Might see you in GA one day.


IN Oz,al

Yeah.....Cohutta is a special place.  Anytime you want to come....jump on a plane...I'll pick ya up.

Thanks Terry, JC and I are sorting something out. Let you know though..

al

Al, Terry's about 15 minutes from me...we'll invite him if you don't mind hunting with a bloke who wears a silly hat   :rolleyes:  

Great stories and pics everyone, good to get home and read all these hunts.

Dino, does your Dad hire out for santa gigs? Really a cool lookin pic...hope my beard looks that good when I grow up.

Some great seasons, pictures and stories so far this year. Keep them coming folks!

This is the greatest thread I have ever seen on the Internet. The scenery is just fantastic. High 5 to all of you guys. I am laid up with hernia surgery so my Hunting is over for the next 4 weeks, but I can share 2 neat pictures from my trail camera.. Roy
 

 

Trick or Treat and it was a treat from Wisconsin.


Last night  4:30.  Nice and bright out.   Grunt called it in from about 100 yards through the woods.  Actually I also had a fork horn come in from the opposite direction and I thought the little guy was gonna mess up the shot.  He didn't.   My second deer with a recurve.
And... I am off next week to hunt in Iowa.   Life is great.