Daily Hunt Pics and Stories 2008

[Dave Earley]

Got this buck last night.  Had passed up 10 smaller bucks in the last month, and boy am I glad I did !

Rattled him in - he came in from behind me and on the wrong side; about got tied up in my safety harness trying to get ready (had only seconds to do so of course), but then he turned and walked in front of me at 7 yards. Hoo-ahh!

The most amazing thing happened next - as he lay 60 yards away in some brush, thrashing occasionally, up walked one of the largest bucks I have ever seen !!  He casually walks over to mine, checks him out, and walks away !  

58" Dalaa at 52#, swedged 2018's, Magnus 2 blade

[bowhunterfrompast]

Congrats     Straitshot and Dave

[huckbuck]

Louis, that looks like a Kansas buck, congrats.

Tony

[oscarh]

Nice Ohio Buck,,seems like a lot of nice bucks commin from Ohio this year!!!Figgers I'd have to skip my annual pilgramage(sp)this year. KEN

[smokin joe]

don't you just love those Ohio bucks!! That one is a great one!

[Straitshot]

Tony,

Thanks. Pecans and acorns have been falling and I guess this guy had been gorging himself on them. As I said, very large for a Texas whitetail. I normally can get a deer out and in the truck by myself but I had to get help with this guy.

Louis

[kibok&ko]

Hello the gang ! congrats to all for those magnifiscent Bucks !

From south alps of France the fighting with wild boar " Sanglier" is still going on !!!



The one from yersterday !

10 /12 m from a stand i put the same day !

best regards to all

K

[Missouri Bowman]

Very nice boar K.

Neven

[kibok&ko]

Merci !

Thanks you !

[RGK]

First trad deer. 8 points, 165 pounds dressed. 8 yard shot through both lungs. He traveled about 80 yards after the shot. I used a homemade bow (the build along bow that I made for my Son) Homemade arrows, Homemade 212 grain single bevel broadheads (I think I did a build along here for them) with a homemade finger tab and homemade camo.

I consider this the greatest trophy in my 32 years of bowhunting.

[ber643]

Nice Marine Corps Birthday (Nov 10) kills, K and RGK!!! Special congrats on doing yours with a Self bow and all that homemade gear, RGK.

[soopernate]

CHEATER CHEATER I SAY!!!
Wasnt your boy supposed to get the first kill with his new bow?

EXCELLENT shot...at least the kid knows it works now lol.

[Molson]

Here's a doe from Sunday morning.  67# Great Northern Ghost, Heritage 350, and a Griz 190 w/75 g adapter. Hit a bit further back than I wanted to, but the angle was good and she was down in less than 60 yds.

[hickstick]

shot a nice 100 pound (dressed) spike this morning, about 8am.  

Rattled and was turning to hang up the antlers, and saw him coming straight in.   had to hurry up and hang the horns and pick up my recurve..then he decided to come to the wrong side of tree and I had to do a 270 in the lonewolf.  got to full draw and he turned head on...so I had to hold at full draw for what seemed like 5 minutes but was probably about 40 seconds or so.  he turn to a slightly quartering/almost broadside and I couldn't hold any longer....let loose and he turned more quartering and half stepped forward just as the arrow arrived, so the hit was high and angled down.  got lucky and the arrow hit inside the shoulder blade...took out one lung and the liver and must have gotten a number of arteries cause there was a whole mess of blood in the thorax.  the woodsman was sticking out about 2"s  on the off side just beyond the last rib so it got a little bit of intestine too...  he ran about 40 yards, I grunted and he stopped and a second or two later he fell over.

I was worried about the hit on the shoulder...but once I saw him fall I was ecstatic!  MY FIRST BUCK!!!  pics to follow.




(it was pretty chilly up here in Mass this morning so as you can see I broke out the wool this morning....

[bowhunterfrompast]

Congrats     to all

[Traditional-Archer]

Ohio offers a great hunting program, the deer I saw last week was some of the finest examples of the whitetail species I have seen.

[Traditional-Archer]

My first Ohio Buck,

[Benny Nganabbarru]

You blokes are too deadly! Well-done to all!

[bowhunterfrompast]

Congrats  

[twosheds]

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