A Small Game Thread

[Terry Green]

Thx Tony.... the mouse was a bird feeder raider in my  back yard. I got on the roof to ambush.

I really wish I would have had Ray Hamond take a pic of the mouse I shot from lying on my belly under the deck that was on other side of the moble home. Ray was worried I would hit the water pipe running along the ground. I told him otherwise.  That was the same weekend I shot the bumble bee out of the air and took 6 shots at hogs and connected all 6 times. The 6th shot was through a boar Ray had shot and it came by me carrying the mail. What a weekend at Ray's Hog Heaven. I was shooting out of my head that weekend.

Oh, but remember,  instinctive shooting doesn't exist!!!

[Skates 2]

Oh, but remember,  instinctive shooting doesn't exist!!!

 

[Terry Green]

Here you go Tony, my very first St Jude's pheasant hunt...

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[Maclean]

Nice spread Terry, really nice spread.

[Steve Jr]

Great thread ! This has been a real fun read 

[arrow30]

dont have many pics of small game, but heres a few.

[Tony Sanders]

  Well fellows I am away with the wife on a Cruise Boat vacation. So I hope to add to this small game thread when I get back, and I hope others will chime in with their small game stories and pics. Congrats and way to go Terry on that first ST. Jude pheasant hunt. Man, 4 birds, that is some good shooting with a stick bow. Thanks lefty for the kind words, and yes I do love to go after small game just as well as big game. I do believe in a way it can make you a better shooter. Until then everyone, Shoot Straight and Good Hunting.

[Terry Green]

Thx Tony....

Nice frogs arrow30 !!!

[Captain*Kirk]

Tony, I am totally enjoying this thread! Enjoy your cruise, looking forward to seeing more of your posts on your return!

[two4hooking]

Squirrel starts on Saturday here!  These are a couple from last year.[attachment=1][attachment=2]

[Tony Sanders]

  Nice couple of Squirrels Two4hooking. I went to one of my stands on a sod farm that I hunt and have taken a good number of deer on there over the years.  This one day when I got to the stand, I hooked my bow to the pull string and climbed in and pulled up my bow. Not long after I settled in I heard this noise and looked up above me, and this coon was in the same tree that I am now in and coming down towards me from above. I stood up and he took off and got over to another tree. So I sat back down thinking he was gone and to resume my evening vigil for whitetails. Well, let me tell I don't think this coon was too happy that I was in that tree. The next thing I know I am looking around and here is this same coon in another tree staring at me as if he wanted a piece of me, well that was it. If he had fully gone on his way, he would have gotten a free pass, so since I didn't like the way he was looking at me and the coon season was in and I already had an arrow knocked and  when I stood up and he did not move, so I pulled back the Dale Stahl 2 Piece Longbow and let fly. The arrow went through him and landed in the sod field. So after I was done hunting I collected him, took him to my truck and dressed and skinned him out and the next day he was in my crock pot with some potatos and carrots, and he was quite good.

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[Captain*Kirk]

Crock pot was the best place to relocate that little bandit. Nice shooting!

[varmint101]

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I have more but not easy to find on my phone lol I wish I had a picture of the quail I took years ago with a snuffer. No it wasn't flying, but I snuck up on them. Taken coons, opossums, squirrels, chipmunks. Drew feathers off a flying pheasant, but that was all.  Missed many rabbit 🤣 I just love small game hunting!!

[Longcruise]

    My grandsons shot out of a thick spruce.  It hung by the arrow a out 20' up.  Had to shoot the arrow in half with 17 HMR.




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[Kodiak Fan]

Great thread. Terry and Tony get it done. Few rabbits around here nowadays. Bow fishing helps the summer pass. I can't wait to shoot something with fur on it.

[Kodiak Fan]

The largest grass carp.  23.2#'s

https://youtube.com/shorts/384i44ujuBM?si=BbzOGMbeJ-X3wmhc

[Zeebob]

Dang Jim, you been busy! 

[Tony Sanders]

  Nice going Kodiak Fan, looks like you like those Bear Kodiak bows. I also like and  have some vintage bear Kodiak bows, and every so often I take them out and hunt with them. One of my favorites is this 59 Kodiak. I shot 2 deer out of the ground blind in the background with this 59 Kodiak, and while hunting from the blind the squirrels would be all over the place. This one came home with me and I cooked him up in a 2 quart dutch oven, and man was he good

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[Terry Green]

Yes, nice contributions Jim.... Thanks!

[Ben Pinney]

One of my favorite photos of a rock ptarmigan taken on a mountain goat hunt.  Sure is nice to supplement freeze dried with fresh meat.   [attachment=1]