Out with a bang!!!!! pics added

[curlis]

Last night was my last night out for the beaver season. Let me tell you, that was one of the coolest nights of my life!

I just got home from a track meet after 2&1/2 hrs. of sleep. I'll try to get some pics up and the rest of the story tomorrow.

[curlis]

Still don't have the pics ready. Hope by tonight.

[Frank V]

Bill get some sleep then let us know. Did Mike rock the oat when it was your turn to shoot? Frank

[southpawshooter]

C'mon Bill, give it up!!!    

[Guru]

   

[curlis]

Guys,

I'm going to put up some pics tonight. I was waiting for some pics to get emailed to me. I guess I'll put up what I have and add more later.

[curlis]

The last night out for the season was action packed. Of coarse, I forgot my camera. We started the night of with rats (muskrats that is). Cat, our huntress, calls them olympic rats.

They are tuff little critters. I was up when we saw the first one. For the first time I anchored one on the first shot. One rat in the boat! Cat's turn was next. She was very excited about mine because she said it was the first one she had seen up close. Well, what do you know but another one came swimming by. She made a good first shot on it.  I told you they were tuff. It made a bee line toward the shore. The chase was on! It made it to the shore and got into the edge of the Tullies. Cat made a very good second shot and anchored it to the spot. Two for Two on Rats!

Now it was beaver time. I was up once more and the beaver were out and about. We caught up with one up against the shore line. I took the shot and it was a good one, right behind the front leg. The beaver took off. It stayed near the shore and tried to beach itself. I took a follow up shot to the base of the skull. Back into the water it went! All the while we were trying to net the darn thing. Mud and water was splashing every where! It finally beached for the last time. It was trying to get to a den hole just past the edge of the beach. One last shot put it down for good. One beaver in the boat. We all were very pumped after that action.

Cat was up next and the rush of the action was starting to wear off when round two started to gear up. We had another beaver near the shore. Cat made a good shot and the beaver was off into the river. We could see it just under the surface of the water. It headed for shore. When it beached itself Chuck tried to put an anchoring shot into it but it continued up the shore and dropped into a den hole. We were all let down.  That's when the real action began! We could hear it spashing around deep in the tullies. Chuck beached the boat and Cat jumped to shore. We were about to give up on it when I heard her yelling "I can see it!". I had my trusty tomahawk in my quiver so onto the shore I went. It was circling back through another den hole deep in the tullies farther up the shore. I started toward it and all of a sudden was up to my thigh in the mud. I had dropped through the ground! Finally I freed myself and was facing down a very alive and p'ed off beaver. Tomahawk to the rescue. I tried to hit it's skull but the blow just glanced off. The next blow landed just behind the skull and sent it to the happy hunting grounds. It also served as a great handle to drag the beaver out of it's hole. Whew!!!!!!!!! after making it back to the boat it was high fives all around. The action continued throuh out the rest of the night but no other game was put in the boat. It didn't matter. I'm not so sure we could have handled much more adrenalin in our systems anyway.

What a great way to close the season out! Thanks Chuck for including me in one of the most exciting hunting adventures I think I've ever had.

 

 

[Bowspirit]

A fine little cache ya got there...
So, what kinda setup did you use on them?

[southpawshooter]

Great story and pics there Bud!!!  Thanks for sharing  

[Bill Shepard]

You may possibly be the first person to kill anything with a tomahawk since... oh, I don't know, the Civil War!  Too cool.  

[Aram]

Way cool!
Great to hear from you and I loved the story. Sounds like some challenging targets.
Congratulations!

[curlis]

Here are my two from the last night after I cleaned them up a little. I think I'm going to have both of them in a full mount scene of some type.

I was using my Greybark Black Widow 55# @ 28". I was also using a variety of arrows and broad heads.

[Al33]

Great story tellin'! I was gettin' an adrenalin rush just readin' it.   :D

Congrat's to all of you on a great night of hunting.  

[Otto]

Curliss

Is that a Cincinnati Reds hat?

[woodchucker]

Yer fittin' right in with dat Californy crowd aint'ya Bill!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS BROTHER!!!!!  

[Frank V]

Good going Bill, Way to close out the season. Frank  

[3dmuzzy]

Bill,I can see you now swinging that hawk,Nice job like to see them when you get the mount done....ED

[joe skipp]

Looks like a lot fun Bill...nice going!!

[curlis]

Thanks guys,

Otto, yes that is a reds hat. The High School I teach at is the Ceres Bulldogs. Red with a white C.

[curlis]

Ed,
You got it.