HH BUG GOT ME - Part Two!

[centaur]

It's here; new Heritage is ready and able to take on some critters. I am happily surprised at how quick I adapted to this bow; after a few arrows to figure out the 'off the hand' thing, I was putting them right where I was looking, and this bow hits hard. It looks so old school, but yet performs very well. Enough of a bump in the hand so that you know that you are shooting something, but a totally pleasant bump. Saxton and Art would approve, I'm sure.

[Green]

Congrats on receiving this fine looking and shooting Heritage.  Best of luck with her!

[JDBerry]

That is some nice arrows there Rob, VERY NICE.

Jwittettail, hope those arrows don't kick my Butt next Sunday.  ..OE

[Brianlocal3]

Absolutely beautiful bow pat!!! Great job James

[centaur]

Let me tell you how versatile this bow is. After seeing the pictures, OE emailed me and told me that I was shooting it upside down!   :D   So, I turned it over, renocked the string, and it shoots great right side up. So now I know that if I ever take a hunting trip to Australia, I will be good to go with this bow. Left, right, up or down, it gets it done. Not only does it take a skilled bowyer to make a bow like that, but a tremendous archer that can shoot it up, down or sideways.  

[jwhitetail]

HAHA!  A bow that is good to go up here or down under!  What a beautiful bow, Centaur.  I am sure you have found out... the knock point is the same as the shelved sticks (or at least on mine).  I look forward to hearing about your hunting trips with this one.
Green, thanks for the complement on the arrows!  I have watched your video many times trying to learn how to straighten these shafts... and now your two fletch arrows.  Really sweet looking.  I am going to have to try that. Looking forward to seeing your bow.
JD Berry, indeed sir, I hope these yellow arrows do the job... (no rain predicted so bring 2 bucks... I need'em both)

[Green]

Jerry.....I think you and James should forgo the range this week and hit the hills.  When I talked to him Monday he sounded like he could use a hunt.  It's odd that he complained about being exhausted after cranking out everyone's Heritage's in the last few weeks, and I guess my request to rework mine to a lower DW and wrap the grip just put him over the edge.  Lol.

Pat.....kind of crazy on the "which limb up" thing.  Sure is a beautiful bow no matter what tip rests on the ground. Looking forward to what you think when you get out stumping and hunting with it!

I flipped mine just to see what it would do, couple of weeks ago, to see one shooting off my finger would feel like.  The bow shot pretty much the same.  
I am suppose to be out hunting right with mine, but I have very little sleep and I hurt.  I twisted my right shoulder blowing leaves out of my gutters last night, i almost fell off  the ladder turning the leaf blower around..  I most certainly will not be shooting right handed today.

[centaur]

Well, I have had the Heritage less than 24 hours, and this morning it got to do what it is intended to do. Watched a bunch of turkeys come off the roost, and had an ambush planned according to their usual route. Of course, they had read the book and went about 70 yards in the wrong direction. I rushed them and split them up, took a marginal shot that missed, but I watched where they went and gave them some time to settle down. The terrain is open but hilly where they went, so using the terrain to my advantage, I got just below the top of a hill where I saw a head. The head was attached to one of about 20 birds, and I raised up and saw the flock about 20 yards out. I picked a bird, let go of the string, and watched a hen take off, arrow attached. I watched her go into a row of cottonwoods, and pursued quickly, finding her breathing her last about 100 yards from where I shot her. Another tasty hen for dinner, and the Heritage has begun what I hope to be a long and happy relationship.
Gotta love fall colors...


Bird #1 for the Heritage...


I think I'm gonna like this bow...

[Brianlocal3]

You are a machine!!!

[Green]

I agree with Brian.  You've got those Turkey's number!  Congrats on making meat with your Heritage sooooo quickly!

James "in" with the USPS did its' magic.  Mine returned home today.  I rrrreeeeaaaaallllllyyyyy like the wrapped grip!  Shoots soooo very well without hurting my shoulder at its' new weight too!

[Ray Lyon]

         

Those are way cool looking bows.

Was going to shoot a deer this year before starting on the turkeys, you are making me jealous and reconsidering my plans.  My problem is where I hunt deer and pheasants is about 70 miles from where I hunt turkeys.

[jwhitetail]

Holy Cow, Centaur! Blood on the bow within hours of pulling it our of the cardboard     that is really cool.  
Pavan, what a beautiful bow... enjoy!

[Mudd]

That really turned out nicely Green.

That little slice of leather looks like it's "just enough".

Glad to hear it's letting the shoulder alone at it's new weight.

God bless,Mudd

[Ray Lyon]

Got a little present coming my way soon. A John Schultz "Natural" Grandpa version.  66" 55#@28. I always wanted one when John was making them back in the nineties and of course 'thought' seriously about getting one of his 'parting shot' bows. This will be a fun addition to my Northern Mist Shelton string follow longbow and of course I still have my Howard Hill Tembo from 1977 that I killed my first whitetail and first black bear with.  So many bows, so much fun.

I love playing the fall turkey game, for mine last fall, I used a raspy hen call after I busted the flock.  There is no fall turkey flock on land that I can access in the area of the buck that I am trying for this year.  Centaur, you must have a lot of turkeys in your area.  I always claim that if my back and legs were better, the only deer that I would ever shoot are the ones that got between me and the turkeys and pheasants.  Our pheasant numbers are up and our turkey numbers are down, but that old non-typical is messing with me.  My deer season would have been over the first week if I did not see him twice while shooting doves before deer season and once more when he got close to my wife the first week of deer season.

[centaur]

Larry, yes, we have a healthy population of turkeys. The one that I shot yesterday was in a flock of about 45 birds; a target rich environment. I would happily trade them for a big ol' Iowa buck, though.

The problem with these Iowa monsters is that there is not one hiding behind every tree like some think.  When they start moving around there are many pickups riding around all of the time and eventually they get spotted.  our river bottoms have some of the  busiest gravel roads in the country.  The competition for elbow room around here gets intense when there is a big deer around.   When those big deer get close a public parcel, it quickly fills up with cameras and tree stands.  One valley, and like always the closest one to the parking area, has six tree stands complete with cameras in less than a hundred yard stretch, all on the same trail right now, all within twenty yards and both sides of the same trail.  What fun it must be for the first guy on that trail.  He gets out early and then has five more guys come walking by and when it is gets light, they can all see each other.  A couple of them are only 30 yards apart.

[centaur]

I will pass on that and just pursue our Wyoming bucks. I am lucky to have a place 5 minutes from my door where I can hunt and it has been fruitful year after year. And I don't have to be shoulder to shoulder with other hunters.