HH BUG GOT ME - Part Two!

[two4hooking]

You need a back quiver and more arrows!    

Good job!

[wislnwings]

Waiting with my Hill Redman on the river bank for pick up after a morning spent in the swamp.  Blew a chance at a mid size hog thanks to a noisy stand.  Still a good morning though.

[RC]

That looks like my kinda stomping ground right there Sir!!

  I had a great hunt this weekend with my homemade string follow longbow.Her are a few pics...
Thank you Lord !!  

[Irish Archer]

Nice pics fellas!

[MnFn]

Nice deer Ray.  What are the specs on your equipment?  I recently started playing  with a Liberty Chief, 50lbs, 60/65, but only 160 grns heads

[Ray Lyon]

55#@28" Northern Mist Shelton string follow LaClair   Autumn Legends by Paul Jalon  with 185 grain Grizzly heads weighing in at about 575 grains spine is 61-63#. I draw 28".

[Ray Lyon]

One other note about equipment for me.  I've used a Howard Hill back quiver before for hunting, however, other than a few time when I used a bow quiver on my Super Shrew bows on and off, I've pretty much used this converted Selway hip quiver that I got sometime in the nineties I believe.  I took the belt attachment piece off and I strung a piece of shock cord through it and I sling it over my shoulder like an ASBELL quiver.  It holds five arrows (I usually carry 3 or 4 broadheads) and it works great for me for my whitetail hunts.
 
 

 

That being said, for range use and small game, I love my Art Vincent Cedar Ridge back quiver, it's a work of functional art!

 

[Overspined]

Last 15 minutes of my last day in Indiana tonight, I rattle up a stud buck from about 3-400 yards away. I could judge his reactions with binos and ended up having him come in on a string. I am decoying out in giant fields with a Ghillie. Nearest trees are 150 yds away behind me. He was just dropped from clouds into the expanses of fields. He comes in to 10 yards, head on, then walks into the head high grass at 8 yds. 155" buck and built like a truck.  Not quartering, no broadside, ugh, I don't take the shot.  8 yds. He smells nothing he liked down wind of the decoy and  rapidly retreats. I take a 25 yard shot and the prairie grass helps take down my arrow as he turned to look. He doesn't spook, but circles down wind of me almost offering another shot when he finally catches my scent and blows out of there. I was just a second from getting another crack. Man, what an amazing experience. I've never been that close to an old brute like that, and certainly never rattled up a buck like that. It was a blur!

Four nights back I narrowed in on a very very large 9.  I had a plan and then forgot my Huntmor.  I took my butt pad and figured I would park on the downed tree that I was planning on sitting behind.  Remarkable how fast a downed tree can deteriorate in a couple of years.  It would not hold me, so I went over to the "tree chair", a formally four trunked tree that lost a trunk many years ago and now makes a perfect seat with cover on three  sides.  I called and got four smaller deer to come by and a nice doe.  There is a trail that goes right in front of the chair tree, the thermal shifted and went right down that trail.  i figured no problem, part of the fallen tree covered the end and it was a tight woody brushed lane with many sticks acrossed it, nothing was using it.   I figured he would use the more open diagonal trail.  I was set up to shoot right handed anyway.  Later I heard two small cracks and then a loud pop.  The big guy with his antlers down to the ground was pushing straight at me through those sticks to the clear with in twenty yards of me.  He gave me no time to turn to try for a shot,  but the scent of me in the thermal hit him and he blew a hole through those sticks heading away from me.  The next day, a kid on the neighboring private ground shot him.  Looks like I am going to shoot the next lesser buck or doe that gets in range, since I do not know where any other big ones are hanging out this year.  The deer according to what I heard was 6.5 years old.  You cannot eat antlers and younger deer taste better, I have more fun when I hunt for food anyway.

[Overspined]

PAVAN LOL. ALWAYS HUNT THE WIND!

[RC]

Had some more luck with the homemade string follow. God is good. 2 more antler less deer and a bonus wma buck.RC

[RC]

1st was a knothead. Ga. allows doe tags for those. RC

[Irish Archer]

You know how to get it done brother! Congrats on some good deer.

[Kopper1013]

Congrats RC you're a machine

[CHENRYIV]

Congrats RC. Not only are you a great mentor, you're a damm good OUTDOORSMAN and hunter.

[CHENRYIV]

Its been a tough year up here in the northern part of GA, with the hot tempetures and drought. Other than on opening morning in September, I haven'd seen much until middle November when the rut kicked in, and even then only saw a couple small bucks.   I didn't want to call it a season just yet, so I decided to do a evening sit on Thanksgiving Eve on a property 5 minutes from the house to watch the sunset. To my surprise, just before dark, these two slipped in and gave me two shot.  


JD Berry Morningstar, Surewood Shafts with a Grizzly and a Simmons Interceptor on the business end.


As I'm writing this, the paperwork for the sale of this property is about to be signed. I hunted this lot for the past 7 years and have blessed with taking some nice deer off of it.  Like everything else, money talked and the property is going to be developed of condos and apartments.

[centaur]

Crispin, good to see you back in action. I feel your pain about losing your hunting spot; I lost one of my good places this year, too. And like you, I had multiple opportunities on little bucks that I passed on this season.
Good to see the deadly red bandanna back making meat.

[NBK]

Great hunting Crispin.  Wouldn't mind hearing the story of getting off two shots.  I know James' bows are quiet but that's still pretty cool!

[Irish Archer]

Nice job on the double Crispin. That had to make for a great evening.

[Ray Lyon]

Congratulations Crispin. Sorry to hear about your hunting spot however.