Archery?

[Buzz Wing]

Originally Posted by PowerBass

Hoyt Trykon 33" ATA 75Lb Draw weight Jim Fletcher3D release. Shoot Beeman ICS Hunter 400 arrows, feather not vanes. Thunderhead 100 Gr broadheads. I feel confident to shoot a deer up to 40 yds with a perfect shot. My avg. Shot is 10-15yds.... I like em close.

Even though I don't bow hunt, that gets a drool. Beautiful bow right there.

-Buzz

[zooker]

scott

had to shoot thru some pine covered cudzu. arrow did not get a great hit- minamal blood trail- had to use a dawg to find it..i knew it had horns but could not tell how big it really was till we found it -then i flipped out-

zooker

[WTL]

Deer hunting is something I want to get into one of these days, but havent yet. Nobody in my family deer hunts cause back in the old days there werent as many deer in north alabama - so everyone hunted waterfowl instead back in the 50s and 60s - now we dont have enough birds to bother and lots of deer.

[BassAddict]

Here's a picture of my best bow killed buck. I had a friend of mine invite me to hunt with them on their property in Pike Co., Illinois in 2005. I shot this buck on the last morning I was there. 18 yards broad side. I called him in off of another doe. It was an awesome hunt! The deer dressed at over 200 lbs. and and grosses 140 4/8" P&Y. The sheds in front of him are his from the year before.

[zooker]

ok addict your getting there. a few more shoulder mounts and you should be good... in my pops house there is 17 deer shoulder mounts. a caribou,black bear,a turkry,bobcat,beaver,an otter,4 squirrels,12 ducks, two coon,a rattle snake, and not a a fish...YET!!!

or basicly all of these and then some..




my lil brother is a taxidermist who specializes in big game and exotic species. they are the guys who mount for a nationlly known hunting preserve.. i have seen it all buffalo,watusi,fallow,hawian black bucks,corsicans,gators,marinos,dall sheep,feral hog and russian black boar.





zooker

[BassAddict]

ok Zook... here's one more shoulder mount. It's on the other side of the fireplace. This picture is from a different house I had. I have another 7 racks plaque mounted that aren't quite as big as the shoulder mounts. If they don't score 140"+ they don't get a shoulder mount.

BTW... I don't have a fish mounted either!

[carolina-rig-01]

bassaddict........that buck from illionis in your top pic is a stud!!!

[BassAddict]

Thanks C-Rig!! I'm hoping to go back this Fall but with the price of gas and the tags.... geeeezzzz!!!

[Bobby]

Around age 10 my dad got me one of those little long bow beginner kits. Of course, the first month I went around our land sticking arrows in anything that could get stuck by an arrow. Did you know that a 1955 40 horse Farmall tractor will take 6 rounds before it goes down? Tough SOB.

That got boring, so being the 10 yr. old Dukes of Hazard fan that I was, I quickly advanced to taking strips of cut up T-shirt doused in chainsaw gas tied around the end and was sending flaming arrows all over the place. Keep in mind this was 99.999% humidity swampland so there really wasn't any fire danger. Ill put it this way- a set of post hole diggers and a 3ft. hole and you had yourself a well.

One summer afternoon, I was shooting flaming arrows into a large rotten oak stump in our backyard. I looked over under the carport and see a shiny brand new can of starting fluid (ether). The light bulb went off. I grabbed the can and set it on the stump. I thought that it would probably just spray out in a disappointing manner... let’s face it to a 10 yr. old mouth-breather like myself ether really doesn't "sound" flammable. So, I went back into the house and got a 1 pound can of f dads muzzleloader pyrodex . At this point, I set the can of ether on the stump and opened up the can of black powder. My intentions were to sprinkle a little bit around the ether can but it all sorta dumped out on me. No biggie... 1lb pyrodex and 16oz ether should make a loud pop, kinda like a firecracker you know? You know what? Heck with that. I'm going back in the house for the other can. Yes, I got a second can of pyrodex and dumped it too.


Now we're cookin'. I stepped back about 15ft and lit the 2 stroke arrow. I drew the nock to my cheek and let fly. As I released I heard a swish as the arrow launched from my bow. In a slow motion time frame, I turned to see my dad getting out of the truck... OH CRAP he just got home from work. So help me God it took 10 minutes for that arrow to go from my bow to the can. My dad was walking towards me in slow motion with a look in his eyes. I turned back towards my target just in time to see the arrow pierce the starting fluid can right at the bottom. Right through the main pile of pyrodex and into the can. Oh.. Hell. When the shock wave hit it knocked me off my feet. I don't know if it was the actual compression wave that threw me back or just reflex jerk back from 235 decibels of sound. I caught a half a millisecond glimpse of the violence during the initial explosion and I will tell you there was dust, grass, and bugs all hovering 1ft above the ground as far as I could see.

It was like a little low to the ground layer of dust fog full of grasshoppers, spiders, and a crawfish or two. The daylight turned purple. Let me repeat this... THE DANG DAYLIGHT TURNED PURPLE. There was a big sweetgum tree out by the gate going into the pasture. Notice I said "was". That mother got up and ran off. So here I am, on the ground blown completely out of my shoes with my thundercats T-shirt shredded, my dad is on the other side of the carport having what I can only assume is a Vietnam flashback ECHO BRAVO CHARLIE YOUR BRINGIN' EM IN TOO CLOSE!! CEASE FIRE GOLL DAMIT CEASE FIRE!!!!!

His hat has blown off and is 30 ft. behind him in the driveway. All windows on the north side of the house are blown out and there is a slow rolling mushroom cloud about 2000ft over our backyard. There is a Honda 185s 3 wheeler parked on the other side of the yard and the fenders are drooped down and are now touching the tires. I wish I knew what I said to my dad at this moment. I don't know- I know I said something. I couldn't hear. I couldn't hear inside my own head. I don't think he heard me either... not that it would really matter I don't remember much from this point on. I said something, felt a sharp pain, and then woke up later. I felt a sharp pain, blacked out, woke later.... repeat this process for an hour or so and you get the idea. I remember at one point my mom had to give me CPR so dad could beat me some more.

Bring him back to life so dad can kill him again. Thanks mom. One thing is for sure... I never had to mow around that stump again. Mom had been *****ing about that thing for years and dad never did anything about it. I stepped up to the plate and handled business. Dad sold his muzzleloaders a week or so later. And I still have some sort of bone growth abnormality either from the blast or the beating. Or both. I guess what I'm trying to say is, get your kids into archery. Its good discipline and will teach them skills they can use later on in life

[BassinID]

One from Idaho. 200 to 230 class mulie, depends on who scores it. haven't had it officially scored, but it ranks in the top ten in Idaho I believe.

[Bobby]

Wish they got that big in Texas

[66KingFisher]

I've got a beautiful old compound bow that was given to my by my brother-n-law....it had been covered in camo paint....once I got it cleaned up it turned out real nice.....the only thing is the company that built these bows are longer in business so I haven't been able to find out much about it.....its made by Stemmler......any of ya'll familier with it?