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Old 01-20-2004, 04:02 PM   #1
 
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Default Whats the biggest trophy You have taken

Hay just fancy knowing how big an animal people take with recurve bows.
Can you please state the biggest animal you have shot + the Kit you used.

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Old 01-20-2004, 04:15 PM   #2
 
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Ground Hog standing in front of the 65yrd bale on the practice range. 50# longbow, cedar arrow. Wasn't the biggest, but it's the one I'll always remember.
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Old 01-20-2004, 04:27 PM   #3
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It doesn't have horns or a lot of glamour, but the biggest critter I've killed with a recurve was a 350 pound feral pig sow. That's about half again heavier than the biggest whitetail deer I've shot.

Equipment was a Brackenbury Legend recurve, 55 pounds at 33", 2216 Easton XX75 arrow and a Zwickey 2-blade broadhead.

Good grief! That was 16 years ago.
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Old 01-20-2004, 09:19 PM   #4
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My biggest was a 240# wild boar taken with a Great Plains WolfCreek 1-pc recurve,57@28#.Cedar arrow tipped with Zwickey 2-blade BH.This was the 1st big game critter I ever killed with a stickbow.
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Well let's see... it stood about two feet tall, gleeming in the last golden shafts of light on a beautiful September day. A testament to my ferocious tenacity of practicing all summer long, culminating in a trophy that I will never forget. With vertical golden tips flowing upwards to the sky, I was very humbled indeed. I claimed my prize with pride even though it was only myself and two other recurve archers that shot in the barebow class of a 28-target NFAA Invitational.

Good grief, Arthur... your knuckles must drag on the ground or you're nearly as tall as a baby giraffe.

Honestly, the biggest animal I've ever taken was not measured by it's weight, nor by the size of it's rack. More accurately, it was the size of his eyelashs blinking at a mere 12 feet away as I stood on the ground and put an arrow through him after watching him push and shove a smaller-bodied 8-pt. around for 15 minutes, then coming over to investigate my soft grunt calls behind a multi-flora rose bush on a Halloween morning. Etched in memory forever....

Equipment? Hmmm... a no-name 50# take-down recurve that I purchased from Dehner's Hardware & Sports and stacked like a pile of Aunt Jemimas. An old Bear cedar arrow tipped with an old Bear Razorhead.
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Old 01-21-2004, 08:32 AM   #6
 
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Let's see, I shot a 700+# bull elk and a 470# black bear with my recurve. The equipment was a 72# Howatt recurve with 2216 shafts and Bear reazorheads.
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8 pt. shot with a short-long bow, 14 inch arrow with a cardboard broadhead.
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Old 01-21-2004, 10:13 AM   #8
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Adcock 3 piece TD longbow, 52#, carbon arrow and Thunderhead broadhead (425 total grains) 18 yard shot

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Old 01-21-2004, 11:15 AM   #9
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This is my first, my biggest, and my only trophy with my longbow. Chekmate Crusader 55@28", Magnus II, carbon shaft.
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The largest animal I've taken was a 200# (field dressed) whitetail at about 5 yards through the heart with a 53# recurve and a solid 3-blade head. He went 70 yards and tipped over.
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