Where do I start....I guess with one of my first stories...

I had just started bow hunting. I was using an old Bear White Tail Hunter 2 that had six pullies and was slow. I had a very difficult time adjusting and tuning that bow. At the time I was using a Kolpin four bladed broadhead with helical veined arrows. I went out to the range and the front of the arrow went pretty straight but the back end would make this huge circle which threw the front off. Which reminds me of another story.

I was trying to get my bow to shoot right so I made a last minute trip to the bow range the day before opening. I was a very poor airman at the time and could only afford six arrows. Three to practice with and three to hunt with. I shot my three practice arrows and they were all in the bullseye with practice points. I decide to shoot my broadheads to see if they were still flying squirrley on me. My second shot goes into the bullseye cutting the feathers off of two or three of my practice arrows. That was a killer or should I say a costly shot. Okay back to my first story...

So I'm shooting a bow that is not in tune with it's arrows. But I go out anyway. I walk up to the HUGE oak tree that a friend is letting me hunt out of that has a few boards nailed in it's branchs to stand on. I always looked around to make sure nothing was around before I put my arrow up. (it was already daylight) I take one last look around and spot a small spike looking at me only 20 yards away. I pull on him but he moves away exposing a HUGE doe behind him. So I aim on her and let the arrow fly. I watch as the arrow starts it's tail spin on it's flight between the small scrub oaks. WHACK!!!! The arrow nails one of the oaks smack dab in the center. I can't remove the broadhead so I unscrew the arrow, finish my hunt, then go retrieve my saw from the truck. I cut a 10" section of the tree out, take it home, and mount it on a trophy board...proudly displaying my first bow kill.

Happy Hunting
Reid