My First AR Buck and 1st Bowkill!!
10-24-2005, 10:23 PM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Baumholder, DEU/By Way of Arkansas
Posts: 2,849
RE: My First AR Buck and 1st Bowkill!!
It's legal to hunt with a muzzleloader during the season. It's also legal to bowhunt during the muzzleloading season. Black powder season was in, so he was perfectly legal. Good question though.
He went took his bow because does in our state are bow only, and if a buck was in close enough he could get a bowkill. Had a buck been out of bow-range, he could grab the smokepole and lay it low with the muzzleloader.
He went took his bow because does in our state are bow only, and if a buck was in close enough he could get a bowkill. Had a buck been out of bow-range, he could grab the smokepole and lay it low with the muzzleloader.
10-25-2005, 05:56 AM
#26
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Yorkville, IL
Posts: 423
RE: My First AR Buck and 1st Bowkill!!
100"-115", he is missing one G-3 and the knot of points on the front will offer some deductions. Mass is not too much, but he has pretty good tine length. I would say he was about 2 1/2 yrs old or so.
10-25-2005, 06:52 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 3,236
RE: My First AR Buck and 1st Bowkill!!
Hey man congrats. Nice job albeit a little choppy. You were fortunate with that shot placement, but you got the job done, followed up and took home your prize. You will be more patient next time and make a better hit. Time brings experience. That first hit would have probably done the job if allowed some time. A guy does the best he can in the heat of the moment. You took no chances and should be commended for it.
10-25-2005, 07:30 AM
#29
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Hoosier Country, Baby!
Posts: 1,710
RE: My First AR Buck and 1st Bowkill!!
HOLY HECK!! Did that deer sit in a can of red paint! [8D] Seriously though, nice deer, someday I will shoot one that looks like that! I shot mine in the femoral artery this year, but there wasn't that much blood... weird.
Congrats anyway! Beautiful deer.
Congrats anyway! Beautiful deer.
