Stroll Down Memory Lane:
03-08-2007, 09:56 AM
#43
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 1,203
RE: Stroll Down Memory Lane:
It was Thanksgiving Day back in the early 90’s. My girlfriend and Ihad finished dinner andwere just kicking backwatching TV. I had a lock on tree stand in a tree just down the road. I looked at my girlfriend and said “I think I’m going to go hop in that tree stand for the last couple hours of daylight.
I went there and jumped up a group of does, then after getting settled in I grunted and they came right back into my area. I clipped the lead doe’s left lung at 12 yards with an XI Impact, Easton Gamegetter aluminum arrow with a muzzy broadhead.
I called my buddy and asked him to come help me out since I had never killed a deer before and he basically lent me his knife and told me to learn how to gut a deer you should do it yourself. Man, that gut sac smelled terrible when I accidentally cut into it. He told me to watch out for it, but I got careless.
One of the most exciting days of my life and one of the best Thanksgivings!!
I went there and jumped up a group of does, then after getting settled in I grunted and they came right back into my area. I clipped the lead doe’s left lung at 12 yards with an XI Impact, Easton Gamegetter aluminum arrow with a muzzy broadhead.
I called my buddy and asked him to come help me out since I had never killed a deer before and he basically lent me his knife and told me to learn how to gut a deer you should do it yourself. Man, that gut sac smelled terrible when I accidentally cut into it. He told me to watch out for it, but I got careless.
One of the most exciting days of my life and one of the best Thanksgivings!!
03-08-2007, 10:16 AM
#44
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Nineveh, Indiana
Posts: 161
RE: Stroll Down Memory Lane:
My first bow kill was in 1997, with a PSE Lightning Flite II, xx75 arrows and a satellite broadhead. It was a 4 pointer and I shot him 25 yards uphill. He ran about 20 yards and crashed. I will never forget that day.
03-09-2007, 06:46 AM
#47
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Finger Lakes, NY/Mass
Posts: 38
RE: Stroll Down Memory Lane:
Basket 8 in 1954 with a 44# longbow and cedar arrows made by a friend. I think Bear razor inserts but may have been a Zwickey.Favorite bow a Herter's "Sambar Hunter", (recurve) 50#. My son sold it for $3 to go to a movie....laxdad
03-09-2007, 08:48 AM
#49
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location:
Posts: 434
RE: Stroll Down Memory Lane:
I had one of the first compounds ever built for a youth. It was a prototype built by Pearson Archery. Dick Tone delivered it to my dads house whenhe came for a visit some 25 years ago. I missed my first whitetail with it. A doe came in and let me shoot at her 5 times. I ran out of arrows and had to watch her the rest of the evening feeding less than 15 yards. I was hooked on bowhunting from that point on. The next compound I owned was a Hoyt. I don't remember the model but it was before they were very popular. The bow shot great though and I got my first deer with it. I have shot Hoyt bows ever since.
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