Who here hunts small game with there bow
12-22-2010 | 05:44 AM
#11
Fork Horn
Joined: Sep 2010
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From: kansas
I enjoy small game hunting with a bow during all seasons. When i squirell hunt I prefer a compound ( darton vapor) with judo tips. I simply find a place in the woods with heavy acorns and squirell sign ( nests, chattering, etc.) and stand up against a tree and wait. This way I can use three tree to hind behind if a squirrell sneaks up behind me. Chipmunks I sometimes hunt just for fun and the extreme challenge with my longbow. Ill use custiom wood arrows or sometimes carbons like in the pic I uploaded and I'll stand and wait next to an old wood pile or near a brush pile. Once a chipmunk comes out to feed I stick it with a blunt. I also prefer longbow hunting rabbits with either field tips or sometimes blunted smallgame heads. For rabbits (when im alone) I stalk a brush pile and get close enough to see into the brush. More times then not the rabbit will just lay down in the brush and won't move once you get within a few yards of it because it doesnt know what to do. This is when I quick draw and stick an arrow through it. I have hit rabbits on the run with my longbow but have only wounded rabbits this way. (broken legs, cuts, etc.) I actually stalked up on an opposum this year in my back yard after dark and stuck it through the ribs with wooden arrows...ran 5 yards and gave up and quickly died. Small game hunting with a bow is a great time and gives the animals a chance.
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12-25-2010 | 03:18 PM
#14
Giant Nontypical
Joined: Jun 2007
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I've hunted everything that has a season around here with a bow in years past. It seems I never have the time I used to. What happened. I guess some how I've let myself get to busy.
Work sure interferes with my Hobby!
Dan
Work sure interferes with my Hobby!
Dan
12-31-2010 | 07:49 PM
#16
Fork Horn
Joined: Aug 2006
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Awesome Pics!!! gotta love hardcore bowhunters!!!
01-02-2011 | 09:02 AM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Nov 2006
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From: Where the ducks don't come no more
Anything in season is in danger when I'm bowhunting. Frankly, I don't hunt small game with the bow for its own sake, but I keep two 'squirrel arrows' in my quiver and almost always get to shoot them when on a deer stand.
These two arrows are my utility infielders... they have killed foxes, bobcats, rabbits and groundhogs. As well as squirrels, which in my opinion, are about as difficult a target with a bow as you can find.
I use my Mathews Drenalin for bowhunting.
I have found that it is a huge help with confidence from a tree stand where you will probalby be shooting a deer in the next hour or two to have a go at a squirrel... even if you miss... you'll be able to critique yourself.
My big tip is that silence is deadly.... I used to use G5 Small Game Heads... but they make a lot of noise in flight and small game that spends its life dodging aerial assaults from hawks and the like will not have anything to do with holding still to see whats coming. I acctually switched back to using some old G5 montecs that are loads more silent and started killing a good half of the squirrels I shot at (I was 0 for 7 with my SGHs early this year... and ended up 4 for 14 on squirrels from the tree.... went 5-5 on deer and 1-1 on turkey). I don't have any rocks where I hunt... so its easy to resharpen those heads and have another go.
Additionally... I have switched arrows quick to have a shot at a squirrel.. only to notice a deer coming and now I have a small game head on my arrow... this is not good... so I like to have an arrow (while the montec isn't my first choice for deer) that will at least be responsible and get the job done.
These two arrows are my utility infielders... they have killed foxes, bobcats, rabbits and groundhogs. As well as squirrels, which in my opinion, are about as difficult a target with a bow as you can find.
I use my Mathews Drenalin for bowhunting.
I have found that it is a huge help with confidence from a tree stand where you will probalby be shooting a deer in the next hour or two to have a go at a squirrel... even if you miss... you'll be able to critique yourself.
My big tip is that silence is deadly.... I used to use G5 Small Game Heads... but they make a lot of noise in flight and small game that spends its life dodging aerial assaults from hawks and the like will not have anything to do with holding still to see whats coming. I acctually switched back to using some old G5 montecs that are loads more silent and started killing a good half of the squirrels I shot at (I was 0 for 7 with my SGHs early this year... and ended up 4 for 14 on squirrels from the tree.... went 5-5 on deer and 1-1 on turkey). I don't have any rocks where I hunt... so its easy to resharpen those heads and have another go.
Additionally... I have switched arrows quick to have a shot at a squirrel.. only to notice a deer coming and now I have a small game head on my arrow... this is not good... so I like to have an arrow (while the montec isn't my first choice for deer) that will at least be responsible and get the job done.
01-02-2011 | 10:29 AM
#18
Fork Horn
Joined: Nov 2010
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From: Southern Michigan
Anything in season is in danger when I'm bowhunting. Frankly, I don't hunt small game with the bow for its own sake, but I keep two 'squirrel arrows' in my quiver and almost always get to shoot them when on a deer stand.
These two arrows are my utility infielders... they have killed foxes, bobcats, rabbits and groundhogs. As well as squirrels, which in my opinion, are about as difficult a target with a bow as you can find.
I use my Mathews Drenalin for bowhunting.
I have found that it is a huge help with confidence from a tree stand where you will probalby be shooting a deer in the next hour or two to have a go at a squirrel... even if you miss... you'll be able to critique yourself.
My big tip is that silence is deadly.... I used to use G5 Small Game Heads... but they make a lot of noise in flight and small game that spends its life dodging aerial assaults from hawks and the like will not have anything to do with holding still to see whats coming. I acctually switched back to using some old G5 montecs that are loads more silent and started killing a good half of the squirrels I shot at (I was 0 for 7 with my SGHs early this year... and ended up 4 for 14 on squirrels from the tree.... went 5-5 on deer and 1-1 on turkey). I don't have any rocks where I hunt... so its easy to resharpen those heads and have another go.
Additionally... I have switched arrows quick to have a shot at a squirrel.. only to notice a deer coming and now I have a small game head on my arrow... this is not good... so I like to have an arrow (while the montec isn't my first choice for deer) that will at least be responsible and get the job done.
These two arrows are my utility infielders... they have killed foxes, bobcats, rabbits and groundhogs. As well as squirrels, which in my opinion, are about as difficult a target with a bow as you can find.
I use my Mathews Drenalin for bowhunting.
I have found that it is a huge help with confidence from a tree stand where you will probalby be shooting a deer in the next hour or two to have a go at a squirrel... even if you miss... you'll be able to critique yourself.
My big tip is that silence is deadly.... I used to use G5 Small Game Heads... but they make a lot of noise in flight and small game that spends its life dodging aerial assaults from hawks and the like will not have anything to do with holding still to see whats coming. I acctually switched back to using some old G5 montecs that are loads more silent and started killing a good half of the squirrels I shot at (I was 0 for 7 with my SGHs early this year... and ended up 4 for 14 on squirrels from the tree.... went 5-5 on deer and 1-1 on turkey). I don't have any rocks where I hunt... so its easy to resharpen those heads and have another go.
Additionally... I have switched arrows quick to have a shot at a squirrel.. only to notice a deer coming and now I have a small game head on my arrow... this is not good... so I like to have an arrow (while the montec isn't my first choice for deer) that will at least be responsible and get the job done.
