Your Hunt Today! Lets Hear it!
10-23-2006, 04:40 PM
#51
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 39
RE: Your Hunt Today! Lets Hear it!
well fellow hunters i joines the ranks of the crossbow hunters elite this past tuesday with a horton legend 175.on saturday evening i thought it was time to try it out.i went to my property and began to wonder where and how this should began.i found a trail coming into a small field away from everyone else and any chances of interruption.about 45 minutes before dark i caught movement to my right where the trail came into the field and out stepped a yearling.as i watched out came another,obviously twins,as they picked and ate mom shows up. she begans to feed and mill about,being on the ground and not behind a blind i was concerned the young ones would see me or wind me in the swirling winds,but i made it through.mom moved about and presented me with a nice broadside shot about 25 yards out.after about an hour we found her.we could not figure out why there was so little sign of blood to follow,one drop here and there very very little but we pressed on.upon finding her we rolled her over to check the exit wound and again we noticed very little blood on the ground.as we field dressed her we found that somehow the arrow had turned or delected on a bone and exited farther back and part of the entrails had actually been pulled up into the exit wound by the arrow upon exit.this explained then why we found so little blood.this i hope will serve as a lesson for younger hunters to always always look until you are certain the animal is dead or survived the hit.we owe the animal that much respect for giving his or her life for our tablefare.this being my first experience with a crossbow and the first trip with the new bow i learned a valuable lesson as well "don't mess with a crossbow you will loose". good hunting and be repsectable to the landowners that give you permission.
10-23-2006, 08:52 PM
#52
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Baytown, Texas
Posts: 415
RE: Your Hunt Today! Lets Hear it!
ORIGINAL: BIG GRUMPY
well fellow hunters i joines the ranks of the crossbow hunters elite this past tuesday with a horton legend 175.on saturday evening i thought it was time to try it out.i went to my property and began to wonder where and how this should began.i found a trail coming into a small field away from everyone else and any chances of interruption.about 45 minutes before dark i caught movement to my right where the trail came into the field and out stepped a yearling.as i watched out came another,obviously twins,as they picked and ate mom shows up. she begans to feed and mill about,being on the ground and not behind a blind i was concerned the young ones would see me or wind me in the swirling winds,but i made it through.mom moved about and presented me with a nice broadside shot about 25 yards out.after about an hour we found her.we could not figure out why there was so little sign of blood to follow,one drop here and there very very little but we pressed on.upon finding her we rolled her over to check the exit wound and again we noticed very little blood on the ground.as we field dressed her we found that somehow the arrow had turned or delected on a bone and exited farther back and part of the entrails had actually been pulled up into the exit wound by the arrow upon exit.this explained then why we found so little blood.this i hope will serve as a lesson for younger hunters to always always look until you are certain the animal is dead or survived the hit.we owe the animal that much respect for giving his or her life for our tablefare.this being my first experience with a crossbow and the first trip with the new bow i learned a valuable lesson as well "don't mess with a crossbow you will loose". good hunting and be repsectable to the landowners that give you permission.
well fellow hunters i joines the ranks of the crossbow hunters elite this past tuesday with a horton legend 175.on saturday evening i thought it was time to try it out.i went to my property and began to wonder where and how this should began.i found a trail coming into a small field away from everyone else and any chances of interruption.about 45 minutes before dark i caught movement to my right where the trail came into the field and out stepped a yearling.as i watched out came another,obviously twins,as they picked and ate mom shows up. she begans to feed and mill about,being on the ground and not behind a blind i was concerned the young ones would see me or wind me in the swirling winds,but i made it through.mom moved about and presented me with a nice broadside shot about 25 yards out.after about an hour we found her.we could not figure out why there was so little sign of blood to follow,one drop here and there very very little but we pressed on.upon finding her we rolled her over to check the exit wound and again we noticed very little blood on the ground.as we field dressed her we found that somehow the arrow had turned or delected on a bone and exited farther back and part of the entrails had actually been pulled up into the exit wound by the arrow upon exit.this explained then why we found so little blood.this i hope will serve as a lesson for younger hunters to always always look until you are certain the animal is dead or survived the hit.we owe the animal that much respect for giving his or her life for our tablefare.this being my first experience with a crossbow and the first trip with the new bow i learned a valuable lesson as well "don't mess with a crossbow you will loose". good hunting and be repsectable to the landowners that give you permission.
10-23-2006, 09:02 PM
#53
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Newtonville, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3,896
RE: Your Hunt Today! Lets Hear it!
ORIGINAL: atcfisherman
I hope the yearlings were old enough to make it on their own.
I hope the yearlings were old enough to make it on their own.
10-24-2006, 04:50 AM
#54
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Land of Rocks, Ozarks of Mo.
Posts: 3,048
RE: Your Hunt Today! Lets Hear it!
Hey thats what i do, take out that smart Doe. If the little ones no longer have spots. Then i get it or them if i can, ummmm tasting better every time i get the skillet hot! I won't take a button Buck, he has a go free pass fer next several years.
10-24-2006, 06:26 AM
#55
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Findlay, Ohio
Posts: 3,286
RE: Your Hunt Today! Lets Hear it!
ORIGINAL: Dnk
With global warming reducing snow depth, which is the major limiting factor in the survival of deer, the answer to your question is yes and you're question is not a nice one. Please think ahead before you try to guilt someone. The answer comes from myself, a forestry technician and a hunter of nearly thirty years.
ORIGINAL: atcfisherman
I hope the yearlings were old enough to make it on their own.
I hope the yearlings were old enough to make it on their own.
I was always under the impression that fawns were weaned by the time hunting season came and would survive anyways. Heck around here I have seen does run there fawns off when rut comes in.
10-24-2006, 07:56 AM
#56
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Newtonville, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3,896
RE: Your Hunt Today! Lets Hear it!
ORIGINAL: Hotburn76
I was always under the impression that fawns were weaned by the time hunting season came and would survive anyways. Heck around here I have seen does run there fawns off when rut comes in.
ORIGINAL: Dnk
With global warming reducing snow depth, which is the major limiting factor in the survival of deer, the answer to your question is yes and you're question is not a nice one. Please think ahead before you try to guilt someone. The answer comes from myself, a forestry technician and a hunter of nearly thirty years.
ORIGINAL: atcfisherman
I hope the yearlings were old enough to make it on their own.
I hope the yearlings were old enough to make it on their own.
I was always under the impression that fawns were weaned by the time hunting season came and would survive anyways. Heck around here I have seen does run there fawns off when rut comes in.
10-24-2006, 01:13 PM
#57
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Findlay, Ohio
Posts: 3,286
RE: Your Hunt Today! Lets Hear it!
Well I looked at the card last night at work and have a few good pics. All the bucks I had in the same pic split up like I thought they would but I have a nice little eight, small six and then this nice nine pointer still around. I only have two pics of the nine pointer in the last three weeks. Will try holding out for him. Going out tomorrow after I get off work and take a nap.
10-25-2006, 02:02 AM
#60
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 166
RE: Your Hunt Today! Lets Hear it!
Got out a little late this morning, 9:30 or so. Saw the usual tree rats and birds, even had a visit from a redtail hawk. About 10:45 I caught movement on up the ridge and watched two doe feeding their way in my direction. They got about 70 yards out and hung out under an oak tree. I hit the can call but the bigger doe only looked in my direction and went back to eating. They eventually went back in the direction they came from. Still was a nice hunt and tomorrow is another day!