Thanks folks. It's not a lot of a story really though. The black powder season was still open here, so I was on my own place. Got a sasafras thicket that I have kept a couple of shooting lanes pruned through the past few years. It's hard to see in from outside, but I can shoot out two or three directions (so long as I can get positioned to, anyway. It's a tight squeeze in there.), and deer amble around it pretty regularly in the mornings and evenings. I've gotten two or three out of it the past couple of years. I still stand hunt probably a little less than half the time, but I hunt the ground a lot more than I used to. As long as you are quiet and still and pay halfway attention to the breeze, it can work at least as well and often better than clanking around to get in a tree. Not to mention it opens up thousands of spots where there is no way to hunt from a tree. Or at least no way to do it without pruning, dragging, screwing, bolting, and otherwise conquering nature. Anyway, she and a button buck milled around in front of me for half an hour or so, but I've already burned both my buck tags this year, so I had to wait for her to turn sideways and glance away. She did and I shot her.
There are some more pictures of that bow on here from a couple years ago. It had a 550 cord handle wrap when I first posted it as that's what I had on hand when I got it done, but it's been through a couple of jute cord handle wraps since then. Still shots like an angry rocket and has put four deer and assorted small game in the freezer, as well as killed hundreds of cans, balls, dandelions, leaves, sticks, stumps, hay bales, an armadillo or so, and I forget what all else.
