...cost it its life. Was hunting last weekend with a friend in north GA. We didn't see any deer, but I was sneaking up a ridge real slow and quiet when I heard a squirrel eating hickory nuts. I eased over in his direction and the squirrel bounded thru some small saplings when he spotted me about 10 yards away. First shot missed...never did find that arrow. So he raced up the tree a few feet, then came back down and kept eyeing me. The second shot went completely thru him and buried in the ground about 8 feet beyond. Unfortunately I missed the vitals and gut shot him. He jumped off the tree, but I could tell he was feeling really, really bad. I've heard gut shot animals sometimes feel extremely nauseous and that's exactly how my squirrel looked...he walked away really slowly, then tried to clilmb an oak tree and I was afraid I would lose him, but only made it 20 feet up when he fell outta the tree. I ran over to him, grabbed his back legs and slammed his head against the tree to finish him off.
The stone point was made from a flake of chert that I found in the gravel driveway of my mom's farmhouse up in Iowa. My brother had the driveway re-graveled with crushed limestone, but in it were small egg-sized nodules of chert. When I was up there over the summer I knocked a flake off one of the small nodules and made a point out of it. The stone point didn't suffer the slightest damage and sure did the job on the squirrel.... It isn't a deer, but at least its something.
Equipment- osage self bow 52# @ 30", 34" rivecane arrow with dogwood foreshaft and stone point.
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