Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Archived Hunting Pics => Shooting and Hunting => 2009 Hunting Pics => Topic started by: Key on November 02, 2009, 10:16:23 pm
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I got this buck on Nov. 30th with a selfbow I built, cedar arrows and a griz head.
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Congrats! That's a big 'ol deer. What'd he weigh?
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Nice Deer.....November 30th of what Year?? Looks like the Buck was in Full Rut with a Neck Swollen up like that!
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WOW! What a honker..... :o Congratulations! What part of the world did that bruiser come from??
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awesome. Looks huge :o
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I live and hunt in Iowa. We do grow some nice ones here.
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Any idea what he weighed out at? :o
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thats a stud, toad, donkey, bruiser, ect.... a real dang goodun.
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Well, did not have a scale but locker said between 180 and 200. I saved the hoofs and they are just huge. Going to use them for a hanging rack.
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Nice buck,congratulations . God Bless
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That's a great buck! Congrats!
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WOW! Nice buck!
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I'd say that thing weighed 200 dressed out. Those Iowa bucks can easily weigh over 200 pounds. My brother killed one up there in Iowa a few years back... when we weighed it was about 225 lbs live weight.
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Nice harvest on a big old warrior.. congrats!!!!! Hawk
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Great kill brother
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Thanks for the congrats guys, I keep going over what happened in my mind.
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Tell us the story.
We will help you think it over. ;)
David
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Man, that's a brute. We don't have anything looks like that down here. I killed one a couple years ago that weighed right at 200 lbs and that one looks half again as big as it was.
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Nice deer, love to hear the story. :)
Pappy
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Great deer. Tell us more.
Big A
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Damn, looks like a yearling bull ;D.
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Wow, that would be a task to get out of the woods. I'd have to go get all of Twin Oaks to help me and pray that Jesse was around ;-)
Congrats on monster.
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Thanks again guys. Correction on the date I got him. It was Oct 30th of this year and of course not Nov 30th. The short story goes like this. I spotted the buck coming from a fields edge at aound 100 yards out. He closed the distance to my stand and stopped to work a scrape at about 30 yards from me. He than came right to my stand, within a few feet of it facing me. I was up and ready but no shot. He than turned quarting toward me and I took that shot on his right side. He ran behhind the stand and up over a small hill where he stopped. He feather end of the shaft had broken by than and I was concerned that I was too far back, hopping for at least a liver hit. My plan was to wait until morning to go after him but it started raining a couple of hours after I got home. I decided to go and find his trail. I found him dead not more that 40 yards from where I saw him last. There was 11 inches of tipped arrow in him and both lungs were cut up real bad.
I don't really know how long he stood in front of the stand but it seemed like hours. I really thought I would get busted and he would bolt away. That one
step exposing his vitals happen so quickly it was all a blurr when I shot.
This old sefbow has killed 3 bucks, two does and a couple of hogs.
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I remember a post last month or so where someone was poking fun at self bows and asking where wre all the big deer pictures. Well, I don't remember who it was, but I hope they are still following..... cause here is their answer!!!! Nice!!!!
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Good story Key. Sounds like it was all just meant to be!
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good grief thats a big deer. congrats!
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Howdy Key,
Wow!!! What a bruiser! Congrats!
The chances of actually seeing / getting a monster like that goes way up when one is actually out in the field hunting rather than sitting at home on the internet. Good for you!
(Over the past 30 or so years of bowhunting, I've seen a few monsters like that in the big woods of Northern Wisconsin. I even let an arrow or two fly at 'em - but for not.)
That's a nice lookin' bow as well. So, what type of wood is your bow it made of?
Thanks for sharing - it's very encouraging.
All the Best,
Canoe
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Canoe,
The bow was made from an Osage stave. It has been just a great shooting bow since the day I made it. So far it has taken 3 bucks, 2 does and a couple of hogs.
It pulls 62 pounds at my draw and is 62 inches long.
Thanks again guys, for you kind comments.
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Congrats. Very nice buck.
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Thanks Kent, he is very good eating too. Lot's of food for this winter now.
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that looks like a setback handled bow? Could we see some more pics of it please? Different angles. I'd like to see the handle area particularly. Thanks
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It is "set back" radius. I am just heading out to the deer woods, I will get some pics when I come back in and post them for you.
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thanks!
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Radius,
I was going to take a close up pic of the handle section but I don't know where my wife put the camera.
Here is an other picture of the bow that was taken the night I got the buck I posted here.
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that's cool, man...and it's an osage selfbow with no backing? you use dry heat to bend in the handlee?
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Radius,
The bow is an Osage selfbow, unbacked. The grain on the stave ran in a way that I could have the "back set" handle wiithout having to bend it.
I have used dry heat to bend Osage to make "static" recurves though. Still can't find the camera lol. She doesn't know where we put it either.
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Radius,
Pic of the bow at full draw shortly after I built it.
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so that was just natural grain? it turned out that way just by you following the ring? cool stuff, man
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Hey Roger!!!!!
I just now saw this thread.Thats a honkin Brute man!!!!!
Congrats.
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Thanks Traxx,
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nice buck, beautiful bow, congrats
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Thanks Kerryb.... we hand chops from this wonderful animal this evening for dinner.