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Main Discussion Area => Archived Hunting Pics => Shooting and Hunting => 2009 Hunting Pics => Topic started by: The Singing Bowyer on January 05, 2010, 11:16:16 am

Title: Last Minute Steaks....
Post by: The Singing Bowyer on January 05, 2010, 11:16:16 am

I was able to get a few days of trapping and stump shooting in over the holiday. Unfortunately, most of my traps got covered with a coating of freezing rain followed by 8 inches of snow... :o

It warmed up for a few days and melted most of it off, only to have the temps drop and freeze the ground again. I pulled up all of my foot traps, but went ahead and put out a few snares on some fence lines as a last ditch effort to get some skins. As I was checking my sets and doing some stump shooting, I heard some dogs barking up the ridge in a big thicket. I figured it was rabbit hunters, so I beat feet down to a little funnel area where deer often move through when they are leaving the thicket. Sure enough, a few minutes after I set up behind a blind I had made there earlier in the fall, this healthy doe came slipping through. I shot her after she passed me at about 20 yards quartering away. The arrow took her about 7 or 8 inches behind the the right shoulder and hit the opposite shoulder. I forgot how nice it is to track in the snow...especially when the arrow doesn't come through the other side.

My trapping efforts only brought two straggly coyotes, but I will take the fringe benefits.... ;)

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g249/slaglesound/WINTER007.jpg)

Title: Re: Last Minute Steaks....
Post by: hawkbow on January 05, 2010, 11:25:51 am

 Great job brother.. looks like some good eating for sure.... fine looking bow and arrows as well... good on you.. Hawk

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Post by: coyote pup on January 05, 2010, 02:43:28 pm

Nice kill with nice equipment  ;)      Just out of curiosity, what wood is that bow?

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Post by: PeteC on January 05, 2010, 03:57:56 pm

Congrats on a fine doe and great shot. God Bless

Title: Re: Last Minute Steaks....
Post by: The Singing Bowyer on January 05, 2010, 04:59:21 pm

Thanks, fellars... the bow is osage. I got a new camera for Christmas, and I haven't mastered it just yet.... The photo is darker than I would have liked. >:(

Title: Re: Last Minute Steaks....
Post by: huntertrapper on January 05, 2010, 06:28:14 pm

Right on chad. Good luck trappin too. Fur markets way down.

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Post by: Pappy on January 06, 2010, 06:06:37 am

Nice job Chad,cold here also. ;) :)
   Pappy

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Post by: Wolf Watcher on January 06, 2010, 10:41:01 am

Way to go!  Nice looking doe!  The snow sure makes for some good tracking.  Love the bow and sticks!  Joe

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Post by: Ryano on January 06, 2010, 11:18:49 am

Gotta love that one.... ;D Congrats on a clean kill Chad.  :)

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Post by: zenmonkeyman on January 06, 2010, 02:45:32 pm

Nice work there, and a great story to go with it!  In photography, especially where snow is involved, underexposed is way better than overexposed.  With simple photography software, you can lighten dark photos, whereas with overexposed shots, much has been lost that can't be brought back.

Title: Re: Last Minute Steaks....
Post by: El Destructo on January 06, 2010, 03:03:56 pm

Nice going Chad! I have two more weekends to get me some more venison...so I am hoping to be able to get off Night Shift before they are all gone by...and Deer Season is another Year away...... :'(

Title: Re: Last Minute Steaks....
Post by: Big A on January 06, 2010, 11:23:40 pm

Way to go Chad. 8)
Big A

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Post by: Key on January 08, 2010, 06:48:27 am

Nice way to eand a season Chad. Congrats.

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Post by: mullet on January 08, 2010, 09:02:44 am

 Good looking Doe, Chad, way to go.

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Post by: Kent D. on January 08, 2010, 05:51:50 pm

Very nice. Way to go. 

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Post by: Postman on January 08, 2010, 06:04:02 pm

Great looking tackle, & nice job on improvising a  successful hunt!