Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Hardawaypoints on October 26, 2010, 01:19:13 am
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Hate on me if you must for posting this here. I shot this buck with a scoped crossbow last Thursday at my lease in Granville County, N.C.. I only hunt with a crossbow because the car wreck I was in on 4-21-07 has left me unable to draw any of the bows I own. I can't even draw the recurve bow my Grandfather gave me when I was a kid 40 years ago & it only has a 40 pound pull.
I am so happy to get back in the early Fall deer woods before the gun hunters start. I thought that part of my hunting life was over for good.
This buck was following a doe, which lead him past my stand broadside at 20 yards. It would have been a slam dunk shot with any bow. He piled up in 45 yards. It is my best buck with an arrow.
Jim
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/hardawaypoints/Turkeys/crossbowbuckresize.jpg)
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I moved it here because of what it was killed with but not taking anything away from the deer or you.Nice buck.Congrats. :) :)
Pappy
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nice kill.
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That's a fine deer and I don't think anyone will be hating on you sir. Quite to the contrary. Any of us under the same circumstances would do the same. Not everyone can shoot a bow for one reason or another. Not a thing disrespectable about it.
Congratulations to ya on your fine buck!
CP
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I have no problem with some one like you with a legitimate disability using a cross gun. Congrats a great Deer! Maybe a primitive cross bow like some of the ones others have posted here could work for you? ;) ;D
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Beautifull Deer, Congratulations!. I've got no problem either. I hunt with everything. If I hunt Public land during Gun Season I don't even think about bringing a bow.
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Awesome deer. Granville Co is a producer for sure! Who cares if it aint primitive...you're hurt!
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That's one tall rack! Great deer, congrats!
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Very nice buck and great shot placement, Jim. Most of us are hunters and understand your situation. I have no problem with folks hunting with any method they want. I just don't think the ordinary guy should be allowed to hunt with a xbow during archery season. Folks with disabilities have been able to hunt with xbows during archery season for a long time now and I have no problem with that.
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Nice buck, Congratulations. As others said, very understandable and we are glad your still able to get out and enjoy hunting. nice shot! ;)
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First off....nice Buck...and secondly...there should be mo problem anywhere on this board with a person with a disability using a Crossbow to take game during Bow Season....that's like people getting pissed at me for being able to use a 4 wheeler on Federal Land...when others have to walk or ride horses....can't help they ain't handicapped...but I would gladly trade them in a New York Minute.....once again...nice Deer.
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Ditto on what everyone else said and congrats on a very fine buck!!!What you hunt with shouldnt define you.Adapting and getting back in the woods is what its all about!!You smoked that dude too great shot!! ;D ;D
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Man, that's a nice'un, Jim! Skyscraper rack on that one. Looks like his neck and hocks were already getting swelled up.
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Nice kill, whatever the method :)
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Very nice buck.
Thanks Leroy
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Congratulations on a fine kill.
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Great buck! My selfbow making mentor and one of my best friends has two unrepaired ruptured discs in his neck that limit his bow shooting to low poundage bows. He hunts with a crossbow as well.
If you want to to keep your primitive spirit alive I recommend hunting with a rock lock. Not a Lyman or TC but a real 5 foot + long Kentucky rifle. At first they feel a little awkward and aren't called a "flinch lock" for nothing but once mastered they are a true primitive joy to hunt with. The above mentioned friend got me into flintlocking as well, I build my own guns now.
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SWEETTTT with any bow.
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Great shot placement. Congrat's on a great animal. Thanks for sharing. ' Frank
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If no one on this website has the ocurage to say it, I will.
I do hate you. And not for the whole crossbow thing, but for shooting the buck I wanted. I am seething with jealousy, boiling in rage. Save a backstrap steak for me, please! Nice shooting, friend.
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;D That's funny, JW.
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Uh, you are having my buck mounted, right?
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That is a wall hanger! :o Congratulations. ;) fine shot, and lots of good food! 8)
Wayne
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Uh, you are having my buck mounted, right?
I already have two on the wall that are bigger (all from N.C.). I skinned & boiled the skull for a European mount last weekend. It will be gracing the spare bedroom where I keep my hunting stuff and not turning into flintknapping tools like some of the other racks have. My biggest bow kill buck scored just under P&Y minimum and this one is a hair bigger than that. My best muzzleloader buck is 15 inches bigger than this one and my best rifle buck is 25 inches bigger. I don't have the spare $$ or the wall space for another shoulder mount right now.
Jim
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I don't argue against proper game management and an ethical kill. That looks like a healthy animal and it's hunters that create those circumstances. Crossbows aren't for me, but if I were in your shoes, I'd be doing the same, I imagine. Way to go on a succesful hunt!
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I can relate to the cost of a shoulder mount! :o I like the european mount too. My Buddy in Montana has several nice mounts like that, including a couple of Elk. Again Congrats on a nice buck.
Wayne
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good job no matter what the choice of tools you use, very nice buck. the price on taxidermy is gotten high, i just took my second buck in yesterday, 385 a head, but great bucks.
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Congratulations!
I don't care if some one is or is not able to draw a bow or shoot a crossbow, as long as they are all hunters, pay their license fees, hunt ethically and enjoy themselves. Sir, it looks like you truely enjoyed your self and for that I am glad. He's a beauty.
I've take many game over the years with a broken handmedown crossbow, which I fixed a long time ago and got started deer hunting with. Oh, and other than mentally I am not handicapped. My state allows it and I followed those rules. The last four seasons I've only hunted with primative or traditional bows during the archery season, because I wanted to, and I've, yet, to bring home a deer for all the effort. But those are the limitations I've placed on myself, because I wanted to. If my wife, son or daughter decides they want to go to the woods with me with the crossbow I would more than welcome them along. Not everyone has or takes the time to practice with a bare bow to be proficient. I wonder if I am proficient. But, we need hunters in the woods to keep this game alive.
Christopher
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Thanks for all of the kind replies. Today is the last day of archery only season in this part of N.C., so I celebrated by adding a doe to the pile. It walked behind some thick cover and I thought it had gone. I was watching a second doe on the other side of the ridge heading toward me. That one did turn on a trail into the thicket and the original doe stepped into the clearing less than 20 yards and was acting nervous. I took an 18 yard shot and the deer only went 38 yards before piling up.
Jim
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/hardawaypoints/Turkeys/10-29-10crossbowdoe.jpg)
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Welll said Christopher, and another congrats to you Jim. Looks like the chicken is going to have come out of the freezer! ;D
Wayne
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I have a preference for Euro mounts, so I applaud your decision to make "head soup".
Nice fat doe, she looks pretty bloody tastey.
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One of the biologist I work with bought a bunch of those flesh eating beetles. Now those things will make a clean European mount in a week. The next turkey I shoot is going to the bugs. I'm going to try and make a full bird skeleton mount.
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Eddie be careful with them....Dermistidae Beetles don't care what their next meal is...if they get loose they will infest your Trophy Mounts....Fur Coats...anything with a hide...the Taxidermist that I use accidentally didn't get the Lid on His Beetles...and He lost three finished Mounts...one Elk...and two Mule Deer...needles to say the Clients were not too happy or understanding of His situation.... Dermestid beetles don't just eat flesh.... they also destroy things made of wool... silk.... fur.... or feathers.... as well as any other natural fiber are all endangered by dermestid beetles.
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Ditto to what El D says. Very few taxidermists will mess with dermestid beetles because they can get loose pretty easily. And you won't know they are at work until it is FAR too late. Sneaky bug-gers.