Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: WhistlingBadger on August 24, 2021, 02:04:09 pm
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...and what are you hunting with?
September 1 is opening day here in Wyoming. I plan on stalking mule deer in the red-rock juniper hills, and elk in the mountains. Deer is 3 points or more, which is tough, but I have a couple of good areas scouted and I'd say I have a good chance of sealing the deal on one.
I'll be hunting with my 45# hickory/rawhide Sudbury. I just finished a set of self-nocked, hickory arrows with Canada goose cocks and wild turkey hens, tipped with 235g kodiak single bevels.
Here, elky elky elky!
You?
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Whitetail and Mulie. Hunting with rifle in eastern Alberta. Season runs Nov. 1-30. This year I have tags for whitetail and mulie does and whitetail buck. My son has the same, so we could theoretically get 2 of each but we don't want that many. If we get a couple good sized mulie does and one decent buck I would be very happy with that.
Mark
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Whitetail and black bear. Deer I pretty much archery hunt. I have 3 antlerless tags and one buck tag so I plan on hunting a lot this year. I'll use my fumed Osage selfbow with bamboo arrows tipped with either Cutthroat or Meathead single bevel broadheads. In October I take a week off and hunt black bear with my .54 cal flintlock. This year I can use one of my anterless tags in the management area I hunt for bear so I can shoot a doe with my flintlock if the opportunity arises.
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Well, I'm going to start out the season with squirrels which starts September, then really hit the mountains in October for whitetail... and I'm well not sure what I'm going to be hunting with yet. Unless I can get an SB to hunt with before the season starts ill be hunting with my old glass bow until later in the season when I have an SB set up to hunt with. I'll hopefully be shooting traditional points of some k
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Pheasant and turkey with a shotgun, deer with a rifle, rabbits and squirrels with my self bow. I don’t trust my aim well enough with a bow to go for big game. I want to hunt the rabbits with some stone points I make and such. Ohhhhh now I’m excited!!!!
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White tail, self bow, who knows which one, all I build for me are about the same . Cedar and sour wood shafts with Ace 160 / 200 and trade points. Pappy
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Deer season starts here sept 15th. I may hunt close to home early in the morning. I have a hard time thinking of deer hunting when it’s hot and buggy.
I currently have 2 bows that I can use. 1 Osage and 1 hickory. They both shoot the same for me but the Osage is slightly faster. Both are self bows.
My cane arrows just don’t group as good as the carbons I practice with. But I may be able to pick out a couple of the best ones when it gets a little closer.
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I think we are going to go for seasons choice antlerless only again, we get to hunt whatever season it is for deer. Elk tags are too hard to get, and I don't hunt bear, closed season anyway. Geese, ducks, pheasant, rabbits, other small game in season. Got a squirrel getting fat in my apple tree, but the city frowns on hunting in town (SH) (B) :G :-D (lol)!
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Got a squirrel getting fat in my apple tree, but the city frowns on hunting in town (SH) (B) :G :-D (lol)!
Time to invest in a sling shot! Or a blowgun.
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White tailed deer with a self bow and shoot arrows.
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I built a custom 30-06 from a Mauser action around '96. I have rifle hunted with it for whitetail ever since. Last year I added self bow to the archery season. I tend to like to build things. This year it'll be the rifle I built, the bow I built with the arrows I built along with the quiver I built. I know this is a common scenario here, but it's a step up for me.
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Gonna try to get on some pigs when it cools off a bit. Probably be toting an eastern woodlands inspired elm or hackberry D bow.
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Come October Whitetail as usual. This year it will be with a selfbow and not the wheelie one. Taken lots of animals with wheels but the time has come too move on. Still need to get the broadheads sorted out. Could use a little more arrow sorting as well. Time is getting short when you think about it.
Piddler
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Velvet season in Arizona. hunted mulie deer; did a long day sit by water in the monsoonal jungle ( insane chest high grasses where it was totally bare last year!) of the border lands. However, felt "exposed", given the lack of Border patrol presence.
Next day, hunted whitetail in the mtns, foothills, saw a large black bear.
Will focus on coues whitetail.....not "trophy hunting" this year...been too long since a bow harvest
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I'll be hunting whitetail until I get at least one with a bow. I'm still shooting a takedown bow of the material that must not be named, 46# @ 29.5". Arrows are about 640gr, 2117s 5" 3 fletch with 100gr adapters and zwickey deltas up front. I've got a few selfbows in the works, including a red oak board flatbow and an ash bow design TBD, and if they get done in time I'll take one or both out as well.
I'll buy a rifle deer tag because of a good friend I enjoy hunting with that doesn't shoot a bow (YET!).
If I can kill a deer early season (and maybe here and there when I only have a short time to go out) I may go look for some pheasant, rabbit, squirrel, most likely with my trusty 1187, although if I can finish my son's bow up with enough time left in the season I will take him bowhunting for rabbit/squirrel. I may also buy a waterfowl tag as I have yet to take any and love eating them, especially duck.
There are raccoons at one of my deer spots, and while I won't pursue them deliberately I would gladly take one from the deer stand if the opportunity arises. I will also do some coyote calling once deer season is over (or if I fill a couple tags early) as I'd love to take one with my bow.
I had hoped to do some combination of western ND deer, MT bear, or WY antelope this year, but my wife's anxiety has reached the point where I can't get too much more than a half hour from home before she has a panic attack, so my hunting has to be pretty close to home for the forseable future.
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Oooooh, that wifely anxiety can be hard to overcome. Right there with you on that, brother.
I got out for the first time after the Badgerling's cross country meet last night. Got an area where the public land sagebrush desert meets some irrigated hay fields. The deer bed in the sage and more into the fields in the evening. I know the area very well, but it's been ten years or so since I've hunted there and the bedding cover is in different spots. Got there way too late last night and the deer were already in the fields. Saw one decent buck, then spotted another herd right at dark that I suspect was a bachelor herd but I'm not sure. Going to bey to get there earlier tonight and figure out where they're bedding, then ambush one Saturday or Sunday morning.
Good luck, all!
T
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Got out on the first real bow hunt of the season out in desert Saturday. Saw one nice buck and snuck up, oh, 60-70 yards away before one of his girlfriends winded me. It's kind of unfair--mature bucks really aren't supposed to be hanging with does this time of year. Ignorant deer must not have read the book on mule deer behavior.
I came through a big draw, sort of an oasis with no surface water but lots of riparian vegetation, with some of the biggest and best-tasting chokecherries I've ever seen. Also, some enormous piles of bear scat, which is very unusual in the desert. I'm not the only one who likes chokecherries!
Walking back to the truck, I spotted two little bucks bedded under a lone juniper. One of them was just barely legal (3 points/side) so I pulled a sneak on them and got 30 yards away--just a little too far for my bow; needed about another five-ten yards. Had to cross an open space and one of them saw me. It would have been nice filling my tag, but I'm OK letting them live to bust me another day. :)
I was hunting one of my old favorite areas that I haven't been to for several years. It was like the Serengeti up there--deer everywhere! It was fun to see so many and to get a couple good stalking opportunities in one morning. Good day!
Went back out Sunday night to the same area. A big, long slope about a mile long and a mile high, with private irrigated hayfield and water at the bottom. Sunday evening found me down near the fields, waiting in ambush. Didn't see any legal bucks, but I got in front of a herd of does, hunkered down behind a juniper, and waited. They almost stepped on me! Pretty fun.
I've never killed a deer during one of these desert bow hunts--it is HARD hunting--but there's nothing more fun. I think the thing I love the most is just watching the deer, unspooked, seeing their natural behavior. They are such interesting animals. I love 'em. Watching them, hunting them, eating them. All good.