I finished my first self bow this March, at least the first one I did by my self, Gordon helped me tiller one last year. She is osage 63" ntn and 57#@ 27", she holds about 1.75" of reflex after about 2000 shots. Copperhead skins, moose hide grip, seal fir rest. I was going to go on a drop camp Elk hunt with Gordon in Oregon but my wife said no. So I ended up hunting here in Washington about an hour from my house, I was going to get two days, a week apart not much for elk hunting but any day in the woods with my bow is a good day. I hunted about 6 hours the first day, I did not see any thing but my hunting buddies saw a few small bulls. My next hunting day was Thursday sept 18, I walked into a road closure area in the dark, hunted for about 3 hours until I found some fresh sign. I sat down on a stump to eat some almonds and I heard a snap, I knew it was an elk so I got up to move away from an open grassy area and in the timber toward the creek where I heard the elk. My friends have been bugling all week so I cow called once then chuckled. The bull came in immediately he walked by me at about 8 to 10 yards but I could not shoot because he was looking at me. When he passed I had no shooting lane, he walked pass me about 18 yards and turned directly be hide me I knew he would wind me any second. I was on my knees facing directly away from the bull I had about a 10 foot shooting lane between two trees the bull was still walking so I did a swing draw twisting my body around hit my anchor and released. The arrow went where I was looking and disappeared in the bull, I thought for a minute I missed because the arrow was gone. The bull stopped not knowing what was going on then turned around he walked a few steps and coughed then he ran about 30 yards or so and hit the ground. I was standing there with my mouth open the bull never moved again. I was shooting a ash arrow and a 160 stos head, total arrow weight 700 grs. The arrow was a complete pass thru and was sticking in the ground about 5 yards passed where I shot the elk. The elk lived about 8 to 10 seconds after I shot it. The whole thing was amazing. Greg
