Let an arrow fly this evening!
 

Stuck a nice 9 pointer this evening, 17 yards!

Nice one! Thick neck - still in rut?

Man, look at the greenery! Is it springtime there?





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It’s just never winter here!

Very solid second rut looking deer. Bow hunting is great and with today's compound bows including sighting systems and release mechanisms the accuracy and consistency is incredible. Hunting with Flintlocks is harder and more trouble than today's archery.

Good shot, Mark...Joe

After 20 years of shooting 100gr Thunderheads, two years ago I started shooting SlickTrick Magnum 100gr. They are deadly, and literally fly identically to my fieldpoints, which Thunderheads never did.

That is the thing about archery, its having consistency and control in the variables. The guys like Fred Bear and Pearson, not to mention native americans, were just dang good at it because they did it all the time. Nowadays you can get a bow almost as dialed in as a crossbow for a casual shooter, hence the popularity. Its still challenging but a heck of a lot easier than it ways.

I think archery technology of today from re-curve bows evolved in similar fashion as to black powder muzzle loading guns to hammer guns with cartridges.

Stud of a buck!

Nice buck Tx!! Hope you used a Parker to skewer him!! I like my Parker guns AND bows!!

Great buck congratulations.

+1 on the SlickTrick broadheads.

My neighbor, who is 71, took a 5 point elk this year on public land with a custom recurve. His first archery elk ever. I rag him because its not a self bow with obsidian heads. I cant shoot a bow because of cross dominance, but I really respect the guys that do. He shoots every day in his back yard. Wish we could do that with Parkers. Nice buck, Mark!

Congratulations on a dandy buck! Looks like you might have gone through the shoulder blade, slick tricks are tough heads.

Thanks! Was a solid thru and thru, double lung. I shoot my bow at 70 lbs.

Learned a couple of lessons, I always try and set up for a 20 yard shot, and will not shoot over 40. I have 4 pins on my sight, 20/30/40 and 60 yards. (The 60 for follow ups which I have thankfully never had to shoot), The deer came in, and was fascinated with the Tinks scent wick I had hanging close to the pop up blind I was in, and stayed at about 5 yards for 10 minutes. When he went to leave, the line he took made me shoot at a “short” 17 yards. I didn’t take any “hold under” with my 20yd pin, and the shot ended up about 4” high, and just above the chest radius, so the deer bled internally, and left no blood trail at all. Fortunately he only went about 70 yards, and I found him by sweeping search.

Your plan is exactly how I approach things, except I am usually about 15' - 20' up in a tree. I've never used Tinks, but other guys I know swear by it.

Here's my PA buck from back in November. Not a giant by any means, but it weighed 211 pounds dressed and is my biggest archery buck in over 30 years of hunting. He came into a scrape and was facing slightly towards my left at 8 yards. The arrow with Spitfire broad head went in at the base of his neck, down through the top of the heart and out under the right front leg. I was about 18 feet up so the shot was at a steep angle. That's what I like about an elevated position, the exit hole is usually low and you get a lot of blood on the ground. He went about 60 yards.

Another nice buck!

I should have added that I have put a 15 yard pin in my sight