woods walking and arrow plinkin

sadiejane

sadiejane

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had the good fortune to get outside a bit yesterday. obligations have kept me from doing much shooting cept in my basement studio while "thinking thinking thinking" about projects due
this is where i shoot mostly these days
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but yesterday it was outta the studio and into the woods
tho theres been some thaw and the sun was out full force yesterday, still about 8" of snow on the ground
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the moss was sure trying to get some of that sun
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lots of deer sign
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dozens of these holes dug. some had nut shells laying about
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more than nuts hidden by the snow. those locust thorns can go right thru a boot...
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squirrel me thinks?
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each set was about 18" apart
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back to the old scout camp for some hot coffee
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and some shooting
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the target at about 25 yds. as you can see the tree got hit more than the cup....
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found this old gal no the way out. no sign of trauma but the fur is all gone off her belly....
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thanks for coming along
 
Awesome pics, looks like a great time! Thanks for the post:thumbup:


I wonder what happened to that 'yote? It almost looks as though someone had slit the hide up the belly as if they were going to skin it.
 
6shooter said:
Awesome pics, looks like a great time! Thanks for the post:thumbup:


I wonder what happened to that 'yote? It almost looks as though someone had slit the hide up the belly as if they were going to skin it.
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yeah it was sorta weird-i thought about skinning her out for the pelt, but the suns been out enough and its been warm enough...thought better to leave it be

just a few days earlier and i wouldnt a thought twice and woulda buried the head to retrieve the skull later
 
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Great pictures...you're bows look beautiful...thanks for sharing.

ROCK6
 
Outstanding!

Can't wait to start stump shooting again. Our snow is still about 3 feet deep here, not all that conducive to keeping cedars in my quiver. Still shooting some though where I've blown the snow out near the garage.
 
Awesome pics,
I love to go plinking with my arrows and my sling shot.
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Yea, them locust thorns are a real pain. I hate um.

I wonder what killed the old gal.
Bryan
 
Great pics and a nice day out Sadie.

Your bows look great! Do you make your own arrows?
 
oh very nice.

i like your bows. i'm a boring wheely-bow user myself.

i have the opposite problem at the moment. the weather is way too hot and the grass is way too long.
 
sadiejane i'm not a bowhunter for many years now but i would do the longbow again if i had space to practice. great for developing concentration & also relieving stress. thanks for the pics.---dennis, that one bow does look like bois'arc [osage orange]
 
DennisStrickland said:
great for developing concentration & also relieving stress.
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+1 on the stress relief.

i find slinging sticks at a bale of compressed cardboard to be rather therapeutic. i'll get into the pigs/goats/bunnies/foxes/feral cats and dogs soon.

here's some pix of arrows i threw the other day:
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@30m with my new four vane, helical fletch pattern (much better than three-vane straight).

i need more practise.
 
sadie from the looks of the target you are ready for rabbits now, as to hogs please kill as many as possible. my brother is fixing barbed wire weekly. wire work in cold weather is brutal.--dennis
 
Nice, maybe that yote got into it with a racoon, they have a habit of laying on their back and ripping out the bellies. Didn't seem to penetrate into the cavity though, but perhaps enough blood loss, shock combined with hunger resulted in the death blow?
 
great pics Sadie.. thanks for sharing.. :thumbup: with the exception of the past few days of rain, the weather has been beautiful here lately.. we were doing some shooting last weekend.. i scored my oder son a new longbow, and his little brother inherited his old one.. it all worked out great...:D
 
thanks for the pics, sadie. is it fox hunting season there? if not, you or someone might've scared off the poacher before he can take the fur off?
 
Jv3 that is not a fox that is a coyote and in most states east of the Mississippi river coyotes are not indigenous speCies but are in fact invasive and classified as nuisance animals are predators and there us no hunting season anyone can take them by any legal method of take.
 
tonym said:
Great pics and a nice day out Sadie.

Your bows look great! Do you make your own arrows?
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thanks
those bows are "production" one is a '62 bear grizzly and the other a modern martin stick
i do make my own arrows but didn't toss any of em. didnt wanna lose em in the snow.
also working on my 2nd and 3rd osage selfbow. 1st one i got lucky on(and had a great instructor). its a keeper that shoots great. 45# @ 29"
(heres a bit of a chronicle of that build-i posted it some months ago when i finished it up-http://s878.photobucket.com/albums/ab346/sadiejane9/bowmaking/)
second is shorter and gonna be rawhide backed(the rings were really really thin) for my grandson who turns 7 next month. the third is gonna end up perty long and a bit heavier. for one of my brothers who shoots 55-60# at 31"! tall fella with monkey arms...but an amazing archer who got me back into it as an adult. he bought me that martin stick and had a dozen cedar arrows made for me. he took an elk this past season with a custom longbow. hope to do some hunting with him next season.
thanks everyone
 
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