Closest Kill Shot

sms0000 said:
Apparently those daft bunnies think nothing can see them.....nobody told them when the snow melts there a beacon in the woods.
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LOL. There is no snow here and they look like rolls of cottonelle bouncing through the woods.

My closest, a hare, maybe 5 feet, one handed on the 12g, reaching around a tree. :)
 
sms0000 said:
hare by the neck and held on tight! it took both rear legs and drop kicked him in the guts! He dropped and it ran away.
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Thanks for that Brother in Arms. These guys can keep their African Lion and scary Bear stories. We know where its at. :cool:
 
Shot my whitetail doe with my 1913 6.5x55 at about 5 yrds. Big tan splotch in the scope..just sighted along side the barrel.

And a groundhog (marmot) with my 12 ga. at about 1 inch. He crawled out of his hole (facing away standing) in a fence line that i was crouched down beside. Stuck the muzzle real quiet like thru the shrub up to his back....BABOOM!! It flew about 6 feet before touching back down to earth. :D
 
tjsudbury said:
About 35 to 40 growth rings per inch, 70-80 inches long, nice & straight, good sapwood. Got quite a bit of more challenging stuff as well, lots of osage, a bit of mullberry and vine maple. some other stuff. Wonder if there are any more bowyers here?. If so, we need a new thread.:D
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You got osage? :eek: I have always wanted to build a tank of a bow, its wonderful wood, more like ash in the wood grain right , 6 to 8 is good, never checked that?:redface:
 
8 point buck 10 feet away, I was sitting on the ground, he walked right up to me in the long grass. Not sure who was more surprized.
 
Levi Garrett said:
You got osage? :eek: I have always wanted to build a tank of a bow, its wonderful wood, more like ash in the wood grain right , 6 to 8 is good, never checked that?:redface:
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I guess were hijacking your thread:D
Ya, got osage, probably enough for about 20 or 25 bows. Some is absolutly beautifull, very straight and dense, some really knarlly, but knarlly bows have so much character. Osage can be really tough to work with, its not like any other wood.
 
about 3 feet, straight down from a make shift tree stand. I went out one evening planning on doing some scouting for the next day because my buddy was coming with me for the weekend. He had never harvested a deer with his bow and I thought I would spend friday evening sitting in a tree and find the best place to set up for the next morning. I climbed up the first decent tree I found and sat down on a comfortable branch about 6 feet off the ground. I wasn't there 5 minutes when a nice doe walked out and stood under my stand. Well--the doe tag in my pocket just had to be used so I nocked an arrow and let fly. the arrow went right through her and stuck in the ground, she took about two steps and fell over. end of hunt. Never did go back there with my buddy!
 
Levi Garrett said:
I could go one better , take pics, but I can't post 'em, took some of my bubba claro stocks, can't post those either, just gotta learn it :rolleyes::(:D
Anyway , wood is Yew, grows under the canopy of the old growth forest in the mountains of BC, 3500-4000 ft altitude, a tree 8 inches round, can be very old, 100-150 lines per inch , lines are years.
You leave the sap wood on , backing, quite a process, 4 to 7 years air dried indoors, split logs with wedges etc, spokeshave tool of choice for stock removal, and tillering. bows are long 68-72 inches, and #60-80 lbs, depending on many factors. Cow horn nocks on the limb tips, function , and art in one, flemish twist string...
Well thats a brush over for ya:D
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Just curious but how many bows do you get out of a log? I read that you are supposed to use the heartwood for the belly side of the bow so I'm guessing that an 8 in log could make 3-4 bows. I am pulling that number out of my A$$ so please correct me if I'm wrong... Not that I'll find any yew around these parts.

Jeff
 
When I was younger and dumber I shot a skunk just outside my garage with a 22. I was mad because he was getting into the garbage. He (or she cuz I was NOT interested in checking) was about 8-10 feet away. I do not recommend doing this.

Jeff
 
A really big cinamon coloured Black bear at about 8 feet.
My friend and I knew there were a couple in the woods up the hill from us.
We ducked into the bush to wait for them to come down towards us.
They knew we were there also, so did not come. They did some grunting huffing sounds as they were uneasy about us being there.

I suggested to my friend that he leave, and walk down the road a ways, being really visible as he leaves.
He goes a couple of hundreds yards, then hides behind a tree. He can see the bears coming, and he can see me, but the bears and I cannot see each other. He is indicating they are walking towards me, using two fingers like a stick man walking.

Then he holds out two hands like you would describe how big a fish is. Its REALLY close!
I peeked over the brow of the dirt pile I was behind and there they were!
I had my scope turned down to 1.5x, good thing as Mr bear was about 8 feet away.
I hit him with a 458 WinMag
This is still one of my most memorable hunts.
 
Folded two coytoes.

First was out coyote hunting with a 243 and hit him rounding the corner of a creek at 10 yards.

The second coyote was while I was out turkey hunting. Rolled her at 5 yards with a 3" turkey shell as she was trying to put the sneak on my decoy. :dancingbanana:
 
On deer, 2 feet, with my 1886 in 45-70. I watched her come up a line of trees, running, zig zagging through the trees I couldn't get a shot. The guys at camp asked why I didn't just club her with the barrel. :)
I've done quite a few at about ten feet. Our deer hunt area can be thick. One of our guys was run over by a doe, without shooting the deer a few years back. He was out cold for a bit, he fell on a rock. Dented up his shotgun too, had to straighten the pump rail for him.

On Moose, last years calf, at ten feet, with the model 94 Winchester in 30-30.
Momma was even closer, but I didn't have a tag. Glad she didn't get uppity with me for shooting her calf.
 
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