2019 Trad Harvest Thread

[TradAg02]

Pretty deer, congrats!


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[widdler]

Congrats Bob

[Trumpkin]

I continue to be amazed at how many critters show up on this thread every year.

Congratulations to Caddo and Ballgame, those bucks are trophy's!

[Fishxbones]

Congrats to all!

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[bowfishing]

Awesome video and great shot Ballgame.

[MedicineMan7]

Congrats everyone! Y'all been laying them down the last couple weeks. Hopefully can add to the board soon, fixing to try and lay down some does!

[laflecha]

Man!! A Lot of really straight shooter in this group. Great job to all!

[popup_menace]

Well, I’m on the board with my first ever trad bow kill! The hunt started out with a boar coming in before bow shooting light, so I had to use the trusty 30-06 to take care of him. He dropped in his tracks not far from the feeder.

I left him laying there, and about 7:10 a group of 6 babies and 3 adults came in to eat. The unlucky one made its way to about 25 yards and I drew back. It kept killing around and wouldn’t give me a perfect broadside, but I told myself that I needed to either shoot or I’d likely get winded the way they were working around me. I let it rip, and the arrow buried a decent way behind the ribs on a tough quartering away shot. I watched it run, but the commotion stopped in about 10 seconds and I heard a death squeal.

The track sucked... as in no blood because the shot was high and guts filled the hole. However, after a lot of zig-zagging and nearly giving up, I saw a pink fletch through the woods!

This trad thing is a whole different level of fun, and doing it on the ground standing up against some brush makes the chase so much more exciting than I’ve ever had in a stand!



Here is the pic of how far the arrow made it through (with just a 45# bow)

Lesson learned: I also need to practice more to get better with picking my spot, as I was about two ribs back from where I was looking. I picked this up in August, and I feel like I have a long way to go to figure out how to do this on a regular basis.


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[TP3]

Congratulations! Nothing like your first!

[Phillip Fields]

Nothing quite like your first trad kill. Here's hoping its the first of many.

[Bisch]

Congrats!!!!

Bisch


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[DRT]

Congratulations on a fine first!

Gary

[KenWood]

Congrats!

[DRT]

Ended a dry spell with an 18 yard shot on a god one. Two came in and they were giving each other the business. I was hoping one would come closer to the hand corn but not. Took the shot and hit a bit back but he was bleeding bad. He went about 25 yards to the other side of my blind and flopped. He flipped over a couple times so I ran another up into his chest to put it out quicker.

Gary

[Phillip Fields]

Congrats Gary.