Mission #1 complete!!

Well I set out this year to shoot a deer with a long bow, and last night it finally came together! I was able to seal the deal on this young doe at about 6pm at 15yrds. I never really thought it was going to be that much of a challenge, but when your use to hunting with a bow that’s short and compact vs almost as long as you are tall “I’m 6’2” makes things a little more interesting. I had a couple clean misses earlier this season one caused by smoking the bottom limb on a tree branch cause the arrow to go god knows where. It’s not the biggest doe I have ever shot but with using everything traditional and homemade I couldn’t be happier to make a fast clean kill on her!

Now I’m ready to dust off the training wheels on the compound and get down to business!!!

Congrats John !

Many congrats John! I commend you for doing it traditional, a challenge for sure!

Joel

Way to go man

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Many congrats John! I commend you for doing it traditional, a challenge for sure!

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Excellent. Congrats on a bucket lister

Great job John! I know how much this meant to you.

Very cool!

Hey that’s awesome John! Congrats on getting it done the hard way Do you make your own arrows too? I’ve had a hankering to get into traditional if for nothing else small game and pheasants.

Congrats

That’s awesome – Congrats!

I’m hoping to go traditional sometime in the near future also – would’ve this year if I didn’t win a new bow… Congrats again!

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Do you make your own arrows too?

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I didn’t make them ones they where made for me as a gift last year by a good friend that passed away a couple months ago. They where a ceder shaft, that then had a custom crest hand panted on them by another good friend. The bow I was shooting was a homemade long bow that was made by the brother of the guy that painted the arrows who also made the custom string for it.

I want to say thank you to all of you that congratulated me on this. It was a something that took me allot of practice, and patients. If I would have been using my compound all season I’m pretty safe to say I would be tagged out in MN. I knew what I could and couldn’t do as fare as range and shot placement. There was a few days I asked myself why am I still trying? I’m wasting my hole season! But I held true to “my” promise and to me it was worth every bit of effort I put into it. To me it means more to me than any big ol shooter buck out there. I’m going to sit back and see what mother nature wants to throw my way for the rest of the season, but either way to me my season is complete!

Thanks again everyone, and I wish you all the best of luck the rest of the season!

That’s really cool John. I worked with a carpenter right out of highschool that planted the traditional seed in me, but I’ve never shot recurve or longbow other than his bows when we were at his house. He doweled his own arrows from scraps that we would find on the jobsite, made his own broadheads from old circular saw blades, fletched his arrows with real turkey feathers…the whole nine yards. His feelings were the same as yours. I remember him telling me about a yearling doe that he shot the night before work one day, and I would’ve swore that he had just shot the world record Pretty dang cool, my hat’s off to ya