Well I was able to wrangle in a pheasant hunt into my spring break ski trip itenerary. Mountainman on TBH was kind enough to set up a hunt at a hunt club near his place in Colorado Springs. Grant and his brother used shotguns and I used my longbow. They let me be in the middle and shoot first; then they would put the birds on the ground after I missed. I did get a hen that was still on the ground right near the end of our hunt. This was a true blast and I will go back again to try to knock one of those cocks out of the air. Here are a few pics from the excursion:
This first one is of me with one of the pointers at the truck:
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These are of the dog finding my bird and of me first getting hold of it:
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This last one is a Glory shot after the hunt. As you can see I did not hinder the shotgunners:
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Well right after we got home from that trip it was Turkey season in south Texas and I could not help myself. I had to go give it a try. I managed to take a very nice Tom with my Sarrels Sierra longbow. He sported a 10 1/2" beard and 1 1/4" spurs.
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I hunted for a few more days and was unable to close the deal on another longbow tom so on the last afternoon I broke out the scattergun and used two more of my tags. I love to eat chicken fried turkey breast so I can give in and use the gun every once in a while but it is not nearly as fun as the stick.
see y'all later,
Bisch
Looks like you had an awesome couple of weeks. Nice work.
looks like you had plenty of fun!!
That's some great shoot'n!
That is traditional hunting in your veins BISCH ,
Nice Job !!!!!!
great birds Bisch!!
how do you like that Sarrels LB?
Birds beware! Congratulations!
LITTLEBIGMAN, I love my Sarrels bows. I own 7 or 8 of Bob's bows; some one piece and some two piece. You will see different bows in some of my pics but they are all Sarrels.
Bisch
Looks like great fun.Good Shootin. :bigsmyl:
Very cool, congrats, on both birds!
Very nice, congrats on all! :thumbsup:
Congtats! Great shootin. :thumbsup:
Looks like you had a blast!
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Great Photos. I've tried but not yet connected on a rooster.
Good shooting.If you get a bird out of the air,you otta get it mounted.