Late season hunt , Charles Sorrells is throwin' rocks!

Guru · January 14, 2009, 06:55:00 PM

I hope Charles will be along shortly with the story behind the pic...congrats again bud!

Nice pic too brother

bohuntr · January 14, 2009, 07:00:00 PM

Very cool Charles lets here the story!!! Thanks for the heads up Guru!

Guru · January 14, 2009, 07:05:00 PM

You're welcome....dang I just realized yur a lefty...cool!!

JoeM · January 14, 2009, 07:08:00 PM

Throwin Rocks? Knapped heads maybe? Joe

Charles Sorrells · January 15, 2009, 02:51:00 PM

You are right...a knapped head for this one. My first deer taken with a stone point. I shot this doe on New Years day about forty five minutes before dark.

I climbed in the stand at about three that afternoon and had deer coming by within about fifteen minutes. The first group to pass was a group of does and button bucks. I had a five yard shot at a BB, but he looked like he had ping pong balls under his scalp...future hunts walked away with him. The other does never presented a shot.

On their way to me I noticed an abrupt change in their travel path. I looked back to see a nice 4X4 140ish buck standing about 70 yards out. He literally stood for forty minutes without moving his feet and only his head and tail during that time.

Eventually, he began feeding and making rubs on beech trees. After a good hour and a half he moved to where I knew he was not going to come my way. I tried all I dared to turn him my way by calling and such.

The tell-tale stick snapped to the north and my attention was immediately greeted by a young doe coming my way. I double checked my nock on the string and got ready. She passed by at ten yards and I started to shoot and then she seen the buck up the hill and turned towards me closing to six yards. A soft bleat and she was stopped as my fingers touched anchor. The cedar shaft guided by feathers from a previous gobbler and lead by the knapped head from Jason Fajt hit with authority. Authority powered by a longbow my friend Scott Nicholson of North Pole, Alaska had made for me too.

That arrow put her down on the spot. Having lost one deer in the past with a shot that "seems" to have put one down immediately, I put one more in her to secure her for the freezer.

The combination of a knapped head and a longbow from good friends out this hunt right on the top shelf even before the harvest was made. Thanks guys!

While packaging her a few days later the inkling that I had about the first shot was true. It was sufficient and the second shot is now seen as unnecessary.

This is a hunt I will not soon forget...if ever. This was the third doe taken out of this stand this season. My wife and boys were just as excited about the whole episode.

vermonster13 · January 15, 2009, 02:53:00 PM

Congrats!

Big Ed · January 15, 2009, 02:54:00 PM

Sweet, great picture, awesome story. Congratulations

oneshot-onekill · January 15, 2009, 04:02:00 PM

Great job Charles.....Terry

Benny Nganabbarru · January 15, 2009, 05:22:00 PM

Huntrdfk · January 15, 2009, 07:06:00 PM

Pretty cool, great job!!!!

David

NorthernCaliforniaHunter · January 15, 2009, 07:13:00 PM

I'd really like to see before and after photos of the knapped head, if you don't mind! Also, can you tell us more about where the rock hit and what damage it did?

I'm interested in stone heads, so any details would be great - material, dimensions, weight, etc.

Thanks!

Terry Green · January 15, 2009, 07:36:00 PM

Hawkeye · January 15, 2009, 07:39:00 PM

Way to go, Charles!! It sounds like you've had a great season and finished it off in a VERY memorable way!

Daryl

mcgroundstalker · January 15, 2009, 07:53:00 PM

Six Yards... Gotta Love It!

... mike ...

Bonebuster · January 15, 2009, 08:01:00 PM

Great story... congratulations!

Chris Surtees · January 16, 2009, 04:24:00 AM

Killdeer · January 16, 2009, 03:14:00 PM

Jack Denbow · January 16, 2009, 03:50:00 PM

Way cool.

yellow bow · January 16, 2009, 06:37:00 PM

Charles Sorrells · January 16, 2009, 08:23:00 PM

Thank you for all of the congrats! This truly was a memorable hunt for sure. I had less time to hunt than I ever had due to a new job assignment, but had more success in the woods than I have ever had. Less time with a sense of urgency...really made each harvesting hunt a bigger success.

As far as the head goes I have yet to recover it. When she fell back and rolled over the arrow pulled out when she rolled on it. The head may have needed a bit more dulling around the notches for hafting it to the shaft. When the back pressure was applied the head cut through the sinew and came loose. I had just a few minutes before dark the day of the hunt to find it and made a small pile of sticks to mark the spot where the arrow was at rest. After the snow abates I will look for it.

It was a 85 or so grain head out of a light colored flint from MO. I do not have a good before picture, but do have a short video of the spin test I did on it and it spun very true. If someone wants to post it I will send it to you to post here.

The head was one inch wide and two inches long. I hafted it with back sinew I saturated in Tite-bond. Not the most traditional of ways, but effective and waterproof.

What I found when I cut her up was that I did hit a bit high as expected with such a close shot (6 yards) from about fourteen feet up. I hit one of the larger neck bones right by the front shoulder and that was what made her go right down. In that area it also engaged several vascualr functions rendering them useless and profuse blood escape.

When I find the head I will post a picture of it. I did not find any shards of stone through any area of the wound channel, so I hope that it is fully intact.

Thaks again Curt for the post...yeah, another lefty strikes!