My Black Bear was shot on August 29, 2014 at 5pm EST at Squapan Mountain Outfitters on the "Marty Stand". Tree stand height was about 12'. He was hit at a slight quartering away shot on his right side just behind his shoulder at about 18 yards and only went 60 yards. Double lung shot. I used a 60" Great Northern Critter Getter Special Longbow 48#@28" using a homemade tapered Port Orford Cedar shaft and a 125 grain Black Diamond Zewicky broadhead. Total arrow weight was 480 grains. He weighed 257 lbs. The thing that kept running through my mind as I waited 15 minutes for a shot at him was, "for Gods'sake Jim don't screw this shot up or Tony's going to kill you". LOL. Big thanks to Tony and Lynn Boucher and their guides. The team at Squapan Mountain Outfitters is first class as well as all the other bowhunters that I shared camp with and hunted with.

Nice Bear

Great picture

Great job!

Congratulations. Nice big head on the bear. Great picture of the bear and you. Skeet

Congrats on a fine bear!

Awesome!...great pic. Congrats!

Beautiful bear, Congrats! Tom

Good job, Jim. Congratulations.

Nice job and good shot! Thanks for the details. Pip

Congrats Sir, you made a great shot.

That is totally AWSOME !!!!!!!!!

Well done!!

Nice job

Here's my 1st antelope. Taken at Spearhead Ranch in Wyoming with only about 3 hours left in the hunt. Shot was 15 yards and hit the heart. He went about 75 yards. Goats sure can cover ground fast. My set up is a Bob Lee Signature Recurve, 54# @ 28", 29.5" Goldtips w/50 gr. brass insert and Muzzy Phantom 125 gr. broadhead. My story is on the Antelope forum on the Bowsite under Stinkbait's Big Adventure.

Very Nice Antelope Rob! Great shot. Jim:)

2014 Colorado black bear. Shot at 30 yards with my 56# Bob Lee and 480 grain experimental carbon shafts and 100 grain Wac'em broadhead. Bear went 5 feet...

I shot my first Blue Wildebeest at Matlabas Gamer Hunters on September 1, 2014. I used a 50# Samick Journey (about 56# at my draw).

A nice morning hunt, around 25 for the year so far.

Congrats everyone.

The Bob Lee's are really laying them down. Great job guys.

Great stuff guys! Very nice and congrats to all. Jim :)

A Bule Wildebeast taken with a $139.00 bow. Way to go Bob! Just goes to show, you don't need to spend big $$$$ to have an effective hunting bow!

Congrats to everyone that has connected this year.

My Brack got lost at the Atlanta airport on the way over. The Journey was my backup. But, it wasn't a consolation prize. When the Brack finally showed up 4 days later, I never bothered to put it together.

Sept 8th deer & turkey double. Centaur,goldtip & zwickey delta.

Love this thread!

I'm with you on that TradNut! Bob, Good thing you had that Samick! Nice double Mark! Jim :)

that was a pretty good day bluegrassbowhunter!! congrats

congrats

Archery season started out with me missing a small buck-a shot that I still can't believe I tried!! However, I did managed to connect a head shot ("Barely") on a gobbler.....I used a 45# Toelke Whip, and a home made Spruce shaft with a 160 gr Grizzly head.

Rio Grande Turkey on the El Pico Ranch-Laredo, Texas

Nice photos all, about 25 grouse so far, that's awesome. Thought I would add my PA opening day 6 point. Good Luck to all this season.....

Oklahoma opening day doe. Eufaula WMA, Sage #45, Gt3555, Bear broadhead. 18-20 yd shot from hunting stool. 30 yd recovery.

9-15-2014 Oregon elk, Blacktail Elite VL, doug fir arrows I make, Woodsman 125 gr Elite.

PA opening morning doe, homemde ILF riser with medium blackmax limbs about 44# at my draw, gamegetter 500s and a razor sharp grizzly. 7 yard shot.

Congrats to everyone so far!!!! and good luck the rest of the season :)

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2014 doe. Shot her at 35 yards on the ground public land with my 48 pound Leon Stewart slammer taperd cedar with Zwickey 125 head. I normally don't like to take animals at that distance but my shooting has been spot on this year and I felt very confident in taking her. Stay safe everyone.

awesome pics!

Outstanding job gentlemen and nice shooting! Jim :)

NJ early doe 9-17-14 my buck tag earn a buck. 54" Drake w/ custom cedars with 1964 Bear heads.

Picture didn't make it.

Big Jim Desert Big Horn Pa. spring Turkey with cedars.

A Wyoming whitetail 13 pt 160lds w/57lb maddog mountaineer 175gr vpa on the front end somebody up there smiled on me that day! Good luck to all this year!

No big trophies this year, just three young meat bulls. Just got through processing 350# of meat. Gonna be a long winter,,,,,,,, we got our first snow today.

This thread is making me hungry to get my first ever!

WV 6 point with new JD Berry 68" Vixen, Forester shafts, Bear Greenies. 25 yard double lung. Tom

Hickory Selfbow 47#

Hickory selfbow

WOW Jimmy, That's a Brute.....Congrats....Thanks for all you do Mr. Blackmon!!!!!

OUTSTANDING thread guys keep it up bd

I shot this IL 8 pt on my first sit of the season. 15 yrd shot, 60 yrd recovery. Shot him with my trusty old Zipper takedown recurve, CX Heritage 150 arrow, and 150 grain Wensel Woodsman head. Feel very blessed for the opportunity!

Sorry didn't mean for that post three times....

Outstanding buck Phil !

Cheryl Napper...8 point WT buck. Bob Morrison ILF with foam carbon limbs. 15 yard shot, 70 yds recovery.

Blessed with a nice doe from the same tree as my 6 point 5 days later.....

you guys and gals are arrowing some dandy critters nice shooten Bobby bd

Worthy of a triple post Phil! congrats to all!!!

October 5, 2014. 51# RER, 680gr. Footed Microflite w/ Zwickey Delta. Southern Michigan

PA Gobbler. 46# Black Widow PL.

Breaking in the Covert Hunter

10/11/14, Wapiti Spike, 58" 52@28

Ohio 8 point, Bruin recurve, cedar shafts, Zwickey broadhead

Custom LB 62" 55#@29, 29.5" 3555 165 landshark.

Man I just love this thread! I surely hope I get to add to it this year.

Lots of great stories and pictures.......keep them coming!!!

Once again OUTSTANDING thread Ya'all bd

#50 Vintage Works '59 replica. GT Trads and Bear Razorheads with bleeders.

Hunters killing deer, farmers harvest grain. Let's decide what are you and where you belong to.

Great thread! Good job all.

Nice Buck Mac11. Here is your pic upright.

Tony

First traditional archery kill. I switched from a compound this year and I'm never going back. 50@28 Bear Grizzly, Beman Centershot with 75 grain insert, and Zwickey Delta broadhead. 75 yard recovery.

It's a pretty awesome feeling isn't it Doc? Congrats!!

Congrats everybody. Good Luck the rest of the season. Austin

warthog. 53 lb Covert Hunter

barren ground 'bou with my covert hunter 53lb

No pics, but squirrel down today. Was warming up for 3 days of chasing whitetail next week. 54" howatt hi-speed, 44# 2016 and rubber blunt. I let the dog finish him up on the ground but he was done. Hopefully a few more while we're out deer hunting and they'll go in the crock pot.

Called in this 8point tonight and had to watch him for over 1/2 hour while he made 3 scrapes and tore up several small trees and a couple of rubs thrown in before he presented the shot. Shot at 30 yards with Blacktail and cedars tipped with 125gr. ACE broadheads. Beav

47# @ 28" Crooked Stic" longbow made by Mike miller, full length 35/55 gold tip, with 125 gr magnus 2 blade, 15 yard shot, 50 yard recovery.

Snuck up on a Grouse while we were camping. Tolke whip, homemade ash arrow. judo tip.

My first with a stikbow. Great thread. My hat is off to yall that killed turkeys with a stikbow- excellent hunting.

Congrats on the bear Jim

Nevada Muley. Hornes longbow 62# at 28", cedar shaft and woodsman head 125 gr.

Nice bou moosehunter, I hope to get one of those one day but there real hard to find here in Nevada, HA HA. Jealous

One more pic of my deer. Just love this pic.

Congratulations on your hunts.

A buddy of mine got a nice fat six pointer a week ago.

Good luck afield to the rest of ya.

Chevans that is an incredible picture

S. Michigan Doe. 59 Kodiak, 56", 45#, X-300 Bear Replica Cedars with Bear Razors.

I got this I pointer Wednesday evening. 53 lb zipper, easton axis shafts with 3 blade vpa broadheads

First trad deer w/ '57 Kodiak 45#@28", 1916 and old razorhead.

First of the year, killed with a Black Widow PSA, Goldtip trad, and a Simmons Treeshark.

66" Northern Mist Sheldon 57# @ 25" w/Surewood Shaft, 160gr Grizzly Broadheads

Colonel, you absolutely beat all I've ever seen!!

-Joe

Nice shooting Mr. Henry.

Very nice Mr. Henry. Good shooting. How did that 160 grizzly perform?

Cedar742, I've been shooting the 140 & 160 grizzly broadheads fri the last two years with great success.

I shot this buck on Thursday evening about 6:00 on the tail end of a wet Noreaster. Didn't think I was going to get a shot at him but a few light grunts and he came in, head down. Shot was less then 10 yards. He ran about fifty and collapsed. 56# Black Widow, Elite wood arrow with a Woodsman broadhead.

Here is what he looked like that night on the long drag. I took the photo on one of many rest brakes. Weight 186#.

In the stand for 10 minutes when this guy came in. 10 point, dressed weight 219. Taken with a BW PMA, German Kinetics head.

Great buck Dave!!

Got his one last night 1960 Bear Kodiak, bear head cedar shaft. 48#@28

First double October 18th. 54# Timberhawk Premier, 125 grain Stinger 4 blade.

On 10/28 double in the same evening! That is a first for me. Number 16 and 17 of the big game animals ive harvested with my longbow. #56 @ 28" Tomahawk desert fox, 2117 and stinger buzzcut broadheads. Tracked em both a half mile almost from the hit both shot were a bit far back. I thought they ran in different directions but they ended up both expiring a hundred yards a part. Truely blessed!

-stickbow

#3 killed with Bob Morrison custom riser and Trad Tech Extreme BF 50# limbs. Carbon Express Heritage shafts 160 gr. Ace broad head.

My first game animal with a longbow. 55# Samick Verna, Easton ION arrows, 150 gr Grizzly BH.

In fact, I just realized Jimmy Blackmon, who posted right above my original post was one of the reasons I purchased by Verna. He did a Youtube video on it, and inspired me to buy the bow!!!

Thanks Jimmy.

I shot this doe this morning at about 7:10 am. 24 yard shot and she went down in less than 80 yards. Used my new BW PLIII and a 2016 tipped with a 2 blade 125 Zewicky head.

Eufaula WMA, buck with Samick Sage 45#, same GT3555 and bear broadhead I shot doe with. 25yds setting on hunting stool. Orange cap and vest, muzzle loading season in Oklahoma. Thanks for sharing you great pictures. Kenny

Second traditional kill!!

Way to go everyone. Looks like me favorite season is over. Working seven days a week until sometime in December. Did get a couple of does on the ground early though, so no complaints. Yall keep up the good hunting. Best of experiences to all.

Nice deer guys and great thread. Jim :)

I have two pix. first is the hog I shot in Florida last march and the second will be my doe from about two weeks ago.

Both killed using my Blackwidow PSA 55#@28 and a Zwickey 2bl head. Both dropped in sight.

Here is my Doe. I will be buck hunting from here on. Will be on stand in the morning. Pre rut activity is really heating up and we have a cold front coming in... Hope I will have a third posting soon.

#4 on the year. 92# doe.

Taken with a 47@28 Great Northern Field bow, poplar shafts, and 145 grain eclipse broadheads. 18 yards.

A friend got this one today, his third of the year in his first year hunting with trad gear. He used a Shafer Silvertip, goldtip trads, and 150 Magnus Buzzcuts.

well got my doe now if only I can catch up to her boyfriend! Shot halloween evening hunt with my striker classic hybrid longbow 45#, used carbon express heritage 150 with a 50grn brass insert and 170grn 2 blade zwickey (about a 600grn arrow). perfect shot at 15yrds she didn't get 30yrds.

Got one a few days ago. Used my Yellowstone halfbreed, goldtip traditionals with a woodsman head. Made it about 90 yards.

8 point with my new Buffalo

This guy dressed out at 125...taken with my Toelke Lynx longbow, 58#'s, Gold Tip trad shafts, and Abowyer 200gr right wing bevel heads, double lung pass through, went 50 yds.

I look exhausted, and I was after an almost 2 hr drag to the truck. Great spot, but wayyyyy too far back.

Shot this guy morning of Nov. 1st

Wow. Nice buck, Josh.

Blacktail Elite VL Oct 1st 2014 early archery season in Nova Scotia.Full metal jacket shaft with 125grain Wasp 3 blade head. * yard shot and he ran approximately 100 yards.

Good Job! Congrats to all!

"Great Northern" Classic LB. That magic time of Year here. Bucks moving during the day and coming right to the doe in heat calls-- Chatsworth, NJ -Pinebarrens (Home of the Jersey Devil)

Better pic

Kystickbow congratulations on a beautiful buck. Fantastic picture as well.

Finally, meat in the freezer. Black widow PLGA and Wensel woodsman

The PL III makes meat again. 21 yard shot and I watched him go down in less than 30 yards. 2016 tipped with a 125 Zewickey two blade. Jim :)

I shoot a 62" Martin Hatfield Hunter, 55#. The arrow is an Easton 2016 with a 125gn Magnus broadhead.

I shot this deer November 1st at about 9AM. He was maybe two yards from the base of the tree I was in. He followed my path to the tree. As he passed the tree and continued uphill, it was nearly a straight down shot. The arrow entered between ribs, through one lung, the heart and exited the opposite side, just missing the breastbone. As he ran the arrow got bent and pulled out the back slightly. He had eleven points and dressed out at 190lbs

Public land in Michigan on November 1st. Pro Line WARF, Axiom limbs and Gold Tip blems with Deltas. My best bow buck to date.

Try 2? C

Last try...

Took this girl early in the season with my Redman.Havent been hunting much this year. I just can't get into it this season. Hopefully the November Moon and prayers will change it.:)

Great bunch of successful hunts. Keepem coming. Keepem sharp. Thanks.

I shot this one on 10/24. I made a bad shot. 4 hour tracking job and found her on the far river bank 1/4 mile from where I shot her. had to get my boat. custom longbow 60", 52#@28", 3355 GT shafts with 175 gr snuffers.

After getting off of work 1/2 hour early to vote, i rushed home and climbed into my stand with about 45 minutes of hunting time before dark. Had been in my stand about 30 minutes when this guy gave me a perfect broadside shot. With a light, but steady rain i was worried that the tracking could be difficult, so i ran back to the house, called my buddy Jerry to help track and got my trusty German Shepherd to lead the way. Fortunately the tracking job was very short(approx 50 yds). Thanks to Jerry for getting out in the rain and serving as my photographer. Hopefully i can return the favor soon. Fox High Sierra/53@28/Zwickey head

TT Titan 1, 45lb TT carbon Med, GT 35/55 29 Inch, Magnus 125 2 Blade Stinger, 15 Yard Shot, 50 Yard Recovery, Shared experience with 66 Yr Old Dad (Mentor) and Best Friend (Land Owner)- Unforgettable. Best of Luck Fellas and Ladies!

Lot's of nice deer are being taken, the best times are here..

Went to the ranch......Deer came out, deer got shot......

Nov 8, 2014. About 3 minutes in stand. I used a 67#@29" RER shooting 300 Easton Full Metal Jackets following a Simmons Tree Shark.

Forgot to say, some great pictures on here. Congratulation to all of you, and good luck to those still out there.

Garret got this doe in october

Nice Keith.............errrr Flatbowdad

Congrats to all. My luck hasn't been quite as good this year.

It was a cold high wind morning in Iowa,but at 7:00 am I got this dandy seven point buck. Using a Freeman longbow and Gold Tip 3555s with woodsman elite broadheads. What a great morning now the work begins. Jeff F

Garret got this buck Saturday morning. First Longbow Buck, He is 14.

Truly outstanding Trad-kills guys.

My son & I got a duel kill on this outstanding California boar. 3/7/2014

shot this sow 3/1602014

shot this little black boar 6/26/2014

shot this sow 7/3/2014

shot this turkey 3/29/2014

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shot this boar 8/4/2014

shot this buck 8/23/2014

shot this buck 10/26/2014

That first pic of the calico boar was to small

Been a slow year here, but I try.....

I still have a buck & bear tag.

Most of these kills where shot with my 63# ILF longbow with a heavy EFOC arrow & Tuffhead.

This calico is one of my best hogs ever, he had 4 1/2" on his pretty side & 3 1/2 on his bad side.

My friend Vince & I doubled on the same day this year

Impressed kingwouldbe!!!!!!

king, ya got a walk in freezer or do ya feed the illegal aliens in so cal? :)

First Archery Deer. 11-8-14

Shot the morning of 11/8/2014. Came in chasing a doe, shot him at 12 yards. Wild Horse Creek Mariah Recurve, cedar arrow with bear razor.

1st longbow buck

Great year that started in Texas with two nice Javalina and a big boar pig. Fall brought me a five pt whitetail and this 8pt. Shot with habu longbow and Easton axis shafts. Ace Super Express heads.

Chilly evening about 20 degrees, Miller Ol'Tom, 22 yards broadside, Wilderness Sitka Spruce shaft and Bear Greenie right behind the shoulder. I had about a 40 yard recovery.

Toby congratulations on your first longbow buck! Great shooting Guys, nice pictures! Thanks for sharing, Jacques

Nov.8 2014 at 3:00 PM. 1968 Super Kodiak

WTH don't know what that first pic is all about

one more of him

Doug that is one hell of a nice buck, wow! Give us a little story behind the hunt and equipment?

Doug, very nice! Nice buck and a Bear wood rise red T/D! Please tell the story! Jacques

OK first off I wish it was a LH B handle that's one bow that I can't seem to get bought. The bow is a LH '68 SK with the shelf cut down. When he first showed up about 70 yards away I didn't get to excited but once he got to 20 yards and I saw both G2's were split along with a few other odd points I got quite excited. He finally gave me a good broadside at about 14 yards away. I made a good shot and he was on the ground in less than 50 yards. He's one of the few deer that I've got that had no ground shrinkage and he was even better than I thought once I got my hands on him. It is one deer that I will never forget.

Thanks to all for the nice words.

doug77

Beautiful Buck Doug! Congrats! Tom

Number two, Black Widow PSA, Easton XX75 2219, Simmons Treeshark.

November 7 5pt, shot w/ BW PSR, 2315's tipped w/150 gr Grizzly head.

My wife was shooting Morrison Max I Super short limbs, 44# @26" and a 200 grain Razorcap on a 400 axis FMJ. Thirty yard recovery.

More meat for the freezer. Tabernacle Burlington County NJ

Nov. 13, Shrew CH, 55#@28", GT Trads, WW heads, Nebraska.

Used a centaur 48@28

My biggest buck to date. Taken Nov. 8th near Tulsa, OK. Bob Lee Classic, 60# @ 28", 29.5" Gold tip, 50gr. brass insert, 125 gr. Muzzy Phantom Broadhead. 15 yd. shot, quartering away. 200 yard recovery.

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Nov 16 with my Hoyt at 50# with Helix broadhead

Howard Hill "Forward Handle" Wesley Special - 55# @25" Surewood Shafts 70-75# w/Grizzly Broadhead

That's a nice one CHenry and a beautiful place you are hunting in a well. Congratulations.

Big Jim Desert Bighorn,snakewood and mango 56" 51 @ 28 with 35-55 Alaskin BH.

Way to go.Glen! Very nice!

Nice buck Glen ,congrats. Sweet. Jeff F

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My son garret with his first longbow buck

That is a great buck Garrett shot. Looks like he hit him right through the pumper too!

Outstanding Garrett..... there is only ONE first buck with a longbow

Even better yet it went 30 yds and tipped over. He was texting me bout sunrise that he was ready to get it loaded..

Awesome buck Garret!! love the Asbell jacket also.

November 20, 2014, Kansas 9 point, 55# Bear Montana, GT shaft, Abowyer BH.

James Parker bamboo backed osage bow, GT 5575 with a Bear Greenie 1970's model. The same broadhead killed 3 deer this year.

Jed that is a really nice buck, congratulations.

They were going nuts last night at one of my NJ propertys the deer were all over. I hoped to had gotten shooting at a buck today but this doe came by and she had the back leg shot off and just hanging. I thought possibly yesterday it happened it was youth day so I shot her. Might even happened this morning some one else on another property. Its unlimmited does in NJ. she is a big doe for over there figured like 125 dressed. 56" Big Jim Desert Big Horn 55/75 with 165 land shark full length.

One for one with my recurve this year.....

didn't harvest any does from our central Ks public spot- no pheasants and the deer herd is way down.

Trad Tech Titan III Easton Legacy with Wensel Woodsman head Perhaps a bit overkill but it got the job done - double lung.

My first deer. Shot with my Holzrichter Customs recurve, 54# @ 28". November 4,7:15AM,NW of Hays KS.

My Long shot buck.

California Blacktail 11-22-14, 69" Sentman Moosejaw Longbow 62#@28", 28" Easton 2213 Zwickey Delta

Well done gentlemen! Jim :)