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From: TK Date: 13-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Well, one of the old girls kicked the bucket. When I found her, whe was still about lukewarm. No idea what killed her, she just laid down with the rest of the herd and died right there; no struggle, nothing. Guess we all need to go like that... Anyway, to make a long story even longer, I came back to next day to find about 20 buzzards doing what they do best. Since they had already added insult to injury (and they cant get past the hide to really to a good job of getting it cleaned up), I thought I would run an experiement on my bow and get some preseason practice in. Got 2219's, pine shafts, and cedar. I had one bh, a Rocky Mtn Razor. I shot it and, well, it was ok. Good penetration until it hit the spine. It lodge in and died right there. This is where it gets interesting. The rest of my arrows had field points. The cow was already starting to swell (the legs had attained lift-off). It needed a hole started to get the gas out and the birds/coyotes in, so I shot it. The arrow hit solid, and came back at me. Now I was using a Howatt Hunter with 60#. Aluminums, wood, they all came back. Approx 60 attempts, not one single entry. This is not scientific, and I did not have a Magnus, etc to test the cut on impact heads. I did, however, come to the conclusion that if anyone goes to Africa to hunt those water buffs, you need a lot of bow, and a damned serious head. BTW, the four blade bh I used went in 1/2". That is where it will stay too; it flew terrible, and the cow can have it as far as I am concerned. So, there you have it. Maybe someone cam use this information. At least now we all now that you cannot kill a dead cow with field points. TK 1

From: Van/TX Date: 13-Sep-99 TK, did ya try any carbons?!! LOL! You are one sick puppy ;-).......Van 2

From: Will-MO Date: 13-Sep-99 Travis... "(the legs had attained lift-off)" What a laugh.. Like Van said.. You need help....;-) 3

From: the Razorhead Date: 13-Sep-99 Eeeeeewwwwwwwwwww... Couldn't get a backhoe out there, could ya? John 4

From: Bill K./CT Date: 13-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I should have known not to open this thread while eating lunch! Thanks! 8^) Bill K. 5

From: Bruce Snyder Date: 13-Sep-99 Travis, hope you wuz standing upwind at the time. 6

From: Armadillo Date: 13-Sep-99 "...you cannot kill a dead cow with field points." has got to be one of the best lines ever! TK...thanks for the research. Rick 7

From: Jeffy Date: 13-Sep-99 Dead Cow Bad Haiku: Real cold and bloated Dead Bovine real field tip proof Backstop for Trad Shoots? 8

From: Joe Mattingly Date: 13-Sep-99 I keep tellin' these guys that we need more bona fide research like you've just done. NOOOOOO! they tell me, just go with the "magic". Travis, you've moved the field of, er....research up light years. :^) Joe-tried the same thing once on a dead hog at the King Ranch-Mattingly 9

From: Tk Date: 13-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Jeffy, this may make a dangerous backstop. No kidding, the average return length from the cow was 3 feet. I did have one bounce up INTO a bush about 5 ft from the carcass. I had to sit and look at that a moment... BTW, if anyone tries this, remember: you can push a buzzard too far. When they start landing next to you while you are shooting, it is time to leave them to their meal and find a stump. TK 10

From: joe vt Date: 13-Sep-99 For some reason my leftover hamburger this afternoon tasted different. ( I think it was bloated ) Man, shooting a dead cow!!! I'm jealous. 8>) Hey TK, you forgot to mention which stalking method you used? or were you in a tree? I love this site!! 11

From: Al Snow Date: 13-Sep-99 TK, sounds like your medication is wearing off. Better take another pill, partner! :-) I'm going to get my wife to calligraphy that "can't kill a dead cow with field points" quote so I can hang it on my wall at work. Also the "you can push a buzzard too far" quote. This is too much! 12

From: The Ferret Date: 13-Sep-99 Hey guys, those lines aren't original..I heard them in a Willie Nelson song once...8~) 13

From: Les in Israel Date: 13-Sep-99 It may have been providencial that the field point did not poke a hole in that cow. You ever see what comes squirtin' out of a bloated putrid carcase? You would have been direclty in line to recieve it - and hopefully you don't shoot with your mouth open. I have a friend that had a horse die mysteriously. It was laying there with legs in the air and bloating up in the hot sun. He and his brother decided to use it for a trampoline. It worked great for a few bounces. Then it exploded. They were covered in aromatic juices that inhabit a bloated carcase. They ran urping and puking all the way home. 14

From: --sticker----------> Date: 13-Sep-99 if a cow had wheels it would be a milk truck, not Tk's cow though, you might have a broke down milk truck in that case. lol les, you forgot to mention that you also was jumping on the trampohorse. you just didnt want to admit it huh. 15

From: Stick413 Date: 13-Sep-99 TRAMP-O-HORSE LOL 16

From: Stick Boy Date: 13-Sep-99 Darn it, get some carbons, aluminum, as well as your cedars together with the same type point and test fire into that thing. Settle the momentum vs energy thing with a realistic target. Oznog 17

From: elkjunkie Date: 13-Sep-99 Worked on a farm in the Summers in my college days. It had been 100+ for a month. We would jump in the truck and head for the river to cool of before dinner. Somene hit a cow on the road. We drove buy it for week until it looked like it was going to blow. This finally got the best of a Greg. He had me stop the truck. He gets out his knife I drive off. He goes over and sticks the cow right in the gut. She blows all over him. He is trowing up all over the place. We make him walk the rest of the way to the river abut 3 miles green as a ghost. Later I asked him why? He said he just wondered what would happen. 18

From: Rusty Date: 13-Sep-99 300 mg lithium carbonate tid, resperidol 1mg qd,,,and get some danged maple shafts and some 160 gr grizzly's and a 75# H Hill. They will kill a dead cow. Hey and TK while your not doing anything run out there and get me the sinew will ya? Hey thanks man. BTW go ahead and wash it off. Rusty 19

From: SmittyQ Date: 13-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I think this needs recorded on video especially when when she "blows". Could save the rest of us having to run the same experiment. 20

From: Mike-OK Date: 13-Sep-99 Man, I had the same idea this last week. I was Elk hunting in the mountains when I found a dead steer. I took the ear tag number and told the owner the next day. I asked him what he would do with the steer. He said he would leave it for the varmits. Well a light bulb came on, and this doesn't happen often. I thought, penetration tests with Osage self bow and new Zwickey 135 grn Delta heads. Well the other guys took off, URPING and Green. I just couldn't figure out how to get the errers out after shooting them. Decided against the whole thing. Man, I could have been a famous researcher like TK. What a laugh. Great thread. Did shoot a week old dead bull with a twelve gauge shotgun. Man what a mess. Should have been up wind. Later Mike 21

From: Tal Dunn Date: 13-Sep-99 Well TK I guess your arrows had a case of Hide and not go Seek!!! or is it.... Hide and don't leak ? 22

From: JRB Date: 13-Sep-99 This is more like it, and the reason I come hear every day. I love when you guys share the results of your controlled scientific experiments so freely. I asked a buddy last season if he would let me try out my ribteks on a doe he brought back to camp, but his reluctance was so apparent I didn't pursue it any further. Some people just don't have scientific minds! TK maybe if you wait another day or two the field points will kill the cow. I've spent much of my life beating dead horses. JRB 23

From: Bloodhound Date: 13-Sep-99 It is obviously time for deer season to get here... I read this post and have to admire folks for their "research" in order to better this great sport of ours. James Young 24

From: Jody Date: 13-Sep-99 Man, you just can't shoot through fine leather. 25

From: DJ Boone Date: 14-Sep-99 HHHOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLL.......... what a hoot.. :=) 26

From: RCXX75 Date: 14-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post TK, How far did you have to trail the dead cow? 27

From: Lost Hawg Date: 14-Sep-99 Buzzard's fine dining. Today's special, Shish-k-bob. If we can get the stick through the sorry thing! LH 28

From: snydley Date: 14-Sep-99 Tk better go back after the gas clears and find that broadhead lets see if that was your cow field you got others walking and laying in that area hate to have one find it never mind sombodies foot. 29

From: greenwood archer Date: 14-Sep-99 I love to cow hunt. As I drive home I see them in the field, and I know that nature is calling me to the hunt. I step out of my car, grab my bow, and begin the stalk. There's a special thrill in stalking up on the cow as it grazes in the field and shooting it with my selfbow. It's quite a rush, I suggest you try it. One must be careful because the most dangerous thing in the world is a charging Bovine! 30

From: HH Date: 14-Sep-99 I am a professional cow-tipper. Dont underestimate the usefulness of proper scientific field research. Shoot, those cows can be unpredictable. One minute, you cant even get a field point to pierce the hide, the next minute you can just slip up while theyre sleepin and tip em over with just one finger, HH (HugeHeifer) 31

From: Ludite Date: 14-Sep-99 Some years ago, flintknapper, Errett Callahan and Smithsonian anthropologist Dennis Stanford got together with some colleagues and started doing some penetration experiments on a dead elephant. They were using stone points thrown from an atlatl. They also did some butchering experiments using flaked bone tools. It was all pretty cool and scientific. Callahan said that he still has 100lbs of elephant meat in his freezer! I'd appreciate hearing from anyone with any information about the "Ginsburg Experience." 32

From: BugBear Date: 14-Sep-99 What range did you shoot the dead cow from? Inquiring minds want to know if this was an ethical shot. BugBear 33

From: Hawkeye Date: 14-Sep-99 TK, Just want you to know that if you decide to continue this string of experiments, you can get acclimated to the... err... conditions to the point that they won't bother you much. When I was in high school, I got up at 4:30 AM to work a summer job at the local stockyards (just like kids today, you know?). When an animal succumbed or was brought in having already assumed ambient temperature, it was put in the "Dead House". Every day or two, about noon, a squalid, stinking truck with a winch would pull up to the "House". Two squalid, stinking guys would get out and survey the "take" for the day. Then before loading up their prizes, they would grab their squalid, stinking lunch pails, and eat their dinner SITTING ON TOP OF A BLOATED, REEKING CARCASS. Honest. That was 25 years ago, and the memory still brings my lunch to my throat! SO... ignore what your mind, sensibilities, and cultural training are telling you, and test away! I'll be anxiously awaiting the results! Still swallowing deeply, Hawkeye 34

From: arrowman Date: 14-Sep-99 What the heck is wrong with you fellows !!!!!! Don't you know Judo points work best for a bad case of the bloat !!!!!!!! Broadheads and field points want give you near as much BANG for you buck or should I say BLOAT. :-) :-) :-) arrowman >>>>>=======>>> Troy D. Breeding 35

From: TK Date: 14-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Snydley, I figure sometime this winter I'll go back for the bh. It wont go too far. I was about 15 yards away. Maybe if I was 30 I could have gotten it to go in? BugBear, buzzards will start on the softest part of the animal first, and there is NOTHING that I could have done to her with a bow that could have rivaled the ethical insults received at the hands of the Flying Janitors. Puts humility in a whole new perspective... Greenwood Archer, are you kidding about stalking caws? 'Cause I really do that. No kidding. Never shoot them, but I do try to nail the grass in front of their noses. 36

From: Jeffy Date: 14-Sep-99 More Bad Haiku: Flaming tipped arrah Stalk the big inflated cow Bovine goes big whoosh! I cannot believe that I am in this thread.Seriously, TK, thank you for your research. 37

From: buckfeverjim Date: 14-Sep-99 Forget the charing bovine, watch out for the angry farmer with the shotgun! 38

From: TK Date: 14-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Amen brother. That is the reason that I asked Greenwood the question. At least these are OUR cows. I think I would probably dust someone that I found doing that to ours; I have no way of knowing what they are up to. Besides, I reserve the right to make my cows all snorty (which they aren't, Thank God). Dead men dont fling arrows. 39

From: Jeffy Date: 14-Sep-99 In the Haiku, I was not advocating stalking another's bovine. Just wanted to make that perfectly clear. 40

From: TennBow Date: 14-Sep-99 This one will no doubt go down in LW history. Unfortunately it will probably come up just as quickly as most folk's lunch:) he he he TB 41

From: paul bh Date: 14-Sep-99 I've hunted a lot of cows, but never got anything bigger than a spike horn. Good thing I'm not a trophy hunter. 42

From: TK Date: 14-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Your cow had apparently reached critical mass. Would have been nice had you help her release some gas. 43

From: Paul Date: 14-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Your cow had apparently reached critical mass. Would have been nice had you help her release some gas. 44

From: Paul Date: 14-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Your cow had apparently reached critical mass. Would have been nice had you help her release some gas. 45

From: Paul > TK Date: 14-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post sorry TK...meant to put my name in a message addressed to you > ... in my first message. forgot ... sorry. 46

From: greenwood archer Date: 14-Sep-99 Hey, I was joking. Never hunted a cow but I can hear them laughing at me.....laughing...laughing...laughing. Sorry, too much sugar in my diet today. 47

From: --sticker----------> Date: 14-Sep-99 a dead cow cant feel pain but you know the anti's will probly still get on to us about this, they will say its unethical. 48

From: M.E.B. Date: 15-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I know a guy that shot a "dead" cow and it said MOOOOOO!!!! It got up and ran a few yards and fell dead. Rancher was not impressed. 49

From: Lost Hawg Date: 15-Sep-99 Slow Elk? LH 50

From: Lost Hawg Date: 15-Sep-99 Extremely Slow Elk! LH 51

From: TK ------> Sticker Date: 15-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I was wondering how long it would take for someone to reach that conclusion. Here is my opinion: First, they are too busy saying that Jesus was a vegetarian. Second, if all they have to worry about is a dead cow, we are truly in good shape. Whats more, they can have to smelly damned thing - I just want the horns and hooves to make knock reinforcements on some future bows. Third, I really dont give a rats sphintcer what they say, it is MY cow. If I want to cut it up and serve it on a plate, it is my perrogative. FOURTH - I guess they should also protest the buzzards and coyotes; it is just not fair what those folks did to her. Even I am somewhat embarrased for her. (Note, this is meant to be lighthearted - with a bit of common sense thrown in). MEB - This cow was "D E Double D" dedd. I made sure of that. So did the avians. As a matter of fact, I was hoping she was calving, but it was not to be. TK 52

From: George Date: 16-Sep-99 TK, its just this level of hi-tech experimation that keeps me comming back to this site. why, if it wasn't for folks like you, folks like us would have to depend on the jugheads spouting things like "kenetik energy" and "foot pounds" and such gibberish to tell us if our arrows are ok. all we really need, i know now , is a dead cow! I truely think that you have vaulted our sport past all those guys with the wheel bows. ever heard one of them talking about huntin a dead cow? NO! and if they ever did, i bet they never caught one anyway. and i doubt they could never deal with the buzzarde anyhow. thanks for all the insite to this teknical sport.,,,,,,,george BTW, i have to agree, you should stik to your prescribed medication. 53

From: tthomas Date: 16-Sep-99Pre-L2 Unregistered Post What you should have done is put a balloon in the cow's mouth. Then when you shot the cow the arrow would push a certain volume of gas out of her mouth. Keep doing it and each time ya hit her then run up and seal off the balloon. If in ya have a buddy have him shoot her and you seal off the ballon. The volume test is the only real accurate test IMHO for the DEAD COW TEST to test on penetration. Up here in Canada our cows have thicker hair so the other way to test penetration is to shave a little of their hair to resemble a deer. The ballon test is more accurate and maybe you don't have a razor but if you look around, maybe in your wallet, you might have a ballon. Also you must make sure your field points are matched and another point is to weigh and reweigh your arrows so that one arrow doesn't have more mass. This throws out the accuracy of the test. Also make sure your nocks are turned just slightly off the grain, again for more accurate results. Straight arrows to you 54

From: Dolan Date: 16-Sep-99 Way too funny Folks, order your T-shirts here: $15 Choose: ____ "...you cannot kill a dead cow with field points" ____ "you can push a buzzard too far" ____ "Dead men don't fling arrows" Push me and I'll do it. 55

From: paul caruso Date: 16-Sep-99 we need the YOu can push a buzzard to far t shirt 56

From: JimB Date: 16-Sep-99 To arrow is human to forgive bovine. 57

From: Drawknife Date: 16-Sep-99 My wife wants to know why it took sixty shots to reach your conclusion? Did your arm get tired or the cow? 58

From: greenwood archer Date: 16-Sep-99 The cows!!!!! Can't you hear them laughing?? 59

From: George Date: 16-Sep-99 Dolan, sign me up for one of each. hhere do i send the money?? George 60

From: --sticker----------> Date: 17-Sep-99 hey since i'm a part of this bowsite... i demand 99% of the profit from the shirts you sell. and on the back of the shirt you have to put ROTFLMAO!!!! oh, i get the other 1% now for the rotflmao idea. 61

From: Ron Hicks Date: 12-Apr-00 ttt 62

From: Africanbowhunter Date: 12-Apr-00 Many years ago someone did a dead cow test like you and left an arrow or broadhead in the dead steer Later the rancher found the dead cow with the hunting arrow and we archers and bowhunters got blamed and the story spead all over the country about bowjhunters shooting cattle. I hope you go back ther and get your arrow or broadhead. Please dont encourace people with the stinks etc most guys will leave the arrows there and then we get blamed. Not too smart...... African Bowhunter 63

From: Blackwidow Date: 13-Apr-00 ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is classic! Still LMAO-Bryan 64

From: Blackwidow Date: 13-Apr-00 I am still ROTFLMAO! My wife thinks I am nuts I guess I needed a good laugh8^) TK no doubt about it you are hard core! Cya-Bryan 65

From: flntknp17 Date: 13-Apr-00 I still believe that this is THE funniest thread ever on the LW! Seriously, who cannot read a line like the ones about "her legs getting airborn" or a bloated cow "blowing up" and not laugh out loud? I hope I am not the only one! Some how I doubt it. This is the sort of thread I worry about animal rights wackos seeing though. Oh well, I am glad it was revived, it did make my evening! flntknp17 66

From: Mark, WPG Date: 13-Apr-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post ROTFLMAO! 67

From: Mark, WPG Date: 13-Apr-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Maybe the antis won't be so vocal once they realize the quality of animal research that is being done right here on the LW. 68

From: Dances with Dingoes Date: 13-Apr-00 Sounds like, what we in the industry refer to, as a bovine bounceout!...:-) 69

From: Ron Hicks Date: 13-Apr-00 Ever find an old dead cow thats been there a good while and you want some good fast pace shooten, go give it a good kick in the ribs and get ready for action. Possums,Coons will get inside and have a buuffet. 70

From: Clint in MO Date: 13-Apr-00 I was walking to my treestand in the dark one time and tripped over a dead horse. Clint B. 71

From: elmer Date: 13-Apr-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post somefing velly, velly smellwee wound heea 72

From: Flatbow Date: 13-Apr-00 If we wanna get back to scientific on this... I offer these 3 scenarios. A: It takes more energy to force the small frontal area of the point through the hide than it does a cutting surface like a BH. The field point probably didn't penetrate because the hide now had a gaseous cushion behind it and had some "give" to it and absorbed the energy. Slow motion video would prove this out. Let the hide deteriorate from the inside for a while longer and the arrow will probably penetrate. B: This was just one tough cow. C: It realized from the broadhead that it was under attack and switched it deflector shields to full power. -Tom 73

From: Jagr Date: 13-Apr-00 This is the first thread that ever made me laugh out loud, now my wife is wondering what the heck I'm doing down in the basement. 74

From: DRT Date: 13-Apr-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post How about setting up a bloated carcass at the MOJAM and have a contest taking turns to see who can pop it. Every one has to use the same arrow. All the shooters who have allready shot need to stand about 5 yards to each side of it while the next shooter shoots. Kinda like a big Pinata but everyone runs away from it when it burst open. My money is on Tim Baker. Darren 75

From: hitormiss Date: 13-Apr-00 You guys are sick, sick, sick!!! But funny! 76

From: DRT Date: 13-Apr-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Forgot to mention that the winner gets to keep the sinew, and rawhide. Darren 77

From: Buz Date: 13-Apr-00 Don't announce it ahead of time, Darren. Gotta do this right. 78

From: Ron Hicks Date: 13-Apr-00 Remeber the movie Rob Roy,after we get it to burst open, see who could climb inside and eat the most Bologna Sandwiches. 79

From: Jim@TBS Date: 14-Apr-00 You should contact a rendering works before it's to late. Drive to town, look for the golden arches. I wouldn't wait more than another week or so. They might not take it. 80

From: PEEGRAVEL Date: 14-Apr-00 Always wondered why I like LW. Figured it out--there are some really sick people on it. ROTFLMAO. 81

From: Mark, WPG Date: 14-Apr-00 Jim, I was kind of suspicious about that $0.69 McCheeseburger Sunday special. And to think I had 4 of them the other day! Next time I'm under those golden arches I'll definitely ask them to hold off on the "special sauce". 82

From: chris Date: 14-Apr-00 You guys are making my guts split!!!!! But seriously there is some serious money to be made, we have to contact the 3d target companies. This could put a new spin on archery; dead cow- pig and horse ethafoam targets. At the end of the coarse there could be the puking bow hunter with exploded rotten cow on him ( he would want you to shoot him to put him out of his misery!!!) You guys are to cool!!! If every you pass by montreal I am paying the beer. chris in canada , , glad to see that I am not the only demented one out there, it's almost like group therapy. 83

From: Whitey Date: 14-Apr-00 Always be suspicious of food that is cheaper than dog food! 84

From: Bighorn75 Date: 14-Apr-00 My nice, warm plate of homemade chicken casserole just went in the garbage. I could never explain to my wife why I brought it back home. Thanks alot, guys. 85

From: Larry Burford Date: 14-Apr-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I shot a bloated cow from about 50 yards with my Redhawk 44mag. one time. Some kind of funkey lookin liquid shot out of the hole at least 10 or 15 feet. I did not get any closer so thats all I can tell you about it! 86

From: TK Date: 14-Apr-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I had forgotten all about this thread, and here it comes back. Africanbowhunter, I have found the broadhead. Still in the spine right where I left it. Crappy head. It is still out there because not all of the hide is gone from it, and I really have no desire to jack with it right now. Good news, though: so far, the old girl has given me eight hooves for limb tips (two per foot, ya know), a real nice head with horns (although it has some hide left on it too), and lots of white bone for anything else I can think of. I figure the rains and bugs need to do a little more before I get really into recycling. I have, however, got some advice for yall: just go to the pet store for the cow hooves. They are already clean. You try it like this once, and you'll understand... BTW, it was our cow...and she WAS dead. I think most here have enough sense not to shoot a dead cow that is not theirs - except Wil-Mo, maybe. He had a bull courtin' him last time he was in Texas! TK 87

From: RUGMAN @ work Date: 14-Apr-00 Dead cow targets hmmm... were is P.J. we gotta do this at Cloverdale!! Then later ,Bar-B-Que!!Don't even have to cook it ,should be about ripe ,er right. John 88

From: Ulysses Date: 14-Apr-00 TK I like your choice of words and I command you for saving the buzzards the ill effects of chewing on a cow about to reach critical mass. I am proud as a bowhunter to know some of us care about all living things. I like your story and your tests. Your command of the field points doesn't hold a candle to your command of the language. 89

From: Sparta-T Date: 14-Apr-00 TK-So are buzzards a protected species? Seems like you could have increased your research with some aerial shooting as well. Sounds like you may have actually been rather fortunate not to have gotten penetration at 15 yards. Unless your stomach is stronger than most of ours. You guys are scary--but funny. TL 90

From: Ed Date: 14-Apr-00 You should have posted a supporting graphic so you could have shown the rest of us your research. Also a warning about reading this thread while eating dinner. I was laughing so hard ,it was tough reading through the tears. 91

From: Africanbowhunter Date: 14-Apr-00 When you go back for the head, picj up some maggots, they make great bait for bluegills.......... How wuz them steaks anyway? African Bowhunter 92

From: Rusty Craine Date: 14-Apr-00 Hey TK did you read about the guy the found over by Denton, TX. Well skeleton anyway; over a 100 years old and had to arrow head enbeded in his ribs. Wonder if it was an osage bow? Rusty 93

From: --sticker----------> Date: 15-Apr-00 wow, i cant believe this thread came back around. when i first saw the name of it, i was like hey that was around last year, i had some good laughs out of this thread. maybe we need to go find some of those old rupe product test threads and put them back on top!!!! 94

From: Ron Hicks Date: 16-Apr-00 WE WANT PIC WE WANT PIC WE WANT PIC 95

From: DRT Date: 16-Apr-00 Rusty what kinda broadhead? Darren 96

From: JungleCat Date: 16-Apr-00 A freind of mine and I were hunting partridge in Northen Ontario and came across a very dead and very bloated bovine. Anyway, he was not the sharpest pencil in the box and I convinced him to put a load of 12 guage number 6 in it at close range. Anyway, he place the barrel to the hide and cut loose. Damndest thing I ever did see. Looked like something from out of the excorist. Man that was funny he was covered from head to toe with cow gunk, hell it even flew up the barrel to the bouble barrel. We were using his truck and he kept it clean as a whistle. I sure enjoyed the ride home laughing as he rode in the box. 97

From: mudd0202 Date: 30-May-00 couldn't you thought of something not as gross to shoot at? by the way this is woogchilde,mudd0202 is my pop. 98

From: Adams/TX Date: 30-May-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Was going to do a dead cow test using a self bow I made. The bow was so slow the cow mooooeed outa da way. 99

From: HideHunter Date: 30-May-00 TK found a cow 'for she blew, Said "I'll shoot an arrow clear through." It bounced off her gizzard And went through a buzzard "Ah, fletching and horn and sinew." 100

From: Marius Date: 30-May-00 Dang, this is one dead cow just won't die, but I sure am glad to see her back! 101

From: Ibaboom Date: 30-May-00 I've heard of beating a dead horse, but never a cow! 102

From: Ron Hicks Date: 30-May-00 I just knew it would come back,who's keeping track of the Test results? 103

From: Haggis Date: 30-May-00 Thanks for livening up a boring nightshift. Haggis 104

From: recurve Date: 30-May-00 I would have petted the cow. 105

From: Van/TX Date: 30-May-00 Good threads never die. Harpo, are you there? We need ya son ;-)......Van 106

From: africanbowhunter Date: 30-May-00 107

From: Bob W. Date: 30-May-00 TX, you said the old girl had gone peacefully with no struggle. That reminds me of my late elderly cousin - I want to go just like him; with no struggle and in my sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car. You made me laugh my cahoonies off. Bob W. 108

From: JRW Date: 15-Jun-00 ARISE DEAD COW.......ARISE!!!!!!! 109

From: Ron Hicks Date: 15-Jun-00 I knew it , I knew it would come back to life.You just cant keep a dead cow down. 110

From: chiloquin Date: 15-Jun-00 Hey, I remember this thread! TB magazine would have done well to print this in whole rather than the stupid "Penetration For Dummies" article. I think that this is the definative word on the subject :-) 111

From: Little Delta Date: 15-Jun-00 This is an udder shame. 112

From: walkingstick Date: 15-Jun-00 I thought I saw a fellow with a longbow stalking a rendering truck in a Burger King parking lot! 113

From: Karl B Date: 15-Jun-00 maybe you could get Cal Ripken to pose with the cow for one of his milk commercials. gotta go surfs up cowabunga dude. 114

From: africanbowhunter Date: 15-Jun-00 This is the best thred I have ever seen on Bowsite/LW Great African Bowhunter 115

From: Rod Strabala Date: 15-Jun-00 I think this one has got to be the top contender for the first ever "Thread That Will Never Die" award on the Leatherwall. 116

From: HideHunter Date: 15-Jun-00 Thank the Spirits for the return of the cow, She really created a row. Shishkabob was her spleen And her bones are all clean. But on the wall she's alive for now. 117

From: Flinger Date: 15-Jun-00 I'm very disappointed that there was no video taken. Such a scientific experiment should be documented. If the still living cows were watching all that, I'll bet they were scared to ever lay down again! And what makes you think the buzzards were after the cow. If I was a buzzard and saw some guy shooting field points at a dead cow I'd figure his mind was gone and it was just a matter of time till dessert was served. 118

From: recurve Date: 16-Jun-00 I would have petted the cow, and hugged it, and sqeezed it, and when i was done, I would have found a new hobby then shoot a dead cow with my bow. 119

From: George Nagel Date: 16-Jun-00 Oh Recurve, you cow huggin, sensitive guy...:) 120

From: Canyon Date: 16-Jun-00 That old madre bovine has become a celebrity. Her legacy will be shared where ever men sit around a campfire and discuss equip, penetration or just the facts of decomposition. Today as I drove down the Highway I saw two bull elk the victims of a man's auto several days ago. My thoughts were brought back to this thread as the legs had acheived true lift off. Pondering why this occurs it came to me when I observed the buzzards jump onto a rear leg. Lift off occurs so the fat old buzzards have a place to roost. 121

From: smolt Date: 16-Jun-00 I think it is time that this post is merged with that one about the pyrotechnic arrows - just picture the effect of fire on all that bloat generated methane!!!! 122

From: smolt Date: 16-Jun-00 I think it is time that this post is merged with that one about the pyrotechnic arrows - just picture the effect of fire on all that bloat generated methane!!!! 123

From: smolt Date: 16-Jun-00 I think it is time that this post is merged with that one about the pyrotechnic arrows - just picture the effect of fire on all that bloat generated methane!!!! 124

From: smolt Date: 16-Jun-00 Sorry 125

From: chunky Date: 16-Jun-00 Guided Udder deer hunt. Lost Cow Ranch- Splendora Texas Many nice 2-point trohpies to choose from. One hunter to one guide. Methods will be stock tank blind, salt block tree stand or spot and trot. Expect very close shot opportunities. A Moo call could be handy Best camo- Hide in Hay Price- $0.79 lb on the hoof subject to change with farm and market report. Tractor available for extra fee. NO FIELD POINTS you guys crack me up! 126

From: Ruttingbuck Date: 16-Jun-00 Funny guys lol. I have a local buffalo "ranch" that I working with (on?)to get some sinew. He butchers em for meat to sell. I asked if I could come over and shoot some with a couple different kinds of heads and arrow weights...hmmmmm. I dont know if he's gonna let me have sinew now or not. Dang it!! Steve (as the Wensel's would say "TRUE STORY!") Ruttingbuck 127

From: Mark, WPG Date: 16-Jun-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post This thread reminds of that expired (unknown at the time) banana cream pie I ate last year - it just keeps comin up and up... 128

From: recurve Date: 01-Aug-00 Why didn't they have a dead cow target at Denton Hill this year? 129

From: Van/TX Date: 01-Aug-00 recurve, you done brought back the dummest thread ever. Thanks!!!.....Van 130

From: DRT Date: 01-Aug-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Coulda used me after I shot the cardiac ridge course. Darren 131

From: George Nagel Date: 01-Aug-00 finest thread ever to grace the 'wall. 132

From: JRW Date: 02-Aug-00 They could have had the standard "freshly expired" dead cow target, or the "legs have attained lift-off" model. Heck, the deluxe mechanical version would have been better yet. You know...legs go up...you hit the kill zone (useless on a dead cow anyway)...legs go down. Sort of a redneck Buckmasters target. And as long as we're making a "Buckmasters" target, why not put a silly red hanky around it's neck? JRW 133

From: dow in kerrville Date: 02-Aug-00 I was wondering what happened to this thread. I figured that the buzzards had eaten it along with the cow by now. Some things never die dow 134

From: fuzzy Date: 02-Aug-00 I LOVE t'is thread! LOL Cecil 135

From:  hickstick Date: 02-Aug-00 I can't believe it's reared it ugly, maggot filled, puss spewing, smelly head again. It like a George Ramero movie. 136

From: chiloquin Date: 02-Aug-00 Gotta agree, this is one of the all-time greats ! I now actually consider this to be the definative word on arrow performance. Not too sure what I think about the red hanky though, might detract from the dignity of such a noble undertaking :-) OR NOT !! 137

From: Van/TX Date: 02-Aug-00 Hehehehehe! I love this place......Van 138

From: BlackWidow Date: 03-Aug-00 Dang, I had no idea when I joined this site that it was such a techie/scientific type of place. Reminds me of when my old huntin pard and I found a poached doe during one of our scouting trips in the Sierras. Someone popped her with a .22 in the gut and when we rolled her over all that gas escaped right into our faces. We both felt ill and wanted to pass on the spot. LOL, so he only wanted to see what would happen when he punched that blade into her eh? LOL. Dang. 139

From: silverking Date: 03-Aug-00 Red hanky, I love it. Why stop a t-shirts and 3-D targets. We could launch a monthly "Dead Cow-Masters" magazine, maybe get Rusty or Van or somebody to be our spokesman, think about it, we'd all be rich. Chris 140

From: TK Date: 03-Aug-00 I think this thread has lived longer than our cow... 141

From: recurve Date: 30-Aug-00 I was just wondering if this thread was still in the archives.....thats all. 142

From: JRW Date: 30-Aug-00 Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere we go again. :) JRW 143

From: Flinger Date: 30-Aug-00 Can't you guys just let a dead cow lay? 8^) 144

From: George Nagel Date: 30-Aug-00 When does dead cow season open anyway? And what is the limit this year?.....geo 145

From: Winema Date: 30-Aug-00 A ture Leatherwall Clasic I love this thread....Nate 146

From: HideHunter Date: 30-Aug-00 That's it - I'm not even going to acknowledge it this time - whoops. 147

From: Linecutter Date: 30-Aug-00 I feel like it is "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray with this thread! I know I'm going to be looking for dead cows in the woods this year. I'll take and shoot it open and use it for DEAD BULL lure. I just wonder how far up wind I'm going to need to be so I don't have to smell it. Does any one know how good a dead bull's sense of smell is? I mean will it be able to smell the cow over its own odifferous fragrence. This is going to be my first year of hunting any thing like this and I need some professional input. What kind of gear am I going to need. Thanks for your help. I want something with horns and really big. DANNY 148

From: Wary Buck Date: 30-Aug-00 When I was in grade school we raised sheep and I remember one died and Dad buried it (I have no idea why). Anyway, we were curious and it wasn't buried very deep--a couple inches maybe. My brother and I noticed the ground had some "give" to it so for a couple minutes we were kind of jumping up and down on top of the retired ewe like a trampoline (laughing all the while) when all of sudden you heard ribs cracking and a foot break through (my brothers'). Talk about stink... 149

From: wwlongbow Date: 30-Aug-00 I just got drawn here in MS for our first ever draw hunt for dead cow. It will be a semi guided hunt. 100% sucess ratio for shot opportunity. My guide tells me they have never lost a cow if i can just get a arrow in it. They have several tracking dogs that have well trained noses just for such trailing work. Wish me luck. 150

From: whackmaster_13 Date: 30-Aug-00 you guys are sick........just sick hehehe ;) 151

From: LT Date: 30-Aug-00 Fill me in on your favorite recipe for Dead Cow. I personally like Creamed Dead Cow on Rice, it hides the Maggots. Come on Back. LT 152

From: Jesse Date: 30-Aug-00 EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! 153

From: Nelomo Date: 30-Aug-00 I tell you what, this is the first I've seen this thread and my cheeks hurt from laughing and smiling so much. You guys have milked this thread for all it's worth (about 2.79 a gallon). This cow was not your run-of-the-mill sacred cows. It definitely wasn't holey. Oh my aching sides! You guys are great. BTW, did the t-shirts really come to fruition? If they did I want one XL of the "Can't kill a dead cow with field tips" Thanks, Neil 154

From: JRW Date: 14-Oct-00 CLEAR........."Shock".......beep, beep, beep. SHE'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!! JRW 155

From: Rocket65 Date: 14-Oct-00 IMO its better than reruns on tv 156

From: Van/TX Date: 15-Oct-00 Some threads just never die. Especially the classics ;-)...Van 157

From: silverking Date: 15-Oct-00 Holy cow here we go again. 8*) Chris 158

From: viking Date: 15-Oct-00 this is the first time i have ever read this thread,great,great,stuff.i thought only us cops had a sick sense of humor,but you guys are pros.btw,speaking of bloating,i once worked for a major who was a real feces-bird.one day i was going back to the precinct and saw a dead dog on the side of the street.being young and stupid,i stopped got the creature and was able to stalk and successfully place that dog in the back seat of the majors car,to really do it right,i covered if up with his nice,police jacket,majors brass and all. wow,what a nightmare,internal affairs was on our butts for 2 months.lollollollol,never got me though,.steady wind==bill 159

From: Muskrat and Raven Date: 16-Oct-00 So, there you have it. Maybe someone cam use this information. At least now we all now that you cannot kill a dead cow with field points. ROTFLMAO... year old and still the greatest line ever. 160

From: kennyb Date: 16-Oct-00 My hunting buddy has a small farm just out of the city limits of a small town here in oregon well one of his cow dies she was old. so he calls a old high school buddy of his to dig a hole in the pasture with his backhoe. so i just happen to go by and visit my friend and he has the cow chained to the back of his pick up and is going to drag her to the hole so i said i would help he drags her to the hole and we roll her in and guess what the hole is not deep enough all four legs sticking straight up in the air he looks at me and said i well be right back and here he comes back from the barn and in his hand is a sthil chain saw OH YA TIMBER WENT THEM THERE LEGS thats when i said gotta go home. 161

From: Euryecious Date: 16-Oct-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Wary Buck, this is the first time I've seen this thread. Just when I think my sides are done aching, you go and crack me up again. I think my mind's eye works all too well. What a visual! LOL 162

From: Drop Tine Date: 16-Oct-00 Is it unethical to intentionally make a "spine shot" on a dead cow that had "legs which had attained lift-off?" naaaaaah! -DT :-) 163

From: hickstick Date: 26-Nov-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I've been sitting here sulcking all morning. Archery season is over and only saw two deer and missed the only shot I got. Searching through the archive and thought...YEAH that'll lift my spirits...bring back the 'dead cow'! Enjoy! hickstick 164

From:  JRW Date: 26-Nov-00 Hey greenwood archer, should he have shot it with a crossbow? :) JRW 165

From: Løst Hawg Date: 26-Nov-00 Argh!!!! I thought I could come here and read about something other than crossguns. But, heh heh, this is a classic thread. Poor cow, probably got more holes in it now than a pin cushion. I wonder how a ribtek would fare on the "Dead Cow" test... 166

From: JudgeG Date: 26-Nov-00 Thirty years ago I was tasked with taking a real butt-head hunting. He was the son-in-law of the manager of the 23,000 acres upon which I pretty much grew up. Everybody disliked the fellow, even his wife. Butt-head always wanted to go hunting by himself, but he would get lost and we would have to go hunt him up, so the rule was that someone had to take him to his stand and go back and get him. On the dark, moonless morning of this particular hunt, I chose to take Butt-head a half mile down a woods road behind the main farm house. I had dragged a dead horse named Grandma a few hundred yards down that road a couple of weeks before, but had forgotten about her. When I came to her dark form in the road, I just walked around her, thinking that Butt-head would follow. Well, he had his head up his rear as usual, and just continued straight ahead. He tripped on the horse's foot and stuck out his arm to catch his fall. It went right through the horse hide, and he went in to his shoulder, right through the rib cage. Struggling to get up, he rolled to his left and got all involved in the guts, busting a gas pocket of some kind that sprayed him with flecks of gore that stunk like nothing I've ever smelled. It would've gagged a bear. I laughed so hard that I thought he was going to shoot me. I never had to take Butt-head hunting again. 167

From: Løst Hawg Date: 26-Nov-00 LOL 168

From: The_Chosen_One Date: 26-Nov-00 SICK!!!!! but way too funny 169

From: Dave-bent arrow Date: 26-Nov-00 To JudgeG. It has been a while since I laughed out loud while reading something. ThankYou. DAVE 170

From: JRW Date: 26-Nov-00 Judge, best use of a dead cow yet. That one's a classic!!!! JRW 171

From: Løst Hawg Date: 26-Nov-00 Yeah, but I bet the boy was just horsing around. 172

From:  Wolfen Date: 23-Dec-00 Sorry Folks, But I thought someone needs a laugh out there, so TTT 173

From: Bambow Date: 23-Dec-00 I can't believe this thread came back just before Christmas. I guess I'll throw out that prime rib we bought for Christmas dinner, I do not think I can eat it, or even touch it for that matter. On second thought maybe I can do an arrow test on......nah. Merry Christmas 174

From: JRW Date: 23-Dec-00 Thanks Santa!!!! Just what I always wanted!!! JRW 175

From: JudgeG Date: 23-Dec-00 Usually down in the South where I live, we pray for cold weather. It gets the deers active. But it don't do a darn thing for Dead Cow hunting. All last week I hunted dead cows three times and didn't even get a good scent trail. I'm praying for heat. I think all the dead cows must'a been wearing ScentBlocker and hanging out in meat lockers. Any advice how to getting them to move around? Would a drive work? I've seen some lone maggots following my daughter at the mall, but not a concentration of them like around a trophy bloated bovine. I really want a good dead cow to put in my yard with my white-washed tires along my driveway and the 1967 Ford on blocks. If the weather don't break and warm up, I'll have sat here so long watching wrasslin that my wife might get some stupid idea that I should a job or something. I don't know why, but she ain't satisfied with the two jobs she has and wants me to get one, too. Women! BTW, thinking about my second favorite sport, wrasslin, next to flinging arrows at a week-dead trophy steer, it's tops. What about that Goldberg... Ain't he a wrassler. I think that Ol' Dub ought to put him in the Cabinet. Maybe the United Nations. He's got foreign policy experience being in the World Wrassling Federation, ain't he. Better than some whimp governor getting it, 'cept Jesse, of course. Does Jesse hunt Dead cows. I think I'll call him up and see. I knowed him from a cat house in Subic City when we was in the Navy together. I met a girl big as a cow that night.. she weren't dead, though. Just smelt like it. I need to get out of this trailer. Give me some advice, please. 176

From: LostHawg Date: 23-Dec-00 Hey JudgeG, maybe you could film one of your Dead Cow hunts and have MO put it on TNN. 8^) Think that would work. Maybe it will even start up a controversy like "the Dead Cow jest warnt laying on the ground slow enough." "I never take a shot at a moving Dead Cow. Ain't ethical." LOL 8^) Good to see you on the Wall Judge. I still think that was an Awesome shot they filmed of you. Great job. This is the perfect thread for the season. You know with all that new gear you need new ideas as to how to test it out. I tried to stalk a dead cow once but I winded it and it was all over (the place). Tracy 177

From: JudgeG Date: 23-Dec-00 A good dead cow don't photograph so good. The fog coming out the belly kinda fogs up the lenses. 178

From: George Nagel Date: 23-Dec-00 This wonderfull classic returns each year just in time for the yule, just like "A Christmas Carol" and other timeless stories:) 179

From: The_Chosen_One Date: 23-Dec-00 Man this thread is crazy. 180

From: Rod Strabala Date: 24-Dec-00 Yes, it may be crazy but it is immortal........ 181

From: The_Chosen_One Date: 24-Dec-00 Yeah I guess.... 182

From: Throwin' up in Alabama Date: 25-Dec-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Why would anyone want to shoot a dead cow? I have enough fun shooting dead stumps, etc. It is wrong to shoot dead cows. I am a veggie bowhunter. 183

From: Mark Normand Date: 25-Dec-00 Man, this came up too late. Sat. I came upon a dead coyote and forgot to field test arrows. Durn...a missed opportunity again. 184

From: wapitichaser Date: 25-Dec-00 TK i found a dead doe deer after gun season. Cant promise you much bloat but im sure shes froz up perty good.If you pay airfair up here i can guide you right to her for some more testen.Got the perfect stalk all planned out.Let me know.Can even promise you a shot!! 185

From: Mr. Head Date: 26-Dec-00Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I read that Jesse Ventura is a bowhunter. Is that true. Maybe they could make a video with Jesse and Ted Nuget. The Motor City Madman and the Madman. Wow. As a word of warning. Don't do arrow tests on road kills. The pavement will screw up your broadheads. It is kind of fun to do it a night though. You get great sparks from gravel roads. Just be sure that the Sheriff isn't coming down the road though. It pretty well got me in trouble when I shot a Snuffer through his grill. 186

From: HOOT Date: 26-Dec-00 judgeg just thought you mite want to know,i herd peta caught several thousand dead cows, just last week and put orange vestes onum .mabey that will help in your pursuit.if theres anything else i can do . just be sure to call. your friend and mine HOOT p.s. i not only scout for my friends, but do mobil home repair and is a reallllyyy good ford mekanike 187

From: MonsterShooter Date: 27-Dec-00 Hey TK, I did the same thing once. I wont go into the details of the test, but I will share with ya what happened when the first arrow went in. Upon entry of the first and only arrow, I noticed that the belly of the cow started wiggling. Now here comes the sick part - What I hadn't noticed is that varmints had eaten their way in through her butt, actually it was 2 possums, and I disturbed their lunch I guess. Next thing I knew there were these 2 nasty little critters came squirtin out her butt, and they looked like they had both been swimmin in a jar of mayonnaise. I quickly disposed of them, and lets just say----I DIDN'T WANT MY ARROWS BACK EITHER lol x 1000 188

From: Chocolate_Starfish Date: 20-Jan-01 ttt.... I just can't let that dead horse thread surpass this one. This will always be the superior dead animal thread. 189

From: Bambow Date: 20-Jan-01 It's aaaalivvvve. The thread that is. geezz 190

From: dow in kerrville Date: 20-Jan-01 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! IT'S BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 191

From: LJ/TX Date: 21-Jan-01 Well, it's way past my bedtime but I couldn't put it down. This is way to funny!!!! People will wonder whats wrong with me the next time I see a "penetration test subject" and bust out laughin'. Guess i'll be up a while longer now! Larry 192

From: George Nagel Date: 21-Jan-01 heehee..the best last the longest. TK, are ya still takin your medication? 193

From: BunneyHunter Date: 21-Jan-01 TTT 194

From: William Jefferson Clinton, no longer employed Date: 21-Jan-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Darn, It was an ARROW with which I was supposed to test penetration. And until I read this thread, I thought it was a cigar. Ruined a perfectly good cigar, too. She was a cow, though.... hee, hee, hee! 195

From: Doc Nock Date: 21-Jan-01 Ahhhh...yeas... the NASA Cow... "all four legs achieved lift off!" Some things just never get old... :) Doc Nock 196

From: TK Date: 22-Jan-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post My meds have made me funny. I recently butchered a dead (read WARM) dead cow (see the Knife Test on a Dead Cow thread - it got too serious sceintific-wise though) and took it to the locker to make hambuger meat - 425 lbs to be exact. SEEE?!?!?!? I take my meds and I dont take advantage of prime research. I goin' off of it, no more medication. Now, where is my dead cow call??? TK P.S.: Anyone want any ground beef? Sheese, thats too much...... 197

From: TK Date: 22-Jan-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post HEY!?!?!? How come three day old dead cow aint part of the redneck recipes?!?! 198

From: BunneyHunter Date: 23-Jan-01 Well shoot a dead deer today..does that count?:) 199

From: bear man Date: 23-Jan-01 this is the best one yet im no 200 ye haw bearman 200

From: BunneyHunter Date: 23-Jan-01 lets see if we can make it to 400. 201

From: BunneyHunter Date: 24-Jan-01 ttt 202

From: HOOT Date: 24-Jan-01 i am yet to recive any traylor or ford work. i thought my last post would surley bring me some work. ive kilt three dead cows so far . does anybody want to buy any orange vest? your friend and mine Hoot 203

From: Rotnshot Date: 24-Jan-01 This is just like TNN, We've got POP! 204

From: BunneyHunter Date: 25-Jan-01 TTT geheh 205

From: Thumper Date: 25-Jan-01 This is one awesome thread. Is there a thread Hall of Fame, if there is this has my vote. This is the first time I seen this. Thanks Everyone, I needed a good laugh. 206

From: RUGMAN@WORK Date: 25-Jan-01 This thread is like an ugly girl friend,just when you think she's out of your life BAM she comes back. You tell yourself she's no good for you but what the hey just one more time won't hurt! John 207

From: Chocolate_Starfish Date: 25-Jan-01 ttt 208

From: JRW Date: 12-May-01 It's been tooooooooo long. Gotta bring her up again. JRW 209

From: DB longbows Date: 13-May-01 Got some beef ribs in the freezer gonna go fling some arrows 210

From: Flinger Date: 13-May-01 Yup, figgered it was about time that some warped indiviual brought this thread back to life. Wish it had been me. ;) It's a classic! 211

From: Judgeg at Work Date: 13-May-01 It was inevitable. In spring a young man's fancy turns to love. With spring thaw, a bowhunters fancy turns to the stink of a good dead cow. 212

From: Potter County hunter Date: 13-May-01 The greatest thrill I have ever had hunting was during Pennsylvanias' Dead Cow season. It was back in November of 1993. I scouted all summer long an area that held a dead cow, and set my portable stand up 2 weeks before opening day. The long awaited season had finally opened, and I was in my stand well before sunrise. At first light I spotted something laying on the forest floor about 75 yrds. away! My heart started pumping, and I remember saying to myself, " If she comes within 25 yards, pick a spot, aim, and shoot!!!" Unfortunatly, she never came any closer, after many attempts of trying to call her in by using my "MOO" call. I never did get my Dead Cow, but thats why they call it hunting. They don't get that big by being stupid you know! Maybe I will get my chance this year, I am going to return to the same place where I spotted her years ago, as far as I know, nobody has tagged her yet! Maybe I will be the lucky one!! 213

From: Judgeg at Work Date: 13-May-01 I think they get big because their stomach gases expand. (The fact that I'm sitting here fooling with this thread for the umpteenth time, is proof that on Sunday morning, one should be in Sunday School. I'm leaving this wonderfully disgusting thread to ya'll and I'm going to Church and ask forgiveness for my foolishness... then I'll hurry home and see if anyone is keeping the fun going!) 214

From: herb/nb.ca Date: 13-May-01 boys , isn't it getting a bit ripe by now ?----- herb /nb.ca

From: bowjunkie Date: 13-May-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post This is the Duracell Bunny of threads....Keeps going and going...... Funny how folks remember this dead cow better then some of their own deceased kin...LOL 215

From: Potter County hunter Date: 13-May-01 Come on guys!!! You are going to let this thread end like this!!??? 216

From: Stackmaster Date: 14-May-01 ive got the first dead cow slam.first was the mighty holestien(I took this fine beast with superslam broad heads)next came the angus (If it wasnt for my superslam honda camo quad I would have never been able to run this powerful runner down)then the nimble herford......if it wasnt for all thease fine gagets my SMILE wouldnt be as big....Chuck you have nothing on me....Nate 217

From: Ade Date: 14-May-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post FREE Dead cows for testin YES here is you chance to obtain your very own dead cow - or dead sheep come to that, imagine no more early morning hunts trying to get within the elusive 20 yd zone, WE HAVE LIERALLY THOUSANDS ON OFFER HERE ON THE UK!! YOU can have the cow of your dreams shipped directly to you, with signed certification declareing YOUR cow/sheep to be a real live DEAD one. no more hesitation on on identification - is that a cow or is it Monica ... MR Clinton (no longer employed) quick don't miss this chance, save your cigars, order today. PLEASE SEND YOUR REQUEST WITH A STAMPED SELF ADDRESSED ENVELOPE TO : MR TONY BLAIR. (LABOUR MP - soon to be ex) 10 DOWNING STREET, LONDON ENGLAND allow 365 days for delivery as we belive there will be a mass rush for ordering. 218

From: Potter County hunter Date: 24-May-01 Papa Bull, ever shoot a dead cow with that compound of yours? 219

From: STICKMAN :)<-< Date: 25-May-01 This thread just won't die will it? :)<-< 220

From: Rugman Date: 25-May-01 I'm sure those English dead cows are inside fences. No farm raised dead cows for this archer ,no sir I want Free Range dead cows . Anything else is benneth my sense of ethics . You can tell farm raised dead cows by the ease in which you can approach them. Why you can just walk right up and stick 'um. Now where is the challenge in that I ask you? My goal is to someday do a grand slam on dead cows but only wild and free ones no fences here for a TRUE world class "Dead Cow Grand Slam". John 221

From: Predator Date: 25-May-01 Rugman, The free ranging dead cows probably taste at bit more "gamey" than the farm raised dead cows but I'm with you on hunting the free ranging dead cows because of the challenge they provide. 222

From: WindNose Date: 25-May-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post This is a story from BB that he contributed to a thread on the ELK forum. I'm copying it here because it fits nicely.... *** BB Start *** I have quite a few funny stories, but two favorites. Hope fully this one will be short enough to write, the other one really needs telling. And incidently, this one was on a bear hunt, not an elk hunt, but still very funny. Years ago in Utah we had an unlimited spring bear hunt. For many years a group of us (6 - 8 guys) would hunt bear every year. (Pahaska was one of that group). We sure had a great group and so many fun times. Anyway, one year late in the season, a good friend of mine named Clair and I decided to go back and spend the balance of the season. I have a friend who owns a dairy farm, and he gives me his dead critters at that time of year. This particular year, none died and we were really in bad need of a dead critter. Well Doug (the guy with the dairy farm) knows a ton of people and said he knew an old horse trader who he said might give us one of his horses. Late on the eve of our departure, my buddy Doug calls and said he had found a horse for us. He went on to say that this guy goes to coffee every morning at 5 am, and if we wanted it we had to be there at 4:45 am SHARP! I assured him we would be there, and we were. The guy says, pull your truck over by that correl and I will load him in for you. I go jump in my truck and try to start it, but it wouldn't turn over. I hear the guy yelling get that over here. The next thing I know is here comes this guy with a front end loader full of this dead horse. I wanted to move my stuff, but he says I don't have time for that and dumps the horse on top of all our gear. He asks if my truck is stick and I say yes, and he say jump in and turn the key on and put it in gear. So he push started us and we were on our way. There was not place to get my truck fixed at such an early hour, so we decided to drive to Price Utah and get it taken care of there. We hit Price at 8:00 am, purchased a new cable as I knew that was the problem. We drove to a steep side street, put on the new cable and tried to start it, but nothing. So we coasted down the hill, got it started and went back to the auto store and ask where we might get it fixed. At 1:30 in the afternoon we were on our way again. But the horse wasn't fairing so well. It was the second week in June, and the temperature was near 100 degrees. Four more hours (in that temperature) crossing the desert by Green River, Utah did not help. By the time we got to camp it was 7:00 PM and we had a horse whose legs were now about 12 inches long if you get the drift. If you didn't, then it won't be long until you do. I backed up to a tree, hooked a chain around the tree and around the leg of the horse and pulled forward, unloading the horse onto the ground. It was now time to skin it and quarter it. Seems as my whole life I have always been a screw around. This time was no exception. The poor old horse lay on the ground, looking to be 3 times the size he was, barely 14 hours before. I squatted down much like a man does to do his thing in the woods. I was just one arms length from the horse and had my sharp Puma floding knife, open and in front of me. Carefully, I lightly touched the sharp blade against the ever so taut stomach of the bloated beast. Clair, standing back, says "You better be careful buddy!" I replied, You just have to know what your doing." Suddenly and without notice I remember hearing a big boom, and I was knocked into a backwards somersault. My mouth and eyes were full of that horses last meal. As I gagged and vomited I could hear Clair laughing in the back ground and when gaining some composure, I would hear him say "Oh Bill!, Oh Bill!" and then break back into laughter until he again would exclaim the same double phrase, two word sentence. My entire front, and the back of my truck was sprayed and plastered gut green. With in 3 or 4 minutes I too was laughing and vomiting intermittently. I have never seen a guy laugh harder in my life than did Clair. He maintains to this day, it was one of his very favorite days on earth, and the hardest laugh of his life. He said I felt so sorry for you, but it was just so funny I could not help laughing. But he says he was torn between the humor and my suffering, which by the way, I did! Clair still claims if we had a video of that event, we could retire from its royalties. When he tells the story, and people ask, " Did it get in his mouth?", He proudly says, "Hell, it puffed his cheeks!" Have a great bowhunt, and always be careful with a knife. BB

From: TK Date: 25-May-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Man Windnose, I almost spit my Pepsi all over the screen on that one. Good thing I didn't eat beans for lunch, or Id have really lost it... 223

From: WindNose Date: 26-May-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post TK, Everytime I read it, I cry from laughter! This was not me. It was BB from Utah. (I'm from Utah also and want to meet BB some day. TK, you are the one who started this mess many moons ago!!!!! Isn't life fun. 224

From: The_Chosen_One Date: 01-Aug-01 ttt 225

From: Stumpman Date: 10-Nov-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Thought some of you would like to see this again. 226

From: The_Chosen_One Date: 10-Nov-01 You thought wrong buddy! NNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's BACK!!!! 227

From: Chiller Date: 10-Nov-01 Thinking about starting a Dead Cow Hunting Plantation here in S.C. It won't really be fairchase, it'll be more of a canned hunt. I've got the Spam hidden in various places throughout the property. Call 1-800-DEA-DCOW 228

From: Chiller Date: 10-Nov-01 Didn't know this was a PETA site. People Experimenting on Terminated Animals 229

From: ChrisR Date: 20-Nov-01 ttt 8*) 230

From: Joe Mattingly Date: 20-Nov-01 Would you believe I talked to TK the other night. He's now living near Mineral Wells, and has got his wife and kids away from the metroplex. I don't know if he's still on line. He's a good guy. I hear the buzzards and cows give him a wide berth. Joe. 231

From: STICKMAN :)<-< Date: 21-Nov-01 Man, I thought this thread died long ago. I guess ghosts do exist. :)<-< 232

From: LINECUTTER Date: 21-Nov-01 You know when I saw this I was willing to bet money that The Chosen One was at it again. I see there are others that will dig up the dead. DANNY 233

From: Jim Date: 21-Nov-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post WOW!! What a educational thread!!! The next time I go hunting for cows I'll know exactly which broadhead and bow poundage to use.I was also totally unaware that dead animals rot and that animals eat other animals too!! Let's start another thread like "what's the biggest crap anyones ever taken?" GET a life guys!! 234

From: KN Date: 21-Nov-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I wonder if he ever got his broadhead back. 235

From:  Black Wolf Date: 07-Dec-01 LMAOSCOMK.......... laughin' my arse off spittin' coffee on my keyboard! 236

From: ChrisR Date: 07-Dec-01 I wonder if you shoot a dead cow if you might get lucky and nail a possum too....8~). Chris 237

From: Jay Date: 08-Dec-01 When I was going to school there was a big hereford dead beside the road that had been hit by a truck. For three days we all looked at it from the school bus, getting bigger and bigger in the hot sun with it's legs sticking straight out, and then a car load of young fellas ran over and stood it up! It stood for a couple of days with it's tongue out and it's head down before it's legs finally splayed out and it slumped to the ground. Last summer we had a cow die calving- about a third of the calf sticking out- and she puffed up tighter than a drum for about three days until the pressure was too much and she "gave birth". Mother and son not doing very well at all! Jay (In Oz). 238

From: STICKMAN :)<-< Date: 20-Dec-01 I hadn't read this whole thread before so yesterday at work I printed it out (all 58 pages). I ended up going to the bathroom 4 times so I could read it. People really wonder about a person who is locked in a stall laughing his head off. :)<-< 239

From: Alberto Date: 20-Dec-01 It hink this thread is a monument. There should be an automatic ttt from time to time to let us have some fun! It is the craziest thing I ever read. Alberto 240

From: JE of VA Date: 20-Dec-01 Here's a ttt to the most hilarious thing I have ever seen on the LW. 241

From: Otto Date: 20-Dec-01 I think I'm the only regular here that hasn't posted on this thread. There, that fixed it. Otto 242

From: Jimbow Date: 20-Dec-01 Gentlemen, Let me shed some light on the lack of penetration on the dead "steak-umm on the hoof",...you see, after eons of archers hunting dead cows,...they have responded in turn by growing a thick gristle shield shortly after death to stop the penetration of field points,..its just the way nature reacts and modifies itself against being killed twice. So I would recommend a cut on impact head,..and for a helpful hint: Give the dead beast a few days in the hot sun,when the methane gas is at its maximum ...just before sunset sneak up,use all available cover because these things are pretty flighty after a few scorching days,...try and get within 15 yards,...light your best cedar arrow on fire and let it rip and then run like hell!Its fairly entertaining and you can sit down for a hot meal shortly thereafter. 243

From: Horseman Date: 20-Dec-01 I've worked with farm animals all my life, been around some pretty colorful folks who do the same and who all enjoy hunting of some fashion. These people can spread some funny tales a long way, but this has got to be the funniest thing I have ever read in my life, I can hardly type this without laughing my head off. Cheers to the fella who started this and woe be to any dead cow that comes across the path of anyone who has contributed to or read this thread. 244

From: Horseman Date: 20-Dec-01 I've worked with farm animals all my life, been around some pretty colorful folks who do the same and who all enjoy hunting of some fashion. These people can spread some funny tales a long way, but this has got to be the funniest thing I have ever read in my life, I can hardly type this without laughing my head off. Cheers to the fella who started this and woe be to any dead cow that comes across the path of anyone who has contributed to or read this thread. 245

From: LT Date: 20-Dec-01 Dead Cows are for sissy's. DEAD SHEEP IS WHERE IT'S AT, take it from me. How the sheep died is not important, what matters is that they have been out in the sun for at least two solid weeks. When you smack a dead cow, . . big deal, sure you get that hollow slurping sound we all like so much, but other than that, it's pretty much old hat, heck . . .like they say "It's been done". Now Dead SHEEP, . . that's a whole "nuther ballgame. Give 'er a whirl if you get a chance, You'll be GLAD you did! It's one of life's little pleasures. Dead Cows, No. . . Dead Sheep, You son-a-birchin' right!,Boy. . . . LT 246

From: Jay Date: 22-Dec-01 Sheep are fun LT, as are pigs and roos, but a cow has more of everything- you get your moneys worth. The trick to maximising the effect is to get real close- about a foot. Kneel down, anchor, and hit the soft spot on the belly about three inches above the udder. If she croaked with a full bag of milk you're gonna get a wonderful multi- coloured bonus. You're hair will be slicked back, your clothes will instantly change colour, you will be cooled down from the instantaneous application of ten gallons of "stuff", and you will be able to make the most wondrous sounds in the back of your throat and regurgitate food that was already within sight of the exit! It's also a great cover scent- even your dog won't recognise you- or your wife. Jay (In Oz). 247

From: matatobo Date: 22-Dec-01 dead cows are cool-im number 250 -richard 248

From: PCH Date: 22-Dec-01 Let it die! Please let this thread die! 249

From: Jay Date: 22-Dec-01 Aw come on Pat- we're headin for three hundred - 252 and counting. Jay (In Oz). 250

From: Rocket 65 Date: 22-Dec-01Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Every time this thing rears its ugly head, I can't figure out if it gets better or worse. Keep it going. 251

From: The Unknown Archer Date: 21-Apr-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post TTT--- HA HA HA YEHA!!!!! Its BACK OOOOOOOO YEA! 252

From: JD Date: 21-Apr-02 IIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!............ 253

From: BamBooBender Date: 21-Apr-02 ttt test on a dead thread? James 254

From: Doc Nock Date: 21-Apr-02 Ahhhh....just like swallows return to Capistrano, back comes the Dead Cow thread... course, it's niave to think cows don't keep dying, huh? 255

From: Newfie Date: 21-Apr-02 This is one of the funniest treads I never read. It's a classic. Can't wait to find my own dead cow....... :) Newfie 256

From: Alberto Date: 23-Apr-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post When I first read this I thought it was too long to be read on the PC scree, so I decided to print. The PC said, are you sure??? Yes, Again my printer... sure sure??? Than I understood why!!! It's really funny Alberto 257

From: Nancy Drew Date: 23-Apr-02 This is the first time I've ever laughed this hard and long about one of these threads! Good thing no one else is in the office right now! I'll take one of the "can't kill a dead cow with field points" shirts, and I want one with "To arrow is human, to forgive bovine." (Was that you, Rugman? I can't find it again.) You guys crack me up! I guess you can't kill a dead thread with field points, either! 258

From: gasloffer Date: 23-Apr-02 opening this thread was like stepping in the biggest cow paddy ever. 259

From: OldFart Date: 23-Apr-02 This OldFart realizes that this thread should really be in its infancy, not in its death throes. Just think of the possibilities, unless you have a weak stomach! Since I'm very!! familiar with emissions, let's start with "Max emissions -- 3 blade or 2 blade." Or "Particles and Pathogenics, Max emissions, Longbow VS. Recurve" or "Olfactory Factories, Archery At Its Best" Or "Regurgation Percolation, Trad vs. Modern" Enuf for now, I need to rush to the bathroom, hope the seat is up! Ray 260

From: LT Date: 25-Apr-02 God Help me, . . . I Love the smell of DEAD COW in the morning! Best thing about Dead Cow Hunting, no bag limits, No minimum bow weight, and REALLY short blood trails. Dead Cow, . . .the OTHER Green Meat. LT 261

From: William Blake Date: 25-Apr-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Thank you so much for bringing this thread back. I've been in the news so much for allegedly performing a pistol test on a live cow that I need a break. Like a jail break, you know. Anyway, does anybody know if my ex-cow (wife) ever used any racial slurs. 262

From: NoCowPokeMe Date: 25-Apr-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Ever hear the song " Cows with Guns " by Dana Lyons ? It's about cattle fighting back against man . Basically a real big flap , involving a dust-up and other wild tails. you can download it from KaZaA Lite which is the same as KaZaA without the spyware ... or so they say. 263

From: flntknp17, not at home Date: 25-Apr-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I can't believe we have been seeing this thread for over 2 1/2 years now! It makes my day every time. the posters read like a leatherwall hall of fame. matt (ya I am still around occasionaly) spelling poorly too! 264

From: LostHawg Date: 12-Jun-02 Would you gap shoot a dead cow or Instinctive? My bet would be gap since no one would instinctively shoot a dead cow. LOL 265

From: RJS Date: 12-Jun-02 point of aim you wouldn't have to look at it. 266

From: Eagleye Date: 12-Jun-02 Here we go again! Just can't let dead cows lay 267

From: Festus Date: 12-Jun-02 eagleye......dead cows cant lay dude.....shoot, dead chickens cant even lay........:^)......Jim 268

From: Festus Date: 12-Jun-02 BTW, without a doubt POA......Jim 269

From: LostHawg Date: 13-Jun-02 maybe 6 under? 270

From: Jay Date: 13-Jun-02 About three quarters of the way through this thread, one of my cows died. Can't even find any bones now, so the deceased ungulate that was honoured with the birth of this thread must be long gone. We need a new cow- but same old thread! Jay (In Oz). 271

From: Alberto Date: 13-Jun-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I need to update my saved version of this. I was at 220 answers. Now there are 50 more! This is a Zombie thread! Alberto 272

From: indybow Date: 14-Jun-02 Okay, I've been on the leatherwall for 1 1/2 years, and purposely avoided this thread because of the sheer number of posts. I was lazy and didn't want to read them all. I was bored tonight, and saw this ttt again. I have to say that this is the funniest thread I have ever read.... on ANY forum. TK, you are definately THE MAN. I grew up on a farm, and have seen alot of dead animals.... and never ONCE thought about flinging an arrow into one of them. Man, if I only knew the scientific significance of an experiment like that!! I could have applied for grants, and stayed on the farm shootin' dead animals. We had cows, sheep, hogs, donkeys. I could have told ya which broadhead worked best on which domestic animal. Man, I missed my callin'. I could be swayed towards a particular head.... for a small fee!! This thread is too funny!!!!!!!!!!!! MIKE 273

From: Mark Normand Date: 14-Jun-02 TK..I think your 1st post at the top is the funniest of all. Every time I re-read it I just crack up. You painted a great picture...Kudos to you for many laughs since this started! 274

From: hillbillybowman Date: 14-Jun-02 shot a dead steer with a .45 acp. only to deflate him so we could move him later with a tractor and bury him. sorry no juice, just gas. 275

From: doehunter Date: 14-Jun-02 Is a Texas Heart Shot ethical on a dead cow? I guess it is even with a practice point, but you would have to close your mouth when you shot. You wouldn't want folks thinking you had a sewer mouth. 276

From: the cow Date: 14-Jun-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Can't we all just get along...... :o) "Got Milk?" 277

From: One Way Date: 14-Jun-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post What would you call the "GRAND SLAM" of dead animals? What animals would it be? TK.. Great Thread! Pete 278

From: tom sawyer Date: 14-Jun-02 I don't know if this has already been mentioned (since I don't have the hours it would take to read through this thread again), but Dr. Saxton Pope mentioned shooting at carcasses to test penetration in his book Hunting with the Bow and Arrow. They were gearing up to hunt Grizzlys I believe. He didn't tell it as well as TK though. Pete since a Denny's Grand Slam comes with either bacon or sausage, I'd figure hogs would have to be one of the four. And cows, of course. The other two should be more exotic to make it a challenge. 279

From: Cornbread Date: 14-Jun-02 The good ones never die. 280

From: cornbread Date: 14-Jun-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post or you could try flinging a cow 281

From: Longbow Mike N.C. Date: 14-Jun-02 Chuck Adams has a dead cow in his back yard.Moooooooooooo Mooooooooooo! 282

From: LostHawg Date: 14-Jun-02 ttt to keep us normal 283

From: Van/TX Date: 14-Jun-02 Good grief ;-) TK, you still out there? See what you started......Van 284

From: Jay Date: 14-Jun-02 Doe hunter you don't need to close your mouth to Texas heart shoot a dead cow, but I'd advise you to hold your breath while retrieving the arrow. Grand slam would have to include a mule- if you can find one. I don't think anybody's ever seen a dead mule- aliens must come and collect 'em or somethin. Jay (In Oz). 285

From: LostHawg Date: 14-Jun-02 Aliens? I'd think a clandestine group from Missouri; The Missouri Coalition for the Recovery of Dead Mules. I hear they wear gray sheets and hold midnight rallies to instigate uprisings against those who plow their fields using oxen and tractors. hmm 286

From: pete Date: 15-Jun-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Can you get mad cow disease from a dead cow. 287

From: The_Chosen_One Date: 15-Jun-02 Pete, it's dead, it has no emotions therefore it cannot be a mad cow. So my answer would be, No. 288

From: DR Date: 15-Jun-02 Can someone tell me how much it would cost to get a full body dead cow mount done for my trophy room? Was going to go hunting on my farm to day for a dead cow but temperatures have dropped off and they dont seem to be moo-ving. besides that the cooler weather were having here seems to realy affect trophy quality. 289

From: Goose in GA Date: 15-Jun-02 Was just wondering, since this thread is so infectious, isn't it turning into some kind of dead cow disease? 290

From: E.Newman Date: 15-Jun-02 Holyee COW HOLYee COW ,Its Back Again?????? 291

From: Festus Date: 15-Jun-02 Up^......just gotta moo-vit back top the top......I think it's gonna break 300..........Jim 292

From: STICKMAN :)<-< Date: 16-Jun-02 I think the best aiming style to use on a dead cow is the gap method. The biggest gap you can get between you and the cow. :)<-< 293

From: DD Date: 16-Jun-02 Perhaps youre bow is too weak, my 85# self-longbow penetrates 1mm mild steel plates at 5 mtrs. with field points (though it is pretty hard on the field points) 294

From: the Razorhead Date: 16-Jun-02 Friends dont let friends shoot dead cows? 295

From: the Razorhead Date: 16-Jun-02 Better than being from Montana, and having all your girlfriends miss you and want you baa-aack... 296

From: Biff Date: 16-Jun-02 "I used to kiss the old brown cow, she gave me milk and cheese. But now I'm in the infermery, with hoof and mouth disease!. Biff 297

From: Festus Date: 16-Jun-02 I just wanted to be 300.......:^).....Jim 298

From: Canada Date: 16-Jun-02 We had a softball team that was called The Mad Cows! 299

From: LostHawg Date: 17-Jun-02 Wonder if Ted Nugent ever hunted dead cows?!?!? 300

From: BamBooBender Date: 17-Jun-02 I don't mind looking at this thread again now that I have a cable modem. 8^) James 301

From: A.Canfield Date: 17-Jun-02 As in all hunting and especially with dead cow hunting wind direction is deffinetely important. 302

From: Vandiver Date: 17-Jun-02 Dead cows know only one thing. It is better to be alive. 303

From: jenkins Date: 06-Sep-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post season open yet? 304

From: bowdog Date: 06-Sep-02 TK, That makes you the world's only real "COW POKE". Instead of a Texas Heart Shot, this might be considered a Texas Fart Shot !!! LOL 305

From: gasloffer Date: 06-Sep-02 if its a dairy cow you could practice picking a spot 306

From: Critter Date: 07-Sep-02 You guys are sumpthin else!! I LMAO several times. Good stories fellas. 307

From: hillbillybowman Date: 07-Sep-02 this thread will live forever! i milked cows for 11 years, trust me the only good cow is a dead cow. 308

From: bearhunterdan Date: 07-Sep-02 Now I'm going to start something. If you'd ahead one them thar Blackwida's yer err woda been a pass thru... 309

From: STICKMAN :)<-< Date: 09-Sep-02 Can't wait to find a new job so I can print this out on someone elses printer. 310

From: Cooter Date: 13-Nov-02 Heres the thread I wanted. Sorry. Cooter 311

From: countrygirl Date: 13-Nov-02 Yeah.......I thought the other one was too short. d 312

From: TTT Date: 13-Nov-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post T 313

From: BH Date: 13-Nov-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post This theread is jsut like the energizer bunny, it keeps going and going and going and going and...... BH 314

From: Cooter Date: 13-Nov-02 Here is why I brought this TTT. I went out bow hunting last night and saw the farmer had drug a small dead cow into his one field. She was bloated about 4 feet around and two limbs had attained critical lift off. I have to admit I had to stand and watch her for a couple of minutes and reminice about the thread Penitration Test on a Dead Cow. If she wouldn't have been so close to the farm I think I would have seen how far these 475gr POC's tipped with 125gr Magnus's would have penitrated her just because of that thread. Never did see any possums emerge from her either. Dang, I'm glad the farmer didn't see me laughing at that cow. If he had I'm sure he'd have called the men in white to take me away. Cooter I'll see if I can find that thread and bring it to the top. Now there's some good reading. 315

From: STICKMAN :)<-< Date: 13-Nov-02 Wow, it's back again. 316

From: Alberto Date: 19-Dec-02 Reading this makes me want to read the LW again and again! It is not funny just to be read... but that it is coming up from time to time! Alberto 317

From: countrygirl Date: 19-Dec-02 :-) Cool! 318

From: Muskrat and Raven Date: 20-Dec-02 Dead cows only know one thing... that it is better to be alive. 319

From: countrygirl Date: 20-Dec-02 lol 320

From: JD Date: 20-Dec-02 Just in time for the holiday season...... ..."you can push a buzzard to far"... Ha 321

From: TTT Date: 20-Dec-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post This cow (thread) aint dead yet 322

From: countrygirl Date: 20-Dec-02 The dead cow lives! Dina 323

From: BH Date: 20-Dec-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post TTT 324

From: Doc Nock at work Date: 20-Dec-02Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Bringing it back is all subliminal (say wha?) cause I keep seeing these road killt deer hereabouts with legs in lift-off and it always make me think of this thread... I'm wondering if whomever drug it up this time may have been like me...see a dead one in launch pad position and think of this fun, insane, inane thread and go find it again... :) Cracks me up! 325

From: BoarSight Date: 20-Dec-02 A Redneck's Dead Cow Christmas 'Twas the night before Christmas, please listen now; Not a creature was stirring, not even a cow; When out in the field there came a foul smell, I sprang from the bed to see what “In the …” The moon on the horns of the new-fallen bovine Gave the lustre of mid-day from here to near Irvine, And I saw when my wondering eyes came in tune, A possom, a vulture and eight baby coons. "Now, BARFO! now, UPCHUCK! now, RALPH and RANCID! On, GAGME! on RETCH! On HEAVE HO and PUTRID! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now Cookies away! Lunch away! Hash away all!" And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the doublewide, A scratching and clawing like the tearing of a hide. As I drew in my hand, and was turning around, Down the stove pipe a buzzard came with a bound. He was scrubby and scruffy, a stinky old bird, And I gagged when I saw him, he smelled like a t…; A blink of his eye and a twist of his head, And for a minute I feared he thought I was dead; He made not a sound, but made a sniff or two, And giving a flap, up the stovepipe he flew; He flew to the carcass, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all scurried like the down of a thistle. But I swear I heard him, ere he flew out of sight, "Dead Cow or Low Brow they both smell quite ripe!" Apologies to Clement Clarke Moore Twang 326

From: Muskrat and Raven Date: 21-Dec-02 for the 3rd time ... twang is a poet...pat and brian... leave it on this time 327

From: Muskrat and Raven Date: 22-Dec-02 328

From: Bloodhound Date: 22-Dec-02 Twang that was great... James Young 329

From: FD of VA Date: 22-Dec-02 I can't pass a road kill and not judge the stage of liftoff due to this thread. Got to be the funniest one yet. 330

From: STICKMAN :)<-< Date: 22-Dec-02 I posted 4 times to this site yesterday. First they were ther then they were gone. I started another thread yesterday. It was there most of the day then it was gone. Something very strange was going on with this site yesterday. I posted to other threads also and my posts diapeared. Hope we're back to 'normal' now. 331

From: FD of VA Date: 22-Dec-02 Same here. I posted a few responses to threads and looks like they got pulled. No reason, no bad language or any kind of slams. Thought it was my 'puter. Now I am wondering. Seems to be back on track today. 332

From: flyrodsnstickbows Date: 23-Dec-02 hmmmmm....mine are gone too. wierd 333

From: countrygirl Date: 07-Jan-03 Wow.........the squirrel thred passed this big time! Dina 334

From: Twang Date: 07-Jan-03 It cannot be allowed. Twang 335

From: countrygirl Date: 07-Jan-03 LOL! d 336

From: Muskrat and Raven Date: 07-Jan-03 The triumphant return of Bossie! 337

From: Thumper Date: 08-Jan-03 Bow Test On Dead Cow, Yea right! Bowhunter was hunting on lease; and the hunters were all talking about the sick cow that finally died right under the bow stand tree. The Bowhunter [not his real name] had made his own broadheads and now was the perfect time for a test. You guessed it, the cow jumped up,ran off and really died. Farmer was paid cash on the spot for his cow: He later claimed he trained her to play dead. 338

From: Shadowhawk Date: 08-Jan-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post A couple of days ago, we were shooting in the back yard and we heard a cow in the field ahead of us making the most believable "dying cow" noise that you could imagine. It was at that time that I remembered this thread and said to my wife: "Boy I sure am glad we haven't lost any arrows." But of course, we all know that you can't kill a dead cow with field points! 8^) Johnny 339

From: Doug SC Date: 08-Jan-03 A most famous line if there ever was one! I laughed long at that remark, and the truth it holds. 340

From: MU Mike Date: 09-Jan-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I just couldn't help reviving this thread. I'm new to the LW and was searching the archives and found it (while eating lunch). I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Thanks TK et al. Great quotes. I like the flying janitors and you can push a buzzard too far. What a hoot! I do have one question for TK. Was it fair chase? I suspect that you farm is fenced and she wasn't free to come and go as she pleased. The antis may have more or a problem with that than shooting a dead cow. Something to think about. Mike 341

From: countrygirl Date: 09-Jan-03 I used to think this thread took forever to scroll down through......now I don't! :) Dina 342

From: Muskrat and Raven Date: 09-Jan-03 OK OK, The squirrel thread has 500+ hits on it, you guys are dogging it... We have to get this dead stinking rotting carcass of a cow back to the stature it deserves, we're better than a squirrel... course 200 of these threads disappeared too, makes ya think squirrel paid somebody off. 343

From: WindNose Date: 09-Jan-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post A few springs ago we (my wife and I) were participating in the Yearly Great Carp Spawning & Flinging Festival held every year in the murky marshes of Utah Lake. After chasing around a fairly fat female with my favorite festival fletching protruding out the far side (no double lung hit here...), we stood on this submerged turf mound to see where my fellow festival friends were flinging. Something below our feet felt foreign. After carefully checking it out (don't ask...)You may have fathomed the "submerged turf mound" was found to be one of the famous fraternity of the Dead Cow. As quickly and carefully as possible we decended from the bloated beast before boosting off. Even with the added tenderizing, no penetration possible per our passionate post portly plunking. 344

From: RUGMAN Date: 09-Jan-03 The "Squirrel skin" thread may hold the record for hits but but alas it was just a flash in the pan with no staying power. The "Dead cow" thread is by far the longest living! Since Sept. 13, 1999! Like all dead cows this one will be lingering around seemingly forever, long after the "Squirrel" thread is just a memory... Rugs 345

From: Muskrat and Raven ?bcrid=75526&mybcrid=188806&message_id=962186"> Private Reply Date: 09-Jan-03 Prayers go out to Windnose, man that got to be the worse, while carp fishin.... lmao anyway... 346

From: willie Date: 09-Jan-03 Wow! I hadn't read this until this evening and now I know why!!! LOL!!! My brother in law once had a 100# +/- 10# black lab that was getting old. My brother in law felt bad about him not getting around as he used to be able too and thought it would be a good idea to let the old dog sleep in the boiler room, just off the garage. Well, the dog up and died one night in, yep you guessed it, the 85+ degree boiler room. He has a three foot wide service door going off the back of the boiler room and he called me the next morning telling me the dog had apparently died during the night and asked if I'd mind coming over to help get the dog out of the room. I didn't give it any thought about how big around a dead dog could get but when I saw the dog "two limbs had achieved lift off" and he looked like a 100 gallon drum with legs. We pulled on him for what seemed to be a half hour and I was ready to go get my gun and put a hole in him when he finally slid through the doorway. Oh BTW, my brother in law didn't appreciate the idea of poking a hole in his dead "pet" with a bullet. Just a thought to store away for future reference. DW I didn't 347

From: willie Date: 09-Jan-03 BTW, I haven't had a good laugh like this since I saw Sparta T open the fake "rattler in a box" keyring display. Thanks guys. This has been interesting, to say the least. My wife thinks I'm even crazier than she thought, with me laughing aloud at the pc. Thanks again to Tom also. You know I love you or I wouldn't have laughed so hard. DW p.s. I ain't lookin forward to the payback! 348

From: WindNose Date: 10-Jan-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Willie, "he looked like a 100 gallon drum with legs." That must have been a sight! I can't imagine a black lab in that condition... Any number of these messages could spawn their own thread!!! 349

From: WindNose Date: 10-Jan-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Muskrat and Raven, Dead Cows and Carp are a nasty combination! BTW, I lived around Penn State area as a kid while my Dad was going to graduate school. You are probably a Pitt fan, or Temple, etc. Are there carp in PA? 350

From: flyrodsnstickbows Date: 10-Jan-03 Long live the dead cow. unite former and future fletching flingers and carry this bloated beast to the glory that she deserves. TTT forever 351

From: Stickman :)<-< Date: 10-Jan-03 Gotta agree folks. Even though I started that squirrel hide thread I never expected it to take off as it did. I also believe it has run it's course. Dead cow is still my favorite thread and I hope it's around a lonf, long time. 352

From: Muskrat and Raven Date: 10-Jan-03 hats off to the squirrel meister, but we here in dead-cow land, are a proud bunch (maybe a little stinky)but we still hold our noses high 353

From: Killdeer Date: 10-Jan-03 I've been trying all season for a dead cow, and now it's over. Even though I have come home empty handed, my heart is full of the priceless memories that only the lonely hunter can harvest. I have not a single regret for any of the precious hours spent in my treestand, hunting the elusive dead cow. I'm sure most of you know how I feel, God bless this Brotherhood of the Bow!! Next Year! Killdeer. 354

From: Larry 4 Bears Date: 10-Jan-03 Ode(R) to a dead cow: Dead Cow once grazed grass, but now you're dead With big ol' buzzards circling 'bout your head For so many long years your life was fil't, with chewing cud, and giving milk Even now, though you are dead and cold, your memory lives on, your legacy unfolds We honor you with tales of craft & wit, though you now smell like a pile of Sh_ _ Dead cow be glad, you are not forgotten, though your flesh has turned, and your innards are rotten Your memories so much like camp file coals still glow, in idiots like us, . . . who live & die by the bow Gotta go now old cow, for my bed roll beckons, By tomorrow you stink even worse, I reckon L4B 355

From: dunleav1 Date: 10-Jan-03 I thankful TK wasn't from West Virginia ! God knows what kind of experiment he would have tried. 356

From: Bloodhound on wifes computer Date: 10-Jan-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post oh yeah ..... the squirrel thread may have more hits but I'll wager that a dead cows legs get better lift off than a squirrels? James Young 357

From: countrygirl Date: 10-Jan-03 I bet your right James! Dina 358

From: Muskrat and Raven Date: 11-Jan-03 Thank-you Larry 4 Bears for that deep and satisfying tribute. Can we all now rise and sing "Go Tell It On The Mountain" 359

From: Larry 4 Bears Date: 11-Jan-03 Muskrat and Raven, Brothers, I say to youa, even though the cow is deada, yet shall she livea. In the realm of stickbowa, and foreva Please rise and sing, "shall we gather at the dead cow" 360

From: countrygirl Date: 11-Jan-03 LOL! d 361

From: WindNose Date: 13-Jan-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post L4B, That brought me to tears... 362

From: Troy/Oh Date: 13-Jan-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post this has to be the funniest thing I have ever read :) Please continue the field tests 363

From: odie-wan Date: 13-Jan-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post I haven't read this post in over a year. I can't believe IT'S STILL HERE!! Ya'll are so funny it makes milk shoot out of my nose!! - Dead Cow 364

From: Nook Date: 13-Jan-03 As I sat in my tree stand looking at the bleached cow skull, this thread brought back happy memories. For a test of my own I pulled out a judo point and plugged that sucker. Bovine justice!!! The judo point vanished on impact. Did it break off or enter that Twilite zone of dead cow testing? I thought I heard a ghostly cow mooo..... 365

From: BOWANA Date: 14-Jan-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post The rag flew out the wind flew in now the old cows alive again. Baaaaahhhhhhhhhh 366

From: flyrodsnstickbows2 Date: 14-Jan-03 Watch out ole dead cow, Kyle's got a hefty new bow and he's coming for ya! Let's see you stop field points out of this 68#er 367

From: twisted~limb Date: 16-Mar-03 On the way home from indoor nationals, I spied her, that big voluptuous, hindenberg of an animal. Bigger than a bull moose! She was a 4 point, the best you could hope for, with all 4 points, pointing due north. This was the one I’d been waiting for. A Pope & Young fur sure. With cat-quick reflexes, I quickly assembled the recurve. Cautiously performed a sneak, for I knew the slightest sound would cause the big bugger to “lift off”! I came up on one knee, was at full draw – in anticipation of the field point burying itself directly below the front top point (that’s where they teach you to shoot a dead cow in bow ed), best location to kill a dead cow! When I saw it just above the beast, NO it cant be I said to myself, but there it was, I could believe it, the “NO DEAD COW TESTING ALLOWED” sign. That darn cow knew right where to keel over. Now I’ll have to wait another year. 368

From: JD Date: 16-Mar-03 That sign saved your life!! You could have set of a "dirty cow bomb". 369

From: Larry 4 Bears Date: 18-Mar-03 is that like a "cud" missile? 370

From: madpigslayer Date: 18-Mar-03 Larry that took you TWO DAYS!!!!!!!!!!! (heh he) 371

From: Redbone Date: 19-Mar-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Can't let this die!! ttt 372

From: Countrygirl Date: 19-Mar-03 LOL! 373

From: Shadowhawk Date: 19-Mar-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!! Well what do you know! It's "The Return of the Dead Cow"! Hey, wasn't that one of them "B" movies? Johnny 374

From: moose/MI Date: 19-Mar-03 Well, the squirrel might have a few more postings but if this site counted viewings I'm sure this one would be a "dead" ringer for the top spot. Almost couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it come back around again. Live on-live on..... moose/MI 375

From: JDS3 Date: 19-Mar-03 We need to develope a new "dead cow" tested field point.. Proven to penetrate even the toughest dead cow hide!!! LOL 376

From: FD of VA Date: 19-Mar-03 Gotta make sure there are prongs or barbs on the backside of it, to make sure it won't come back on you from the internal pressure. LOL 377

From: springbuck Date: 19-Mar-03 Last year out huntin in northern Ut at least twelve dead cows in various stages, in my traditional haunts. Only one was still shootable, all four feet straight up, belly as big as a waterbed, and I was sorely tempted. Couldn't drive by w/o laughing too hard to see straight. Then, on the third day, this mom from another camp has about 8 kids walking down off the road to go look at the dead cow, and I'm thinking, "please God, no, not the kids" Cuz I know how boys are and some of them are carrying pointy sticks. 378

From: 'rat and raven Date: 19-Mar-03 should we do a penetration test on Sad-am Hussein or was the first strike just a penetration test of cruise missles? How would a dead cow hold up to a cruise missle? 379

From: REDBONE Date: 20-Mar-03 ttt 380

From: BH Date: 20-Mar-03Pre-L2 Unregistered Post Forget the cow lets use possums instaerd! 381

From: Stickhead Date: 20-Mar-03 Here's a penetration test -- how many swollen cows does it take to bust an Iraqi bunker? Maybe if we used them instead of diasy-cutters the French would join in. After all, cows were their weapon of choice in The Holy Grail, right? ...but then, I digress. 382

From: Larry 4 Bears Date: 20-Mar-03 to use a dead cow as a weapon, you first have to figure out how to "Fling" them. The flinging is the easy part, loading them in the flinger is the challenge. 383

From: Cueball Date: 27-Jul-03 Just thinking how cool this thread would have been with the new upload features pat has given us.  He he .................................................Roby........................................ 384

From: muskrat and raven Date: 27-Jul-03 We will now have a moment of silence to honor our late guest.... the dead cow 385

From: muskrat and raven Date: 27-Jul-03 In a month and a half this thread will be 4 years old... should we throw a surprise birthday party for the dead cow? Imaginge the look on it's face... 386

From: Harvester Date: 27-Jul-03 dead cow rose from the dead again 387

From: Canyon Date: 27-Jul-03 Thank Goodness we didn't have the ability to upload photo's back when this thing got started. Imagine how long in would take to load!!! 388

From: Crazy Arrow Date: 28-Jul-03 ROTFLMAO.....?? Sorry, but last night when I read this thread - yes the whole thing it took me an hour thank you very much and at midnight no less - somewhere along the line, while wiping away tears, I missed the meaning of ROTFLMAO. Can someone enlighten me. SOrry to be so dense. And yes, this was the first time I had seen this thread, but it won't be the last. It is as classic as an episode of M*A*S*H. Instantly. Anything that can make a grown man stay up an hour past bedtime, laughing out loud and wishing there was more is worth keeping going. Thanks EVERYONE!! It was so refershing to not hear a discussion on anything, just plain fun!! Crazy Arrow 389

From: Jessie Date: 28-Jul-03 ROTFLMAO = Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off Hope This Helps (HTH) - Jess 390

From: BunneyHunter Date: 26-Aug-03 ttt sorry its a classic 391

From: limbwalker Date: 26-Aug-03 Classic indeed!   There's a groundhog down the road from my house that really needs the air let out of it, but I ain't brave enough to try.  This thread came to mind when I saw it though. Dang thing looks like someone threw out a love seat on the side of the road.  Okay, maybe just an ottoman, but I'm sure it caught the attention of a few college students! HA! I wonder who the 400th poster will be?  I ain't staying up late enough to find out, though. John. 392

From:  Rod Strabala Date: 26-Aug-03 If Pat wants to test the loading time of the 'wall by someone using a dial-up internet service, this is the thread to do it with. Takes pretty much FOREVER, and I'm connected at 50666 bps tonight. 393

From: peterpan Date: 26-Aug-03 Die cow, die! why wont you stay dead! Though this is kinda funny, and yes it takes awhle even with highspeed internet. PP 394

From: Canyon Date: 26-Aug-03 I was reading the ACS test report and thought that engineer mumbo jumbo tells you a lot.        But a dead cow..... Now there's a test!!!   395

From: Cooter Date: 26-Aug-03 We need to write ASTM(American Standard of Testing Methods) and apply for bow testing on dead cow. It could go on the shelf next to the testing of cockpit glass(if I'm not mistaken) by shooting chickens from a cannon. Guess the Brit's got slightly confused by the test some years ago. They were using frozen checken carcasses versus thawed which wasn't specified with in the test procedure 8^) Cooter 396

From: limbwalker Date: 26-Aug-03 Oh, the shooting chickens from a cannon is a classic test.  Right up there with the dead cow!  Did you ever see the chicken bounce off that glass in slow motion.  Pretty cool. John. 397

From: Unknown Deleted Participant Date: 26-Aug-03 Insert to replace deleted post. 398

From: Unknown deleted Participant Date: 26-Aug-03 Insert to replace deleted post. 399

From: limbwalker Date: 26-Aug-03 I can't believe it.  Did I do it?  Am I number 400 ????  YEEEHHHAAAAWWWW!!!! John. 400

From:  J. Kendall Date: 26-Aug-03 Damn limbwalker, ya beat me to it. 401

From: Rex Featherlin Date: 26-Aug-03 What happens if you find a dead cow wearing squirrel foot earrings? I can't find the regulations if it would be legal to shoot it or not! 402

From: swampbuck Date: 26-Aug-03 Hey guys we can put pictures on here now anybody got some.Of course that maybe a bad thing 403

From: osageghost Date: 26-Aug-03 404

From: osageghost Date: 26-Aug-03 has already attained lift-off, lol 8?) 405

From: limbwalker Date: 26-Aug-03 Shooting a few field points at a bloated cow is one thing, but Damn Osageghost, that's just sick. John. 406

From: Swampbuck Date: 26-Aug-03 I did say that maybe be a bad thing lol.Can anybody say SPLAT.Now thats gonna leave a mark hahaha 407

From: Stickman :)<-< Date: 26-Aug-03 Again? 408

From: Stickman :)<-< Date: 26-Aug-03 409 hits. It's getting up there. One of the funniest threads ever. 409

From: Rod Strabala Date: 26-Aug-03 And just how big was the bow that launched that cow?? To steal someone else's phrase, I bet it stacks real bad!! 410

From: Glunt Date: 27-Aug-03 Been on here 2+ years and finally opened this thread. I will now spend the next 2 in therapy. Funny stuff. 411

From: huntsmanlance Date: 27-Aug-03 TK What i would have loved to have seen is if you had waited until your bloated cow was covered with the buzzards and "then" shot a hole in it!!! I wonder how far away it would have blown them? 412

From: bluelake Date: 27-Aug-03 I'm just posting to say that I did... 413

From: Joseph Date: 27-Aug-03 I just love this thread, reminds me of an incident 20 years ago when I was not as bright as I am now. Came across a cow that was on the verge of popping, well Here I stood with a 6mm and thought it would be cool to pop the cow. Wasn't thinking about wich way the wind was blowing because I had been walking into it. Pulled the trigger and it looked like a grenade had gone off next to the cow, then the smell arrived and that was the end of the fun! Now I know, if you are going to shoot a skunk or a dead cow get upwind first. 414

From: singlestring Date: 27-Aug-03 I knew I should'nt have opened this! 415

From: huntsmanlance Date: 27-Aug-03 Sorry Trent, but welcome in!!! LOL 416

From: TJCRAIG Date: 27-Aug-03 L.O.L.,, do you got it on video ? that would be a first i bet ! MAN THE STUFF PEOPLE DO L.O.L. TJ 417

From: buckshot Date: 27-Aug-03 Osageghost its a good thing that test wasn't in Alabama where I live. Some lady in curlers and a moomoo, no pun intended, would be on the news at the trailer park. 418

From: singlestring Date: 27-Aug-03 LOL!! I can hear the video now: " We've tracked down our quarry. He's just over the next rise. He's a big'un. What we're gonna do is get down wind of him. Looks like he's resting. Gonna be an easy shot." BAWHAWHAW!!!! Too funny !!!!! 419

From: Tiny Date: 22-Sep-03 I read about this on the Ted Fry apology thread.  This is great 420

From: Joseph Date: 22-Sep-03 Yes it is much better than the Ted's Apology thread. This one is entertaining. The other thread has just become bad example of arguing opinions. 421

From: DERiley Date: 22-Sep-03 Someone want to video this and put it on Reality TV..... If you used a dead donkey, it might be the theme shot for the Jackass movie sequel.  It wold be great on the Willie Wonka Smellovision!! LOL 422

From: barbjd Date: 23-Sep-03 Geez 423

From: Cueball Date: 23-Sep-03 Now I aint one to go around spreading rumors.  "But"  I heard TK didn't actually shoot this cow with his bow.  Kinda makes wonder huh! ...........................................Roby........................................... 424

From: Cueball Date: 23-Sep-03 Now I aint one to go around spreading rumors.  "But"  I heard TK didn't actually shoot this cow with his bow.  Kinda makes wonder huh! ...........................................Roby........................................... 425

From: twigbender Date: 23-Sep-03 Allright!! Something I can laugh about. I have been getting weary seeing that Ted Fry thread pop up. I just figured I would do my part to keep the count on this thread ahead of that one. I've metioned this before and I still stick to it. Quit wasting your time on the dead cow. Kill the alley cat. There are way to many and you don't have to worry about offending someone by killing their "relative reencarnated". 426

From: DERiley Date: 23-Sep-03 Watching the movie "Bubble Boy" the other night with the kids....One part reminded me of this thread....The Hindu was sitting by the cow he had killed with his ice cream truck when it wsa hit by an 18 wheeler....LOL 427

From: DERiley Date: 23-Sep-03 If there is that much elasticity in a dead cow, maybe it could be used in an olympic sport like a trampolene ......or maybe in gymnastics they could replace the horse with a dead cow...LOL 428

From: doehunter Date: 23-Sep-03 Being a "purest" that eats everything he kills, I try to avoid shooting dead animals. Sometimes when you kill a dead animal it tastes kind of funny. It's tender though. 429

From: REB Date: 23-Sep-03 YOU KNOW WY THEY CALL P.M.S. P.M.S. CAUS MAD COWS DISEAS WAS ALLREADY TAKEN!!!!! 430

From: twigbender Date: 24-Sep-03 Doehunter, IF you shoot a dead animal but it is a poor shot and is not in the "kill" zone, do you still have to eat it? 431

From: Ben Moffitt Date: 24-Sep-03 Just keeping "dead" ahead of "ted" 432

From: Caddo Date: 24-Sep-03 So what Kind of cow was it? Was Ted there with a shotgun? LD 433

From: Cooter Date: 24-Sep-03 Would it be considered fair chase to hunt dead cows in a high fence with a compound or cross bow? Or is it just considered fair chase only in open country using stick, string, and wooden arra's? Cooter 434

From: swampbuck Date: 24-Sep-03 I,m not sure how much of a chase it would be I haven,t seen to many dead cows runnin the other way.Should be easy stalkin though remember to approach from down wind lol You can use a shotgun if ya want should have alittle more punch on the impact just don,t stand to close. 435

From: Rollie Date: 24-Sep-03 Yeh, thats right, I remember reading about this story in "North American Dead Cow Hunting Magazine" Yeh, that's it ! 436

From: twigbenderPrivate Reply Date: 29-Sep-03 Common people!!! I know that there isn't much more we can say about the dead cow but the "Fred Ty" thread is gaining ground!! Any thoughts on why the cow died? Do you think she meant it or was she forced into it? I haven't heard anything from the rest of the herd but I think they were behind her. Judging by the description of her "legs attaining lift off" I think she was sincere in her death. Any comments from her mother? sister? farmer that raised her from calf up? 437

From: swampbuck Date: 29-Sep-03 If ya hang that cow over your favorite fishin hole how long do ya think the maggots would keep falling in the water to attract fish?Of coarse that would be baiting the fish so it might not be fairchase fishin. 438

From: Rollie Date: 29-Sep-03 I don't know, did any body actually see the dead cow ? Or was it only his close friends. You know, I heard the ears were kind of droopy..... Not that I want to start anything. 439

From: madpigslayer Date: 30-Sep-03 hi. since this is going to be a record...I get to be "440" thanks. 440

From: smada Date: 05-Oct-03 think of the money making possibilities for chuck adams on this one i wonder if the fitzgeralds would thank god for the opportunity to take a trophy like this. 441

From: Crazy Arrow Date: 14-Oct-03 In case anyone hasn't seen it yet, or you need a good laugh..... ttt 442

From: Bpaul Date: 14-Oct-03 Just read through this... Flatbow, your post is taking the cake for me so far... sensing the attack switched on it's deflector fields... roflmao Brandon 443

From: DA KID Date: 14-Oct-03 I KNEW I WAS GONNA LIKE YOU FOLKS. DIDN'T KNOW HOW MUCH. NOW I KNOW. YOU ARE ALL VERY SICK. HOW MUCH ARE THE TEE SHIRTS? ANY PICTURES ON THEM ? PERHAPS MULTIPLE PICS TAKEN EVERY TEN DAYS IN LITTLE SQUARES. MAYBE IF ALL WE HUNTED WERE DEAD DEER THE peta HEADS WOULD NOT MIND US. MAYBE WE COULD SAY THEY WERE ALREADY DEAD. IE: "I WAS HUNTING AND CAME ON A DEAD BUCK AT SEVEN YARDS. KNEW HE WOULD BOLT SOON ..." THEY WOULD BELEIVE US AND WE COULD ALL GET ALONG. OR NOT. --- LOVE IT. -- IF THIS IS A SICKNESS DO NOT CURE ME. 444

From: countrygirl Date: 14-Oct-03 I see the dead cow lives! Awesome!! Dina 445

From:  JustinJ Date: 20-Dec-03 I saw this referenced in the "Lady Seeks..." thread. While my original intention was to ask if someone really was selling T-shirts (some of the lines are classics and there has to be enough of a following to warrant marketing), I also just couldn't pass up the opportunity to refresh this for the enjoyment of other new LW-ers like myself. This site is incredible and I really would buy a shirt! - Justin 446

From: pondscum2 Date: 20-Dec-03 i used to love to eat wild turkey, but now i am losing my taste for them. this last spring, the landowner had drug a (you guessed it) dead cow up onto the ridge out of his field so the coyotes could get at it. every time i was up through there, i would check on its condition(still dead) and there was always turkeys scratching arond it eating (i hope!) maggots crawling around. at least, i THINK they were turkeys, maybe that's why the guys at the checking station were giving me the eye last year..... 447

From: Backwoods Date: 24-Dec-03 This has to be the funniest darn thing I ever read. LMAO Being from the backwoods though took me 2 days to read it all. Merry Christmas BW 448

From: Irondog Date: 24-Dec-03 I wonder if Mc Kenzie 3D targets would consider a Dead Cow Target for "Trad Clubs of the Inner Circle"? We could have "Lift off Legs"(10yard target) and "Pre and Post-Popped Abdominal Cavity" (maybe longer distances)... Ok, I will go lay by my dish! 449

From: Irondog Date: 24-Dec-03 I wonder if Mc Kenzie 3D targets would consider a Dead Cow Target for "Trad Clubs of the Inner Circle"? We could have "Lift off Legs"(10yard target) and "Pre and Post-Popped Abdominal Cavity" (maybe longer distances)... Ok, I will go lay by my dish! 450

From: Irondog Date: 24-Dec-03 With synthetic Dead Cow Smell, and ooze for realism...OK, Ok, Im done! 451

From: Silvertip Date: 24-Dec-03 yup, i have heard about this post for years, its a legend. im kinda lost for words right now. im gonna go to bed now, and try to forget it ever happened. numb in Kentucky :) 452

From: Africanbowhunter Date: 24-Dec-03 Hear They    found Dead Cow Disease in Washington State yesterday Hee hee  Merry Christmas   TINK 453

From: MT Date: 25-Dec-03 Are there any threads longer than this one? 454

From: Grizzly Date: 25-Dec-03 Christmas eve and the computor is too close to the tree, They're gonna make me move and make way for Santa before I can finish off where I left off from last year. Know I can't read it all now, besides, I know I'd wake the grandkids up laughing. Merry Christmas to all. 455

From: BS Date: 25-Dec-03 Yep! Dead Cows, just got Cheaper! 456

From: MT Date: 25-Dec-03 I'd laugh, BS, but that's prolly true! 457

From: pondscum2 Date: 25-Dec-03 this is great, now i can fill my freezer with ribeyes at a fraction of the usual cost! the way i shot this year, will be the only way i fill it up! LOL! ps2 458

From: Africanbowhunter Date: 25-Dec-03 I thin Squirrel Feet thread is the longest 550+  TINK 459

From: photohunt3 Date: 25-Dec-03 The cow died laughing. The hunter was wandering around the field asking himself how far an arrow would go thu a dead one. The cow thought he was hunting dead cows. 460

From: felipe Date: 26-Dec-03 Finally found the bottom of this thread, sorry for the delay. Reminds me of a shot I made once, hit a big alligator gar square in the head at about four foot range with a solid fish arrow and good point. The arrow bounced back and hit me in the chest so hard it nearly broke a rib. Gar splash water all over me to add a little insult. 461

From: Instictive Date: 26-Dec-03 Okay, I got something.  Has anybody ever shot a MATURE ground hog with a blunt and a 36 pound recurve bow?   I  did...   The ground hog was like laughing under his sleave.  He had to have been thinking, "Is that all you got?"  I remember after making that perfect shot dead center in the center of his rib cage when he was facing me...I remember he just kind of looked at me like, "That was pathetic!"  462

From: LostHawg Date: 31-Dec-03 You know, when I was a kid we always had fireworks for New Years and Independence day. We were ALWAYS looking for something else to blow up. Just imagine... Wow, that'd have to be a blast!!! 463

From: Cooter Date: 08-Mar-04 I think this thread is like a bottle of wine. It just keeps getting better and better with age 8^) 464

From: LostHawg@work Date: 08-Mar-04 Vintage 465

From: timamc4 Date: 08-Mar-04 Unbelievable...funniest thread I have ever read. Thanks for the laugh Rick Aim Hard and Shoot Straight (and hope the arrow doesn't come back at you with various liquids and gases):) 466

From: worn1 Date: 08-Mar-04 I don't believe that anyone posted the "score" for that cow. Was it typical or non-typical--A new world record perhaps--will it be listed with an asterick? Have several other questions too numerous to list. Have a great day! 467

From: BunneyHunter Date: 08-Mar-04 DIE DIE COW DIE ALREADY!!!!!! lol the worlds most famus dead cow! 468

From: swampbuck Date: 08-Mar-04 Hey there BH is that really you?I haven,t checked here alot lately how ya been? 469

From: straitshot Date: 08-Mar-04 470

From: Africanbowhunter Date: 14-Mar-04 The Lousiania Lady seeks a traditional Archer went 1017 +Post-   It was killed by design took too long to load for some guys  TINK 471

From: BunneyHunter Date: 14-Mar-04 Its alive! ALIVE! muwhahahahahaahaha! 472

From: DROPTINE 42 Date: 14-Mar-04 TO BAD TK DIDN'T HAVE A FLAMING ARROW TO TEST ON THE DEAD COW, HE COULD HAVE KILLED,COOKED AND SERVEDHER ALL IN ONE SHOT.:-)DROPTINE 42 473

From: long bo joe Date: 14-Mar-04 This is not right, we hit a deer with our truck when I was a boy my dad put the deer in the back of the camper shell where me and my buddies were riding. he planned on field dressing it later. where we hunt coyotes.everything was cool until we went through the creek bottom. thats when my best buddy decided to set on the deer. to our supprise the deer farted The most gut wrenching smell. we were trapped in the camper could not get out . My dad said we had the look of terror on our face. as we scrambled to escape the camper(which was latched from the outside.) I will never forget that. This is the best  lol.       JOE 474

From: OSO Date: 14-Mar-04 The couple'  Joe Mattingly threads are priceless  --- .....the rest of it...what's the point Pat The Feminine? OSO 475

From: LostHawg Date: 28-May-04 Yep, Joe was a tradbow hunter, that's for sure.  Wonder why there are more tradbow guys who see the humor in things than Compound guys.  You suppose the compound would be a more ethical choice for dead cows? 476

From: caveman Date: 28-May-04 This thread will probably stll be alive for our great-grandchildren. they'll pull out the old dusty computer just to read this caveman 477

From: Africanbowhunter Date: 28-May-04 too durn funny 478

From: purist 1 Date: 28-May-04 the dead cow lives on.....where can I buy 160gr screw in points, and not be screwed with shipping?  ttt 479

From: BunneyHunter Date: 28-May-04 This needs its own website... bowtestonadeadcow.com maybe? BTW i know you shouldint beata dead horse, but is it ethical to beat a dead cow? 480

From: BunneyHunter Date: 28-May-04 Forgot to add, as long as it was legal, while dead cow hunting is it ethical to bait it? 481

From: Roger Norris Date: 28-May-04 Kind of sad noting that TennBow posted on here...... 482

From: BunneyHunter Date: 28-May-04 I miss him too....TTT for TennBow 483

From: Africanbowhunter Date: 29-May-04 for  TennBow 484

From: BunneyHunter Date: 14-Jun-04 TTT-Nostolgia 485

From: felipe Date: 14-Jun-04 During all my teen years I hunted a several thousand acre tract on the Guadalupe River just south of Gonzales Texas.  It was beautiful hunting land, but was also used for grazing hundreds of head of cattle.  Life was harsh and we often found dead cows in the prickly pear filled gullies or stuck in the muck of the river bottoms.  I shot squirrels, rabbits, coons, coyotes, bobcats and deer there but I never shot one dead cow and just now it's soaking in how good the dead cow shooting could have been...  felipe 486

From: Feather Merchant Date: 16-Jun-04 Bovine revenge will be served when this ole dead cow outlives all of you guys. 487

From: LostHawg Date: 16-Jun-04 Tennbow and Joe Mattingly. 488

From: pav Date: 16-Jun-04 As a child a friend and I where quail huntin in S. Texas it still hot in October But we ran ip on a cow carcass and it was swollen, being young and ignorant and my friend Jimmy getting his first shotgun and not shootin anything, we decided to blast the swollen carcass and we did and a putrid smell engulfed us and we got abunch of maggots all over us and in our mouths, it was so grosss, we both heeved and started laughin and vomit came out of Jimmys nose, really gross 489

From: LostHawg Date: 21-Jul-04 Ya suppose one of those G5 Montecs would fare very well against this beast. Will she never die??? I think, by far, this thread has done more good for the stickbow site than any of the most recent threads. So, let's see how the G5 does. Any takers? 490

From: Curry Plantation Date: 22-Jul-04 JUST WANT TO HELP THIS THREAD GET TO 500. 491

From: The Rooster Date: 22-Jul-04 One more towards 500! 492

From: LostHawg Date: 22-Jul-04 That is one FAT walleye.  Good catch. 493

From: rockboy Date: 22-Jul-04 "Single in AR" asks where's the picture? still waiting... 494

From: rockboy Date: 22-Jul-04 oops, wrong thread. 495

From: LostHawg Date: 22-Jul-04 rockboy, probably asked you this before, but Where in Arkansas you at?  I grew up on the western side of the state.  (hence my handle) 496

From: rockboy Date: 22-Jul-04 North Central - Izard County - on the Rocky Bayou (hence my handle) 497

From: LostHawg Date: 22-Jul-04 LOL, yeah, grew up over south of Mena.  Saw lots of dead things over there.  Amazing what a chicken truck can do. 498

From: Woodsman Date: 22-Jul-04 Who's gonna get 500? 499

From: Woodsman Date: 22-Jul-04 Me? 500

From: Woodsman Date: 22-Jul-04 How about now? 501

From: LostHawg Date: 22-Jul-04 Cheater!! LOL Why would someone pay 50+ bucks for just 3 of those Montec G5s?  Sounds a bit silly to me.  LOL 502

From: The Rooster Date: 22-Jul-04 Thanks LostHawg. I cought that on the Maumee River. I was using a carolina rigged 3/8 pink floating jighead with a white twister tail. It measured 28" and 8lbs even. When you're pulling something like that in against the current you think that it's snagged for sure. 503

From: Stickhead Date: 22-Jul-04 Alright, Rooster. If you're gonna post that picture on this thread, you'll have to do some dead fish penetration tests. 504

From: The Rooster Date: 22-Jul-04 Well, my MisterTwister electric fillet knife had no problems with penetrating the walleye's scaley skin and did a nice job of making some big fillets. 505

From: rockboy Date: 22-Jul-04 ok The Rooster - Bow Test on a Walleye - already! 506

From: Leaky Waders Date: 22-Jul-04 There has got to be a Far Side cartoon ready to be drawn in all of this bovine mess somewheres... 507

From: LostHawg Date: 22-Jul-04 "This one will no doubt go down in LW history"                            -- The Late Jeff Coggins aka Tennbow, 14 Sep 99 -- 508

From: LostHawg Date: 22-Jul-04 He called it about right didn't he? 509

From: rockboy Date: 23-Jul-04 2thetop 510

From: Stump Date: 23-Jul-04 I found a dead cow once....fortunatly there wasn't enough to shoot. 511

From: Scots archer Date: 01-Aug-04 Having skipped many of the over 500 posts on this thread, I'm wondering if anyone has ever seen the video on the famous Oregon "exploding whale"? The posts I've had the pleasure of reading have been very impressive-a truly "mooooving" experience! 512

From: Backwoodsman Date: 04-Oct-04 I thought since we were talking about shooting cows we should bring this back to the top....LOL! 513

From: Coop Date: 10-Dec-04 THE DEAD COW LIVES!!!! For the second time in it's life, it's LIFT OFF! Resurected by popular demand. Can't lose this post, guys! ~John 514

From: MNbowhunter Date: 10-Dec-04 THIS IS A GREAT READ 515

From: shortfat Date: 10-Dec-04 just a rumor... but I heard that Pennsylvania was thinking about implementing a "Quality Dead Cow Management Program"... "heard" they were getting pressure from the bloated sheep lobby... don't wanna start any bad rumors tho'... :} 516

From: bowkid Date: 10-Dec-04 i did the smame three months ago,only than on a  dead goat dat died on a farm wich the owner is a good friend of my grandfather and my grandfather wanted to see how deep those arrows penetrate cus he only hunts whit rifles and shotguns. That whas also the first time i shot something big. 517

From: jipp Date: 10-Dec-04 just read the thread. Could be put into a novel. and still take anouther year to read. LOL chris. 518

From: knapper53 Date: 10-Dec-04 Udderly disgusting. 519

From: Coop Date: 11-Dec-04 My personal favorite that EVERYONE needs to read: Two Dead Cow Bad Haikus: "Flaming tipped arrah Stalk the big inflated cow Bovine goes big whoosh!" "Real cold and bloated Dead Bovine real field tip proof Backstop for Trad Shoots?" -author: Jeffy ~John 520

From: caveman Date: 12-Dec-04 ttt 521

From: Dryrot Date: 18-Jan-05 ttt again 522

From: knapper53 Date: 18-Jan-05 Oh no---pull this thread!! 523

From: Jr.14 Date: 18-Jan-05 I have only been on leatherwall for a few months, but this has gotta be the best thread ever! 524

From: canopy@wk Date: 19-Jan-05 Just had to post, LW history ya know. Great Thread! 525