2021 bow harvest thread
Contributors to this thread:West Virginia
From: hunterj
07-Sep-21
I will get it started for the yr. Charleston Urban hunt started Saturday the 4th. I took my doe at 8:45 on Saturday 17yrd shot 60yrd recovery. Took the buck this morning at 9:15 20yrd shot watched him go down.
From: hunterj
07-Sep-21
From: Babysaph
07-Sep-21
Very nice. Congrats
From: JayD
07-Sep-21
Nice - congrats!!!
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
07-Sep-21
Congrats Jamie you are a true urban(hunting) legend :)
From: #bowhunter
09-Sep-21
Jamie , want to thank you & your friend for helping me tracking the other morning, I found more blood, but failed to find the deer. I think it may have turned to the right. Thanks, Bob PS, I did get one on wednesday.
From: hunterj
23-Sep-21
Not the best pic but I had lots of pic of him called the XMass tree light buck. He had more on the other side but I quest he has been rubbing it of. 10 yard shot 25 yard recovery.
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
24-Sep-21
That is crazy had anyone seen him running around with lights ?
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
26-Sep-21
Jackson County WMA
From: Babysaph
26-Sep-21
That is crazy. I saw one a few years ago with a white feed sack on his head
From: Babysaph
26-Sep-21
That dog looks familiar
From: Ron Miller
26-Sep-21
From: Ron Miller
26-Sep-21
JR
From: Babysaph
26-Sep-21
Great buddy. Your having as much fun doing that as hunting yourself. Great dogs
From: Babysaph
26-Sep-21
Great buddy. Your having as much fun doing that as hunting yourself. Great dogs
From: Babysaph
26-Sep-21
Great buddy. Your having as much fun doing that as hunting yourself. Great dogs
From: Ron Miller
29-Sep-21
From: Babysaph
29-Sep-21
Ron your dogs are famous. I had some guys from Charleston at my cabin yesterday building me a coolbot cooler and they asked me if I Knew you. Said you were the deer tracker lol. Small world
From: Babysaph
29-Sep-21
From: Babysaph
29-Sep-21
From: Wayne Boone
29-Sep-21
Congrats JR... I filled my doe tag yesterday. Now I need to find a spike!
From: JayD
30-Sep-21
Congrats JR!!!
From: Ron Miller
30-Sep-21
Awesome JR
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
01-Oct-21
JR was she a logger head :)
From: Koog
06-Oct-21
Not sure what went wrong, Sunday evening had a bear come in and I put a shot on him about 14 yards away, thought it was a good shot. Rains came in and hardly found blood, searched till 10:30. Came back in the morning and found about 5 large spots which and no arterial blood. Ended up grid searching for 4.5 hours, then went back to work, returned at lunch spent another hour, nothing. My visiting cousin was riding my four wheeler and with the aide of stench, found him curled up in a brush pile of a large blow down my neighbor and I have been working on. Needless to say, nothing but the skull was salvageable. The hit 3/4s up the right shoulder (which was back) angling down to the rear arm pit of the left shoulder. The last 8 inches of the arrow was still in the wound, blood looked like it should have flown. This is the second bear I've ever shot with my bow so my experience is lean, can anyone tell where I went wrong. I hate losing an animal though I now it happens, yeI felt really good about the shot and felt good that shot should have produced some arterial blood.
From: Koog
06-Oct-21
trail cam pic right after I shot
trail cam pic right after I shot
Hate I didn't find him till Wednesday
Hate I didn't find him till Wednesday
From: JayD
07-Oct-21
Sorry to hear about that Koog - it happens some times but it’s good to see ya kept looking! Now let’s hope for some cooler temps - I don’t have enough extension cords to run to my stands to run a fan!
From: Babysaph
07-Oct-21
My experience on bears is to center em up. Maybe a tad forward of center. Stay away from shoulder. But it does happen. I’m no expert for sure but that has worked for me. And yes it’s been hot. Seems like it’s like this every year.
From: Babysaph
07-Oct-21
My experience on bears is to center em up. Maybe a tad forward of center. Stay away from shoulder. But it does happen. I’m no expert for sure but that has worked for me. And yes it’s been hot. Seems like it’s like this every year.
From: Koog
07-Oct-21
I hit him in the shoulder but his shoulder was back. Arrow passed thru and came out very low behind the left shoulder in the arm pit so to speak. The chest was full of blood when I found him, the fletch still inside him. Some reason though the blood was not exiting. Maybe the rain washed more away than I thought, he died in a reasonable amount of distance, guess I expected more blood.
From: Babysaph
07-Oct-21
I understand but you got a dead bear. You maybe should have pot a dog on it. I had an old dog that would have found it. If it was dead she found it
From: Ron Miller
08-Oct-21
How far was the Total distance from where you shot him til you found him ? I've killed several bear, most don't bleed outside But Little, thick hair and fat, most Double Lung 25-70 yards, Sounds like possible 1 lung and liver with his leg back, Did you open him up to see what you hit ?
From: Koog
11-Oct-21
Well, the stench was over whelming. He made it 250 to 300 yards. The wound was back of right shoulder passing thru to the left arm pit high to low. I probed it with my finger, look good. Chest was full of blood low exit. Only thing I can say is possibly the rain washed some of the blood away. His bearing the from the last blood took him fairly close to the house and I worked that area for about 3 hours in the search, just missed finding him curled up in that brush I had piled up. Nothing I can do now but chalk it up to learning, even old dogs still learn. I don't usually give up and I did spend 7 to 9 hours trying to locate him that night and next morning lunch and evening. Most guys would have dismissed him before that and convinced himself the shot didn't kill him, but I knew. I probably spent countless hours over the years studying shot angles and the organs I should get a hit on. And when I'm sure of the shot, I don't give up the search. 2015 shot a nice buck in KS quartering away, no exit wound, one tiny spec of blood. Spent the next 6 hours grid searching. Had a guy who was a working hand helping me for a couple hours. He dismissed it, but I knew that shot was as fatal as it gets and kept looking. Finally found him 80 yds away on the neighbors ranch, laying in a wide gully heading to a small patch of timber 300 yds away.
From: Ron Miller
11-Oct-21
Bear are tough, with 1 lung or liver Glad you found him
From: Big-Otis-Jeff
13-Oct-21
With the weather/temps dropping this weekend, we should see some good ones fall…another couple weeks it will be game on…
Hopefully I can post one up on here…Been awhile…lol
From: Ron Miller
22-Oct-21
Great Recovery
From: Ron Miller
01-Nov-21
Ross Mellenger with a Great WV Buck
From: Ron Miller
01-Nov-21
Ross Mellenger with a Great WV Buck
From: Wayne Boone
04-Nov-21
My son took this buck from one of my stands this morning.
From: Nyati
04-Nov-21
Congratulations everyone
From: JayD
04-Nov-21
Very nice!
From: wells118
08-Nov-21
I could have used that tracking dog this weekend. had an arrow hit a limb and sliced the bucks abdomen open and the guts were hanging to his knees. lost blood after looking the next day.
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
11-Nov-21
Finally had a mature buck to get on his feet this AM.
From: Babysaph
11-Nov-21
He is a Beauty. Congrats
From: JayD
11-Nov-21
Congrats!!!
From: Wayne Boone
12-Nov-21
Congrats Jack. I’m still waiting on one to mess up...
From: Wayne Boone
12-Nov-21
Congrats Jack. I’m still waiting on one to mess up...
From: 1buckurout
12-Nov-21
Nice buck, Jack. Congratulations.
From: Paul Dickey
12-Nov-21
Congratulations brother
From: David Mitchell
12-Nov-21
Not my deer (unfortunately)....my son tagged this big boy in Indiana yesterday.
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
12-Nov-21
Wow nice deer Dave, tell your son congrats.
From: Lone Eagle
12-Nov-21
Nice bucks everyone.
From: Nyati
12-Nov-21
Congratulations everyone
From: Nyati
12-Nov-21
Congratulations everyone
From: Babysaph
12-Nov-21
Very nice Dave
From: LUCKY DOG
13-Nov-21
Wyoming county 11/12/21
Wyoming county 11/12/21
From: Ron Miller
15-Nov-21
Congratulations Everyone, Jack, you are my Hero
From: Babysaph
15-Nov-21
Very nice guys. Congrats
From: Wayne Boone
16-Nov-21
Great handle Lucky Dog.
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