2020 bow harvest
Contributors to this thread:West Virginia
From: hunterj
12-Sep-20
I will start with my urban harvest. First one was opening day 09/05/20 and second one was today
From: hunterj
12-Sep-20
I will start with my urban harvest. First one was opening day 09/05/20 and second one was today
From: hunterj
12-Sep-20
From: Anglinscreek
13-Sep-20
Good job
From: Lone Eagle
13-Sep-20
That will be some fine eating, congratulations.
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
13-Sep-20
Good job on the urban hunt Jamie!
From: Babysaph
14-Sep-20
Congrats buddy. Like that beard too.
From: Wayne Boone
26-Sep-20
Seen 10 does this evening... this was the first one that presented the shot I wanted.
From: JayD
26-Sep-20
Congrats!!!
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
27-Sep-20
Nice deer guys
From: babysaph
27-Sep-20
Congrats Wayne. But quit ruining that heart meat??
From: Lone Eagle
27-Sep-20
Congratulations, Wayne, nice shot.
From: quadJ
27-Sep-20
Was lucky enough to have some opening day success.
From: Lone Eagle
27-Sep-20
A closer view. I'm going to start hanging out with him more often.
From: David Mitchell
27-Sep-20
Wayne, I see that doe was stung by a Hummingbird! LOL
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
27-Sep-20
Nice deer Josh!
From: Wayne Boone
28-Sep-20
Yeah David.... I was shooting it best, so it was rewarded with a hunt. Have it out again this morning. Might carry the longbow this evening.
Blessings!
From: Koogie
28-Sep-20
Got one Sunday morning, looks like I shot her with a harpoon or something. It's just the arrow entered and ricocheted backward thru the diaphragm so she bled internally. She took her last breath on a hillside a couple hundred yards away spilling the blood all at once. Anyway, got my doe and some meat to jerky for my trip to MO.
From: Koogie
28-Sep-20
By the way, really nice buck Josh. Nice pose too! I never get a pose, just a pic with my bow next too it. Most could say, how do I know it was you who shot it? Well, when it comes to hunting I have a photographic memory. In my mind, I know.
From: 1buckurout
28-Sep-20
Some of you may recall me posting a pic of the 9 pt I've seen several times behind the house. Well... J.W. collected the rascal this evening.
From: babysaph
28-Sep-20
Nice deer fellows.
From: Lone Eagle
29-Sep-20
Congratulations, JW. Just a tune up for Kansas.
From: Wayne Boone
29-Sep-20
Great WV buck JW. Congrats
From: LUCKY DOG
29-Sep-20
Little bit of first day luck
From: LUCKY DOG
29-Sep-20
Little bit of first day luck
From: LUCKY DOG
29-Sep-20
Sorry for the double post
From: babysaph
29-Sep-20
nice deer Lucky Dog
From: Wayne Boone
30-Sep-20
Lucky dog... appropriate handle! Congrats
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
30-Sep-20
Congrats guys those are some real nice bucks!
From: Koogie
30-Sep-20
Lucky Dog, not a little bit of luck, more like lottle bit of good luck. Congrats!
From: hookman
01-Oct-20
Awesome deer, did you weigh him by cany chance?
From: babysaph
02-Oct-20
Kilt this 4 point this morning. I was ready to shoot a big spike. It would have made my 30th consecutive spike with my recurve In 30 years. As I was ready to draw this 4 point came in and chased the spike up over the mountain. Oh well. A bird in the hand
From: Wayne Boone
02-Oct-20
Congrats JR!
From: babysaph
02-Oct-20
Thanks buddy. This is my first year hunting total on the ground
From: Wayne Boone
02-Oct-20
I put my granddaughter’s husband in my favorite stand and he took this buck. Got his first last year.
From: TexasAggie
02-Oct-20
From: TexasAggie
02-Oct-20
From: TexasAggie
02-Oct-20
From: JayD
04-Oct-20
Congrats nice deer everyone!
Jr you still have more time to maintain the streak!
From: Koogie
05-Oct-20
Friday evening, 2 does and a spike came into my plot, one was exceptionally large. I waited 20 minutes or so before the big doe finally presents a shot. 27 yards quartering away, great shot but no exit wound. Spent about 30 minutes searching for blood, I decide to come back in the morning. I find maybe a dozen specs of blood just enough to surmise where she must have went, found her 200 yards down the wooded hillside, luckily the woods are fairly open there. It's amazing how she went that far with one destroyed lung and a fairly large hole in the other.
From: babysaph
05-Oct-20
They are tough animals
From: hookman
05-Oct-20
First one this year.
From: hookman
05-Oct-20
The one in background is a target.
From: Wayne Boone
05-Oct-20
Congrats Don.
From: Wayne Boone
05-Oct-20
Congrats Don.
From: babysaph
05-Oct-20
Congrats buddy. You didn't use one of those purdy wood arrows did ya?
From: David Mitchell
06-Oct-20
Nice one, Don.
From: hookman
06-Oct-20
Thanks guys. Yes I used 1 of my arrows tipped with a 155 grain grizzly 2 blade single bevel broadhead.
From: Old Reb
06-Oct-20
Congrats to all, especially Babysaph and Hookman. You stick bow guys seem to be more about the hunt than the horn. Sometimes I think that got lost along the way, although I'd like to get a big one some year. I'm from Ohio but I'm half West Virginian. My dad is from Beckley mom was from in Ohio. I've always felt I belonged down there. I enjoy visiting the WV site.
From: babysaph
06-Oct-20
Welcome old Reb. Yes I like to eat deer meat and love the challenge of getting close. I am not picky here in WV. Just like to hunt and eat deer meat. Don't get me wrong I will shoot a big one if given the chance but where I hunt the odds are slim. Most of the nice ones get shot in August and September where I hunt.
From: Lone Eagle
06-Oct-20
I took my grandson on his first bow hunt this evening. Complete pass through from a 46# bow, 2- blade Magnus broadhead.
From: babysaph
06-Oct-20
That is awesome. Congrats
From: Fnshtr
07-Oct-20
Congrats to your grandson Greg. I took my granddaughter out Saturday evening and she missed a dandy 10 point at 35 yards. Pappy didn't do well as I got overly excited and I think it caused her to get shook. We were in a ground blind. Again, congratulate him for me!
From: Lone Eagle
07-Oct-20
Hopefully she'll get another chance at him, Wayne.
From: hookman
07-Oct-20
Jump in anytime Old Reb. I have enjoyed my stick bow experience for a long time now. So much fun . I cut my teeth on recurves before compounds were invented. Just love it.
From: Old Reb
07-Oct-20
Thanks guys. Your state site is more active than our Ohio site. Congrats to Wayne Boone on his stick bow kill also.
From: Wayne Boone
08-Oct-20
Thanks Old Reb, I’m like Don, love the stickbow!
From: hookman
08-Oct-20
Congrats to your grandson Greg. He has a great mentor.
From: hookman
08-Oct-20
Lots of game falling in this early season. The season used to start middle of October. Things are good for us bowhunters.
From: babysaph
08-Oct-20
They are Hookman.
From: Old Reb
09-Oct-20
My son Jack took a nice Ohio buck on Oct. 4th. His first whitetail with his compound bow. He has taken several deer during gun season and took a similar buck with a crossbow when he was 14. It was a long time coming for him to get a whitetail bow kill. He did get a bow kill on a pronghorn antelope in Wyoming in 2016. We're up here in northern Ohio in Huron County. I was one proud Poppa when we got to the end of that blood trail.
From: Lone Eagle
09-Oct-20
That's a nice buck, congratulations to your son.
From: Wayne Boone
10-Oct-20
Tell him congrats! Real nice buck.
From: Babysaph
10-Oct-20
Congrats
From: Ron Miller
10-Oct-20
Got a call to track a Bear with my Blue Dogs, shot 7 pm Monday evening, this was in Wyoming Co, I didn't get Lacie and Jack on the track until about 3:30 pm Wednesday, about 21 hours after the shot, Lacie never faltered, bear went over 200+ yards , no blood except at the shot site
From: gobbler
11-Oct-20
Congrats everyone
From: babysaph
11-Oct-20
Nice Ron. Can’t beat a good dog. They are fun to mess with. Congrats.
From: Ron Miller
11-Oct-20
Thanks JR
From: Ron Miller
11-Oct-20
Jack found this Young Turkey after I shot it this evening in the pouring rain, I waited an hour and put him on it, this Bird only went maybe 50 yards
From: Old Reb
11-Oct-20
Love those hounds! My son Kyle has a nice Walker female and he's been trying to get a young English female going. He's a coon hunter. Ron what kind of dog found the turkey? Is that a Plott hound? We must support hunting with hounds. The anti hunters hate hounds.
From: babysaph
12-Oct-20
I hope the dog gets a piece of turkey Ron. LOL
From: Ron Miller
13-Oct-20
Jack and Lacie get the legs and Thighs JR ,lol These 2 dogs are Blue Lacy's, they are Texas's State Dog, they are a Working Breed, Blood Tracking, Hog Baying and Herding dogs
From: Wayne Boone
20-Oct-20
From the ground JR. Long tracking job.
From: Wayne Boone
20-Oct-20
From the ground JR. Long tracking job.
From: JayD
20-Oct-20
Congrats!
From: Lone Eagle
20-Oct-20
Congratulations, Wayne !
From: Wayne Boone
20-Oct-20
Thanks Greg.
From: babysaph
20-Oct-20
Good job.. congrats buddy
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
21-Oct-20
Nice deer wayne
From: hookman
21-Oct-20
Way to go Wayne.
From: Wayne Boone
22-Oct-20
Thanks Jack and Don’t.
From: Wayne Boone
22-Oct-20
Thanks JR, Jack and Don.
From: PSE Bowhunter
26-Oct-20
Knocked this one down yesterday 10-25-20 in Brooke county
Knocked this one down yesterday 10-25-20 in Brooke county
From: babysaph
26-Oct-20
Nice. Looks like he had strawberries for lunch??
From: Lone Eagle
26-Oct-20
Congrats, I guess that would be a Strawberry Sunday.
From: rhewy
26-Oct-20
I got lucky this morning when this guy tried sneaking by me. I wish I had a scale to weigh him my biggest buck in a long time WOOD CO
From: PSE Bowhunter
27-Oct-20
Congratulations, what county
From: Babysaph
27-Oct-20
Nice. Congrats
From: Lone Eagle
27-Oct-20
congratulations, nice and heavy.
From: gobbler
27-Oct-20
Congratulations
From: David Mitchell
27-Oct-20
Wow, nice buck! Neat camo outfit too.
From: Wayne Boone
27-Oct-20
Congrats that’s a dandy!
From: Ron Miller
04-Nov-20
Lacie and Jack on a Recovery after waiting 6 hours, Tom and Jarod Oxley, a Sprinkle of blood at Impact
From: babysaph
04-Nov-20
Love it
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
05-Nov-20
This buck tried to slip downwind of me about 7:30 this morning, I wasn't going for his nonsense.
From: Lone Eagle
05-Nov-20
Nice one Jack. Congratulations to everyone on there deer.
From: babysaph
05-Nov-20
Congrats Jack
From: Wayne Boone
05-Nov-20
Congrats Jack!
From: hookman
06-Nov-20
Way to go Jack.
From: JayD
06-Nov-20
Congrats!!! Starting another threat just for you Jack......
From: Ron Miller
11-Nov-20
Lacie and Jack on a Recovery for Rusty
From: Ron Miller
11-Nov-20
Lacie and Jack on a Recovery for Rusty
From: Ron Miller
11-Nov-20
Lacie and Jack on a Recovery for Rusty
From: Ron Miller
11-Nov-20
Lacie and Jack on a Recovery for Rusty
From: Ron Miller
11-Nov-20
Sorry for so many post s
From: Ron Miller
11-Nov-20
From: JayD
11-Nov-20
You and your dogs are awesome!
From: babysaph
11-Nov-20
Nice deer Rusty and congrats. Don't forget to give the dogs a treat Ron.
From: Ron Miller
11-Nov-20
Thanks Jay, they are pretty good JR, they get all Liver and Hearts
From: Bambamhunts
12-Nov-20
Hi All,
Jefferson County buck. My biggest bow kill to date.
Ol Q2XL Mathews wit nap mechanicals.
Hi All,
Jefferson County buck. My biggest bow kill to date.
Ol Q2XL Mathews wit nap mechanicals.
From: JayD
12-Nov-20
Had a good evening - lots of deer movement.
From: babysaph
12-Nov-20
Congrats guys
From: babysaph
12-Nov-20
Lil suckling strikes again
From: JayD
13-Nov-20
Thanks JR! I love that little recurve!
From: Bambamhunts
14-Nov-20
Mad respect for you primitive stick and stringers. Cut my archery Teeth with a Bear Grizzly. Congrats to all who made it happen. Nothing better. Except that first piece of jerky. Stocked up on Cheez it’s..lol
From: Wayne Boone
14-Nov-20
Congrats guys.
From: wv_bowhunter
14-Nov-20
11/14 Lincoln County. Had deer movement pretty much all morning and shot this one a little after 11.
From: JayD
14-Nov-20
Congrats!
From: babysaph
15-Nov-20
Congrats buddy.
From: hunterj
16-Nov-20
Doe from last Thursday
From: hunterj
16-Nov-20
Chafing a doe came in to 19yards he traveled 50-60 yards before going down
From: babysaph
16-Nov-20
Congrats
From: Jack Whitmrie jr
17-Nov-20
Nice deer Jamie!
From: hunterj
17-Nov-20
From: Ron Miller
21-Nov-20
Jack and Lacie saying, this 1 is mine !
From: Babysaph
21-Nov-20
Great dogs. Love it
From: Toxley
14-Dec-20
Guys I've been gone from the site for a while... I from time to time looked at our deer being taken in the state, and I wanted to post this year and congratulate all of the lucky hunters across the state. But also to caution everyone at how Hard Fought a price your bow hunting privileges have come. We must NOT take the sport we love so much for granted. I have had my best year EVER in the WV woods, and thanks to a newly fought for law I recovered a buck that was shot lethally, but left only 4 spots of blood. Ron Miller took time out of his schedule with Lacy and Jack and found the oldest deer I've ever shot. and 4 days later I harvested the buck that I was hunting the area for. What a blessing and satisfaction of scouting, placing a stand and then having an opportunity to be able to harvest your target animal. I hope that all here have a great rest of your year, and In this terrible Pandemic time that this finds all of you and your families healthy.
From: Toxley
14-Dec-20
Buck number 2
Buck number 2
From: babysaph
14-Dec-20
Nice buddy and congrats. Ron is a good guy and loves what he does. Glad you guys found it.
From: babysaph
28-Dec-20
Another one from earlier.
From: wvbowbender
30-Dec-20
My grandson, Jackson, finally got it done with his bow (first bowkill). Pretty much down to the wire.
From: wvbowbender
30-Dec-20
And Jackson said Much Thanks to Ron Miller and the Blue Dogs for all their help.
From: babysaph
30-Dec-20
That is awesome
From: 1buckurout
31-Dec-20
Congratulations to Jackson and much appreciation to Ron.
I'd be curious to know how many critters he and his dogs have helped recover this past year.
From: Lone Eagle
31-Dec-20
Congratulations Jackson! Week done. Maybe you and grandpa can write a story for the Voice.
From: Lone Eagle
31-Dec-20
Congratulations Jackson! Week done. Maybe you and grandpa can write a story for the Voice.
From: Wayne Boone
31-Dec-20
Congrats young man! Quite the accomplishment.
From: Wayne Boone
31-Dec-20
Congrats young man! Quite the accomplishment.
From: Ron Miller
02-Jan-21
Jimmy Lacie and Jack 19 Whitetails 1 Elk 1 Black Bear 2 Turkey Recoveries
From: Ron Miller
03-Jan-21
Jimmy, Lacie has 55+Recoveries in 3 years, Jack had been in on 42 Recoveries in 2 years, the Last 2 years Jack and Lacie have worked Together The longest Track , timewise was 22 hours after the shot by a Bowhunter in Wyoming Co, this Track was a Black Bear, Lacie found it pretty easily, we didn't see Not 1 spot of blood
From: babysaph
03-Jan-21
That is awesome
From: #bowhunter
04-Jan-21
I wish I'd called about a boar I hit this past season. Bob
From: Ump25
07-Jan-21
My son and I had a heck of a year! He harvested his first deer with a bow and took his very first buck during rifle season. I took a nice doe and my biggest buck to date after an eight year layoff.
My son and I had a heck of a year! He harvested his first deer with a bow and took his very first buck during rifle season. I took a nice doe and my biggest buck to date after an eight year layoff.
From: babysaph
08-Jan-21
Nice. Congrats
