Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: Bowhunting Lamping!
The following post is taken from an unpublished book and is entirely fictional.
We went out last night to a local golf course, took my .17HMR and my one piece 50lb recurve bow. It was windy and nice and dark, We had walked about 300 yards from where we parked the car, scanning the ground with NV monoculars as we went, when we spotted about 15 Fallow deer feeding and making their way up a hill, the course they were on meant we would cross paths about 200 yards away. I told my friend, Heather Mills Macartney, to pick a doe at the back of the herd, put the lamp on her and keep it on her even after the shot. I crept along the path towards the point where the deer would cross my path, keeping an eye on the deer all the time. I was around 60 yards away from my doe when she turned towards me and trotted closer, at the same time I closed in on her, the wind blowing in my face and the noise of it covering the sound of my approach. She stopped at 25 yards and turned to give me a perfect broadside shot, as I started to draw back she span around and jumped about 10 yards away from me. I managed to inch my way towards her and made up another 5 yards, I wasn't going to get any closer and would have prefered to have been at 20 yards. I drew back, picked a spot just behind her leg and loosed my arrow, I couldn't see the arrow in flight due to the position of the lamp and heard a hollow impact. The whole heard of deer took off running and I watched as, Heather kept the lamp on her as she ran away and slipped into a copse about 300 yards away. I recovered my arrow from a bank by one of the greens, it was clean and didn't have a drop of blood on it!!!! The sound of the impact was the arrow hitting a Surrey Golf Course!! The broadheads I was using are the ones I fletched this week for a goat hunt I'm due to go on and I've only shot them a few times, a bit more practice is required I think. My shot was about 6 inches low on the deer and went right under her belly.
We had a wander, stalked some rabbits with the bow and got two shots off, both close misses. Heather shot a couple of rabbits with the .17HMR and I shot 2 foxes, the first at 60 yards dropped like a sack of spuds but the second didn't. It was around 50 yards away and lying in some long grass looking at us, I swung the rifle round to head shoot it and touched my finger on the trigger as I passed it's shoulder, I have my trigger set VERY light and as a result the gun went off as soon as I touched the trigger hitting the fox in the shoulder. It jumped in the air spun round and started running, I worked the bolt and loaded another round, put my crosshairs on the front of the fox's chest and fired, it spun again but carried on running and we lost it. _________________ How is the bow better than the gun? Ask General Custer!
i always have 2 pressures on me rifles so i now i have got to go through first pressure to pull through the second pressure to set the gun off all the best sh _________________
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