Bench-Talk

It had been a LONG time since we last saw HIM around central IA, but, despite the rain, BIG MIKE stopped by, chanting about , "howz itz a GREAT rainey day, butt RGZzzs turnt cissy agen - afeard heed git wet huntin duren a leetle rain . . . soz A'll havta make it up fer im . . ." He staggered back into the shop a mere hour later, jabbering about how i needed to help HIM locate, dress, and drag HIZ buck . . . yep, it's been an unusual fall . . . It's difficult to see the crimson - by the time I got there, with the camera, it was raining harder and rapidly getting dark -  but Hope's REAL turkey feather fletch made for another perfect "pass-through".

Once I got HIM settled back down, BIG MIKE forced me to pose fro this pic - HIS reasoning seems to have run along the line of [my] needing to get back to the roots of it all - " rg, it'z all 'bought th HUNTEN, Son!"  So, now, following his nearly full year hiatus, I'm HIS pupil well, maybe there IS still HOPE for me! ;) RG

Seriously, it's been an 'odd' season - I've been able to get out for ten afternoon hunts, and had passed on many opprotunities to skewer similar - and lesser - bucks, but, in my hunting areas, have seen nothing better. I never observed a buck chasing a doe - now THAT 'was a first'  . . . and, I hope, a last! With time ticking down, this hunt was too good to pass up the shot - the stuff of which memories are made! :) In the end, this buck presented a perfect broad-side [15 Yd.] shot, and I sent a NAP Spitfire, steered by some REAL WILD-turkey fletching, provided by Hope Carleton, through both lungs.  Having passed through the rib-cage, the carbon shafted arrow stuck nicely in the ground . . . miraculously, the buck sprinted a full 99 paces before he decided he'd become vinison - just ten paces short of the neighbors fence! No trailing required - I saw him 'go down'.  The only thing I'd have changed would have been to hit him about 1.5" lower. ;) RG

Congrats Randy!

Thanks for sharing the story and pic.....Let's examine this.... on two Whitetail hunts separated by time, "The Big River" and many miles....Iowa made "boolets" used successfully in Kentucky and arrows assembled with REAL wild turkey feather fletching from Kentucky,then used successfully in Iowa.....must be some sorta "Zen Thing"...Keep it go'in Guys and Gals!!! ...:>)

Todd........ Yer out collecting White Oak branches,fur, feathers and stuff for the "curse be gone" ritual?...:>)....I'm waiting for more pheasant hunt'in pictures to be posted, All I saw previously was Brian and a Nyhus K-9 with roosters....has "The Hat" lost it's luck?..:>) 

Have a GREAT Thanksgiving Folks!!!

-H

 Man, Big Mike sure makes the rounds doesn't he..way to go!!