[james gilmer]

in reply to: No place like home #40958

for those interested in details here goes………( the long version is over on tradgang on my blog 5 pines farm 2013)

Tt was the 3rd night of our season. I had been getting pictures of two bucks up in one of my clover fields on and off most of the summer. The bucks were so alike that I didn’t realize there were two of them until after the kill. With a SE wind forecasted I made my way to the stand. But upon arrival there was too much of an East component sending my scent stream out in to the clover. So ( I live in steep bluff country) I very quietly crossed to the opposite side of the bluff to another stand set very near bedding cover.

It was the first night in this stand. It was early 5 :15 or so and I heard a single stick crack from the direction of the heavy bedding cover. I stood and nocked an arrow. He appeared under one of the apple trees 25 yards distant. I thought it was the heavy 9 point with double short split brows.

I started my draw as he came out from under the apple tree. He caught me coming to anchor and jumped forward at my release. My arrow caught him right in front of his left hip! It buried to mid point. He crow hopped sideways and then slowly walked 15 yards out to a mowed firebreak. He stood there and kicked his left leg a couple of times. I looked away for a second to swear at my self and looked back and didn’t see him anymore. I heard him cough. But couldn’t see him. I sat down and dug out my bino’s and spent the next 45 minutes trying to find him out there on the edge of the field. Finally I couldn’t take it and I quietly climbed down, put an arrow to the string and crept forward. I was expecting to see him bedded and hoped he was facing the other direction so I might get a 2nd arrow in to him. I got to the firebreak, no buck. No Blood! Now I was really upset with myself. But then I spied antlers laying not 10 feet away in the chest high grass! He is a heavy 9 point with a single split brow, the other is bladed. The double brow buck I had nicknamed Mr. X was to fall two nights later to my next door neighbor up the valley

I was shooting a hill country bobcat with recurve limbs on it 46 lbs. a 606 grain arrow total weight with 300 up front ( a 100 grain brass insert and 200 grain double bevel wereolf made by7 Eclipse)

[james gilmer]

in reply to: Totems #39967

I also carry a medicine bag. in it is a spear point a rancher in ND gave me many years ago. with each new kill i touch it to the wound and feel connected to the hunter who carried it a long ago. I also carry tobacco to offer to the spirit of the animal . A unique bit of crystal my wife gave me years ago and the leg of a bard owl.

The owl is my totem

[james gilmer]

in reply to: The ugly underbelly of "preserve" "hunting" #29713

how do we effectively fight this when the industry buys off politicians and gets legislation passed making this shit legal? Its the same thing over and over and over in the US these days. The corporate elite gets whats good for them despite what it does to the rest of us and our beloved planet.

[james gilmer]

in reply to: Hair-raising bear video #28899

That bear made no aggressive sounds or movements he was just curious, i sure hope the hunter gave him a pass.

[james gilmer]

in reply to: Kansas legalized crossbows during archery season #49407

crossguns are like the saying about feral pigs. there are states that allow them now and states that eventually allow them . The battle was lost when compounds were accepted as a primitive weapon.

[james gilmer]

in reply to: What are your favorite trad pictures? #38303

and pictures of the local scenery too

[james gilmer]

in reply to: What are your favorite trad pictures? #38293

I like things i find while hunting like this rub on a red cedar

[james gilmer]

in reply to: Photos of Where You Hunt? #10996

late afternoon up on top of one of my bluffs where its flat enough to put in some crops

[james gilmer]

in reply to: Photos of Where You Hunt? #10992

Early October

[james gilmer]

in reply to: Photos of Where You Hunt? #10988

late October

[james gilmer]

in reply to: Photos of Where You Hunt? #10987

November morning

[james gilmer]

in reply to: Photos of Where You Hunt? #10986

home sweet home late season

[james gilmer]

in reply to: long shots #47245

Recently I complained to a well known internet bow hunting personality about his taking a 52 yard shot to kill a giant whitetail ( this was one he had been chasing for 5 years and wounded previously). I was just trying to voice my concern about what an example he was giving to his audience. His reply was that he was totally justified because he practiced long shots! No regard what so ever for the animal or in my opinion what archery hunting is about. I am sad to say that i think the majority of those afield ( any weapon) have no understanding and little regard for ethics in the field.

[james gilmer]

in reply to: Minimum poundage to harvest whitetail #22980

I shoot a 43 lb black widow. I have never shot more than 47 lbs ever.

I have killed moose, caribou, antelope, black bears and dozens of white tails in the 35 years I have been bow hunting.

25 yards may be the stretch. 20 or less is my ideal range. I killed one caribou at 30 and one white tail at 27 but both of those were exceptions and not the norm.

the 200 lb buck I killed this year was 8 yards from my stand

[james gilmer]

in reply to: 2012 Season Success Photos #13642

May 2012 northern Manitoba

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