Let’s just consider this an “update”: a year after taking my own bison, Doubletough contributor Aaron Enget visited the ranch of a PRCA stock contractor in South Dakota who was considering offering bison hunts on his property. He had done rifle hunts and had been asked about bow hunting his herd, but was unsure how such a hunt would go down. Aaron, who picked up bowhunting a couple years earlier, volunteered for the job.
I don’t typically read those really long emails that come through my mailbox but this one had just the right mix of explosions, Dukes of Hazzard references and similarities to my own childhood that I thought it would be entertaining. Enjoy your Super Sunday!
Thanks to Doubletough member Aaron Enget.
(Original author) This was sent to me in an email from an old shootin buddy who asked I attribute it anonymously. It’s one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time. Hope you guys get a charge out of it too. lol
Around age 10 my dad got me a really cool present … one of those little badass compound bow beginner kits. Of course, the first month I went around our place sticking arrows in anything that could get stuck by an arrow. Did you know that a 1955 40 horse Farmall tractor will take 6 rounds before it goes down? Tough sumbich.
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From the northern outpost of Doubletough country, Bubba Enget forwards this report of his buddy Stewart Kline and his (nearly) New Year’s buck. Stewart was featured in an earlier post, “Buck In Cock Country”. In that post he bagged a fine muley and now he’s put down a monster whitetail:
-9 is when the men are out and the rest stay home, been watching this buck for 2 weeks and waiting for the wind to be right. Finally got a south wind and the hunt was on. The deer moved late. I watched as this and four other bucks skirted me at 50 yards. I had about three minutes of light left and he walked over to where I was, I drew and held as he was facing me for about two minutes. He took one step and gave me a little window where I drove my spitfire through one shoulder, two ribs,and both lungs. Game over.
A solid eight pointer from south Kansas taken November 2nd by “Ricky”. The hunter was in an elk stand and took the buck at 42 yards. It grossed 146″ and had the broken left brow tine matched the right, is estimated to go 152″.
More photos after the jump.
Thanks to Doubletougher Aaron Enget for forwarding these photos!
Stacey Huston of the “A Focus In The Wild” blog posted this remarkable shot on Twitter of a rabbit narrowly escaping a hunter’s arrow. She’s got a great trigger finger and her website has a wealth of wildlife photos.
Thanks to Tom Sorenson!
Thank you to Dayne Shuda of Hunting Business Marketing for naming this post one of the Top 50 Hunting Blog Posts of 2009!
Spring can be a slow time for hunters: turkey season is winding down, tag applications are due and guns & bows are being put aside for fishing rods. They’re shaking off winter’s cabin fever and taking the family camping. Everyone’s relaxed, ready for summer. Then someone suggests a hog hunt.
That’s pretty much how it went down for Cory Glauner of Outdoors International. “Every year we go camping in Utah with my wife’s family. We have a grand ol’ redneck good time. Shoot lots of guns, have paintball wars and this year I upped the ante with a boar hunt,” he said, explaining how it was that he came face to face with this purebred Russian boar with nothing but a stick & string between them. Read more…
This is a great story that comes from my good friend and Doubletough hunting camp founding member Aaron Enget of Colorado. This hunt occurred a year after he backed me up on a rifle hunt for a buffalo near this same area.
A rancher friend of Aaron’s who does rifle hunts on the side had been considering bow hunts. Aaron offered to take one with a bow so the rancher could get an idea of how it might go. They started talking a couple years ago and finally pulled it together.
The ranch is near the Missouri Breaks in South Dakota. The rancher had set up a tree stand but Aaron told him he felt more comfortable on the ground. Good idea because there are not a lot of trees and it would wind up being important that he be mobile.
The bison were on 40 acres – they called it a “controlled” hunt – and Aaron set up among some aspen trees. His wife was 150 yards away filming from a truck. The rancher went to one end of the section with his truck to spook the herd towards him.
The group of about ten bison walked by at 20 yards. The Big Boy he was after was on the opposite side of the group and when the shot came, he had to kneel down a bit. This messed with his aim as he released and at 18 yards he made a gut shot.
It ran 20 yards and stopped, giving him time to nock another arrow and he drilled it in the boiler room. It ran 40 yards and stopped, “pouring blood out both sides, matting the fur on both front legs crimson”. To hear him tell it, he says it felt like ten minutes watching that big buff stand there and bleed. It took a shaky step and he managed to get closer for a third shot through the heart that finally dropped it.
This past November we stopped by the ranch on our way to our North Dakota deer hunt and picked up the skull.
