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Don't forget that I am Italian, that can be arranged!

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willy and Blue, there ain't no way, no how I can pursue making the bow, arrows or even the broadheads.
However I did go as far to research all the aspects of doing so and my hats off to ya'll doing what you have did.
Blue making the points is outstanding and the same for willy with the bows.
Read one fellow went so far to fast (drinking ilex youpon tea), covering self with charcoal camo, researching deer trails and finally not shooting the prey but plucking the hind portion hairs from the back of a doe as the trophy.
If ya'll go this far please take pictures. ;D
Wish I had the time and resourses to do the same.

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Oh, such an instance reminds me of the times after work in the early fall I would put my stand and bow in the truck and head to the woods of a military reservation. I would get off work at 4:30 and usually be up the tree by 5:30 and sit there till about 8:30 in hopes of seeing something. If you have bow hunted early in the fall you know that they will only move about the first half hour in the morning and the last thirty minutes in the afternoon.
Well this afternoon it had rained just before I got there and with my stand on my back and bow in hand headed to a normal location where the deer should present themselves.
Just before I got to the location to climb a tree I stepped right in the middle of a herd of deer and they hadn’t noticed me! Just freezing apparently with full camo, stand and bow, my shape wasn’t apparent nor the human scent! What seemed like an eternity finally the three deer I could see ignored me completely enough to let me nock an arrow and get ready to shoot! Well about that time a large male yearling came within 10 feet of me, looked me up head and toe and resumed feeding! My heart was about to explode by now, on the ground with these animals so close and not worried at all! As this deer turned to walk away I pulled the bow back and it creeked, this got the attention of the young buck and he turned toward me and continued surveying what I was. He was so close and stayed to feed so long I could hear his stomach growling! During this time with the bow pulled back, I bit my thumb knuckle and waited another eternity for him to become bored with me and leave. Thank God he did. By now it was just sunset and I had all the adrenilin I could take and turned back to the truck without even climbing a tree. The other deer in that location let me know that they knew I was there by blowing at me, which I took it as you would waive to your neighbor.
I have a always enjoyed bow hunting if for just the scenery.

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They are amazing Tsubaki.
I hunted with a long bow mostly along with a few recurves all my life. The first year I hunted with my longbow, an osage 65 pound 68" long bow I watched as a mature doe walked in in front of me about ten yards away from me, I was in a old shotgun stand 12 feet off the ground. When she gave me that nice quartering away shot I drew and released and watched my arrow slide right into the spot I was looking at and come out the other side and stick in the ground solidly. It was so quiet not a sound at all except the arrow sliding right thru her. She jumped up a little startled at the sound of the arrow hitting the ground along side her, paused for about ten seconds and went back to eating the forbs she had been munching on when I shot. A few seconds later she got a little wobbly, kind of like me after a few too many Jacks and then she knelt down on her front legs and then her back legs and then layed down like she was putting her head on a pillow and went to sleep.
Total elapsed time maybe three minutes if that, probably less.
After that I hunted with longbows all the time, shooting something so beautiful and so quiet and taking such a beautiful creature in such amazing places has to be one of Gods greatest gifts to a man.

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agree

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Awesome stories fellas - you should publish them 8)