VTbowman Posted August 18, 2005 Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 I posted this on another traditional site but thought it may go over well here too. Had a fairly lucky shot the other day.... I was out for a round of practice and shot a very nice group. When I went to retrieve my arrows I just pulled and dropped them, until all are out, then I grabbed them, like I always do. I had one that was missing the 100g brass insert and field tip but did not realize it until I pulled the arrow out for my next round of shooting. I looked around the target but knew where it was in my heart. It was lost somewhere inside the turkey targets foam! I tried to find the hole by pushing arrows into every hole I could make out but it was self healing foam and I could not locate the tip anywhere. (The turkey does not have removable vitals, its a solid one piece target.) This has happened to me before and the arrow probe worked. It was a brand new target I got for my b-day last week and I was not about to retire it for one point lost inside it. Not only was I out a brass insert but now I had potential arrow shaft damaging stuff somewhere in my target! Well I shot another round and I noticed I had one arrow with unussual deep penitration with just the field point sticking out the back.. (Most do not stick out the back of the thicker body area of the target.) I pulled the arrows and saw the field point still sticking out the back. (???) I got mad thinking I lost another tip off one of my arrows but after a quick look I saw all the arrows I had in my quiver had tips. I grabbed the tip with my fingers and pulled it out! I had shot the missing insert and point out of the back of my target. I litterally hit the same hole, by accident of coarse, but I was so relieved and later thought about how dang lucky a shot that was. Anybody else have a lucky shot story? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted August 18, 2005 Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... You got to be freakin' kidding me! That's amazing. Small wonders. Next time you lose an insert, try and hit the same hole. You could shoot 1,000 arrows and not get it I'd bet. Weird eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTbowman Posted August 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... Its funny cause I wanted it to happen but truely was not trying to. I mean come on whats the chance that would happen. Like you said 10000:1 shot. LOL BTW folks post as many as you want. You gotta have one Tominator!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted August 18, 2005 Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... Great shot VT i had no doubt you meant to do that... my best was probably this past weekend. i was shooting a 3D tourny.. there was a log jam of people at one of the long targets.. by the time i got there to shoot i saw it was a 3 target setup. a grizzly , caribou and a wolf . the distances were about the same for each.. the wolf was angled so i decided i wasnt going to shoot that one. the caribou was also kind of quartering so i opted for shot 3 which was the longest , a broadside grizzly in a dark shaded spot.. i was standing on the dam of a little pond and this shot was out there a bunch . with a huge open span so it was tough to estimate the distance . something just said 50 yards , i looked at it a little bit and decided that it was 50 . so with everyone watching , i drew my bow and just held my pin on the 10 ring area . the shot went off and i saw it fly all the way to the target , a dead center 10 ! it was just a capper on a good day of shooting for me , but that shot really stands out.. since i have shot a lot of competition in the past 6 years there are many shots that i have made that were just pretty darn awesome . whether its luck of skill i sure cant say. but im sure i dont want to list all the screwups i have done.. Shoot Strong Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTbowman Posted August 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... Sounds more like skill to me Tony. COME ON I want LUCKY stories!!! LOL (nice shootin though.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted August 18, 2005 Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... Hey thats some same consistant shooting there vt, and not to mention with traditional bow good job buddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtBowhunter Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... Last year I was at the club shooting for our league. We have a gravel pit out there that we out a target in and we always stop at the top, and look across for the target. Well this day was no different, and I saw the 3D deer 150 yards out. So, of course, I had to try it. I maxed out my adjustable sight and held about 2-3 feet over the back directly over the 12 ring. I touched the shot off and didn't hear anything. I walked down to the stake that I had to shoot from and couldn't see my arrow so i figured at that distance I missed, lol. I shot from the stake and dimed it. I went to look for my other arrow first and couldn't find it so I went back to pull my league stake arrow, and noticed something out of place.......PINWHEEL 12 from 150 yards........it was my first arrow buried to the nock due to the target being old, LMAO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdeerhunter03 Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... [ QUOTE ] You gotta have one Tominator!!!! [/ QUOTE ] Well, the only one that comes to mind is the first time I hauled out my bow back in June of this year. 2nd arrow, robinhood. I guess there's an element of skill to a robinhood. I was holding on the same spot, but I'd be lieing if I said I was trying for a robinhood. One day my buddy and I were shooting clays out behind my house. Before we started I said to Steve, "any dove that flies by, they're in season, so pop them." About 10 minutes into the shooting I saw this dove at least 20 yards outside my fence, this dove was at least 70 yards away from us when I shot. I figured "what the heck?" So I let a shot go, missed, put a little more lead on him, and POW! folded dove dropped like a stone into my neighbor's corn. I tossed my dog Jake over the fence and he found it about 100 yards away from where I shot it. That was a pretty lucky shot. I can think of plenty of things outside of archery or making shots. One day at school I dropped a piece of paper off my desk and after wafting down, it stood up on its end. I looked around and laughed, no witnesses, but here stood this piece of paper standing on end. True story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dg Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... Let's see. After 14 years of shootin, I guess the 15 or so robinhoods, the 50 yd doe my 1st year hunting, a 10 on a 55 yd McKenzie in the wind stuck up on a knoll in England that if you missed it, it would go forever over the hill (that was a beautifully placed target with nothing but sunlight in the background). But THEN there was the time I missed.........and it went downhill from there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... One time this spring my buddy came over while i was taking a nap. He brought 2 of his girlfriends over to introduce them to me. After I woke up we went and hung out on the back porch. As we were sitting there, they was a crow probably 50 yards out in one of our pine trees just causing a ruckus and my friend started to get annoyed and said "will you get the 22 out and kill that stupid thing?" I kinda smiled and the girls replied "nooooo, it will fly away, just leave it alone..." And my friend just messing around says "then shoot the stupid thing with your bow!!" And I really laughed at that one, but one of the girls kinda chuckled and says "haha, he couldnt hit that thing with a bow from here." And of course nobody can question my abilities so I went in the hopuse andgrabbed the bow and a junker arrow and came back out. I never said a word.......walked to the end of the deck and drew back........aimed the best I could and let her fly. Feathers flew and that crow fell to the ground and my jaw about hit the ground. My friend, not being a big hunter, went absolutely nuts, lol. He said it was the best shot hes ever seen. And of course the girls eye ball were as big around as basketballs and they didnt really have anything to say until later when they mentioned how good of a shot that was. I got em all fooled into thinking im a good shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bow Hunter Derek Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... Mine was about 1 1/2 years ago. One night after Techno league, a group of us were shooting spots in the shop for money. Just messing around having fun. One of my buddies shoots and hits about 3" right of the spot. So as he starts to walk up to pull his arrow, I said "just leave it there, it'll give me something to aim at". He said yea right. So with an audience I made the bold statement "then watch this". I drew back aimed at his nock and shot a perfect robin hood. It had to be the luckiest shot of my life. The place went nuts. Not only had I shot a robin hood, but I had called it, kind of Babe Ruth style. Crazy. I'm sure I'll have another robin hood at some point, but I doubt I'll actually call another one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... i also had a robinhood in our shop one day.. i friend was saying that i needed to shoot at a single spot for indoor target. he said that by just using one spot i would get better accuracy . i kept telling him i would ruin to many arrows and i needed tio stay with a five spot target. so this went on for about 25 mins or so. finally i said ok i will put up a single spot target and shoot at it . i kept telling him that i was going to ruin some arrows for sure and probably robing hood one . he said yea right just shoot .. so the first arrow in in the middle of the X ring , the next arrow is jammed right next to it and the 3rd was a robinhood of the first arrow . i just turned around and said see i told you i would ruin my arrows .. needlessly to say i shot at 5 spot targets from then on ... Shoot Strong Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronS Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... My luckiest shot ever was during practice back in college. A few friends and I were shooting, all the while ground vermin were playing hide and seek in and out of their holes. I asked my friend for his judo tipped flu-flu arrow, estimated distance, and let it fly when one popped up out of the hole. The vermin went back into the hole just as the arrow arrived and I assumed I missed....until the arrow started moving. I stepped it off at 42 yards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gowest Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... A couple of years ago, I was in an shop shooting a "brand new " Mathews MQ1. At the time it was out of my price range and my wife didn't even know that I was considering this upgrade. A "friend" walks into the shop and starts hassling me about Mathews and the price - saying his bow was better. Now I was shooting the stores' pre-set bowat 20 yards and doing pretty well (I had taken the sport up a year before). Now this "friend" is really working the needle and giving me a hard time - usually a patient man, I finally said: "Really? you think your bow is better than this MQ1? Can you and your bow do this?" Bang! a robin hood! At that point, I had to buy the bow and back up my statement. By the way, after telling my wife this story (corroborated by the store owner who witnessed the whole thing) she was remarkably understanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... You said the "Luckiest Shot" right...LOL Well this one was nothing but Luck! I had stalked a small buck and saw him eating at what I thought was 25yds. I found out that when I shot he was actually at 35 yds...the arrow exploding against a fallen limb! Well up to that point it was nothing more than human error...until I realized that the buck just stood there broadside but looking puzzled and now facing my direction. Now I knew the distance he was at...drew back the bow after loading another arrow while attempting to hide behind a tree(if you have any questions about the attempting to hide part...look at my size in my avatar...it was a small tree LOL). Leaned back out and aimed...pulled the shot ...hit him directly in the center of the neck! It was raining steadily so I went right after him fearing losing the trail. I watched him lay down the first time and appear to be dead after 20 or so minutes so I walked up slowly. At 20 yds away from him he bolted away but he was bouncing off of trees so at that point I was sure it was a fatal hit. I tracked him and watched him lay down again...to have the same thing that happened the first time happen again! I had to start walking a grid pattern because I lost his trail after the second time he ran. I found him, after an hour of rain, 400 yards away from where he last layed down...Dead. Most of the steaks are gone now but his head is still in my freezer waiting to get mounted You said luckiest shot...well I think that qualifies!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... [ QUOTE ] COME ON I want LUCKY stories!!! LOL [/ QUOTE ] How about a hunting story.... I sometimes hunt a hillside that is beyond steep. Once you climb in your stand the hillside in front of you is at eyelevel and higher. Behind you is 20+ feet and dropping quickly and thats if you climb roughly 15'. We are talking STEEP. A couple of years ago I got into my stand before dark and waited for meat. I always kill a doe and then hunt horn the rest of the year. Low and behold I hear something that sounds like herding cattle comming through the leaves. I grabbed my bow just in case and sure enough three does push directly ahead of me about 20 yards out (eye level). I didnt have time to get ready so I had to remain as still as possible. They quickly moved on as if something was pushing them. I started to sit down until I heard it. "Eeerp." I knew it was a buck. It was loud and comming fast. I got my bow ready but he emerged before I got to draw. He had his head behind a tree for about 2-seconds which allowed me to make a 50% draw. He was at eye level too (on the trail of the does) so I couldnt finish my draw. I knew I couldnt hold it much longer so I went to full draw. He stopped in his tracks and looked straight at me. I aimed at the boiler room and took the roughly 15-20 yard shot. He dropped like he had been hit by a cannon ball! He had a little spin in the process and he landed turned away from me. I couldnt see where I had hit him but I knew I didnt get much penitration. The arrow was sticking straight up and I could easily see 75% of it. Of course I thought about the impact all the way down the tree. How in the world could he fold up like a card table with no penitration? Still yet, ive never seen one fold like that! At the base of the tree I saw him kick a little and I didnt want him to suffer so I put another arrow in his heart from roughly 20 yards. End of the line. I finally got to check him out. Turns out that when I went to full draw I got his attention. He tried to jump the string by spinning on his back legs and turning away from the shot. Instead it missed his lungs and found its way into his neck (spine shot). He had literally turned so much that I quartered away into his neck! It was amazing. I cant believe how fast he turned. Think about it. My bow is shooting roughly 270-280fps and he had time to spin inside of a shot that was no more then 20 yards! Amazing animals! He was only a 6-point. I was hoping for a doe but he showed at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rut-Nut Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... I have 2 stories...........one target and one hunting! First, I did just what your're talking about at our United Bowhunters of Pa Annual Campout and shoot 2 weeks ago. i was shooting at a pretty shot up bear target and when I pulled one of my arrows it felt a little heavier and looked funny. Upon closer examination, it had someone's glue on field pt. stuck right onto my screw-in field pt. I later found out it came off one of my friend's wooden arrows(traditional) the day before and I found it the hard way!!!! I unscrewed my point(but left his on the outside of mine) and put it in an old arrow and saved it for display. Now the hunting story- I call it bad to the bone! Many years ago I was hunting a new area and picked a nice tree on a hillside. I attempted to shoot an antlerless deer quartering way at about 25 y, but must have pulled the shot and yanked the trigger on my release. It came in real fast behind some brush and I didn;t hear or see it until it was almost past me. I quickly grabbbed my bow, drew, aimed, whistled it to stop and released. the deer went down in a heap!!!! it was facing away from me, so all I could see was the fletching . it didn;t move at all. I knew the shot was high, but I thought it hit the base of the neck(spine) and paralyzed it. Well, when I walked over to see where I hit it, I was STUNNED to see the muzzy trocar tip sticking out of the left eye-ball!!!! The shaft of the arrow had entered the skull just behind the right ear, penetrated right thru the brain diagonally and started to exit thru the left eye-socket. Talk about bad to the bone!!!! When I re-created the shot in my head I realized that when I had whistled, the deer stopped but looked over it's right shoulder behind it- evidently thinking the noise came from that direction. At that angle, the head was right over the vitals(but probably 12-15 inches higher) and facing almost away from me. SO when I shot high, instead of my arrow sailing helplessly over it's back, it (luckily for me) buried in the back of the deer's head. When I took it to the butcher, he said "Man, what a shot".....................i just looked at him, winked and said "Yeah, right where I was aiming!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronS Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... GW's story reminds me of another lucky shot of mine. It was December 29th about 15 years ago in northern IN, with a wind chill of minus 10. The ground was covered with snow and I was in a stand overlooking a field. What looked to be a doe and fawn came in from across the field and the bigger doe either saw me or smelled me. I decided to take the smaller one (it was cold and I was ready for the warmth of the truck) so I estimated the distance at 30 yards and shot. I hit way low. The openness of the field along with the snow messed up my distance judgement. I later stepped it off at 40 yards. It turned out that I hit the doe in the front leg just above the knee, but cut the big artery that runs down the leg and she bled out in 1/4 mile. In the wide open flat ground up there, I watched her go down. It turned out that the "smaller" doe field dressed over 100 pounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest buddy ahart Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... last year i was hunting on the ground just off of a small field with a freind he looks over at me and whispers "Do you see that fox" so i looked around not seeing anything and thinking my freind was wrong and it was probaly a cat i said no and just kept looking around.Not a minute later i saw sumthing move rite in fron of my and i stood up worried what it was and it was the fox it ran to what i thought was 30 yards so i just let err rip and it disapreard. My freind asks me did you get it and i saw na i dont think so once it got dark we walked over to see if my arrow was there and here layed a Beautiful red fox with a arrow from its font left eye exiting behind the right ear to this day i cant belive i made the shot on that and not the doe i shot at the next night at 15 yards. funny how things happen somtimes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... I was sitting here trying to think of a lucky shot I've made in the past and could only think of a few unlucky ones Then I read the fox post and it all came back to me like yesterday. I was 16 years old. I was bunny huntin with a friend. I decided to drop down off this hill that bordered the creek bottom and my buddy decided to stay up in the bush across the field from where I was and try his luck at cottontails there. Hunted for a bit down there with no luck and heard my buddy take a shot, so I climbed the hill out of the creek bottom so I could look across the field and maybe get a glimps of him to see what he got. I was just cresting the top of the hill to where my eyes could see across the field and here is this red fox, running straight at me, full bore. There was no time to think, no time to raise the 12 gauge and aim, but I instinctively clicked off the safety while I had the gun in the craddle position, dropped it to my side and shot from the hip. It all happened so fast I even surprised myself...LOL The fox rolled past me and came to rest about 5 yards downs the hill. Perfect head shot too...what was left...LOL I thought that was pretty lucky, since I had never even tried a hip shot before, never mind an instictive one, under pressure. Man, how I loved that old Stevens 620 pump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smitteken Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... When I was about 10 my stepdad had just gotten me my first compound bow, capable of hunting, for christmas. We went to the shop to get it set up. When we finally got to the point to sight it in he had me just shoot instinctlively at a 15 yard target to see where I was hitting. So sure enough I nailed the bullseye. I had been shooting youth bows since I was about 5 so I guess I had a good feeling for it. I should have never put sights on and kept the instinct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowJoe Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... I was hunting in an area we just refer to as "The Restricted" (because you can only bowhunt it the last 2 weeks of the season in a bowhunting only state park) and was of course with my best friend who was about 75 yds West. About an hour and a half into the hunt we had seen several does in an even more restricted area that they bedded in across a Ranger access road that divided the two areas. While I watched the East end my buddy watched the west end of the road and I happened to see a doe and a fawn creep through even further east. The doe was about 35 yds away and I had been having a dismal season to which was almost over. I stood up with absolutely no confidence and inexperience as I was just into bowhunting only 3 years. I drew very calmly expecting to miss anyway and settled my pin behind her shoulder. I released and watched the arrow sail away. Thinking I had just taken a stupid Hail Mary, I signaled to my buddy that I wanted to get down and he signaled that if I did I was a dead man because he had does coming into him as well (you just have to know my buddy to read all that out of a 75 yd gesture). About 15 mins later he shot a doe that ran off into the same woods as the doe I had just shot at. We both got down about 30 mins before dark and started looking for arrows. I walked what turned out to be 36 yds and was astonished at what I found. There was blood sprayed everywhere and my arrow was just laying on top of some leaves covered in blood. I hollered at my buddy to get over here quick. When he got there I was already tracking a huge blood trail spraying out on both sides. About 70 yds into the restricted area I found a doe lying on the ground with blood everywhere. When I looked for a hole in her chest area, I didn't find one. I kept looking and my buddy finally saw where she had been shot. She had been shot straight through the Jugular vein. Granted it was a stupid thing to do and now I know better, but dang that was luck if I ever saw it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranchand99 Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... I had a robin hood a few weeks ago.I shot two does with one shot they were side by side --broadside I aimed a little high on the first one,and got both of them.Last year I had group of hogs come in,and it was getting dark,and the area was very thick.I was on the ground,and they came in.I saw the biggest sow looking right at me,and I put it between her eyes.I shot,and clipped another hog that was standing broadside in front of her across the back,spining it,and still hit the big sow between the eyes.My biggest deer with a muzzleloader came running in,and I tried to lead him,when I shot he did a forward flip,and buried his tines in the ground,his body flipped up into the air,and his head stayed like that,.He never moved a muscle after that..I had shot him in the neck.HOW LUCKY!! . My all time favorite was when I was bowhunting,and a boar came trotting through like they usually do when something is on their mind.He was 23yds.When he went behind a tree I drew,when he came out on the other side,and when his nose touched the pin on my bow I released,and it hit him right in the heart,and he piled up within 35yds.My first bow kill.Never have had anymore luck like that. Oh,my friend shot a dragon fly with a slingshot.That was something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
too_pointer Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 Re: Luckiest shot ever? Braggin time for us all... This is gun related in a way Myself and 2 of my friends were in the alders hunting woodcock. One got up in front of me and I shot twice, missing both times. The stupid bird turned and came right back at me, I swung my barrel up in the air, the bird broke its neck on it !!!! I have 2 witnesses who will swear to this, talk about lucky huh too_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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