HEy guys,
I got this big doe last Saturday, but I was having trouble posting the pics. So here's my second attempt. Got her with my osage longbow, rivercane arrow and stone point made of heat treated novaculite from Arkansas. She was feeding in a turnip patch when I shot her at about 7 or 8 yards. I was in a stand, and hit her just above and slightly behind her left elbow. When she ran off I was concerned because there was a lot of arrow sticking out of her. She fled about 90 yards across the food plot then disappeared into the woods. We backed off and gave her 3 hours just to be sure before tracking. Well, it was unnecessary because we found her about 45 yards inside the woodline, stone dead. Turns out the stone point went between two ribs on entry, cut thru both lungs, the top of the heart, and shattered the #4 rib on the far side. I actually found the small middle section of the stone point in the top of the deer's heart when I performed the autopsy. We weighed her before field dressing and she tipped the scales at 178 lbs. The pictures don't do her justice....she was BIG.
The stone point was a short, kinda stubby point made from a thin flake, but it wasn't particularly pretty or symmetrical. It was kind of expediently made, but it was finely serrated and very sharp. It was a bit larger than my typical bird points....it was 3/4 inch wide and 3/4 inch long. It was hafted with pine sap glue and sinew. Even though the point shattered the rib and then stayed in the deer for about 100 yards as she ran off, the point was still held as securely as though I had used epoxy. Also, the far shoulder was a mess of bruising and coagulated blood.....I was shocked when I saw how much bleeding had occurred because it looked like I shot her with a high powered rifle. I find it pretty impressive that a primitive bow and stone tipped arrow was capable of that kind of damage. You can see it in the pics, along with the broken rib and the stone point I got her with.
Here are the specs on my equipment : Osage self bow, 52 lbs at 30" (although I didn't quite reach full draw), rivercane arrow with short dogwood foreshaft weighing 520 grains, and stone point made of novaculite. Oh, and to top it off, I self filmed the whole thing and got it on video!!!
Hunting with primitive stuff is a real thrill....I LOVE it!! Hope ya'll enjoy....
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