Finding A First For A Friend #2

[woodstoka]

well my friend matt has been into bows since i have been and we bought the same bows as each other and all the equipment and learnt together how hard bows are i sticked with it and mattt dropped off and he didnt pick up the bow until afew months ago he got a new arrow rest and stole his dads release aid and i set it up for him and got him shooting he is a bloody good shot and was shooting next to me from 60m and shooting good so i promised him i would take him hunting and get him his first bunny after i showed him afew pics and a little footage he was keen as so a call was made to the property owner and off we went at about 4.00pm it was bloody windy and hard to shoot real hard but we had plenty of time we set our selves up jumped the fence and i said stop theres one you take it he drew back and goes 'ohh bugger i said what he goes i forgot my release aid lol so back to fingers he went , he took the shot and the arrow fell short and the bunny took off but another bunny hoped out i drew back and released thump he kicked and squillled with my arrow in him then he got to his feet and got into the blackberries with my arrow grrr not even 5 mins and i lost an arra not to worry so we continued on having the odd stalk but wasnt to be then i spoted a bunny and said ok go for it but once again the arra fell short he had afew more shots but couldnt connect then i said ok give me a shot i spotted a nice bunny in a gully the wind was good in helping cover noise but hard to shoot in i got to 25m and let him have it through the heaad and spine
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to cut a long story short after alot of walking and alot of stuffed up shots i said ok lets have a whistle so i sat down and got ready nothing i turned my head to see matt at full draw and a bunny no more then 10m away THUMP the bunny was doin backflips and i said go run he chased after it but the arrow dropped out and the bunny ran down a burrow he was happy but angry but we went to the next good spot that holds alot of bunnys and i spotted 2 bunnys feedin on a dam wall so i let him have the shot wen i looked more i spotted afew others here is matt as he just released an arra at a nice bunny from 40m
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he just missed and they all ran off except one i said ill take the shot i drew back and the bloody wind stopped just as i got to full draw the 40m pin was on him and CRACK i hit him through the center he got into the black berries on the dam wall and thought he was gone until we walked over and found him out of it near the water edge here he is number 98
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i said to boydy im not having another shot until he gets one and it must have been good luck because no longer then 10mins later we were walking over a ridge when i herd the bow go off behind me and saw the look and boydys face he ran ova and held up his arrow with a rabbit on it he hit it right through the neck from 25m and dropped em on the spot he was stoked
heres matt and bunny #1
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we walked around but the wind was stuffing our shots up somthin shockin so i decided to head over into the scrub we might come across a fox and the odd bunny so over we went i spotted a bunny on his warren and told matt to go in for the shot he got to 20m and took the shot here is matt at full draw and the wittle wascal
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but it was another miss dam
i said ok its to bloody windy and late lets head back matt said ill catch up ill go pick my bunny up and meet you back at the gate lucky for me there is about 2 acres off bush at the gate full of bunnys i sat and a little rabbits hoped out 25m away i drew back and let him have it i took him through the back end but i got to him and put him out quick here he is number 99 1 more to boys
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not long after matt came up the hill with his bunny we headed home and i skun it for him and his got it on his wall
sorry for the long boaring story but i had a top day watchin a mate hunt and learn
thanks for lookin jesse

also i shot 6 got 3 back and matt shot 5 got one back bloody good effert for his first hunt

[hunt or be hunted]

well done mate, and well done to matt, you got a few good pics of him there.

dan.

[macka]

Well done mate thats an unreal amount of rabbits. How many of them did you nail in just 2007 must have been a lot anyway.

good stuff

Macka

[woodstoka]

thanks macka
in 2007 i took 90 bunnys
im headin out tonight to my spot down the road to try and get that 100th

[ricochet]

Well done Jesse, good to see another person out bowhunting, all you need to do now is get your brother a Rabbit:), great photos and story,

Cheers,
Rick;)

[macka]

Well good luck mate, i'm heading out tonight for a whistle to see if i can't shake the monkey.

I was having a look back through my album and i dont think i have even shot 30 rabbits yet over 5 years so 90 in 1 year is unreal. my billygoat count now is up to 81 now tho just going by photo's and i dont print off the nanny photo's so dont know how many of them.

Macka

[troy]

Geez, Stoka you taken a heap of photos of the same rabbit from differnet angles or what? ;) Every other day theres a post from you shooting another bunny. You must be breeding them things out there. Top stuf mate.