Squirrel hunting with a bow
07-03-2006, 10:58 AM
#11
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Missouri
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RE: Squirrel hunting with a bow
use broadheads, but shoot when they are on the ground. i have at least a 1/2 dozen arrows tipped with broadheads in my woods 25 feet up stuck into trees. i learned my lesson shoot when there are on the ground
buy yourself a squirrel call its like a bark they make and when you hit the call you can hear them answer so you know where they are. or better is find someone with squirrel dogs.
buy yourself a squirrel call its like a bark they make and when you hit the call you can hear them answer so you know where they are. or better is find someone with squirrel dogs.
07-03-2006, 11:03 AM
#12
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Missouri
Posts: 81
RE: Squirrel hunting with a bow
hardcorehunter,
if ya shot that rabbit with a broadhead you would of killed it within a few seconds. i used to bowhunt jack rabbits in california. i seen a rabbit get hit right in the body with a fieldtip and that sucker ran a few hundred yards. i wish i had that on camera the arrow stickin out of it and he was runnin. i seen my dad shoot a cotton tial with his bow and when it struck the rabbit that rabbit died almost instanly. broadheads mess up small game. i shot a bobwhite with my bow last year. with a broadhead about 25 yards. when that arrow hit the quial all the feathers poofed in the air like a shot gun hit. quial died instantly
if ya shot that rabbit with a broadhead you would of killed it within a few seconds. i used to bowhunt jack rabbits in california. i seen a rabbit get hit right in the body with a fieldtip and that sucker ran a few hundred yards. i wish i had that on camera the arrow stickin out of it and he was runnin. i seen my dad shoot a cotton tial with his bow and when it struck the rabbit that rabbit died almost instanly. broadheads mess up small game. i shot a bobwhite with my bow last year. with a broadhead about 25 yards. when that arrow hit the quial all the feathers poofed in the air like a shot gun hit. quial died instantly
HCH
07-03-2006, 11:56 PM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Missoula,MT
Posts: 307
RE: Squirrel hunting with a bow
I used to hunt squirrels with my bow when I was a kid,Around 11 or 12.I used a recurve and a compound and wooden and aluminum arrows.before I knew you could buy blunts I would make them out of a bolt.I would just insert the bolt into the aluminum shaft and tape it with electrical tape.Worked great.I also had a small dog that would stop and point at a squirrel and wait till I shot.Then would go and bark at my arrow when it landed, unless I hit the squirrel then he would go after it and sometimes get bit on the nose.
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