Let's see some traditional harvests!

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Australia
Plenty of them over here in Australia mate, but permission to hunt them is dwindling in a lot of areas. With the export market, they are worth big money and farmers are rounding them up and selling them. In the drought conditions we have over here, the wild goats are doing much better than our domestic sheep as well.
 
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Santa Barbara, CA
Nice hauls fellas!!
I'll we looking to get a bow this Christmas and test my skills that way. Got a two deer last year in CA & OH and one this year in CA. Headed back to OH next week for a few days of crossbow before gun season opens and will be getting fit for a compound bow and testing a few models. I will look back on this site (which has been highly recommended by friends) to skim classifieds for a good deal on a good bow.
 

Grand Passage

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TX
3rd kill in a row I’ve forgotten to get a good picture with, I need to do better. 17 yard shot with my ILF recurve, she only went 30 yards.

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Great Falls MT
Finally shot my first public land whitetail. I can make an argument about how hard or easy public land elk hunting is. But trying to fill a tag on even a mature doe WT on a small piece of public is down right tough! Especially with a bunch of Elmer Fuds with guns!

I started hunting this spot on towards the end of archery season and there were a lot of mature deer around and a lot of Popers.

Even a week or two ago there were some giants around and a few mature does.

But after an all dayer on Tuesday then Thursday I believe it became apparent that the mature deer had been pressured out and I'd have to adjust my goals to the current situation.

Best as I can tell the pressure pushed the does off this little track of public and the bucks had no reason to come over. There were still a ton of deer and legit Boone and Crockett bucks on the other side of the fence. One of these bucks had a legit 26"+ tip to tip!

Finally Friday morning in my vein attempt to rattle that big deer onto public I looked down and this guy was keyed into my buck decoy.

He circled down wind of the decoy and at 25 yards I zipped a Simmons Swamp Shark into his heart.

Pretty cool experience to take my first trad buck after working so hard all season. Then I've never killed from a treestand. I grew up hunting on the ground. So learning how to treestand has been a lot of fun!
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TGY

FNG
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Very nice harvests! I'd post my pics, but i have a lot of asian friends in my pics and you all know how people get their panties in a twist seeing asians in a successful hunt. Nice pics though all.
 

Medic77

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MO
Great pictures everyone. Here's a few
 

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Southeast Texas
Got my first big game harvest with a trad bow a few days ago. It was about 25 yards on a hard quartering away.

The shot wasn’t the best, but thankfully my setup was built for forgiveness and penetration and I made it through the whole pig! Here is what I’m shooting

Fleetwood recurve 45# @ 28” with roughly 28.75” draw
BE Vintage 500 spine cut to 30”
Standard al inserts
200 grain VPA 2 blade heads
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Billings, Mt
Older but my most memorable. Shot him from a tree stand I hung many years ago on a pond on our ranch. Only animal I ever killed from this stand as wind was an issue; as in had to be northeast and very light (very rare in our area). I had just recovered from bacterial meningitis 2 months before (near death experience). Daughter and future son in law came to rescue to help with field dressing and packout late at night. This was third elk in as many years on our place; first with rifle and next two with my trusty Black Widow.
 

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