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2004 Bow Season - December 4
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8 - Duck Or The Duck's Gotcha
Afternoon: The
Duck (Don Beckwith) and his brother Paul arrived mid day. They unloaded
their gear and Paul hunted the edge of our 200 acre oat field. Don went
to his Dry Tank area and set up his Double Bull blind by some trails.
Soon after 4:30 he heard
sparse wild turkey sounds. Ten minutes passed and without a sound a large
flock, 40 or 50, came down the trail. He saw some longbeards and drew but
they got by before he could get on one. He checked for gobblers in the
turkeys coming on the trails.
He saw a bunch of red heads.
One was taller and larger so he drew. The gobbler stopped. Don put his
pin on a leg and moved up into the body ... and shot. The bird ran.
It was minutes after 5:00.
Don waited until 5:30 and
stepped out of the blind. He picked up his arrow and saw the gobbler 20
yards away.
When I drove to the lease
camp after dark the Duck was there. Don smiled and said, "Now I've got
the combination I've been looking for: Double Bull, BowTech and Innerloc."
Don Beckwith (the Duck)
and his wild turkey on December 8. Taken from a Double Bull Bind with a
BowTech Patriot, Carbon Extreme arrows and an Innerloc EXP Expandable broadhead.
Meanwhile, Paul hunted
a ladder stand on the edge of our oat field. Fifteen minutes later a doe
came through briskly on a trail in the woods. Another 15 minutes passed
and he saw the doe again. It entered the oat field and started eating oats
along the edge.
Paul decided not to wait
any longer and drew. He picked a spot and followed the arrow as it hit
the deer right where he aimed. The sound was loud and the doe ran in a
half moon circle toward the fence at the edge of the field, and collapsed
10 yards from the fence.
Paul waited 30 minutes to
be sure it was dead and went to it. He carried the deer 150 yards away
from the stand and field dressed it. Then he used his rope to hoist her
up in a tree to get her off the ground. (Last time he hunted with us a
coyote had chewed on his deer before we blood trailed to it. He didn't
want that to happen again.)
Retired Dallas Police
Investigator Paul Beckwith and his doe.
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