AHAMO ARCHERY CLUB November 17, 2002 November 2002 Newsletter CLUB OFFICERS President: Jim Chandler (537-8058) Vice President: Bill Lewis (498-9364) Secretary: Dave Wise (498-0186) Treasurer: Dave Holthouse (291-0211) Trustees: Bill Rhoades (932-0417) Ed Rebarich (345-7608) Sergeant at Arms: Greg Thomas (625-2697) News Editor: Lee Pereksta (592-3856) 3D Coordinator: Mike Vandeman (332-4625) Indoor range phone (734-7272)
Key Dates to Remember
Tuesdays Indoor leagues, 7:00 December 2 7:00 Club meeting,indoor range November 23,24 Ahamo Indoor 300 round Lines at 7 pm Sat, and 9am Sun
November Club Meeting
The November meeting was attended by 10 members. We discussed the upcoming November shoot, discussed Mike Vandeman’s 3D proposal, and the 2003 Winter Sports Festival. We also discussed the annual banquet to be held in January. There were no new members were voted in at the meeting.
Leagues
Indoor leagues are still running on Tuesday night’s. Stop down and shoot along if you are not already on the league. Shooting starts at 7:00.
November Indoor Tournament
Please note that our next tournament will be a 300 round held on November 23 and 24. There will be two lines, one at 7:00 pm on Saturday and the other at 9:am on Sunday. We will be shooting for turkeys and other birds.
3D News
We discussed Mike Vandeman’s 3D proposal at the club meeting and decided to follow it next year. It seems to be a simple concept, that will work if everyone pitches in.
Mike will be the 3D coordinator and John Terfone the food committee coordinator. As 3D coordinator, Mike will help with the set up and will bring the registration information out to each shoot. We will have members sign up for registration for 1 or 2 shoots, and will only need to man the registration table during those shoots. If they can also find someone to help them that would be ok too, but the member that signed up would be responsible for registration for that shoot. The member running registration would not need to help with anything else for that shoot.
The same concept would be followed for food. John would bring out the food and help set up, but the person that signed up would be the one responsible to run the food that day. The person running the food sales could enlist support from someone else if they want to, and would not need to help anywhere else that weekend.
Bill Rhoades and Ed Rebarich already volunteered to run food and registration for the July shoot. If anyone else would like to run one of those functions at another shoot, just contact Mike or John.
2003 Club Banquet
We discussed the club banquet at the club meeting and decided that we will hold it at Angies. Watch for information on prices and meal selections in our next newsletter.
The club banquet is a lot of fun. Members bring pictures, and hunting stories, and the food is always good.
At the banquet we also give out club awards for club support, hunting successes, and also a couple of special awards. We also have drawings for work party awards where the more hours you helped, the more times your name is added to the drawing.
Start thinking about the banquet now, and be sure to sign up for it next month.
Hunting season News
The list of successful hunters is starting to grow. If you harvest a deer please call Lee Pereksta at 592-3856 to report your deer or Email Lee at hunterlee@msn.com. Your name will be added to the newsletter, and you will get a deer award at the end of the year at the annual banquet. This year’s list is way behind where it was last year at this time. If you harvested a deer and are not on the list below, please call me.
John Terfone 1x1 Mike Vandeman doe (bonus tag) Dick Sousa doe (bonus tag) Bill Lewis turkey Bill Lewis doe (bonus tag) Lee Pereksta 4x3 Robby Valeika 3x3 Robby Valeika doe (bonus tag) Mark Seip 4x5
Big Buck Contest
Mark Seip called to say he got a 160 class deer and is planning to bring it to the December club meeting to be measured. If you want to see it, just come to that meeting.
Newsletter Items
If you are a club member and have an item for sale, send me the information to put in the newsletter. Also, if you have an interesting deer story or any archery tips you would like to share with club members please send them to me for the newsletter.
My Email address is: hunterlee@MSN.com
Safety is Important
The following are a couple of email notes I received recently. Please review closely and think safety when you get into your tree stand. I don’t know if you know the individuals mentioned or not, but pay attention to what happened and don’t let it happen to you:
Subject: CJ's Father home from Hospital
Just spoke with CJ. His father recovered from the surgery and drugs and is now home before the Doctor's expected him to be able to.
A week ago Friday, CJ and his father were hunting from separate treestands. His father had a full-body harness on, but not connected to the tree. He slipped with his climber and fell out of it landing on the base of his neck. He crawled to the van and honked the horn to get CJ's attention. In the hospital they did emergency surgery to fuse with hardware two vertebrae at the base of his neck. The Valium caused an allergic reaction that put him into a induced reaction like coming off drugs cold turkey. Once that wore off, he recovered enough to go home a week early. Will have to wear a halo device until the surgery and fuse heal. Prayers are strong medicine!
Take care, CJ and Family.
For the Future of Bowhunting, Timothy S. Pool NBEF Executive DirectorSubject: Lyle Prell took a fall
For those of you who missed it today on bowsite or haven't heard by other means of bowhunter networking. Per Roger Sears, Lyle Prell fell while hanging a stand and suffered a compound fracture on his arm. It was a real cold night and he had to walk over 2 miles to get help and they were lucky not to loose him.
2003 Officer Elections
There is still room for members to run for office in 2003. If you know a member that would be an asset in a board position, or if you would like to hold a position, please let a current board member know. Offices open include President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Sergeant at Arms, Trustees (members at large to sit in at board meetings), and Newsletter Editor. Some of the current board members are willing to continue holding their positions again, but all would be more than willing to let someone else take over their position.
Winter Sports Festival
We discussed the winter sports festival at the November club meeting. We were offered $6.00 per shooter to host the 3D, and decided that $6.00 wouldn’t cover our costs. We will be offering to take the shoot for $8.00 a shooter and may be holding our own shoot if we don’t get it for that amount.
Note from Game and Parks
I received the following from Game and Parks:
Recently Golden Arrow and Ahamo archery clubs each donated a 3D target to the NGPC Mentored Youth Archery Hunting Program. I would like to thank them in the newsletter if possible.
As you may know, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission administers a Youth Mentored Archery Deer Hunting Program in eastern and central Nebraska. Though the tireless efforts of our dedicated mentors/bow hunter education instructors, we reach over 60 youth each year. Providing the opportunity for over 60 youth to spend an entire archery season hunting with a highly qualified mentor is quite a positive impact to the archery hunting community as well as the ability for our agency to continue with its wildlife management goals. Without the support of organizations such as Golden Arrow and Ahamo, as well as many other individuals and organizations who support such programs each year, we would not be able to offer such a rich opportunity to Nebraska youth. Thank you for your help.
Regards, Jeff Rawlinson Hunter Outreach Coordinator
Hunting Stories
I needed filler space in the newsletter - so here’s another one of my hunting stories. If anyone else has a story they would like to share, please send it to me so I can put it in the newsletter.
This was on Saturday, November 2 this year. There had been a couple of wet days and I was not able to get out that morning because I expected that the minimum maintenance road I use would be too muddy to drive on. It was sunny and a little windy during the day, so I thought it may have been dry enough for an afternoon hunt. Steve Murphy decided to try getting out also and left a little earlier than me. I called him on his cell phone before I got there to see what the road was like and he said that he needed to drive on the fields because of the mud, but the fields were passable.
I got there about 2:30 and drove through the fields like Steve did. I made it to where his truck was parked and headed in. At about 3:30 I was finally up in my stand. Steve and I both have talk about radios to check in from time to time when we hunt. As soon as I was set up, I gave him a call and let him know I was there. Steve hadn’t seen any thing yet, and I told him I would check back later.
As soon as I quit talking I heard something and looked down the trail to see a deer’s feet under the brush and branches heading towards me. I just barely had time to get in position when the buck stepped out from behind a tree on the trail running about 20 yards from my stand. I was at full draw at that moment and made a high pitched whining sound that was kind of a cross between a cat and a fawn calling out. The buck stopped and looked to see what it was. When he stopped, I aimed and squeezed my release.
The deer was off like a shot and I watched as he jumped the fence on my right and ran through the un-picked corn field until he was out of sight. I took in all that had happened and called Steve back. It was about 3 or 4 minutes since I had just talked to him, so he was a little surprised when I called back to say I had just shot one.
I told him I wouldn’t need help, and would have plenty of time to track before it got dark. I checked my watch, put an arrow in my bow just in case another deer came by and then went over the shot again. From my tree, I scanned the ground with my binoculars to look for blood or my arrow. I saw the arrow stuck in the ground and also saw a splattering of blood behind it.
After a half hour, I got down as quietly as possible and went to the arrow. It was covered with blood, so I didn’t think finding the deer would be a problem. As I tracked, the blood got a little spotty from time to time, but I always managed to pick it up again. I used a piece of toilet paper to mark last blood whenever I lost the trail while I looked for more blood. The deer ran through the corn field, down a hill, through another patch of woods, through a creek (that was deep enough to slosh over the top of my boots slightly), and into another corn field. In the other corn field, it ran between rows of corn and just kept on going straight. The blood was easy to follow, and after about 80 yards through the corn I found the deer. It was a pretty good sized 4x3 that I thought was a 4x4 when I shot it.
I had to drag it back between the rows corn because I didn’t want to knock any of the corn down until I got to a part of the field where the corn was a little sparse. At that point, I dragged it out of the field and into the woods. The deer was heavy enough that I worked up a pretty good sweat and was complaining about my back by the time I got it out of the field. It turned out that I was extremely lucky I found the deer when I did.
I positioned the deer where I wanted to field dress it and got started. Then, all of a sudden I heard a tractor, and looked up to see a combine coming around a corner of the field and heading in my direction. When it got across from me the driver stopped and came over to see what I had shot. I explained that I had been hunting a couple of patches of woods over and let him know who’s land I had been hunting on. We talked a little more, and he got back on his combine just as another one came around the corner. The other combine stopped and that farmer came over to watch me finish field dressing the deer. This farmer gave me directions to get to the field from the main road and said I could drive my truck through the freshly picked field to get to the deer. That turned out to be a pretty good thing, because it was about 400 yards to my tree, and another 100 yards to the field where I was parked. Plus, there was a creek and a pretty steep hill to get to the first corn field.
I was very lucky I hadn’t found the deer a half hour later - the combine might have run over it before I got there.
I hung the deer with my rope and pulley system, washed it out with the water I had with me, and headed back to my stand. I also locked the spot as a waypoint on my GPS to help find the deer when I came back through the other side of the field. I called Steve as I walked. He was on the ground following my blood trail. We linked up in the first corn field and we hurried out of the woods to get back to the deer before it got dark.
We almost made it, as it was pretty dark just as we got to the deer. The GPS, plus some toilet paper I used to mark the spot in the woods where I field dressed the deer made it pretty easy to find it in the dark.
The buck was a 4x3 that weighed 135 pounds at the butcher’s.
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