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When I was first going to write about my Muzzy Moment, I had to stop and think about it. I have had so many great ones such as: my first turkey, my biggest wild hog, and the numerous gar and carp that I have harvested. However, after May 1, 2003, I knew I had to write about this one: I started bowhunting at the age of 11. Ever since I had my first hunting bow, my little brother Luke, wanted one too. To him it did not matter that he was eight years younger than I was. Of course, my parents bought him a toy bow to make him happy. As we both grew older, we went through several bows and many arrows. One day I was watching a Fitzgerald video and saw Mr. Fitzgerald shoot through the shoulder blade of a huge buck. My first thought was, “What kinda broadhead was that!” I later learned that is was a Muzzy. I immediately went to the archery store and purchased a package of 100 gr. 3 blade Muzzy broadheads. Those broadheads shot better than anything I had ever shot before. It was one week before the gun opener and I was ready with my new Muzzy broadheads (In Texas we can still hunt with a bow during gun season.) When my parents arrived at camp my little brother said, “Robert, LOOK AT MY NEW BOW!” Certainly, I was upset that I did not have the “latest model,” but I could not have been happier for him since this was what I considered his first “grownup” bow. The first thing I told him was to get rid of his old “inferior” broadheads, because he was going to use some of my Muzzy’s. Luke looked at me a bit confused and told me he did not have time to resight before the morning hunt. I said that was nonsense, and set up floodlights, a target, and stepped off 20 yards. We screwed on the Muzzy broadheads with the practice blades inserted, shot twice, adjusted his sight inward about a 16th of an inch, and Shazam! He was drilling the center of the dot. I told Luke he was going to sit with me in the morning and we could get him his first deer with a bow. At 5:45 AM, opening day of the 1998 season, we were perched up in the oak tree like two hawks looking for food. As the morning came unto light, eight deer surrounded us. When the largest doe was broadside, I whispered to Luke, “When she puts her head down to eat, her eyes will be blinded from our movement due to that bush. At that moment you need to come to full draw slowly.” Not ten seconds later she put her head down. Luke, shaking as if he had been locked in a walk in cooler, came to full draw. Just a millisecond before he released, she lifted her head, saw him dump the string, jumped back, and got out of town. Luke was so discouraged. I said, “Lets get down just in case you nicked her.” With tears in his eyes, he told me, “Are you blind? I flat out missed her!” We got out of the tree and went to where she was standing. There on the ground was hair and a speck of blood. I did not think she was hurt very badly and convinced Luke of that, and to get back in the tree to hunt out the rest of the morning. When we got down for the second time, I tried to lift Luke’s spirits and said we should look in the direction she ran. It was the responsible thing to do. He mumbled an OK to me. Seventy yards from where the tree was; there she lay, After pointing her out to Luke several times, since he could not see her, I told him to place another arrow. A few minutes later, Luke could not believe he had harvested his first deer with a bow. He told me, “I will forever shoot Muzzy’s.” Luke harvested many other deer with his Muzzy broadheads including three shoulder and two backbone pass-throughs. Luke got many people to switch to Muzzy broadheads because they knew he spoke the truth when it came to hunting. Since that first deer until Luke’s passing on May 1, 2003, anytime someone told Luke that they bowhunted, he would say, “You can “bowhunt,” but you are not BOWHUNTING until you shoot Muzzy!” I will miss my little brother very much, but I will remember him as being, “Bad Through the Bone.” By Rob Schneider Muzzy Products Corp.
Bad To The Bone®
110 Beasley Rd., Cartersville, GA 30120
Toll Free 800-222-7769 E-Mail gomuzzy@aol.com
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