Heartland Bowhunter host Shawn Luchtel recorded a heart-pounding video final week whereas bowhunting in New Mexico. The video, filmed from Luchtel’s point-of-view, exhibits him arrowing an enormous bull at shut vary. Inside seconds, the 5×5 hits the bottom and rolls downhill proper towards him and his digicam man.
“Chandler, stand up! Rise up! Rise up!” you possibly can hear Luchtel saying to the cameraman because the bull tumbles towards him.
“It was wild,” says Luchtel, who was filming a future episode of Heartland Bowhunter. They have been searching with Hunters New Mexico, an clothes shop primarily based in Albuquerque.
The video begins with Luchtel going to full draw as the large bull runs into the body. After Luchtel makes shot, the bull trots off a brief distance earlier than hitting the bottom and rolling downhill proper again at them. On the finish of the video, Luchtel paces off the space from the place the hunters have been standing to the place the bull got here to relaxation. It was roughly 8 steps.
Luchtel says this was the second time he’s drawn a bull tag in that unit. The final time was just a few years in the past, and after searching with the identical clothes shop for a few week, he by no means obtained a shot alternative. So final week he went again to northern New Mexico with the intention of tagging an enormous bull and filming a full episode. Judging by the footage they captured, the crew was profitable on all fronts.
“That morning was the very first day of the hunt, and it was action-packed,” Luchtel says. “We referred to as in a pair smaller bulls and handed on them, and our plan was to hunt a waterhole close by.”
After checking current path digicam photographs, which confirmed some good bulls coming to water within the early afternoon, Luchtel and the crew made a transfer and arrange at a unique waterhole round 2 p.m. They heard bugles all afternoon, and somewhat over 5 hours into the sit, they watched a small bull come into the waterhole. The bull drank for some time earlier than all of a sudden leaping out of the water and trotting away like he was spooked.
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The crew then watched the small bull chase a cow out of the timber. After that, a much bigger bull confirmed up. The 2 bulls have been sprinting downhill on a path that led proper to the hunters, and Luchtel says he knew instantly that no matter was going to occur subsequent was going to occur quick. He drew and watched the bulls run proper at him.
“This bull comes flying out of the comb, cuts off the small bull, and that’s once I was at full draw,” Luchtel says. “I used to be making an attempt to cease him, however he had no thought we have been there. He simply occurred to cease proper in my window and bugle from 13 yards. I ended up making an amazing shot. He trotted 10 about yards, stopped, seemed round, fell over and rolled proper right down to us mainly.”
