Lob Shot

TED KOCH was on a mountain elk archery hunt at the top of a canyon moving down searching for a cow elk. Wait until you hear about unbelievable lob shot. Speaker2: As I was coming down in, all of a sudden I saw some smoke and fresh elk poop and I slowed way down. And I took three more steps and I looked ahead and 25 yards away, a calf elk stood up, broadside. A couple of elk on either side of it also stood up a couple of more cows while he had a little two inch wide stick covering his chest. And I shoot a recurve bow, which means I shoot instinctively. So I hit what I look at, right? So I draw my bow back and I thought, Don't hit that stick. I drop the string and bam, I center the stick. And so the calf and the cows that were standing each jumped forward about 20 yards. And we're in a little bit harder position for me to shoot at. But right behind them, more elk stood up. So the other cows stood about 35 yards away and at the bottom half of its chest and its head were blocked by a pine tree. But shooting my recurve, my arrows have a big arc to it. And I know how to do this trick. I picked a spot on that cow elk chest that I couldn't see, but that I could imagine. Visualize through the branches of the pine tree. I drew back and shot and sure enough, my arrow arcs just over the pine branches and disappeared out of sight. And then I heard it go THWACK and I went down and there was no blood initially. And I followed a trail about 50 yards. And then I found my bloody arrow when it was a pass through shot. Turned out it was a perfect shot, a. Speaker1: Lob shot up and over some brush between him and the elk. Never heard of that before.