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Title: Guilt
Post by: nkw880 on February 17, 2011, 07:22:00 PM

i must confess this to make me feel better the last day of our ohio deer season this year i klet my buddy talk me into taking a compound out into the woods  to make a long story short i had three does come in a twenty yards and when i went to pull the bow back i could not and scared all three away if i would have just taken my kodiak mag with me i could be eating some good deer steaks but no they ran away lauging let this be a lesson  i will never again carry one of those things into the woods

Title: Re: Guilt
Post by: magnus on February 17, 2011, 07:32:00 PM

Learn from this lesson and let it go. Guilt bad. Wisdom good.

Title: Re: Guilt
Post by: straitera on February 17, 2011, 07:35:00 PM

Can't tell you how I identify! If it ain't done right it ain't worth doing!! You good folks can hunt w/hand grenade if it makes you as happy as me & my hero Hill. Way to go nkw880.

Title: Re: Guilt
Post by: durp on February 17, 2011, 07:40:00 PM

laughing at ones self can cure most of the dumb things we do...BUT...useing a compound for anything but a boat anchor is almost to dumb to laugh at...but doable if you try REAL HARD!!!

Title: Re: Guilt
Post by: ckanous on February 17, 2011, 09:40:00 PM

:thumbsup:

Title: Re: Guilt
Post by: crotch horn on February 18, 2011, 03:33:00 AM

A couple of seasons ago I had a really bad shoulder & convinced my doc & wife surgery could wait til after deer season. Well, I wasn't practicing enough & misse four shots at two deer. Came home so angry at myself. I called my buddy Ed & proclaimed it was nothing but compound for the rest of the season. Well, everytime I left the house I just couldn't do it. Hunted trad the rest of bow season. Never got another shot with the bow that year but took 3 with the gun. Got the shoulder fixed & 16 days after surgery was shooting ny recurve again. Doc told me 8 weeks but I could not wait. Like said, learn not punish yourself.

Title: Re: Guilt
Post by: m midd on February 18, 2011, 04:39:00 AM

My first year hunting trad i missed every deer i shot at which was 3. I missed a nice buck because of a limb and then a doe with the remaining arrows in my quiver. I took my compund the next hunt and drew on a doe but couldnt shoot her because it just didnt feel right any more. I was shooting both compound and recurve at the time and desided it had to be one or the other so i sold the compuund and never looked back. Last year i took my first game animals with traditonal tackle. If im bowhunting it will be with a stick and string. Im not just addicted, its a part of life