Back a few months ago, I was chuckling to my self as I read an article in an Archery Magazine. A well written piece by a knowing archery friend.
Started out as a humoristic viewing of archers getting older, you know the scenarios and excuses, brighter color fletching (old colors were to drab). No more ground sleeping pads (cots get ya up away from bugs and snakes). The more I read the closer to home some of them pebbles he was casting started to land. Why?
I woke early this morning, wanted to get started after Goats and Deer an all day adventure on the Wyoming high plains. How quickly my plans have changed as I look at the thermometer, its reading 8 deg. This will mean a whole new dress code, I know that by noon it will have warmed up to high 40ies low 50ties, spotting and stalking with some stand time. Just what should I wear. This is getting more like my wife to get ready to go out for dinner, than it ever has for me to go hunting.
Holy buckets what’s going on in my brain housing? This kind of thinking never has been a problem in the past, just saddle up and get going………WHY NOW
Another issue that never in the past has been any problem, poises yet another dilemma. What trailer do I take this year for my out of state hunt.? Pop up camper on the trailer, that requires climbing up into the bed ?......OR the 27 ft. Lodge trailer with all the bells and whistles and a Queen bed that all I have to do, is sit down on and roll into, Or do I take the enclosed trailer ?....Which will require buying a new x-large cot with mattress, ropes, pulleys and climbing harness just to get in and out the damn trailer. OR by one of Whip”o”s tents, a new cot and mattress and forget the pulleys and stuff…….WHY
Are ya startin to see where I’m commin from and headin off to?
I haven’t even yet started on the bow thing yet……..I been shootin 65 +/- lb bows since dirt, love them short bows. I got me a new SunBear Longbow 64” 59# @ 28” for some odd reason I seem to be shooting 58 / 60 # bows so much better than I do my 65# bows……WHY
My old back quivers seem to have found a permanent home on the wall, giving way to hip and bow quivers……WHY
However the lighter bows do require different arrows (that’s what I tolt the wife) I’ll just add a spiffier set of fletching something just a touch brighter with a fur tracer just for something different don’t ya know………..WHY
Neck knives really do have their place, when the belt gives way to suspenders or God Forbid comfortable camo hunting bibs…….Bibs and cowboy boots…….That’s just plain wrong. They do however, do well with a new pair of custom made orthopedic hunting shoes provided by the VA and Medicare.
On a hunt recently I was ask about my walkin stick……..It ain’t no darn walking stick !!
I use it to fend off the snakes and open up the brush for when I’m sneaking, whacking my hunting partners when I need to get their attention quietly, it’s also a mono pod for my cameras and on the rare occasion, that I may want to take a break I have been known to lean on it. BUT IT DEFINITELY AIN”T NO WALKING STICK.
Hunting places that require getting higher than my head , I’m taking great comfort in my climbing harness……….WHY……..I’m thinking that it just keeps my clothing in a little tighter to my body helping avoid any contact with the string.
Never could see a need for them bino harnesses…….never needed them before……Now I know just where my binoculars are all the time. Saves a bunch of time back tracking if you can remember where you just came from . That’s another excellent reason for the GPS and it’s instruction book………..Ya don’t need to by a new set of glass each year and can afford the BIG POWER nice made glass, helps you see that close up game that much better and you can look for your tracer bunches easier.
This is but a NANO look at what I find happening within my grey matter……What’s next.....
manifestations in the physical ??
Am I alone in this camp ? Are there others of you facing the same perils ??
…………………………………….WHY………………………………….
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