Uh, Lost my release, I'm going home

[blacktailbob]

Kirk, that's what I'm talking about.
 I keep a bunch of stuff in my truck to hopefully overcome most challenges I may encounter while out.

[trad_bowhunter1965]

Never had any equipment issues but my best friend I took on an elk hunt lost it he said he didn't want to hunt the third day of a 10 day hunt I came back around noon camp was packed up he was sitting in the truck said he was done. I could see he wasn't doing well loaded my gear drove 13 hours home. He didn't talked to me for three years because he thought he let me down, he was suffering for PTSD he was a Vietnam vet we hunted a lot after that hunt he never hunted again. I tried to get him to go.

[GCook]

On the hunt to Sofala I had a situation one morning where I was told to be ready at 7am.  About 6:15 I was told to load up.  Got to the blind and realized my glove was on my rack.  Just happened to be the blind and morning the wildebeest showed up.
I made the shot bare fingered although not perfect it was adequate.

[mgf]

I was hunting the national forest down state and my hunting buddy noticed his string was done. He didn't have a spare and I didn't have string makings with me. We spent the better part of a hunting day trying to find a string for his longbow. Oh, we were in his car and we couldn't charge our phones. These were old flip phone with no internet or anything. With my last ruminants of a charge I was calling my wife at home and she was calling around looking for a string. We ended up driving to Louisville, KY Cabela's. 

[blacktailbob]

Oh my, how we forget...boy scouts moto.

"Be Prepared"!!!

A hunting check list can save a lot of grief and let downs and help us forgetful hunters.

[Tim Reese]

I have used bare fingers before and was able to take a young Buck that night. I couldn’t shoot all the time like that but one or two shots should not be to hard to do. This was out of necessity but it’s doable.