Originally posted by Michael Arnette:
Originally posted by CRM_95:
Haha I've got a few good ones, but they all involve hunting equipment other than trad gear since I'm a newbie. Looking forward to some of these pics though. This should be a good thread!!
You know you could get creative with photoshop or paint [/b]
True!! Here's a story for y'all, and since there's no bows in the pic maybe I won't get in trouble. We all know things can happen shooting at animals, and I promise me and my buddy are both normally better shots than this.
October 2014 found us close to the border on a day lease in deep south Tx. The first evening of the hunt I'm brushed in at a great spot along a sendero in a pop up. Temp is in the mid 90's and I'm sweating my tail off. The sun is going down and I can see shadows in front of me in the sendero on the white sand. After a minute or two, I can tell the shadows are getting closer...then I can hear something breathing. I peak through the corner of the blind and see a decent buck coming, and he's in full velvet. My mind is made up. He's going to cross broadside at about 10 yards. I come to full draw and he steps into the sendero, but starts walking away quartering hard. By the time I get on him, he's at about 20 yards. He stops, I put it a little further back to compensate for the angle, and let the arrow fly. I watch in horror as my arrow sinks up, pretty much right in his butt....he takes of and I'm cussing thinking about how I just botched this. I give it about an hour and decide to go look, when much to my surprise I find the best blood trail of my hunting career. I got lucky and hit his femoral artery, and he was down in 40 yards. I was however, the "butt" of some jokes...note where the arrow is in the pic!!