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Author Topic: The bad with the good:  (Read 536 times)

Offline njloco

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The bad with the good:
« on: October 16, 2010, 09:18:00 PM »
This is what one must be able to accept with any kind of bow hunting. I am sitting in a tree and thinking to myself, wouldn't it be great if I shot a huge buck today. The last and also the first deer I shot with a trad bow was in 1996 when I first started to hunt, it was a doe. I spined her and had to get down and do what everyone of us would have done in the same situation. I switched to a wheeler so that would never happen again, or so I thought.

I put the treestand in today and was sitting there scanning the area constantly because it was so windy. Low and behold there he is 15 yds. from my tree, the biggest buck I have ever had a chance at, or do I ? He is standing there looking away from me next to a tree which had fallen but was still alive and growing horizontally with all the branches going vertical loaded with leaves. NO SHOT, I'm watching him  rub the branch of his choice and I can't do anything. Then he takes a step which opens a small tiny opening, and I think to my self, I can make that shot. No sooner do I think this, when he starts to walk away very slowly.

Oh well, there is always tomorrow.
  • Leon Stewart 3pc. 64" R/D 51# @ 27"
  • Gordy Morey 2pc. 68" R/D 55# @ 28"
  • Hoyt Pro Medalist, 70" 42# @ 28" (1963)
  • Bear Tamerlane 66" 30# @ 28" (1966)- for my better half
  • Bear Kodiak 60" 47# @ 28"(1965)

Offline Hot Hap

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Re: The bad with the good:
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2010, 09:37:00 PM »
He'll be back. Get a pair of pruning shears and cut some of those upright limbs. Hap

Offline Dave Bowers

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Re: The bad with the good:
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2010, 10:46:00 PM »
I know who you feel man..my whole season has been like that so far.

Offline straitera

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Re: The bad with the good:
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2010, 12:04:00 AM »
Learning experience.
Buddy Bell

Trad is 60% mental & about 40% mental.

Offline dcmeckel

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Re: The bad with the good:
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2010, 07:52:00 AM »
Savor the moment;when something like this happens to me,I think about my family over in Germany,and how they may never experience that sesation.

Offline njloco

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Re: The bad with the good:
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2010, 08:07:00 AM »
I'm sure there are tons of stories like this, I am not new to the highs and lows of bow hunting, yet like all of you I keep coming back for the sheer thrill of it. Would I have been happier if I shot that buck, of course, but am also happy to have seen that buck that close, You bet I am !
  • Leon Stewart 3pc. 64" R/D 51# @ 27"
  • Gordy Morey 2pc. 68" R/D 55# @ 28"
  • Hoyt Pro Medalist, 70" 42# @ 28" (1963)
  • Bear Tamerlane 66" 30# @ 28" (1966)- for my better half
  • Bear Kodiak 60" 47# @ 28"(1965)

Offline DHR

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Re: The bad with the good:
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2010, 10:31:00 AM »
sounds exciting Ken, hope you run into him again.
Because hunting is a deep and permanent yearning in the human condition, there is a chronic fury in all people to whom it is denied.- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Offline njloco

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Re: The bad with the good:
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2010, 08:16:00 PM »
Hi Dan,

If I had a shot, he would have been shot with the Palmer recurve I bought from you!
  • Leon Stewart 3pc. 64" R/D 51# @ 27"
  • Gordy Morey 2pc. 68" R/D 55# @ 28"
  • Hoyt Pro Medalist, 70" 42# @ 28" (1963)
  • Bear Tamerlane 66" 30# @ 28" (1966)- for my better half
  • Bear Kodiak 60" 47# @ 28"(1965)

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