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Author Topic: Pick Your Spot.  (Read 293 times)

Offline Brianlocal3

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Pick Your Spot.
« on: April 14, 2012, 07:00:00 PM »
Pick a spot, pick a spot, pick a spot.  LOL
Who else here when watching a hunting video, or driving around town, or playing fetch with the dog "picks a spot" on alot of things.  I was watching Letting Loose the DVD today while playing with the kids, ( it was raining all day) and I caught myself on every animal picking that little tuft of hair, or the light that was hitting the perfect spot, or that slight discoloration behing the shoulder. Also Ill pick a spot on my dog sometimes when we are all outside.

I have also noticed that if there is some writing or a picture or something sometimes I practice burning a hole in the smallest spot I can find on an object.  

Just wondering how many others out there are as ate up as I am.  Have fun ya'll and God bless.
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Offline bohuntr

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2012, 07:03:00 PM »
Yup!!!  :biglaugh:
To me, the ultimate challenge in bowhunting is not how far away you can succesfully make a killing shot but rather how close you can get to the animal before shooting.

Offline Kingsnake

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2012, 07:11:00 PM »
Guilty!   ;)

Offline curlis

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2012, 07:47:00 PM »
All of the time.
Pick a spot and concentrate!

Offline Cyclic-Rivers

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2012, 09:08:00 PM »
:wavey:  

me, me!
Relax,

You'll live longer!

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Offline steadman

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2012, 09:10:00 PM »
Yep! Live on a small ranch, I get to pick a spot a lot on different critters.
" Just concentrate and don't freak out next time" my son Tyler(age 7) giving advise after watching me miss a big mulie.

Offline Swinestalker

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2012, 09:16:00 PM »
I do this constantly. Glad to see I'm not crazy, or if I am, to have some company!
Having done so much, with so little, for so long, I can now do anything with nothing.

Offline JamesKerr

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2012, 09:31:00 PM »
Yep, I do it all the time.
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Offline Mudd

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2012, 09:36:00 PM »
Just a part of the journey.

God bless,Mudd
Trying to make a difference
Psalm 37:4
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Offline Roadkill

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2012, 11:29:00 PM »
Out here I keep looking at the hills and mountains for elk and deer.  Never realized it until my son said he did that too.  I guess it is a natural result of our instincts.  I see cottontails and focus on the eye.  There was one in my yard last weekend in my roses and I kept picking spots between stalks for a clean shot

Pleasant sort of misery!!!
Cast a long shadow-you may provide shade to someone who needs it.  Semper Fi

Offline joe ashton

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2012, 11:30:00 PM »
yup all the time.
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Offline moleman

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2012, 11:44:00 PM »
Some of the best mental practice there is,lots of dead critters on my way home from work from the holes ive burnt thru them.   :thumbsup:

Offline old_goat2

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2012, 11:53:00 PM »
nope, I say it a lot, but have trouble remembering to do it:)
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Offline Hawkeye

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2012, 12:06:00 AM »
But, best not to do it at the zoo, Boys!  Makes folks wonder...    :saywhat:
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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2012, 12:21:00 AM »
I wish I could.  After 25 years of trade archery I can't say I've ever been able to do that.
"Life's too short for ugly bows n arrows" Chris B

Offline Brianlocal3

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #15 on: April 15, 2012, 09:38:00 AM »
Whew, I won't be alone. Everyone have a Blessed Sunday.
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Offline Bernie B.

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #16 on: April 15, 2012, 09:54:00 AM »
I'm constantly "picking spots" on animals, leaves, things in the neighborhood as I'm walking my dogs, etc.  I guess it's just a part of hunting.     :)

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #17 on: April 15, 2012, 09:57:00 AM »
I am still working on picking a spot EVERY TIME.

Offline donalcorn

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #18 on: April 15, 2012, 11:25:00 AM »
Thank god there are others like me.

Offline tradhunter

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Re: Pick Your Spot.
« Reply #19 on: April 15, 2012, 12:25:00 PM »
We can't help it,it's in our blood.As hunters we can't even go to a zoo and not think..........well.
   Is it wrong to take a laser pointer to the zoo to work with my kids on kill shots?
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