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Offline VA Elite

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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2015, 06:56:00 PM »
Man Jake, I was really in to that story! Hated to see it end, but glad it ended the way it did!
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2015, 06:59:00 PM »
I'll let you know when it happens!   :laughing:
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Offline goingoldskool

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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2015, 07:14:00 PM »
It was all that and more!!!!! I've shot quite a few with wheelie bows, but that first one with the longbow  will ALWAYS be my fondest memory.....

Everything came together and the arrow was on its way..... right where I was looking and that buck was down within  45 yards.  I got to shaking so bad, I had to sit down!

It will be hard for you to put in words how you feel about it and only others who have done it will understand.

Good luck and God bless,
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2015, 08:16:00 PM »
Yeah, I remember them from the 70's.  
 

I remember my first bow kill too. I made lots of mistakes, and worked hard for it.
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2015, 08:16:00 PM »
Just you wait, Landon.  Words on a computer screen don't describe the emotion and accomplishment.  Not for me anyway.  It's not the kill.  Not even close.  I read back over my own story after I posted it, and though I tried my best to verbally capture the moment, knowing how I felt, I failed.  Just you wait.  That's all I can really say.  There are no words to describe raw emotion.  Just you wait.    :archer:  

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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2015, 08:40:00 PM »
I have been bow hunting with a wheelie for 25 years. In those years I have taken 57 deer with a bow. Several good bucks, never scored any, my best I hear would be 150-160 p&y. Im not concerned about scores or even "trophies". I truly love being in the woods with a bow. The last deer I killed was 4:30 pm on Dec 29th 2014, and while I was thankful for her, I knew the moment I squeezed that release trigger I had changed in my soul. All this before ever firing a shot from a recurve. I truly feel this is for me. I don't care that my shots are going to be limited to closer range, if I did, I would have never given up muzzle loading 15 yrs ago. It's not the kill, it more about the how. I work hard scouting and planning and the rewards of taking a deer are always mind blowing with archery . But I can't even fathom what it will be like to do it with this equipment. Truth is, our urban archery season is in right now, I have 350 acres less than 1 minute from my house, but I won't dare go, Im not ready, not even close. So I wait, and I practice a lot, I think about that moment of truth everyday. I don't know what will happen, I may miss or I may drill it, no matter, I will feel like I earned it either way.
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2015, 11:18:00 PM »
Nothing comes close to it! Killed my first trad deer 12-12-14 and I'll always remember that hunt. Just happened to also be blessed that it was the biggest whitetail I've ever killed and probably will be the biggest I ever will kill...It was up there with marrying my wife and having my daughter when I finally put my hands on him!
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #27 on: February 12, 2015, 07:28:00 AM »
I saw that picture on Traditional Bowhunter Web page, what a buck!
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #28 on: February 12, 2015, 09:07:00 AM »
If I ever lose the elation combined with a touch of sadness when I walk up to my deer (or other animal) taken with any weapon I will take up knitting.
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #29 on: February 12, 2015, 09:14:00 AM »
You are dead on Tom. It usually hits me hard that night after killing a deer. I lay there and think about it's life. I wonder if I had to take it. Why I took it. Was it just another notch? Did I really need to kill it? The it resonates with me, God gave these animals to all mankind, to use them for our sake. I rest easy after prayer and know that I will eat well and do my part in the cycle of life. I do this every time.
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #30 on: February 12, 2015, 12:28:00 PM »
I don't think emotions entered into play with any of my kills.  Elevated heart rate as the adrenaline rush tapers off is about it....

The funny thing is when a particularly beautiful animal evokes emotion from me, i don't shoot it....
Does that sound strange? The ones that i have shot, all i could think of was how good the meat would taste....

I've had slam dunk chip shots on a few critters that i passed up the shot, and wished for a camera instead..... The most memorable ones were both huge bull elk....

a little story here....

 It was 3:30 am when i headed up that mountain from base camp. I knew i had a 2 hour climb to reach the peak, and wanted to be there before daylight, and i made it just fine. It was a 1500' vertical feet climb to the ridge on a trail more suitable for mountain goats than humans. The majority of the time i was climbing through the clouds, but the very peaks of the mountain tops were all above the clouds.

There was a spot up there where the ridge split into two peaks at about 3200 feet with a heavily traveled trail between them that the elk would use to cross over.That morning the trail was still in the clouds 20 yards below me so thick you could cut it with a knife....

As the sun started to rise, the clouds all turned to pink cotton candy before me.The only thing you could see for 50 miles it the mountain peaks sticking out of the clouds.... It was breath taking sitting on that peak looking down on this beautiful sea of pink clouds. I'm thinking if there is a heaven, it's gotta look like this....

As was was thinking these very thoughts and thanking god for this sunrise, a HUGE bull elk materialized before me like a ghost at no more than 30 yards. As he walked out of the pink mist,  cows were following close at his side. They all stopped and turned towards me at the same time as if to pose.... two cows on either side of the huge bull with pink mist swirling around their feet....


You want to talk about emotions? Well i couldn't describe what i felt at the moment watching this incredible spectacle, but i can honestly tell you i never even gave my bow a thought..... i watched them for 10 minutes until they were swallowed by the pink mist, and disappeared completely without a sound........

All my hunting buddies thought i'd lost my mind.... Perhaps i did....

Here are the mountains i was in...

 
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #31 on: February 12, 2015, 01:26:00 PM »
man that is some story Kirk. What a great one!
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #32 on: February 12, 2015, 01:46:00 PM »
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Nothing comes close to it! Killed my first trad deer 12-12-14 and I'll always remember that hunt. Just happened to also be blessed that it was the biggest whitetail I've ever killed and probably will be the biggest I ever will kill...It was up there with marrying my wife and having my daughter when I finally put my hands on him!
Heck I don't think I'll ever forget that buck and I'm not even the one who shot him!! I think that's how we all would love for our first to go down...that's a day you can look back on and think about every day for the rest of your life and smile no matter how terrible your day has been.
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #33 on: February 12, 2015, 04:14:00 PM »
I've been fortunate to take my fair share of deer with rifles and compounds. I've killed one buck with a recurve. I missed a booner out of the same tree about a month earlier at 7 yards. Missed high by at least 2'. Never picked a spot. That very cold january morning I made a great shot at 22 yards. I'm not sure it felt any different than any of the others. I feel just as bad about killing them regardless of the weapon. I just make sure to show them the respect they deserve. We consume all the meat and well, it's emotional for me either way
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #34 on: February 13, 2015, 01:38:00 PM »
There is just something magic for me when I watch the flight of an arrow and then see the fletching bury itself where I am looking.......  haven't found anything else that rivals that.
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #35 on: February 13, 2015, 02:44:00 PM »
Two that really standout was my first deer I killed  with a stone head that I made  and  the second was a fox that I killed with a recurve that I paid a quarter (.25 cents)for  at a yard sale.
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #36 on: February 13, 2015, 05:15:00 PM »
I haven't taken any game with a bow yet, but would like to this coming season. I have always been a gun guys so that is what I have hunted with so far. Looking forward to taking a deer with my bow.
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #37 on: February 13, 2015, 05:48:00 PM »
Kirk, you didn't lose your mind, you found yourself.  Life can be grande, if we allow it to be.
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #38 on: February 14, 2015, 12:13:00 AM »
I remember the first giving me a great sense of accomplishment. I had missed one the year before with a wheel bow and had a couple other opportunities where I just couldn't get off the shot with that wheel bow, you know, draw, align the peep with the sight, get the right site pin on target... it just took to long and didn't work out. I was really disgusted after that year and since I'd been shooting traditional since I was knee high to a tadpole, I thought, you know Dan, you can do it with a stick.

So I bought a 50lb recurve in a kit that you had to finish. Finished it up, practiced with it, went hunting and shot my biggest deer to that date. I was a proud and happy camper!
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Re: Do you remember the emotions?
« Reply #39 on: February 14, 2015, 01:05:00 AM »
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Originally posted by sheepdogreno:
Nothing comes close to it! Killed my first trad deer 12-12-14 and I'll always remember that hunt. Just happened to also be blessed that it was the biggest whitetail I've ever killed and probably will be the biggest I ever will kill...It was up there with marrying my wife and having my daughter when I finally put my hands on him!
Heck I don't think I'll ever forget that buck and I'm not even the one who shot him!! I think that's how we all would love for our first to go down...that's a day you can look back on and think about every day for the rest of your life and smile no matter how terrible your day has been. [/b]
yes very blessed and or lucky! haha I still cant wrap my mind around it when I think about it and how difficult this sport is no matter the weapon let alone a tradbow. the stars aligned for me that afternoon that's for sure! especially the more I get into this hobby and realize how difficult and complex it really is! my familys bellys do appreciate the fresh meat tho!
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