What have you learned this bow season?

sunset · 11-18-2007, 05:29 PM

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sunset · 11-18-2007, 05:32 PM

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Ben / PA · 11-18-2007, 05:43 PM

Having standards takes ALOT of patience.

Vabowman · 11-18-2007, 05:49 PM

I have learned I don't work as much or as hard cuz I found this forum!!!!!!!!!

stikbow26 · 11-18-2007, 05:54 PM

To be 100% honest, My cameraman and I fell into a newbbie state of mind when in early October the bucks were tearing up the fields with rubs and scrapes and we jumped on them and we even kept saying that we knew all the sign was being made at midnight and we kept hunting it and not moving into the bed rooms of the bucks like we should have early in the season!!!! Walt

mobow · 11-18-2007, 06:06 PM

I learned lots......but here's the most important thing I learned this year...

I AM good enough.

GMMAT · 11-18-2007, 06:14 PM

Don:

Good for you!!

It's funny.....The lessons we learned are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Yours was the confidence that you can get it done. Mine was "humility".

Congrats on your year.

Beezer · 11-18-2007, 06:20 PM

I learned that I can shoot a bow and hit a deer, but can't hunt with a shotgun for crap. I'm 1 for 1 with the bow, O for 2 with the shotgun. I agree with one of my friends, I should just stick with the bow. I used slugs in the shotgun because I was only seeing deer out of bow range. Missed at 50yds, so I put a scope on it. Sighted in the scope and and put a knot on my forehead. Took a shot tonight at 30yds and, apparently, there was some residual scope flinch involved....shot right over her back.

I'm gonna stick to trail hunting and using the bow!

mobow · 11-18-2007, 06:20 PM

Jeff, thanks man, I appreciate that. Ironically, we've learned the same thing by WAY of opposite ends of the spectrum. Humility? Oh yeah, I've learned that BIG TIME this year as well.

I hope that those that read my journal entry caught this, but there was A LOT more going on than just my shooting a big buck.....A LOT more. Anyway, I'm dangerously close to hijacking a perfectly good thread here.....So I'll just say thanks and I'm out.....

Mr October · 11-18-2007, 10:39 PM

my wife's first year bow hunting, we were in Illinois and she was set to climb into here stand when she almost got run over by a doe. Behind the doe was a 140 plus buck. She had her bow tied to her hoist rope through the cam. She was able to reach her bow but not able to get it untied and take a shot.

Lesson learned don't tie the cam tie the limb and always be ready. An 8 oz squirrel makes more noise then an 8 point deer!