A none alert deer standing directly under your stand when you shoot sometimes can`t figurout which way the noise came from therefore stand in the same place untill they can infact figerout which way the noise came from? Or with enuff time will most of the time settle back down and go back to eatingor what ever they were doing before.But I assure you it was not the fact that your bow is so quite!
Oh, I wasn't implying that they couldn't hear it, I was implying that it obviously wasn't loud enough to startle them. I have missed them and had them IMMEDIATELY go back to eating.
I have heard storys of Gun hunters have this samething happen to them lots of times anda gun is louder than any bow made
So your example is that many deer don't even spook when someone shoots a gun around them but shooting a bow is going to scare off every deer in the woods
Whether or not its "more or less:" is not the awnser we try as hunters to eleminate all scent or as much as possable if we can
I am not discounting the importance of scent control but I used to be fanatical about it and bought the scent lok suits and got dressed in the woods when it was 15 degrees yadda yadda and I have gradually drifted away from most of those practices and I am killing more deer now than ever. I honestly can not ever remember a deer crossing over my scent trail and spooking and never had one spook from and arrow in the ground. It's kind of hard for me to argue with those kind stats
You may think it's an issue but I KNOW it has never been an issue in hundreds of deer encounters. I guess I have just been lucky a couple of hundred times
BS. Silentit does`t take much human scent to alert a deer or havent you figerd that out yet? (lmao)
Asfar as your body smelling worse or better than mine?With out a doubtthatis the stupidest thing I think I have ever read on here
Well I was actually being sarcastic but my wife says she likes the way I smell
Well that sounds very childesh[&:] butsilent and your right it is your money and arrows and if you want to take a chance on ruining them them go right ahead
Opinions vary but I appreciate you giving me the go ahead to spend my own money and consequently use my equipment the way that I want to. Bye the way the first post you make about missing a big one because you hit your sleeve or your stand and a limb in the tree with you, I will be the one you hear laughing through the computer
but you won't post about that will you
you say you have only lost one? I never lost any or ruined any do to shooting it into the ground? and never will! Sient
Congratulations! Have you ever killed a 160+ with your bow? Have you killed more than one 160+ with your bow? Just curious since we were talking about things that we have and haven't done
If you want to shoot practice shots from your stand be my guest. But to tell me it doesn`t make any difference? (lmao)
You must have misunderstood. I didn't say it didn't make any difference. It makes a huge difference. It keeps me from making mistakes when big daddy walks out
So you seriously think that after going through the act of putting up a climber and then climbing 25 ft in a tree and then shooting, that the shooting is the part that a deer is most likely to hear or smell (considering you normally break a pretty good sweat climbing a tree in early bow season)? Seriously?
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