I come a whole lot closer to be prepared for them by taking a shot. On more than one occaision I have either slapped the arm of a rain coat or bumped a limb in the stand on the shot that saved me from making that same mistake on a deer.
This why I say! Practicing before you hunt! like you hunt. Will tell you if your going to hit your stand with you bow are not?As far as the raincoat is concerned? If I was worried about hitting my sleeve at all I would you an arm band? Silent Ijust don`t want to find out these things after I am up a tree and hunting. I don`t want worry about any of that.
I guess that great for your area of the country but in my arean (and all the other areas that I travel to) when the bucks are rutting and chasing does around you, you don't ever know where they are going to end up. I am glad that all of your deer cooperate so well
.....no offense RTA but did you even think about that before you typed it?...........rotflmao
Yes silent I did! Thats why I say By practing like you hunt up a tree in the stand? shooting at 3-D targets? and by moving these targets all around in every position that can be thought of and at unknown distances is in fact preparing you for most of the shots that you will be faced with.All shots no! Most shots Yes!
That's exactly right and that is exactly what I do. I just take it one step further than you do
I don`t think you take anything one step futher than I do? Maby a different method than I to equal the sam results? I just do it before I get in the stand and you do it after your in the stand.
Experienced is spelled with and "I" and fence is spelled with and "E", but I digress. No actually I spend most of my time hunting public ground.
Just a typo silent
no big deal.
We diffinitely do. I agree the whitetails nose is it's best weapon but I still think it's highly overrated.
I do not believe it is overrated at all. They depend on there nose for survival
I set my sets and hunt my sets to avoid the whitetails nose, but I have lost a great deal of respect for their sense of smell over the last few years. You can call me full of crap all you want but at the end of the day my record
We all try to set our stands to avoid the whitetails nose.But losing respect for there nose might prove to be a big mistake? It may be thebiggest buck of you life?[
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my record speaks for itself. I am 30 years old and I have been bowhunting 16 years and I have killed 12 bucks that will score 120 or above in an area that isn't known for big deer.
Congrats on the success!!My record speaks for it self also.Iwill be 40in aug and 24 yrs strickly bowhunting number of deer taken don`t know? Number of buck 120 or above 10 mounted 3 of them official P&Y one that hangs in a local archery shop just for display and many thatI have never had scored.And a crap load of smaller bucks. Sometime or other I will try to post some pics.I live in the southwhich is also not known for having big bucks.There aremany bowhunters right here on this forum that has taken many more bigger bucks thanyou or I havehaveAnd many more will. But no matter where you hunt for whitetails? Saying that you have lost respct for there nose just don`t seem to make common for any bowhunter to say to me.(imo)Regardless of any record.
Well I will tell you what I won't do and that is make a bad shot on an animal when my equipment has been knocked off
By practicing before the hunt or taking a shot before you enter the woods would insure you of this?
Let me ask you guys a question. What would you do if you got out there and didn't find out your equipment was off?
Personally I would not be worred about it!If I thought maby I snagged something going in or dropped my bow and bent something I most likely would not hunt and risk screwing up my hunting area untill I checked my equipment