I am in my second season of bow hunting after many years of gun hunting, and am still mystified by this bowhunting thing. My question is how soon does one go to full draw when seeing a deer nearing his shooting lane. I have been caught twice, and yesterday while watching a doe and her fawn feed in a hay pasture from behind comes a six point not walking but trotting right beneath my stand never stopping all the way to my neighbors fence. It seems that is typical with my encounters they allways seem to be just that much ahead of me, or I end up waiting too patiently, and then they are too close (i.e. I get caught half cocked). Usually they are walking, or trotting just out of range, or right past me. How do you stop these things?

Edited by - Y2KR1 on 09/30/2002 15:03:38