My buddy has been really on a scent free kick this season (and rightly so) but this weekend he took it a little too far and it cost him a doe.

My buddy and I went out this weekend and at about 7:30 he calls and says "I have major problems over here", I'm like, "what happened?"

He proceeds to tell me that he had a doe come in, he went to draw back his bow and he couldnt get it back all the way, he said it just locked up on him.The doe actually looked up at him and saw him struggling to pull the bow back and took off. (thank god it wasnt a Pope) Anyway, I tell him to try again and he said it still wont go all the way. After some time it loosened up and he got it back again.

We get to the car and I look at his bow and he has all this white chalky stuff on the bow. I said "did you spray down your bow with scent killer this morning?" He said "yes".

I finally figured out what happened. He's been seeing all these commercials where guys are spraying down their bows before they head out in to the field to hunt. It was 22 degrees in the morning when we went in and the spray must have froze on his strings and in his cams. Probably caused some kind of blockage.

Bottom line, don't spray down your bow before going in the field. Youmight miss that deer of a lifetime.

He said he was pulling so hard, he was shaking. Couldnt get it to draw, that deer must have been laughing the whole way in to the next farm. Funny visual.