ORIGINAL: bigcountry
ORIGINAL: PreacherTony
I don't understand why the boy will kill a fawn when he doesn't want to, JUST to get the first one under his belt ..... now if he wanted to kill it, that's different, but if is just trying to get that 1st one out of the way ... that makes ZERO sense to me .
Its fairly simple PT, it builds confidense. Each shot a youngun takes, he learns off of that and another step to his goal.
You were a young hunter at one time. Surely, you sat and dreamed about taking a large 10pt or whatever, and most likely you rarely got it. You want to take the king of the woods, but you sometimes have to take what God gives you.
Mark, my ONLY issue is with shooting something you don't want to shoot just to get one under your belt ..... That thought process is CRAZY to me! Shoot what you want to shoot ......
Bowtech 360 ....if all you really WANT to shoot is a big buck, then enjoy watching those other deer that come around you ... your chances for a big buck will increase dramatically if you wait ..... the "need" to get one under your belt is a falacy when it's not the real one you want ...
The reason I don't like this mentality is when I first started bowhunting i was told the same thing ...except for me it was any doe ... at the time, I didn't WANT to shoot a doe ..... I would let so many go .... then the one year I had one 12 yards away just standing there broadside .... I kept thinkin .."gotta get one under your belt" ... she wouldn't move .... so I pulled back my bow and shot her .....it was sooooooo anti-climatic as it wasn't what I was hunting ...... I felt unemotional about it ... almost bad .....
wait for the deer you want ......