ORIGINAL: PreacherTony
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
ORIGINAL: StruttinGobbler3
i just had possibly the worst day of my hunting career this afternoon. i've killed several deer rifle hunting, so i figured hey stickin one with a bow won't be too hard, right? wrong! i'm learning lessons the hard way. today i was in a ground blind, thought i had the perfect spot, but neglected to check the wind like i usually do every hunt. just my luck, two does came out about thirty yards away, with the wind blowin right at them. just as i was drawing back on what i thought would be my first ever bow kill, one of them winded me, blew, and took off. i figured, hey its still early i'll just slip through the woods to another stand. well i was almost in that stand, looked up just in time to see another doe stomp, blow, and take off. not to mention on the way back to the truck it started raining on me [
]but i'm not giving up by any means, now i'm just pissed. i'm headed right back out tomorrow and hope to get one. sorry for the long post, just needed to vent.
Cry me a river SG3,
I got to work all day, our season isn't in yet so, boo hoo, the old saying the worst day hunting is better than the best day at work comes to mind.
Oh so true Rob ......Oh so true!
+1
SG3,
There is a sharp and unforgiving learning curve in bowhunting. You my friend are on the LOW side of it right now, but that's ok, tomorrow may be a better day, then next week will be worse. It can certainly be a roller coaster, and you can go from your "lowest moment today" to killing your best buck tomorrow. And that is the cruel nature of the beast. Add a little target panic and the frustrations of trying to tune BH's that just don't want to tune, and you'll really start enjoying yourself.
That being said, I can tell that most of us here will probably tell you that our bow kills were far more rewarding than our gun kills.