My goodness...I have a bunch of them...but the funniest may have been just last year bowhunting.

I get off work and rush to the woods with the stand to hunt an hour or two before dark on a Friday eve. Well I hadnt even got my bow pulled up yet and here comes this doe trotting in like no big deal and behind her comes a huge 8 point. Well to make a long story short...I ended up missing this guy 3 times....lost all 3 arrows and the quiver only holds 3. Low and behold the buck is still there! By this time I have went from shakey to just downright disgusted and mad so seeing that I was out of business for the eve I threw my grunt call at him. It came closer than the arrows to making a hit. When I first seen this buck I was shaking so bad the arrow was rattling in the rest..lol. Most days that would be the end of the story...

However after a quick trip to the other end of the county for another pack of broadheads that night (lost all 3 arrows)and 2 uneventful days of hunting out of the same tree I once again returned Monday eve. Sure enough here comes the same doe....guess whos right behind her? LOL This times theres no buck fever..just a lot of wind and cold. They spotted me about 75 yards out at around 300pm. The doe finally decided she wasnt really impressed by me and started to work on by at a range of prob 40 yards the buck follows and does a circle around me or prob 50 yards so no chance of a shot. Keep in mind I had taken off my shooting hand glove and was standing at red alert ready to draw in the stand.

Well an hour and 15 minutes later Im still standing there afraid to hardly even breathe and by this time my release finger was numb as a brick..lol. The whole time the doe had been feeding around like nothing was wrong and the buck had been keeping a good distance of me. Finally he comes into decent shot range and just as I draw back heres a button buck charging in and scares both deer off....so by now Im fuming..lol. As fate would have it though the doe came back in about 30 minutes an the buck followed as usual and this time at 520 pm with me so cold I am seriously shivering and numb he steps into shot range....this time everything went perfect..I squeezed off the release with my numb finger and watched the arrow go behind the front should and then watched him crash 20 yards later.


That8 pointturned out to be 4.5 years old and scored 133. I always tell people to never get discouraged or give up and this story is just more proof. Deer always show up when you least expect it or when you are least prepared. The absolute best part of hunting though is just knowing that the worst trip ever can turn into the best trip ever on the last second of the last day.


I did manage to shoot a doe a few years back that interrupted the call of nature..lol. Thankfully reaching the gun didnt require much movement..lmao.


When I quit getting the shakes is when I quit. I never had anyone to hunt with so I had to learn all this deer stuff through trial and error so I could tell a few funny ones.

Id give anything to tape record some of the conversations Ive had with myself while hunting....