ORIGINAL: 2 Lunger
ORIGINAL: Bowtech 360
You guys all say IF your makea perfect shot. I would not shoot 1 while it was raining because I couldnt make myself 100% positive that the shot will be perfect.
Maybe you should re-evaluate yourself as a bowhunter. If you don't have 100% confidence on every shot that you are about to take then you shouldn't be bowhunting. Yes mistakes happen. We all have lost deer, me included. But, not once was I not confident in myself when I took the shot. When you start doubting yourself you start making mistakes. Plain and simple.
I myself love hunting in the rain. Not down pours but just and nice soft rain to a steady drizzle. I have seen some freak nasty monsters on a light drizzlingfoggy day. This is when the bucks seem to be the most active in the scraping phase. They really get out cruising and freshing up rub and scrape lines. These are some of my favorite conditions to hunt in. Of course I did spend two days in the hospital in '02 for pnemonia for hunting in these conditions for a solid week in 40 degree weather. My fiance at the time did not see the humor in it.
I gotta agree with BT360 for once. Stuff happens man, realizing this and passin on a shot before taking it is called being responsible....certainly doesnt constitute a bad hunter.
I am 100% confident at 45 yards that I could hit a deer, but would I take that shot? No. I am 100% confident that rain or shine, a deer at 25 yards is a dead one...but what about the little unseen branches? The deer than drops from being on pins and needles? stuff can happen to make a bad hit, heavy rain just insures the unlikelihood of you recovering a deer in these type situations.
Sure a slam dunk double lungpass throughand you dont need a bloodtrail to find the deer, but that isnt always the outcome.