ORIGINAL: Vabowman

the past few years have been a period of enlightenment for me as a bowhunter.....From Nov 15 to Jan3 I find myself in the deer woods on a stand with shotgun in hand and hounds howling after deer every saturday....sounds exciting... and it is, but even in the midst of a that excitement, my mind wanders away from the yelping hounds to better times in the solice of the tree standin late Oct...I find myself looking around the woods for places to scout for bow season and i start thinking of hunts from the present year that leave me speechless...God I wish it would never end...the funny thing is, in the last 2 weeks I have learned so much more about what i need to do and what will make me a better bowhunter in the future and I have not even killed a deer in this past two weeks...just by re -focusing, talking to my buddies, (swampcollie) and (Team Va), I have begun to reach back into my 20 yrs ofexperience and bring things to the surface that i have forgotten...Playing the wind, bedding areas, food sources, travel routes, reason and logic....the basic stuff that i completely neglected, either all together or just one at a time....the basics will hold true forever, and they never change...