What is your craziest experience while bowhunting?
03-01-2008 | 05:54 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: What is your craziest experience while bowhunting?
1st year I started to archery hunt I went up to my stand and 30 minutes later a button buck comes to me within 20 yards.
I shot and hit a branch, so the deer ran to within 15 yards and looked back in the direction of the arrow.
I knock another arrow, and bam, I hit another branch this time the arrow stuck in his thigh and he limped off bleatting,
I was heart broken and sat there thinking that I will never archery hunt again. Until 20 minutes later a bear came down the trail
and stopped @ a perfect broad side shot 20 yards away. Bam! I let the arrow fly and it hits yet another branch and goes over the bears back,
the bear just looked at the ground trying to figure out what caused the noise.
Now I only have 1 arrow left and I knock it and then bend down to miss the branch I first hit.
I release it and I watched the fletching disappear in the bread basket, perfect shot!
The bear runs to the other side of me in the thick brush about 30 yards away and I have no arrows left.
Not that I could have shot into the area where the bear stopped. At that point my mind atarted racing thinking the bear would climb the tree
and mawl me or something. I thought I could climb down and maybe grab one of the arrows on the ground, but then I remembered I had my 9mm pistol.
Not a good cartridge for hunting, so I proceed to shot 8 times, maybe dinging the bear twice.
Unfortunately I learned a very hard lesson and did not retrieve either animal in all of my haste.
Moral of the story, clear your shotting lanes and stick with them.
Since that 1st year I have been much more successful, the end!
I shot and hit a branch, so the deer ran to within 15 yards and looked back in the direction of the arrow.
I knock another arrow, and bam, I hit another branch this time the arrow stuck in his thigh and he limped off bleatting,
I was heart broken and sat there thinking that I will never archery hunt again. Until 20 minutes later a bear came down the trail
and stopped @ a perfect broad side shot 20 yards away. Bam! I let the arrow fly and it hits yet another branch and goes over the bears back,
the bear just looked at the ground trying to figure out what caused the noise.
Now I only have 1 arrow left and I knock it and then bend down to miss the branch I first hit.
I release it and I watched the fletching disappear in the bread basket, perfect shot!
The bear runs to the other side of me in the thick brush about 30 yards away and I have no arrows left.
Not that I could have shot into the area where the bear stopped. At that point my mind atarted racing thinking the bear would climb the tree
and mawl me or something. I thought I could climb down and maybe grab one of the arrows on the ground, but then I remembered I had my 9mm pistol.
Not a good cartridge for hunting, so I proceed to shot 8 times, maybe dinging the bear twice.
Unfortunately I learned a very hard lesson and did not retrieve either animal in all of my haste.
Moral of the story, clear your shotting lanes and stick with them.
Since that 1st year I have been much more successful, the end!
