RE: Pulling Back in Hunting Situation
 

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but no way am I buying that those guns couldn't pull a bow back at any point in time. [8D]LMAO. I bet you were shooting your daddys High Country at age 4, already close to your first P&Y Buck.

No, but that is a funny story though. I know the EXACT feeling. I was so nervous and worked up there was no way I could have pulled back even a 10 lb bow at that point. I should have tried to relax and focus like you did, but I was busted anyway. lol

RE: Pulling Back in Hunting Situation
 

I had it happen one time 5 years ago. I was sitting in my tree one afternoon had a little 6 point come by. It took me 3 times to get my bow back for a shot. When I finally got it back I missed the deer. I was shooting 72lbs. and the next day I dropped it to 62lbs. Now since that day I shoot 60lbs. Haven't had a problem since. Knock on wood!

RE: Pulling Back in Hunting Situation
 

I have not been caught in this situation. For every stand that I hunt, I preplan when and where I'm going to draw when the opportunity presents itself. I've had very good luck by doing this.

RE: Pulling Back in Hunting Situation
 

That's great discipline. My best two bucks were shot during the rut....and came from ABSOLUTELY the opposite direction I thought they would (when the doe they were chasing did the same). I wish I could get it to work out that way.

RE: Pulling Back in Hunting Situation
 

That's why I plan for all directions.

RE: Pulling Back in Hunting Situation
 

I have almost had that problem.....

A few years back in Illinois.......very cold morning..... After sitting motionless for 3 hrs, a nice buck comes and offers me a shot at 10yds.. I draw back easily but as i settle into anchor, my arm gives out and I completely collapse all the way back to brace..... The bucks sees this movement and prepares to bolt..... I yanked that baby back as fast as I could, top pin on his heart and release..... I got lucky, but it almost cost me a nice buck!

RE: Pulling Back in Hunting Situation
 

This is going to come off as arrogant so I aplogize in advance. But even on the days when I set on stand all day in single digit orlow teen temperatures (which isn't that often where I live) I can still pull back 71 lbs quite easily. I shot 90 lbs for years, until technology made it possible to shoot the same speeds and KE at 70 lbsand until I started being able to "feel" shooting the higher weights in my shoulders after long sessions etc. So to me eventhough I haven't shot heavy poundage in several years. 70 lbs still feels real easy to pull. So no I have never had that problem. Not to mention the adrenaline boost has the opposite effect on me that it apparently does on some. When I get the adredaline pumping the weight comes back even easier. If anything, I sometimes pull back too hard in that situation.

RE: Pulling Back in Hunting Situation
 

have never not been able to pull back in the sense of no muscle/cold etc....

buck had me pegged so I couldnt draw back......well was worried he'd jsut run off and not come back, was hoping to let him walk, then call him back, in hindsight now, I would just have drawn on him and if he spooked, he spooked, cause he saw me, wasnt thinkign something was there, knew it, so possibly I could have drawn straight back on him and caught him before he took off.