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

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!

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.

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.

That's why I plan for all directions.

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!

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.

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.