What's going through your mind?
06-24-2008, 12:08 PM
#21
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Mont County, Pa
Posts: 7,368
RE: What's going through your mind?
ORIGINAL: early in
I'll tell you what. I was sitting in my stand last year and was hearing squirrels, one after another, stirring up the leaves. It got to the point where I stopped looking. I hearsome stirring again, only this time it's quite close. So, for the hell of it I turn my head (too quickly) expecting it to be another another squirrel. It's not!!! It's thebest buck, a 10pt, I've ever seen in my hunting area,ever.[:@]
Hesaw me turn to look, and he breaks camp like it was nobody's business!! This buck was literally 10yrds from me. I'll never forget that day.
ORIGINAL: buckmaster
What's going through your mind just as you here the leaves crunching.... and you know it's close... is it a squirrel? No too carefull to be a squirrel.... Here it is, as soon as it takes 5 more steps....
Whats going through your mind Right at this point?
What's going through your mind just as you here the leaves crunching.... and you know it's close... is it a squirrel? No too carefull to be a squirrel.... Here it is, as soon as it takes 5 more steps....
Whats going through your mind Right at this point?
Hesaw me turn to look, and he breaks camp like it was nobody's business!! This buck was literally 10yrds from me. I'll never forget that day.
I can usually tell the difference between the noise of a squirrel, and that of a deer. On that illfated day I couldn't! It won't happen again. Lesson learned.
06-24-2008, 12:10 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Almost Heaven. Boone Co. WV
Posts: 1,003
RE: What's going through your mind?
Has he seen me? Can I move? Which way is he headed?
I have to slow my breathing down........wonder if he can hear my heart beating?
Get my bow in hand and my release on the string and wait until his head is behind a tree to draw/stand.
Draw. Focus on the kill zone based on how he is standing and................ release............thwack!
I have to slow my breathing down........wonder if he can hear my heart beating?
Get my bow in hand and my release on the string and wait until his head is behind a tree to draw/stand.
Draw. Focus on the kill zone based on how he is standing and................ release............thwack!
06-24-2008, 01:33 PM
#25
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Panhandle of Texas
Posts: 596
RE: What's going through your mind?
Original: Arthur P
Or an armadillo.
Or an armadillo.
I have waited and listened between leaf rustles for up to 5-10 minutes with great anticipation only to find out it was a stinkin armadillo.
06-24-2008, 01:40 PM
#26
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Michigan
Posts: 879
RE: What's going through your mind?
That was definately a learning experience for me last season being my first. Those squirrels and chip munks were constantly driving me up the tree. I'm just going to have to be patient but find a new spot.
06-24-2008, 02:09 PM
#27
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location:
Posts: 42
RE: What's going through your mind?
There are those sounds that are all squirrel. The sounds that really could be either if a deer is meandering. And then the sounds that are all deer.
There are a lot of squirrels where I hunt these days and therefore the constant filter of those sounds.
Once I see a buck like most of you I’m not so much thinking as reacting on autopilot.
It seems like I’ve spent a lifetime of hours on stand waiting for those moments.
There are a lot of squirrels where I hunt these days and therefore the constant filter of those sounds.
Once I see a buck like most of you I’m not so much thinking as reacting on autopilot.
It seems like I’ve spent a lifetime of hours on stand waiting for those moments.
06-24-2008, 05:41 PM
#30
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: --------------------------------------
Posts: 885
RE: What's going through your mind?
Now if you where to ask my wife she would say NOTHING.Ok i would tell myself turn real slow come on don't rush it ,don't rush it please don't let it see me moving, ok where in the h== are you.
.Ok i would tell myself turn real slow come on don't rush it ,don't rush it please don't let it see me moving, ok where in the h== are you.