Amazed or surprised you
10-27-2009, 11:33 AM
#12
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Texas
Posts: 606
10-27-2009, 12:00 PM
#13
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 411
I think what amazes me every year is how the deer react to being hit by an arrow as opposed to a slug. Shooting a deer with a bow, the shot is usually much closer and it is quiet, you don't disturb the woods as a firearm does. The deer sometimes don't even know where the shot came from. It's a pretty powerful experience to watch that deer die in front of you, I have had that happen many times (including this year's doe) with a bow but only a few times with a firearm because shots are much further away from the POI. To witness something like that makes me respect the animals I hunt even more so than I did when I hunted exclusively with a firearm. Maybe its because the shots are so much closer
Last edited by *twodogs*; 10-27-2009 at 12:18 PM.
10-27-2009, 01:21 PM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location:
Posts: 1,234
right now i am amazed about how hard it is to even see a deer! this has to be the worst year for a beginning bow hunter ever! but i took a shot at a doe and i realized how hard it is to range the deer and to pull back....once i see more deer(i hope) i will be suprised by what i can do....and what the arrow can do and so forth...
10-27-2009, 05:03 PM
#15
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location:
Posts: 237
[quote=itsslow98;3485451]unfortunately there are two things that have amazed me so far. i just started hutning this year and have practiced with my bow just about everyday for a couple months.
1) practice is practice, the whole ball game chanegs when your first deer is standing within shotting range of you lol, you might be able to hit that target dead on 500 shots in a row, but that damn deer must have a forecfield around it(missed my first deer by a few inches)
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i did the same thing its crazy man
1) practice is practice, the whole ball game chanegs when your first deer is standing within shotting range of you lol, you might be able to hit that target dead on 500 shots in a row, but that damn deer must have a forecfield around it(missed my first deer by a few inches)
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i did the same thing its crazy man
10-27-2009, 05:14 PM
#16
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location:
Posts: 237
the coolest things that i ahve learnt WITH OUT A DOUGHT...
1. the time you have to put in to be successful, its like u become to no each deer when you see it.
2.the respect i have come to have for these animals and the respect that u all know what im tlakign about.
3. and lastly the patience and the practice it takes every year, and when u arnt seeing nothing it sucks i wont lie. but when u c that deer come into your plan perfectly, and you are able to let your arrow fly, just the sence of acheivement and that rush of adrenilne you dont get from ANYTHING els. that jsut makes it worth it all rihgt there
ryan
1. the time you have to put in to be successful, its like u become to no each deer when you see it.
2.the respect i have come to have for these animals and the respect that u all know what im tlakign about.
3. and lastly the patience and the practice it takes every year, and when u arnt seeing nothing it sucks i wont lie. but when u c that deer come into your plan perfectly, and you are able to let your arrow fly, just the sence of acheivement and that rush of adrenilne you dont get from ANYTHING els. that jsut makes it worth it all rihgt there
ryan
10-28-2009, 05:38 AM
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: IL./Iowa Boarder
Posts: 1,621
I'm amazed & surprised every season as to what unfolds in the woods & the animals I see & seem to always learn something. Everything we experience is amazing.
This is the start of 53 years of Bowhunting for me & many many trips afield listening to the birds wake up & go to sleep. One thing though-the WOODS never sleeps.
This is the start of 53 years of Bowhunting for me & many many trips afield listening to the birds wake up & go to sleep. One thing though-the WOODS never sleeps.
10-28-2009, 10:28 AM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Bessemer, MI
Posts: 1,719
What amazes me is watching my 72 yr old dad when I sit with him and buck comes it. For someone who has been hunting all his life, he still acts like a KID and gets all flustered.. I even have him shooting a TREE on Video with his rifle on opener.. I always have to tell him.. CALM DOWN! Its frickin Hilarious.. P.S. He never bowhunted until I got him into it!