RE: Reminded of a bowhunting blunder..
 

Well

I was hunting deer with my dad and we saw nice little buck off the side of this old logging road, my dad stopped me and pointed him out to me, i pulled back, but before i could shoot i had noticed that he had took off, we were certain he didnt see us becuase he was busy grazing, then i looked over and saw a guy on the other side of him, he shot at the deer but missed him, my dad yelled at him to stop we had saw him first, he took off running in the direction of the deer, his hat went one way, his bow the other because he had tripped. My dads good tracking skills brought us back to the buck, and i took him down, his antlers now hang up in my room. That has got to be the one hunting blunder memoir that sticks out the most in my mind.

RE: Reminded of a bowhunting blunder..
 

first day of bow season this year i got all the way to my tree stand and realized i forgot my release at home[:o]

RE: Reminded of a bowhunting blunder..
 

I had just bought a new climber and was excited about using it the very next morning.I got to my chosen tree at about 5:30 AM hooked the treestand up to the tree and climbed up with no problem ,only one thing that I forgot was to tie the bow string to the climber.Back down I go ,I tie the string and climb back up pull the bow half way up when my bow comes untied and fall's to the ground.
I had never used a climber before so I was getting a little tired of climbing up and down ,but now I have to make another trip down.Finally I get the bow tied right and climb back up but now I've wasted about an hour and a half fooling around with mistakes . As it turn's out I never seen a thing all morning and I blame that on all the noise I was making on practicing with my new climbing treestand . This was a hotspot which I had seen deer on most occasion's that I had hunted here. except for this particular day

nubo

RE: Reminded of a bowhunting blunder..
 

This year i lost my first release one morning and had to convert to a cheap one i had never used with my bow. I ended up shooting my first deer ever that morning?:D

RE: Reminded of a bowhunting blunder..
 

this happened to a buddy of mine about 5 years ago.it was opening day of bow season in georgia.it was a hot muggy morning.he had went out and bought a new GPS. and was bragging on how he would never get turned aroung in the woods again! we left the truck about the same time that morning about 30 min before day light. i reached my tree with no problem.but for my buddy he did not have that kind of luck.his tree was only about 2 to 300 hundred yards from the rd. we were on.he decided to use the new GPS to find it. he begain walking in the direction of the tree but some how the waypoint on the GPS keeped telling him to keep walking. he did untill day light" he was not sure what to do. so he keeped on going untill about 9.30am way past daylight. by the way he was carrying a treelounge on his back.and they are not light.very hot and frustrated.he finilly reached is way point on the GPS? he was about 4 miles from where he started.but was where he was the day before! next to some lake he had found.so he marked it on his GPS.when he realized what he did he sat down for a few min. then stood up and threw the GPS in the lake.he got back to the truck about 1.00pm and never got to hunt that morning

RE: Reminded of a bowhunting blunder..
 

Archer18:

Just so you know an "Ain't so!" about bowhunting deer, and possibly become embroiled in a quarrel where you would be wrong; it ain't so that the first chance at a deer belongs to the first person who observes it. Unless a person shoots a deer that is beneath your stand and knows you are in the stand; it is first come, first served.

RE: Reminded of a bowhunting blunder..
 

Thats why i hunt on the ground;)