Your best and worst last season
01-13-2022, 07:05 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 1,101
Your best and worst last season
Now that our seasons are finished or winding down, what was your best moment and your worst moment?
My worst: missing an easy shot because I rushed it.
My best: with just a few minutes of legal light left in the season and kicking myself for likely going deerless because of bad shooting (see above), I spot a seven point standing in some nearby brush which then came out and stood broadside.
Honorable mention best: the first grilling of steaks was well-received by my brothers..
My worst: missing an easy shot because I rushed it.
My best: with just a few minutes of legal light left in the season and kicking myself for likely going deerless because of bad shooting (see above), I spot a seven point standing in some nearby brush which then came out and stood broadside.
Honorable mention best: the first grilling of steaks was well-received by my brothers..
Last edited by Father Forkhorn; 01-13-2022 at 07:11 PM.
01-17-2022, 05:13 AM
#2
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 36
We still have a little bit of pheasant season left in Kansas and about a month of goose but so far here are mine.....
My worst: The evening before Halloween I misjudged the distance on a really nice buck that snuck in behind my tree and I shot right over his back. I'm new to bowhunting but it was a lay-up and I blew it. I went from wobbly knees to sick to my stomach and wanting to puke in about 30 secs.
My best: My daughter (16) and my son (12) and I sat in the rifle blind opening day of Kansas rifle season and enjoyed the best deer hunt of the year. The weather was perfect and we seen a ton of deer, probably the most we've ever seen in one sitting. My daughter had the rifle and she made a great shot on a nice mature buck. My son got a picture of my daughter and I dragging that deer threw the creek bottom as the sun was setting in front of us. I have the picture framed and hanging in my garage, it's probably my all-time favorite photo!
My worst: The evening before Halloween I misjudged the distance on a really nice buck that snuck in behind my tree and I shot right over his back. I'm new to bowhunting but it was a lay-up and I blew it. I went from wobbly knees to sick to my stomach and wanting to puke in about 30 secs.
My best: My daughter (16) and my son (12) and I sat in the rifle blind opening day of Kansas rifle season and enjoyed the best deer hunt of the year. The weather was perfect and we seen a ton of deer, probably the most we've ever seen in one sitting. My daughter had the rifle and she made a great shot on a nice mature buck. My son got a picture of my daughter and I dragging that deer threw the creek bottom as the sun was setting in front of us. I have the picture framed and hanging in my garage, it's probably my all-time favorite photo!
01-17-2022, 06:20 AM
#3
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 12,745
My worst: not seeing anything legal to shoot all year (archery, muzzleloader and rifle seasons). First time I didn't put my tag on at least one deer in over 30 years.
My best moment: When I put my grandson in one of my favorite spots and moved a few hundred yards away from him. And hour later I heard him shoot and he radioed to me that he got on. A nice little basket 8 pointer - his first.
My best moment: When I put my grandson in one of my favorite spots and moved a few hundred yards away from him. And hour later I heard him shoot and he radioed to me that he got on. A nice little basket 8 pointer - his first.
01-22-2022, 07:37 PM
#7
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
I believe I wrapped up my season with a plumb doe this evening. I would say the best part of this season was taking a nice bear in CO on Oct 18 and the worst part was having a stick go through the sidewall of a new tire on my diesel truck in on Christmas Day while I was coyote hunting. My wife went to NH to spend the holiday with her family so I didn't have any adult supervision. The tire had less than a thousand miles on it but I had the road hazard warranty so it got replaced for free. The reason it was the worst part of the season was when I put the spare on I found the valve stem had gone bad on it and the spare wouldn't hold air. I checked the spare last year but forgot to check it this year. So there I sat, 6 miles from town with 2 bad tires. Had to call AAA for a tow and walked pretty much the whole distance back to town so the tow truck knew where I was.
01-23-2022, 03:27 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 1,101
I believe I wrapped up my season with a plumb doe this evening. I would say the best part of this season was taking a nice bear in CO on Oct 18 and the worst part was having a stick go through the sidewall of a new tire on my diesel truck in on Christmas Day while I was coyote hunting. My wife went to NH to spend the holiday with her family so I didn't have any adult supervision. The tire had less than a thousand miles on it but I had the road hazard warranty so it got replaced for free. The reason it was the worst part of the season was when I put the spare on I found the valve stem had gone bad on it and the spare wouldn't hold air. I checked the spare last year but forgot to check it this year. So there I sat, 6 miles from town with 2 bad tires. Had to call AAA for a tow and walked pretty much the whole distance back to town so the tow truck knew where I was.
