Archery Talk

New to the forum, avid bow hunter hear. Will get some pictures up of the lease soon.

 

I went in extra early one day, got in my stand I was relaxing and listening to eveytging. I hear something in front of me but its too dark to see. As it gets lighter I keep hearing the same noise right if front of my stand, and now I want to know what it is. I ha about 10 or 15 mins. to go before light so I wait it out. It gets light enough to see just shapes no detail, but I can tell it's a deer and the body is pretty big. I take my time and stand up, get my bow and I'm ready to draw as soon as I can see. I can see antler but no real detail. Right as I'm getting ready to draw a turkey bombs out the tree that I'm in scares off the buck. WTF! I was pretty mad at the time, now its a funny story. Good Luck to all my fellow hunters.

 

my wife was out hunting one evening a couple seasons ago and had a flying squirrel land on her head. She about had a heart attack because earlier in the week she had seen a mountain lion next to the house, verified by a game camera pic a couple nights later...she thought for sure that mt lion had pounced on her.

 

yea that would def scare the crap out of you!

 

One if coolest things that happened to me in the stand was a Redtail hawk landed on a branch about 2 ft from my head. I turned my head real slow
it was looking at me like wtf are you?!?! I just sat still and watched. I guess it figured i wasn't a threat and started looking in the field. I watched it spot a rabbit and swoop down from the tree snatch it. I was awesome!

 

Yaa, not here, September 30 is our start!

 

There in cahoots you know! LOL

 

That's the way it goes! We start off in our stands an 1 1/2 before first light every session, I call it the (DQ hour)
the Dead quiet hour!
My favorite time!
(and yes, that gets a little ruff when it's 21° outside)

 

Had about a dozen Toms roosting about 100 ft in back of me one morning. Didn't know they were there and I almost had a heart attack when it was flydown time.
Sounded like somebody throwing bowling balls around.

 

I almost had a heart attack last year, it was a little later in the morning and I fell asleep at some point. Well the next thing I know I feel something grab the back of my leg and it's climbing up so obviously this scares the living shit out of me and I jumped up and the squirrel that had mistaken my leg for a tree branch was now air born and I can only assume was as freaked out if not more by the whole experience as I was. Well he ended up in an actual branch just across from me and we're just staring at me probably thinking the same thing I was...... DAMMM that was crazy NUTS. Hahahaha

 

New Tactical seat covers.Getting organized for bow season

 

Damm i like these alot and I'm due for new seat covers what are they?

 

CoverKing Tactical Kryptek from AutoAnything.

 

when I first started bow hunting I hit that hour, then when everything started waking up it was like grand central station with all the commotion! I knew I was hooked after that.!

 

That feeling makes me feel all warm inside

 

I'll tell I can't wait for that feeling again there's absolutely Nooooooo better feeling then being up a tree before sun up on opening day 9/15 can't come soon enough

 

I love that time in the dark when you're sitting there and you slowly here the forest coming back to life after that grizzly bear of a human came through thinking he was quiet, LOL ,

One time I was getting in the stand during the rut and had only made it about 4 feet up the ladder when a buck come charging out of the brush wanting to fuck up whoever was in his woods, and I thought to myself as a froze on the latter, don't you dare make a sound or he is going to charge straight at me and mow me down, I must've stood there 4 feet off the ground for what seemed like 25 minutes because obviously I didn't of course want to give my spot up

 

thats happened to me a few times. i had a big buck come in when it was getting dark didn't get close enough till it was too dark to get a shot. my firnd spooked him when he was heading back toward out meet up point so i didn't give away my spot.

 

Bought a used Mathews HRT last week, was a little nervous it wouldn't live up to the hype I had read about. Got it set up and took it out, went from 20 yards to 80 in about 1 hour. Cant believe how awesome this bow is. Had a ton of fun just setting up the target in weird spots and being able to put the dot on it and hit. Gives me a huge confidence boost for hunting antelope this weekend
70 yards:



60 yards up the hill

 

Nice!, like you I was also a skeptic at first when I got my first Matthews. I thought to myself, OK let's see what all the hype is about! And like you I also shot 70 yards in the hunt, that's great to here. Good shooten!