ChasinTail Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Just kidding! Yesterday while sitting in my stand I realized why bowhunting is so fun. I listed no less than 13 challenges to getting a deer with a bow. Add more if you can think of some. This is why I love bowhunting:) 1. You have to find good hunting property. 2. Must locate a core area for bucks. 3. Find a tree that will offer cover but still offer shots. 4. Enter stand when weather and wind is perfect. 5. Make zero noise as you set up. 6. Hope to see deer movement. 7. Hope that deer movement is within 40 yards or so. 8. Make sure deer that is moving has shootable rack. 9. Hope deer gives somewhat of a broadside shot. 10. Make sure you make good shot. 11. Hope deer does not duck arrow. 12. Find blood trail. 13. Hope blood trail actually leads you to your kill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Find a buddy who has buddies that have property and supply him with endless knowledge of trees, birds, bugs and day old donuts for the rest of my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backwoods07 Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 You forgot... 1.) Hope deer within range doesn't smell you. 2.) Be able to draw and get in position without deer seeing you. I've made these lists in my head a million times!! This is why duffing a shot makes it feel like the world is gonna end! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kid Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 1). Practice, practice, practice in the off season!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layin on the smackdown Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 we are fogetting one major factor.... LUCK, LUCK, LUCK... Hense the saying, i'd rather be lucky than good anyday... make sure broadheads are sharp make sure sights are on make sure string is in good shape make sure the night before you have gas hope that some jerk didn't take your stand,or isn't already in it by the time you get there pray that nature isn't going to creep up on you with the old "this can't wait # 2" (thats happened to all of us) don't eat garlic within 8 hours of being in the stand stay longer than you are planning on, not shorter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 I'm suprised nobody has mentioned: "The Honey-Do List must be taken care of before hunting,scouting, or even mentioning the hunting season is approaching...or you sleep outside factor" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohiobucks Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Find a buddy who wants to be dragged to your buddies property and act like you're interested in all the endless drivel about of trees, birds, bugs and day old donuts. Make sure you drive to the hunting property 90% of the time, and always supply fresh coffee to wash down the day old (sometimes 2 day old) doughnuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAbowhunter86 Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Murphies Law What can go wrong will go wrong! gotta get away from this law! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atthewall Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 I hunt a bunch in South Texas and finding a tree for hanging.....there isn't one for literally a hundred miles. So all hunting literally has to be from the ground. A brushed in ground blind helps contain scent and odor. I push the dirt up along the bottom edge sealing all smells within the blind. I will then round up a local and native aromatic plant and place that inside the blind with me. Cover scents also work well inside the blind mixing with your scent before the exhaust. My shooting windows on one side are the only windows open. Any scent leaving the inside of the blind has to exhaust out one of these open windows...covered with shoot through mesh. So knowing I have the scent contained, traveling one way out, I can let some other local smell mix and exhaust. I go through a pretty liberal de-scent routine and place my hunting camos inside a sealed tupperware container mixed with local and highly scented brush or weeds. My camo smells like juniper or mesquite etc.. Hunting from the ground does eliminate getting busted on the draw as well and brushing in a blind basically makes you literally invisible. It takes some getting used to hunting inside a little tent and your field of view is reduced to only a couple of shooting lanes but if and when a target of interest does move into your shooting lane, it's typically very close, personal and extremely deadly. Here's one of my South Texas setups. Dead center in this pic is the blind. I typically cut out the backside of a bush, pop the tent, crawl inside the blind and cut just enough bush on the outer edge to make a clean shooting lane. The brush clippings get piled on top of the blind to cut down the roof line edges. From this setup, I snapped this guys picture at 11 yards. And here's a shot sequence on a late afternoon setup near Sonora Texas. I hunted a pre-staging area that cut down through a dry river draw that fed up to a bordering 75 acre oat field. As it is with whitetail, they stage off the open fields till sundown, so afternoon setups are pretty easy to pre-predict where they will be. Typically bucks in these parts like to keep a very low profile. I find low draws or other low routes that feed up to these field edges. Add water or a barbwire fence intersection (3 or 4 fences converge to a single point) in close proximity and basically the hunting odds are increased two fold as they slither along the low routes inbound to the field edges. Note how still these deer are during my shot. The 11 pointer is standing exactly at 21 yards with the doe just to his left roughly at 19 yards. No one moved till the arrow went THWACK. I've SVL'd the tar out of my Hoyt and she is deadly quiet. Shooting from the insides of a tent blind, the sound is deadened even more so....these pics are an example of this. THWACK & Vaya con Dios!!! Here's another setup in a more traditional hardwoods river bottom in the Texas Hill Country near Lampasas. I basically trimmed out a load of cedar (juniper) from a different area of this setup and built up a huge nest or wall around the outer edge of my tent blind. Added a few more branches to the top to cut the roof line and it's a deadly trail route setup. I had a tree stand here for awhile but I had to deal with a few Rio Grande turkeys and they are pretty vocal when things don't seem right above. So I eliminated that problem and opted to get down and out of sight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 I'm suprised nobody has mentioned: "The Honey-Do List must be taken care of before hunting,scouting, or even mentioning the hunting season is approaching...or you sleep outside factor" That is the best reason yet.... you can tell the poster of this thread is probably a young buck.. huh Gary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Forgot too mention, 1) Hopefully kids are not home from school sick when I CAN hunt... 2) Hopefully I am not home sick from the kids being home sick from school since they ALWAYS are sick right after the start of the new school year... then I get it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 BowHunting- When just getting there is half the battle;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChasinTail Posted October 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 That is the best reason yet.... you can tell the poster of this thread is probably a young buck.. huh Gary? Not so young, My fiance has just happened to be out of the state for job training since the start of bow season! This means no "honey do list"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Not so young, My fiance has just happened to be out of the state for job training since the start of bow season! This means no "honey do list"! Take it while you can get it brother...the "Honey-Do's" will be your destiny;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFHuntsinGA82 Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 you forgot "call Erika in GA and invite her to go bow hunting with you", lol J/k I'm a string music addict! good list though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpcNape Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 [quote name= pray that nature isn't going to creep up on you with the old "this can't wait # 2" (thats happened to all of us)[/quote] That aint no joke brother!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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