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8 point
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8 point
Joined: Oct 2014
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Well I had a bow mishap this evening that's got me torn up. I saw a nice 8 point early season that I decided if I saw him while bow hunting that I would take him. Well this evening right at dark I hear a deer running up a hill behind me on the small powerline I was hunting. I could hear the deer getting closer and closer to my right. When it seems like the deer is on top of me I turn my head to the right and I see him. It's the eight point I saw early season. He eased behind some brush so I slowly get stood up and right when I'm up he eases out onto the powerline at 25-30 yards. I began to turn to my right and my bow limb brushes up against a pine needle and makes a screeching sound. The buck took off across the powerline ( only 60 yards wide) and blew about 10 times. I picked up my grunt call and grunted at him a few times and he walked back out. Right as I thought he was going to ease back my way he took off up the powerline and blew 5 or 6 more times. This would have been my best buck with a bow and I'm pretty sick to say the least
A BAD DAYS HUNTING OR FISHING IS BETTER THAN ANY DAY AT WORK
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spike
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spike
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Sorry about the mishap but bowhunting is still 10 times better than any gun hunt. Hang in there and chances are you may get a 2nd opportunity.
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Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Nov 2014
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“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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10 point
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10 point
Joined: Dec 2010
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Hate to hear that, lesson learned though right.
Elite Omnia, Easton FMJ, Axcel Landslyde 5 pin slider.
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8 point
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8 point
Joined: Oct 2014
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You can bet your bottom dollar that limb is getting cut before the next hunt lol
A BAD DAYS HUNTING OR FISHING IS BETTER THAN ANY DAY AT WORK
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8 point
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8 point
Joined: Dec 2014
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Part of bow hunting man. Everything has to work our perfectly
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Posts: 2,493
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Dec 2011
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Part of bow hunting man. Everything has to work our perfectly Pretty spot on. Hang in there brother, that's why we love it.
Playin string music
Hoyt Vector 32
Get Serious Get Hoyt
Alto, la migra means Stop, immigration in Spanish slang. They'll scatter like skittles dropped on a concrete floor. -Furflyin
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12 point
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12 point
Joined: Feb 2003
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Wisdom doesn't always come with age.
Sometimes age shows up all by itself.
Roll Tide
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Posts: 6,778
ALDEER SPONSOR
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ALDEER SPONSOR
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Part of bow hunting man. Everything has to work our perfectly Pretty spot on. Hang in there brother, that's why we love it. No doubt, and it'll be that much sweeter when it happens. 
Ya'll are just overthinking it now
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pic perv
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pic perv
Joined: Nov 2009
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That's bow hunting in a nutshell. Makes the eventual kill that much sweeter.
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14 point
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14 point
Joined: May 2002
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I feel for you. I had a similar situation on Saturday morning too. I had a spike come up from behind walking and sniffing the air as he headed right to my Tinks canister. I decide it would be cool to video his action and start recording him with my phone. Then I hear a twig snap behind him, turn and look and it is nice 8 point. Before I can even reach for my bow, I turn back around and the spike is looking straight up at me, BUSTED. He spins and runs off and the 8 just backed out and walked away. The story of my season so far.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Dec 2006
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Sounds like a good hunt! If I hear a bunch of running, that's when I try to get into a possible shooting position.
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Dans right when you hear running its time to get off your azz !
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14 point
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14 point
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I was hunting a greenfield yesterday afternoon and checked my camera on the way in. A good 7 pointer had worked the scrape Friday at 5 pm. At 3:10 he walks out to feed to my right and the wind is perfect for me. Then all of a sudden the wind swirls and he is gone!
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