Beendare
WKR
Per @Marbles suggestion....
Can we save someone else the grief of learning from our misses and woundings?
Yeah, I know its uncomfortable opening old wounds...but is there a lesson there for others?
I have a couple to get it started;
I was Bowhunting elk in CO many years ago and saw a big herd bull and 30 cows go into a patch of timber and not come out. I literally waited all day positioning my self and sure enough late afternoon as it started snowing they came pouring out right where I thought. Cows all around me so it was tricky trying to get a range from flat on my belly at the uphill bull going from cow to cow.
He went through an opening where I had ranged...and I shot 3" over his back. It turns out the "Bush" I ranged was the top of a small tree that was actually 10y past him on a flat I didn't see from my position. That was 30 years ago and it still haunts me, about a 330" bull.
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Heres another; My buddy- an ASA pro archer wounded and lost a 161" whitetail at 25y in Kansas. The ranchers wife killed it a week later in Rifle season and the wound was healing. We were all at camp and he said for some reason his arrow was doing Loop D Loops to the buck. We pulled out a couple of his arrows from the quiver and when we did one or more of the blades popped out on his mech head.
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One more; I called a good bull in to my buddy Kirk [also an ASA Mathews shooter at the time] in U76 CO. The bull came charging in to 25y but was slightly quartering. He shot and it looked good. The bull turned and ran...but then swung back right across in front of us and stopped at 30y. Kirk just stood and watched. He was in line with the bull preventing me from shooting.
I asked why not shoot again on such a layup shot...he said, thats a dead bull. Wrong. The last time we saw that bull he was a mile away going over the continental divide leaving no blood trail. He never made that mistake again.
Can we save someone else the grief of learning from our misses and woundings?
Yeah, I know its uncomfortable opening old wounds...but is there a lesson there for others?
I have a couple to get it started;
I was Bowhunting elk in CO many years ago and saw a big herd bull and 30 cows go into a patch of timber and not come out. I literally waited all day positioning my self and sure enough late afternoon as it started snowing they came pouring out right where I thought. Cows all around me so it was tricky trying to get a range from flat on my belly at the uphill bull going from cow to cow.
He went through an opening where I had ranged...and I shot 3" over his back. It turns out the "Bush" I ranged was the top of a small tree that was actually 10y past him on a flat I didn't see from my position. That was 30 years ago and it still haunts me, about a 330" bull.
________
Heres another; My buddy- an ASA pro archer wounded and lost a 161" whitetail at 25y in Kansas. The ranchers wife killed it a week later in Rifle season and the wound was healing. We were all at camp and he said for some reason his arrow was doing Loop D Loops to the buck. We pulled out a couple of his arrows from the quiver and when we did one or more of the blades popped out on his mech head.
________
One more; I called a good bull in to my buddy Kirk [also an ASA Mathews shooter at the time] in U76 CO. The bull came charging in to 25y but was slightly quartering. He shot and it looked good. The bull turned and ran...but then swung back right across in front of us and stopped at 30y. Kirk just stood and watched. He was in line with the bull preventing me from shooting.
I asked why not shoot again on such a layup shot...he said, thats a dead bull. Wrong. The last time we saw that bull he was a mile away going over the continental divide leaving no blood trail. He never made that mistake again.
