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Live From the Bed

Wirrex

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Well the end to my 2017 season arrived this morning in the form of ACL reconstructive surgery with meniscal repair. All went well.

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I hunted hard having this surgery looming over my head. Thanks to my wife for understanding, and taking care of our 3 young boys. The middle one actually got his tonsils and adenoids removed last Tuesday. My wife is a trooper!

I did not get a deer this year but had two shots on mature deer early on. Both were clean misses. First the top limb of my recurve hit a tree limb. The second a forced shot through leaves (dumb I know).

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I had to cancel my trip out west with my buddies. It was a 10 day trip to spot and stalk muleys and whitetail deer in South Dakota. This was something new and exciting I was dreaming about for a year in advance. Everything was set in place and I had to back out for financial and physical reasons due to the surgery. My friends had an amazing trip putting stalks on several mature deer each. One connected with a 160 class muley. They say they are headed back. Next time, I will be there with them!

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I was also fortunate enough to hunt a weekend in Illinois, the golden triangle no less! Several pieces of land that one family friend hunts by himself. He has taken 3 booners and 25+ pope and young bucks. His basement looks like an exhibit at Cabelas! He claimed a deer over 200” was on the land this year. For me, it rained the entire time, a downpour the weekend through. Few deer were seen, however, just knowing the opportunity in that woods was a surreal feeling. It was an unforgettable trip with an open door for possible future hunts. Score!

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I ended my season swinging from an ideal tree, in a dynamite spot, with the first snow coming in. I didn’t hear a stick break in that 28 degree weather but I was content.

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I’m laying here in bed, already bored, looking at bows I want to buy, and dreaming of next years season in the saddle.
 
Get your rest and heal. I started my trip down the saddle rabbit hole because of a shoulder surgery. I spent a lot of hours in a chair with an iPad reading and shopping when I came across the Guidos web and as they say, the rest is history....

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Get your rest and heal. I started my trip down the saddle rabbit hole because of a shoulder surgery. I spent a lot of hours in a chair with an iPad reading and shopping when I came across the Guidos web and as they say, the rest is history....

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I’m an electrician and was told, best case scenario, 12 weeks off of work. I sold my truck to pay for lost wages. The trades suck in that regard. I look at it this way, I have 3 months to convince my wife to let me order a Boarder Covert Hunter recurve...
 
I know what you are going through . I am a union Pile Driver and got major injuries at work last October 29th. Just made it back to work on lite duty 4 hours a day 4 days a week. Set out last huntig season dreaming about this year. Still hard with my back and palvic injuries but I am a live. My right knee is bad but no operation yet . Just a matter of time before that happens. Just hang in there you will be back at it before you know it. Being off work is how I found this web sight. So I guess good things can happen when you are hurt.
 
That rough! Knee problems suck and ending a hunting season early because of one sucks even more. Hope you have a speedy recovery. You definitely have a positive attitude considering.

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I feel your pain been there done that got the t-shirt. I blew mine out chasing a turkey down, had the surgery and the next one I killed, the first thing out of The Boss Hen's mouth was...."well how did the knee do?" She never wants to have to go through that nightmare again!
 
Sorry to read about your season, but you'll recover. Listen to ol' sawbones and his support crew.

I recommend that you NOT do what I did last season. I had a surgery that kept me out of the trees for the entire hunting season - every day of it. In truly the manliest of methods, I completely fell silent on this site and many others because I felt like acting like a child that didn't get his way. I should have enjoyed reading about other people's stories, and learning the stuff that they were trying to teach me, had I listened to them. I didn't; I offer that you should.

One of the benefits of this site is the fact that, here, we all seem genuinely interested in sharing what works - and maybe more importantly, what didn't. Don't wait an entire season to play catch up.

Best of luck in your recovery. Get after that therapy as soon as possible and you'll be better off for your efforts.
 
I tore a bunch of cartilage under my patella & some meniscus tears in a collision playing ice hockey in Sept 2011. I hunted hard in October & November knowing I had surgery scheduled in early Dec. Was lucky enough to take a nice 8 pt on 11/20. Unfortunately it was a mile back in the woods and my buddies where a mile in the opposite direction chasing a buck one of them had wounded. That solo drag was excruciating & awesome at the same time.

Follow docs orders, put forth honest effort in rehab and you'll be back at it before you know it. I was back skating in early Jan with both my surgeon & rehab docs blessings. (At 4 weeks when the normal rehab is 6-8)

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Sorry to hear about the surgery, but now you have the time to really tweak your setup, make some drop bags, I'm sure you'll think of something.

I find it makes me really happy to see other folks out there getting after it when I can't get out. Not sure if you are like that but it might help.

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