hauscaliber
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Thought I would start a thread for 2019 embarrassing hunting mistakes that tend to happen from time to time.
A ruh-roh moment happened to me today when I climbed the tree and went to retrieve my bow with my trusty paracord. Didn't realize that there was a vine near the base of the tree that grabbed my bow like a horror movie when I tried to lift it. After attempting the wrecking ball technique of getting it untangled, I also managed to get the vine stuck behind my arrows in the quiver. My stomach knotted up as I watched the vine detach all three arrows from the quiver and scatter them on the ground. Now determined that I didn't want to climb back down, I finally untangled my bow and lifted it up, detached the paracord, and turned the end of the paracord into a lasso. I then started playing some carnival game of trying to fetch my arrows with the paracord 20 feet off the ground. After about 10 minutes of meticulous frustration, I managed to retrieve one arrow and decided that I was going to stop there and hunt with the lone arrow. Moral of the story: watch out for vines if you're going to hoist things up.
At least I wasn't caught without an arrow watching my hit list buck walk by. This hunt ended without much action.
A ruh-roh moment happened to me today when I climbed the tree and went to retrieve my bow with my trusty paracord. Didn't realize that there was a vine near the base of the tree that grabbed my bow like a horror movie when I tried to lift it. After attempting the wrecking ball technique of getting it untangled, I also managed to get the vine stuck behind my arrows in the quiver. My stomach knotted up as I watched the vine detach all three arrows from the quiver and scatter them on the ground. Now determined that I didn't want to climb back down, I finally untangled my bow and lifted it up, detached the paracord, and turned the end of the paracord into a lasso. I then started playing some carnival game of trying to fetch my arrows with the paracord 20 feet off the ground. After about 10 minutes of meticulous frustration, I managed to retrieve one arrow and decided that I was going to stop there and hunt with the lone arrow. Moral of the story: watch out for vines if you're going to hoist things up.
At least I wasn't caught without an arrow watching my hit list buck walk by. This hunt ended without much action.