I can't believe that worked moment.

[bigmike23]

Out in the woods. All dry scratchy leaves for tissue paper. Couldn't believe how well they worked

 

[Plebe]

Shot my first archery buck with fingers, cause I forgot my release. Hit him right where I was aiming and he dropped dead. I think I shot fingers once before, as a cub scout.

Still can't believe that worked.

 

[ryderofred]

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to try my hand at turkey hunting. I didn’t know anything and I didn’t know anyone who did it. I spent weeks reading about the nuances of turkey hunting and bought the necessary calls. Opening morning came and I drove to some public land, parked, and headed into the woods. Walked a few hundred yards to a high spot and blew an owl call. A turkey gobbled back from the roost less than a 100 yards away. I’ll never forget that first gobble. A monkey could have sounded back and I would have been just as surprised! Of course, I spent that day and the rest of the year learning some hard lessons in the turkey woods.


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[Plebe]

Excerpt from one of the best posts on the entire site:

Killing a deer with a bow, down on ground level with it, is a special treat. I use to say that one like that was worth 10 from a tree stand. When I first started bowhunting I use to spend a lot of time slowly moving through the woods trying to do so. I even developed a technique, for getting within bow range even after they see me. It's easier to explain telling, instead of writing about it.

.....While still hunting, if I could see a deer before it knew I was there, I would drop down and put the stems of several fallen leaves between my fingers and a few in my mouth. Once that was done I would start my stalk. Sooner or later that deer would become aware of my presence and become alert. With the deer keyed in on me I would release a leaf and as it would float to the ground the deer would lock in on the movement of the leaf, forgetting about me.

I would be downwind, so it couldn't smell me. I usually had some sort of camo on, so once I froze, it couldn't really see me but still it knew that some sort of movement had alerted it. Once it saw the leaf fall, a very natural thing that it had seen all it's life, it was satisfied that everything was cool. To that deer, it was just a leaf floating to the ground.

Usually they would flick their tail and return to browsing or picking up acorns. Then I would continue my stalk until they noticed my movement again. Then I would go through the process again and again until I was in bow range. It didn't work every time but the times that it did was very rewarding.

Link:

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Barry Wentzel always wore his hat sideways, so the deer would presume he wasn't looking at them, lol.

 

[Red Beard]

Barry Wentzel always wore his hat sideways, so the deer would presume he wasn't looking at them, lol.

Gangster

 

[Cthunter]

A few years ago I was in camp alone and woke to a steady, heavy rain. I got up trying to decide where I was going to head where I might not have to walk too far in the rain when a truck pulled in and a couple of my buddies got out and came into the camper. They had decided they were going to hunt close by camp so they could come back and get dry after a bit. Well I decided I was going to head north to a spot I had hunted about a week prior that wasn't too far off the road. I left them in camp and got in the truck and started driving out on the winding two track through the woods. About a quarter mile down the road a doe suddenly burst out of the dark and rain and ran through my headlights heading south with a decent buck right on her tail.

I sat there a minute and called an audible. With any luck I might be able to get in front of them and head them off. When I hit the next road I turned south instead of north and drove down to an old logging trail that went back in the woods to a couple year old clearcut that those deer were heading towards. I hopped out and loaded up my gear (still using a climber in those days) and started hustling down the trail in the dark and the steadily increasing rain. I was already soaked by the time I hit the edge of the clearcut and I paralleled the edge in about a 100 yds until I found a tree to set up in. I climbed up about 15 ft and pulled up my gear and bow and hung them up.

I was no sooner settled and I was thinking to myself "This is stupid! Its raining so hard you'll never be able to track one even if you have an opportunity" when the doe came running in and stopped right at the base of my tree. A few seconds later the buck came running up and the doe ran back the way she had come. He circled under my tree as I was lifting and drawing my bow and as he headed away I hollered at him hoping to stop him. Sure enough he stopped dead in his tracks looking back , giving me a perfectly quartering shot away inside 15yds. I tried to settle the sight on him but realized in the heat of the moment I hadn't removed the cover from the red dot scope I used as a sight on my bow at that time. CRAP! Well I guess its going to be a pure instinct shot. I took aim down the arrow shaft and let it fly. He kicked, ran about 10 yds and stopped, standing there looking around. I'm thinking "CRAP AGAIN! I missed . . . why didn't I remember to take the cover off!" As I'm grabbing for another arrow and all of sudden he just fell down there in sight 25 yds away. Turns out I heart shot him. No tracking required. To this day I still can't believe how well that worked out.

I won't mention that I clean missed a really nice 8 point inside10 yds last year in that same vicinity.

Last year i had crashed my ebike in wet leaves with bow on my back. Stupidly i didnt shoot it before heading out next day. Had a decent 8 pt come running by my stand so i grunt and stop him. Got a shot off and missed. He ran 10yds and stopped. Shot again and same thing. Finnaly i just laughed. His lucky day. Got my bow re tuned. Went hunting and while climbing tree i dropped my release. Grabbed my spare release in my pack. Had a small buck come in directly under me. When i went to draw the bow shot as i settled in for the shot . Buck walked 5yds and dropped. Heart shot. I hadnt used that release in years. Was set way to hot. Couldnt beleive it . After last season i went through all my gear.

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