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LIVE from the saddle 2023

What's super weird is not only did my arrow break in half, but my iron will SB has zero damage. It still bites into my nail. Thered be more damage if I hit rib. I just keep thinking I hit fat and skin on the bottom of his belly. If I don't find him tomorrow praying he makes a full recovery
 
I'm up here since 4 am. Tracked the blood for over 400 yards before I couldn't find another drop.
Did some grid and circles to see if I could pick it up again and no dice.
I think this bear is gunna be okay. Even the blood I was tracking was all ankle high. Like the bottom of his belly was hitting stuff. I keep ruminating on the shot. It had too of hit hereBREEN BEAR 2.jpg
 
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Good morning from central Michigan. Rains holding off better than I expected.
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067B4C5F-EC3C-409A-B2C1-86186B32D510.jpegGotta take the kids to the zoo with grandparents so I am in for a short hunt. Does are moving according to the cam I have 500yds south. White oaks are dropping bombs and the squirrels are buzzing around. There’s a mock scrape that they’ve hopefully turned into a real scrape under that skinny tree in the middle at 21 yds. Last time my parents were visiting in Oct I killed a fat old doe and I’m hoping the luck of their visit times out nicely this year too. Any bearded turkey is also on the hit list. Might do my first rappel from hunting height today if I can keep my draws clean and my mental safety checklist intact. Deer first.
 
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No deer but my first rappel was a success. Raging success? No. I’m sure I was hysterical to any critters watching me swing around the trunk trying to get my knee placement corrected without castrating myself on my screw in steps. It’s much easier to remove my platform from rappel than with LB though. I used an autoblock instead of the klemheist I practiced with simply because it was easier to tie at the time, but I hated it. Pretty much useless and the messiest hitch ever. Back to klemheist. The friction on brand new HTP is incredible though. I did a single bight and one wrap-behind for two-fingered braking and let me tell you, I had to jiggle and feed rope to get the rappel going through my fig8. Overall I was into it. Once hooked up, it was fast and efficient, then quick and lightweight to re-pack. I was sketched by my quick link twisting orientation on the trunk, didn’t lay completely flush on all axes, kinda rested mostly on main axis. Dunno if that’s normal or if my scafknot is twisting it. I’ll see next time.
 
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