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Patriot

Patriot

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My first sits are almost always clusters but this one was pretty bad. Had a great spot figured out. Accidentally went to the wrong tree. Climbed it and got stuck in a sapling then I heard what I thought was hornets and freaked out because yesterday evening I got nailed seven times. Climbed down quick and made noise then Got stuck in pricker bush, heard my buck splash into the creek to take off. Crap.

Climbed my other tree and spent literally 40 minutes trying to get my screw in hook into the freakin tree to hang my bow. Gave up when I realized the tip of the screw was broke. Went to put on my arrow. Quiver is gone. Climbed down back to the wrong tree to find it. Walk back to target tree climb and sit.

Oh well, I’m hunting! My first sit in a saddle. Silver lining is I know where that buck went and I will go after him this evening. And another silver lining is I did great in my climbing spikes in the dark and had almost no pucker factor.
 
sdonx said:
I have to apologize, your post had me cracking up...because Ive been there. First sits are nothing like your last sit.
Phantom Hornets...bahaha!


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Dude me and hornets have a thing. When I was younger I got nailed 32 times by those ground nesting hornets when I went searching for a golf ball. I’ve been hit a bunch of other times and then yesterday I got nailed 7 times. There was definitely a bug at my head though hahah. It was loud it was no phantom but it couldn’t have been a hornets nest bc I would have been destroyed. I was like a ninja in this climbers!
 
Patriot said:
My first sits are almost always clusters but this one was pretty bad. Had a great spot figured out. Accidentally went to the wrong tree. Climbed it and got stuck in a sapling then I heard what I thought was hornets and freaked out because yesterday evening I got nailed seven times. Climbed down quick and made noise then Got stuck in pricker bush, heard my buck splash into the creek to take off. Crap.

Climbed my other tree and spent literally 40 minutes trying to get my screw in hook into the freakin tree to hang my bow. Gave up when I realized the tip of the screw was broke. Went to put on my arrow. Quiver is gone. Climbed down back to the wrong tree to find it. Walk back to target tree climb and sit.

Oh well, I’m hunting! My first sit in a saddle. Silver lining is I know where that buck went and I will go after him this evening. And another silver lining is I did great in my climbing spikes in the dark and had almost no pucker factor.
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That is so true to life. I thought I was the only one. The first hunt of the year is just a shakedown run, kinda like when they take a boat out for the first time of the year and the purpose is just to find out what needs to be fixed. I am hoping to make my shakedown run Monday afternoon. If so it will probably sound like a marching band coming through the woods.
 
I took the family camping labor day weekend at one of the spots I set up during the season. I got up before light every morning and did mock hunts just to try to avoid this type of thing on my first real sit of the year. Even though my system is pretty refined its always good to knock the rust off a bit before it counts. Good news is that everything went pretty smooth and I saw quite a few deer, bad news is that I only saw one buck and he wasn't really what I'm looking for (big 1.5 year old, small 2.5 year old). The cool thing was the bear that walked by at about 25 yards and the yote that walked up within about 5 yards.

One thing I did learn is that my self-filming game definitely needs work. I fanned on the on button on the yote and ended up with no footage and had the camera arm mounted too far around the tree on the bear and had to take the camera off the arm to film and only ended up with some rough footage.
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boyne bowhunter said:
I took the family camping labor day weekend at one of the spots I set up during the season. I got up before light every morning and did mock hunts just to try to avoid this type of thing on my first real sit of the year. Even though my system is pretty refined its always good to knock the rust off a bit before it counts. Good news is that everything went pretty smooth and I saw quite a few deer, bad news is that I only saw one buck and he wasn't really what I'm looking for (big 1.5 year old, small 2.5 year old). The cool thing was the bear that walked by at about 25 yards and the yote that walked up within about 5 yards.

One thing I did learn is that my self-filming game definitely needs work. I fanned on the on button on the yote and ended up with no footage and had the camera arm mounted too far around the tree on the bear and had to take the camera off the arm to film and only ended up with some rough footage.
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I want to film too but this is only my 5th year hunting so I feel like I’m not ready yet.
 
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