quiksilver

Post some "little things" that happen from time to time in bowhunting or during your preparation that really ... umm... "tick"... you off.

I'll start:

So, I'm outside shooting my bow this summer, practicing with a $10 Montec head. Apparently, I didn't put enough glue on my insert, because when I pulled my arrow out of the block... *pop* The insert and head stayed inside.

You dirty rotten....

So, now I've got thisspot in my block target that I can't shoot into - b/c there's abroadhead in there, waiting to eat my arrows. And I'm out of a $10 head.
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Nothing makes me madder than climbing all the way up a tree, only to discover that either:
A.) It has a bigass knot in it, and you can't get your climber up over it
B.) The part of the tree that you want to sit in - is leaning the wrong stinkin' way, and your climber just doesn't want to cooperate - so you're stuck facing in a direction that you'd rather not be facing; or
C.) You dropped your bow rope, and you get the pleasure of now going back down to retrieve it.

buttermilkranch

Getting to the range just to relize you forgot something important to be able to shoot, and sight in your bow[:@].

StrikeTrue

The worst for me has to be climbing all the way up, doing your harness up and dropping your glove or something stupid like that. Specially when you slipped in as quietly as possible and you know have to make the racket of undoing your harness, climbing down, climbing back up and doing it up once again.

Matt / PA

My uncanny inability to judge the initial angle of my climbing stand in relation to the taper of the tree.......[:@]

Matt/TN

I had just gotten up in my climber one afternoon this year and went to pull my bow up and my quiver popped off. The Alpine Soft-Loc went on ebay the next day

PreacherTony

When I am all jacked and focused, just KNOWING a buck is coming by in the next few minutes ... then some idiot who doesn't have permission to hunt the land I'm on walks by LOUDLY!!!!![:@][:@]

MGH_PA

Amen to these two. One of the biggest complaints I have about climbers. But their advantages certainly outweight the disadvantages.

Matt,
Don't worry, I also have a terrible ability at judging the angle of my climber for the angle of the tree...I always find my self at my desired height thinking "If I would have slid my cable in/out one more notch, this would be PERFECT."

Brknarrow1970

I seem to have the Same issue MAtt - really sucks early season when it is warm

Hate the feeling in the early season that something isn't quite right - even though you prepared everything- only to get in the tree and feel inexperienced or that you forgotten something

MGH_PA

I can see that happening. However, it certainly seems to take a lot of force to pop the quiver off the mounting bracket, although I'm sure getting it hung up on a branch or brush might just do that

quiksilver

My daypack has a drink holder on it, on the left-hand side (when it's on your back). I like to hang my bow on the left, and my daypack onmy right. So, to get at my water, I'm stuck reaching around the tree like a monkey just to get it - because it's *conveniently* positioned on the opposite side of the pack. ...and you can't turn it around, just based on the design.

So then, I just kinda sit there and brood over it - thinking "why can't they make a damn daypack with the drink pocket on the opposite side?" "I'm thirsty, but I really don't feel like standing up and reaching around there fishing for this stupid water bottle. Guess I'll just sit here and die of thirst."

Little things...