please help me with bow hunting
09-16-2009, 11:20 AM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: lousiana
Posts: 9
please help me with bow hunting
hey guys im 14 and 2 years ago dad bought me a psc bow. now this year is my year. i was wondering if yall had any ideals about how to help me to get my first deer with my bow? thank yall.
09-17-2009, 09:40 AM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: west central wi USA
Posts: 2,251
There are no shortcuts.
Cover your face and hands. Hunt downwind of the trail. Get back off the field edges. Shower often and keep your clothes clean.
Spend a lot of time in the woods. Practice your shooting at unknown ranges.
Don't take a questionable shot. There is honor in passing up a shot on a deer. There is no honor in wounding one.
Cover your face and hands. Hunt downwind of the trail. Get back off the field edges. Shower often and keep your clothes clean.
Spend a lot of time in the woods. Practice your shooting at unknown ranges.
Don't take a questionable shot. There is honor in passing up a shot on a deer. There is no honor in wounding one.
09-18-2009, 09:16 AM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Middelway, WV
Posts: 435
Practice.....from the ground and from a tree stand. Study the deer anatomy so you uderstand where to hit and why. Use a 'deer' target if one is available...it will help you understand where to shoot to hit the vitals and how to avoid the shoulder blade ( Practice shooting to avoid the shoulder blade....the arrow will seldom pass through the shoulder blade...I emphasize this as last year was my first year, and I lost one because I hit the shoulder blade)
- When in a tree stand, you need to visualize where you want the arrow to exit the deer, and aim for a spot to make this exit wound happen (above the planned exit wound), otherwise your shot will be too low.
- stay alert in the tree stand, for the deer will appear when you are least expecting them.
- Wait for a real good shot....there are few worse feelings then wounding a deer that you can't recover.
- If you do take a bad shot and can not recover the deer, learn from your mistake. It happens to most bowhunters atleast once.
- Enjoy the nature around you as you wait for the deer to arrive:-)
- When in a tree stand, you need to visualize where you want the arrow to exit the deer, and aim for a spot to make this exit wound happen (above the planned exit wound), otherwise your shot will be too low.
- stay alert in the tree stand, for the deer will appear when you are least expecting them.
- Wait for a real good shot....there are few worse feelings then wounding a deer that you can't recover.
- If you do take a bad shot and can not recover the deer, learn from your mistake. It happens to most bowhunters atleast once.
- Enjoy the nature around you as you wait for the deer to arrive:-)
09-18-2009, 09:51 AM
#9
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 564
There would be no honor in wounding a deer if the shot was at a poor angle, or if you had put in no practice with your equipment etc. To say that there is no honor in wounding an animal does a disservice to all the hunters that have lost a deer for highly legititmate reasons like unexpected equipment failure or over reactive deer jumping a string etc. I would never want to brag about the deer I wounded in a situation like that but to question a hunters honor when he wounds a deer yet did everything right (deer gods just were not smiling down on the hunter) is just a little harsh in my opinion.
09-18-2009, 11:04 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: West Tennessee
Posts: 2,333
There would be no honor in wounding a deer if the shot was at a poor angle, or if you had put in no practice with your equipment etc. To say that there is no honor in wounding an animal does a disservice to all the hunters that have lost a deer for highly legititmate reasons like unexpected equipment failure or over reactive deer jumping a string etc. I would never want to brag about the deer I wounded in a situation like that but to question a hunters honor when he wounds a deer yet did everything right (deer gods just were not smiling down on the hunter) is just a little harsh in my opinion.