Discouragement, not anymore!

[firehawk47]

#6225

Hi Guys! First I want to thank all of you for your reply and your posts because i learn a lot from you by reading you, thanks!

Now this morning I went back to my hunting spot, sit and waited. It was raining a bit so I heard nothing, except for some squirrels (I tought…) I looked between some leaves and surprise! A big doe! So same tactic as last week. I slowly stand up turned a bit but my left foot made small noise and she ran away whisleling for 30 yards and stop. She turned back and slowly returned towards me. She looked in my direction, she hummed(???, try to smell me?). I said to myself: Good at ground level she doesn’t smell me, she doesn’t see me. My heart was racing! I thinks she heard it! Now is time to draw. I Draw my bow and was about to shot and … NOOO! I made a blind with tree branches with a some kind of window to shoot, it was windy during the night and branches fell in my window!! I couldn’t make a clean shot! I red in another post that the only shot you’ll never regret is the one you didn’t make. It wouldn’t have been etical to take a shot on a deer without being sure enough so I let the doe away and I was proud of me. I was laughting in my heart, nothing is perfect but I really enjoy my hunt this year and i’m eager to go back in late november.

Thanks guys you really help me and love traditional bowhunting, its difficult but hardship is what shape us!

[David Coulter]

#52749

Firehawk, that’s a great story and offers me encouragement as I prepare for a morning in the woods. Keep after it and feel that smile and laughter in your heart. All the best, dwc

[grumpy]

#59119

The most important thing you said is that you laughed at yourself. That is special… Really Special.

[firehawk47]

#59747

Yeah I laught at myself because I hunt for spending time in the woods, the pleasure to see the sun rise in the trees and the morning mist. When i realise that i couldn’t shoot that doe the best to do I think is laughing. I don’t hunt to kill but harvest (I’ve never harvested a deer or other game but I try). If I don’t shoot me and my family (wife and two young kids) will eat anyway, there is plenty of meat at the super market. So enjoy life, enjoy hunting and all the blessings we receive!

[David Coulter]

#33095

Firehawk, anymore stories for us?

[firehawk47]

#35596

Not for now. Unfortunatly, hunting season close tomorrow for a few weeks and I work so I won’t be able to go. I’ll go hunting in late november. But I have some post I’d to to ask, like: Why do you hunt with trad bow and arrow?

Have good time.

[Ralph]

#35671

firehawk47 wrote: Yeah I laught at myself because I hunt for spending time in the woods, the pleasure to see the sun rise in the trees and the morning mist. When i realise that i couldn’t shoot that doe the best to do I think is laughing. I don’t hunt to kill but harvest (I’ve never harvested a deer or other game but I try). If I don’t shoot me and my family (wife and two young kids) will eat anyway, there is plenty of meat at the super market. So enjoy life, enjoy hunting and all the blessings we receive!

Well said and well put. I could have loosed the arrow or pulled the trigger on several occasions and didn’t for no other reason than I just didn’t wanna………not because things weren’t right or anything, just cause…..??? Words can’t express the feeling for me. Those who know, know…

[William Warren]

#49853

On Traditional Bowhunting:

“I was laughing in my heart” – Firehawk47

For me this says it all. Me too, Firehawk, your story resonates with me as well. I’m going to have laughter in my heart too when I get in the woods tomorrow.

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