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in reply to: Killed a Beautiful Bear Today! #25265
Sean, congratulations again on a well deserved black bear kill. With the amount of sweat, anxiety, shoe leather, and studying that you have put into this hunt, nobody in our group of traditional bow hunting friends deserves that kill more than you.
Gotta have my coffee. I usually have mine every morning on the patio while watching the sunrise wake the song birds. Best way to start the day.
During hunting season, I keep a French press at camp for my pre-hunt jump start. My urologist has told me to cut out caffein to help with my enlarged prostate, but there are too many other benefits from coffee that outweigh this ridiculous idea. My morning civility to others is the main one. 😀
in reply to: goose'n the longbow #59818Beautiful morning and set up
in reply to: Stumpin/Killin in the South #59811Grey rat snake. They help keep the rodents in line.
in reply to: Best wishes for the TBM family #59810Positive and confident vibes are already headed in Larry’s and Belinda’s direction all the way from Statesboro, Georgia.
in reply to: 2013 hunting rigs #57273Absolutely beautiful TF. Great looking bows and setups guys!
in reply to: Memorable Wildlife #48734Smithhammer wrote: Good thread.
One experience that comes to mind –
I was kayaking around the southern tip of Kuiu Island in Southeast Ak years ago. It was a foggy, calm day, and humpback whales were surfacing nearby – explosive breaths coming out of the mist, and every now and then you would catch a massive tail in the air as it slid underneath the surface. I was stopped in the middle of the bay, jigging for halibut with a handline, when the line suddenly went taut and started slowly moving sideways in that way that halibut do.
Whales continued to surface close by, as I tried to gauge just how big this halibut might be, and whether it was something I wanted to bring alongside my boat or not. And I remember thinking, “wow – there are these massive creatures cruising around me, I’ve got a halibut on the line….how could this possibly be better?”
And that’s when the howling rose up out of the rainforest and carried across the bay. I looked over (still struggling with the halibut) as one of the wolves popped out of the trees, and started trotting down the length of the beach.
The combination of all those things happening simultaneously continues to be one of my more memorable wildlife experiences.
Chill bumps here in Georgia. What an amazing moment.
in reply to: Memorable Wildlife #48729AlexBugnon wrote: I stalked noise i heard on the other side of a knoll, thinking deer were rummaging thru leaves, only to find two huge eastern timber rattlers wrestling, 10 yards away! coiled up together, standing like cobras, falling together, and starting the whole thing over again. Unbelievable!! A biologist told me he spent his career hoping and trying to see that, and here I come, just strolling the woods with my bow…
Next would be the time I had a beautiful bull Elk stopping 12 yards from me, giving me the perfect broadside shot…..that I didn’t take!
Alex, I had the same experience last fall with a pair do copperheads.
in reply to: Celebration #48175I too thank the animal for its gift. I do not feel any guilt over the death if it is clean and quick. I spend much time admiring the beauty and individuality of the animal and the surroundings. Because of the significance of death, in my mind I recount the events leading to, during and after. Then I share the event with my closest hunting partners and Connie when I return home.
And then the year long celebration begins with the first meat brought to the table from the grill.
in reply to: made a clean shot #48163That’s great that fences are mended and you now have a beginning trad friend. Hope the two of you make some good memories in the future seasons.
in reply to: Wild Voices #46061The bobwhite quail does it for me. We are lucky to have quite the “huntable population” in my southeast Georgia hunting grounds. They are not hunted so the population is quite strong. There is something about that whistle and then the answer.
Mourning doves soft mournful coo is another favorite outdoor sound.
in reply to: Wild Shots #43634Dug a field tip out of the tree right behind my target yesterday. Shot high. Had impressive penetration at 20 yds!:D
in reply to: Bear Scouting Pics #42653Great pictures Etter. They look much better here than on my phone. I’m really looking forward to our hunt.
This may seem a strange choice since I love to hunt them as much as any animal on earth, but the eastern wild turkey is my totem.
I keep feathers from turkeys on the dash of my truck. I take feathers to school for my students to make art.
Wild turkeys have appeared to me during the off season in several peculiar ways. Once while hunting whitetails in the fall, a thunderstorm was in the distance. I had at least three different gobblers gobbling to every clap of thunder. I know this is a natural phenomenon, but I saw several deer that morning and had already experienced a heavy footed deer walk right by me before daylight.
It seems a sense of belonging to the woods always comes over me in their presence. Maybe its because if the turkey does not see me or does not mind me being around, then I’ve truly been accepted by the forest.
Etter I do the rock relocation thing too.:) However, I don’t limit it to rocks. It can be anything special that I’ve found in the woods. I call it borrowing.
in reply to: Cold Shots #20489Good tips guys. My accuracy has fallen off a bit lately. Not sure why. But, I am going to put some of the suggestions to practice and see if it improves. I like the idea of practicing with one arrow. It slows you down and randomly tossing the arrow for a shooting positions stirs things up as well. That is a good suggestion.
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