Finally got to go out to the lease with the BlueRidge that I bought from Stick. Wow, what a sweet shooting bow. I finally got comfortable enough to try to hunt with it and try to get something into my comfortable shooting range (which is about 12-15 yards). Now keep in mind that I have killed hogs and javis with my recurves but that was about 8-10 years ago so I'm in the learning process again.
Beautiful morning to go and as I was going in my BIL who leases and takes care of this ranch was coming out and he said that he'd already corned the roads and there were already deer out eating it.......sure enough there were deer all over the place including where my torn up Max Ground Blind was, still, a promising sight.
I proceeded to drive up and scare off all the deer and started throwing my Buck Candy laced corn (they love this stuff). I decided to put this corn out at about 8-10 yards just to be on the safe side.......mistake. Do you all know that at that distance the deer can HEAR you breath, well they can. I had about 8 doe and a couple of bucks all within breathing range.
I'm going to have to keep practicing to extend my effective shooting range to 15-20 yards. So anytime I tried to make a move to try to get into position to shoot I had 20 pairs of ears and eyes trying to figure out what the heck was making that noise and movement.
So No I didn't get a shot but nevertheless had a great time, this is what hunting is all about, thank you Lord.
Beautiful morning to go and as I was going in my BIL who leases and takes care of this ranch was coming out and he said that he'd already corned the roads and there were already deer out eating it.......sure enough there were deer all over the place including where my torn up Max Ground Blind was, still, a promising sight.
I proceeded to drive up and scare off all the deer and started throwing my Buck Candy laced corn (they love this stuff). I decided to put this corn out at about 8-10 yards just to be on the safe side.......mistake. Do you all know that at that distance the deer can HEAR you breath, well they can. I had about 8 doe and a couple of bucks all within breathing range.
I'm going to have to keep practicing to extend my effective shooting range to 15-20 yards. So anytime I tried to make a move to try to get into position to shoot I had 20 pairs of ears and eyes trying to figure out what the heck was making that noise and movement.
So No I didn't get a shot but nevertheless had a great time, this is what hunting is all about, thank you Lord.
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