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Hmmmm!

Stupid squirrels  :)

Thats pretty funny! Keep shooting!

Ok, Gotta Razz Tim Salters (Tsalt) here a little bit! I am sitting at my office and wishing I was out hunting on this beautiful November day. All of a sudden, I get a text from Tim asking me to examine this picture and figure out what happened. LOL, I sure needed the good laugh. Lots of us have probably been there. I wish I was in an area tree stand with my Binocs watching him haul the ladder out into the woods to retrieve his arrows! This was too funny not to share. You can even still see the Raccoon up in the tree laughing at him too. I won't mention how many arrows he had to go retrieve behind the tree   :bigsmyl:

QuoteOriginally posted by John Scifres:
Stupid squirrels   :)  

John, I thought it looked like a squirrel too, but Tim assures me it was a raccoon.

I am also going to assume the Raccoon climbed higher in the tree once Tim started shooting, surely he did not miss by that much  :p    :biglaugh:    :p

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Thats gonna be fun he should just keep shooting unit the coon is dead or gone only have to get the ladder one time either way!

Just when you thought you didn't need a climbing stand!

Oh, as if a guy that sticks that many arrows in a tree can tell the difference between a squirrel and a coon.  I'm thinking some new spectacles are in order...just sayin'  :)

haha... well I guess I join the conversation since I'm the guy who flung all the arrows.      :knothead:

And yes, that coon did move up the tree Ed!    :biglaugh:

Thanks!!    :D    I needed that today!

What part of OK are you guys in?

QuoteOriginally posted by John Scifres:
Oh, as if a guy that sticks that many arrows in a tree can tell the difference between a squirrel and a coon.  I'm thinking some new spectacles are in order...just sayin'   :)  

Laughing out loud here John!!!

QuoteOriginally posted by SKITCH:
Thanks!!     :D     I needed that today!

What part of OK are you guys in?

Tim is near Muskogee and I am in Oklahoma City

QuoteOriginally posted by John Scifres:
Oh, as if a guy that sticks that many arrows in a tree can tell the difference between a squirrel and a coon.  I'm thinking some new spectacles are in order...just sayin'   :)  

:biglaugh:    :biglaugh:

QuoteOriginally posted by John Scifres:
Oh, as if a guy that sticks that many arrows in a tree can tell the difference between a squirrel and a coon.  I'm thinking some new spectacles are in order...just sayin'   :)  

Haha... Well if glasses would help my shooting I would quickly buy a pair.  No, I see fine... it's hitting what I'm looking at that is the problem!    

Were you trying to give him some help climbing?

Thats too funny   :biglaugh:

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Coons are tough too. I once shot one in a tree. Blasted an arrow right under his arm pit and right through him. He fell about 5 feet and wedged in the crotch of the tree. Great... no branches for about 15 feet and I'm no monkey. I decided to bring a ladder the next morning. He was not in the tree and no where to be seen!!!

Same thing happened to me a few years back trying for a chatty pine squirrel. When I went in for lunch, I tied a crescent wrench to my tow rope and threw it over my arrow. Thought I was pretty smart until I yanked on it and it almost nailed me on the way down!!
Not gonna do that again....

I've lost an arrow in a porcupine because of this too. He was on the ground when I shot him, but climbed a tree with my arrow sticking out both sides. I knew he would fall eventually, and it was getting time to get into the tree stand, so I thought I'd retrieve the arrow on the way out. Well, I ended up shooting a deer that night and forgot about the porky. When a returned the next day, there was no sign of the critter or my arrow.

QuoteOriginally posted by Bill Carlsen:
Just when you thought you didn't need a climbing stand!

You never know when you offer good advice. Tim just texted that he retrieved his arrows. He had to take Bill's advice and use a climbing stand because the ladder was not tall enough! He said it took "a dang hammer and chisel to get the broadheads out"

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I really appreciate our Proud Patriot and the fact he all ready voted this morning   :clapper:

That's right... Land of the free and home of the brave!!     :archer:  

As for this coon hunting saga... round one goes to the coons, but I will have my revenge!