Okay so I have been hunting hard this week and it really has been aggravating. I have not seen 1 deer let alone loose and arrow toward one. Wind has been perfect for one of my spots and they have been coming in at night. They seem to be all nocturnal. Not all a loss though built up my ground blind more and finding that I enjoy hunting from the ground more than a tree, but it has not produced anything as of yet.
Now the tree rats! I have lost 4 arrows in the last 3 days and I am learning to pick my shots a little better because it is just getting to expensive. I have had an opportunity at a dozen or so shots and not one of them finding their mark, but man some were so close average shot is about 10-12 yards. I actually knocked on out of the tree either sheer panic or the shaft smacked him after the arrow hit the trunk. I see what everyone is saying shooting small game will make you a better deer hunter.
Will be out again tonight but friend and I are going for strictly squirrels tonight. Funny that the wife is now asking me to kill some. She learned a new recipe from some old timer she is working with at work and wants to try it. Maybe if I get lucky I will produce some pictures from the tree to the table.
Thank you everyone for all the information that has been passed down from all the experience you guys collected over the years.
If you are strictly squirrel hunting, make sure you have a deer arrow with you. They always show up when you are not ready.
Oh, you bet....Funny thing about that is because I have that arrow there will be no deer, but still bringing it with me.
Going to get some squirrels for cooking? Might want to buy some burger... just in case. ;)
We have a split archery season for plains deer here in Colorado so I went up in the high country and got my fix hunting snowshoe rabbits, got three of them which is three times as many as I ever got before, lol, had fried rabbit the first night and stew the second night with them. Deer opened back up today but work is in the way till early next week. I lost an arrow shooting at a squirrel too! (http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f43/wachatz/NCM_0214_zpsvjsytz44.jpg) (http://s44.photobucket.com/user/wachatz/media/NCM_0214_zpsvjsytz44.jpg.html)