Title maybe is a little hard but just want to share a great experience this last weekend. Me and my hunting partner hit the ground early morning this last Sunday. Bow hunting for some whiteys. Had an awesome moment where my partner spotted a doe with a decent buck in toe about 150 yards off. Sure enough they come right towards our position. the doe would stop every 10 feet for 5 minutes. She knew we were there I am sure. The buck was just.. well being a buck and following the doe... We were actually walking to our stand when we saw them so our cover was negligible. A couple small trees at best. Standing there in full camo, bows ready, the sun comes up and its right in our faces and lit us up like a Christmas tree. It felt like forever for that doe to get in range. Was awesome to just practice patience and standing still.. She hops the fence into our permission land but the buck was 20 feet behind her and had more meat so we waited.
As the buck jumped the fence I drew but instead of stopping he actually trotted right up to the doe and behind a tree and branches from my line of site.
This would have been my first bow kill and I was shaking a bit but I didn't feel good about the shot. He wasn't fully stopped, there was a potential for deflection of the arrow and let's face it a shaky hand on the bow isn't good. He bolted about 3 seconds later. But what an awesome experience! No regrets on my part. I knew it wasn't a high percentage shot and whether it was my inexperience or whatever I held off and I would hold off again.
So it was frustrating but we continued on to our spot. Set up and 30 minutes in a massive old swamp donkey came rolling up on us. Maybe not the biggest moose in the world but bigger than me
And he was definitely a large healthy animal. He saw us for sure but just didn't care. slowly meandered up the hill into trees.
A few minutes later we see a big ol cow moose 150 yards away. She trots along for a few minutes and goes up the hillside. Then 10 minutes later huge crashing through the trees and we see a bull moose barreling down the hill. this isn't our big bull though its a younger bull probably trying to mess with the old dudes partner
That obviously didn't go well as the big moosie was in hot pursuit.
The little bull ends up hiding in some trees 70 yards from us. No tags for moose (which he obviously knew or he wouldn't have been that close) so he sauntered around a bit near us. He knew we were there was watching us and then he just beds down for a rest. He sat there for a couple hours until we left and scared him off.
What a great day hunting. Great chance at some nice white tail meat, even more awesome to watch all the moose shenanigans.. Ya, sometimes it's not about the kill at all. Great day hunting. I wish everyone here experiences like that, except maybe bag the white tail
Stay safe out there boys and girls. Don't forget to be bear aware, they are thick out there this year.
Sometimes it isn't about the kill
Linear Mode
