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    Posted: 02 September 2016 at 15:56
I have everything ready and will be heading out about
4:30 in the morning.

Hunting Whitetails in the Black Hills of Wyoming with a
bow.

I hope to have pictures soon.

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Good luck Bud...have a great hunt..awaiting your report and pics
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Wing;

Good luck to you! I never got into the stick-n-string
method of taking game.

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CB the stick and string game has changed since you were a kid.

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good luck wing.
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Wing;

So what happened? Or are you lost out there somewhere?

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Well, I choked.

It was about 8:00 am and I had been hiking since a
little after sunup. It was slow hiking because I was
watching for deer and it was up the side of a pretty
steep mountain.

I sat down on a fallen tree to eat breakfast. I sat my
bow down and sat real still looking through the timber
for about 5 minutes before I was going to do anything.

Off in the distance in the dirrection I was looking I
heard a blowing whistling sound. I froze and kept
looking. I slowly picked up my bow and clipped the
release on the string while watching.

A few seconds later I saw movement through the timber.
Their were two bucks coming right twards me. One was a
small spike or maybe a 2 point and the other one was a
decent 3 point. They were making that blowing
whistling sound and stomping their hooves.

My heart was beating a hundred miles a minute.

The 3 point stepped behind a pretty big tree and that
gave me a chance to draw my bow back. when he stepped
out from behind the tree he was standing broadside
looking at me.

In all this excitement I never even thought about the
rangefinder I had in my pocket.

I am at full draw with a deer in my sights and it
dawned on me that I had no idea how far away this deer
was.

I didn't have much time to think, so I thought he was
about 40 yards away. I lined up the 40 yard pin and
let an arrow fly.

The arrow went about 3 inches over his back. I watched
both of them trot away.

I went out and found my arrow and went back to my log
and got out my range finder. Their was another downed
tree just past where he was standing. About 5 to 7
yards. I ranged the log and it was 37 yards. That
means the deer was about 30 yards when I shot.

Damm, I choked.

I ate breakfast and kept on hiking until it got too
hot. I gave up at about 3:00 in the afternoon and the
thermometer in my pickup read 83 degrees.

Overall, It was a great day and I saw a whole bunch of
deer and turkeys. Some were really shootable bucks.


Looking east from Warren Peak. Probably half of that
is in South Dakota.


This is tipical of the pine and oak trees and brush of
the low country.



I saw lots, I mean lots of does. and more bucks than I
have seen in this area in several years.


This is up on top of the mountain I was hiking around
on. I'm not sure how many feet of elevation I climbed,
but it felt like a lot.

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Good story and great pics. Sounds like you had a great day.
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Looks like elevation was 2 feet!

Thanks for the pics, beautiful.

On a bright side...you found your arrow.
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Wing;

Now iff'n ya had just doused yerself with "Doe In Heat",
you could-a gotten him closer!

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Something about bow hunting and adrenaline, just when you don't need
the stuff. Pricking a deer from the ground is not an easy task. It's
difficult enough from an elevated stand.

Rarely do bow hunters undershoot.

Looks like a good time.


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Thanks guys.

It was a great time.

I have never tried hunting from a stand. I'm not sure I
have the patients for it. I still haven't killed
anything with a bow but I will keep on trying.

Even if I never get anything, Bow hunting gives me one
month longer to hunt.

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I prefer a well camouflaged ground blind. I can sit
comfortable on the ground for 10 hours straight. But
the secret of ground blinds is PLACEMENT. Getting 15
yards down wind from a deer trail.

I've killed over 2 dozen whitetails from a ground blind.
I find scouting before the season necessary; and I
usually set up two locations should the wind change.
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