Posted By: Scalpel4
A little PO'd at myself - 12/19/11 05:53 PM
I gotta vent this out for a minute.
This weekend was my first time out hunting with my bow. I'm proficient at 25 yards, tight groups on the mark, figured now was a good time to try.
So my friend and I get to the grounds and decide to stalk the are a bit, get a lay of the land. We come stalking through some cedar trees and come across an old foot path with tracks on it from the night before, decide to get a look around and look for ambush points. The path splits and we take either side through some brush. I take the narrow path with my bow, he takes the wider path to my left about 15 yards. I get 20 yards down the path and hear something to my left near some trees. Expecting it to be him, I just glance to the left and am stopped dead at the sight of 8 boars moving into a shaded area not 10 yards to my left. My friend followed the path farther left out of sight, they must have heard him and moved off his position. 3 little ones about 75 lbs, 3 good ones about 130, and two 200 pounders all stopping at the same time looking right at me. I quickly draw my bow and they scatter, the little ones hearded right at me and the others ducked into the brush. Well I took a quick shot at one of the little ones and missed, clearly wasn't lined up. They ran past me and into the bushes behind me. I called back my friend to head back, took off after the little ones tracks, followed them into a creek and lost their trail. Lost my arrow as well.
That was the only contact we had all day Saturday. Still kicking myself a bit, mostly because I should have left the bow at the stand and used my 357 sidearm which I never thought to use during the stalk. Stupid rookie mistake.
This weekend was my first time out hunting with my bow. I'm proficient at 25 yards, tight groups on the mark, figured now was a good time to try.
So my friend and I get to the grounds and decide to stalk the are a bit, get a lay of the land. We come stalking through some cedar trees and come across an old foot path with tracks on it from the night before, decide to get a look around and look for ambush points. The path splits and we take either side through some brush. I take the narrow path with my bow, he takes the wider path to my left about 15 yards. I get 20 yards down the path and hear something to my left near some trees. Expecting it to be him, I just glance to the left and am stopped dead at the sight of 8 boars moving into a shaded area not 10 yards to my left. My friend followed the path farther left out of sight, they must have heard him and moved off his position. 3 little ones about 75 lbs, 3 good ones about 130, and two 200 pounders all stopping at the same time looking right at me. I quickly draw my bow and they scatter, the little ones hearded right at me and the others ducked into the brush. Well I took a quick shot at one of the little ones and missed, clearly wasn't lined up. They ran past me and into the bushes behind me. I called back my friend to head back, took off after the little ones tracks, followed them into a creek and lost their trail. Lost my arrow as well.
That was the only contact we had all day Saturday. Still kicking myself a bit, mostly because I should have left the bow at the stand and used my 357 sidearm which I never thought to use during the stalk. Stupid rookie mistake.
