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Unsucessful sticks and stones...
lowell:
crookedarrow....
couldn't agree more but have tracked many deer over the 40+ years I have hunted....mine and friends. My son is my biggest help now as he has also helped track many of mine as well as his and his friends. Tracking ability is not lacking here.
But looking harder and harder at hunting from the ground!!! I think that would help get that extra lung!!!
crooketarrow:
MOST DIFFENTLY LOWELL a buck (deer) can go along way on one lung. But's dead in 10 seconds with a hole in both. When I was a kid just starting I even shot a doe with a field point THROUGH BOTH LUNGS. She might have went 80 or 90 yards.
Plus from the ground if you do hit a rib your much more likely to still penatrate and get lungs. Where if your arrows angleing down shot from a tree if a ribs hit it's much more likely to glance down ward and not pentrate the rib.
I tree stand hunted for over 25 to 30 years. I'll be the first to tell you hunting from a tree is DOZZENS of times easyer than ground hunting. And to really kill bucks you have to get up. But geting up has it's disavanges also.
I had 2 strokes in 06 that made me a full time ground hunter. Personally (even though I could now) I'll never climb a tree again.
You just have to fine turn your set ups alot better than if tree stand hunting.AND HAVE TO TOTALLY HUNT THE WIND. WHERE 20 FOOT UP YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH A WHOLE LOT MORE. With the wind and with movement.
BUT IT'S A LOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT LESS WORK MOVING, PUTTING UP AND DOWN A DOZZEN STANDS A YEAR. Plus a whole lot safer. If I fall off my stoll I'll get up.
PLUS IT'S WAY MORE GRADFIEING KILLING A BUCK OFF THE GROUND ON HIS OWN TERMS.
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