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crooketarrow:
   Alittle word of advice you can add to your ZISH.
  Once I started doing this my shot ratio with a self bow more than tribled.
  Indains did this they did'nt have any special powers they just did this.
  I always set up BUCKS OR GOBBLERS to where they have to go past me. It's hard to learn to set up with your back to the on comeing animal. When your taught your whole life to set up where you can see the animal.

sleek:
Whats the difference if they walk from your back to front than if they walk from your left to your right?

Marks:
My uncles and I have something similar but is much more grounded in superstition and good fun and immature humor. It is "mojo".  Different events grant good or bad mojo. Some events change year to year. Most of these happen on the drive to your hunting location.

Examples: The number of rabbits you see is directly proportional to the number of deer the group will see. The deer/rabbit ratio seems to change each year and is determined as the season progresses. Running over a rabbit is BAD mojo and will ruin the hunt. Other animal sighting are taken into account from year to year. Seeing deer on the drive down is bad mojo on the assumption that the deer will no longer be moving once you reach your spot. Dogs (or any animal really) taking a dump on the side of the road is good mojo. Animals humping is very good mojo. Having to take a dump in the woods is good mojo especially if you ate corn the night before because you are hunting over bait  >:D. In fact we call it mojoing. Forgetting to bring an important item such as a gutting knife is good mojo. Pumping gas is of course bad mojo. Tapping your toes in the pee underneath a public urinal is good mojo contrary to what most would think ::). There is so much more to it but I think you get the idea.

Once again its all in good fun. Zish sounds a lot more scientific and lets be honest, is more logical.  Most of our mojo is based on past experiences from when my uncles were younger but I was brought up in it and its a fun way to past the time on the drive down or during lunch in between our morning and evening hunts.

By the way, that spot sounds killer. I love a good funnel. I look forward to seeing pics when you christen it with blood this season (christening with blood is good mojo ;))

owlbait:
JW, ZISH is the sound that KHALVERSON's knives make when you open the belly of your deer! We have a Menard's near here that sells a decent camera for $100. Blackflash too so it doesn't "alert" critters or anyone that hikes 3 miles into your area :D If you tape over the red flashing leds that tell you the camera is on, it becomes even harder to notice. I wish you good ZISH!

crooketarrow:
  SLEEK
    I was taught and it so true if you can see the BUCK OR EXSPECIALLY GOBBLERS they can see you.
  I can tell sleek you havn't shot a many deer or gobblers with a self bow.
  Setting up leting the animal go by you there eyes are past you and your in a area they just came from and the feel it's sdafe behind them.
  Ask anyone one here thans shot at broad side deer and exspecially gobblers. How many times they've been picked off. Letting the animal go completly by your your not only beating his sences. He's in that quartering away shot you want ,need. All of this is a must with a slow selfbow.
  But one other thing that a big plus we hav'nt talked about when setting up with your back to the animal. It alows you to get a shot off at a close buck or gobblers.
  I've killed 38 bucks unteen does 16 gobblers with a self bow. I shot killed 95 % of them after they've went by me.My granddady killed 312 gobblers with a shot gun after he started keeping count. A hold lot of those were killed letting the gobbler go past you. But it's not a big deal with a shot gun.
  REMEMBER IF YOU CAN SEE HIM HE CAN SEE YOU.  A big plus if you can't set still.

  I'm not superstitious, I beleive in makeing my own luck. Not relieing on what I see on the way to my hunting site.
  FUN OR NOT I'll bet you beleive in a little of  that mojo.

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