Yes, it’s the same everywhere.
I ran into a guy here in Montana last week an hour before daylight on a very popular trail who was cursing me out for being there. So I turned off a different direction, then heard him yelling down at me from further up the hill threatening me if I came up...
Sounds like a great trip! Just curious how you plan the logistics of handling earlier kills for the rest of your trip? 3 weeks seems like a long time to be keeping meat in coolers in your truck?
No offense to you, and congratulations on your success , however I feel the “half hour” or less statement could give newer bow hunters a bad idea. There are definitely situations where it is much safer to wait longer than that, even with a great hit, rather than pursuing an animal too soon…
Luckily I’m at 100% success rate if we’re talking elk only (sample size of only 1, lol). I have lost a few deer, not sure the exact number but I’d guess around 10% maybe. I’d like to think that number has gone down over the years, but it definitely still happens to the best of us.
Anyone here shot a coyote with an arrow, are they notoriously hard to blood trail? Shot one last night, frontal shot in the front of the chest , he spun around on the ground a couple times yelping then ran off into some thick brush where I could hear him snarling for a few seconds, then silent...
Someone suggested cutting generous shooting lanes and that’s a good idea, the only thing I would add is to take the time to drag all the trees, limbs, etc away to one pile somewhere. If you just leave everything where it falls, your shooting lane can end up so thick with debris that the deer...
I have a pair or schnees pac boots that are almost 20 years old, the leather uppers are still in pretty good shape, but the rubber bottom parts are cracking and coming apart. Has anyone sent a pair back for rebuild? How did they turn out? Looks like it costs about 1/2 the price of a whole new...