I close my eyes and listen !
Oct 1, 2018 2:26:12 GMT -5
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Post by willyp on Oct 1, 2018 2:26:12 GMT -5
The last few years I have not been able to go up and down the knobs and ridges . I do manage to get into the woods but I don't venture far from my truck or down any grades .
My enjoyment is to hear my sons or grandson tell me of their hunt on the day they get something .
I close my eyes and I am right there behind them as they go on stand or stock thru the woods. I can see everything they tell me and can feel the surrounding woods ? It is not as good as being there and cruising the forest but I still can feel the excitement in their voices !
My grandson took a 10 point on Saturday morning ! His first deer with an arrow ? Why do I say an arrow ? Well it was with a crossbow . But anyways he came to my home and told me the tale .He described the deer coming in and how he was shaking the closer it came . How as the sun shown on the antlers and they looked white as snow each time its head came in and out of the shade to the bright sun light ! How the buck as it got closer changed the angle it was coming in and ended up to the right side of the tree stand and a little behind it ? How he slowly bent to get the bow around for a shoot and when he left the shaft loose it hit the ribs and made a crack like a gun going off ?As he says the deer kicked and took off thru the woods so he watched it as far as he could see it go and waited ,as he said for a long time ,10 minutes, to get down and go look for it ?
How he found the blood trail and how many times he lost it. How he just kept looking after he got beyond where he last seen it from the stand ! The thought he put into where it may have run and which direction. He ran into my son and they paired up to look ! They persevered and found blood spots and after over an hour found him !
As they dressed it out he said it was amazing that it had gone as far as it did ? One rib was shattered a lung was torn up and a hole in the liver ?
Like I have said I could see and feel everything he told me in my mind and see it like I was with him !
My enjoyment is to hear my sons or grandson tell me of their hunt on the day they get something .
I close my eyes and I am right there behind them as they go on stand or stock thru the woods. I can see everything they tell me and can feel the surrounding woods ? It is not as good as being there and cruising the forest but I still can feel the excitement in their voices !
My grandson took a 10 point on Saturday morning ! His first deer with an arrow ? Why do I say an arrow ? Well it was with a crossbow . But anyways he came to my home and told me the tale .He described the deer coming in and how he was shaking the closer it came . How as the sun shown on the antlers and they looked white as snow each time its head came in and out of the shade to the bright sun light ! How the buck as it got closer changed the angle it was coming in and ended up to the right side of the tree stand and a little behind it ? How he slowly bent to get the bow around for a shoot and when he left the shaft loose it hit the ribs and made a crack like a gun going off ?As he says the deer kicked and took off thru the woods so he watched it as far as he could see it go and waited ,as he said for a long time ,10 minutes, to get down and go look for it ?
How he found the blood trail and how many times he lost it. How he just kept looking after he got beyond where he last seen it from the stand ! The thought he put into where it may have run and which direction. He ran into my son and they paired up to look ! They persevered and found blood spots and after over an hour found him !
As they dressed it out he said it was amazing that it had gone as far as it did ? One rib was shattered a lung was torn up and a hole in the liver ?
Like I have said I could see and feel everything he told me in my mind and see it like I was with him !
