By: Bob Hendricks
I held my Bowtech bow like it was my best girl as the big buck stood in the clearing. Sweat ran down my face in rivers as I tried hard to concentrate on a shot to the big buck’s vitals. Just one more minute I told myself as I tried to keep the pin centered on the deer’s vitals. One more minute and the buck would be mine for bragging rights.
I have long enjoyed bowhunting in the summer and I have always found the animals plentiful. Whether it is boar, turkey or my favorite deer I will be out hunting them while others are hold up in their homes soaking up the air conditioning. I actually look forward to this time of year and its’ own special season. I have taken some real trophies like a standing black bear and an elk that would go in the record books. Its all part of that exciting summertime bow hunting.
I like to sneak through the woods looking for trophy class animals. It is different than in the fall, there is a lot of foliage in the woods and the temperature is much warmer forcing me to don my summer camo and maybe even a little bug spray. Still I stay on the trail. Watching every moment for what lay around the corner. Could there be a big buck, or Elk or perhaps the dreaded wild boar that would as soon gut you as look at you.
This is the excitement of summer bow hunting, the vast array of animals and the chances at shots on them are endless, why I once arrowed a mountain lion and also a turkey that I am awfully proud of.
Illegal you say? No way, it is perfectly legal to hunt these animals in the summer. 3-D animals are always legal and always available in good numbers. It can be a lot of fun to walk an actual 3-D course and encounter the many situations and variety of animals to shoot.
Scoring can be done on the rings on their vitals and you and your buddies can compete against each other of join formal competitions in local archery clubs. Either way there in no way that you are not going to have a lot of fun. The variety of 3-D animals is endless and I think I even saw a T-Rex offered in a 3-D target if I am not mistaken.
Summertime hunting will do two things very quickly, first it will tone up and keep your muscles in shape for when bow season begins for real in a few months, and secondly there is no practice that I know of that can teach an almost mechanical response of shooting for the vitals like lots of practice at 3-D targets. After awhile it becomes automatic that you shoot for the center ring on the vitals and in real life bow hunting this will carry on when you are drawing down on that buck and your adrenaline is surging at peak power. You will find it almost automatic to center on the animal’s vitals relieving a lot of the buck fever you may encounter
3-D summertime bow hunting can be lots of fun while serving a good purpose of getting you in tune and in shape for the real season a few months from now. I must go now, I am told there is a marauding wild boar in the forest and I must rid the area of him so that he does not attack the villagers. Who says we are too old to play?
I held my Bowtech bow like it was my best girl as the big buck stood in the clearing. Sweat ran down my face in rivers as I tried hard to concentrate on a shot to the big buck’s vitals. Just one more minute I told myself as I tried to keep the pin centered on the deer’s vitals. One more minute and the buck would be mine for bragging rights.
I have long enjoyed bowhunting in the summer and I have always found the animals plentiful. Whether it is boar, turkey or my favorite deer I will be out hunting them while others are hold up in their homes soaking up the air conditioning. I actually look forward to this time of year and its’ own special season. I have taken some real trophies like a standing black bear and an elk that would go in the record books. Its all part of that exciting summertime bow hunting.
I like to sneak through the woods looking for trophy class animals. It is different than in the fall, there is a lot of foliage in the woods and the temperature is much warmer forcing me to don my summer camo and maybe even a little bug spray. Still I stay on the trail. Watching every moment for what lay around the corner. Could there be a big buck, or Elk or perhaps the dreaded wild boar that would as soon gut you as look at you.
This is the excitement of summer bow hunting, the vast array of animals and the chances at shots on them are endless, why I once arrowed a mountain lion and also a turkey that I am awfully proud of.
Illegal you say? No way, it is perfectly legal to hunt these animals in the summer. 3-D animals are always legal and always available in good numbers. It can be a lot of fun to walk an actual 3-D course and encounter the many situations and variety of animals to shoot.
Scoring can be done on the rings on their vitals and you and your buddies can compete against each other of join formal competitions in local archery clubs. Either way there in no way that you are not going to have a lot of fun. The variety of 3-D animals is endless and I think I even saw a T-Rex offered in a 3-D target if I am not mistaken.
Summertime hunting will do two things very quickly, first it will tone up and keep your muscles in shape for when bow season begins for real in a few months, and secondly there is no practice that I know of that can teach an almost mechanical response of shooting for the vitals like lots of practice at 3-D targets. After awhile it becomes automatic that you shoot for the center ring on the vitals and in real life bow hunting this will carry on when you are drawing down on that buck and your adrenaline is surging at peak power. You will find it almost automatic to center on the animal’s vitals relieving a lot of the buck fever you may encounter
3-D summertime bow hunting can be lots of fun while serving a good purpose of getting you in tune and in shape for the real season a few months from now. I must go now, I am told there is a marauding wild boar in the forest and I must rid the area of him so that he does not attack the villagers. Who says we are too old to play?