grizzly Report post Posted February 1, 2006 Yesterday I realized that 8 months without another chance to hunt is a loooong time. So about noon I grabbed my bow and ditched out of work. I made the drive down to 37B to an area where I had seen pigs and had missed a 35 yard shot a couple weeks ago. It took several hours to find them but at about 5:30 I stumbled into them (or they stumbled into me). I had two pigs at 20 yards broadside and was drawn back on them but one was directly behind the other so I waited for a clear shot. They both turned away from me and gave me the moon, I continued to hold. The pig on the right turned just enough to give me a hard angle on a quartering away shot and I released. The pig jumped at the sound and the arrow missed along its side. Needless to say I was in a hurry going down there and forgot my call so I could only watch helplessly as they ran away. So its tag soup again and all I can think about is how many times I have read or heard of someone missing a slam dunk shot and thought "how can you miss that? I could hit that every time." Well I guess I was wrong. Oh well, the same old mantra, theres always next year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CouesWhitetail Report post Posted February 1, 2006 At least you got to get out and take a shot. Hope you get one next year! Amanda Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZP&Y Report post Posted February 1, 2006 Grizz, I read your post a couple of weeks ago and was thinkin' if you were gonna head back down?? Well you did and flung some carbon , it may be tough now, but the experience of getting close to pigs will get you in there for a kill shot (. It's funny that your Mantra is our Mantra??? My buddy screwed up in putting in for our Archery only Jan hunt, and we got left-over tags for the HAM hunt (area 33) in a couple of weeks. Hopefully that will be a blessing and I'll get another shot and a chance for "redemption" from last season (aka the mantra).... Thanks for sharing. For about 90.00 you can get the Javelina 3D target from Delta. That target is a bit smaller than most realize with stick and string in hand. Respectfully, AzP&Y Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firstcoueswas80 Report post Posted February 1, 2006 "missing a slam dunk shot and thought "how can you miss that? I could hit that every time" i went into my deer hunt thinking the same way... i would hear people bust out 3,4,5,6 shots and i would say to my dad, man they suck! i would have dropped that buck on the first shot! well, low and behold when my chance came to drop a buck in his track ( 200 yards, standin still broadside!) i CHOKED! i,eventually ( 9 shots, and 51 yards later to be exact) had my 3rd coues deer down! i blame it on the gun, the fact that putting a buck in the crosshairs made the gun mis-fire, but in all reality, just like in your case, it was probably 100% shooter error! like it has been said many times, thats why it is called hunting and not shooting! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
az4life Report post Posted February 2, 2006 Sorry to hear of your miss. I think a lot of us have been there! Casey I think you meant to say "that is why they call it hunting, not killing." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.270 Report post Posted February 2, 2006 hey griz, take it from a reformed pig hunter. you got lucky. you ever gut or try to eat one o' them things? things that make ya go bblluuuhh. only thing i'da done differnt woulda been to use a rubber blunt instead of a broadhead. Lark. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coues 'n' Sheep Report post Posted February 2, 2006 hey griz, take it from a reformed pig hunter. you got lucky. you ever gut or try to eat one o' them things? things that make ya go bblluuuhh. only thing i'da done differnt woulda been to use a rubber blunt instead of a broadhead. Lark. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> AMEN!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
