Some bow kills **Graphic Pic Warning**
Nov 14, 2016 20:04:10 GMT 10
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Post by token on Nov 14, 2016 20:04:10 GMT 10
There's only a few things in life that ive done that kick it for me. One of them is fair chase hunting with a bow and arrow. The hunt is harder, but you learn about the terrain and the animal, and best of all, bragging rights, even if just for yourself go up significantly. To better yourself each time, to know how to provide each time you go out.
Its a rush to be able to get close enough to an animal in its environment, where it is king, and watch an arrow fly downrange and hit its target. No bang from the gun, the animal more often than not has no idea what has happened at all as it succumbs to its injuries.
To provide for my family, past going to a shop is something that means a lot to me, it is the same as growing my own food and or raising my own animals for slaughter or various sustainable productions, or making a product that i didn't have to purchase. These things are quite empowering to me, and i very much enjoy them.
Bowhunting is primitive in a way that i cant explain properly tbh, but the feeling of getting in the dirt, on my belly, crawling slowly with my heart in my throat, and my breath so low and still sometimes, to beat an animal which lives daily watching and listening, honing its skills to survive another day, is something i cherish for this life we live. To then respect the animals existence by bringing it home to provide for my family is just part of the whole fulfilling feeling.
Coming to that place in your hunting experience where your skills find you looking out the window of a car as you drive seeking for game and signs of such for regular meat provision is empowering, something i recommend all preppers to consider. If all else fails, you will have a skill set that will likely see you eat and stay alive, as well as be an asset to the survival of others. Even trapping, looking at the birds that fly around you, the small critters that you normally wouldn't consider eating is an asset to your survival.
At times i would push myself in the longer camp hunt, i would take small provisions and no meat, so that i was in need and considered survival more seriously. No kill, no meat!
I haven't been able to go for a walk for a while and fling an arrow at something tbh, and i hope this thread might fire others up to take it up, and or uncover another bowhunter who knows what im talking about here to push me harder myself to get on at it again.
Here's a few pics of some past successes. Everything you see bar the white goat was harvested. The only reason it wasnt was because i made the choice to go back to camp to repair a friends bow so he could have his first kill. I couldnt recover the meat in that case because it was too hot and time was of the essence. I already also had previous kills, and plenty of meat on that trip also. Regardless, we did the farmer a service as these feral goats were eating up his beef's pasture.
Its a rush to be able to get close enough to an animal in its environment, where it is king, and watch an arrow fly downrange and hit its target. No bang from the gun, the animal more often than not has no idea what has happened at all as it succumbs to its injuries.
To provide for my family, past going to a shop is something that means a lot to me, it is the same as growing my own food and or raising my own animals for slaughter or various sustainable productions, or making a product that i didn't have to purchase. These things are quite empowering to me, and i very much enjoy them.
Bowhunting is primitive in a way that i cant explain properly tbh, but the feeling of getting in the dirt, on my belly, crawling slowly with my heart in my throat, and my breath so low and still sometimes, to beat an animal which lives daily watching and listening, honing its skills to survive another day, is something i cherish for this life we live. To then respect the animals existence by bringing it home to provide for my family is just part of the whole fulfilling feeling.
Coming to that place in your hunting experience where your skills find you looking out the window of a car as you drive seeking for game and signs of such for regular meat provision is empowering, something i recommend all preppers to consider. If all else fails, you will have a skill set that will likely see you eat and stay alive, as well as be an asset to the survival of others. Even trapping, looking at the birds that fly around you, the small critters that you normally wouldn't consider eating is an asset to your survival.
At times i would push myself in the longer camp hunt, i would take small provisions and no meat, so that i was in need and considered survival more seriously. No kill, no meat!
I haven't been able to go for a walk for a while and fling an arrow at something tbh, and i hope this thread might fire others up to take it up, and or uncover another bowhunter who knows what im talking about here to push me harder myself to get on at it again.
Here's a few pics of some past successes. Everything you see bar the white goat was harvested. The only reason it wasnt was because i made the choice to go back to camp to repair a friends bow so he could have his first kill. I couldnt recover the meat in that case because it was too hot and time was of the essence. I already also had previous kills, and plenty of meat on that trip also. Regardless, we did the farmer a service as these feral goats were eating up his beef's pasture.