Close Encounter

[Rusty]

Had this yearling 4 point feeding on acorns within 5 yards of me while hunting from the ground. 

 

[LittleM]

In a blind?  With your x-bow?  Or just sitting on the ground?  Only reason I ask so many questions is that I have been limiting myself to fixed stand locations as I don't see any way that I am going to haul my climber and my x-bow through the woods.  I am still getting used to the whole crossbow thing.  It's kinda bulky, but I am sure when I line one up in the scope, I'll love it.  And yea, I know I could go back to the wheelie bow, but I'm not gonna so for me its a moot point.

 

PS - I read about your son.  GD kids ............  Hope all is well.

[Rusty]

Thanks, he'll be out of commission for a while but he's feeling okay and it could have been a lot worse.

 

I had the crossbow, just standing against a tree.  You're right, they are quite bulky.

 

I usually set up with a seat and shooting sticks when using the crossbow.  I use a ladder stand in the fall and a blind in the winter.  

Edited October 6, 2015 by Rusty

[BowhunterNJ]

Cool pic. Great when they get close like that. Ever have them brush up against the blind?

 

 

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[Rusty]

Last winter was the first time I ever hunted from a blind and we did have a deer walk right up along the side of the blind.  

 

Earlier this week I had a squirrel brush my head as it climbed the tree I was leaning against.  

 

During muzzle loader season a few years back I was sitting against a tree in the snow and a young buck touch its nose to my knee.  He jerked his head up and stood there staring at my knee, cocking his head sideways like a confused dog does.  It was hysterical.

 

This buck would have brushed against me as it walked by if I hadn't leaned back to draw my bow.  The broad head was only an inch or two from the deer when I released and the arrow was still on the string as it was punching through the deer.

 

 

Edited October 7, 2015 by Rusty

[BowhunterNJ]

Wow, some great memories there!  Very cool!

 

I can remember bowhunting in a blind in ND when a buck was nudging a doe around and they brushed against the blind as they were moving around.  I can remember hearing him breath and grunt within like a foot of me on the other side of the blind wall.

[Rusty]

I can remember hearing him breath and grunt within like a foot of me on the other side of the blind wall.

 

That's what i didn't like about hunting from a blind, you didn't know if those crunching leaves were a squirrel, a trophy buck, or a grizzly bear.       

[Palawman30]

Pretty cool! Can't kill them from your couch or computer chair! That's for sure...