soooo close

[kdub]

I started hunting about a year ago,  and ever since by trial and error ive been trying to kill a hog on public land here in north Texas.  Today was the closest ive ever got, as i sat off the side of a hog trail three big boars walked to within 25 yards, I woulda shot but they were looking right at me and I wanted a closer shot.  My heart started to beat sooo fast, and i tried to quietly controll my rapid breathing and stay still in my ground blind.  They must have caught my scent because they turned around and dissapeared into the brush.  I think my blind was not brushed up enough so I built a better one and Im gonna try again on saturday.  What a rush! Even though I didn't shoot It has been my best hog hunt so far.  Wish me luch this wkend and hopefully I will be able to post a pic of my hickory longbow leaning against the boar I took with it.

[GregB]

Good luck!

[cowboy]

Yep, good luck. Hope to see that picture soon..

[kdub]

thanks yall

[Kegan]

Close calls give life flavor

[huntertrapper]

  awesome. i have been huntin since i was 12 but have started bow hunting just last year and this year was my primitive year, it feels good to be that close.

[hawkbow]

keep your chin to the wind brother....you will soon bloody an arrow .... can't wait to see the pics... Hawk...a/ho

[kayakfisher]

welcome to the addiction of life ,some times being close is better ,

[Pat B]

Close is what it is all about. Once you loose the arrow it is either a hit or a miss...but it is all over. Enjoy the journey.    Pat

[Little John]

Fun isn't it. What public land are you hunting?   Kenneth

[kdub]

since you live so far away, just kidding..   Im hunting at lake ray roberts wma.

[cowboy]

Kdub, have you got permission to cut trees anywhere out there yet? theirs lots of beautiful osage trees around Ray Roberts and all over that country ..

[kdub]

I haven't yet.  You're right there is some beautifull country out that way.  Raybob is so much nicer than lake lavon, the drive is a little longer for me but definitely worth it.  I wouldn't know an osage tree if i was sitting in it.   Im fairly new to arcghery, and I better learn to identify osage if Im ever gonna learn to make bows. Which I would like to be able to do. 

[cowboy]

If ya drive around looking right now theirs no leaves on the trees but you can recognize the bodark's by the yellow hugh they give off, or the tree's themselves kinda look yellow. Later on they'll green out - well I think in spring they look about the same as all the other trees but late summer they'll have a waxy looking leaf and will have the horseapples on them.

[kdub]

Even Closer this time!  Man this is why its called hunting and not killing.  I had a group of hogs walking up the trail towards my blind, as they were about to come into my shooting lane I began to anticipate my draw, release, and on target hit.  Well, instead of walking 2 more yards to exit the brush they suddenly made a turn down a new fork on the trail, that I had not seen in the dark when setting up.  Realizing that it was now my fleeting chance to take a money shot I let my arrow fly at a boar quartering away, my arrow harmlessly ricoched off a branch and the hogs escaped until yet another long anticipated saturday morning.   Oh well, at least I got to shoot.