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What's your worst weekend of hunting? Here is mine.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 10:42 pm
Posted on 10/5/14 at 10:42 pm
Saturday AM: Two does step out and after a few minutes I finally get ole nanny hoe to step broad side. I begin to draw back and some how she pegs me and jumps back in a thicket. I still draw back and sight down the other doe they had out well she is getting skiddish and looking around. I end up taking a bad shot and she ducks my arrow. Furious. ??
Saturday PM: I decide I will drink a few and let the woods settle after I missed. The LSU game will flip the mood over missing this morning right? False. Tigers get their dicks beat in the ground.
Sunday AM: Set the alarm to 4:45pm to get up and make a nice morning hunt. Key point I set the alarm to 4:45pm. Didn't hunt in the AM.
Sunday PM: So I ease in the woods around 4:45. After watching some healthy rabbits feed for a bit I have two yearlings step into the open and feed for a good bit. After waiting for nearly an hour a big doe gives me a nice broad side shot at about 10-15 yds. I take it and see my lumenuk stick her right behind her shoulder and watch her kick like a mule and tuck her tail and crash the woods. I immediately know that I put a kill shot on her. I wait 20-30 mins and around 6:45 i ease down to go find her. Well I see my arrow about 20 yards in the woods and assume that's her. I get to the arrow and see it is coverd in blood. However I can't find any blood, I eventually find a good blood trail for about 50 yds and it then turns to drops every 5yds. Long story short I tracked this deer from 7-10 until I finally lost a blood trail. I am beyond clueless at what happened??? I know I put a good shot on her. The only thing I can think is that the broad head didn't open up on impact.
Long story short. I missed, LSU got killed, I'm an idot, and the old hoe doe won again.
Turrrible weekend fellas.
Saturday PM: I decide I will drink a few and let the woods settle after I missed. The LSU game will flip the mood over missing this morning right? False. Tigers get their dicks beat in the ground.
Sunday AM: Set the alarm to 4:45pm to get up and make a nice morning hunt. Key point I set the alarm to 4:45pm. Didn't hunt in the AM.
Sunday PM: So I ease in the woods around 4:45. After watching some healthy rabbits feed for a bit I have two yearlings step into the open and feed for a good bit. After waiting for nearly an hour a big doe gives me a nice broad side shot at about 10-15 yds. I take it and see my lumenuk stick her right behind her shoulder and watch her kick like a mule and tuck her tail and crash the woods. I immediately know that I put a kill shot on her. I wait 20-30 mins and around 6:45 i ease down to go find her. Well I see my arrow about 20 yards in the woods and assume that's her. I get to the arrow and see it is coverd in blood. However I can't find any blood, I eventually find a good blood trail for about 50 yds and it then turns to drops every 5yds. Long story short I tracked this deer from 7-10 until I finally lost a blood trail. I am beyond clueless at what happened??? I know I put a good shot on her. The only thing I can think is that the broad head didn't open up on impact.
Long story short. I missed, LSU got killed, I'm an idot, and the old hoe doe won again.
Turrrible weekend fellas.
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Posted on 10/5/14 at 10:47 pm to GeauxTime9
One of the worst hunts of my life
I see a couple hundred specs roosted in a crawfish pond. I try to crawl on the backside of a pretty grassed levee. They get up. I hide where I think they'll come back. They do about 15 min later. EXCEPT I'm like 50 yards off. Well shite. Start crawling again. They get up. Same crap. So when they come back, they are landing like 15 yards out. I was in pure amazement. I let probably like 500 specs hit the water. Then at the same time I'm trying to pick out 2 that are flying as to not kill 10 of them on the water. Pull up. GUN JAMS. I'm beating that butt on the levee. They all get up again. Jackass neighbor shoots at them 75 yards up. They gone.
frick
I see a couple hundred specs roosted in a crawfish pond. I try to crawl on the backside of a pretty grassed levee. They get up. I hide where I think they'll come back. They do about 15 min later. EXCEPT I'm like 50 yards off. Well shite. Start crawling again. They get up. Same crap. So when they come back, they are landing like 15 yards out. I was in pure amazement. I let probably like 500 specs hit the water. Then at the same time I'm trying to pick out 2 that are flying as to not kill 10 of them on the water. Pull up. GUN JAMS. I'm beating that butt on the levee. They all get up again. Jackass neighbor shoots at them 75 yards up. They gone.
frick
Posted on 10/5/14 at 10:58 pm to GeauxTime9
2 seasons ago I missed a 150 class buck in St.Francisville. Borrowed a gun from an older hunter and didnt have time to sight it in. Missed the buck at 85 yards and 2 hours later it gets killed by my dads friend. Went to go check the gun on paper and it was throwing keyhole shots everywhere. 
I have never been so upset.
I have never been so upset.Posted on 10/5/14 at 11:01 pm to GeauxTime9
Wow... Pretty bad weekend 
Posted on 10/5/14 at 11:02 pm to GeauxTime9
Went offshore just my brother and me one time. Overnighter. Caught live bait. Went 60nm out, trolled, freelined, chunked, you name it. Came home with 4 chicken dolphin. Spent almost 400 each on ice gas and bait. FML.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 11:16 pm to GeauxTime9
What kind of broadhead?
Posted on 10/6/14 at 1:09 am to GeauxTime9
When I was about 11 dad got on a lease in little chenier which was every bit of a 2 and a half hour drive at the time. We hunted every single weekend driving back and forth after each morning hunt. The go Devils were in their infancy and wouldn't even start every time. We would sometimes walk in which took 30 minutes or more through the dark marsh. The entire year we knocked down 8 ducks and picked up 1.
It's bad times and hard hunting like this that makes a duck hunter appreciate better leases and easier setups. My dad didn't make a killing in those days but he did all he could to satisfy my hunting desires and for that I'm forever thankful. Fast forward over a decade and we share a blind and I'm still as prideful about being part of the sport as I was then. Now I pretty much do all the work required to hunt. It's partly as a thank you to him for doing it when I couldn't really help and partly because of the enjoyment that it brings to me which is a credit to him as well because of the sacrifices he made. What I'm saying is even bad hunting experiences can be looked back on and remembered as good times. Be thankful ever time you get to be out there with friends and family and be a part of the culture of Louisiana and the individual sport.
It's bad times and hard hunting like this that makes a duck hunter appreciate better leases and easier setups. My dad didn't make a killing in those days but he did all he could to satisfy my hunting desires and for that I'm forever thankful. Fast forward over a decade and we share a blind and I'm still as prideful about being part of the sport as I was then. Now I pretty much do all the work required to hunt. It's partly as a thank you to him for doing it when I couldn't really help and partly because of the enjoyment that it brings to me which is a credit to him as well because of the sacrifices he made. What I'm saying is even bad hunting experiences can be looked back on and remembered as good times. Be thankful ever time you get to be out there with friends and family and be a part of the culture of Louisiana and the individual sport.
Posted on 10/6/14 at 1:22 am to GeauxTime9
Went rabbit hunting on a Saturday, first race is going good, couple shots on the rabbit but no kill. All of a sudden a coyote bursts out of the bushes, one shot to the coyote's arse doesn't stop it. Coyote gets in the race and runs one of my beagles clear out of hearing. We pick up the other beagle and start looking, look until dark, come back Sunday and look some more, nothing. No sign of anything anywhere. I cried that night thinking of that coyote killing and eating my beagle. i was fricking miserable for a few days. Got a call Tuesday night, somebody picked my beagle up 10 miles from where we had hunted, she had crossed a 4 lane highway and kept going. Guy said he let his lab out to go to pee and the lab came back with a beagle in tow. So, a frickin miserable weekend at least had a good ending, eventually.
Posted on 10/6/14 at 5:34 am to ZacAttack
Wow ya'lls idea of a bad hunt is not to fricking bad I need to hunt with you all more often.....
Place off South Pass November 29, 1983. Hunting off an airboat on a VERY low tide pre cell phone, no one carried VHF back then. Zipping along East bay (it was more navigable back then) and come to a dead stop on a sand bar and put a piling through the hull at about 7 am. We have three people and me a 9 year old kid and a dog. Guns, supplies, etc and are in about .5" of water at low tide. Have no food, no drinks nothing and we are stuck like put a mailbox out and receive your mail stuck you will be getting your mail there. No way to call for help and it's pretty freaking cold in my blue jeans and army surplus green coat. Spent four days waiting for someone to find us with no food or water. Shot ducks and cooked them on the engine block, or ate them raw. Coast Guard started looking for us on day two but no one knew where we were so it took three days to find us. The amazing thing no one panicked and I actually had the time of my life "living in the marsh" other than I got cold a lot that trip.
That's probably the highlight of bad hunts but I could write a book on bad hunts, the least of which is missing a deer or duck....
Place off South Pass November 29, 1983. Hunting off an airboat on a VERY low tide pre cell phone, no one carried VHF back then. Zipping along East bay (it was more navigable back then) and come to a dead stop on a sand bar and put a piling through the hull at about 7 am. We have three people and me a 9 year old kid and a dog. Guns, supplies, etc and are in about .5" of water at low tide. Have no food, no drinks nothing and we are stuck like put a mailbox out and receive your mail stuck you will be getting your mail there. No way to call for help and it's pretty freaking cold in my blue jeans and army surplus green coat. Spent four days waiting for someone to find us with no food or water. Shot ducks and cooked them on the engine block, or ate them raw. Coast Guard started looking for us on day two but no one knew where we were so it took three days to find us. The amazing thing no one panicked and I actually had the time of my life "living in the marsh" other than I got cold a lot that trip.
That's probably the highlight of bad hunts but I could write a book on bad hunts, the least of which is missing a deer or duck....
Posted on 10/6/14 at 5:42 am to Da Hammer
You win
Posted on 10/6/14 at 5:47 am to KingRanch
I bet I don't KR, there are enough of us on here where that story really isn't that bad it never got that hairy as far as life or death. Like I said it was kinda fun and taught me more about hunting, survival, and preparedness than I could have learned anywhere else. I don't leave the dock anymore without GPS, back up GPS, VHF, back up VHF, tent, tarp, extra clothes, army rations, and a filed float plan that at least two people know the general area where I will be in case the shite hits the fan.
Posted on 10/6/14 at 7:11 am to GeauxTime9
quote:doubt that happened.
The only thing I can think is that the broad head didn't open up on impact.
You hit her in the opposite shoulder. No pass through and at that angle it your entry hole is high on the deer therefore you won't have a lot of blood shown.
At that close distance you should be trying to put it through the ribs and not hit a shoulder. I did the same thing a few years ago. Sucks.
Posted on 10/6/14 at 7:25 am to GeauxTime9
All of these are pretty bad, I agree...but then again...my worst day hunting is better than my best day in the office!
Posted on 10/6/14 at 7:34 am to NASA_ISS_Tiger
In my early days of bow hunting, I've managed to shoot my entire quiver and not cut a hair
Posted on 10/6/14 at 7:38 am to Da Hammer
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Spent four days waiting for someone to find us with no food or water. Shot ducks and cooked them on the engine block, or ate them raw.
Number one vote for you sir.
Posted on 10/6/14 at 9:04 am to Jack Daniel
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What kind of broadhead?
Rage Broadhead. Only thing i can think is that it didn't open.
Posted on 10/6/14 at 9:09 am to GeauxTime9
quote:
Rage Broadhead.
nb4 the rage legal defense team shows up and blames anything possible except the broadhead.
Posted on 10/6/14 at 9:21 am to Chad504boy
quote:people are quick to blame the equipment when they should be looking in the mirror for the blame.
nb4 the rage legal defense team shows up and blames anything possible except the broadhead.
A well placed field point will kill a deer
Posted on 10/6/14 at 9:24 am to Chad504boy
Not mine, but my buddy 2 years ago fell 20 foot from a stand. Shattered his leg and had to have it amputated from the knee down one year later because of infection.
So since then i dont think my bad hunting trips are that bad anymore
So since then i dont think my bad hunting trips are that bad anymore
Posted on 10/6/14 at 9:26 am to mylsuhat
quote:This. The didn't open isn't a thing.
doubt that happened.
You hit her in the opposite shoulder. No pass through and at that angle it your entry hole is high on the deer therefore you won't have a lot of blood shown.
At that close distance you should be trying to put it through the ribs and not hit a shoulder. I did the same thing a few years ago. Sucks.
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