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The Paunch Hit I have followed up hits of my own and for other bowmen that were too far back a dozen times. It's never fun and it's always worrisome. No one wants to lose a deer, and the paunch hit animal seems to elude us more than most. Some experts would say you shouldn't hit 'em there in the first place and they are correct... read article Suburban Hunting In The Zone My neck of the woods is more neck than woods. What I mean by that is that I live and hunt (mostly) in suburbia, southwestern Connecticut. The wood lots are small and segmented and they neck down to funnels all over the place. The deer spill out of the woods between developed areas to feed in the lawns and orchards of estates and school yards... read article Curiosity Kills The Doe ... Sometimes With five minutes of light left in the season, I saw the familiar sight of a muscular brown torso silently lumbering my way. This particular " deer part " was that of an adult doe, 70 yards away and coming straight for me. In my mind I thanked whomever makes the decisions up there for one more chance, one more episode of excitement, one more chance to wait for hours for the opportunity to screw up!... read article Tree Stand Tips I have spent a good part of the last ten years in the tree tops. I hunt from them so often that I don't tell my wife "I'm going hunting", I say I'm "going up a tree" . Here's some pearls.... read article Warning: Old Man Stalking When I started bow hunting about 10 years ago, ground hunting was not only what I did most, it was all I did. But as the years progressed, I've recognized that perhaps tree stand hunting has less impact on my sometimes minute parcels of land where I hunt. I've also taken more and bigger bucks with the technique. One year though, back in the 80s, I took a couple of deer while still hunting.... read article The Right Way To Kill I am in the medical profession, a Physician Assistant to be precise. In my training, which took two years after four years of college, I studied anatomy, pathology, physiology and biochemistry among other subjects. In my experience in trauma surgery, cardiothoracic surgery and intensive unit care, I've seen a lot of life.... read article Teckie Go Home In the 80's when I first started bow hunting, I was a total, obsessed, speed demon, hi tech turbo nut. Fast, fast, fast. I didn't care how loud the bow popped. Don't get me wrong. I still shoot compounds, use a peep and a release sometimes. I've lived and learned some though, and I've moved back to the middle ground, were sanity lies. Back then, I experimented with mechanical heads for a year or so. I had been a Muzzy and Zwickey devotee before and since, but I had the itch for something new. I found an early version of todays "insert" type carbons that both Beaman and Gold Tip currently market... read article |
Flying Doesn't Make Me Nervous, It's The Crashing I'm Worried About! Hunting from a tree, even high up, doesn't make me nervous. Falling does. Especially since I read a certain statistic last year. The average age of a hunter taking a serious spill is 36. I was a year over due at the time. In our mid to late thirties, we may be more at risk... read article The Privilege Of Permission My part of the Whitetail's world is more populated than most. Many of the properties where I have asked to hunt have never had bow hunters, ever. The population of deer in my corner of Connecticut needs better control, according to the DEP, and in recent years they have changed the regulations in an effort to increase the harvest of the state's 50,000 to 55,000 Whitetails... read article The Press: An Editorial This time of year newspaper articles about the deer population, hunting etc. abound. I think it's because the journalists have learned that now is when the paper will be able to make the most controversy. I read an article recently and the author seemed go on and on about the deer nuisance while seeming totally oblivious to the concept of hunting. I took the opportunity to respond and be a self appointed ambassador for my sport.... read article Long Start For The Long Bow I was at my stand early, an hour and a half before first light. I "deer walked" into the woods, trying to sound NOT like a man. While standing at the base of my Screaming Eaglet stand, about 12 feet up a slender triple trunk tree, a deer walked up to me in the darkness no more than 10 yards away. I was behind the tree and just stood motionless till it egressed.... read article The One Lung Hit I haven't had a classic "Double Lung" hit on a deer in a while. In fact, for of the deer I have been fortunate enough to harvest in the last 13 months had damage to only one lung. It's not that I am impatient or have consistently bad judgment ( at least I don't think so ) but it has been a run of almost perfect hits.... read article Hunting Weather Patterns I don't write about hunting for a living, unfortunately. I have a job,so my hunting and writing is an avocation, not a vocation. I was once fortunate enough to share a bear camp with Bill Winke, a successful outdoor author. We were on a bear hunt during the month of June in Newfoundland. I learned from Bill that even those guys don't get to hunt as much as I enviously thought they did.... read article |
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