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Bow Hunting Inventory
Image via Wikipedia
Now is a great time to take inventory of your bow hunting equipment. Take some time to restock depleted items and get em’ ready for next season.
The reason now is a good time is because you will find lots of great bargains at your local sporting goods store.
Why not make a check list of items and start packing your field equipment now?
You can then refer to your list near the start of the hunting season and make sure you have everything you need.
Happy Hunting
Paul
Archery Competition
This is an Image of an Archery Target via Wikipedia
After years of archery target practice in my back yard (as well as an indoor range I set up in our basement – that my wife really doesn’t like), I decided to try my luck in a few local archery competitions. If you’re a bow hunter, you know what it’s like to sit in the woods and pull back with full concentration.
In an archery competition, pulling back is a whole other story. Often the environment is noisy. People are talking and staring at you. And many times, you stand right next to someone else pulling back a string and letting the arrows fly. Despite this, you have to hit the target, and hopefully the bulls-eye.
Now in the past, I have had a pretty good run in archery competitions. But this year, due to my busy work schedule, I did not compete. But over the weekend, I did drive out to see how people are doing. I spent some time talking to the competitors and saw my Mentor – a gentleman based in PA who is incredibly well known in the sport.
All of the excitement has me itching to compete next year. So I guess I will once again start driving my wife crazy as I shoot some practice arrows in my basement range. (Now, my range isn’t too professional. If I shoot too low, I hit the washer and the dryer. And if I shoot too high, I hit the stairway. So I have to aim just right to hit the target against the opposite wall. But it works for me – really drives my wife crazy though. I can’t stress this enough. Ha!)
Speaking of driving my wife crazy, I finally gave her the fabric softener sheets back…
I have not mentioned this yet. But I am very conscious any smells on my hunting clothing. If you wash your stuff during the season, your items must have NO SCENT! I’m serious. I won’t even put gas in my car the day of the hunt – for fear the whitetail buck will smell me downwind. My wife’s fabric softener sheets usually also disappear for the entire hunting season. Oops.
I am a firm believer in avoiding scented anything during the season.
Happy Hunting,
Paul