Your best Bowhunting memory

[deerslayer11]

I think mine would be a tie.
The first one, me and a friend of mine decided to video a hunt back around '94. I tried my best to get him to climb a tree beside me, but he wouldnt have it. He wanted to sit on the ground... About an hour before dark a big doe walked by at about 20 yards and he couldnt see it from where he was. I could have shot it a hundred times, but was waiting and hoping it would get where he could video it.

The next year I gave him a bow and we were hunting together a lot. He had been seeing some does on a powerline on his way in and out so I decided to hunt the powerline. We got there kind of late and neither of us had ever hunted the powerline(public land) so there were no trees limbed. I decided to climb a pine that had cedars grown all around it. I had to cut a crapload of limbs on the way up. When I started to pull the bow up my quiver hung on a limb and pulled all my arrows out... I climbed back down and put them all back in then went back up. By this time it was about 45 minutes before dark and Travis was only like 70 yards from me. I started pulling the bow up again and the same thing happened! I decided it was too late to be messing around anymore and just sat there arrowless. About 5 minutes later 3 does and a spike walked out and started feeding. They stayed until Travis started climbing down. I got to watch em play and the spike made a little rub... If only I had an arrow...They fed all around me from probably 5yds to 40yds....

Watching that 8 walk to Mike in Illinois is right there with these also. I just wish I could have seen it when he shot...

[NitroHunter]

Mine would have to be one time in early season. It was hot as I don't what and the skeeters were awful. Around 9:30 a doe came up the hill (I was on the ground) and at 20 yds she finally got her head behind a tree so I could draw. When I got to full draw she took another step and her vitals were behind the tree but her head was now on the other side. About the same time as the doe took the step a skeeter landed on the tip of my nose. I know that I held the bow atleast five minutes at full draw with that skeeter sucking me dry and sweat pouring down my face. I ended up getting busted by another doe that I hadn't even seen, but I'll always remember the pain of holding the bow and actually watchng that skeeters body fill up with my blood!

[mr4pt]

Too many to list but I guess the one that I'll never forget is poking a deer in the nose with my arrow....

I was perched in a permenant stand at the edge of a flat to where I could shoot to the flat below and the flat ahead of me. I had already screwed up a shot on a doe when about an hour later a good 7 point and two does came down the hill. They were feeding down the hill at an angle where they were going to skirt a small clearing, maybe 75 yds wide, ahead of me and end up crossing the road I had walked in on. I was able to get down out of the stand without them seeing me and made it to the small clearing, which the grass was about knee high in. With my bow in one hand and the arrow in the other, I was going to try to belly crawl (yeah, I know it was a long-shot) to the other edge of the opening, where the deer were going to cross within 20 yds. Well, as luck has it, the buck spotted me about 1/2 way across the opening. Rather than bolting, I guess his curiosity got the best of him and he started walking straight to me, stomping and snorting. He got about 2 yds in front of me, remember I am face down in the grass, and stuck his nose to my arrow. He spooked and bolted up the hill. I was able to get to my knees and knock the arrow but never got a shot.

[NitroHunter]

That is a pretty good one!