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Joined: Apr 2000
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How many of you will bowhunt if it is raining?
I bought an ATV to get to my hunting area, now half the fun of hunting is the ride in and out.
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I will, but I don't like it. I really limit my shots and get real picky when it is raining. Blood trailing is so difficult.
Alabama Hog Control, Inc. www.alabamahogcontrol.comBarry Estes The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
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rain is killer on a bow string if i do hunt in rain i try to hunt out of big hut or pop up blind
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I will be there rain or shine I just hope its a soft rain, deer tend to move around better.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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I got set ups for rain or shine. Deer move good after a big rain.
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I wouldn't bowhunt on the Diamond Springs Ranch in Kansas in the rain, much less for a scrawny, ol Alabama deer.
"The only reason I shoot a 3.5" shell for turkeys is because they don't make a 4" one." - t123winters
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Isn't hard to follow a blood trail that has been washed away by the rain?
I hunt mostly hardwood forest areas, the blood won't last 10 minutes on top of the leaves, even in a light rain. I know you might be able to follow the turned up leaves if the deer is running or staggering away but if you get a faint blood trail and the deer just wanders off your chances of finding the deer are slim. It just doesn't seem worth the risk to me.
Rain is in the N Bama forecast for Monday morning, if it is still there Sunday night I'll go to work Monday and hope Tuesday's weather is better.
Am I the only one that feels this way about bowhunting in the rain?
I bought an ATV to get to my hunting area, now half the fun of hunting is the ride in and out.
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Old Mossy Horns
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If it ain't a downpour and I have my raingear, sure I'll bowhunt in the rain.........especially if you have a good chance it will quit. You are then already in the woods. 
Nathan Carl Goff 19 Sept 2016 - 14 Jan 2017.
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Freak of Nature
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Isn't hard to follow a blood trail that has been washed away by the rain?
I hunt mostly hardwood forest areas, the blood won't last 10 minutes on top of the leaves, even in a light rain. I know you might be able to follow the turned up leaves if the deer is running or staggering away but if you get a faint blood trail and the deer just wanders off your chances of finding the deer are slim. It just doesn't seem worth the risk to me.
Rain is in the N Bama forecast for Monday morning, if it is still there Sunday night I'll go to work Monday and hope Tuesday's weather is better.
Am I the only one that feels this way about bowhunting in the rain? No, I do too. I don't bowhunt in the rain. I will go to the woods close to the end of good rain, hoping to be in the tree by the time it stops though.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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I was hunting in Ga. last week and stuck a small buck during a monsoon. I shot him through low through both shoulders. I was in S.E. GA so it was like a Gallberry/Palmetto bush jungle while trying to find the deer. We never found him. Believe it or not we found some blood and it was thick but played out when he hit 1" deep water. I did find a rack from a buck shot last year that would go close to 120"
GO NOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Isn't hard to follow a blood trail that has been washed away by the rain?
I hunt mostly hardwood forest areas, the blood won't last 10 minutes on top of the leaves, even in a light rain. I know you might be able to follow the turned up leaves if the deer is running or staggering away but if you get a faint blood trail and the deer just wanders off your chances of finding the deer are slim. It just doesn't seem worth the risk to me.
Rain is in the N Bama forecast for Monday morning, if it is still there Sunday night I'll go to work Monday and hope Tuesday's weather is better.
Am I the only one that feels this way about bowhunting in the rain? No, I do too. I don't bowhunt in the rain. I will go to the woods close to the end of good rain, hoping to be in the tree by the time it stops though. What they said
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right, or it's not worth doing at all!
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I can see where the risk is on trailing blood in the rain from losing a deer but then again i have never had a deer run far with a bow.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Just hit em where your supposed to and watch em fall 
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Freak of Nature
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Just hit em where your supposed to and watch em fall Auight there big boy. I've hit some where I'z post to and they ran 100 yards or more before piling up. 100 yards in a rain is a long hard trail.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Nathan Carl Goff 19 Sept 2016 - 14 Jan 2017.
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Old Mossy Horns
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Gun or bow, I aint sitting in the rain for a dang deer ever again.
Now nestled in a shooting house with my gun is some of the beat napping( I mean hunting )I have done.
Do you want to hear him gobble, or do you want to kill him.
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praying it doesnt if it does ill hunt closer to the house if its not rainin all day we will go to the club a little rain dont matter to me alot of rain on the other hand...who am i kiddin ill still hunt
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Buy swackers n a hoyt no trailing required! So hunt rain or shine! LOL
Ill hunt might not shoot but ill be there in a blind or maybe in an observation tree to see what I can see....
Playin string music
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Get Serious Get Hoyt
Alto, la migra means Stop, immigration in Spanish slang. They'll scatter like skittles dropped on a concrete floor. -Furflyin
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