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Bowhunt in the rain?
#422737
10/12/12 11:59 AM
10/12/12 11:59 AM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 1,572
Huntsville
Bama Bob
OP
8 point
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OP
8 point
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 1,572
Huntsville
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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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Re: Bowhunt in the rain?
[Re: Bama Bob]
#422756
10/12/12 12:27 PM
10/12/12 12:27 PM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 11,356
Prattville AL
ElkHunter
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 11,356
Prattville AL
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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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Re: Bowhunt in the rain?
[Re: Bama Bob]
#422797
10/12/12 01:18 PM
10/12/12 01:18 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 2,921
Huntsville
buckbrush
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 2,921
Huntsville
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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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Re: Bowhunt in the rain?
[Re: Bama Bob]
#422927
10/12/12 04:07 PM
10/12/12 04:07 PM
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Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 11,870
Huntsville
JUGHEAD
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 11,870
Huntsville
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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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Re: Bowhunt in the rain?
[Re: Bama Bob]
#422934
10/12/12 04:18 PM
10/12/12 04:18 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 1,572
Huntsville
Bama Bob
OP
8 point
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OP
8 point
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 1,572
Huntsville
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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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Re: Bowhunt in the rain?
[Re: Bama Bob]
#422997
10/12/12 06:01 PM
10/12/12 06:01 PM
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Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 39,582
Marshall County
FurFlyin
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 39,582
Marshall County
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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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Re: Bowhunt in the rain?
[Re: Bama Bob]
#423007
10/12/12 06:12 PM
10/12/12 06:12 PM
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Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 7,068
Tuscaloosa
Booger
Picker
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Picker
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 7,068
Tuscaloosa
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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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Re: Bowhunt in the rain?
[Re: FurFlyin]
#423059
10/12/12 07:37 PM
10/12/12 07:37 PM
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Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 3,354
Monroe County, AL
skintback
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 3,354
Monroe County, AL
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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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Re: Bowhunt in the rain?
[Re: Bama Bob]
#423109
10/12/12 08:35 PM
10/12/12 08:35 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 2,921
Huntsville
buckbrush
10 point
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10 point
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Posts: 2,921
Huntsville
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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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Re: Bowhunt in the rain?
[Re: NortonZ7]
#423157
10/12/12 09:36 PM
10/12/12 09:36 PM
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Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 39,582
Marshall County
FurFlyin
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 39,582
Marshall County
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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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Re: Bowhunt in the rain?
[Re: Bama Bob]
#423185
10/12/12 09:58 PM
10/12/12 09:58 PM
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Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 16,022
Hartselle Al.
n2deer
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 16,022
Hartselle Al.
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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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Re: Bowhunt in the rain?
[Re: Bama Bob]
#423271
10/13/12 12:26 AM
10/13/12 12:26 AM
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Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 2,493
Millbrook AL
SMB44
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 2,493
Millbrook AL
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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
Hoyt Vector 32
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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