New Personal Hunting Rule

acwatkins · Dec 12, 2015

Despite the warm weather i decided to go out today for an evening hunt. Sat from about 2-6. Today, at a around 5 i decided to take my phone out of my bag and turn it on, checked a quick text and looked up. What do ya know?! A wall hanger buck had walked right in front of me and passed me by at 30 yards and was now quartered away from me at 60+. If i wasn't on my phone i would've been able to drill him with my xbow broadside. Needless to say i am furious at myself :mad54:

I have a new personal hunting rule, NO PHONES ALLOWED WHILE HUNTING, NEVER. Hopefully, ill have a chance at him again.

iH8DemLibz · Dec 12, 2015

They are sneaky little bastages and they appear out of thin air most of the time.

I commend you for imposing a new rule on yourself.

We all get lax from time to time.

protegeV · Dec 12, 2015

damn phones, always making ya miss out.

platoonDaddy · Dec 12, 2015

Wouldn't advertise you were hunting from 2-6. Sunset today in GB today was 1643.

BigBull · Dec 12, 2015

My personal rule is no phone after 4:00. Sorry about your luck there.

iH8DemLibz · Dec 12, 2015

I'm certain he meant 1713.

A long walk back to the truck would still be considered a part of the hunting experience.

outrider58 · Dec 12, 2015

acwatkins said:
Despite the warm weather i decided to go out today for an evening hunt. Sat from about 2-6. Today, at a around 5 i decided to take my phone out of my bag and turn it on, checked a quick text and looked up. What do ya know?! A wall hanger buck had walked right in front of me and passed me by at 30 yards and was now quartered away from me at 60+. If i wasn't on my phone i would've been able to drill him with my xbow broadside. Needless to say i am furious at myself I have a new personal hunting rule, NO PHONES ALLOWED WHILE HUNTING, NEVER. Hopefully, ill have a chance at him again.

They don't often offer second chances. :sad20:

swimtb · Dec 13, 2015

I had 2 doe's cross the field and head right at one of the kids in the stand across from me. After not hearing a shot I sent him a text as to why no shot. He said he was on his phone and didn't see them.

outrider58 · Dec 13, 2015

swimtb said:
I had 2 doe's cross the field and head right at one of the kids in the stand across from me. After not hearing a shot I sent him a text as to why no shot. He said he was on his phone and didn't see them.

Wah-wah-waaaaaaah :sad20:

BearArms · Dec 14, 2015

Same thing happened to my buddies when we were out for PA rifle season. One checked his Fitbit for time by shaking his wrist and spooked two does, one took out his phone and scared off a buck.

My personal rule is normally to wear my black UA glove liners. I feel like my pasty complexion tends to spook more deer if my hands move at all, and with the liners on that amount of spookiness goes down A LOT.

acwatkins · Dec 14, 2015

heading out this afternoon to the same spot, my phone will be off! haha

ToBeFree · Dec 14, 2015

Good Luck

next time.

Chalk it up to lesson learned.

How can they be so quite. It's those hooves I tell ya.

Nothing-There-Gone.

Had a spike come up Friday afternoon from behind. Thought it was a squirrel messing with the leaves. Five minutes later a twig snaps, Ummmm, That sounds like a big damn squirrel. Looking over my shoulder but what do I spy? A nice spike but, woe is me, I need a doe. I shoo the young boy and watch him run.
I will be back out this week looking for his girl friends.

HeatSeeker · Dec 14, 2015

platoonDaddy said:
Wouldn't advertise you were hunting from 2-6. Sunset today in GB today was 1643.

Maybe that should be rule #2...No hunting 45 minutes past shooting restriction.

HeatSeeker · Dec 14, 2015

We use our phones to communicate by text in the woods. Usually 4-5 of us in at a time. Phones on silent and look up alot.

iH8DemLibz · Dec 14, 2015

The only two allowable movements while deer hunting are breathing and blinking.

Any other movement and you're just asking to home empty handed.

Discipline, more than anything else, brings down Bambi.

wilcam47 · Dec 15, 2015

When I was in MD I had my phone in the tree stand only once did a buck sneak up on me...it was still out of bow range but at least I got to see it. The other times I could hear the deer way off rustling through the leaves..

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