This afternoon I went out with the longbow. It was very cold and windy. I hit a place I hadn’t hunted before and the storm yesterday had every tree loaded with snow. I found where a couple of deer had passed during the night. I crawled under the snow laden branches of a fir and was able to sit in my pac-seat comfortably. At sunset a button buck walked right up to me and proceeded to dig at the ground about 5 or 6 feet from my hide. He kept looking back along his trail and eventually continued his way. About a minute later a doe came bounding up with a spiked following. Both pawed around, and I was pinned. They then moved about 30 feet to my right and bedded down. No shot on the spike as I was pinned down and shoot lefty. I sat motionless until it was pitch dark and literally crawled out of there on my hands and knees in a foot of snow as I want to hunt there tomorrow with my wife. Only when I was a good 200 yards away did they blow. My wife shoots her recurve right handed, so I plan on hitting that spot again. Hope the snow sticks. It should as it is supposed to be very cold. Pretty awesome evening. That Asbell evening stand brown plaid is great camouflage.

Good luck to her.

Really like your hunting style Lawdy. Good luck to your wife. Hope she gets an opportunity.

Sounds like a good adventure, Good luck to the two of you.

If I was ground blind hunting I would use my dual shelf.

DDave

I have a dual shelf Meigs but I prefer my Lefty Meigs #46. The dual shelf a Meigs is #54. When the temp is in the single digits, it pulls hard and I really don’t shoot well right handed. I have always groundhunted and take it all in stride. I get a kick out of getting close to both deer and bear on the ground even if I don’t get a shot or pass one up.

Now that was exciting! Good luck on the next round.......hope your wife can go along.

Bernie

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