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Guidelines for the Novice in Bow hunting

Are you new into bow hunting? You must have found something unique and fulfilling in the activity that has made you decide to put it into the list of your hobbies. Surely, it is exciting and fun. But moreover, it is highly challenging. Every bow hunting session would be highly engaging and exhilarating, but at the end of the day, there is no doubt that it sure is fulfilling and satisfying. If you bring home your prize or trophy (game), you would feel very accomplished. It is one way of recognizing all your efforts.

If you are a beginner, you have to start by learning important information quickly. There are many things to consider and many considerations to take into account. You have to first know more about the bow you are using. Aside from that, you also have to learn how to effectively and properly shoot using the tool. Of course, you need to know much about the target animal. You certainly would not be able to make it to the activity without doing so. You have to adjust your strategies to the nature and traits of the target animal. Here are two more tips that you should first and foremost know about as a novice in bow hunting.

First, find a mentor who is an expert in bow hunting. He should exhibit his expertise and apply effective strategies at all times. You have to learn so much from this guy. Take note that in this hobby, reading so much information is not sufficient. You would have to go out the fields so you could give it a try. Any seasoned bow hunter should be able to teach you what to do in particular situation. Thus, you could learn many techniques so that you would not gather zero results after spending much time bow hunting.

Second, give utmost importance as well to your choice of the right bow. There are just too many bow manufacturers out there claiming they have the best. Do not be easily fooled by the lavish marketing campaigns and luring photographs. Choose the best bow according to performance. Prefer the one that could provide you fast and clean shot. Be careful when showering bow makers with your attention. It would help if you would solicit reliable and accurate advice and recommendations from your mentor and bow hunting comrades. Stick with the best always.

Now What?

Even with today’s modern technology when it comes to designing the most effective broadhead arrows, bows and shafts available, there’s nothing that would compare the prey’s frenzied animal panic after feeling the arrow piercing through it. Of course any bow hunter would think they made a mistake at some point so they have to go after the buck, but there are some misconceptions and rules before approaching the ‘dead’ animal.

Haste makes waste as they say. In bow hunting, a hasty aim and release of the arrow may not always work, as the result the arrow’s flight may land somewhere far from the intended area of fatality. One point to consider is that animals have the drive to go insane at one point once it’s in mortal danger and may run away. If it does, it would be a perfect opportunity to reflect and see what might go wrong. Usually, once the deer or any other animal have been mortally wounded, it will bed somewhere within a 250 yard radius so it’s better not to go after it once it’s on the run. Just wait it out for a few hours.

Humans aren’t perfect, more so with a weapon at hand when it comes to hunting. There’s nothing wrong with the notion of thinking back on what might have gone wrong. Unless the hunter has managed to hit the buck through the lungs or the heart, at least it would be a short trip to where it’s bedding. Patience is the key when making sure the animal has expired.

Though there are a few things to worry about when it comes to misplaced shots, the only thing that may arise are the presence of coyotes that might take over before the bow hunter reaches it. Instead it may be a perfect opportunity to know where the animal might be if you follow the coyotes, then scare them away once found.

The real challenge when it comes to bow hunting is the fact that patience is the key, aside from whatever equipment a bow hunter has in his possession. There are a few things that may happen, like shooting while the animal is on the run, but mistakes like these is all art of the learning process. It doesn’t make for a bad bow hunter to reflect on his shortcomings from being hasty, but at least a lesson can be learned every time he takes aim and allow the arrow to pierce through the animal with a clean kill.