Brad, Looks like jr. has got your rack down to a T! It is truly amazing a single whitetail deer is capable of touching so many people in different ways, all good. The world needs more respectful hunters like yourself. It’s amazing the emotions a great bowhunt can deliver!
Brad, Looks like jr. has got your rack down to a T! It is truly amazing a single whitetail deer is capable of touching so many people in different ways, all good. The world needs more respectful hunters like yourself. It’s amazing the emotions a great bowhunt can deliver!
Great story and even better pictures. Congrats! I think you might have a lock on the photo contest with that first picture of you and the deer and the nice fall colors. 
Great story and even better pictures. Congrats! I think you might have a lock on the photo contest with that first picture of you and the deer and the nice fall colors.
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Great story and even better pictures. Congrats! I think you might have a lock on the photo contest with that first picture of you and the deer and the nice fall colors.
Thanks hunting4walleyes for your nice comments. FYI – IDA Field Staff is not elgible to win the photo contest but are still encouraged to post photos.
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Great story and even better pictures. Congrats! I think you might have a lock on the photo contest with that first picture of you and the deer and the nice fall colors.
Thanks hunting4walleyes for your nice comments. FYI – IDA Field Staff is not elgible to win the photo contest but are still encouraged to post photos.
Brad,
Great story, and a great read. This year, I bagged my personal best buck with a bow and it truly is a great feeling. I forwarded this story to my son who is 12 and just started hunting this year. He is a great shot with his bow but when we’ve been afield, he has done his share of missing shots which is completely fine to me. My new angle is to teach him to stay calm and maybe just observe that doe or small buck that comes in with no intention of shooting it. Appreciate the animal and what it does and how it behaves learning from its every move. I think your story will help me accomplish this with him as we manage our hunting properties and have great sucess with it.
LAZER 
Brad,
Great story, and a great read. This year, I bagged my personal best buck with a bow and it truly is a great feeling. I forwarded this story to my son who is 12 and just started hunting this year. He is a great shot with his bow but when we’ve been afield, he has done his share of missing shots which is completely fine to me. My new angle is to teach him to stay calm and maybe just observe that doe or small buck that comes in with no intention of shooting it. Appreciate the animal and what it does and how it behaves learning from its every move. I think your story will help me accomplish this with him as we manage our hunting properties and have great sucess with it.
LAZER
Great to hear Lazer. Treating/Coping/ Controlling buck fever is not an easy thing to do much less on a 12 year old. 
It takes a lot of self control, practice and I have my own little secrets I use to stay calm that I have learned and use from reading countless articles on this subject. Funny thing is after the shot at a buck I come unglued at the seams. 
During and prior to the shot I’m calm as can be. This comes from a ton of practice and developing a routine for when a shooter buck comes in. I call it going into autopiliot or auto mode. I can not be sure of all what happens, other then I know when it kicks in and I do not have much rememberance of my thought process at this time. Kind of a weird feeling, I call it “being in the zone”. However, the same can not be said with a doe. 
I get the fever real bad prior to the shot and have to deal with it.
Good luck to you and your boy Lazer! 
VERY COOL email and pic from your boy BRAD!
You are definitley a guy “THAT GETS IT” in my book. Anyone that knows me knows what this means as I have eluded to it hear before and believe me it is a good thing.
Great to hear Lazer. Treating/Coping/ Controlling buck fever is not an easy thing to do much less on a 12 year old. It takes a lot of self control, practice and I have my own little secrets I use to stay calm that I have learned and use from reading countless articles on this subject. Funny thing is after the shot at a buck I come unglued at the seams. During and prior to the shot I’m calm as can be. This comes from a ton of practice and developing a routine for when a shooter buck comes in. I call it going into autopiliot or auto mode. I can not be sure of all what happens, other then I know when it kicks in and I do not have much rememberance of my thought process at this time. Kind of a weird feeling, I call it “being in the zone”. However, the same can not be said with a doe. I get the fever real bad prior to the shot and have to deal with it.
Good luck to you and your boy Lazer!
VERY COOL email and pic from your boy BRAD!
You are definitley a guy “THAT GETS IT” in my book. Anyone that knows me knows what this means as I have eluded to it hear before and believe me it is a good thing.
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