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To: Dusty Road

Gee whiz! All that for hunting? My last time out I wore a olive drab zippered front sweat jacket with military patches on the front and shoulders, denim jeans, brown ankle high hiking boots topped off with a baseball style cap with U.S.M.C. embroidered across the front and no face paint or veil while wearing reflective lens trifocals.

A herd of thirty elk approached me and the first five, four bulls and cow calf, stopped twenty-five yards away as I was standing in the open next to a standing limbless widow maker. I took the calf with a forty-five seventy and they were still standing there although the calf dropped. I had to raise my arms and say “Shoo!” to chase them off so I could get to my kill. Even at that they left in a direction which took them right past me within five yards.

As long as you don’t move they don’t see you.


17 posted on 10/14/2013 5:37:09 PM PDT by chulaivn66 (Semper Fidelis)
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To: chulaivn66

>>As long as you don’t move they don’t see you.<<

Smell comes into the picture too. Stay down wind of them and it’s amazing how close you can get to wild animals.


45 posted on 10/14/2013 9:15:13 PM PDT by B4Ranch (AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- <<http://vimeo.com/63749370)
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To: chulaivn66

Try it with a recurve or a longbow inside 20 yrds before ya get too cocky.


48 posted on 10/15/2013 2:36:19 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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