Why did the quiver break up with the bow? Because it felt like it was being strung along! 😁

My first deer- I was 16 years old, taken after two years of hunting hard, misses and mistakes made. Back then I hunted off the ground as I still do today almost exclusively. I would find a spot to sit and stay still for hours. Nothing fancy just find a good spot and sit with my recurve and wait. Share your first deer! 🦌 tell us a bit about the process and experience. Below is an excerpt from the end of Chapter 4 “Connecting to the Hunter” from my first book - The Code Of Traditional Archery talking about the end of that very evening. - It dawned on me that I should get my father to share this experience. It was close to dark when we returned together to the fallen buck. We sat for several minutes in silence. After saying a word of thanks and dressing the deer, we began the drag out of the woods. My father and I spoke few words that night on the drag out. I insisted on doing all the work while my father accompanied me through the tangled fortress of brush and trees surrounding the opening where I had killed the buck. After a three-kilometre slog, which seemed to take hours, we finally arrived at the fence line and loaded the buck into the back of his pickup. Catching my breath, I looked up at the shining stars. The wind had picked up a bit, and in the ambient light, I could see lines on my father's face that I hadn't noticed before. It was a moment of reflection that I will never forget. Something changed in me that day. After following him for years in the woods and waterways of my youth, something new had broken through; I was now walking beside, not behind, him. I had reached a new connection with my father to our ancestors. I now realize that in this connection of living and pursuing to hunt to live, I felt the resilience and self-reliance that has guided our species' survival over the time we have walked this earth.

Would you shoot at this deer? 🦌 Yes or No? 🚫 Why or Why not? 🤔 You see there is no right or wrong answer. 👍 It is entirely up to the individual and their abilities, their comfort zone, and their effectiveness within their own lethal range. Yes there is a tree and yes his foreleg is back a bit.. The photo of this deer was taken about a week before I took him on the ground about 25 yards from where this image was taken off a camera my dad had up. He was taken in very heavy brush and I had a very small shooting lane. And - a Very quick shot exposure. My point being I’ve had three attempts at him and another deer that very week until I got a shot. The reason I made the shot is very simple. I had practised not only shooting in those tight quarters on the ground with very little cover around me, but it also practised drawing repeatedly through the small shooting lane I had that the deer were coming through from a very heavy tight covered bedding area. Practice the way you will hunt! And success will come! leave a comment below! Good luck folks! ✅

once i committed to my recurve 4 years ago there was no looking back. However, because i only get to hunt 3-5 days a year i knew my chances of success were quite low so i had hesitated to switch sooner. Fortunately I have found the few days i get in God's beautiful creation in combination with traditional bowhunting is quite the grande experience with or without a successful harvest! But this season i finally connected on the third day of my hunt with a 5 yard shot on a beautiful young bull 😀 here are 10 pics from my hunt

We are Canucks ourselves! Hope our Canadian friends get to enjoy some bird 🦃 today!