When I first met my husband he told me that he was a hunter. He loves hunting waterfowl, upland birds and other game. He had a Labrador retriever and he spent a great deal of time training the dog. As we began to date more often I began learning how to train dogs and noticed that I possess a natural talent of working with animals. We had been dating for several months when he mentioned that he was going to be going deer hunting. I questioned this since deer season was still a couple of months away. He explained to me that he was doing archery hunting and that the period began two months earlier than the gun season. I had heard of archery hunting, but I never knew someone that was doing it. I now knom that this is a whole new world of hunting.
I did not see him get ready for hunting during the year we were dating. I just knew that I did not see him as much as I would have liked on the weekends since he was out hunting. I discovered the preparation that goes into bow hunting once we were married. To begin with the clothing is entirely camouflage. My husband insists that the clothing be cleaned without detergents and it has to hang outdoor for several days so there would be no household smells on it. The need for this is that with archery hunting you need to get very close to the animal being shot at. Also, he had to practice shooting arrows into a large target that has the form of a deer. This was to improve his accuracy at different distances. Also he placed a portable bench in a tree so that he may quietly sit and wish for a deer to walk close enough to be shot. He explained that there (exists|is} a procedure called still hunting in which the hunter is on the ground, but when there are still many leaves on the trees in the early season, the tree stand is a much preferable method of hunting.
I was really astonished at the amount of time to practice and the strength that is required to pull back the strings on the bow. Through the years I started admiring archery hunting and the persons that do it. It is much more of a sport that utilising a rifle to shoot a deer. The animal needs to be close and the shot needs to be very precise. My husband has shot several deer and two black bears with his bow. Even if is a lot of work and time consuming, it is a sport that he loves.
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