My husband told me that he was a hunter when I first met him. He enjoys 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 dogs are trained and realised that I have a natural talent to work with animals. He told me that he was going to go deer hunting only a few months after we have been dating. I questioned this since deer hunting season was still a few months away. He explained to me that he was into archery hunting and that the season began two months before the gun season. I had heard of archery hunting, but I never knew anyone 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 noticed that I did not see him as much as I would have liked on the weekends since he was out hunting. Once we were married I discovered the preparation that goes into bow hunting. To begin with the clothing is entirely camouflage. My husband insists that the clothing be laundered with no detergents and it needed to hang outdoor for many days so there would be no household odors 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 practiced shooting arrows into a large target that was shaped like a deer. This was to improve his accuracy at different distances. He also installed a portable bench in a tree so that he can quietly sit and wish for a deer to walk close enough so he can shoot it. He told me that there (exists|is} a method 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 technique of hunting.
I was very surprised at the amount of time to practice and the energy that is needed to pull back the strings on the bow. After a few years I started admiring archery hunting and the persons that do it. It is much more of a sport that using a gun to shoot a deer. The animal has to be close and the shot has to be very precise. My husband has shot many deer and two black bears with his bow. Even if is a lot of work and time consuming, it is an activity that he loves.
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