When I first met my husband he told me that he was a hunter. He enjoys hunting waterfowl, upland birds as well as other game. His dog was a Labrador retriever and he trained him a lot. As we started seeing more of each other I started learning how to train dogs and noticed that I possess 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 because deer season was still a couple of months away. He explained to me that he was doing archery hunting and that the period started two months earlier than the gun season. I knew about archery hunting, but I never knew anyone that was practicing it. I was about to enter into a whole new world of hunting.
The year we were dating I did not see him get ready for hunting. I just knew that I did not see him as much as I would have liked on the weekends because 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 is very insistent that the clothing be laundered with no detergents and it had to hang outside for a few days so there would be no household odors on it. The reason for this is that with archery hunting you must get very close to the animal that you will shoot. Next, he practiced shooting arrows into a big target that has the form of a deer. This step was to get a better accuracy at different distances. He also placed a portable stand in a tree so that he may quietly sit and hope for a deer to walk close enough so he can shoot it. He explained that there (exists|is} a method called still hunting in which the hunter is on the ground, but in the early season when there is still many leaves on the trees, the tree stand is a preferred method of hunting.
I was truly astonished at the amount of time to prepare and the force that is necessary to pull back the strings on the bow. Through the years I have come to admire archery hunting and the people that do it. It is much more of a sport that utilising a rifle to shoot a deer. The animal has to be close and the shot has to be very precise. My husband has shot a few deer as well as two black bears with his bow. It is more work and more time consuming, but it is an activity that he enjoys.
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