when nothing else works, fall back on superstition !

[super-7]

Well last night found me finishing up a job for a customer in good deer country, it was prime time and I packed up and headed out. I went back to a stand that I have used over the years and sat for about an hour as daylight waned i kept watching the 2 does and 2 fawns feeding at about 450 yrds. A long poke yes and I silently kept wishing for a buck to come into veiw so I could take a shot. well daylight faded and I packed up to head back to the truck, here I had been so intent on those does there was a good buck less then 200 yrds just a hair out of sight from where I sat in my stand. I thru up the binos yep 5x5, legal light long gone, buck quick sniff and gone, me doggone! So I am left doing the only rational thing a hunter can do!!! going back to superstitions. LOL. put on my lucky ( St. Paddys Day 4 leaf clover) fishing shirt, put away the 300 weatherby in the safe and pulled out the ol' lightning bolt 7mm. Yep pulling out all the stops!!! leaving here to pick up little and big chili's heading out to where we saw a nice 170 class heavy horned brute 2 weeks ago. So when you read this give your rabbits foot a rub for me, or your troll doll or whatever is lucky I need something to change this season around for me . LOL.

 

[DrMike]

Superstitions! We all have them. Call them rituals, or call them "leaving nothing to chance," we've all been infected at one time or another. Good show, Supe.

 

[JD338]

Yup.
"The kiss of death"
Kiss the bullet on the one that goes into the chamber.

JD338

 

[longwinters]

That's my problem....I have no superstitions! I gotta find some.

Long

 

[JD338]

Long,

Try the "Kiss of Death". :mrgreen:

JD338

 

[pre6422hornet]

They work for me! I have so many I lost count.

Good luck out there.

 

[str8meat]

have a 10 yr old tattered t shirt that goes on every time in the field. have tried underware but dont seem to last that long. my nephew was in a terrible car accident this year and we as a family did alot of fundraising events for him and the family. they made 2 camo hats for his dad and i for our efforts. talk about lucky items my family has harvested 5 deer ( 2 bucks 3 does), 1 black bear, and 2 elk (1 spike and 1 cow). all have been harvested with my lucky camo hat made for me. it is the best season we ever have had as a family. definately my lucky hat.YES I AM SUPERSTITOUS.
:wink:

 

[super-7]

Had a great day with my nephew and BIL, still came up empty. This trophy hunting sucks, I had several chances today at just filling a tag , and for some reason at least three fork horns really felt like testing me today. We hiked three areas and in each area a doinker stood from 15 - 50 yrds away. They all lived to see another day, the rut is kickin in hard and with 5 days left I am still optimistic I can but some hard horn on the ground.

 

[DrMike]

Had a great day with my nephew and BIL, still came up empty. This trophy hunting sucks, I had several chances today at just filling a tag , and for some reason at least three fork horns really felt like testing me today. We hiked three areas and in each area a doinker stood from 15 - 50 yrds away. They all lived to see another day, the rut is kickin in hard and with 5 days left I am still optimistic I can but some hard horn on the ground.

I hear you. I saw lots of moose and lots of whitetail today. Unfortunately, I've already filled those tags. We even saw quite a number of elk, and that season is closed. I saw a number of mulie does and a few small bucks. Nothing tempted me to even take a poke.

 

[Polaris]

I almost lost my lucky hunting knife this year. Found it in the barn day before opener where the wife used it to cut twine off the hay bales for HER horses. Might not have been able to hunt without it.

I make custom knives and have a slough of antler and fancy wood handled German, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish blades, even a reground-rehandled Ginsu (damn fine knife believe it or not) around the house, butcher bench and fur shed but the old rubberized handle Mora Swedish army airborne knife goes with on every hunt.

 

[cloverleaf]

Um- well the hats. Dad is usually in a poor mans stetson....except for hunting. That hat is a cross between Elmer Fud and a Scottish Bag piper. Im not picking on Dad....He asked me before we went out for this antelope hunt if I'd still be seen with him in his "old hat". I said, "we aint huntin' if your not wearing it". As you can see the luck worked. That one on my head was a "sunday hat" folks bought folks bought for me on vacation when I was about 14. Eventually it got to rough to wear any place but hunting. I think its in its third hat band, has a permanent stampede string and feathers from my first pheasant. Its been along on every worthwhile outdoor expedition since.... superstitious.....nah.... CL

Also have a knife that was given to me when I was about 12. It was supposed to be a $5 christmas exchange gift from my cousins then boy friend. When some one said somthing about spending too much he said, "Well there no reason to give the young man somthing he cant use..." We lost him to a construction accident 12 years later, a month before he was going to stand up for us at our wedding. My cousin lost her battle with parkinsons a year ago. That knife goes with me on every trip. TH

 

[longwinters]

CL, your hat looks just broke in to me.

Long

 

[cloverleaf]

CL, your hat looks just broke in to me.

Long

Uh Huh, The way I figuure it Ive spent 30 years breaking my head in to that hat...Im not gonna throw it away now. :grin: I tried to break in a "new" one a few years ago, but the brim was so stiff that every time I brought the gun uo tp my shoulder, the collar of my hunting coat would push the front brim down over my eyes. Finally knocked the hat off and shot the old bugger "bare headed" :shock: Threw that hat away....CL