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Title: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on September 16, 2014, 09:37:50 AM
Finnaly found some time to explain the reasoning for shooting this buck off our bed, through the little window , and  between two porch slats. Of course all this against my wife's better judgement as she knows my judgement at times is lacking and if not downright poor? :dunno:  So with the typical excusises of working to much and remodeling the place, scouting time has been limited to the windows of our home. We are very fortunate to live where we can hunt! I am always brain storming ways to keep our 4.75 year old daughters attention to hunting and fishing without burning her out with it and keeping it fun. Short trips and excursions here and there. This time just ended up in our bedroom? Knowing it is opening day of archery season and the wife rideing me to get the laundryroom trimmed out before we leave for Idaho archery elk hunt in two weeks I am very stressed out wondering if one of two bucks we have seen this summer will come by one of our windows? Now I have thought the whole process out of shooting game from our windows? I firmly believe you GET-EM-WHERE-YOU-GET-EM! Be it high up in the alpine areas to down low from your living areas. We have packed and worked very hard through the years to get our game animals. As the day wore on and I go back and forth from saw to laundryroom making cuts and re-doing cuts because my mind is not thinking about the right angle of the findangle?  I keep eyeing the vast Oak and Pine landscape for the elusive bucks of the summer. So I have came to the conclusion that if and when the bucks come out of hiding I will try and harvest one with our daughter watching so she can learn about how it is done. Also I believe it is a good way to show her and just not talk about how harvesting game is accomplished. This will also fall right into her homeschooling curriculum for the fall quarter. We homeschool year round with four quarters being Spring, Summer,Fall and Winter. There is no break from learning. One should learn at least one thing new everyday. So the pictures show it all. The bucks did come out of hiding and we harvested some fine venison for the winter. The experience for our daughter was very positive and educational. She was fully engaged and had lots of questions which were all answered. We explained to her every step of the process and thinking back it probably will go down in the books (or Hunt-Wa) as one of our most important lessons to teach our daughter. If you have a chance take a child or somebody hunting and everyone will learn something new. Even if it is out of your bedroom window........
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: Hunter Dug on September 16, 2014, 10:49:22 AM
Nothing wrong with that. :tup:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: Jason on September 16, 2014, 10:52:03 AM
House blind Buck! Meet in the freezer :tup:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: LittleJohn on September 16, 2014, 10:56:17 AM
AWESOME JOB DAD!!!!!!
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: wapiti hunter2 on September 16, 2014, 10:59:31 AM
Is he really standing on a bed shooting an arrow past his daughter? Am I seeing what I think? This is INANE!
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: Woodchuck on September 16, 2014, 11:03:54 AM
That didn't take long  :bash:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: MLBowhunting on September 16, 2014, 11:04:09 AM
Looks like he is shooting next to her.  Nothing wrong with that.
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: elkoholic1 on September 16, 2014, 11:14:32 AM
 :tup: :tup:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: b0bbyg on September 16, 2014, 11:25:12 AM
We are having similar thoughts about the nice buck that hits our garden. Although I have not seem him before the sun sets as yet.

Saw him 2 weeks ago thinking nice big 3 point blacktail.  Went out to chase him away from the garden, actually has a fourth point up top and big eye guards. His antlers were up at eye level when I went to chase him off

Now if he would only stop by during shooting light  :)
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: Alchase on September 16, 2014, 11:41:28 AM
I would have passed,

Too long of a drag!

 :chuckle:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: Buckmark on September 16, 2014, 11:42:11 AM
Looks like he is shooting next to her.  Nothing wrong with that.
:yeah:, I just hope he did not sit down with those scissors in his back pocket...  :o

Good job, talk about having a small "window" to make the shot... :chuckle:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: skeeter 20i on September 16, 2014, 11:44:52 AM
I hope you at least did the ethical thing and made the bed after you went hunting!!   :IBCOOL:

 :tup:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: lokidog on September 16, 2014, 01:18:11 PM
 :chuckle:   :chuckle:

Looks like he is shooting next to her.  Nothing wrong with that.

 :yeah:  Opposite end of a 6 to 8 foot wide window, looks pretty safe to me.   :dunno:

We have harvested three or four from our bedroom window, though none with a bow.  Nice shooting!
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on September 16, 2014, 01:51:17 PM
I hope you at least did the ethical thing and made the bed after you went hunting!!   :IBCOOL:

 :tup:



 :chuckle:    I offered but we had a buck to dress out. The scissors were the truth that I was working g on the house. Can't remember what I was cutting?  Forgot to post pic of the buck through the slats.
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: gaddy on September 16, 2014, 01:57:11 PM
you went through the window and the slats ?
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on September 16, 2014, 02:02:27 PM
That's a tough shot through the slats    :tup:
   
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on September 16, 2014, 02:15:40 PM
you went through the window and the slats ?


YEP..... :tup:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: BullCrazy24 on September 16, 2014, 03:01:57 PM
Good shot and congrats! I love to get my little one involed!
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: coyotestalker22250 on September 16, 2014, 04:09:00 PM
Venison breakfast sausage would make that breakfast in bed. I'd have done the same thing, only my daughter would've been saying shoot him daddy shoot him!
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: C-Money on September 16, 2014, 04:28:39 PM
Nice buck!! Congrats!
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: cbond3318 on September 16, 2014, 05:05:31 PM
That is AWESOME! Way to capitalize on an opportunity given and put meat in the freezer for the well being of your family.  :tup:

Tough shot too!!
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: h20hunter on September 16, 2014, 05:37:28 PM
What kind of gap are we talking about with these porch rails? Could this be taken a step further and be considered practice for shooting between some elk ribs? Food plot tulips or maybe some rhodies next year?
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: huntandjeep on September 16, 2014, 06:27:44 PM
That's awesome  :tup:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: bowhunterforever on September 16, 2014, 06:29:36 PM
That is awesome :tup: :tup: Congrats
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: D-Rock425 on September 16, 2014, 08:08:56 PM
I really don't know what to say.  Good for you I guess.
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: lamrith on September 16, 2014, 08:11:41 PM
I can't believe an arrow would actually go thru those gaps and not tick a vane on ones side or the other even with a pefect shot.

Well done!
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: hntrspud on September 16, 2014, 09:33:13 PM
Nice shooting!  Congratulations,  why waste time and money if the meat is right in front of you.....
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: Mtn.Ghost on September 16, 2014, 10:50:18 PM
What kind of gap are we talking about with these porch rails? Could this be taken a step further and be considered practice for shooting between some elk ribs? Food plot tulips or maybe some rhodies next year?

Most area building codes say no more that 4 - 4.5" on pickets these days so kids don't get their heads stuck between them :chuckle:

Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: Jimmy33 on September 17, 2014, 06:38:09 AM
To each His own...
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: lokidog on September 17, 2014, 07:39:00 AM
What kind of gap are we talking about with these porch rails? Could this be taken a step further and be considered practice for shooting between some elk ribs? Food plot tulips or maybe some rhodies next year?

Most area building codes say no more that 4 - 4.5" on pickets these days so kids don't get their heads stuck between them :chuckle:

Much more likely to make it through a vertical gap than a horizontal one.  I left a broadhead in a fence board trying to estimate the arc through a horizontal gap to get a turkey on the other side once.   :(
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: KimberRich on September 17, 2014, 09:37:34 AM
Nice buck and good work getting the kids involved.

Maybe I missed it within the thread but... Is there a reason you went through the window and through the railing instead of stepping out on the porch and shooting?  I'm not against what you did I'm just curious.
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: sakoshooter on September 17, 2014, 11:26:57 AM
My brother has killed more than a few that way in WI. I don't see anything wrong with it if you're lucky enough to live in the country.
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: Ripper on September 17, 2014, 11:28:39 AM
Nice job   :tup:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: Halo on September 17, 2014, 12:01:02 PM
Nice to know I'm not the only red neck shootin out of the window. Have yet to fill the reeezer that way, just coyotes mostly. I have had the opportunity on a number of occasions but I let the deer and elk around the house enjoy diplomatic immunity when the freezer isn't empty. Now if the freezer needs fillin all the rules will change.  :chuckle: Nice buck by the way. congrats.
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: irishevox on September 17, 2014, 12:36:54 PM
really a great shot and a good lesson, i am sure you taught her well... i say if anyone says something negative they are jealous, at the opportunies you have out there :) Great Job! :tup:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: pianoman9701 on September 17, 2014, 01:21:16 PM
Great shot and the smile on your girl's face says it all. Well done, daddy! If someone doesn't like it, screw 'em! Go post in another thread.  :tup:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: summerb67 on September 17, 2014, 07:00:50 PM
I say damn good shot. :tup:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 18, 2014, 08:12:16 AM
Great shot and the smile on your girl's face says it all. Well done, daddy! If someone doesn't like it, screw 'em! Go post in another thread.  :tup:

 :tup: couldn't have said it better
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on September 18, 2014, 08:29:11 AM
What kind of gap are we talking about with these porch rails? Could this be taken a step further and be considered practice for shooting between some elk ribs? Food plot tulips or maybe some rhodies next year?

Most area building codes say no more that 4 - 4.5" on pickets these days so kids don't get their heads stuck between them :chuckle:


 :yeah:
Title: Re: 2014 Bedroom Buck......
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on September 18, 2014, 08:32:01 AM
What kind of gap are we talking about with these porch rails? Could this be taken a step further and be considered practice for shooting between some elk ribs? Food plot tulips or maybe some rhodies next year?



That's some good ideas? Thanks.
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