Tough teachings...

[Luke]

I was recalling the other day of several students I've taught over the years whom I found to be very frustrating to teach.

I have however never ever come across someone who I have taken out hunting for their first time hunting experience that was not keen to learn absolutely as much as they could. On each time I have found my "student" to be like a sponge, asking questions and soaking up answers as well as looking to learn from those other hunters accompanying them both in field and in camp at every opportunity.

I was wondering if anyone out there has noticed this unique, seemingly uniform characteristic of newbie bowhunters...or....if you've got a tale that might put my myth and the illusion to sleep?

Luke 8)

[Puk]

Looks like you just volunteered to teach Hefty, Luke.
That will be the long and the short of it... :lol:

I don't consider myself an experienced bowhunter by any means but i have had one trip where the guy i took out wouldn't hunt, he would just shoot. He had a range of 20 metres, and couldn't get close enough, so he kept taking shots from 40 metres away when he had no hope. He lost or destroyed 18 arrows in the rocks in 6 days. It was so frustrating i had to leave him alone and go and hunt somewhere else away from him.

In the same time i only took two shots and harvested one nanny. The difference between hunting or not i reckon. He doesn't seem to have a hunter's patience. :(

The day you stop learning is the day you die i reckon.
Puk

[rinaldo]

Tough Teachings. I must admit I checked with Frisky to make it sure was ok to write this story as I didn’t want to embarrass him in front of his peers being he is the man in question, he gave me his blessing to proceed.
Frisky drove 2 ½ hours to get to my place as I had invited him on a hunt with Johnno and myself, this was going to be his first hunt.
We were going to meet Johnno at the archery range then proceed to our hunting destination, while we were waiting for Johnno we sited in our broadheads. After watching Frisky shoot for a while both Johnno and I felt that more practice was needed before Frisky could harvest an animal with a bow, we then explained the situation to Frisky. As he had traveled a couple of hours to get there we were not going to send him home but advised that maybe he should not take a shot unless he got to within 10 meters, he took it this very well and even offered to leave his bow behind and come hunting and just practice his stalking. We were both very impressed with his answer and said that it would not be necessary.

We had a great couple of days and I hope Frisky got a lot out of it, I know I did. Another lesson he learnt was that Tuskers straight out of the packet are not sharp enough to hunt with no matter what the clown behind the counter says, I had a mate show him how to get them razor sharp using a Razors Edge and a Steel. Frisky is currently looking for an archery coach can someone point him to a GOOD archery coach in the Gong area.

[johnno]

I also fully echo the sentiments as expressed by Rin. I would also like to add that having witnessed first hand the extent of humility and the level of ethics as displayed by Frisky, I have no doubts that with some practice in his archery skills he will make an A grade bowhunter. :D

[frisky]

thanks for the kind words guys i verry mutch enjoyed joining you on your hunt and have learnt alot from the trip and am glad i went. :D

thanks again for a great trip guys :D

ps. as rin said im looking for someone to coach me in the wollongong area.

[Luke]

Sounds like the start of a good learning curve for you Frisky ;)

Does anyone have any horror stories? :shock: