Couple of first/aha moment

[dewayne]

In my second year of beast hunting I’ve experienced a couple
of new things. Yesterday I went in for a first time sit with a NNW wind and bumped a buck off of..... you guessed it the leeward side of the hill. I didn’t spook him to bad as so I was almost certain he went ~100yards and bedded down. I didn’t get a solid look at him but I could tell he had good length on his main beams so I picked out a tree and set up close to where I thought I went in. So I sat for a little over two hours and nothing, at 6:22 I looked my watch and said I’ll stay until 6:30 and I got to go. 6:30 comes and nothing. I lower my bow, drop my top stick to the ground, take off my next stick, look up and here he comes at 15 yards and starts eating acorns At this point I’m two sticks high and standing the middle peg of my LW stick and that has to be the most uncomfortable thing ever, and all I do is stand and watch. I probably wouldn’t have shot him after getting a better look, he was definitely a stud 2.5y/o and there are better bucks in the area. To end on a question even though I didn’t shoot this deer could I classify this as a bump and dump?

[Brokenarrow1980]

Ya bumped him but didn't dump him lol

[greenhorndave]

I recounted something similar Live From the Field and my journal. For me, it was a bedding lesson and my gut told me to set up and my brain eventually overruled it. The buck showed back up where I was going to set up.

Learning experience.

Also, see Lockdowns post about not packing up early.

[buttonbuck]

In my second year of beast hunting I’ve experienced a couple
of new things. Yesterday I went in for a first time sit with a NNW wind and bumped a buck off of..... you guessed it the leeward side of the hill. I didn’t spook him to bad as so I was almost certain he went ~100yards and bedded down. I didn’t get a solid look at him but I could tell he had good length on his main beams so I picked out a tree and set up close to where I thought I went in. So I sat for a little over two hours and nothing, at 6:22 I looked my watch and said I’ll stay until 6:30 and I got to go. 6:30 comes and nothing. I lower my bow, drop my top stick to the ground, take off my next stick, look up and here he comes at 15 yards and starts eating acorns At this point I’m two sticks high and standing the middle peg of my LW stick and that has to be the most uncomfortable thing ever, and all I do is stand and watch. I probably wouldn’t have shot him after getting a better look, he was definitely a stud 2.5y/o and there are better bucks in the area. To end on a question even though I didn’t shoot this deer could I classify this as a bump and dump?

I'm not an expert. But I have taken some advice from Warren Womack on staying in your stand till absolute dark every sit. I have had many encounters now living by that rule. About the only thing that would get me out of a set up early is wind shifts or erratic wind.

Look up Warren's podcasts on you tube. There great. https://youtu.be/JFharFHKEDs

[dewayne]

Ya bumped him but didn't dump him lol

Lol definitely no dump

[dewayne]

I recounted something similar Live From the Field and my journal. For me, it was a bedding lesson and my gut told me to set up and my brain eventually overruled it. The buck showed back up where I was going to set up.

Learning experience.

Also, see Lockdowns post about not packing up early.

I’m hunting on a military base and we have to be signed out by certain time every day, if not we are bared from hunting for two weeks and I didn’t want to chance not be able to hunt this week.

[greenhorndave]

I recounted something similar Live From the Field and my journal. For me, it was a bedding lesson and my gut told me to set up and my brain eventually overruled it. The buck showed back up where I was going to set up.

Learning experience.

Also, see Lockdowns post about not packing up early.

I’m hunting on a military base and we have to be signed out by certain time every day, if not we are bared from hunting for two weeks and I didn’t want to chance not be able to hunt this week.

Well, not the best situation, but I guess it's a little better knowing that it's beyond your control to have an earlier closing time.

[dewayne]

I recounted something similar Live From the Field and my journal. For me, it was a bedding lesson and my gut told me to set up and my brain eventually overruled it. The buck showed back up where I was going to set up.

Learning experience.

Also, see Lockdowns post about not packing up early.

I’m hunting on a military base and we have to be signed out by certain time every day, if not we are bared from hunting for two weeks and I didn’t want to chance not be able to hunt this week.

Well, not the best situation, but I guess it's a little better knowing that it's beyond your control to have an earlier closing time.

Yeah I definitely would have stuck it out until dark.