Using Your Bowhunting Failures To Your Advantage

[@RobertEatonOutdoors]

This is a very encouraging video to help with bow season being right around the corner!

[@SamkoTradBow]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@sarafayelawton652]

Love these videos as much as your hunts. They make me think. Thanks, Jason!

[@SamkoTradBow]

@@sarafayelawton652 thank you. Love hearing that

[@gunghobows]

Good conversation!! I've always said you learn more from unsuccessful hunts than successful.

[@SamkoTradBow]

@@gunghobows agree 100

[@anthonyforfare7223]

I learn more from my failures than I ever will learn from my successes 😊🤔👍

[@SamkoTradBow]

@@anthonyforfare7223 agree 100

[@journeyman7189]

Good pep talk Jason. Well needed. We have only seen 3 deer in the last 5 years and only put one down. Lots of tracks, scat and rubs but its like they disappear during season. Frustrating for sure. Nate

[@SamkoTradBow]

Yep its amazing how well these critters can avoid us..lol. But sure beats being at work.

[@journeyman7189]

@@SamkoTradBow A bad day in the woods beats the best day in the office lol

[@SamkoTradBow]

@@journeyman7189 agree

[@OldDerelict]

This is another video with great advice. Please let me know if you ever find a cure for your buck fever! I've known several bowhunters who suffered from buck fever but none who entirely beat it. I've also known a small group of bowhunters who have what I call "killer instinct." These folks always seem to shoot more accurately at the game animals than the can of targets. I'm fortunate that I fall into this group. I find it challenging to describe precisely what makes the difference. My concentration level is far greater when shooting at an animal. When I draw on an animal, I 'know' that I will make the shot, even though I sometimes don't, and I am always surprised when I don't. I love your advice about staying at it, trying repeatedly until you succeed. I've always termed this "stupid persistence." Never give up, never surrender! It works.

[@SamkoTradBow]

@OldDerelict yep I think for people that don't have buck fever it's because in the heat of thr moment they end up focusing harder. Where as us with buck fever start to fall apart. Love the last paragraph. Very true!

[@OldDerelict]

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[@Bad_BowHunter]

I just had this conversation with my 11 year old. We hiked 4 miles and didn't see any hogs, plenty of sign just didn't see anything.

[@SamkoTradBow]

@Bad_BowHunter yep that the reality of hunting. And there is power in that reality

[@robiehiott7256]

Good stuff! Thanks!!

[@chickimac1]

Good looking Jeep, Jason👍😎 Oh by the way I have been getting frustrated with my new house from sorry contractor work. You have giving me a lift, things aren’t always peachy and good

[@SamkoTradBow]

Thanks, love the jeep. Been there on the crappy contractor work. its sucks.

[@MY_OUTDOORS.]

One of my top favorite hunting channels. Love your honest reviews and down to earth tips and suggestions. Thanks so much for all the great content.

[@SamkoTradBow]

@@MY_OUTDOORS. thank you

[@cpasvogel8373]

Thanks!

[@SamkoTradBow]

@cpasvogel8373 my first ever super on those channel! Thank you! Just made my day!

[@allencross3599]

Do you have a video of your top bows you like? also maybe you could do (If you don't have) a intro to hunting series, you take us out show was what you look for, finding trails, setting up just anything that is 101 hunting with a bow :D I grew up father figure-less so I had to learn hunting on my own, this might help others start or current hunters find out something they may not know.

[@SamkoTradBow]

Great ideas. for the hunitng how to I have a bunch of videos on here under the "deer hunting playlist". as for top bows, I never met a bow I didnt like. But I also am not the kinda guy that has different ones. I have been shooting the same northern mist classics for 10 years and shot my robertson long bows for 8 years before that. So I am more of a one bow kinda guy and stick with it for a long time.

[@FDRGREG]

Enjoy your day. Live it. Your success and a good day doesn’t necessarily need be defined by killing something. Let it come to you and soak up God’s blessing to you. Give your ego a break too. Stay humble, thankful, and it will happen.

[@SamkoTradBow]

Well said

[@robshipley7543]

I’ve had a couple of seasons where I didn’t see anything for weeks all on mountain public grounds as far as buck fever I suffer from it bad if I killed everyone I ever missed because of it I’d be in the bow hunter hall of fame 😂

[@SamkoTradBow]

Yep buck fever is brutal.

[@DixieBowhunter-m5g]

Bad things are going to happen.

[@SamkoTradBow]

very true

[@Coyote5555]

Realistic expectations I say

[@SamkoTradBow]

@@Coyote5555 very true