Walking in the woods with your bow...

[WNYBuckHunter]

What, you dont go up the tree with your bow in hand, arrow nocked? Wuss...

[ELMER J. FUDD]

I voted yes. However I only do it if there are deer close by. I must have knocked and re-nocked 4 times Monday.

Edited October 4, 2012 by ELMER J. FUDD

[oblivitar]

Same as Mac said

[SteveNY]

Very interesting on the voting polls...

I'm glad I made this thread.

[mxsmitz201]

Ill have an arrow nocked if i still hunt my way back from a stand and always when i get down after a morning hunt. Almost got a beauty 8 point last year doing this but a doe winded me and he immediatley found cover.

[Hunter1]

most of the time except dark,climbing an thick cover.

[ATbuckhunter]

I do because you never know what might happen!

[SteveNY]

I do because you never know what might happen!

Well that goes both ways. I don't because you never know what might happen!

[nybuckboy]

I think you need to clarify this. If I am still hunting or walking from stand to stand then yes. Or like the one poster said. if he often see deer when approaching a certain stand. Otherwise no. If I'm walking back to the 4 wheeler than no. I hunt using my 4 wheeler so I ride out into the area, mostly field edges, I am hunting and then several hundred yards or less sometime I walk in from there.

Edited October 7, 2012 by nybuckboy

[Guns&ReligionCop]

I don't walk with a arrow nocked but if I did friday night I would hav e had a shot at a doe, just saying

[Tim Martin]

Hard to still hunt without one nocked up and ready to let fly. If I'm just walking to my stand in the dark, of course not. If it is light out and I can see around me, and where I'm walking ... the game is on!

Not everyone sits in a tree or blind everyday. I get bored, and like to still hunt, and try to continue my scouting throughout the season.

[arrow nocker]

usually in quiver.but there is a part of my trail i like to have one nocked for that "just in case"situation.But i never had the chance of killling one doing it.Would love to stalk one down one day with me bow tho.

[josephmrtn]

i dont cause i dont bowhunt i want to get into it some day but killing a buck is higher on my list than bow hunting (hopefully i fufill that dream this yr)

[UA22Plumber]

Like others i don't nock an arrow in the dark, but the mid day walk to and from I nock one.

[wdswtr]

Nope, used to in the younger begining years. That was until a buddy came back from hunting at camp with a a nasty cut and a sliced string after taking a spill with a nocked arrow. If you come upon a deer anyways and dont have the time to pull an arrow out of your quiver and nock it, well I think you probably wouldnt have the time to raise your bow and make an ethical shot to begin with. Just my opinion but why take a chance of a broahead stuck in you? Play it safe and smart is what I think.

[HuntOrBeHunted]

I'm normally walking in the dark so no way would I have a arrow nocked.

Wouldn't want something silly to happen resulting in the loss of a finger or something.

No deer is worth a nasty cut from fresh razors on my broadhead.

Bill.