Here is a link to watch a giant killed this year in Iowa by muzzleloader. http://trophypursuit.com/specificvideo/17/148.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg7Z4juaGo8
I know some guys don't get to visably excited but I would have probably been doing cartwheels when I found that buck. The guy just seemed kind of glad that he found it.
I think he was in the "Awe and shock" mode... He didn't even know what to do with it. The cameraman was the first one to pick him up!
That is true. he did get excited after the shot. I would have been climbing out that window or something LOL.
From what I gathered, the shooter didn't actually want to shoot that buck for some reason. He indicated strongly at the end of the vid that he was talked into harvesting the deer. Could be a lot of reasons for that but I feel that's why he wasn't all that excited. If he didn't want to shoot it he shouldn't have let the film crew talk him into it. They just wanted to get such an event on camera whereas I expect the shooter was considering implications to his property. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit and he's just a goofy "green hunter", I don't know. In most cases, I think he would have been a fool to let him go unless he owns a hell of a big piece of property.
I didn't take anything he said to mean he was pressured into shooting the buck. It sounded to me that he was thanking for his hunting knowledge and decisions. Best part of the video. IMO, was him passing the shot with a crossbow that most people would have taken without thinking. He knew his limits whether it be a crossbow or muzzleloader. I'm guessing the guy is pretty even keel after seeing that. Everyone shows emotion differently.
Well, I was probably reading more into it than what was there. I thought it odd that he passed on the chip shot the first hunt and then at the end of the vid he made an odd comment about he wasn't going to shoot had it not been for the "advice" of the guy in the blind with him or something to that effect. I took my conclusion based on the culmination of all that and his inexplicable lack of excitement/enthusiasm. Maybe he's just an odd duck.
He seemed pretty excited in the blind after the shot. Heck of a buck, and great restraint on that buck with the crossbow. If he didn't feel comfortable at that distance, he didn't feel comfortable. Hats off to him.
He didn't pass on a chip shot. It was 46 yards and he had a crossbow. He said he was not comfortable making that shot. So, he passed. His comment about advice was due to the fact that the cameraman is also a local wildlife property management specialist that had helped the shooter manage his land.
Yeah I explained in the other thread that I thought he had a shotgun both hunts. I didn't care for the opening commentary dragging out so I had skipped well into the first hunt. Since I knew it was a shotgun kill I assumed the first evening was also with a gun. No, I agree that's not a chip shot with a crossbow.
I am starting to see how you came up with such an odd perspective on this video. You didn't really watch it did you? lol He did not use a shotgun.
I watched while doing other things here in the office in another window, I didn't read the text in the video, I had earbuds in listening to it while working and flipped back to it when it sounded like things got interesting. So yes and no. I skip watched it and listened to most of the parts I didn't actually watch. I guess that's what I get for multi-tasking. I thought I read somewhere (probably an email about the buck) that it was a shotgun kill. I saw the muzzle loader in the vid and assumed it was correct.
