nocked when walking to stand for evening hunts..

[systemnt]

Sittin in the garage looking at the topo's for our lease looking at alternative walking routes, and remembered last season that i walked to the stand in the afternoon and kept an arrow nocked...just in case I jumped one walking in..

anyone else do that or am i just that neurotic...?

[Mike Javi Cooper]

only if I stalking and close enough to shoot... I got a real nice scar from tripping and falling on an arrow that was nocked when I was about 12... point stuck in the ground and I fell on the nock end... went into my arm pit to the bone... Pretty much learned my lesson with that one.

[systemnt]

only if I stalking and close enough to shoot... I got a real nice scar from tripping and falling on an arrow that was nocked when I was about 12... point stuck in the ground and I fell on the nock end... went into my arm pit to the bone... Pretty much learned my lesson with that one.

Come to think of it..I had a pretty close call last year like that.......didn't get injured but the what-if's started flowing in my mind as I sat in the stand..

[spur]

Nope I did about 15 years ago and while climbing on stand cut my cables and string with the broadhead.......game over. I dont pull it out until I am fully seated.

[ccolley68]

I do once I get close. I won't for the majority of the walk, but once I get about a hundred yards from the stand, I will walk very carefully and quietly, you never know when one may be close and not know you're there.

[bscooten1974]

not me, guess i dont have that far to walk though

[cooksomerice]

Never. Only b/c you could fall and draw first blood on yourself.

[Ricky T]

The chances of you getting an arrow in an alert deer on the walk in are slim. Not impossible, but slim. Walking with an arrow nocked is asking for it. Usually your arrows are close enough so that if you were gonna get a shot with a nocked arrow, you've usually got time to grab one from the quiver and load it.

[Landrover]

The chances of you getting an arrow in an alert deer on the walk in are slim. Not impossible, but slim. Walking with an arrow nocked is asking for it. Usually your arrows are close enough so that if you were gonna get a shot with a nocked arrow, you've usually got time to grab one from the quiver and load it.

U beat me to it! I agree totally!

[SanAngeloBowman]

Done it MANY times. I would run into deer everytime I went to this certain blind and I had a very flat nice well marked trail and I knew every twist, turn, and tree branch on the trail. I wouldn't recommend doing it however if its a new stand you arent familiar with getting to in low light. We are all adults here (mostly) so if ya do something and get hurt its only your own fault. I guess I just considered it stalking (hunting) on my way to my stand like any other stalk.

[slayer]

I do, shot a pig sitting by my tripod. He never saw or heard me. Thwack, down pig and I climbed into the blind for the deer hunt. Just have to be careful, don't rush, no different than having a bullet in the gun ready to go. . . just my opinion though!

[The Crippler]

I dont pull it out until I am fully seated.

signature anyone?

[krausejmk]

signature anyone?

haha

[Snakelover]

If someone is truly still hunting their way to a stand, they will be moving EXTREMELY slowly, in which case it is perfectly safe to have an arrow nocked and ready. But true still hunting is almost a lost art and, to tell you the truth, I seldom have the patience for it. I normally wait until I'm in the stand to nock an arrow.

[spur]

signature anyone?

Oh here we go...... I should have known better around this bunch and Im a veteran.