Doc

Great picture. Love the quality! What was the make/model of the camera.

Actually, for field tips there are a jillion different targets that will do a decent job of stopping a lot of arrows. I am really curious about those targets that will stop broadheads without being shot up almost immediately. I haven't really found one that will do that yet. Most are way too expensive for the number of broadhead shots that you can take without having them begin to "leak".

There is a little side issue that bothers me too. If Cuomo (and other politicians) are so blatant and bold about pilfering such high visibility U.S. funds, one has to wonder how much of the less visible DEC funding is being misappropriated.

Seems as though that should be mounted on a frame with wheels and come with a remote control. I'm surprised there wasn't one or two dislocated shoulders.

My problem with 3-D targets is that you essentially have just one aiming spot. That can be murder on arrows. and broadheads makes arrow damage (destruction) almost a certainty.

Yeah, it's going to wind up a wrestling match between function and cost. I am starting to lean more toward getting more than one of them ..... maybe as many as three. So I can't get too "high-end". That $60 price tag makes the D-50 a real attractive unit. I have quite a chunk wrapped up in my IR cameras for deer, so now I am starting to get a little more sensitive to price on any additional cameras I buy. But then I have quite a bit of time to make up my mind, and I really do appreciate all the suggestions.

Yes and upon taking a second look, I have decided that he is walking on his tip-toes. That's why I didn't recognize them when I first checked the picture. They do this to disguise their footprints to look like squirrel tracks.

Yup, the "home brew" choice looks like the best way to get the best pictures ( http://www.chasingame.com/index.php?id=41 ) . However, being the cheap skin-flint that I am, I can see the cost getting out of hand. Also, I would probably like to have 2 or more in operation. Also, I'm not sure I could actually handle all the know-how required to successfully pull it off. So I'm probably back to the commercially grown trail-cams. I'll take a look at the Moultrie versions.

Bill - What's the broadhead target made of? How long does it last? I'm always looking for a good broadhead target that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and that lasts for a while. Right now, I am using those cheapy styrofoam targets that Walmart sells (actually their price has been creeping up a bit in the last year or two). I usually get a couple of years out of them, but there is quite a mess left behind and I have to keep my broadhead practice to a minimum.

I see the multi-flora rose has gotten a real good foot-hold in that one spot. That's some pretty mean stuff but good for rabbits. Do the dogs ever get those thorns in their paws?

Ok, I'm going to be putting deer aside for a while and try to get some good wildlife pictures down at the creek (swamp) ...... beavers, muskrats, mink, weasels, waterfowl and any other critters that hang around a swamp. Probably start doing that in the spring. Since I'm not concerned about affecting travel patterns like I am with deer, and since I am concerned with good quality pictures, I am looking to purchase the regular white-flash version of a trail cam. IR is out for this purchase. Perhaps if the price is right, I might be looking at more than one. Anybody got any recommendations?

Anybody doubt for a minute that that deer knows exactly where that camera is? ...... lol. She's got it pegged for sure.

Yes, it can be irritating as hell when you do everthing exactly the way The "experts" describe, or exactly the way it has worked all your life and things just refuse to cooperate. Each bow seems to be a unique case with its own tricks and peculiarities.

That's what I was wondering about as I watched the program. How does a guy go from doing something like that with the constant adrenalin rush to holding down a 9-to-5 job in society? Do they ever really get successfully re-absorbed into society?

It all turned out good here. I had a huge widow-maker hanging from one of my trees over on the side of the front yard. Wasn't sure how I was going to get it down. It's down now thanks to the wind. It might not be such great news up on the hill. The ATV trail up the hill might require a bit of work.

There pretty clearly is a hole and a complete break in the rib. I think I would have to work pretty hard to imagine that as anything other than a slug hole. Cars will break ribs but not leave a nice round hole behind. Crows, buzzards, coyotes and foxes do not eat holes through ribs. In fact when carrion eaters are finished with a carcass, the ribcage is usually intact. Certainly they do not start out that early in the process by burrowing a small hole through a rib. No, if you are going to make any assumptions about how this critter met its end, a bullet/slug wound is probably a pretty safe bet. What the circumstances around that are, is anybody's guess.

This should be required viewing in our schools. Maybe it would provide some small form of balance in the way such things are portrayed to our youngsters.

It does sound like the work of dogs. When they got into our sheep, it was obvious that they were doing it for "sport". They just chased, killed (or wounded) and then moved on to the next one and then finally left without eating any of them. I would not expect that behavior of coyotes. They are in it for the food.

The shooting is relaxing for sure. And the tuning is fairly relaxing too as long as everything is proceding according the plan. But I have run into some problems that seemed to defy normal bow tuning science. That was NOT relaxing at all ..... lol. I have a shortage on patience sometimes.

I'm quite sure those are squirrel tracks.

Are you sure that's not a mink or an otter?

Most likely, it is all food-related. As soon as the snow buries everything green, they have to cover more ground looking for food. I did notice a lot of areas where they are pawing through the snow, and have to work off some calories just to get a bit of calory intake. The way this year has been, this is pretty much the first time they have had any extended period of snow cover (at least in my area).

So is a sasquatch called bigfoot because it only has one big foot. If it has two big feet shouldn't it be called a "bigfeet"? Which of course brings up another question ...... Is the plural of sasquatches "bigfeet"?

This is likely the most intelligent response that I have seen on this whole thread, and I fully expect to see no rebuttal for this one. Chances are good that this comment will be purposely ignored.

Actually, I get more of a kick out of catching the occasional photo of some of these other critters rather than just looking at one deer after another. There is something fascinating about seeing just what is cruising around out there when you're not there. In fact as soon as I get a chance, I am going to pick up one or two "flash" trail cams (IR cams just don't cut it as far as artsy-fartsy quality is concerned) so I can get a few good quality critter pictures....... Probably next spring. I want to check out the swamp across the road.