moog5050

coming from SW

Not sure I want to encourage those attributes. Plus, we are both in our 40s now and she is much more gentle now. We all get milder with age. lol It was the best though when she entered her first meet in the US as a complete unknown, beat the number 2 woman in the country, won best lifter and quietly left, never to compete again in the US (pregnant shortly thereafter). That woman was MAD as she expected an easy show-off win! Not only did she win, but pulled her third deadlift to rub it in. I am sure everyone was wondering who was that Latina. Sorry, good memories!

Not to hijack , but true story, I train with a guy that fights MMA and he has told me several times, we need to get your wife in the octagon. We met at a powerlifting meet and she is very strong and intense for a 123lber. I get the Sicilian thing as my family is part Sicilian. lol

Enter from the rd to the north walking south on the east line and hunt the northern stands on a sw and enter from the rd to the west walking the southern boundary on nw wind and hunt the southern stands. Its inevitable that you will blow into some area that deer could be at some point, but use your local knowledge on where they are most likely to enter and avoid blowing in that direction. Heck, if you expect deer to come from the south, you could hunt any of those stands on a west wind. If you know they are coming in from the east, then I would stay with as suggested above.

LOL - it took me three reads of my own comment to figure out what you were saying. Now I have to report you to my wife. She will be quite upset with you and you don't want a full blooded Guatemalan mad at you. yes - she fights my battles for me. And, if you saw her fight, you would step aside too!

Haha. I actually had to reconsider my position once I remembered my grandmother's butterhorn and almond paste cookies.

Obviously easterly winds are your friend but not common up this way. Consider "just off" winds. Like entering from the north west on a SW wind - enter and hunt the north end of the property. on a NW wind, consider using the south of the property. Dead west may be tough for you.

Donuts are always better than cookies. This is a poor example, sorry Elmo.

no doubt some BHs plane more than others Bowguy, but I do think with patience and a consistent shot, they can be tuned together even on fast bows. I prefer the walk back tuning (with both FP and BH) to paper tuning but admit to doing both and bareshaft tuning too (which is best with the trad bows IMO). I am also sure that I overdo it when it comes to tuning.

Those beans at neighbors will be gone come October and all the deer will be at Grows!

I am a tuning junkie for both my recurve and compound, but I do get worried when I start messing with it a month before season. I still adjusted my nock point last night on my recurve because my bare shafts were hitting slightly high at 30yds. I just can't help myself. lol

I will respectfully disagree with Bowguy. The sights don't adjust POI, the sight is adjusted to POI, but you must have the arorws grouping first. Any well tuned bow should be able to shoot bareshafts, field points and broadheads to the same POI. Good enough, may be good enough for most, but my suggestion is that you line up the arrow so that it crosses midway through the berger hole with your nock (d-loop) set so that the arrow is at 90 degrees to the string or up to 1/8 inch high. At that point, aim at the same spot and adjust rest for centershot (FPs and BHs hitting same spot left to right). Do this at least at 30yds but start at 20. They should also be hitting the same poi vertically. If not, slight adjustments to the rest up or down may be required (but they will be small). Then when both FPs and BHs are slapping together, adjust your sight to the grouped POI.

I love a big 6 just as much as a big 8, 10 or 12. Inches be darned.

OK - I understand that you may be upset that you lost the right to hunt the land, but why is leasing any different than limiting who may hunt private lands? Most landowners don't open the door to everyone and to argue that those that lease are less of a conservationist than those with free access seems like it requires a major assumption. I don't really see leasing as any different than selectively deciding who the owner lets hunt his/her land, except the owner is paid. We have exclusive permission on a parcel that I offered to lease (but the owner refused payment) and kill both bucks and plenty of does. I would not hunt it any differently if I leased it or owned it frankly.

cool 6 grow

Good luck with it Rob.

Core Just a suggestion, if you are going to buy land, hold out for some that is close enough to home to hunt for an afternoon and holds good quantity of deer. Even at $500/acre, you won't be happy if you spend 10s of thousands on a parcel that isn't good hunting and reasonably close to home - 2 hour drives back and forth for a one day hunt won't cut it. Keep an eye for something in 8H (I think you live in 8H or 8F) and don't be in a rush. Something will pop up. IMO.\ While agree that we should do what we can to make our hunting areas what we want them to be, I am pretty happy with the lands, opportunities and diversity in NY. I could do without the ridiculous taxes and bloated state government.

Nice deer. Not the best angle, but he does look muscular up front. I will go with 4.

You are shooting good Mike. Good luck out there. A deer is just another target.

Use RF to determine yardage to various trees in the 20 - 40 yd range where you might shoot when there is sufficient light in the AM. In a pinch - try to estimate by looking at 10yd increments. Tape will work too. I have only actually ranged one buck from the stand, the one I killed last year but he was running away at 68yds when I ranged him so it didn't really help. Luckily he came back to some grunts.

Good luck Griz

That's some good shooting first time out for sure. Great job Coach Grampy!

The first year I hunted I borrowed my wife's SUV when hunting and used a tarp and body bag. Still had to clean blood out of her caddy.

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TTT for the discerning marksman - or flat out big game slayer