sweet old bill

I have and will use from a fresh kill the pee. I use to own / operate a bow shop and would buy fresh local deer pee or sex lure from a local deer farm the key per the deer farm owner was to keep the pee in a dark cool place till you wanted to use. DO not put on the dash boards of your car or truck or on a window sill otherwise what you gt is crap. One guy came in and purchased a bottle of the doe sex lure and asked how fresh it was, I told him made within the week and If he was going to put the bottle in his back pocket I would not ensure he making it safely to his truck...we got a few HA, Ha, but he had the last one for that year two days later he toop a 14 point buck in the figer lakes at 12 yards as the buck came back to his scrape area and followed the lure past the archer. SO year fresh pee I will use and it does work.

I use snow proof on my leather boots and they seem to keep my feet dry..there may me many other products on the market the other one I use all the time is mink oil works the same as the snow proof but also seems to make the leather softer.

at 69 years young growing old sucks, the mind is willing but some days the body is not. Now in the area of bow hunting one of the best ideas that I use is have a small feather tied on the bow ( either trad or compound ) so you can see as you sit in your ground blind and or tree stand any changes in the wind. If you use a new drop a way rest plan on not using your bow to push brush away from you if you are taking a walk. A guy stopped by and asked if I could change and setup his bow for his old WB rest. Seems he pulled off of the drop a way rest the cord that make it go up and down during a walk into his hot new stand. The first time he was aware of the proble was when a 8 point buck walked pass his tree stand at 15 yards and the rest would nopt do anything. myself I found that being retired I try to shoot every oher day a few arrows to keep up my shooting eye and also bow arm / shoulder strength .

I either will use my checkmate firebird at 49 lbs at 28 inch or my Martin hunter at 45 lbs, both these recurves are ready to go. My problem is I still feel that I am not good enough to hunt with them. I have to keep my shots under 15 yards or better. SO I hunt a few days when the rut is on with them. But most times I will take my compound that has the peep. kiser, fiber optic sight, and release. I use the same brand of arrows on both the easton carbon shafts. I also am a older hunter (69 ) and the compound I have set for 80% let off. I just wish I could find another trad hunter in the area to shoot with. Gets tied shooting on my own.

That due to in your county they are now all the city folk, now across the river in Orange county they still use them and were I now live ( Delware county ) I have a jacket that is pine green and dark green wool pant ( logging pants ) that I use for bow, also a red / black check coat and pants. That I use when it is real cold. I do think wool is still the best you can have to stay warm....By the way I was thankful that IBM hired me in 1965 at Fiskill, I use to hunt just outside of town but must be just about built over now....

HI I purchased some a few years ago and just could not seem to get them to work. A buddy came over and siad let me install and have you shoot a bag target. The nock lit up, and he then showed me how to get the light to go off. SO I now have 3 arrows in the bow quiver with the light attached. I also went and got the new vanes they say, can be seen in flight, $ 12.95 for 36 vanes, they saw me coming. They do as you look at the vanes at full draw seem to have a glow about them but forget it when you release. NO even close to what you see with a lighted nock...

Leaves are turning as we had light frost two days last week on the house. I can see they are more brown this year and some have the leaves just about off due to the rain and wind. I also am starting to see some scrapes on the edge of the pasture.

When I shot NFAA with a 5 pin sight I would go from 20 yards,30,40,50, and 60. But for hunting I just use 3 pins and they are setup 25,35, and 45... If I was going to use 4 pins I guess I would go 20,30,40, and 50.... my biggest problem with 5 oins is these new bow the pins are to close together and my older eyes they tend to blur together in early light and last light or in direct sunlight. I have on several of my bows gone to cheap single pin FO slider sight. I preset at 25 yards and it has been years since I had to change the setting when hunting in NY woods. Just to much brush to get them real long shots and also I now hunt out of ground natural blinds. If you hunt tree stand you may get better or longer shots...

Once a guy get the bug a new bow will be on the way. I also had a new bow one year and got ready to shoot the senior 900 round. I was leading in my age group with 9 arrow to go and the wonderfull new bow the cable blew up. I took no other score and still had not that bad a score. But you know as I packed the car said how come you no taking your old bow with you. Of course I said no need the new bow is just super....right super. How come the wife is right there when you screw up. I sure wish that was a day I had taken her suggestion to pack that old piece of iron and have it at the shoot. SO now when I go to local shoots I have the backup bow with me all the time...

Being 69 I sure miss the hunting camp of the past. My hunting buddies have passed away and the camp was sold off by the family to LI city folk for a summer home, I have 26 acreas in back of my house to hunt, so I got for about a total of 6 hours per day. I like the first 2 hours prior to light and then the last 4 hours to sit in several ground blinds I have made up. But sure do miss the getting ready for the season at the hunt club, the pre scouting, getting the camp ready, cutting the woods for the wood stove, the actual hunt were lots of the stumps in the woods had names for past kills or hunters, These were the older guys from WWII that hunted with the red / black wool outfits or solid green wool. Several of them also smoked the old black cigars, that as a kid would make my eye tear. I can think back so many years and still see that first time I was able to get a buck at camp, a 303 cal. that was left off from the war, that I had cut down the stock and redid it, The buck walked out about 60 yards from were I was sitting and it was in the last light of the day in the catskills, I put the gun agains a big maple and squezed off a shot and down he went. My Dad was the first to come over, and then several of the other older guys who then described out to clean the deer. They had a special prayer for the deer that was handed down year after year on someone taking there first deer. That was in 1960, or 51 years ago and if I close my eye it seems like yesterday. I wish all to have a great hunt this year and if you can take a kid hunting and get a new hunter started so our sport does not die out.

I ma like DOm I have the backpack withg extra sweatshirt, qt of coffee and some type of snackl if I plan to sit all day then I will also pack a sandwich or two... You do not get to be 3 xl just drinking water...

good looking arrows, what the price per doz....raw shafts

I was a member for years in a hunt club called outoodrs forever. We had a log book that was on the table that was used to show who was in camp as well asw what area they hunted, weather, temp, number of deer seen and if they took any other wild game etc. It got that you could look back for several years and see patterns to what were the better areas to hunt, what day in the month of Oct that the start of the chase but rut on average took place and also when the full rut was on. We had 7500 acreas of state land to hunt. A road that went for about 4 miles and then had a turn around. A great bunch of guys and all shared in the work parties to keep the club going..

Being retired I go out each day except Sunday for the fiorst 2 hours in the morning and the last two prior to dark. I sit in ground blinds as I no longer can get into tree stands ( had a fall that broke my right leg in 9 places ) During the gun season the first 3 days I will sit most of the day, but later will go back to the bow time schedule. I do not hunt the BP and or the late4 week of bow, just to cold for me at 69 years young. Now I call all my activity hunting my wife calls them Bill time taking Naps in the woods. As I also carry a book in the back pack to read if nothing is going on. I also no longer shoot doe's. My area of NY ( Oneonta) the deer herd has been just about shot out due to the way the regs work now, seems everyone just gets to shoot several deer, and we also have a very big problem coyote's. I found again this sppring in our back pasture were I have my ground blinds and also my 3D range over 6 fawns killed off my the coyote. I sure will shot them when I see them if they are in season, I have asked the DEC to make the coyote a open season to kill some of them off. This is under consideration so they tell me. good hunting to all and be safe Bill

sorry to say but I went back last friday after my order came in to order for my son in law and grand son and they now are sold out...

I am lucky that I have the 32 3D target so I shoot them several times a week and also have the ability to shoot out to 65 yards. I like if I am not going to shoot the 3D to just take one shoot starting at 20 yards and then keep walking back and shooting arrows till I have shot a total of 6 arrows that takes me out to 45 yards and I have a 3 pin sight on the hoyt bows. I have the pin setup for 25 , 35 and 45 yards and anything in between I just gap shoot. My bigggest issue is not with being high or low but for some reson as I go back I drift to the left. I have to make sure I take the time to just lock in and squeeze off the release.

I am like a lot of you I carry a backup release in the backpack and I sure do also practice with it.

I got a new slide and guess what after $14.95 spent for a new NAP slide, they still touch. SO will make sure they are kept waxed and the bow is shooting great groups now so if I miss it me and not the bow.

I just use the doe blet. I never had a buck come in for a rattle or even grunt tubes calling. But the doe blet seems to just give deer a interest to see what is there and they will walk over.

I use to shoot NFAA and you shot from 10 yards to 80 yards. I am in the top A class and sure you put a arrow into a target at 65 yards. BUt that was target in a survey done by the NY DEC years ago almost 80% of deer taken was under 20 yards, another 15% was over 20 years and less than 30 yards and then the rest was like 0ver 30 but less than 40 yards. Now if I had a tool to measure the distance and was a killed archer in total open I may shoot, but I no longer shoot like that. Hell I let a lot walk at under 25 yards due to brush in the way or the change of hitting a twig during first light or last light.

100 gr for the compound bow and 125 gr for the recurve

I got a new bow and I see that the cable touch one to the other about 4 inches below the slide. The bow is shooting great but is this a problem. I wax the string and cables and see not ware or damage. I have another slide on order to see if this resolves the issue.

I just shoot out to 35 yards and that about it for me. I shoot all year long and do get good groups from 35 yards and in. I also shoot 3D's most weekends and also one time during the mid week. I have one new bow that so far is just giving me problems, setup at 56 lbs and 28 inch draw. I seem to get 6 arrows out of 9 that look just great but those other 3 can be all high. It like I am not coming back to full draw and or over drawing. I have a kisser and peep on the string. My other bows all shoot very well and never had anything like this occur with them. They are 2 hoyt and 2 alpines...High country is the problem...

when I had the bow shop the biggest problem was finding time to shoot and or scout for deer. Now retired I try to shoot a few arrows each day. I think we owe it to the deer to be in good shape and be able to hit a deer target in the kill zone.

Hi I was told on onother site about this sale and went on to cabela site and found the items they seem to have all sizes and the price is just outstanding so I put in a order. check out the items and you may be able to save a few bucks. A.G.O. insulated park 933262 norm price $114 and is on sale at a close out in the natural gear camo for $17.88 A.G.O. insultaed bibs norm price $99 and is on sale for $14.88 in color natural gear camo several of the other guys already had got this sale in and said the quality of the items were very good. my total price for the parka and bids were $ 32.86 and then $9 shipping not a bad price under $42 for a new outfit in my 3 xl... Bill