sweet old bill

I hunted in the Kirkwood area for both deer and brown rabits and always saw deer so it can not be a bad area. With all state areas it is best in Spet to do some checking out the land for travel routes of the dder and I am sure you will find some good spots...

If you are talking about in VA, there is lots of state land to hunt. The problem is it is big trees, not much logging to give lots of young trees for the deer. I lived for about 12 years in Manassas and found a place in West VA and it also had state land George Washington natural forrest, and lots of farms in the area that was willing to allow you to bow hunt.

I been shooting my 3D course at 6 am and then spend the rest of the day indoors in the AC. Being retired sure is great when you want to get away fromt he weather. I for 30 + years use to have that drive in and back out from work.

I walk esch day as I shoot my 32 target 3D bow range it is on about 20 acreas of land. My wife goes down town and walks indoors at the medical center, she walks for a full hour and has done wonders for me. It sure is quite in the house during her walking. All kidding aside I think it has to help us older people, at 70 I know I feel a lot better when I can get out and walk.

so you have a used bow for sale ??? good luck with the new one, I shoot it as well and it is a great bow at a good price...I also like the bow tech that was in the same price tag...

I would suggest to you that if you got the Bemen hunter safts that are +- .006 and is about 1/3 the cost of the high prices arrows for you and me we would never see a difference. I had the bow shop for years and some guys only wanted to things and that was it had to be the biggest dollar bow and the most dollars for arrows and or release. They would come in after cashing there wife WIC payment checks or other out of work checks and had to have the best. I would see other hard working guys get the middle of the road bow or arrows and shoot th edaylights out of the high price guys...it all depends on what you want, I still shoot the .006 arrows, they are great compared to my days of shooting the old cedars or fiberglass.

at 70 years young I stil;l shoot a few arrow each day with my compound is now set at 55 lbs. I also do play with recurves that I have a total of 5 bows and the max is 4 bow at 50 lbs to a low of 41 lbs for one of the trad bows. But to hunt I sure take the compound with the sight, release, and a fiber optic scope. My number 1 compound bow is a Hoyt bow that is 5 years old with carbon arrows Bemen hunter 400 size with 2 inch Bohning BH vanes, and 100 gr tip or BH. I also have a single F/O pin and it is a slider sight. I use a tru peep in 1/4 size and also have silencers on the bow string. I use a winn loop release. I still can do well in 3D with the young guys, but due to other physical challenges I just shoot 1/2 the course of on the average of 20 targets. I no longer use tree stands and have to use ground blinds.

I also use to like the little Cincy town bar....I use to live near there for about 12 years and prior to that belonged to a camp in the town of South Ostelic. It was called Outdoor forever, started by a family in Bingham of firemen or police, or state workers..a great bucn of guys. I wish they had a opening I sure would join again. There club was on Warner road, next to 7500 acreas of state hunting lands. I now live in Oneonta and no a free acrea to hunt on, posted or you have to be a son in law or lived there for a 100 years or more to get permission to hunt. I found a great piece of land near were I live and there was a camp on it and for everal years I never saw a person on the land, so I got the deed info and sent a letter to the owner in another state and asked if ok to hunt. got no reply for months, then a formal letter saying No and will have someone there within a week to post total land. I will be driving each day back to North Pharsalia to hunt,l may see you at Bill little bar for lunch if you bow hunt. Bill

The WB rest is a Kiss rest for hunters ( Keep It simple stupid ) Not a l;ot of parts to break in that critical time when that big deer walks by... Bill

great looking bow and wish you well with it... what is the peak weight and draw..... now are you selling your old bow ?

Just for discussion the large hole WB is the best setup I have ever used. I got a new bow and just had one WB in stock at that time that had the big hole for ALum arrows. SO I put it on and found no change in how the rest performed except I got a little faster speed 3 to 5 FPS and no ( zero) ware when I shot 4 inch feathers for indoors and or no ware on my 2 inch BH vanes...I still find the WB for me to be the kiss rest for archery ( keep it simple stupid ) I have a buddy who got another brand and it seems during the summer he has to get new brushes at least 2 to 3 times a season, and another who had to have a drop a way rest, till on opening day of archers on the way in to his stand the string on the drop a way hit a branch and rip off. He never seen it till he picked the bow up to shoot a 8 point buck. Well he was over my house that night to ask me to reset up his old WB rest and told me to scrap out that ( xxxxx) drop a way piece of ( xxxx ) I do find that I like to take the time to makes sure the rest is center shot to the center of the limbs and riser.I have a tool that I purchased years ago that has like two allen keys that go into the limbs with rubber lines that goes from one end to the other so when you put a arrow on the rest you can see that you are center shot. But you can do the same with just two allen keys and a piece of string, then put a arrow in the rest and see if the side of the arrow is against the string, if not move it over...

I just went thru this problem for the first time in shootng for over 40 years. I even had a bow shop for 20 years. I have from past history my own measurement that I set each bow to be the same, put on a good nock point and make sure I get good arrow flight, then check my measurement of were to put the kisser button and then the peep. I went out to shoot and could not find how my 4 pin sight would not come close to getting me on paper at 25 yards, I was a full 3 foot high. I went to a single pin 3D sight Tox sight. I found I still was having problem the arrows for were I should have been 20 to 25 yards was still very high on the sight bar. I finally said to myself the only way is to lower the peep, I did this by closing my eyes and drawing the bow and when I was locked in without the kisser button on the bow I would open them and found the peep was almost a full inch high. I then slid the peep down till when I opened my eye I was looking in the center of the peep. I then put a kisser on and adjusted it to make sure that at full draw I was locked in. I also always place my nose on the string so I have 3 places that work together to give me good form. The reson for change was this is the first bow that is setup with a D-loop and has the new limb design. let us know how you make out.....

put out the flags and it looks like we will have a sunny great day. I have family coming over in the Pm for a cook out and two of my buddies will be hear to shoot 3D targets with the old bow... have a great day... Bill

I am on the cheap side and just use the bemen hunter shafts for both my compound and or recurve. the difference is in how I fletch them, the trad is with 5 inch lw feathers and the compound is with the 2 inch bh vanes.

do it the same way...never put away a gun without cleaning it, part of the hunting experience or lure. I also will even without a round being fired if the gun was out in heavy rain, or snow. Will let it warm up and then clean the outside with a old towel and then run a brush down the barrel with wd 40...or 100% silcon oil.

I hope all have a great holiday with family and friends. Be safe, hope you get to shoot the bow, trap, fish and or just cook out. Being a older fart I do this each day now (70 years young ) I also hope that both the right and left will come together for our country and stop all the bull xxxx. We need them to do the right thing for all of us. I also will say a prayer for all our service people and god bless them all. Be safe I sure take the time on each 4th to think back to my own service Jan 1960 to Nov 1963 USAF and to some of my buddies that were lost in that no war. God bless them all.

the deer in our area seem to look a lot like that with you can see the ribs. I think it was a very hard winter, never got the Jan warmup, lots of deep snow and no a lot of food was around this year.

LOve it I am for about 80% of the list. It sure seems we are a crazy bunch. MY wife keeps hoping I will out grow the Bow hunt but I guess I am going on 70 she may see the light that will not end till they put me in the box and close the lid. I also try to shoot a few arrows every day. Still nopt the greatest shot with the recurve but keep me in top form for my compound bow. Now if only the body would keep me in tree stands like when I was in my 20's...

sure sounds a lot easier than a 5gal pail of alum coat and a pain roller. I use to do this every other year on my camper and also my trailer hunt camp. But never got a leak. show us some photo and tell us how you like it...

Well I am back to spilt finger. JUst seems natural for me. I do not get as good groups, but if just stump shooting I seem to come close to hitting whatever I am shooting at if under 25 yards...

to hell with the grass I now am planting rice... actual is we seem to need to cut about 2 times more than normal with the rain coming it seems very day. My son in law is going nuts due to he con not get hay mowed. it he cuts a field within a hour or two the thunder showers are there. my 3D range I can not use as I can no longer see the targets till he mows the pasture.

I use to have 26 acreas over in North PHarsalia and lived there . I had them do selected cutting on tree over 16 inch in base or higher. They took out ask, maple and some other good hard woods. I made a good piece of change and had them come back in another 4 years to again check out my woods and they cut again...The wood just seemed to explode with the cutting by allowing more light. Were they had draged out the trees, I put into food plots for both the early season and then winter. I seemd also to get so many more deer coming into my areas with the new food sources.

I have shot almost all the newer 2 inch BH vanes and they seem to work as well as the old 4 inch vanes with BH or Tgt points. But again if you are getting good arrow flight and it is also a forgiving setup I sure would not change a thing... As a bow shop owner I sure over the years found some guys just want speed and then they get just crap. I go by the kiss way of doing things...Keep it simple stupid... why mess if you got a good setup. The other is speed kills if you have any archer faults as you shoot. A bad relese with a very fast bow may mean up to 6 inch change at 25 yards. The other I found over the years is a heavy weight shaft / BH setup will give you so much more peneration on game. SO I use carbon arrows with 125 gr points, a little slower but I get the same peneration I use to get with 2117 alum in years past. I use Bemen hunter shafts with 2 inch vanes.

Now when will the DEC have a special for seniors. or you young guys take a old fart hunting....

Lets face it the days of Mom and Pa that would take the time to get the kids out hunting with them and other family members is almost over. Too many single family with kids. Or the needs require both work and also have 2nd job to get a better life style. I sure have to support anything we can do to get the kids into our hunting / fishing, the earlier the better. I know I started going deep seas fishing with my Dad and his buddies at about 8 years old, and those days of fishing for blue when my onlky job was I was the chum guy. At about 12 I started real fishing all over NJ and NY. My dad had a local farm in the catskills he went to hunt a week for deer and about 6 weekends for rabbits with our beagle dog. I could not hunt till 16, but they let me shoot a few rabbits with there guns as the dog was getting the rabbit to come around. Tjose day of being treated as a adult and learning fromn them the ways of the woods made me a fishing / hunting fool for life. nOw at 70 this will be the first year I have not got any young new guys into our sport of archery or hunting. I closed down my bow shop last year and this is were I could get new guys. On the average I in about 20 years got about 5 to 8 young people started each year. Some now stop by with there kids. Those little wood bows that I made and gave away sure helped to get them going. Lets not say that we can not allow a youth hunt in prime time of archery. I think that just the time to get them out there. At my age I let a lot of deer walk now unless they had some great set of horns. I hope there out there and help this old fool drag one in if I got it...