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I just use an app on my phone to measure distance to roads houses , how far I walk , measure acrage and so on . Easy to show a cop a photo of the area with distances to a yard or so,if needed. Here's where I did the acrage of one of my hunting spots.

Thanks , I also had a dill pickle , but could not find a green colored pencil . Sometimes we tend to get too serious and worked up over hunting , I like to break stones and laugh, often at myself .....

Homemade pierogi and venison pepper jack hotdogs from Costanzas . Forgot to take a picture so I had to draw from memory .....

Or as my Father-in-Law used to say, " buy the best cry only once . "

I thought this thread was about my last visit to Urgent Care !

Lots of good advice. Roadkill , drawing while on stand is a good thing to , I always do it frist thing to make sure I've got clearance of limbs and vines . DB brings up another good point, draw on deer every chance you get . You'll learn how and when to move . I always shoot a field point from stand , pick a root, leaf , green piece of moss and shoot it. ( beware of moss covered rocks....) I pick a target farther away the I would normally shoot or one I have to drop to clear a limb or something .This year I plan on bringing a couple extra field points to swap out the broadheads prior to climbing down , to give me additional practice from stand. Steve D so true. I have a couple bow hunting friends out West. They go stump shooting and one guy can hit a leaf at 30 yards , but he misses Elk completely , it really frustrates the other guy .

Nice haul ! A lot of deads as a ratio to sheds , do you think road kills ( near expressways and so on ) or just poor hunters ?

I was going to start a "mountain lion" or "full Xbow inclusion" thread . But I'd rather be original .

Just add water ! Seems all I can find are dinks this year, well one could say it's harder to find the small ones I guess ! Walked about 2 1/2 hours found these 3. All along hedgerows 2 maybe 20 feet apart .

I know a guy who only shoots one arrow per shooting session . Bow by back door , shoots when when he gets up, leaves for work, comes home and so on. His thing is it's easy to walk an arrow in after seeing where the first hits . Like golf you get one drive, but guys go to a range mess up the first one then adjust and do better, but in reality that first one is the only one that counts.

Me too !

Saw about 40 in back yards tonight . Not much of a turkey Hunter myself , I've killed a few Toms , but i average less then a couple hunts a year . I will say though , one of my buddies gets up his normal time eats breakfast and heads out , he kills Toms every year . I tend to do the same when I do go ,I hate getting getting up so early to beat them flying down .

I like the way you practice Steve . I don't like shooting at the same spot either , to many damaged vanes and knocks. Where we differ is I see little change in poi from a stand or ground . The difference I see , and why I practice from a stand is the placement of feet on the Stand as opposed the the ground and drawing while backed against the tree . Btw I have hunted Ontario county for close to 30 years , near the old Creekside gun shop, you close ?

Great pics ! I just drove to my accountants house, in one half mile stretch here in Webster I saw at least 40 birds . Not much of a turkey Hunter but I May even go a time or two this year. Who knows may find a shed .

I'll give your test a try, but I generally don't shoot my bow till August or so.... If I can't keep 4 out of 5 arrows inside a 6 inch group my first try , I'll hang it up for good . Had to pull this off my Instagram , these were my first 3 arrows of the year a couple season ago, 1 at 20,30 and 40 yards .

I don't care one way or another about Xbows . But then I honestly don't think killing a deer with a compound is that hard of a thing to do if you hunt a high population area .

I'm really inspired by the success of you guys, and hope to get out Friday morning , weather permitting .

Confirmed person shot on Lux st, just now , unknown if he was wearing Hunter orange or not .

No hunting fatalities last season? We killed a boat load of deer !

Happy Birthday ! One week and a couple decades from mine .....

When I started bow hunting I worked on a shipping dock / warehouse , all day I would pace off distance to I beams, tow motors, heck a piece of trash on the floor. To,this day it's hard to even walk my dog around the block and not pace off distance to Mailboxes . It's an easy skill to master bow distances .My traditional friends make fun of me for having " training wheels" on my bow , can't imagine what would happen if I pulled out range finder!

I thought he wanted to quit ......

Close to 30 years of bow hunting ,and killing deer most every year , never used one . Nothing against them, but for me at the ranges I shoot there is not any need . My longest shot was 25 yards and I pratice ranging as I walk constantly , although with today's bows they're close to single pin out to 40 anyway and my average shot is got to be 15 yards max.

Welcome , Frank ! If 14619 is you're zip code, we' re not far apart . Lots of guys from the area here.

It's on the side of a steep hill ... Son of a gun to,use a climber on !