Nomad

Webster had a few hard rain showers today, like one right now.Wife in E.Roch said down pour there too. Great i was going down early tomorrow to put up last ladder and fine tune another,I hate wet woods.

I mark mine with a metal scribe,finer line and won't wipe/wash off .Thanks for the info though ! I just bring mine to Phil every few years for a check up .

Thats not a bad idea ! I hang my pack with "stuff" hanging off it in all directions.Always felt they should make one with clips, hooks and open top pockets on the OUTSIDE .

I like what you said, I also like paragraphs...

Nothing but fixed cut on contact for me too. Since '88 both my bows shot them the same as field points as any bow tuned correct will.i think 2 maybe 3 times i did not have a complete pass through with the arrow sunk 4 inches into the dirt .pull it out wash off sharpen use to kill the next one. Me likey simple, and deer that die in sight of stand.

Good thought. I have a job with lots of hunters amoung its work force. Each year new guys start hunting because of all the talk,photos and meals of deer meat. Now I'm 53 I started in high school, then for a couple years stopped,when I started working full time that job too had lots of hunters so I jumped right back into it. Now if i did not already have the course and prior lic. I may never had joined them for a week end hunt that has not since ended, so I think there is something to getting youth started as when life,jobs,kids settle down its easy to jump back in .

I use that to change the oil in the car, wind must have blew it there......

and they're not afraid of hunters !

I've canoed the Yukon river (amoung many other remote ones) and pulled a 24 foot Sunline RV to Fairhaven State Park and camped every way in between. Some for adventure some for great family memories. As for the RV thing,NO clocks, no set meal time,games,fishing ,hiking,going to the beach do what you want when you want. It seemed like the only time my kids could be free to be kids.

Thanks guys, one thing is certin I'll be sticking around....25 years now on same spot. I'm one of those old grummpy guys who wins by out lasting .

The one's in my yard can read and follow directions !

Thanks. I took a fat doe the first afternoon I bow hunted last year from this stand, and opening day my buddy a nice buck. I had 6 or more bucks on my card which was out idk 10 days. I got 15 or so of the big 8 pt. I'm pulling the cam and staying away till bow.Hit it light early then hold off till the rut. The pic. says April but its this past week . I'm the only guy on this part of the farm very light pressure great cover tons of food, this is a clearing in a thick thick area,100's of acres of corn and beans all around me .

I'm starting to figure this posts pics thing out....

ok second try

I hope this shows. I got many nice bucks on cam at this spot this is the best.

I would LOVE to hunt naked with a spear .I guess I could bow hunt naked what with the early opener and all .

Buy some long guns on the secondary market and handguns out of state.No paper trails . Not that i have....

When you hunt you get one shot. Thats a good way to practice, one shot before work,one when you get home, one before supper etc. Its easy to shoot, miss a little and "walk" the shot in . Just like a driving range , when on the golf course its the first shot ONLY that matters.

Bubba you'er a good man. The lesson here is take someone hunting. My friend who now lives in washington state and is very active in his state bow assc. a friend of the St charles family, and works pro bono for hunting groups became a hunter because as a paperboy some of his customers hung deer from trees in their front yards...

What I do is ok,everyone else has problems....

Well growing up where and when i did,its what boys did. Of course my dad hunted as his and all before them as far as i know . At 13 you'd come home from school grab a shotgun or rifle walk down Lake road, meet up and go in the woods and shoot things ( stumps, beer cans).

Welcome and good luck. the guys got it covered pretty well. Me I stared in '88 ? I killed a buck the first year a couple months after the course, I would think with todays bows you could as well. Every year guys on the job bow hunt for the first time,many of these guys out shoot 15-20 year bow hunters with old bows. Not that todays equipment is all you need, that along with a good pro shop will be a big step towards that . I watched guys on the job come out of Indian Mtn. Archery with their first bow and shoot 3 inch groups at 20 yards with no problem .

I'm a Lt in the fire dept. We pick our furloughs in dec. for the next year.Its done by seniority with a limited number off. If we're working opening day ,its often closed for me . I do get a week off in the rut most years, we also get cycle time ( earned time off) that is assigned to us. I always seem to get the last week of Oct. So I'm off 2 weeks in bow and get one in gun. But I can hunt 15 days a month even without cycle furlough time.But I'm often tired.. I just worked 66 hours in the last 4 days. I.m home tonight drinking Dogfish Head, should be alseep soon !

I'd rather hunt Canada then Mexico,much better beer and strip joints .

Ya i shoot a BPS Buck special, which has a tighter barrel, and fouling can be a problem with these slugs. I got a steel jag with O rings around it, a little fine steel wool around it does a great job at removing it.