Five Seasons

so he makes no money???

congrats, i've spent a few dozen hours over 3 years and i'm already sort of over it. lol.

shoot if you've already got it skinned that's the harder part. $400 for a grinder and vac sealer and you're good for life, pays for itself.

I've heard the black ones are thicker and longer

nobody will argue that. Ask the pats who went undefeated, only to lose to the wild card giants.

we haven't won it all, no. but we did win the division and the alds. that's something! and at least we're not dodgers fans. i'd have to call in sick after that last night.

doh' is there anything worse than making fun of someone and screwing it up too? lol

what if i wanted to purchase the doe with cash instead of making payments? sorry, had to

I do. but it was wet, so even the backpack blower struggles with the clippings that were compressed for the tractor tires.

thanks all. unfortunately i was traveling home from boston for work, so no woods time. but at least was able to have dinner and cake with the family.

My hunt tonight Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All that rain../ so purty Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s magic hour boys Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Can confirm that I did not shoot enough squirrels last winter. Reminder for “most of the state” Turkey is closed Squirrel and coyote are open Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Basically you have summed up hunting. I’m going to do X and hope it works lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Farva! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I thought everybody? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In for the first sit and after 3 animal-less sits in the bear woods I’m just happy to be around wildlife again Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok no worries man. Sometimes we get some bad apples and I’m glad that’s not the case Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

this guy big indian has laughed at the last few buck kills. what's the deal?

awesome man. story time now for us stuck in the office!

risk percentages vary. lets not be silly. i think all hunters should care about other hunters to a degree. we're constantly under attack. there are new pics and videos every day of deer wandering around with arrows in their heads. we should police eachother within reason before the anti's do it for us. and that's all I'll say on that

that shot at 25 is just fine. aim at the heart. if you've already drawn and he/she is looking, that deer is dead

when i got my new bow I also bought one them there fancy new sites with the adjustable yardage. had to calibrate it at 20 and 60 to adjust for my bow and arrows. I practice with 20 and 35 yard pins, so I have never even attempted a shot over 40. And man, let me tell you, the movement on my fast eddie dial to adjust between 40 and 60 is no joke, not just that but between 50 and 60. it's not linear for obvious physics reasons, but I would argue that 12 yards past 40 is a big, big difference. as others have already said, despite you not caring. The term duck implies that the deer hears and sees the arrow and is dodging it like you would someone throwing a ball at your head. When in fact, what is happening is the animals preservation instincts are kicking in at the sudden strange sound, similar to how you would tense up if someone let off a firecracker near you and you didn't know it. I don't believe it's semantics at all, because typically the tensing only occurs on alert and nervous deer. If a hunter takes a 50 yard shot at an alert and nervous deer I put that into the unethical category. I've been on this site a long time and read enough stories about hunters who blame the string jump for their wounded deer. In fact it's 1 of 2 things. 1. the hunter made a poor shot and hit high, no string jump at all 2. the hunter took a high lung shot on an alert deer over 40 yards and the deer loaded up just enough on a slow arrow that the impact was in the loins. Had the hunter taken this same shot and placed it at the heart, the loaded deer would still have been hit in the lungs. The moral of the story is that however you look at it, there's nothing magical happening here and these are just poor shots. They happen to all of us, if you've bowhunted long enough it's happened to you. But please for the love of god stop blaming the string jump. blame your freaking self. /rant

the other point is that it's rare and under 30 yards it doesn't happen either. shoot at deer at reasonable ranges with high probability and it doesn't matter if it's a new freak deer living next to the nuke plant with embedded radar mutated genetics.