dbHunterNY

if i get in a car accident because of some kid plowing into me with his dad's SUV it'd make me sit out bow season early. if some like happens, can hunt with a crossbow while i carry a doctors note to show it to an ECO or would i have to display it with my back tag that's in my pocket?

not the place. should've just let it go. lol

usually a very busy time of year for me with little sleep. i have but it's only nodding off for at most a handful of minutes. that's during all day sits in funnels where i can't see far and wide with more to look at. there's no way i'll fall out. my harness tether is never that loose. even more so if i seem to be sleepy i'll push the prussic knot up to tighten the tether. i will say after those few minutes of sleep though it's about equal to half a night. when i perk back up i'm fired up and ready to go.

when we fly for vacation each year the wife wants to murder me in my sleep. she's like you and i'm usually falling asleep mid take off when the front wheels are lifting. depending on the length of the flight sometimes i wake up when the captain dings the seat belt warning before landing.

looks good. test pour seems to look great from this point of view. good to work on at dark and mid day. lol with this heat lots of hunting left this season.

I believe it and have seen it. In your other post with this buck I said we had one like him. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

all those i've known setup specifically for the crossbow to be rested. trigger stick monostick works well in treestands. some rest it on their boot. some i've seen use a cut tennis ball and a crap load of duct tape. whatever doesn't let it inadvertently drop down through the stand platform. in blinds a camp chair with arm rests and a set of shooting sticks work well from what i've seen. even have seen those shooting pods with two resting points that some gun hunters use. box blinds with a shelf and crossbow bipods are the only real blinds setup for gun hunting that work without setting up specifically for it.

i agree. compound is definitely easier than a trad bow or even a recurve with sights and everything else. i shoot it instinctively i guess. i think i have to keep up with it and can get rusty to where i'm minute of deer for accuracy. compound isn't really the same. i can pick it up after not shooting for several month and stack arrows. i hunt (on rare occasion) with a Bear Super Kodiak shoot instinctively with forgiving carbon arrows. i've shot others longbows before a little. didn't think they were much different to kill a deer but they were noticeably harder to be consistently more accurate. if you eliminate the idea of a rested crossbow, it doesn't pose as much of an advantage over a compound i agree. i've hunted with others who have setup with a rest just fine though.

there's no question that if i commited to shooting it more my comfortable range would be out past every deer i've taken with a compound despite i can shoot farther with one. idk. i've had such limited success with it, because i haven't truthfully given it a chance. it's still seems like screwing around to me and i'm not to the point where it's turned into a quest and reason to ditch my regular bows. maybe i should make the commitment... next year. lol

always enjoy the stories. you sure do keep busy Tom!

i'd peg that last deer at older than 3.5 yrs old. definitely well packing on the pounds but yea. you or the wife should shoot him and find out. nice bucks. anticipation is awesome when you know those age classes of deer are running around, tearing up the woods.

i wish it'd be separate seasons. i have noble intentions of using my trad gear but the pull to the dark side is too much when i want to get the job done.

the beauty of it is subjectivity. i do think it's a big leap. there much less movement with a crossbow and it can be used with a steady rest. with very little practice a hunter can drive tacks out to 40 yards under those circumstances. you don't have to hold weight if a deer stops behind a tree or with a branch in the way as it's checking out that out of place thing up in the tree. the leap isn't due to the same reasons but in my mind it's still a leap. doesn't really matter though. it's still a bow to be used during archery season in my mind. when i go out with a trad gear versus my compound i don't dwell on it being any greater of an achievement. it is what it is and assumed people understand that.

work hard to play hard TF. i was out yesterday evening with a thermacell lit. a couple buttons, couple doe fawns, and rest were young adult doe. passed them all at less than 20 yards. nothing big came in. heat had them coming to food after dark i'd imagine. bowhunter sighting log seeing some action but that's where it ends so far. hoping it cools down soon.

i have taken a lot of deer with a bow. couple most years and at least 1 other years. i have had a weird things happen, little blood a couple times, and had to back out and come back later. i have never lots one with a bow though. that scares the crap out of me, because i feel like somehow i'm due. i mean you can make a perfect shot but weird things happen when deer are shot with arrows.

it's never the same but close enough to be practical. it depends on exact setup. i practice with my bow at distances under 10 yards but to be honest i never see those. for a stand i won't shoot that close, because path through all vitals is tough to get and when on the ground i simply don't setup or let them get that close. others have covered it all good in this thread. 20 yard top pin i use and it's pretty close all the way into 10 yards.

there's most definitely advantages of using a crossbow over a vertical compound bow. i'd say traditional archery to compound to crossbow are each equally big steps apart. still all bows in my mind though. i think it could get ridiculous if you have a hand crank to cock 300 lbs of crossbow limbs that launch heavy carbon arrows the size of saplings through the woods but we aren't there yet in materials or designs. all that said 'yes' to all but the last one. I'm not a member.

Just had coyote way out. It was on a mission, didn't want any part of a squeaky mouse. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Young buck just came through. Same trail doe were on. Breathing hard. Silly little guy. ...nevermind he's back. Just trolling without a clue. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Little quiet this morning. Some deer still dragging a** though back to bed. 4 doe, 1 button, 1 doe fawn so far. Early season morning so I'm in more if observation stand. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

I'll have to find it when I'm out. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Saw it. Funny video. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

i don't even think he'd survive the fallout of killing the thing. he wouldn't even have PETA's vote.

FYI - There's legislation in NY A556 https://www.nysenate.gov/…/bil…/2017/a556/amendment/original that has passed increases the minimum fines, increases them even more for repeat offenders, and effectively takes away license for 5 years in 48 states. .....BUT Governor Andrew Cuomo has yet to sign it. If he doesn't by the end of this year it dies and does not become law. I know it's hunting season but spread the word! Even better let him know. https://www.governor.ny.gov/content/governor-contact-form

he must mean manditory antler restrictions are not volatile.