Cabin Fever

Beautiful!! I hope she shoots as good as she looks!!

Congrats!

IE also. Today, 3x seems to be the magic #!!

So I'm not the ONLY one!?!? I thought it was just my computer.

NICE!! One in the freezer already!

Hind legs.

Hi Jim! Nice to have another local around!

Ya' know. After taking it in the field today, I have to say I'm not real happy with it. I've had it in my posession now for less than 24hrs, took it in the field once (carrying it in a ziplock baggie with my spare SD cards), and the outside cover is so worn and torn that it looks like I've been out kicking it around in the woods! I think I'm gonna pack it up tonight and send it back tomorrow... The viewer itself is working good, so far, but as poorly as the outside is made, makes me wonder how the inside would hold up.

Been looking for an relatively inexpensive SD card viewer for my when I check my trailcams. If a spot isn't as active or not producing what I am looking for, I would like to know while I'm there in the field, so I can move the cam accordingly. I've been taking the cards home (30 min away), checking on the computer, then making another trip to camp, and running back out into the woods to move the cam. I came across this one that the Sportsmans Guide carries for $50. http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=753537 It's about the size of a wallet and fits in my back pocket perfectly, the screen is 3" (nice size for a portable viewer), has a rechargable lithium battery, photo quality is great, you can either scroll through the pics manually or have it run through automatically like a presentation, has a thumbnail preview option if you just want to take a quick look at the pics, also plays movies (.avi files, which is nice because I like to have cams set up in video mode sometimes), has 512MB internal memory if you choose to save pics to it (nice if you want to load pics onto it to show your buddies without having to carry the cards around), plays music, and has text for reading e-books. So far, no complaints! Well, maybe one. When I watch my trailcam videos from one of my cams, it slows the video down. The videos from my other 4 cams run through perfectly and they look great! The manual does say that the video files must be 30fps or slower. Maybe the vids from the one cam (newest) runs faster, I'm not sure. Regardless, this is meant as an in-the-field-PRE-viewer for me, so I'm fine with that. The buttons are a little small (or my fingers are too fat!), but thats it. I've never seen one with all these options for this cheap ($50). Granted, if you want to spend $100-$150, you'll certainly find ones that are better built. But, for that price, I'd probably buy another trailcam! I'm happy with this one and only having to spend $50 on it. It'll save me a lot of time, gas, multiple extra trips back into the woods, and "eager anticipation", as I won't have to wait until I get home to check! Check it out!

Damn! Where were all these positive reviews when I needed them? It was sounding like it was 50/50, so I thought I'd just take my shafts to the shop to be fletched to be on the safe side. Oh well, maybe next time I'll use the shrink wrap ones.

Great bucks!

I posted these pics on the QDMA forum and those guys are guessing he's 5.5+ years old and scores 145-150". There's been a big one around for the past couple of years. I've been comparing the racks, but just don't see similarities to indicate its the same buck.

Some guys that I know that mainly trap fox didn't trap them last year, due to fur prices being so low. I noticed a big increase last fall while deer hunting. This spring and early summer, I saw 6-10 kits just about every morning (~4am) on my way to work playing in the road at random places. I remembered thinking then, I don't ever recall seeing so many red fox.

Don't ya' hate being put on the spot when someone proudly wants to show off their new mount..... and you think it looks terrible??? Whether it be the unnatural pose, facial expression, uneven eyes/ears/mouth, hide looks rough, etc... I hate being put on the spot like that and would never say anything negative about it, but YIKES!! Sometimes after seeing mounts like that, I think how pissed I would be if my trophy, that I was so proud of, ended up looking like that and there was no going back!! This is where a good taxidermist shines!

Sounds like a great experience anyway!

I have some arrows that are in need of refletching. Has anyone used the shrink wrap type fletching/wraps, such as Quick Spin? I read many reviews on Cabelas and it sounds like they are well rated.

Whatever I take, I tend to repackage it into baggies, as they are a lot quieter to handle and seal up to contain scent if I don't eat it all.

Great job! Better than what I've seen on a lot of hunting shows on the Outdoor Channel!!

Yep, 'ole Gimpy sure liked his clover!

My issue was the profile pic also. It said something about the size. I tried different things, then figured it wasn't that important anyway.

Yeah, I tried it weeks ago, but I gave up. Thought it was just me...

Beautiful! I love those unique mounts!

Neat!

Nice buck! Very symmetrical. Had any pics head on? How wide is he?

I cropped the origional pic and made it my work desktop background. Now I can't focus at work on my work stuff! He'll definately motivate me get out of bed on those cold mornings when I'm tempted to curl back up next to momma and go back to sleep!