Waldershrek

I hope I live to be as old and happy as them

Prolly $8.50 an hour if I had to guess. Most retail doesn't pay jack unless you're a manager or something.

That's definitely a big cat of some kind. A mountain lion if I had to guess.

Talking about scent control and specifically when do you get dressed in your hunting clothes and how you transport them. Do you guys wear your hunting clothes on your drive to your spot or do you wear totally separate clothes to drive and keep your hunting stuff in a scent proof container of some kind and then change in the field? Which brings me to my next question, what are you guys who change in the field using to transport your hunting clothes? I see there are plastic totes, scent free duffel bags and tote bag kinda things. In the past I get dressed in my base layers and put my exterior pants, coat, hat, gloves etc in a plastic tote in the back of my truck for the drive over to my spot and then I put that stuff on in the field but I feel like I could be doing it better. I also feel like the plastic tote is not necessarily keeping everything scent free. Also for storing hunting clothes at home during the season, what are you guys doing? I just hand mine outside my shed currently but that leads to problems when it rains/snows for obvious reasons. I don't want to put them in the shed because I have an outdoor wood stove that will stink them up. I thought about buying a box like this: http://scentmasterbox.com/store/scentmaster-box but they are pricey!

I use UA base layers but for my actual pants and coat I use Scentblocker, Triple threat specifically. When I was searching for some good camo two years ago, the UA stuff just wasn't warm enough for me. The Scentblocker wind blocker and rain blocker technology is AWESOME. It's the first hunting clothing I've owned that is truly waterproof and wind proof and if you can cut the wind you'll feel a lot warmer right from the start.

New rangefinder and a new backpack. Strap broke on my old one half way through last season and I limped her till the end with one strap which was a pain to say the least.

I'll probably go next week and hopefully avoid any glitches.

So then my next question is is what do you clean your bow off with if you've been spraying it?

Looks like dead deer to me

I used to use mechanicals but I got sick of only getting one shot out them. With fixed I can just replace the bleeders 99% of the time. The less moving parts the better in my opinion but I know people that love their mechanicals too and haven't had any problems.

Most of buddies want to wait until after the rut to shoot does, but then we only end up getting a couple as a group so their numbers are largely untouched from year to year.

Wow I'm really surprised by some of you. "Cheating" aside, the main argument against baiting is spreading of disease which there is no factual basis to support since wild life already eat from the same small food sources (apples, acorns etc). Secondly, the cheating argument is nonsense also since the same people who cry foul have no problem setting up over a corn field, apple tree, oak tree or food plot. What is the difference if a farmer spills corn from a wagon and I hunt it or if I put corn there and hunt it? None. This is actually very similar to gun control arguments. No factual evidence there is a problem but people whining about it because they don't think it's right (or fair in this case). Must be many of you are hunting in random spots with no regards to food sources.

20 years, Id say you got your moneys worth! That reminds me, I gotta get my hang on stands down and check them over

I don't even know if I would be able to get a shot off at that thing I'd be so freaked out about that hoof sticking out of it's head.

Nope

Dupe

One of your first steps is going to be hunters safety classes

I took a lot of crap from all my friends for spending what I did on my Weber but I haven't had a problem with mine and they are on their second or third grill since I've bought mine.

Until they find out you're a fraud......

That's a legit fear. My girlfriend has two small chihuahua's that could be carried off very easily.

I'll never understand why guys do this kind of thing.

I bought the grabber toe warmers as well as the hot hands heated insoles....neither works worth a crap. I didn't feel any heat what so ever.

Missed a big doe this morning About 9 o'clock this bigger doe and a smaller one came in. I pulled up on the bigger one and started squeezing the trigger except I couldn't tell if I was squeezing or not because my hands were so cold. So I yanked it which resulted in me missing low. Broke the number one rule of marksmanship and have no deer to show because of it.

Backstraps!

Been a struggle in 7R lately. to even see deer.