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    Change in head weight

    in Bow Hunting

    Posted

    I agree that the 350 spine is too stiff. 400's would be better and shorten arrows and 100 gr head but check the FOC you may need to add weight or you may find the 125's are fine.  Buy one 400 Beman arrow, cut to 31 inches and check the total arrow weight and FOC with both the 100 and 125 head. FOC should be about 10-12 %.

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    Wet Spring/Summer = Bigger Antlers?

    in Deer Hunting

    Posted

    47 minutes ago, grampy said:

    I was talking to a young hunter over the weekend, and he asked me the question I posted. I too, really never documented a difference between dry and wet years. But as wooly says here, "It's hard to imagine a wet spring and summer wouldn't be beneficial to antler growth over a season of hot, dry, drought conditions". Almost to the letter, that is what my response was to him. And I'm almost certain, a buck that would be 100 inches in a dry year, would not be 140 in a wet one. So the average two year old and older buck, gaining a "few inches" is very probable in a year like this one. But I was impressed with the young mans question, so I posted it here. 

     

    That's a whole different topic.  Covered and debated, by hundreds of pages, right here on this forum.

    Yes it has been debated and I'm not trying to continue the debate but I think we all can agree there has been a movement for many hunters to "let em grow" over the past 10 years and to think this has nothing to do with bigger bucks is foolish.  I agree that if this was not the case though, that it only makes sense that a mild winter and a very wet Spring and Summer would jump start the plants with the nutrients required to grow larger racks over the growth time.

    Big Guy

    in Trail Camera Pictures

    Posted

    Saw this big guy about 3 miles from my house this morning. He actually let me turn around and come back and snap a few pics before he took off. I zoomed in and cropped these pics. He was about 125 yards away.

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    Food Plots?

    in General Hunting

    Posted

    Food plots serve 2 purposes. To provide a high quality food source in your area to keep deer in the area year round and to keep more deer around the area so you have more opportunities to harvest deer.  It's not really any different then sitting on a well traveled game trail that leads to the edge of bean field or corn field and intercepting the deer on their way in or out.  I like to provide late season food source to help them get good protein and build their fat for the winter as well.  In my area the closest crops are a mile away and having food plots with clover, alfalfa, winter wheat, winter peas and turnips will not only help them but give them a reason to live in my area closer to where I hunt.

    Why a bow?

    in Bow Hunting

    Posted

    On 7/20/2017 at 8:08 AM, Buckmaster7600 said:

    I am surprised by how many mention hunting deer before I they hide or get scared, not trying to derail the thread but do you guys really notice that much of a difference?


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    absolutely

    Why a bow?

    in Bow Hunting

    Posted

    18 hours ago, NYBowhunter said:

    More time in the woods, deer not in hide mode, change of seasons (love the fall), more challenging. See a much more natural deer behavior.

    I agree with this to the "T" but would add that I have learned so much more about deer behavior since I began bow hunting in 2001. 

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