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    Do you ride your atv to your stand or walk ?

    in General Hunting

    Posted

    I got up many times last season a and walked into my stand from the house in the dark and it seemed as the season went on I got started later and later and then Nov 6th I was running late and took the 4 wheeler up through the woods to the top of the hill and shut it off. Walked about 100 yds and climbed in the stand. It was 6:40am. At 6:45 a 4 pt buck came through and at 6:50 the one I shot and killed at 6:50.  

    I do believe this: it really doesn't matter as much how early you get in your stand when the pre rut is on in early Nov and the bucks are moving all day chasing.  The does won't leave their home range and the bucks will be moving them around all day long. Just be in your stand all day and you will have opportunities.

    Millennium stands

    in Bow Hunting

    Posted

    I have 2 - 100's. On the ground, tie a rope to the stand so when you get up there you can use a screw in step to hang the rope over to pull the stand up. install your climb sticks and then hang the chain. Flip the reciever over. Pull the stand up and drop it in the receiver.  Strap an additional around the bottom of the stand to keep it snug. - Done.

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    Land purchase

    in Land For Sale, Lease, and Requests

    Posted · Edited by nybuckboy

    If you can find land with a home 20% down. W/O a home 30% is generally the norm I have found.  Not all banks take into account nor really care about the land when making the loans.  PM me and I'll tell you who I went through.

     

     

    Mayweather!!!

    in General Chit Chat

    Posted

    Also - whoever McG's corner man was should have sent him to the center of the ring for round 10 and just had him stand there and catch his breath and make May come to him. He was gassed and everyone knew he would never out point him so catching his breath should have been a priority.

     

    Mayweather!!!

    in General Chit Chat

    Posted

    This is what I wrote on FB early Saturday night - 

    August 26 at 7:43pm · 

    HOW DO YOU SEE THE FIGHT TONIGHT? I see it this way. I would love to see McGregor knock Mayweather out. The way I see it is his only chance, as there is NO WAY he will win this on points. Therefore I see McGregor pushing the fight from the very start. I see him being dirty as in low blows, elbows, hitting after the bell and on the breaks. I see him getting points taken away from him but he won't care because he knows he needs a knockout to win it. Therefore he has a punchers chance but in the end I think he will run out of gas from pushing the fight and eventually Mayweather will begin to put together punches. If it goes past the 6th round I could see Mayweather eventually taking him out, but will win on points handily.

    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.

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