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Very nice! I too shoot a Martin bow, love their bows you get a lot for your money.

Use a tall glass of boiling water and dip the arrows slow and steady so you don't pick up air bubbles. When done I pour the remaining water over all of the arrows just as a final step.

I have been using them for two years now and am amazed at the durability. I was very skeptical at first, but they look great on the arrow and I have never had any fall off even with passthroughs in my old block target.

Get into duckhunting, amazing duckhunting up there.

Lead has been illegal to use since the 1980's, should not be any lead in birds. I hunt and eat a lot of geese and other waterfowl.

Except for the coyote, lol

Looks like LI

I hunt deleware county area 4w, big woods and even bigger hills. You cannot compair it to the amount of deer that are in NJ, there is alot of woods for them to hide.I have always liked old logging roads and saddles that are steep above and below. Don't expect big racked deer but they do have big bodies. buck to doe ratio is not bad in my area, and in recent years we have seen a lot more bears which are just awsome to see in the woods. Hunting in the Catskills is always an adventure, and the scenery is second to none. ARs were put into place last season, and all the spikes and fork horns we passed on last season should be basket racks this year. If there are any apple trees on the property hunt them early in the season, we have a lot of apples in my area.

Yes those are the ones, I hunt with 2 hens and a half strut jake.

Have 3 Cherokees, I like them a lot. Super realistic head detail.

I like to kill deer with a bow, shoot them with a rifle, and smoke them with black powder. Nothing like early season bowhunting, hunting the Catskills big woods opening week with the rifle. I am a deer hunter, and as long as I'm hunting I am happy.

How do you guys hunt with the hounds? Do the dogs chase the coyotes towards you like rabbits? Or do they corner them like they hunt mountain lions?

Thanks guys, not shops around me really carry any trad stuff at all. Like I said I have been shooting well with my friends 45 lb recurve, instinctual shooting is a lot of fun. It's just the arrows choices and arrow weights that really confuse me.

Going to pick up a hunting recurve soon, I have killed a few deer with my compound and want to kill a deer with traditional gear. I shoot good with a borrowed recurve and want to get my own. Thinking of starting with a samick sage at 50 lbs, with my draw length at 30in it should be pulling a around 55 lbs. anyone prefer carbon or aluminum arrows in a recurve?

You have posted this on almost every website, and still no one cares. SSWA members account for a very small amount of the waterfowling community fere on LI. Not everyone that duckhunts in in the SSWA.

$80 is very reasonable on LI.

Btetter than a tailgate right?

I killed a doe this past weekend and posted it on the Bow forum and was happy that some guys enjoyed my story and pictures, which is what a forum is for. But as we know there are some internet Pro's who like to knit pick. So is hanging a deer by the neck Disrespectful? I was always taught to hang a nice buck that I wanted to mount by its back legs. Evereything else like Does and smalls bucks have always been hung by their necks, with sticks holding open the cavity for cooling and drying. My hunting club in the catskills has been hanging deer by there necks since the 40's. I hang my deer by the feet only when I am ready to skin and butcher.

Thanks guys. Im not even going to comment about the "as it was getting dark" thing. Leaves on all of the trees in thick swampy area's get dark before legal shooting time ends. Seriously?

Brought my doe to Rich this morning and I had the call to pick it up 1 hour later! can't beat that. Was grilling backstrap by 5pm.

A little over 20 feet to get above the sapplings and small trees so I could see anything, I was very surprised how steep the angle was.

Parksville NY doe. Hunted saturday evening in a super thick set of woods that I saw deer go into that morning. Right on que as it started getting dark I could hear feet all around me but could not see anything with all the leaves still on the trees. Finally this doe appeared 15 yards away in a small window of opportunity. Shot and the the Nocturnal lighted nock dissapeared into the outline of her body, and than the woods exploded with deer and had 3 deer run under me in the direction of this deer. I got down and just went back to the house. After dinner we waited and went back into the woods about 1030pm and found my arrow which smelled very strong, but clean of blood with white hair all around. I soon turned and saw her bedded down 40yards away looking at us. We tunred off the lights and backout out silently. It started raining heavy at 3am and I could not sleep thinking that she was going to get up and run without me being able to follow a blood trail. Headed back out at 6:50am and found her dead where we had seen her the previous night. I hit the back of the lung and part of the liver and put a tiny whole in the stomach which is where the smell was from, but not much gut excapted into the cavity which was good. Im shooting 70lbs with slicktrick mag 100gr broadheads, on beeman ics shafts with nocturnal lighted nocks. You can see the entrance wound in the first photo and the exit in the second, lower then I would have liked but a good kill non the less.

Was going to head out but I have work, not going to hunt til later in the month probably good luck guys. Headed up to my place in 4W for friday through monday.

Im headed up to 4W friday til monday, Excited about the first full weekend of bow season.

Yea I think the problem is not putting enough on your gear