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On 3/15/2019 at 9:08 PM, UpStateRedNeck said:
Word of advice, and I think someone else on here mentioned it :
The butt, and the sling, are noisy. I'm pretty sure the sling clinking on itself cost me a nice 8 this year. So, I recommend duck taping said places to muffle it.
This is a must. After also spooking a deer when shouldering this I went home and found the permanent stock length and duct taped it in firm so no more wiggling.
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18 hours ago, Borngeechee said:
Do you know how fast they are flying?
Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk
Can't speak to that arrow but in the long 370 thread I reported last year I had chronographed mine at 345 FPS with 440 grain arrows.
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On 9/4/2019 at 7:29 AM, Buckmaster7600 said:
If you’re 0 for 6 I’m guessing your bow is out of tune.I answered this before with a negative, but I found recently that despite my bow shooting nice groups out to 50, when I'd put a montec on there--and it hitting very close to my field tips--it was hitting the target at wild, crazy angles, like off by 10 degrees even at far distances, which told me it was badly out of tune.
I finally decided to try bareshaft tuning and now out to 14 yards (basement), with no fletching at all the arrows are hitting pretty consistently straight on. Before adjusting the whisker I found they were consistently nock left impacts on my foam target with the bare shaft. Maybe it really was out of tune badly!
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Beautiful looking spot.
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I got it last year for first time and completely forgot to fill any of it out, weirdly for me.
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12 hours ago, Lawdwaz said:
A friend was kept in a stand 30 years ago in Painted Post by a buck. He had used some Tink’s 69 in a scrape below his stand. I was getting worried about an hour after sunset when he finally came out of the woods, scared. This was (deceased now) who had hunted all over the west for a kinda of game and NEVER had anything like this happen prior.
Was he out of arrows or ammo? Tags are irrelevant when being threatened by a wild animal.
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13 hours ago, Steuben Jerry said:
I need to plan for a next encounter and come out looking a bit more in charge.
00 buck
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2 hours ago, stubborn1VT said:
I think I will try a couple new brands. I think I will also place some cams up high. The Hunting Public guys do this on public land, using one climbing stick to get them up out of view.
Yeah, I'm actually sure this will make them far more visible though I have also heard of this trick, albeit harder to steal for an opportunistic person walking around who now has to figure out how to get up high on the tree. I think in general if you can have it a few feet up, in a hollow of a tree near fallen logs, etc. it's not too hard to hide them.
My belief further is that if you're on public land with a lot of people you won't have a lot of deer, so the only public land worth hunting has few enough people that odds are fairly good there won't be many people in the vicinity of your cam, so odds of theft are not terribly high of theft (most people seeing a cam won't take it, remember).
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12 hours ago, b3h said:
Just had one stolen recently. Locked with Python cable and suitcase lock to keep them from removing sd card. They tried to cut the cable with what looked liked a hatchet but failed. Must have smashed the cam off the cable lock as there was only a small piece of plastic left. Bolt cutters and they could have had it in good shape. Got a feeling they didn't want me to get that sd card and see what they were up to. 5 other cams were unmolested.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThis is why if I ever get land I will be littering the border of it with signs made saying that the property has cellular trail cams deployed.
I've tried the cheap cams and they work fine, although I set one up in my backyard one summer and although it took pics all year I had a "feeling" that it was failing to trigger quite a bit. I couldn't verify it with additional cameras on the same spot.
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Thread is over 2 years old and it looks like the original poster still didn't get his flair...?
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1 hour ago, Rattler said:
I guess you just have to buy a new gun to keep hunting.
That's fine, works out as intended. Anything Californians can do to ultimately make hunting, guns, etc. more difficult/onerous is a win for them.
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27 minutes ago, Rattler said:
Oh most of us get it. I personally wouldn't mind using copper as an option for deer, but laws like this have plenty to do with progressives' distaste for hunting. Many liberals, of which California is full, hold the view that it's a demented bloodthirsty activity and should be outright banned. Controlling the surplus of prey is not of concern to them, no matter how many car accidents or crops get hurt.
I'm sure we'll see the same law here in NY in time.
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This is great news to most californians. They hate hunting and anything approximating classical America.
As for ammo prices, though, what the heck? Steel shot is all over the place and priced similarly to lead. Where do they get the 387% price increase stuff from?
The real impact is on rifle rounds. They are absolutely much tougher to find in copper.
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I'm tempted to order to see if anything arrives and, if it does, how paper thin it is and how small.
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3 hours ago, Belo said:
agree to disagree.
-an engineer
Well that was easy.
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3 hours ago, Fletch said:
I think you misunderstood my poorly written post lol.
I meant the obsessiveness of sports and playing 5 leagues and the parents more involved than the kids.......not obsessiveness with concussions...concussions is serious shit.
More my bad writing than you misunderstanding me thinks!!
Nope, that was just my poor reading comprehension
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1 hour ago, Don_C said:
Well I may have a solution to the shooting across the lines.
The lumber company sent in a crew to doze the skid roads and clear tree tops from them, of course after we spent the summer killing ourselves with chainsaws and brush cutters. I'm going down to see if I can pay them to pile the tree tops inside the line, in front of their box stands. One of the things this guy bitched about was how the loggers screwed things up for him when they put the main access road in, the one his stands are on, now they are making it bigger and wider for me. This is really going to upset him. I'm going to use this as an opportunity to speak with him in a more professional level, explaining that this is a logging operation, they have rules, they have lawyers, we have contracts, there are laws and liabilities. I am hopeful I can turn his anger to the corporation and away from us.
Make sure you have your phone set to audio record before you talk to him again.
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2 hours ago, Fletch said:
I think you made the right decision. There are safer sports and activities. As much as I agree with some of the posters that some sports and parents and the over obsessiveness of it is ridiculous now.
Is it? We're only recently learning how injurious concussions are, and some are positing that even a single concussion can cause brain damage. Reliably, it's profoundly difficult to understand the causation behind things that effect people with multi-year delays. Very hard to do, which is why at times it can take years or decades to truly understand an environment's impact on a person.
https://www.npr.org/2013/03/15/174409382/can-just-one-concussion-change-the-brain
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3 hours ago, Belo said:
there are over 1500 active players each year, with an average career of 3 years. 111 is horrible sample size, and is also only those who wanted to be tested, meaning they likely did suffer from the issue. I'm not saying concussions aren't a problem, far from it. But your statement and that study are not scientific.
The study is scientific, and statistically sound. My conclusion was inconsistent with it, though.
If you prefer I can reword my earlier statement to the following: 99% of tested ex-NFL players have been found to have CTE.
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1 hour ago, Belo said:
lol wut?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2645104
Findings In a convenience sample of 202 deceased players of American football from a brain donation program, CTE was neuropathologically diagnosed in 177 players across all levels of play (87%), including 110 of 111 former National Football League players (99%).
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Now you can argue this subset isn't representative of the average NFL player because those more likely to have mental issues were more likely to submit to this study, etc. etc. there is still no way to diagnose CTE in living individuals.
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I listened to the whole thing. He knows his stuff and it was free, but he is not an efficient communicator; he could have distilled this down to 30 min. His penchant for tangents grows tiring. He spent like two minutes talking about where to buy fake Christmas trees.
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Yesterday. Most are not this good, though
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14 minutes ago, steve863 said:
I would even question whether kids who play sports are more fit than those that don't. Maybe my sample is somehow skewed, but I've seen so many people who didn't play sports as youngsters end up in better shape in later life than those that did play sports. Go figure that one out. Many who weren't into competitive sports took up activities like going to the gym, jogging, biking, hiking, all activities one can continue into old age, and activities that are more beneficial to ones health than any team sport will ever be.
It's so funny you say that. I have noticed the same thing. By far the fittest I've ever been was when I was in my late 20's. Was never big into sports as a kid. I've never followed pro sports, but continue to be in far better shape than lots of people who spend sunday on the couch watching football. I agree about the parents. All this time and money spent sending their kid off to dance competitions or hockey tournaments, when that kid in fact would be far better served by having the money dumped into a college fund, particularly given the fact that almost none of these kids could ever be professionals even if they made it into adulthood without injuries and wanted to be.
I keenly remember being at work years back with a guy in his 20's who had messed his back up so badly with football that he couldn't even sit still for long. he was in a conference room with us and had to squat down to relieve pressure. But he was "important" for a couple of years in college playing football. Now has a lifetime of pain to live with.
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7 hours ago, Nomad said:
If you want your kid to get a scholarship, have him pick,up,a book or a paint brush. Academic and art ,lead the money in scholarships, sports rank number three.
Those are also far more likely to grow skills that are actually applicable to a career as well. There is an excessive attention paid to sport accolades in this country. My idiot neighbor actually kept his kid back a year so that he'd be a year older/larger for sports. The kid is a bit chubby and never going to amount to any elite athlete.
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Best camo pattern?
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Whichever is cheapest. I can't imagine any of them even matter at all unless maybe you're trying snow camo in early season bow, for example.