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The heck. I'm looking at 25 F and low of 19. Possible mix of snow Thursday night. I'm on a new property this year though and cannot wait until we get some snow and then a couple days of sub-freezing and no precipitation because it will show me exactly where these scoundrels walk when I'm not there.

Guess this tree is good. Had a doe immediately under my stand a minute ago. Slightly too small to bother with so it gets a pass! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

GeeZe. I am near cover and spent the last hour deciding that at 9 I would move closer as I am just out of range of its edge. Then a doe comes along skirting it. Had I moved when I thought about it I would be done Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

GeeZe. I am near cover and spent the last hour deciding that at 9 I would move closer as I am just out of range of its edge. Then a doe comes along skirting it. Had I moved when I thought about it I would be done Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Let there be light! I came very very close to pulling car over and turning around this morning as it poured on way out. Now I can sit in a tree and drink hot soup. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Rain let up just in time so I am out this morning. Good size buck walked by 30 min after sunrise but nothing else yet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

$40 (?) tru-ball trigger release. I like the wrist strap actually and I tend to pull back the bulk of the bow's weight simply by my wrist, often not grabbing the release at all. I feel like I could very slightly increase accuracy with a thumb release but I've never tried one and I'm still thousands of arrows away from the truball wearing out, it seems. If there is an increase in accuracy it would only be relevant at the range and not enough to matter at hunting distances.

Meat, challenge, spend time in the woods. I like the prep of preparing for certain goals/events and then executing them.

I wish there were more online comparisons. I'd like to see a good archer given arrows like this and then expensive ones and after each shot have somebody else load the arrow so he doesn't even know which one he's about to fire, then see how the groups are. Or a hooter shooter. I've never seen any good analysis of expensive vs cheap arrows online and how they actually group--just thousands of posts of people talking about them without really testing theories

Oops, I've not tried bloodsport. Victory are the ones I use and reviews online are always good, too. With the correct equipment they can definitely group well. At 15 yards today from a rest with my crossbow I was able to get a 1/4" group with three separate victory decimator arrows from my sniper 370 crossbow.

This guy has a lot of cool ideas. This one is a homemade crossbow. Two sets of limbs and sets of strings firing together at the same time. He pulls them at the same time but with the right trigger mechanism you could design a crossbow that pulls 200 lbs up once and then 200 lbs up a second time for a combined 400 lb crossbow.

I like the video here about the BMP. I saw these at field/stream and didn't get why the practice head looked so different. I also love the fact they are not claiming that these broadheads hit like field points. They know they don't, they say this is the best job we have done, we won't lie and claim it hits with a field point like so many others claim. http://www.g5outdoors.com/deadmeat-broadhead/ I wanted to use montecs on my crossbow but they do not fly well. Large groups significantly off from field tip. I took rage out yesterday because the practice head from rage is hitting very nicely. Fixed will be best for penetration, which the deadmeat isn't though it should penetrate much better than a rage. Ramcat diamondback also looks interesting to me.

I use them on both vertical and compound. I haven't measured for straightness, but on my arrow spinner they visually look very good. I can get them to group well. I agree that inside of 40 certainly any detected variance in impact I can attribute to shooting consistency, not the arrow. I'm confident in saying the bulk of bowhunters are not good enough archers to tease out any accuracy difference between these and high end arrows. I'd spend $90 for 6 arrows if somebody could prove with a hooter shooter that they are capable of appreciably better groups at, say, 50 yards, than these arrows, but I doubt anybody can. These arrows can be had at times for as little as $20 for a pack of 6 from field & stream/dicks.

That's partly why I really wanted to use these things. I was satisfied with their impact enough that I put them on my bow a week back (but weather precluded hunting, so bow season is done for me), but the testing I had time to do didn't make me happy with them on the xbow. Tough heads, sharp, you know 100% that if they are dialed on during testing they will be in the field; no opening issues, no difference between live and test broadhead, etc. Although one reason I switched to them on bow is because I have terrible penetration with mechanical and that won't be a problem with the xbow. Hits hard enough that a large mechanical will cut very far and in general the more damage the better. I'm okay losing some meat if it helps ensure a short and reliable recovery.

That makes for an exciting hunt. I am hunting private land this year and there is a hang-on in an amazing spot but it's been there so long the thing has totally grown into the tree, including the climbing sticks. I got in it today and jumped up and down and it holds, but I hate how old it is and rusty. I got back down and back up to a tree 10 yards away in my climber. I trust the climber entirely.

Seven hours later finally another deer. Buck chasing a doe. Doe just out of range and no buck tag. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

about 20% more potent for every degree below 60! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Highlight of the day. This is my second, yum. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Got down at 12 and exercised my expert version of still hunting. Came to 15 yards of two doe bedded down. No idea they were there until they ran. Lol Now in a tree again. A better one, this one is the money spot (maybe). Like the one I took two deer from a couple weeks ago but slightly further out to take advantage of slightly more range from the xbow so my overall perimeter is bigger. Time for soup #2. I would stay till dark but gotta leave by 4. This is my 7th or 8th time out this year and seen deer every time although I have to say they are far more sparse than the first two weeks were. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

weather sure turned. Foot warmers in and back warmer and I just put the soup on. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

One doe at 60 yards at 8:15. A soon as saw I I lept up to get ready but it made me very subtly, looked at me for a minute unsure and casually changed direction. The ironic thing is had I been using how I would have been at a tree right in the path of where it went. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I ended up getting the rinehart 18-1 also. A tough bag target is great for field tips and easy to pull but I think the reinhart is the way to go for Xbow. I have yet to come anywhere close to fletching on any arrow, even hitting with a broadhead in the exact same location, and it's a light target. Pulling broadheads out of it is reasonably easy and although field tips are harder, a bike inner tube or an arrow puller wrapped around the arrow it's no major thing. I don't trust layered foam for the KE of a crossbow and softer foam targets cannot be trusted. Reinhart is going to run a hundred bucks maybe a bit more but last for years.

My plan was to use G5 montecs but I can't get them to group well. At 30 yards I was at least doubling group size over my field points plus POI was a few inches to the left (consistently). With the Rage 2 blade practice head I'm struggling to identify a different POI over field points, so I'll be using the rage it looks like.

I still can't really grasp why you say it's not superior. I can quantify the ways in which it is. These are verifiable. Regardless of your prowess with a compound bow a crossbow is: 1) Massively more powerful 2) Massively more accurate from a rest If you are an exceptional archer, the crossbow is still: 1) Massively more powerful off-hand could be comparable, but only if you're an exceptional archer.

Yes, telling a kid who is 12 that they can't shoot a crossbow but they can shoot a compound bow is a very stupid law. How many 12 year old girls can hit a target accurately and with a lot of power with a compound? Would take them an absolute ton of practice because their body is so young compared to an adult picking it up for the first time.