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Yessir, beautiful morning for this. Drinking my first of many coffees right now. Great weather for a sit today.

Going out again tomorrow. One of my kids likes to come as long as I get her McDonald’s on the way [emoji28] day off school and I convinced her go wake at 5:20 am!

I don't know if mine holds more than 3 but I only ever carry three when hunting with xbow or bow. I've only been at this since 2015 but only once have I ever had the opportunity or need to shoot two arrows in a single hunt, so I figure with three I'll probably be good. It's extremely unlikely to get the chance to shoot an injured deer again IMO. I think having it happen twice in the same session (hit deer, it's injured, but presents chance for second shot) to be almost inconceivable. I once got a buck and a doe shortly thereafter on the same morning. Another time I hit a deer and it ran off and back in front of me presenting a second chance, but that was highly unusual!

I can't imagine waiting until gun seasons to start hunting. You only get like 30 minutes of good hunting anyway then the deer go nocturnal! At least get yourself an inexpensive crossbow and start earlier in November.

On wet nights our road near my house is covered in jumping frogs. I swerve around them and I hate it when I run the little buggers over.

In that case I can absolutely see why you need to detach it first

In my experience the less messing around the better. There's enough as it is with climbers you don't want to fiddle more. I definitely keep the seat 100% attached and feed it through the frame--in my other thread you can see what it looks like when I walk with the seat, with the main bottom of the seat against my lower back. Totally comfortable. I have one of the third hand type straps (it came with my stand) and I use it to snug the stand pieces together when I carry. This is my Summit exactly ready to be picked up and moved. Notice the green strap at the top. I wrap it entirely around the top section of the stand with just enough slack left so that when i combine the parts I can cinch the top and bottom together. When i get to the tree I unhook it but leave it completely wrapped around the top section of the stand for climbing until I get up there. Then I let the metal part dangle through the bottom stand and use my foot to loop it back around up to me to connect the top and bottom snugged up. The seat straps stay connected all season and I just slide them down in this case so that they can allow the bottom to pass through.

Nice! It's a must-have. The clarity of glass vs the stock scope is incomparable and now you know for sure it will stay zeroed. I don't even think I put a single arrow out of my 370 until I put the Nikon on it.

I'd pass on that one, give it another 1-2 years then it's a real shooter.

No shots last night. Saw three deer in distance an hour out and a few min three more came close but despite drawing I couldn't quite get a great shot. Left stand a few min before sunset because it gets dark with the leaves. Hoping that the guy who's property I'm at would possibly have some deer grazing his back yard I saw them there. Using heavy brush I managed to sneak up within about 10 yards of getting around a thick bush to identify a shot (the deer were just on the other side of it). I was dead quiet and they didn't see me I don't think. Must have winded me, and blew just before I could start walking around. i was happy to manage to get that close to deer with them noticing.

Three deer five min ago out of range then just now three more. Great shot at 15 yards and the deer stopped at one is the only parts in my field of view with leaves in the way [emoji28] They walked off.

Two hours left. I like morning hunts cause no time pressure, but evening are more exciting because sighting odds increase over time instead of decrease.

Did y'all know that some people in the south pronounce the word suite, as in dining room suite, as "suit"?

Glorious outside. I went to the car. It's 57 F and sunny.

I am cheap so only use fieldblazer II boots all season long. I can tolerate pretty low temps in these as long as I have on two thick pairs of wool socks AND the chemical toe warmers on each foot. Even still if it's windy and well below freezing they'll chill out until I start to move. If I was still hunting I could use them down to 0 with that combo I suspect.

Damn. Was this his first deer? He looks a lot like a guy I met last night @ field and stream who showed me a pic of his first deer kill from 1-2 nights back. First season bow hunting and a bigger buck than I've ever hit. Not sure if it's the same person.

Yes, Lakeshore Marshes just east of Sodus, NY. I remember exactly where I was when i shot at the first deer. Clean miss and is now my avatar pic. I bet that broadhead is still in the tree from 2015.

Oh @*#&, you took those? Absolutely nuts. That one with the deer is beautiful. I'm out tonight, grabbing daughter right after school. Spectacular fall weather for a sit today! That sucks. I've heard of guys forgetting them. I never have and don't think I ever could because when I pack my bow in the case I wrap the release around the stabilizer every time, then when I take it out it's first thing on my wrist. Keep them mated up and hopefully it won't happen again

Nope, I take 100% of the weight on my wrist and only a little finger as possible on the trigger. I think I'm going to put a little lube into the releases' pivot now also. I'm going to try this also, make sure that I'm not doing that.

It's because i literally deliberately twist it sometimes. Just never imagined it would actually matter torquing it that tiny amount.

One of the ubiquitous trufire ones. I'd like to try one of the other release types at some point, but I'm pretty used to this one now.

I use a typical bow release with a trigger. These things all have a pivot. Ideally the trigger should be parallel to the ground (ie. perpendicular to the string). Every since I started shooting I've often had to tweak my sight, as if the bow is ever so slightly shooting inconsistently. Not enough to matter while hunting, but an annoyance at longer ranges. For the first time in years I shot sitting down today to really get a super stable platform and I discovered that my habit of randomly twisting the pivot after I pull back (it lets me pull the trigger on a different point on my finger) is consistently causing arrows to veer. Just a little, but it explains why my zero seems to wander an inch or so at 20 so often. But only horizontally. My vertical was on the money last season and all throughout practicing this one. When I exaggerated this effect to be sure I wasn't imaging it I can get arrows to consistently veer 6" to the right. All because of a little torque on the d-loop.

Probably not but fwiw in my limited experience (and admittedly more than I like), if a deer doesn't drop fast from a vitals hit odds of recovery are very low. Blood trail almost invariably goes light due to clotting, then eventually cold because the deer rarely "bed down and die" as we wish they would.

48 f sunny light breeze. Perfect weather. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Piebald doe. Good size. Never seen before. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk