BowmanMike

Wow @Fletch,beauty of a buck. Congrats !!

You bringing the milkweed purse too? Complete the outfit, you know...

Thinking of doing the exact same thing.

I didn't get out yesterday at all,but today the afternoon is mine! Why else am I self employed if I can't take advantage of it once in a while. I will try to get out real early to scout some as the property is new to me. I may sit at the edge of a hay field that I have seen does in most evenings on my way home from work. If I find hot sign I will sit there. I will take a doe or buck or both if given a chance. Time to get one hanging.

You gonna shoot something? I wasn't gonna say anything,but you are my pick this week. Just kidding,you can wait for that big boy.

I told you to bring a boat...

wish I could go out this a.m. ,but if I do good at work I can go for the afternoon hunt...On a new property I have access to.

wish I could go out this a.m. ,but if I do good at work I can go for the afternoon hunt...On a new property I have access to.

I hope you don't have to cross any ditches,bring a boat if you do.

recurve or compound?

It can be a challenge issued to another buck. I did that a couple years ago to one that clearly was gonna pass me by. I grunted first and he didn't care,but the snort wheeze had him on a string. Worked too good really as he came straight for me and stood head on at 20 yds.

This is when being self employed will be great. I have not hunted a ton as of yet,but that is going to change...has already, I was out a.m. and p.m. yesterday. on my drive home from work I drove past a new property I can hunt and it has two hayfields on either side of the road, I counted 20+ does without slowing down a ton. I will pop over there this week sometime and get a lay of the land.

I think the switch is flipping right now here in 4F. Saw a nice one on my way to work,late this morning at 8 a.m. out in the open sniffing doe hang outs.

Also,if you have part of it taken down and rebuild you always have to consider that you will put a new chimney on old bricks if you dont go all the way to the covered bricks. It is really hard to know how well the lower bricks will hold up long term and you could run into trouble down the road. Hardest thing sometimes is to decide where to stop,but generally the bricks inside the building envelope are fine.

I work on chimneys all the time and I will say this. They deteriorate very slowly,so you are not in a rush to fix it. 2500 for one liner is steep in my mind,the access looks easy on your chimney and the liner is under $1000. It is a piece of cake to put one in with two people in not even a full day. As far as the cap and bricks go that is very hard to judge from pictures. A new concrete cap alone would be over $1000. Sealing the cracks is a stop gap measure,literally,but can last 5 to 10 years. It looks like the chimney was well built in the first place,a lot of them don't have the concrete cap with overhang.

Pressure is on! Had an encounter tonight but it was too dark to even see the deer. It was a single one and I was close to a rubline...even with my headlamp i couldnt see if it was a buck or doe. Close doesn't count,but it's better than nothing.

Bowmanmike picks Turkeyfeathers

I am out on state land,found a nice bench full of oaks and blackberries. A ruling led me here and I am way up in a tree 25' or so,wind is ok. Come on deer,I wouldn't mind getting my first public deer here.

Saw no deer this morning,it looked like a perfect day for movement. Not where I was apparently. I will figure out what they are up to soon enough...at least that is what I am telling myself.

above the spine probably in the backstrap. That deer has a very good chance of surviving then...

I made into the tree smoothly this morning. I had Frost on my windshield and it is foggy here. Feels very deery,but so far only the squirrels woke up and I don't know what made a ruckus in a tree about 30 yds from,a call I have never heard before. I am thinking fisher...

Dead deer either way,you should be able to find it if he didn't bump it or the coyotes did. Undisturbed they do not want to travel with that hit. Possibly the very top of one lung. Good luck.

First doe in range gets an arrow,unless I see a buck behind her. That is the only scenario where she would make it past me alive.

you look like the bigger fool in this.

your cousin is in much worse shape than my friend,he just about recovered. Hope your cousin makes it. I just don't get why you wouldn't try the vaccine,what is the downside? Is it just not doing what you are told to do by the government if you don't agree? Even if the vaccine is only 20% effective,why not take it? 20 % is a lot better than 0 %. I eat organic foods for a couple of reasons,grow my own for some of it. Also a big reason why I hunt. No to feedlot beef. I don't see the risk of taking the vaccine as a big threat to my health as I do covid. I am fairly confident I would get over it,but I also am fairly confident that the drug companies don't want to kill their clients. That being said,i don't take any regular medications and don't plan to in the the near future.