WhitetailAddict11

My father has a always cut strips and dehydrated and it's excellent. He got a jerky gun for Christmas and tried the oven and dehydrated, but neither had good results. The jerky tasted wicked funky and has an awful crumbly texture to it. My father knows his way around a kitchen and venison so I don't think it's anything he did. Needless to say we stick to the cut and dehydrate now using a jerky bored to make even slices.

I would agree WNY. I always hunt the early goose season with my buddy to pass the time until sept. 27 gets here, and usually by the second to third week of us hunting (opens sept. 1) the corn starts falling at a decent rate around around here. This rain will delay things for a bit though.

Bad ass truck man!

No no, you're doing it all wrong!! If you want to practice like you hunt you need to aim the head lights of the pick-up into the yard!

Yes Culver. It's not a full on chopper fest yet but the local boys are opening up the outside rows on the big fields and chopping off some of their smaller fields.

Hey guys, pulled my cards the other day and had some pretty good pics. As I mentioned in the deer hunting thread, I'm continuing to get pictures of the bucks I named George and Ralphy. They have been bedding on a small overgrown hill that connects to a super thick draw that runs between some ag fields, so I have yet to move that camera (cuddeback). The bushnell pics however are from another farm and the camera is over looking a mock scrape that you can't see. I'm not inclined to shoot either buck I have pics of from their. I moved that camera today to a corn field that was recently cut.

Best new bow for 2013*

Checkout the Bowtech Experience Aaron. It just beat out Mathews, Hoyt, and PSE For field and streams beat new bow for 2013.

You said it man!

Check out "Big 'N Beasty" by frigid forage. Bill Winke is a great whitetail hunter and manager and he literally just broadcasts that seed and it grows full and thick, and deer eat it clear into the snows of late season.

Have had good luck with my Bushnell trophy cam as well. First time I used it, it took beautiful pics of a small buck in the middle of a snow storm during January, I was very impressed. Did I mention it was at night? Great pcs, great battery life, and the field scan mode is a great selling point.

As the seasons gets closer I am continuing to get pictures of shooter bucks on my properties. This is the time of the year where the reality of hunting these bucks begins to come full circle and the second guessing of everything begins. Stands you wish you could now move, that one ridge you wish you hadn't skipped scouting, and the 100's of other variables you wish you had taken into consideration, or that you are aware of and have no good answer for them. Im so pumped to get things started but boy can your mind be brutal on ya when the leaves start to change!!

Practicing inside 20yds is unnecessary IMO. I rarely practice at less than 40yds and it has made for much better form and shooting. I have a 50 yard pin on my bow for practice but I doubt id ever use it hunting.

My topics always seems to spark good casual conversation amongst us, I'm glad to see everyone keeping things civil. Great advice Doc, you have to love it to be good at it IMO. Or just really lucky!

Good stuff guys

Oh I'm completely aware. It all sounds good in theory until I watch a good one walk out of my life forever when it could have been a done deal with the rifle haha

I think I have made a commitment to the idea of bowhunting all season when climbing in a stand, and saving the Remington for pushing deer around a little bit with dad. Watching some duck commander episodes last night, in one of them, Phil spoke of how old school duck hunters wouldn't shoot birds in the air, they would let them land first, then scare them up and shoot. They believed if you couldn't get the ducks to land, you weren't a duck hunter. So that aided in my decision, if I have an encounter with a shooter buck during rifle season that I could have killed with a gun while I have bow in hand, but he never comes close enough for an arrow, I think, for now, I can live with that. Thought ladies and gentleman?

My best. Taken last year with a bow.

I know I know, it's been covered 1000x but I'm going to make it 1001x. Going to give this a try this year because there seems to be good reason behind it, even though it's one more thing to add to the mix as if I don't do enough already. I figured it would be a good idea to potentially find bucks I haven't gotten on camera yet, or just be a spot that a satellite buck will gravitate too. I was thinking about scent control and came up with the idea of putting urine in a spray bottle so I can hit my scrape from a few feet away and not have to step all over it; good idea possibly? Most experienced guys I know say it's not necessarily a spot to kill a buck but it is a spot that bucks will check out and spend time visiting throughout the season, even though it's mostly nocturnal activity.

Definitely a 2-blade rage!

Pics of some deer harvested gjs4?? I completely agree with you as well Phade, managing your farm to its greatest potential means nothing if you hunt poor winds, have crappy entrance and exit routes, and do not scout your property year after year to find new stand locations and potentially better your best stands. Oh did I mention that practicing good scent control techniques i.e. showering, dressing in field, spraying down; and avoiding hunting your best timber stands until the rut is also important??

The amount of visible bucks on my properties this year is very unusual. Could be good, could be bad. Good lookin bucks Grow, that drop tine is really cool!

I plan to hang another camera very soon for sure.

Dandy antler

Good bucks love the protection of green corn