Come on Feather Joe. Tell us a story

[Etter1]

#6177

My buddy injun joe made his first kill today with a bow, arrow, and stone point he made with all natural materials. Where you at Joey?

[tailfeather]

#48723

Thanks, pal. This morning I headed to a big chunk of public land up the road to try to find some hogs. The swamp is pretty dry, but I found a few big swamp ponds that were holding water. When you find water in the summer, you find the hogs. And the gators…..they were bellowing in the swamp and sounded like dinosaurs. One of the photos was taken on a gator trail (which, btw makes a great way to slip quietly around).

The whole swamp was eaten up with pig sign. Swirling winds screwed me at 20 yds on a really nice sow….so I took what i could get and made a nice, close shot on a grilling pig. Or as a buddy calls em, a sammich pig. In other words, he was easy to pack out:D

Shot him with a sparkleberry arrow and stone point from my hickory selfbow. Ended up seeing 13 hogs, and will be back next Friday. Lots of fun and a great way to get tuned in for fall hunting.

[Dan Jackowiak]

#48829

Nice work! I love it when it all comes together like that.

[Brennan Herr]

#48920

That is a great story. Thanks for sharing and for the pics. Well done!!!

[Stephen Graf]

#49147

All I can think is: “skeeters, skeeters, skeeters!”

How do you deal with ’em in a place like that? Between screaming alligators and buzzing skeeters, I think I’d a gone hungry 😳

[tailfeather]

#49156

No kidding, Steve! But strangely enough, the skeeters weren’t bad at all, and haven’t been bad all summer. I used a little spray yesterday, but a Thermacell is hard to beat for repelling hordes of hungry skeeters. I bet you have your share in N.C.!

[Stephen Graf]

#49732

tailfeather wrote: … I bet you have your share in N.C.!

You bet we do! But luckily enough for me, not too many around us. Never need spray or anything else to fend them off. We have tons of dragon fly’s though, which feed on them (of which I have an amazing, at least to me, story)

I have a thermacell and have used it with great success is buggy places like the tiaga forest, or swampy lowlands, but I have yet to see any critters when I use the thermacell. I keep wondering if it smells bad to the wildlings.

I take it from your experience, no problems with deer, bear, etc spooking?

[Ptaylor]

#49891

Congrats Tailfeather!

[David Coulter]

#53123

Nice story, Tailfeather. I love to hear it done with real, real, traditional gear!

Steve, I’d love to read that dragonfly story, too. dwc

[Etter1]

#53472

Steve Graf wrote: [quote=tailfeather]… I bet you have your share in N.C.!

You bet we do! But luckily enough for me, not too many around us. Never need spray or anything else to fend them off. We have tons of dragon fly’s though, which feed on them (of which I have an amazing, at least to me, story)

I have a thermacell and have used it with great success is buggy places like the tiaga forest, or swampy lowlands, but I have yet to see any critters when I use the thermacell. I keep wondering if it smells bad to the wildlings.

I take it from your experience, no problems with deer, bear, etc spooking?

Ive never seen an issue with deer or bear spooking from a thermacell.

[tailfeather]

#53523

I haven’t had any experiences with them spooking deer, though I rarely use one during deer season. Just don’t have much of a problem with skeeters then. I do know folks who are pretty sure they’ve had deer spook from them. There is a slight odor, for sure…but bug spray has usually an odor too.

Now for turkey season and bream fishing? They work great. Doesn’t spook either of those.:D

[THE OLD MAN]

#53875

Congratulations Steve, on a Great Hunt. Thanks for sharing your story with us. In my part of Georgia it is hot and dry also, in some areas it is almost impossible to find water, but when you do, you are in for a Treat, Hunting as well as Table Fare.

I truly Love to Hunt Hogs, but I hate what they do to my Hunting Land, and the Crops, so we try to thin them as much as we can.

tailfeather wrote: Thanks, pal. This morning I headed to a big chunk of public land up the road to try to find some hogs. The swamp is pretty dry, but I found a few big swamp ponds that were holding water. When you find water in the summer, you find the hogs. And the gators…..they were bellowing in the swamp and sounded like dinosaurs. One of the photos was taken on a gator trail (which, btw makes a great way to slip quietly around).

The whole swamp was eaten up with pig sign. Swirling winds screwed me at 20 yds on a really nice sow….so I took what i could get and made a nice, close shot on a grilling pig. Or as a buddy calls em, a sammich pig. In other words, he was easy to pack out:D

Shot him with a sparkleberry arrow and stone point from my hickory selfbow. Ended up seeing 13 hogs, and will be back next Friday. Lots of fun and a great way to get tuned in for fall hunting.

[Stephen Graf]

#55051

dwcphoto wrote: Nice story, Tailfeather. I love to hear it done with real, real, traditional gear!

Steve, I’d love to read that dragonfly story, too. dwc

Well OK then…

Back in my NASA days, I was fishing for bluefish off playlinda national seashore which is a preserved area north of Pad 39 (where they used to launch the shuttles) at the Kennedy Space Center. It was a windless day with almost no surf. It was like fishing in a giant pond.

I was catching bluefish like crazy and hadn’t noticed the sun dip below the dunes. But as soon as it did, I began to hear this high pitched whine, sort of like a biplane sounds. I looked around for the source and watched a cloud of skeeters come flying over the dunes down to the beach and all over me. I could hardly breath they were so thick. I got out of the water as fast as I could, grabbed my stuff and was running down the beach in a bit of a panic.

Then I heard another odd sound, this time it sounded like a c130 way off in the distance coming my way. Again, it was coming over the dunes. This time when I looked, it was a cloud of dragonflies coming in and the air battle was on. Within minutes, the skeeters were gone… And I went back to fishing 😀

That was my best day ever fishing for blues in the surf. I had a freeze full.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#57041

Well done, Tailfeather! That’s a fine accomplishment.

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