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in reply to: Cock feather? #41852

Thanks guys. I assume you are both correct.

It’s funny. I have three bows now. Initial tuning of all of them was extremely easy but when I upped the anti to add 100 grain inserts, it became a little more challenging. My damon howatt monterey now shoots perfectly with 30″ 3555 arrows, 100 grain inserts, and 200 grain heads with cock feather in.

My black widow shoots great with 28″ 5575s with 100 grain inserts and 200 grain heads, cock feather out.

My samick red stag is finally tuned with a new fast flight string to shoot 30″ 3555s with standard inserts and 200 grain heads, cock feather in.

So now I have three totally different setups for my bows.:D

Just hope I can keep it all straight when hunting season comes back.

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in reply to: How do you draw? #41759

Exact same as doc nock.

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in reply to: Light Weight Hunting Bows #40805

jpc wrote: [quote=etter1]Im amazed at the difference in energy released from different bows at the same draw weights. My black widow draws to a out 52 lbs at my draw length but I had to tune my arrows to levels I would have expected from a 65lb or more bow. Fast flight strings seem to really throw some power into any setup.

And if you shoot the new Border Hunter bow you will have same results with Borderbow @ 42 than with Black Widow 55 Lbs

I tryed

Have a look here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m1ad2O7s04

How is that the same? Your bow said 55lbs?

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in reply to: Spring fever #40760

I was out slinging a few today myself. Of course, it was 65 degrees. 🙂

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in reply to: Light Weight Hunting Bows #40496

Im amazed at the difference in energy released from different bows at the same draw weights. My black widow draws to a out 52 lbs at my draw length but I had to tune my arrows to levels I would have expected from a 65lb or more bow. Fast flight strings seem to really throw some power into any setup.

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in reply to: SHEDS! #40492

Boy thats a score! I found a nice three point whitetail shed a few weeks ago.

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in reply to: Book Rec for black bear hunters/lovers #40134

That is what is always said to look for but I dont know about down here. The average bear I see in this area probably only weighs a bit over 100 lbs so it is hard to notice body features like that. Certainly, when you see a real brute of a boar, all of those physical characteristics are usually present. But in two summers of scouting hard and hunting in these mountains, Ive probably seen fifty or so bears and only four or five of them would go over 250 lbs, which I think is also when those characteristics become more apparent. Our bear population has only recently grown to these levels so we have a ton of young ones.

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in reply to: Book Rec for black bear hunters/lovers #39568

Ptaylor wrote: That’s cool!

So here’s a question since you’ve been able to watch so many bears: When you see a bear, what do you look at to identify its sex and age?

If you can watch one in the open long enough or are below them in a tree, their sex is often readily apparent. Usually down here, boars have darker muzzles and are usually scarred. Most of the sows I saw this year were with cubs. Age is really anybodys guess but obviously bears under 1.5 years old were with their mothers.

Nothing is 100 percent with bears. In fact, the biggest bear I saw this year was a 400 plus pound sow.

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in reply to: first bear hunt #39361

Also, I assume you will be doing all the baiting yourself?

If so, getting in the right areas could mean the difference BIG TIME!

We used to do all of our own baiting in canada. Our best spots were on regular travel and transition areas. Old logging roads, powerlines, and gaslines would usually get hit pretty quickly. Also, odd topography features like abrupt ridges and saddles, and edges of boggy marshes were usually great. Any place the bugs were exceptionally bad seemed to hold bears. Keep us posted! There are fewer places I would rather spend an afternoon that a backwoods bear bait!

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in reply to: first bear hunt #39201

Im sure it will. The important things are to be disciplined with your shot choice and try to get good at judging them before your hunt. They will all look big!

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in reply to: Southwest DIY Javelina Hunts? #38183

1shot wrote: GREAT!!!Always welcome to show others the amazing Santa Ritas…

It’s Mt. Lion hunting season for me now, untill the aug23-Oct3 archery bear season, velvet deer is open aug23-sept12, but I’d rather deer hunt while they are in hard-horn…(1jan2015-31jan2015 in 34A)….

Good lion hunting? What kind of hounds do you have?

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in reply to: Southwest DIY Javelina Hunts? #38118

1shot wrote: Alot of Javis and Coues, along with some monster mule deer, jackrabbits(both kinds, the “Black-tail” jack rabbit is massive), 3-4 different types of quail and dove galore.

Archery deer tags are over the counter, Javi tags are draw only, get Deer tags at walmart in Green Valley, camping at Bog Springs campground in Madera Canyon($10.00 at day), Coronado National Forest, open hunting 1/4mile from your camp site, either oak/pinion forest or head west for more open terrain, good for glassing/spot and stalk.

The Santa Ritas are a steep Mt range going from 4500ft to around 9000ft, but I use some of human trails to get me up-slope then cut off into the canyons I want to hunt, so it’s realy not that bad for the most part…

Very little hunting pressure in the Canyon, many cuts to explore, safe area from the illegals, though carrying a side-arm is always a wise move…(legal to carry during archery seasons, or anytime for that matter)…

Sounds like just the spot! Ill be in touch as we get a little closer.

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in reply to: Signs of Spring? #37076

It was really warm today. Spring peepers started.

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in reply to: Signs of Spring? #36966

Seems like our sandhills have passed north already. Red maples and redbuds have budded out. Upland chorus frogs singing every night. Spring peepers havent started yet. Unbelievably there are a ton of redheads (ducks) in ponds and lakes all over middle ga. We dont usually get a lot of them in that area at all.

Turkeys in south ga have broken from winter flocks and are gobbling but up in north ga they are still grouped up. I notice more songbirds daily and the crappie are suspended over 20′ of water.

Spring is right on the cusp!

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in reply to: Book Rec for black bear hunters/lovers #36769

Half way through “among the bears”. Unbelievably fascinating for me!

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