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in reply to: Killed a Beautiful Bear Today! #33945

Thats a beast! Congratulations. Love the color and those huge paws!

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in reply to: Assateague island sika hunting #26735

Sorry, I can’t help you on the hunting but used to go there as a kid. The horse flies were miserable but the blue crabbing was spectacular. That’s about all I can bring to memory. I never saw a sika deer but lots of wild horses.

Good luck!

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in reply to: Killed a Beautiful Bear Today! #24531

Also, here is a good video of a sow and two cubs up a tree. I stalked up on them on the opener and saw that she was a small sow with two tiny cubs. Webmother put it together for me. Thanks again.

I watched them for ten minutes or so before the little sow finally spotted me. You can hear her huff and then she ditched her two little ones and hauled butt. The cute little suckers came down just moments later.

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in reply to: The ugly underbelly of "preserve" "hunting" #24497

I’ve met some of the same people as Tailfeather. I remember one story where he negotiated the price with the guide will looking through the scope. Just sickening.

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in reply to: Killed a Beautiful Bear Today! #24442

One more pic

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in reply to: A couple of critters on the hoof #24186

Awesome!

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in reply to: Killed a Beautiful Bear Today! #23429

Terrible early morning cell phone pic but here’s one.

This bear is easily over 200. Just weighed the hide and head and it was 46lbs. Can’t wait to hear the exact age. Ga dnr pulls a tooth for cementum annuli.

Bow is a black widow PAII. It’s 57 pounds at 29 inches but I only pull it to 26. Arrows are 28 inch carbon blems with 100 grain inserts and 200 grain tree sharks.

She’ll make a beautiful hide and some great table fare.

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in reply to: The 2013 Season Bulletin Board #21923

The bear opener looked awesome for us as I saw a bear on thursday scouting and then we all saw another on friday while scouting.

Saturday morning (opener), I stalked up to a bear in a tree only to find out it was a sow with cubs. Watched them for a while until she saw me and completely abandoned her little ones to get out of dodge. My buddy Tom also saw a sow with cubs and later that day, my pal Tommy found a bear in a gum tree at 300 but blew the stalk right about shooting time.

Later the next day, I stalked up on a huge sow and two shoats. Got to fifteen yards and the arrow looked perfect but must have gone low. She walked off limping on her near, front leg and there was very little blood. Mustve shot low and nailed her in that wrist thick leg bone. She’ll live to have a few dozen more piglets for sure.

Great opener as the four of us saw 9 bears between us and maybe 15 pigs. Heading back up in the morning to try the bears in a new area.

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in reply to: Concave broadhead sharpening #21913

I have been very impressed with the tree shark and it’s really not that hard to sharpen em. The KME method with the jewel stick is the best. You just really really really have to get a good burr before you try to sharpen.

The video posted above was made by a guy named Chris Spikes. It shows just how easy it is. He’s killed over 100 deer with a recurve and now shoots tree sharks almost exclusively.

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in reply to: Stumpin/Killin in the South #61056

No reason on earth to kill that snake. Thats a shame.

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in reply to: bare shaft tunning wood arrows #51936

I’ve never understood why anyone would bareshaft tune arrows.

If they fly like darts and hit where I look, I’m good. Seems like a TON of added frustration with no viable payoff.

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in reply to: Colorado elk herd size? #50853

PA is the same way. Think they release about 1 non-resident tag.

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in reply to: Totems #50836

Duncan wrote: [quote=BuckyT]Guess I’m a simple redneck from Ga compared to you enlightened fellas! 😆

I always carry a buckeye with me. That’s about it.

I like to see Bobcats. I’ve had some really good hunts seeing them in the past. Plus, they’re my favorite predator in the woods.

Also, I’ve had some good hunts seeing Fox Squirrels. Everytime I see a Fox Squirrel, I’m expecting to see a deer very shortly.

I used to pick up a fresh buckeye if I saw any while out scouting. Then I’d carry it until the season went out. After that I’d add it to my little buckeye collection. You know those things are pretty toxic so don’t let the kids play with them unless they are old enough to understand not to take a taste.

Beautiful little trees. They look sort of like another plant that I adore.

I’ve carried them for luck as well, but eventually they always shrivel up like a raisin.

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in reply to: 7 GPP #50831

I would definitely recommend you go to different arrows. I recently tried to change out my samick red stag dacron string for a fast flight and my arrow flight went to hell.

I didn’t feel like re-tuning the bow so I went back to the dacron. My 55# stag was shooting full length 3555 carbon arrows with standard inserts and 200 grain heads.

I wanted to add more front weight to both of my lighter bows that shoot 3555s so I cut off two inches of arrow and added 100 grain inserts. Both bows are shooting them like darts, but I can’t get that fast flight to tune right with them. I would have to go to 5575s to get that setup to work.

For those who are not totally into wood shafts, I’d highly recommend going to carbon. The blems are very affordable and very easy to tune.

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in reply to: Bear Scouting Pics #50812

A late freeze in May has possibly killed a lot of the acorns in the areas that we hunt. I’m going back on thursday to check the higher generations that hadn’t bloomed out yet. 3400′ and higher seems to be the ticket. Most of our areas are 2600-3000′ Guess we’ll see if the higher ground is the ticket.

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