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in reply to: A comment on crossbows #44830
Just watched that video.
Had a couple folks like that camped near us at blackbeard island this year. Living stereotypes.
in reply to: Historic bowhunter #44814Love to see stuff like this. 50% of my blood is Irish and I have a celtic broadhead tattooed on my chest.
Love to see my heritage in action!!
in reply to: Highlight of my weekend #44686Really interesting!!
in reply to: A comment on crossbows #42562I’m not a crossbow fan, but today’s compounds are more devastating at long range and just as easy to shoot accurately IMO.
in reply to: Some Game recipes… #41762I like a burger made any way, as long as there’s a vidalia onion slice on both sides.
in reply to: Some Game recipes… #41711Pigs are hit or miss in most of the areas that I hunt. I’d rather them be nonexistant and I do what I can, when I can, to help out.
I killed three this year and they made great bbq for friends and family.
As for looking for them, I’d focus on south ga or florida. Florida is especially infested with them in a lot of areas.
There’s not a place in this country where they don’t do massive ecological damage so please, kill every single one you can.
in reply to: 23 Days Left!! #38449Eight days! Hoping for some new snow next week. Will post full report upon return!
in reply to: Glove Question #28460Tommy is dead on. I hate gloves. Probably why mine felt so bad as ive barely used it. Calf hair tabs for me.
in reply to: Antler Hunting #26133I found a 2 point shed last year 6 feet up and stuck in a “v”
in reply to: Went primitive today #26132I asked him to make me one of those arrows.
Mine are all still carbon.:D
in reply to: 23 Days Left!! #26128Latest report from our outfitter:
They did not kill a cat last week with their third client. It was brutally cold (don’t know if that increases or decreases movement, I would imagine decreases). They found a lot of tracks but nothing big enough that the client wanted to turn the dogs loose. They have two wolf hunters this week and then we are the next lion hunters coming on the 7th. He said they’ll do a lot of scouting before then and should have a good idea where to look once we get there.
Sure hope so!
in reply to: Your minimalist hunting camp! #25245Nowadays, tents are too light not to carry. Anybody can be in a one man bivy for less than 3lbs. Better to carry that light burden than risk getting caught in dangerous weather.
I don’t often have a bedroll but down here you can gather up a good bundle of pine straw in no time.
For truck camping, I have the air mattress…..EVERY TIME!
in reply to: Few Trail Cam Pictures #25051BuckyT wrote: Me too Sean!!
Should find out next month if I was drawn or not for that hunt!
I’ve got a spot on the club that I’m ready to have a all day sit waiting on that bird to walk through with my recurve in hand.:wink: I might even make him gobble a time or two before I send an arrow over the top of his back..:D:D
Don’t call until the arrow is on its way.
That way, you can say you called the bird on the hunt, and he won’t have that periscope up looking for that hen.
in reply to: 23 Days Left!! #25048I think we’ll have some sag to the meat pole next year!
in reply to: Coues Deer Hunting? #24259David Petersen wrote: Good comments and question, Etter. All I know about the attractiveness of bait to Coues whitetails in AZ is what I’ve seen, over and over again … an almost endless parade of deer and javalinas coming to bait at all hours of the day (and no doubt night). It’s as if they’re mesmerized. This normally hyper-spooky species suddenly becomes sloppy when alfalfa or molassas appear. So far as your implied comparison of water “tanks” (back in Okie we called them “cow ponds”), and no matter my strong opinion that bowhunting should be as pure and natural as possible, it’s not so much a matter of ethics as it is fair access. The typical AZ bait is very near to water and accompanied by one or more treestands and one or more game cams. Every single deer that has come in while I’ve been at such places, and I’m talking almost endless parades, has gone straight to the bait. Now, some hunters might say “great, I can sit in my treestand or ground blind on the opposite side of this little pond and kill deer that come in to bait when the baiter isn’t there … and increase my chance to kill a good buck without actually baiting.” Well, OK. But neither I nor any of the other guys who got involved in trying to stop baiting in AZ feels that way. We all know that if we kill a deer that comes in to bait,we are bait hunters whether we put it out or not. So there goes another “water” we are able to hunt. Again, no matter what you think about baiting (which almost always has everything to do with where you live and hunt and the local ethics), a few guys using bait kills hunting ops for the majority who don’t want anything to do with it. No matter how we feel about the ethics of hunting, you’ll never convince me that baiting is hunting, or at least not what I’ve spent my entire life embracing as hunting. If it were, I wouldn’t be here. I want a good hard natural-as-possible hunt, even if that means just sitting on my butt for days at a time. But to actually answer your question — they are both, with some cow ponds and some natural water sources. What you never see is anyone baiting who can’t get there with an ATV, which causes yet more problems in itself. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Yet I realize it’s not the only story in town 😛
You answered all of my questions Dave, and I would have been on your side in the debate for new legislation. Just wanted to see the reasoning behind it.
I didn’t want it here because of public opinion. I already knew that it wouldn’t help to kill any more deer, but in that arid country, I can see that bait would be like hershey bars to a starving bear.
I only wish that we could outlaw 4 wheelers everywhere. Public and private land. I hate the things. If you have two working legs, you should use em!
Congratulations on creating more fair chase hunting for the future of the few real hunters left.
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