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Geeze, where’s my sunglasses?!!??!!?? I need them on just to look at those bright babies!! Nice job, hope you enjoy them!! Let us know how they work out for you.
Michael.
in reply to: Her first bow #47635That’s awesome, Cotton. She’ll be out there with Grandpa before too long, I’m sure. You could always take her down to the shop and set up a foam bale for her to shoot at. Pin a couple balloons to it so when she gets a hit, she gets real gratification. My kids love shooting at balloons. I need to go buy a couple bags for them. For kids’ arrows, Rod Kelley, up on 3 Mile Drive has a good selection, and fair prices. Take her so she can pick her own fletching colors. He usually has a bunch already made up.
Michael.
in reply to: Killed my first double… #47631Nice job, Wild. You did better than I did this year. My whole hunting season ended up a bust, for one reason or another, all the way through. Oh well. That’s how life goes, I suppose.
Michael.
in reply to: Boots For The Bold #47626I know that the folks at the Army Navy here in Kalispell, where I bought my Danner boots, highly recommended the Obenauf’s boot treatment. It’s done good for me, thus far. The last pair of boots I had, I didn’t take very good care of, so they wore out real fast. The pair I have now, I intend to take much better care of, because 300 bucks for a pair of boots is a big chunk of change to waste.
Michael.
in reply to: Gotta get this "stuff" under control! #32991Well, I’m glad I’m not the only one out there that’s run into this.:lol::lol: My truck is usually loaded the night before, so all I have to do is grab breakfast and head out the door. Usually have to stop a time or two up the trail from the truck, and let me tell ya, that’s a bummer…had a buck come up on an old road about 20 yards from me while I was sittin over a downed tree…talk about rotten luck…and smell. He hit the road, the brakes, the alarm and the gas all in about four milliseconds…lol. And my bow was just out of reach through all this. I just carry TP in the front pocket of my pack and if things come up, I step off the trail about 10 or 15 steps, just so somebody else doesn’t STEP in it…
Michael.
in reply to: Longbow buck #32649Congrats on your buck. Good read.
in reply to: Grasshopper #32646It truly is impressive just how quickly a deer can “get outta the way” of that arrow. I’ve had a few deer jump the string on me. One of the first deer I ever shot at was a doe at about 25 yards, broadside. Had she been a 3-d target and not moved, I would have pinwheeled her just behind the shoulder. But in the amount of time the arrow was in flight, she spun herself around so that the arrow was set to pinwheel her paunch, and was two jumps away before the arrow got to where she had been standing. I couldn’t believe how fast she got out of the way of that arrow. Those arrows were moving at around 175 fps, and 25 yards is only 75 feet, so mathematically, in .428 of a second, she managed to spin completely around and make two jumps…and by the time that full second was gone, she was probably 30 or 40 yards away, still running. Simply amazing how fast these creatures can move.
in reply to: Newbe-wanabe #32637Red,
Welcome to the Forums and to the family of Traditional Bowhunters. This is a great place to pick up tips, ideas and any general information you find yourself lacking. There is so much cumulative experience on this website that it can sometimes be overwhelming just how much information is to be had. Good luck, and welcome.
Michael.
in reply to: I saw him before he saw me… #27497Awesome photos!! Owls are tough to find because their daytime activities are so limited. They like to hole up in the thick stuff during the day, it seems, and don’t often let themselves be seen. Congrats on your find.
Michael.
in reply to: A Mountain Trip #24869Ray,
Thanks for sharing your pictures. The steep country you hunt reminds me a lot of some of my hunting areas. Steep with not a lot of cover. Harder to hunt, but it wouldn’t be as much fun if there was no challenge to it. Thanks for the pictures.
Michael.
Actually, from a biological stand-point, yellow jackets and bald faced hornets are actually basically the same thing, just different colors. I spent quite a bit of time looking them up after finding a baldy hive in my yard. They are both paper wasps. When I have a little more time, I will dig up the information again and post the site.
Michael.
in reply to: What's your favorite bowhunting song? #15398I’m with Patrick. Last year, the morning I shot my buck (rifle season), I listened to “Fred Bear” before leaving the house, and ironically enough, when I got to where I shot my buck, I felt like I needed to stick around for a little bit. Lo and behold, out of the private property brush came the deer, and up onto the state-owned stuff I was hunting he came. Almost to within bow range, had I had my bow. Was a good day, but a long tiring drag back to the truck. Roughly 2 miles, very little downhill, and basically a dry dirt road, all to get a forkie-horn home. And the kicker to the whole she-bang…I cut fresh-since-I-passed elk tracks on my way back to the truck. LOL!!
Michael.
in reply to: Caught him crossing this morning… #15391Nice job getting the picture, even if it’s not the best shot in the world. Not a lot of people get the chance to photograph moose in their yard. Is there a chance that a bigger bull might have done the damage to his back end? Just a thought.
Michael.
in reply to: Share a Tip #14215My uncle told me about something he saw on a hunting show sometime in the past, and when I tried it, I had decent luck getting within bow range of several deer, some of which were decent bucks during the summer. I actually used it to get close enough to have the opportunity to shoot a buck (which I passed on the idea until it was too late and he left), and then used the following evening to close the gap on a doe that I did kill.
If you come across a deer that sees you, knows you’re there (say you’re on an open field, clear cut, whatever…), slowly walk toward the deer at an angle that should put you within bow range as you come abreast of the animal. As you walk, periodically “flash” your palm at the deer, keeping your arm and hand down at your side. Stop every once in a while, too, like a deer that’s wandering around eating. Near as I can figure, the deer sees the “flash”, and just thinks you’re a funny looking deer that’s flipping its tail every now and again. Anybody who has watched deer as they feed has probably seen them flick their tail every so often, pick their head up, look around, take a step or two, flip their tail, etc… As I said, this worked for me to get close enough to have a shot opportunity at a small buck, and also helped me to kill a doe the next day. Give it a shot.
Michael.
in reply to: I lost my first deer this weekend… #10924Todd, sorry about your lost buck. I lost one myself, a few years ago. Spike buck in velvet, hit him back by the hips somewhere, blood went about 50 yards and stopped. I combed the ridge for 2 hours that day, and for half the next, never found anything, not even my arrow. I learned a good lesson from it. Never shoot at an alert deer.
Michael.
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