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in reply to: Four wheelers… #50337

David Petersen wrote: Unless OH requires you to check the whole deer (a really stupid antique practice these days),

Welcome to New Hampshire, yep, The whole damn animal. I wonder if there is a way to change our local legislation on that issue? (an dno I have never used an ATV to remove a deer).

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in reply to: Washing Clothes: Baking Soda? #45907

Danny Klee wrote: I hate to be the unpopular one here but when i went hunting with my dad and his brothers it seemed none of them washed their clothes in anything other than what my mother and aunt used to wash the clothes. Two of my uncles were serious cigar smokers and the rest of them were cigarette smokers who regularly smoked while they hunted. Almost all of them were successful each and every year, either bow or gun hunting. I just dont see the need for expensive clothing nor do I see the need to wash your clothes in baking soda. At least not after seeing those fellas getting deer after deer all the while smoking right in the field. I personally don’t smoke but I don’t know that it matters all that much. I’m sure quite a few of you will disagree with me and that’s fine but I only know what I have seen in the past with my own eyes.

Dan

LOL, That is because they were southern deer and had a smoking habit themselves. They probably approched those hunters hoping to bum a smoke.

Dan, Nothing wrong with posting what you have seen in real life. 😀

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in reply to: Four wheelers… #44796

We just had a couple (they were not hunting) who were thrown from their horses when ATVs came screaming around the corner of a trail. She broke 6 ribs and he was rushed in for a possible heart attack. Those ATV folks did not stop (they sated they did not notive), the second part of the group didn’t stop until they ran into the rescue vehicles at the trail head (he had a cell and dialed 911). The second group said they saw the horses and just thought the couple were just resting in the grass. WTF?

If you are using them as a true tool, like in Alaska where they travel 30 miles into a spot where they set up camp and then hunt from there, fine.

Around my parts in NH, it is all recreational first (and going way, way to fast) and there is very little land you can’t get to on foot.

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in reply to: Washing Clothes: Baking Soda? #39963

Thanks. Good to know how to save some dough while going for doe.

OK, I’ll drop the puns 😀

I do use the dryer but I use scent remover and throw in a earth sentes dryer sheet. As stated, wind in the face is the best policy but I like to account for those odd wind shifts that happen as well as thermal ups and downs on the hills.

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in reply to: Share a Tip #33735

George D. Stout wrote: Things I don’t want to hear while in the woods: Ring tones, vibrations (unless thunder or earthquake), or any other techno-noise. I go to the woods to get away from technology. 🙄 By the way, what’s a cell phone? 😡

Here’s a tip: Keep a toothbrush in your quiver or fanny pack. It comes in very handy for cleaning dirt off field points or broadheads, and helps clean up the hands and finger nails after field dressing….with the help of a little water.

I certainly get what your saying. However, they are handy if you get hurt or you get that deer and need help following a blood trail packing it out and can call a friend in. (we have to present the entire deer at a check sation so you can’t do any field butchering beyond gutting it.)

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in reply to: Share a Tip #30313

Stay in the stand longer by texting a friend or two (even send them a picture so they can look at you hunting while they are at work 😀 ).

When I start getting the desire to leave the stand (or woods altogether), I text a friend and find waiting for their reply provides enough of a break and motivation to “stay out there” a little longer.

Of course make sure your cell is on vibrate. Unless, of course, you can find deer grunts as a ringtone.

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in reply to: Who is your bowhunting hero and why? #30306

nutmeg wrote: Nhguy12 She’s married.lol Now whatever happened to Amanda, the Diamond Girl?:lol:(nut)

And so am I….happily so. LOL

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in reply to: Who is your bowhunting hero and why? #29162

Without a doubt, it is Teresa Williams who most of you know as the very “easy on the eyes” individual who often graces the cover of 3 Rivers Archery material. 😀

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in reply to: Pre-Rut Hunt, Pointers #29160

eidsvolling wrote: Good luck on Friday! This rain this week should help keep the ground quiet for you. I’m going to try to sneak off for grouse for a couple hours on Friday morning. In-laws arrive on Saturday, and I know it wouldn’t work to be butchering a deer here on Friday afternoon or evening, assuming I were to get so lucky . . .

Last weekend friday was looking like a great morning to hunt. Now it will be a Friday with NH under water. Tied up this weekend with work, maybe I can get Monday morning in.

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in reply to: Just my luck #26061

They know you don’t have a tag, that is why they are next to you. They so know you don’t have one. 😀

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in reply to: Pre-Rut Hunt, Pointers #26013

Duncan wrote: I’m with Steve. Find the acorns they want and you will find the deer. It may be does and yearlings but its part of the formula that plays out from now through the rut. Its simple.

Acorns = Deer + Rut = Bucks. A kind of find the does and the bucks will come theory.

I may have specific located an acorn area that has some hits, certainly see some droppings and even two scrapes in the area. As my fellow Granite stater has said, acorns are everywhere here and it has been hot.

However, our rain fall has been little to none and I am finding where ever there is even a hint of water on the ground, there are tracks around. The normal mountain run-off streams are all dried up, so they are moving around areas where the water has puddled up.

Friday begins are shot at does. I will head out Friday morning and I amy use the vanilla idea. Hope it doesn’t attract bears, saw a monster boar last week out hunting in the same area. I have no desire to come face to face with that beast. I don’t have a bear tag and with a 45# longbow, I am not confident in bringing him down, even if I did have one.

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in reply to: Pre-Rut Hunt, Pointers #14886

Thanks eidsvolving.

Where in the state are you? I do still hunt far more then I stand hut. As you know, on public land in NH you have to use a climbing stand for the most part, which meand you have to carry it along with everything else. So I only use it when I feel I am on a major deer highway (and for the most part I use it in the Rut).

I do move rather slow and have had birds flush near by. I read in F&S that non-estrus doe pee may help, as some deer at this point will check out an unkown deer sent from time to time.

Good luck, NH is not an easy state to hunt deer in (I came from Wyoming).

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in reply to: What's your favorite bowhunting song? #12700

I sing “Funky Town (Won’t You Take Me To)” from the top of my lungs as loud as I can, while on the stand. This may be why I have yet to get a shot at a deer while in NH. 🙂

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in reply to: New Archer – Where to start? #11520

Any of the bows you mentioned would be a decent starter bow for you, especially if you start out with a lower weigth like the 30# mentioned. That will let you develop good shooting form, which is essential for accurate shooting, without developing bad habits from using too much draw weight

The above is probably the most important advice. For both you an dyour daughter do not “over bow” yourself. How old is your daughter? Mine is 7 and I make sure that she shoots close enough to the target that she makes most of her shots, so she feels confident.

I would also let that shop set you up when you buy a bow, so that they match the arrows correctly for that bow and your daraw and such. Some “bigger” outdoor stores have people who don’t know squat about traditional archery and would sell you a dozen arrows made for compounds.

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in reply to: I lost my first deer this weekend… #10280

Sorry to hear that. I lost a turkey once and even that bothered the heck out of me, still does. So, I can only imagine your feelings on a deer.

Here in NH we are required to put our name and address on arrows in case someone does find it. We also are supposed to turn in our tag and “claim” the unfound kill. Not sure what Florida requires.

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