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in reply to: Maybe, just maybe… #44733

Wow, that’s an accomplishment. I’m going to go check the FOC of my hammer in my tool box. I’m not sure it would make 40% FOC, but it should. Guess you might want to call your new arrows ‘the hammers’!

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in reply to: Personal Philosophies #44724

If you have to justify why to someone, they already don’t get it. You can try to explain it, but they won’t know until they try. SO… To do it is to know, to live, to absorb the whole experience. It’s that way with most anything worthwhile.

( How can you experience something squinting through a 1/4 inch peep hole? I don’t have one on my front door either! 🙂 )

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in reply to: Cheap targets #35884

If you are in need of a good backstop, I like to use two fence posts and a cow mat attached in between. Cow mats can be bought new for about $45; or, farmers change them out every couple of years, and I am sure they can be had for free. They’ll even smell like elk! 😀

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in reply to: Are we forgetting our roots? #29959

I agree with the thought that it’ll be a collectors item to those that lived in those times. Think of all of the broadhead designs that have come and gone. We who remember, value broadhead collections more.

Many of the young do have the ‘whack em, stack em’ philosophy of hunting. Ted, I believe, really started the mindset portrayed in so many hunting TV shows and videos out today. I think the young do not make the connection of the traditional equipment role in their success, but only of the new products role, so they loose respect for the old.

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in reply to: Trad VS. Compound #29884

I am working on my 2 closest compound buddies in a subtle fashion. I bought them each a one year subscription to Traditional Bowhunter Magazine for Christmas. They never poke at me for my choice of equipment, but the magazine will give them an idea of the rest that goes with it. Don’t expect them to change over, but may plant a seed upstairs in some fashion. 🙂

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in reply to: Wisconsin Albinos #29853

I’m not going to worry about an albino deer either way unless it’s next to the nuclear power plant. 😯 We humans do have a way of screwing things up in nature.

Perhaps it’s natures way of trying to get a deer to the point of a snowshoe hare or a ptarmigan. Now wouldn’t a ‘cameleon’ deer be tougher to hunt? Nature takes it’s time, but eventually gets it right.

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in reply to: thank you #29836

May health, and good fortune find you and yours this holiday season.

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in reply to: A trophy "dear". My first! #62517

Congrats on the grandchild. We have 4 with a 5th on the way. Family gatherings just got more lively for you. 😀

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in reply to: Deer Hunters…Morning or Evening? #55394

I hunt both – but

I tend to like mornings better because:

I find it easier to setup closer to or adjacent to, bedding areas as the deer are not in them yet. Moving into position is easier with the cover of darkness.

The deer seem more relaxed in the morning from moving about freely all night. Just my opinion on that.

The closer to the rut it is, the later the deer return to bedding, which can then be anytime at all during the morning. I look at this as increased opportunity to hunt. Over the years, the biggest bucks I have seen have been during this late morning period, sneaking back to bedding.

Blood trailing and recovery is easier in day light, as is taking care of animals in hot weather. I’ve stayed up cutting up deer shot in the evening, much later than I’d like, because it was too hot to hang them.

The temperatures are cooler for a longer period of time. 3 hours hunting from 6 am until 9 am is vastly different temperature wise than 4 pm to 7 pm on the same day. I am sure the deer notice this too.

I find it interesting that people feel they see less deer in the morning than at night. I am not sure I buy into that. For me, it’s about 50/50 over all. But in the morning, I try to stay out hunting until at least 10 am. Maybe they are not staying out as long?

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in reply to: Mechanical Broadheads #55374

Like they say, read the Ashby Reports. So much can go wrong with mechanicals no matter what bow is used. Too many weak parts, in a weak design.

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in reply to: moose hunt, not for the faint of heart #51984

I have read so many moose stories where the moose is shot point blank? 😯 What is it about moose hunting that makes it so besides carrying a bow? Sounds almost terrifying! Glad that you are still with us. Way to keep your cool! 8)

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in reply to: Wisconsin Traditional Archers Fall Hunt #49725

I can’t go as I have other committments. Sounds like fun, though.

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in reply to: The anser to all our problems! #39242

Wow “HEC” suits!! Didn’t read it all, but that is interesting. Didn’t find where it worked on dogs. I think the mailman might want one of these suits. Might want to test it on the little ankle biters first, though, before you try it with the dobermans! 😀

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in reply to: Congratulations Dave #39077

Congrats on a fine bull, Dave. Nice antlers, and I’m sure plenty of meat for the freezer too. A job well done.

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in reply to: A swing and a miss… #37549

23 feet! How do you stop the nose bleeds?? 😯 I am getting to old to consider anything that high up, unless I’m on a steep sidehill(maybe). Remember to practice from that height if you sit that high. The perspective is definitely different. Have fun, hunt safe and keep at it. It’ll come together.

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