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in reply to: Awesome EFOC Idea Im working on #22206

Great Idea !! Just a thought though, a number 8,32 bolt will thread into your insert.You could cut the head off one and use it to thread the two inserts together.

Might make a more solid connection than the nail.

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in reply to: Home practice range #8826

Thanks ! I’ve got a few more planned for the spring !! Right now I’m ding a groundhog with a 2 Litre pop bottle and spray foam. Also want to do a turkey, a bedded deer and hopefully full size elk !!

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in reply to: American Plains Indian style quiver #8801

Very nice !! Hey , didn’t I just see this on that other social network ?!?!

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in reply to: Home practice range #55143

Are those Herters bows hanging there ? Always likes the look of them !

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in reply to: Anything Positive @ This Winter? #54006

On the bright side, there seems to be an abundance of snowshoe hares around my area this year. On the down side, we have waist deep snow so chasing after them can be a bit more than a challenge !

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in reply to: Home practice range #53995

Yes, all but the whitetail target are home made. I’ve experimented with a few different targets. First, I had a friend give me some big blocks of foam and I cut out the shapes with a reciprocating saw. Then painted them with exterior latex house paint. That works pretty good but the best ones are what I call Tarp targets. I live just down the road from a lumber yard and they always have a pile of shipping tarps that their lumber is covered with when they receive it.They’re happy to get rid of them ! If you crumple these tarps into a shape or stuff them into a feed sack, they work awesome for targets.You can shoot them forever and I’ve never seen easier arrow removal. Now I took this a step further. Once I have a tarp animal shaped, I wrap it with a combination of light material strips(old bed sheets ripped up)dipped in a water/glue mixture. Like paper mache’.

when this is dried hard, I paint it to suit whatever animal it is. I once did a coyote that even fooled my dog !

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in reply to: Home practice range #37370

Some of my home range ! I set up a small course in the woods behind my house![URL=http://s1049.photobucket.com/user/archer381/media/Photo0497.jpg.html][/URL]

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in reply to: Coyote on Deer #36269

I grew up in Southern Ontario Canada. Prince Edward County, its actually an island on the North shore of Lake Ontario with the Bay of Quinte separating it from the shore along it’s North.

In recent years,the coyote population has more than exploded.

To say it has become a problem would be a huge understatement.

Anyway, a family friend found a den site one day while out scouting for the coming deer season and he decided to set up a trail cam. He didn’t get back to it for about a month and when he did check it, what he found was astonishing !!

Over the 30 plus days of trail cam photos, there were only 4 days that those coyotes did not bring back a deer to the den site with the vast majority of them being fawns. That’s right ! Almost a deer per day !!

Keep in mind this is only one den site ! I hate to imagine how many times this is multiplied over the whole county !!

This place, Prince Edward County, had no open season for deer for many years. As a youngster I can remember driving down a back road and seeing 40 or 50 deer or sometimes even more, raping a been field or any of the other crops available to them. In the 1980’s, a controlled numbers hunt was finally established in an attempt to manage the population.

To put this “coyote problem” into perspective, deer numbers are so far down they are considering cancelling the deer season until numbers increase!

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in reply to: Cabin fever….whose got it? #31836

Until now, been having fun chasing after snowshoe hares but we just got another 20 inches of snow over the past couple days. Gonna be hard slugging since we already had over 2 feet before this !!

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in reply to: ghostblind, anyone have any experience with this portable blind? #28371

They actually are tapered panels so that when it is set up, it is angled toward the ground in front of it. To see yourself in it, you’d have to be sitting on the ground within arms reach.

I totally agree with the Jack in the box though !!

Looks like it would definitely conceal you well

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in reply to: Merry Xmass to all #15917

Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year from Muskoka Ontario Canada !!

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in reply to: thread #15912

Its a number 8-32. That’s number 8 screw or bolt with 32 threads per inch

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in reply to: FOC Demonstrations #13726

This is awesome !! Thank you for sharing it with us !

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in reply to: ratio #13714

Everyone so far is in the ballpark. Roughly one third as a rule

I worked in a small town butcher shop/slaughter house when I was younger. Cut up a pile of deer there and yes it will vary a bit but one third is a good estimate.

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in reply to: Meat care and cooking #49398

As for cooling, I most often am recovering an animal right before or at dark when bear hunting. I get the animal gutted,skinned and rinsed clean. Then, i wrap it in a couple tarps and put it in a freezer until the next morning. By then, it is well chilled but not yet frozen and the butchering takes place. I find that with bear especially, the more fat and tallow you can remove, the better the taste.

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