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in reply to: Deer Calls? Or Just Blowing Hot Air! #49026
I’ve called in exactly one buck, during the rut. He approached within 40 yards, at which point he intersected a doe trail I had watched being made a few minutes earlier. Bye bye.
A “doe” called to my wife and me from a thicket while we were walking the dogs along a trail in thick downed leaves yesterday. I resisted a nearly overpowering urge to call back with, “How’s that Primo’s workin’ for ya?” 😈
I think the proliferation of whitetail calls in the woods around here has thoroughly educated all but the most naive forkhorns. JMHO.
in reply to: Shooting Gloves #37245Cameron wrote: I switched a few years ago to shooting 3 under and I use the 3 under leather cordovan tab. It will last you a life time and really has a clean release. You can also get a cordovan for split finger shooting.
This. Plus the Safari Tuff tab will fit over darn near any warm glove I’m likely to be wearing in cold weather and still allow a clean release. I’ve tested it with these and it works like a charm:
http://www.sitkagear.com/products/big-game/necessities/mountain-goretex-glove
(FWIW, I won those gloves and didn’t buy them. But I can heartily recommend them if your budget permits.)
in reply to: Website Upgrade #37194Thanks, Mom!
in reply to: I think a Dingo ate my Baby! #30398This is the reason I’m burdened with a block-and-tackle rig (lightweight climbing pulleys and static line) every time I go deer hunting.
I like to hunt well away from the mad(den)ing crowd. If I’m fortunate to take a deer and my plastic toboggan and/or deer cart are not within a scant few minutes’ walk, the deer will be hung high enough for me to go fetch one or the other. There are coyotes everywhere in the Northeast these days, and the bears are holding their own as well.
Here are some tips on hunting Rosies I ran across that I’m itching to test. Undoubtedly someone here can vet them for us:
Good for you! Looking forward to picking your brain about those blacktail once I make it back over there permanently. 😉
in reply to: Lets go Moose Hunting #13225I should have been clearer in my post. Sweden currently prohibits bowhunting. A decision on whether to legalize it will be made next year.
The cause has not been helped with the recent illegal (and unsuccessful) shooting of a tame roe deer named “Doris” with an arrow that penetrated its head …
in reply to: Lets go Moose Hunting #12764Don, your father was the wrong gender to have attracted Carl Gustaf’s attention. Putting your mom next to him was taking something of a chance …
In addition to moose, Sweden has increasing populations of wolves, European brown bear, red deer (similar to North American elk), roe deer, reindeer, fallow deer and wild boar, all of which are hunted there.
in reply to: A good FOC arrow saved a botched shot! #8284Excellent story and testimonial. You created your own luck with your setup.
And anyone with the good sense to use Finnish fillet knives for processing meat is all right in my book. 🙂
in reply to: After the Hunt #60200I’ve had good luck with a very inexpensive alternative to the usual vacuum packers:
If you follow the instructions and pay close attention to getting a good seal on the bag before pumping, I am fairly certain you will have a similar experience. I’m pretty sure the people who have complained elsewhere about this system did not do that.
in reply to: WHITETAIL TWO-STEP #57813Good on ya!
Two steps was about all I could take during this first week of the NH archery season before falling down from heat prostration.
OTOH, the resident snowshoe hare that hangs out at my backyard range has started to change coat color, so there’s hope on the horizon.:D
in reply to: Roosevelt BULLdozer #56873Can’t WAIT to get back out there! Thanks for sharing.
in reply to: Can You, or Cant You? #32883Smithhammer wrote: “Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.”
– I. Kant
Damn, he beat me to it! 😀
in reply to: Can You, or Cant You? #31739Every time I try to hew to the rigid dictates of the morally upright, I can’t think of a reason to follow their example in this regard. I do hope that unlike so many other topics in modern society, this one does not devolve into cant. 😉
in reply to: GPS in trad bow. #28481SteveMcD wrote: Well. I will respectfully disagree. I see the GPS as a further cave in to technology. Last I checked most maps, State, USGS or other, clearly without any doubt illustrate between private and public land. It’s about being prepared, maybe even scouting beforehand, imagine that. I guess if someone trespasses now, they can just blame technology for it. Nope. Not buying it. Literally. I will stick with my map and compass.
We’re not talking about distinguishing between public and private land per se. A great deal of hunting in New England is done on private land because there’s relatively little public land available. The issue is which private parcels can be hunted on.
In NH for instance, the presumption is that all private land is huntable unless it is posted (or otherwise subject to certain restrictions on the use of weapons.) This state has a greater portion of its land cover in forest than any other state in the Union. Unless you start at a surveyor’s stake and follow a compass bearing very precisely using the parcel’s legal description, there’s often NO way to know where the parcel boundaries are without a GPS that has the data in it. The posting is often done only along roads and I know of many instances in which a boundary not along a road is not posted. Knowing where it is keeps me out of trouble, and helps all hunters.
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