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in reply to: Shaft Friction #23394
I would use silicon spray lubricant. It is a dry lube, thus no smell, no mess.
in reply to: ARE YOU READY? #22672Got the freezer, waiting for someone to stop by and help me get it down cellar…. Any takers? The girls said no, and my son is in Salt Lake.
in reply to: ARE YOU READY? #56464I picked the sled up from WallMart. It’s taller than I am.
in reply to: Broadheads For Wood Arrows #11025Thanks again, just got my ACE broad heads. Need a rain day to sharpen them 😀
in reply to: ARE YOU READY? #55585Home Depot is out of stock on the deer sled. Found one at Walmart/online same price, no shipping if I pick it up.
in reply to: My new baby #30793When I saw the tag line, I was thinking you got a new bow. She sounds like more fun.
BTW From someone who has been through the experience for 2 generations…Don’t teach the kid to talk. They ask too many questions.
Arwen’s latest complaint is that I never give her a straight answer. What do you expect when you ask questions like “What is the meaning of life?” Turns out she is watching graduate students in Psychology and philosophy on UTUBE.
in reply to: ARE YOU READY? #3067858 acres, I backtracked so many times I had to check my compass halfway thru, good news I was still on course.
Embarrassed to share this,,,
Knew I had to go east to get back to the car, so I checked the compass, and started walking. Short time later I realized I was going up hill. Strange, I thought I was coming DOWN off the ridge. Looked at the GPS, and it told me I had just gone in a circle. I prefer the compass, just tells me I am going in the wrong direction, rather than graphical telling me I am an idiot.
in reply to: Hammock Seat #21607Don’t have the hammock seat. I do have 3 that I bought, 2 are too high, 1 is too low. All of them are too heavy. I tend to think that the hammock will not fit since it fits all you big guys. I have made one that I like and currently testing. I’ll let you know how it works out (hint plastic pipe and seat belts – now you have something to think about all weekend).
in reply to: ARE YOU READY? #33774Actually, I’m one of those who looks for challenges. Like if you say I can’t do something, I defiantly will. That is why I expect to fill BOTH of the tags on my license (food bank is expecting the second).
in reply to: ARE YOU READY? #20851HAY!!!! Less than 20% of the deer hunters get a deer. You obviously think you are going to get one. So what makes you better than the other 80%. What is your secret?
in reply to: What ya got goin? #11619OK, so I thought that maybe the deer DID go by the trail cam every morning, just not in the same place. After all the trail cam doesn’t have peripheral vision.
So I got up at 6:00 AM, why so early? To get myself ready. I had 3 cups of coffee waiting for my morning constitutional. Then took a shower, and put on my camo that had just been washed and dried with pine needles. Gathered up my possibilities bag, bow, and camera. Drove just 10 minutes (sprayed myself with stink killer) than hiked 2 miles, had to get there from the back. Didn’t want to use the same trail the deer did. I hunkered down on my seat. I was on a knoll overlooking the beaver swamp. The beaver swamp is about 3 acres of swamp grass, willows, and mud. Anybody reading this? Actually the water in the swamp is less than a foot deep, the mud under the water is bottomless. Believe me I’ve been there.. The knoll is about 30 feet over the swamp, I’m about 2/3 up, looking at a point of land that looks out over the swamp. I got there about 8:30 and expected company about 9:30. Plenty of time for things to calm down.
I’m sitting there… I’m sitting there… Well the seat I was on wanted to tip forward, so my leg muscles were getting tired from holding me up. I was a bit chilly around the solders at first, that was OK, as there were no bugs. Then it warmed up, and the skeeters found me. So I’m sitting there, and as you know, doesn’t seem very hard to just sit there not moving until you do it. Remember the three cups of coffee, I really had to pee. Well, I really felt that there were deer around, after all I had photographic evidence. I just imagined there were deer just inside the underbrush watching me trying to figure out if I was a stump or a biped. Oh, and the acorns were falling. A little rustle in the leaves…sounds like a deer…thump. Oh, another acorn. One of those acorns landed just 2 feet to to my left. Ever get hit on the head, dead center with an acorn. I was thinking about it. About 9:20 there was a bug crawling across the right lens of my glasses, and a skeeter drilling just below my left shoulder blade. Didn’t dare move, there just HAD to be a deer watching.
Then a rustle in back of me…another acorn…waiting for the thump….
There was a snort that I swear got deer snot on my back.
I twisted to the right to try to see…
The joints were all stiff, and the chair tipped over…
I just caught a glimpse of a white tail before my face hit the dirt.
in reply to: Broadheads For Wood Arrows #11179Thank you Mr. Lee for asking the question, and youse guys for the answers.
in reply to: THEY HAVE GONE TOO FAR…….. #11092Another slap in the face….
Used mt garden pruners to make a path thru a briar patch from one hay field to another (half mile around) came back a few days later to use the path, and found deer poop at the entrance to the trail. I’m thinking they did that as soon as I left… Grrrrrrrr
in reply to: What ya got goin? #41667Turkeys. I flushed (careless)what I thought was a few turkeys from a hay field. Then when I heard them calling to each other, I hunkered down in between. Sure enough about 14 came along bobbing their heads an clucking. Think there were three hens, and chicks. Didn’t see any beards.
Also saw bear droppings that would have clogged any sewer pipe I ever saw.
Been having fun with trail cams. I keep reading that I should “pattern” the deer. Find the trails they take to and from food sources. Well, I have news for you. Our deer don’t pattern. At one spot where I had the cam, 2 does showed up at 9:05 AM (bankers hours? are you one of those guys that gets up at oh dark thirty so you can fall out of the tree blind at daybreak?), then didn’t show again for 7 days, then at 9:14. I’m impressed the deer showed up at the exact same “sun time” as the sun rises about one minute later every day. At another place I’ve seen beds, droppings, and they have dug in the leaves looking for acorns. The cam watched for two weeks and saw nothing. I’m thinking that is a monthly cycle.
Really neat the way the cam will sit there just waiting. It’s like I sat there for a week, and didn’t sweat, burp, fart, or scratch my nose.
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