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in reply to: winter target range #38193

OR freezing rain….

C’mon you know what WINTER is, you used to live here, and you know just how easy you have it out there. 😕

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #38119

As an after thought…..

I asked my Dr about my hearing, she said “Hearings fine, you just don’t pay attention.” Its that ADD thing again.

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #38066

Good point PT. Think I started a thread last year when I started to get into the gadgets thing. Kinda like fly fishing, there are some guys out there with really crappy rods, and just 2 flys (the light ones, and the dark ones), and they catch fish all of the time.

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in reply to: Treestands #26178

“Screaming Eagles” Is that what they call you when making that really fast trip to the ground?

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #26122

Thanks for letting us know about the amplifiers. I saw some for just $20 at Walmart. NOT THAT I HAVE A HEARING PROBLEM. Would have bought them but I figured that if they worked the girls would make me wear them at home, and if they didn’t work I would be out the $20. Are these the ones you saved up for? Or did you get something that actually works?

BTW: There is no writing on the tree bark. Get a eye exam.

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in reply to: winter target range #26034

This is a non-starter. First of all you just put a target in front of the wood pile. Big deal. Besides: YOU DON’T HAVE SNOW!!! How can you have a winter range without SNOW!! With any REAL weather that deer you have there would get coated with ice, and all the arrows would bounce off!!!

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #22587

Sunday and there is no hunting here in Mass. And perhaps a good thing.

Spent all day yesterday in the woods AM on a WMA, and the afternoon on the farms. Got to see a doe parade in the afternoon. Someone (I think DWC) suggested they are reading my posts. I’m wanting to know who is sharing my posts with the deer?

The challenge right now is to stay awake thru church. Luckily we sit in the front pew, so if no one notices my head nodding, and the girls keep quiet….

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in reply to: a little sad today. #22521

“Anyone who hasn’t had a similar experience hasn’t done much bowhunting. You stalked a whitetail buck on the ground and delivered what was almost a perfect arrow. Don’t get sad. Get hunting. Don”

RIGHT ON DON!!

We have to remember that the only people that do NOT make mistakes, are the people do nothing. Couch potatoes do not have these issues.

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in reply to: Flight of the Phoenix #21818

AWESOME!!!

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in reply to: Getting Up in the Morning #60192

Back in the day, when I was young and romantic…..

I would leave work Friday afternoon, drive until the wee hours of the morning, sleep a few hours in the truck, and go fishing at the crack of dawn….

With a little maturity I realized I wasn’t having fun trying to function while sleep deprived.

Heard an interview with Mick Jagger where he said he rearranges his sleeping schedule weeks before a concert so that he is performing about 2 hours after his REGULAR wake up time. That is the time when he can perform at his best.

Thumbs up to the exercise. I find that the more exercise I get the better I sleep. I have also found that it worked for my kids, even when they were teenagers.

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in reply to: Big Boy! #60039

GEEEEEEE…

I’ve had trail cams out for a couple months, and all I see are yearlings. And I’m right next door.

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in reply to: a little sad today. #36365

Great story Marc, and great thread youse guyes (y’all in Dixie}. Really great that we can all dump our feelings, and share here.

I just finished reading a book TRAILING WHITETAILS by John Trout, Jr. which is a primer for finding wounded deer. Based on what the book said (not my experience) it was a shoulder hit, and you may see the deer again. A hit in the chest cavity will die within 100 yards (according to the book).

After reading the book, I’m going to avoid shooting at a deer when it is raining, or in the evening if I have to work the next day. Rain washes out the blood trail, and I’m too old to track a deer half the night, gut it, and drag it out then go to work (Ten years ago I wouldn’t hesitate}.

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #35994

So sorry, Ralph, hoping he didn’t suffer a lot.

He is in a better place…

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in reply to: Tough Nebraska hunt #59151

I would say weather, or hormones.

On the other hand perhaps he hacked your cell phone, has a drone watching you…

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #59106

Jealous. Spent the whole day out in the woods. The morning at a WMA (listening to the bird hunters) and the afternoon at farmer Jim’s and only saw two does too far away, don’t have a doe tag anyway. Did see a horde of chickadees, the usual squirrels, and a little red squirrel that wanted to be my friend.

On the other hand….

I was sitting near the deer entrance to a hay field (know they use it because I have trail cam pics), and found a new (had to be while I was at the WME) scrape. Seems kinda dirty deal, them making a scrape at Farmer Jim’s, while I am at the WMA. Trail cam pics showed the buck in the evening, but when I am there he shows up in the morning, after all the stuff I have read about “patterning” deer. Guess they didn’t read the same stuff, or too dumb to keep with the pattern, Or he is thinking with his hormones. What do you think? Perhaps a vote on that.

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