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in reply to: Clay Hayes new book! #58285
Congrats on the book Clay!
I will be buy this when i get my kindle in a couple weeks. I am getting one free from my brother who does programing for them.
in reply to: New longbow, I'm hooked #54291Welcome to the wonderful world of traditional bowhunting!
The journey is amazing! There are no short cuts, but there is adventure around every corner of the process.
Gald to have you part of it. No other sport can bring a bigger smile. Have fun with it all.
in reply to: Latest Issue of TBM #34033I have been saving mine for tomorrow. I have to leave for a out of town wedding and will be stuck in a hotel for the night. Gonna kick back with a cold beer and read it cover to cover. It’s been a tradition for me for last 20 years to not touch it until I get a chance to read it all at once. Read every one cover to cover.
in reply to: Bowfishing Thru The Ice #28766I have never bowfished thru the ice. But there are guys in wisconsin doing it with bait. they are baiting the holes with corn and shooting fish there.
Not 100% sure about it being legal here but pretty sure it is as rough fish is now open all year on many waters in Mi. But also restricted on other waters.
Another great option is to hit the rivers that are not frozen at night with a light or boat with lights. when the ice covers everything they really like the open water of the rivers for the extra oxegen.
I have a boat set up specificly for bowfishing with 10 halogen lights and a generator that we bowfish from when the ice goes out in march and dont stop until freeze up sometimes. Fish are there to be had when you find them. Its nothing like the spawn but still really good all year.
My good buddy also runs a guide service all over michigan for bowfishing day or night from his air boat…awesome experience! He was out with some clients last week of november and it 3 hours they shot 60 fish. Just got to find them. I think i would try to find them in the open rivers before i tried thru the ice as they will be drawn to the open water.
in reply to: Time to buy a long bow #23891There are so many great bowyers out there you really can’t go wrong. Best advise is to try before you buy.
I own a few different longbows but my personal favorites are my 2 Robertson longbows. I went to a show years ago and tried a bunch of different bows. Liked the Robertson best for me so ordered one.
Test driving is for sure best way to decide if you can.
in reply to: Yote Robertson #20974Watched the show a couple times last year and was not real interested. When i read this and heard Yote was on there I have watched 2 episodes just to see Yote.
I have been using him as an example for my kids as to how the world is thiers for the taking. Yote is a perfect example of that. I never met him but thru this magazine, stories, etc I have always paid attention to anything that related to the Robertsons for the last 20 something years i’ve been a bowhunter. Yote’s accomplishments and life he lives (from what i read) is an inspiration that even in todays world a guy can take life by the horns and make it his way.
Very impressive! Now i sit here with my kids and point him out on the TV and tell my kids of his adventures and how they come about. My kids eyes get huge, the excitement stirs and its one more log on the fire in thier mind that they can do anything and eveything they want to if they try hard enough. Thanks Yote!
in reply to: How long before your first harvest? #52857It took me 3 years after I switched to a trad bow to finally connect on a deer. I missed over the back of a few in that time. but it took a solid 3 seasons to make it all come together. that was 20 years ago and I still remember that doe like it was yesterday.
in reply to: Stream Crossing #414082 contractor garbage bags and a cheap pair of sandels (like crocs or teva knock offs).
I use this method to cross a couple creeks and it works awesome. when you get to the creek take boot off and put leg in contrator (thick) garbage bag then put foot and bag into sandle. then do same for other leg with other bag and cross. its like poor man hipboots.
The sandels are light weight and pack every easy and dry instantly. they protect the bags from the rocks and crap on the bottom.
works like a champ and packs up light and compact.
in reply to: Field Photos #40847J.Wesbrock wrote: jasonsamko,
My point and shoot is an sx110. I’ve been seriously thinking about updating to the sx160. It’s too bad they don’t shoot in RAW mode.
I agree about raw mode. sure would be nice if they had it. but if im that serious about a shot i break out the slr. The sx160 is very similar to the 110. I have a few of the 110s and a sx120 and the sx160. they are all very similar. I did a podcast on photography and mentioned the sx160 and a listener said they just bought a sx160 for 90 bucks from office max! that is a heck of deal and worth the upgrade. Otherwise I would wait for the price to drop on the 160 since you already have the 110 and they are so similar. the pics i shoot between the 110 and the 160 are identical for 99% of anything we would do with them.
But the sx110, 120 or 160 is imo the best point and shoot for those of us that want to shoot in manual settings and still have the compact size of a point and shoot.
in reply to: Field Photos #39558Photography is how I made my living for the last 17 years. I love my d SLR cameras and always have one close by. But my favorite in field camera for my shooting style is the canon sx160. It cost 150 bucks. Fits in pocket. Uses as batteries (important in cold weather and very convenient). Has a full range of manual setting as well as aperture and shutter speed priority settings. Also has exposure compensation! It does video and takes very good pics.
For some one that wants control over you pics, want compact size, good image quality, and a price that means you don’t worry about beating it up this is a great camera.
Dwcphoto,
This might help if you can’t use a game cart due to terrain to get the bear out.
We have carried a few bears out of the bush in Ontario using a arm medical stretcher and 2 guys. Worked very surprisingly easy. You can get the stretchers from army surplus stores for 25 bucks used. It was actually the outfitters “preferred method” to get bears out so you could get it far away from the bait sites to gut it. Definitely not as easy as skin and quarter. But if you have to keep intact this might be a consideration.
in reply to: a video of a "outside of the box" hunt #35215Steve and Duncan,
I didnt take the time to slowly open her and anyalize the shot location. but it looked like the enterence was just inside the diaphram missing the close lung and taking out the opposit lung on the far side. but could of hit the front lung and went below the opposite lung as well. i think it was the first way but like i said i didnt take the time to find out for sure. but classic one lung hit reaction. i was using a 2 blade magnus 1 broadhead.
Not sure if the coyotes killed her or my arrow did. I have hit one lung deer before and had them live for a long time. one was over 48 hours thank god for good snow as i recoverd that deer. But i have also had one lung deer die in a few hours but those also included gut and one lung.
its crazy how all that works. when i let the arrow go and watched the fletching disapear into her i thought she wwould be dead in 60 yards. yet many years ago i shanked a shot on a doe and hit her right above the rear hip and when i saw the arrow hit my heart sank. she jumped in the air and then stood still and feel over dead (artery severed) 2 yards from where i hit her….shorted track job ever had other than a spine shot. go figure. it just goes to show deer meat is not deer meat until its in the freezer.
Duncan, I totally agree about the treestand height. I learned my lesson on that a long time ago, some of the one lung hits earlier on. I usually try to hunt between 14 and 16 feet (how ever high 3 36″ sticks will get me). Great advise, and imo very important to not get to high if you plan to shoot close as the angle just doesnt work for a soild double lung hit. i should of taken the time to verify if i missed the lung on the shot side or the opposite side but i was too mad and disgusted to worry about it when i dressed her. either way my shot imo was too far back by about 2 inches and low by 1 inch. 2 inches more and i would of did my favorite kind of shot. double lung with a broken opposite leg. game over fast with easy trailing and lost of noise crashing.
in reply to: Help finding deer please! #33432forager, way to step up to the plate and offer to personally help. Wish there were more people like you in the world today.
Chris, this may or may not help you. But its my routine.
1. look at bing maps satalite (or google earth but bing is more upto date in my area). look for edges, funnels, and obvious places that deer will want to travel. then look for places that deer doent want to go like clearings, bogs, logged areas, etc. then look at a topo map for subtle funnels like benches, saddles, fingers, ditches, etc. Try to figure out what they are eating, were its at and if there are any areas that are prefered for bedding like swamps, tall grasses, marshes, etc.
2. go look at these areas you highlighted and see them in person.
3. find that one tree that most deer are going to walk by based on the sign. try to find hubs and intersections to increse your odds if you are just hunting trails without funnels.
4. plan your enter and exit routes so you dont disturb deer.
in reply to: a video of a "outside of the box" hunt #33424yeah i have a love hate relationship with the yotes. I lvoe them for thier cunning and skills. I envy them for thier persistance and detrmination. but i hate when they beat me to my food.
The funnel worked perfectly. That was the whole point of the video was to show a unique and differnt way to get into deer and think like they do. hopefully it proves helpfull to a few that hunt similar situations.
Thanks for watching and all the comments.
in reply to: Deep Woods Hunt #33421I too prefer the big woods. It allows me many mistakes. I can screw up a stand for whatever reason and simple move a mile to a different one. at any given time during deer season i can have “trees ready for stands” in 60 different areas covering 50 miles. I have stands that are a mile in and stands that are 50 yards off a paved road as well as everything in between.
I love that freedom. the cost however is less deer, smaller average deer, more pressure, harder hunting, etc. but i would not trade it for the world. The big woods is home for me. I live there, hunt there, fish there, trap there, hike and camp there. for me and my family its our happiness and escape year round from the everyday crap that sucks the life out of us like cell phones, puters, myface, weebox, work, etc. I try every hard to get keep my family in the woods doing something as many days as we can. That comes at an extreme cost. less money, farther commutes to work, less time for normal stuff, less little family functions beacsue of distance, and a much harder life style. But again I would not trade it for the world and hopefully one day my kids will always remeber this stuff regardless of where life takes them.
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