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  • Ptaylor
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      Thanks fellas.

      Turkey season, general, is open here. Funny thing is I never see turkeys near my house, except for when the season opens. Driving down the road Monday there were 4 turkeys walking by. Most of the migratory geese around here, the Aleutian cackling geese, have left heading north.

      I’m looking forward to some surf perch fishing this spring.

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        in reply to: arrow diameter #123897

        No worries Steve, it’s understandable. That’s interesting to hear about the history of the carbon shaft.

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          in reply to: arrow diameter #123644

          pultruded… I assume that’s some kind of degrading term for carbon arrows!? But I couldn’t find that word in the dictionary.

          I get that you like wood shafts better. I’m just trying to educate myself, since we sell compound gear along with traditional tackle at the shop. And I was reading some info about these micro diameter shafts, companies always trying to push a new product.

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            in reply to: steel inserts #28051

            Cool story Handirifle. My friend down your way gets depredation permits and hunts them at night too. Does pretty well that way. I missed this whole nail-steel-insert building post. It’s pretty cool.

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              Like you Steve, I am working on winter projects during these long-dark nights. I’ve started hand planing arrows. I made a spine jig, but have been contemplating getting the woodchuck taper tool.

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                Right on man!

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                  in reply to: Orange Day in PA #57839

                  Bowhunting during the rifle season! That’s what I’m talking about! Happy hunting DWC.

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                    J.Wesbrock wrote: That being the case, you will never hear or read me using the terms, poke, smoke, whack, stack, or anything about a hit list.

                    Another term that drives me nuts: when people talk about animals they killed and say, “Those bids are so dumb.” Calling the animals you are hunting dumb is just so disrespectful. And it is ironic that I usually hear people call an animal dumb in the middle of a story that they’re bragging about the animal they shot! I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’ve been hearing a lot of that talk lately since the brandt season has been so crazy this year.

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                      Thanks for sharing Mike!

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                        right on congrats dude!

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                          in reply to: Hunting 2016 #24384

                          Steve Graf wrote: It’s not hard to do…. My wife does it several times a day 😳 🙄 😆

                          What’s even harder is admitting that I’m wrong, even after she’s proved it to me!! haha.

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                            in reply to: Hunting 2016 #16935

                            R2 wrote: Steve say:

                            For the sake of argument though… lets say rattling and grunting are very successful ways of getting bucks to come. When they do come, I think we can agree that they are on high alert. This is ok for a gun hunter, or someone in a tree stand. But if you are hunting with a trad bow from the ground, you gonna get busted

                            That’s a fair assessment. But I am going to try and prove you wrong…

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                              in reply to: Hunting 2016 #57943

                              grumpy wrote: Nice fish, Brookies are from New England. Do youse guys consider tham an invasive species?

                              That’s a messy question. Yes they are invasive, as are the brown trout. In some high elevation lakes in the Sierras, biologists are working at removing all the fish because there never were any and the native frogs/salamanders are being eaten. CDFW still stocks some lakes with non-native fish each year. But they also are working on restoring and conserving Heritage trout streams, where the native rainbow is home. It is ironic that we have transplanted rainbows all over the world, they are native to these waters, and then we introduced brooks and browns in the water here:roll: I’ll happily eat the invasive trout and release small and big rainbows (while eating a couple medium sized ones, or fish I hooked badly).

                              Steve, you obviously have more experience hunting white-tailed deer than me. I’ve hunted them all of 12 days on one hunt. But we rattled in a buck, and I sat over a scrape that a buck came to! Maybe those were my once in a lifetime opportunities 😆 Mostly I sat on trails, trails that were in transistion areas, like a meadow into a swamp, or a forest into a swamp. They seemed to have a lot of action. However, the place I hunted had some topography features aiding me, like a bay and inlet and peninsula, a really thick swamp they felt secure in, and a couple houses they were trying to avoid.

                              Good luck Grumps, and just have fun. I wish I was still hunting right now.

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                                in reply to: Hunting 2016 #53126

                                Dang Grumps, sounds tough. Do you have an antlerless tag?

                                Bow and rifle seasons are done here. There is a late muzzleloader hunt going on right now, but very few tags allowed for that. For the most part only bear hunters out right now. We went out for a 3 day backpack trout trip. On the drive out and back we saw 9 roadkilled deer and a 4×4 courting a doe ON the road! The rut is kicking in here. Here’s a nice brook trout I caught.

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                                  in reply to: Hunting 2016 #46408

                                  grumpy wrote: All I’ve seen since Tuesday is tails.

                                  What am I doing wrong?

                                  Have you tried rattling? The rut should be kicking into full swing out there.

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