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in reply to: What ya got goin? #62195

Nice work.:D

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #61504

I’m glad for y’all that are not “droughting” :D. Enjoy the spring.

Scott you give me inspiration.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #60827

Wildfire!!! Panhandle!!

It was headed to my hunting grounds at 40+mph then the wind shifted from the north at higher speeds and hit some populated areas. Bunch of burned houses, at least 75.

The people’s lives changed by the fire way more important than my hunting grounds. Bless them.

I chose not to go hunting, snooping and stumping up there this past month because of the high winds and fire danger.

It pays to be cautious and aware of conditions. Where I hunt I’m down wind from fire sources with nowhere to run.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #60064

I see some of y’all having another snowstorm. Be careful. We’re having another dust storm. YUK. Ain’t too lovely out. 👿

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in reply to: Quality Deer Management #59906

Thanks David for the info. It’s a good deal what you and others have accomplished. I didn’t know apparently. 😀

Me, I hunt, I don’t go to the local deer diner.

People do different in different places but there are places where things need to be done different to protect a species.

If I plan to hunt or get caught up in a deal to hunt a place with different rules and policies and I disagree or do not like, I don’t participate. Simple to me. I don’t have to kill.

If the game is getting scarce for any reason, I don’t hunt it and it should not be hunted. I dearly love to hunt quail but there’s no way I’d hunt them right now as I’ve seen one covey of 8 birds in the last three years and I used to have 10 or 12 coveys that I hunted.

That stops not a lot of people though. Someone would shoot the last bird or last deer just to say they did.

Anyway thanks Dave and good job done. I do not condone hunting over feeders and won’t but I know many that know only that method.

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in reply to: Quality Deer Management #59643

I was just trying to say that there’s those that do and there’s those of us who don’t do as they do.

I have a feeder, that’s in the terms of my lease. Quail and turkey love it. I hunt not either because of drought whupping up on quail population and turkeys get dumb as cows when there’s corn on the ground. My deer hunting is done elsewhere’s but deer do use the feeder. I have some nice pics from trail cam.

Management of animals is important to the herd as long as the stupid is kept out of it (possible?). Never keep the stupid out of the hunting population (or stupidly greedy?).

Food plot, feeder? One has a timing motor, one does not. High country hayfield with elevated blinds around it, corn feeder, food plot? NFM (That means, “nuff from me”) Make some happy 😉

By the way, the gov shut down messed with a bunch of archery hunters around here too.

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in reply to: Quality Deer Management #58847

Fallguy wrote: QDM must work or else those pay to play outfits in Texas would not have any business. Now if you choose to pay did you take a wild animal fair and square or did you shoot Pavlovs deer coming in for its 5:00 feeding? I believe that the deer herd should be managed for the health of the habitat and let Ma nature take care of the antlers.

Hey, I feel picked on because I live in Texas. It just seems so as no other state is mocked for it’s hunting practices or game management. Guess that’s why we have the biggest whitetail herd in the US.

Sorry, but there are a bunch of us that hunt within cow fences which seem to not slow deer down a bit. Like 10,000 acres I hunt on way cheaper than people can drive to “the west” and hunt.

All of these other geographical areas must be part of Texas I guess.

“With all the buzz surrounding deer baiting in Michigan since the CWD incident, I wondered just how many states in our great 50 allowed baiting of deer. This was no easy task to find out! I was amazed at just how hard it was in some of the state hunting regulations to find out if baiting of deer was legal or not. Some states make it next to impossible to know if it is allowed, I had to read carefully on a lot of these guides to understand the law and regulations. Some are vague and some are bold in their explanations. I would tend to think that this issue would be spelled out in great big bold letters so it would cause no confusion. Boy was I wrong!

After a careful search of the guides and a few emails to friends in states that I couldn’t get clarification, I came up with the list of baiting states and those that don’t. Out of our 50 states there are 22 states that allow baiting of deer for hunting purposes in either the whole state or in selected parts of the state. The remaining 28 do not allow it at all. In the 22 states that allow baiting of deer for hunting, 14 of them allow it state wide, the remaining 8 allow it only in limited areas.

Here is the list that I came up with, now if I have mis-spoken or mis-stated the states listed please email me or comment and I will do further research on this issue. I could have mis-understood the rules and regulations.

No Bait Allowed:

Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming

Baiting Allowed In Entire State:

Arizona, Hawaii, Kansas, Nevada, New Hampshire, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Washington

Baiting Only In Selected Areas:

Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin

Looking at the results there is 56% of the states that do not allow deer hunting over bait what so ever, and if you combine the limited baiting to that, it only leaves 28% of the states that allow it state wide. Half of the states that allow deer baiting for hunting have either had CWD in their state or in an adjoining state that has CWD found in it. Three of those states, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Utah have had cases of CWD in their states. Of the states that allow partial baiting, only Florida does not have CWD or boarder a state with CWD. This conclusion comes from the CWD cases map on the CWD Alliance website. Baiting and CWD have not been positively connected as one causing or promoting the other. With that being said, scientists do concur that baiting does help spread CWD, or at least the absence of baiting helps to stop the spread of CWD.

I guess what we can draw from this is that only three states with CWD currently still allow baiting on a statewide scale and the states of Michigan and Wisconsin have limited the areas you can bait in. It looks as if the states that are dealing with CWD are either limiting the bait or stopping it all together. I don’t know what the answer is, but I did think this was an interesting look at where baiting is being allowed and where it isn’t as compared to Chronic Wasting Disease in the cervid populations in the U.S. Look at the map and draw your own conclusions, it is now up for debate!”

– See more at: http://www.skinnymoose.com/hooksandbullets/2008/10/14/deer-baiting-across-the-us/#sthash.fr6B1mqz.dpuf

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #56594

My wife’s definition of “bow” differs from mine.:D

Done though. 😆 Shower time, shoot time!!!!

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in reply to: Noteable Quotes! #55864

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

Albert Einstein.

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in reply to: Custom touches on arrows… #55671

I use some leather working tools and do mine with deer tracks. My thing.

I’ve not used wraps and I’m wondering how if you damage or tear up one feather you replace it or do you start all over. I can replace one feather on my arrows with a bit of TLC.

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in reply to: My HAT!!! DeadHead #54596

Ghillie hat????:roll:

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #53384

We had a TBOT shoot at Memphis, Tx. this weekend and I had a good time. I also made a decision about split or 3 under.

I’ve shot split finger most all of my shooting years but about six months ago I decided to try 3 under and it seemed to be working, in the backyard and stumping around the range any way. But shooting a tourney that was set up with hunting type and shots and situations, my mind went to s..t. I kept wanting to grab the string like always and with the tab I made I couldn’t, (no split.:)So duh!

I guess at my age I oughta just keep doing what I been doing and be happy. Kinda got a lot of years doing split finger and my mind is trained.

Here’s one of the targets I set though. I set the 20 target “fun” and Selfbow/wood composite bow championship course (I’m trying to retire from that job but seems a generation or two behind me would rather show up at shoot time and leave when done):evil:

Here’s my desert sandgator!!!:wink:

Can you tell it’s dry? This shot is set up in the creek bed. Creek beds are supposed to be green in spring.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #53117

Smithhammer wrote: [quote=colmike]

Hammer when you get the time send some real estate info on your grid–you have the home e-mail–it just might happen:shock: Wouldn’t it be fun to be there when the big one blows:roll:

Will do, compadre. It’d be great to have you in the ‘hood! The Teton Valley Traditional Archery Club needs more members!

Hey Jim, half a cup of coffee and half a cup of whiskey put hair on the bear. Best of two worlds.:lol: Not anymore though 😀

Hey Jim, some of the best of both worlds? I was in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco fishing one cool morning and came across a French couple camping out. A half cup of coffee and a half a fifth of whiskey:D was not a bad “end” to the morning.

It’s bad to wake up at 5:00 PM with a headache! 😉 You’d think an 18 year old woulda known better.

ausjim wrote:

My problem is Dave, I’m torn between two great passions. How can a man decide between coffee and whiskey?? They both offer so much to the world…

You don’t have to choose – with diligence, hard work and extensive practice, it’s not hard to transition straight from one to the other. 😉

David Petersen wrote: Hammer, tell us about the Indian nickel bow. If you already have, sorry but I missed it.

Dave –

It’s a Big Jim’s Thunderchild – 2 piece, 56″ AMO, #55 @ 28″, bocote riser and mango wood limbs. You didn’t miss anything – I’ve been keeping it under wraps…8)

Jim embeds a Buffalo nickel on both of his current models – the Thunderchild gets the Native American portrait side, and his Buffalo bows show the flipside of the coin. Pretty cool detail, in my totally biased opinion.

ausjim wrote:

I know exactly how you feel Mike. This place draws a great crowd.

It really does.

Hey Bruce, you know Warm Springs Creek? Not so warm when you fall in!:cry:

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #48059

It wouldn’t surprise me to see them dang skeeters rise out of the dust like the Phoenix out of the ashes. 😀

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #47939

OK, puttin bow up today. So dang much wind and dirt my bow’s getting dusty while I’m shootin it.

I come in the house and my wife says I smell like dirt and I haven’t been plowing, just shooting.

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