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in reply to: What ya got goin? #63047
Syntax??? Is that what I paid on alcohol and tobacco back in my other life:?: Ain’t sure if it’s the right syns we’re speaking of here. 🙄
in reply to: What ya got goin? #62975Nice pic Bruce but you’re looking a bit thin:D
Weathered in today here. A day of catch up and rest is in order so it bothers me not.
I’m amazed at how much stuff that I don’t use gets stuffed in my bags and my truck.
At least I’ll have what I don’t need if I don’t need it. 😀
in reply to: What ya got goin? #62455Excuse me, 0330 🙂
Mulies are a lot different fellers than whitetails. They rub but it could be anywhere as they are more of an open country animal. By that I mean not in thick of the woods type critters. They do the canyons and flats and stuff. They like to bed just under the top of a hill with a view of the world and the wind at their back. When you spot one that makes a tough stalk. I get busted a lot. Those guys also got the does spread around as lookouts too. Stinkers! You’d think they didn’t like me.
Cool today though, I spotted an eyeball before I got spotted. Turned out to be a doe but ‘eye spy first’:)
The mulies rut here pretty much in Dec. into Jan. They start hanging with the does around Thanksgivings but the main rut is after season closes. Probably a good deal cause when they’re rutting, they don’t disappear with a doe like whitetails, they seem to try to take on the whole batch at once. Dumb as me back in my drinking days in the CW bars. :P:P
Maybe I can find the bachelor group again that I saw Monday, nice, nicer and damn nice. I’d of tried any one of the three but the last one was as big as any buck I’ve seen in Texas and there’s some big deer around here. I been seein’ him at night when I’m supposed to be sleeping and I’m not a trophy hunter but if he gets in range I’ll become one in a heartbeat and care not what some may think. 😀
We have whitetails too, I’m just hanging cause they ought to start roaming and getting girly in a couple of weeks. I usually have some of that time to myself before rifle season opens early in Nov.
Tough hunting in these hills and draws and gulleys and winds but I love it no matter the end results.
And speaking of 1530 😀 when it gets colder and darker, about that time of day “them ol’deers”, like my old buddy likes to allow, just start popping out of those gulleys and draws. Problem is with that is I’ve had some bad experiences with late evening kills and retrievals. My hand still ain’t happy. I don’t know if I want to arrow a buck late day again.
I’m not as young and chipper anymore, the country is rough and has a lot of hazards (I’ve put pics on here of the dang cactus patches) and I also have concerns with coyotes getting an animal if I can’t recover it that night. Also too warm for that to happen right now. Spoilage.
But if MR. Big becomes stupid and I get lucky…………
in reply to: What ya got goin? #62354Three days in a row, up at 3:30 driving an hour each way to hunting grounds. Having fun even if two days were hot. Today was cooler, on/off rain showers. Muley does is all I see game wise but the country, God how I love being in the country.
This 69 years+7 month old child is tired tonight though.
jlmiller, glad you’re still going strong. I’ve been hunting since I was 9 but not with bow. That’s about 35-40 years worth but not inclusive with a longbow. I like to hunt with guns also. But when it comes to archery my choice of weapon has been a longbow for a long, long time.
I just like to hunt.
in reply to: How's the hunting? #61318Yeppers!Goin’ in the morning myself. Can always stump shoot to pass the time, look for arrowheads and just roam the country with longbow in hand. The 10,000 acres I have access to has lots to see. I’ve been hunting it for nearly 20 years and I still find new and interesting things. I would be bored if all I did was look for deer 😀
I’m really into spotting, stalking and trying to take a Rio Grande turkey with my longbow. :P:P
in reply to: How's the hunting? #61252Super full moon last night and 92° today didn’t do much good for this child.
The muley does were already headed to bed when the sun came up and I didn’t see the bucks again that I saw Monday morning.
Lots of time left and a cool down coming in the next couple of days. Wind coming again though. Nothing like trying to find a wind block in the sagebrush.
Maybe!!!!!!!!!!!!
in reply to: WY Grizzly encounter, bear spray etc #57225That’s a good topic Jim.
I qualified expert with 1911’s in the Corps, and still can take the complete center out of the manikin targets used for qualifying for concealed carry and a 1911 is still my choice of self defense. But when I’m bowhunting I don’t carry one handily and if I did and I could access the weapon quickly I would probably only make a lot of racket if a bear was after my tail.
Humans can be trained to react somewhat properly in panic situations but most us are not.
I don’t deal with bears but I’ve had the same thoughts dealing with a big old mad sow or boar hog. That’s a hell of a critter to come charging at you too.
Wonder if pepper spray would have any effect on a mad piggy??
Anyone had experience with that?
in reply to: Neck Knife #55674Ha! Patrick I’m showing my age uh. 😀 You knew my wires were crossed. 😳
Nice knife by the way.
in reply to: Neck Knife #55531“The sheath has “rare earth magnets” built into it”
Duncan, that’s the knife that needs the compass on it. 😀
in reply to: Wool Poncho #54460Hey Doc, don’t let Jim pull the wool over your eyes. 😀
in reply to: Wool Poncho #54067😀 Now all I gotta do is figure out how to keep it from billowing in the wind. 😀
Some don’t seem to mind though. 😉
in reply to: What ya got goin? #53916Been waiting for the first true front to blow through with winds out of the north and cool (85° yesterday). I have 2-3 areas where I love to hunt mule deer but the way the terrain lays and with a rising sun being a challenge, the only way practical to hunt them is into a north wind.
Got one!!!
But, I have an obligation to tend to. Durn.
Tomorrow though, north breeze instead of 30+ mph, 40’s temp, ha!!! I’ll be goin huntin’!! :lol::lol:
in reply to: Wool Poncho #53903Good question.
I guess there might be a way to do it but I’ve never figured out, when using my longbow, how to keep the poncho and my bowstring separate from each other when I get into my shooting stance and loose the string.
I had a muley buck at 10 yrds totally enamored in the scent of a doe’s after parts and had no clue I existed. When I shot, kerwhomp, the arrow went nuts, the deer went nuts and I went what the………..
My poncho and the bowstring didn’t do well together.
I haven’t tried a poncho since other than they be really nice at the g’son’s football games. Wool doesn’t block wind overly well however.
Maybe it’s just my lack of knowledge of how to use???
Not one of G Fred’s ponchos, but a homemade one.
:?:?
in reply to: Declining Animal Populations #52921What we do, we good at it, good or bad. 😀
in reply to: Tree Saddle #52053I “hung” in all kinds of body belts, harnesses and contraptions during my 40 + years in the electrical utility business and there are still places on my body that start groaning if I even think about getting in other one. 😀
I guarantee when hanging off a pole in a lineman’s belt and a pair of hooks and it’s cold, it’s d**n cold. I imagine hanging in a tree be not much better. Body harness are not any better either, even more places to be pinched, mangled and deformed.
I wish you luck but it ain’t por moi!!!!!:wink:
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