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in reply to: TBM Bicycling for Rosies #125290

Here is how I carry my bow . I utilize the molle webbing . The cutouts on my riser helps but I’m sure you could adapt this to any bow !

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in reply to: Just brought home my first deer killed with a trad bow. #44302

Calling is like rattling horns, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t.Break sticks,rake trees with a branch as well.I met a gentleman who had called in and killed five bulls in the area I was hunting.He said he has been after this one same bull for three years now and has been close many times and you had to be gentle with the calling.Remember elk themselves make bad sounding calls so don’t worry about being a world champion bugler. Make sure to give them plenty of time to respond and trust your camo!…I cow call more than bugle.Listen to what their doing and try to mimic.Dont over call but don’t be afraid to call.Yes theirs a lot of calling out there but get away and go into places other hunters don’t go (to steep,dense,etc.)and you will find more game, they will be more responsive.

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in reply to: Ducks, Politics and Money #42596

Disturbing and repulsive.We are on the verge of losing it all folks!

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in reply to: Just brought home my first deer killed with a trad bow. #37571

Here are some thoughts on hunting Roosevelt’s.I like a mountain bike behind the locked gates.Get a hardtail and put a fender rack on the back.Cary spare tubes and tools and a tire pump.You will need a headlamp to move out before first light.(I like the petzl that has the color change leds,green works good)You’ll be surprised how you can come up too elk either pedaling or pushing and they don’t spook unless your going fast(predator).Pay attention to wind it will swirl and change constantly.Put a Velcro strap on your quiver and add a fir branch,it will screen your draw and break up your outline.Hang your hunting clothes out in like terrain you will be hunting and take a black n white picture.You will see how effective it is.(I put a few short fir stems in my boonie hat that stick up about a inch over my head to make me look like a Bush)Dont worry so much about making noise when walking (unless on a stalk) and give a occasional toot on the cow call.If you get in a herd of cow’s,now’s the time to bugle.Cary a Montana decoy on your bike as a lot of times they will want to see a elk doing the talking.(I pedaled up to two bull’s in a clear cut this year and ditched the biked ,moved off the road and cow called.They would look up and when they didn’t see a cow go back to browsing) Yep,should of used the decoy,lesson learned.Heavy rains?I stay home.It will wash away the bloodtrail and chances are you will be tracking through dense brush,briars and reprod,that can challenge the most seasoned of trackers.Adler thickets?I have followed them by the breaking of sticks,no hoof prints because of blankets of leaves and only by the urine and fresh dung did I know I was still on the track.(mentally draining)Get a pair of (hand)pruning shears and you can silently clip your way through a hellhole.Make trails when scouting (machete) and hide the ends.Animals will maintain and love them and they’ll be there next year.Remember Roosevelt’s are territorial and if you find them in a area as long as there is no change to habitat(logging)they will be there next year.Use the bike as a packhorse and you can carry all you want with little effort.Stash off the road and camouflage with available fauna.Like blacktail deer if you bump them a lot of times they will circle back to the same spot!:P

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in reply to: I think a Dingo ate my Baby! #37495

Steve as I can best recall,I had three our four at the most on one pic.They were darting in and out.And to think I used to dig a hole and bury the bones, cause that’s what dad did when he butchered a cow!

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in reply to: I think a Dingo ate my Baby! #35006

Steve,after cutting up a deer last year I took all the bones and scraps ,put them in a bucket,walked them up to the top of my property and threw them in a hole.Put up a trail camera and got 680 pics of coyotes having a scavenger fest.Looked like someone did a burn out with a quad, they tore up the ground so much!This all happened the first night!

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in reply to: Carrying strung bows. #34840

John,I do a lot of hunting on a mountain bike.I tried the handle bar gun racks but they always seem to vibrate loose.(were talking bumpy logging roads).I found that having a daypack with molle compatible straps (mine is a elberlestock dagger)I can Velcro the bow to the pack and it rides high and comfortable.It also helps that I have a predator velocity riser that has cut outs in the riser, that enables me to loop the Velcro through.If I want it more secure, I can weave the molle webbing through the riser.

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in reply to: Just brought home my first deer killed with a trad bow. #17823

Have it!The author uses the same WW2 packboard I have.:)

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in reply to: Just brought home my first deer killed with a trad bow. #14979

Awesome job David! Blacktails are quite the cagey critters.One thing about the Pacific northwest, as a trad bow hunter you can use how dense the undergrowth is to your advantage.It took me three years before I got my first bowhunting kill ( cow elk) ( started off trad and never looked back).I’m still learning though and honing my skills.This site was the best source of information when I started and I knew nothing of the Ashby study or single bevel, high foc arrows.As a matter of fact this is the only hunting blog I care to read.Here we find like minded folks with a wealth of knowledge all willing to share.Once again well done sir.

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in reply to: A nice memento #12083

Add some boot leather and a few elk turds into the crock pot…then mix with LOVE!:D

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in reply to: Trail camera question #9109

Here’s how I set up mine.

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in reply to: Another Elk Hunt #9100

Bumped a herd this morning,winded me.Cow called and got a few answers back.Went in and sat for about a hour seeing if they would loop back(Roosevelt elk are more territorial unlike their Rocky Mountain cousins).Let out a few cow chirps and got a bull going but he didn’t want to leave his lady’s.Tuffhead poised for action.Steve,over the counter tags,month long season,hunting 10 miles from my house,no camping necessary,gated timberland open to public hunting,mountain biked in on a logging road with a headlamp,ain’t all that bad.:D

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in reply to: Trail camera question #60221

Alex, I check them every two weeks.I like the metal security box for them with a cable lock.I put metal wire loops on the box and bungee cord them to the tree.Unlock the cable,pull cable out,check battery and switch memory card(buy 2 for each camera).Best of luck!

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in reply to: Practice #56408

First off I think it’s important to have your target at the height of the animal your going to hunt.I use a reinhardt block target set up for elk vitals,because that’s what I bowhunt.I go to my backyard range and stand at 20 yards(max hunting range)and jog in place to get the heartrate up.I visualize a elk standing there,carefully draw and shoot.If I am consistently in the pie plate day in and out I’m good to go.If not, I have no business hunting.I follow this by shooting from 10 to 40 yards in 5 yard increments (one arrow at a time)crouching,standing,hunkered down,sometimes even sitting on a stool.I follow this by shooting uphill at another target and downhill at another target as well.(All at different distances).Throw in some stump shooting(I love to wallop a stump thorough tree boughs and dense brush with high foc arrows)How fun!…. All and all though,it’s the coldshot that matters most!

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in reply to: minimizing the stuff we carry #53332

Raghorn,I thought about your post and came to the conclusion your probably right.I will keep my merino wool pullover on my person and added a frontier pro water filter(weighs practically nothing) to the kit.Now I’ve got it covered.Thanks!

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