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in reply to: Big storm, acorns on the ground, bears. #8149
I like it when stormy weather brings me something special. Any fat on the old girl?
in reply to: What ya got goin? #19155What happened to all your arrows R2? Are you one of those one-arrow-will-do fellows?
On the cowboys, we don’t have cowboys here. But we have tractors and field hands. I find the deer know the difference between field hands and hunters. And you can use the field hands as a distraction.
Why just he other day I was mowing the chestnut grove and a big fat groundhog came out to graze. Didn’t care one bit about me and the mower. See it a lot with hay fields in the fall. For some reason, getting up that last crop of hay brings out the critters.
Nice sunrise! Thanks for sharing 😀
I can see you are feeling your oats Ralph!
It all depends on what EFOC stands for. In your case, I believe it’s: Extremely Foolish Old Coot 😯 😀
Or maybe it means: Eat Fish On Cabbage
Or possibly: Easily Found On Couch.
You won a bow? You obviously didn’t win it by your shooting skill. You couldn’t possibly have won it by reading your poetry. I expect you won it by agreeing to leave where ever you were so the other poor saps could live in peace!
Congratulations! You have achieved the pinnacle of the sporting mans life, to stink too much for his fellow stinky miscreants 😆 😳 😯 😀
EFOC my a$$ 🙄
in reply to: What ya got goin? #8020I’m glad you fellows are getting some action!
I had a little bit myself. Went for a walk the other evening and somehow slipped up on the two doe and a yearling that I’ve seen around. Had a shot at one of the doe, but wont take it.
With our deer population as it is, I will shoot just one deer this year, and it will be a buck.
Ain’t that the way it works? The deer just milled around me like I didn’t matter. Somehow they always get the memo.
Had two squirrels within shooting range too. They are starting to ripen now. Most of the summer bot fly holes are healed up, and they are working the ground more. Squirrel stew soon!
in reply to: HUNTING BUDDY #42038Yep, raising kids might just be the best part of life. Look out Grumpy, it looks like she’s big enough to take you now 😀
in reply to: Hunting 2016 #29966I’m blaming the coyotes. There was a study done in SC a few years ago, and now one done in NC that show the coyotes get 75 to 80 percent of the fawns. The deer can’t recover from that.
When it was observed that the deer population hasn’t crashed in the north or the west from coyotes, the question followed: why in the southeast? The current answer to that question is that the rut down here is not well defined. Does are bred from late October through January. Thus when the fawns are born, they come in a long steady stream. Plenty of time for the coyotes to eat them all.
In other parts of the country with a well defined rut, the fawns are born in a 2 week period. The coyotes can stuff themselves and still not eat enough to hurt the population.
Anybody have a good coyote recipe?
in reply to: Hunting 2016 #19333Hay Preston, nice getup! And nice game.
With the dearth of deer around here, small game is about all there is. I did see a ground hog yesterday while mowing. That would have been cause to stop right there and run home for the bow. But the coyote’s have been so hard on everything I just couldn’t work up the excitement.
No beavers, no frogs, few squirrel, no deer. The coyote population should crash this winter I hope.
Keep the pictures a coming!
in reply to: The Journey #53879Thanks for sharing!
in reply to: Discouragement #29570Sometimes what we see and what really happened are different. The excitement is so great, and the time is so short that it is often hard to know exactly what happened.
But… If you hit the deer in the shoulder as you say, and you found the arrow in 2 pieces, then the broadhead and arrow likely passed through the deer. If this is true, the deer is dead.
Shoulder hits often do not bleed much. So as David said, search in a grid pattern. Look for water like creeks and look along and in the creeks. Look for thick area’s like briar patches and blown down trees. They get into those too.
Note where the deer was when you shot it, and where you found the arrow. This will give you a general line of travel.
Did the arrow have bright blood on it? Dark blood? Was the entire arrow covered in blood? Or only a little bit? Did the arrow feel greasy? Did the arrow smell like blood, or guts?
When the deer ran away, did it hold its tail high up, or spin the tail? Did it hold it’s head up or down?
No matter what happens, don’t be discouraged. We’ve all been there. Good luck!
in reply to: Broadheads For Wood Arrows #18225I am. It does a better job, and is way easier than a file.
I have files to resharpen in the field. But mostly I don’t need them around here. Maybe back in the day when there were rabbits and deer behind every tree there were enough opportunities to warrant sharpening in the field. But anymore if I get one shot, its a good hunt.
In all the years I’ve hunted, the one thing I haven’t come up short on is arrows. Maybe one day I’ll get so lucky 🙄 😳 😆
in reply to: Broadheads For Wood Arrows #63943Dave – if you have to go off the flat on the back side, you have not raised the burr. Raising the burr is the key to sharpness – for single or double bevels.
For many years, I just used my grinding wheel to raise the burr. It’s fast and easy. Lately, I’ve been using a file to do it. It’s a lot more work than the wheel.
If you use a file, chalk it up before you start. It helps keep the file from loading and it seems to lubricate the file so it cuts better.
If you can sharpen a double bevel, you can sharpen a single bevel.
Good luck hunting!
in reply to: What ya got goin? #29257I think Farmer Dave has a screw loose. He want’s to kill turkeys because they walk through his yard? Intolerant much? Be careful Grumpy, you might be next on his list….
Drive down the road just a little too slow…
Wear the wrong color shirt on a Tuesday…
What did you mean by saying “Good Morning” like that?…
Wack-a-doodles abound these days. Forget the turkey, run for your life!
in reply to: What ya got goin? #52570I hate the wind. It puts me in a bad mood. Gentle breeze ok, steady wind grrrrr.
Good luck with the shoot R2. 70 boy scouts in one troupe sounds like too many.
in reply to: The Hidden Life of Trees #41913Saw this interesting review on the book this morning:
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/09/23/494989594/a-web-of-trees-and-their-hidden-lives
The review mentions Michael Pollen, another of my favorite writers…
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