Strut10

I don't reckon I want no parts of no Judy Chop. :surrender:

What a pig !!! CONGRATS on a great deer !!!

No doubt on that one !! Nice !!! I actually JUST came back in the door from attempting to get some eagle pics. Left the house this morning and saw one sitting in a tree over the lake. He was still sitting there when I came back 1 1/2 hours later !! So I rushed home, got the camera and mount and in 10 minutes I was back to the lake. He was gone............... Bummer.

Thanks, BB and thanks to all for the kind words. I'm pretty sure I know what his partner looks like. Saw him last week from the same stand where this buck died. There was no opportunity for a shot. But he is probably the 2nd biggest buck I have ever seen in the woods in my life. An absolute monster no matter what state you're hunting. Hope he makes it another year. Only 11 months left 'til the PA archery opener !!

God help us all. He is the ONLY hope we have now for change.

What about the removal of the camo dip that's on the gun now ? How's that work ?

BUBD............. Busted Up Buck Down. Rattled this guy in yesterday morning and he hosed me. 8:40 AM today he came following a doe and a little buck past another stand and I hosed him back. Guess he was a fighter. Sometime about 3 weeks ago this (woulda been) 130-class 10-pointer became a high deduction deer. He is a buck I may not have even shot had I not owed him one from yesterday. Here he is before he gooned his right G2 and G3 all up: Here he is this morning wearing my 2012 tag: Only about an 18 yard shot quartering toward me. Entered just on the brisket side of his right front leg and exited low behind the far leg. Nice Steelforce cloverleaf hole through the top of the heart. He made about 60 yards and piled up less than 2 deer lengths from where my 2010 10-pointer fell.

Barberries are the little red dudes in the pics of the buck. They grow on low (2-4 feet high) jagger bushes here and there and everywhere around the Strut10 Ranch. Here's a barberry bush with fall foliage: I have heard you can make a lemony tasting tea from them and from the roots of the bush. Never been that interested or thirsty, I guess.

Still saying "what gun ?" here too. Hasn't arrived yet. Probably does go "boom, boom, boom" except faster than one of them over-priced B-guns and without the Louisiana accent.

The Mrs. sez price drop. She'll go $15 TYD.

Caught a few critters looking to have their pictures snapped this morning. Small flock of turkeys: A little 4-pointer feeding on barberry and giving not one darn that I was snapping away:

Will do............. when I get my hands on it. Stopped the mail carrier on a dirt road this morning and asked him if he had it. He delivers to my FFL dealer. No go. Maybe Monday.

Naw..........that's them over-priced, foreign guns.

Happened on to a smokin' deal on a (next thing to) new scattergun. Pennies on the dollar from new is hard for me to pass up and even the Mrs. understands a good sale when she sees one. Have a Super X3 due in within a day or two. It's a 3 1/2" chamber 28" barrel waterfowl model. On the down-side............it does have a Moldy Oak Shadow Grass dipped finish. Guess I'll have to shoot stuff before it sees what camo pattern the gun is sporting. Here's what one looks like with a good ol' Realtree finish on it:

Was in the tree from dark this morning til dark tonite. Saw one decent buck chasing about noon. Otherwise one of the deadest days I've ever spent in a tree.

Yep.

Had these made up for my longbow a few years back then got the grand mother of all cases of tendonitis in my elbow. Haven't shot the bow since. Not sure if any of these arrows have even ever flown. They are in VERY nice, if not new condition. They are 29" from nock crotch to insert base. They are 4-fletched helical @ 60-120 with white 4" die-cut feathers and have flo-orange uni-nocks. $50 TYD.

Normal ?? Yes. Common ?? No. I've heard turkeys gobbling here in PA during every month on the calendar and in every weather condition. There are times, though, where you're more likely to hear them than on a windy, rainy late October evening in the wake of a passing tropical storm.

I was up a tree with the bow. But there were birds gobbling two different directions from me for a good part of the evening. One ended up 60 or 70 yards behind me. But no closer.

Nothing too major here, thankfully. A whisker over 3" of rain and a bunch of wind. The wind did snap off my mom & dad's aluminum flagpole about 2 feet up from the ground. Dad figured it had to take somewhere around 65-70 mph to do that.

Seems you're getting more and more famouser !!! Saw your picture and advice in the October issue of Field & Stream !!!!! CONGRATS !!!! Need to have you autograph my copy !!!! :yes:

Bummer for sure. Might want to put another camera right back there where this one got stolen and put a blackout camera inconspicuously above it somewhere looking down. If they were ignorant enough to rip you off once they may be dumb enough to come back again.

If one can believe that a whitetail, or a Baltimore oriole or an oak tree or a red fox or your wife & kids are the end result of random mergings of protoplasm and amino acids, then.......yeah........"physical laws". "Warm-hearted" is really all well and good. BUT, only the acknowledgement of Jesus Christ, Son of God, as one's Lord and Savior will carry you any farther than the point where you assume room temperature.

Welcome to the forums !!!!

Welcome to the forums !!!!