VTbowman

Re: \" Times They Are A Changing \" I agree. Its always been viewed as manly to go out and hunt, kill and gut deer, and hang with the guys at camp. Small boys at best would be there at times. Now its take the kids and hunt. Which I do, Funny though my 10 y.o. son does not care to go much, but my 5 y.o. daughter begs me to go all the time. LOL Dont push it on them, just show them that its there and what its like and let them decide IMHO... They both go during stand hanging and scouting trips in the woods, food plot work, etc...

Re: deer hair help [ QUOTE ] The easiest way to get rid of hair on the carcass is to take a small butane torch and have the flame real low. Go over the whole thing and you will have a hair free carcass! Simple and fast! [/ QUOTE ] This is exactly how we do it to. Not the best smell but it comes out hair free when done.... You dont really need to turn it down either just dont hold over same spot for long, Just enough to burn the hair off. Keep it moving and youll be fine.

Re: WTB:Encore grey lam rifle butt stock. TTT Still looking....

Re: Hunting equipment prices Agree 1000%. Like you I can see dropping $1000 on a entire bowhunting rig, or rifle/scope combo, but not for a set of binos or lazer range finder, spotting scope, etc... Like you I feel $150 is reasonable for those items. Yes I have feilds that range out to and beyold 500 yards if you sit in certain places but still. Thats a lot of scratch for a set of binos. Plus I seriously doubt the hunter showcased actually paid for them out of pocket like we would have to do. Would it be nice to own them? Yes it would. I would use them everytime out if a sponser gave them to me and asked me to "push" them on my hunting show. But I dont have sponses or a show. I have a wife that keeps close attention to the bank acct. LOL Good post...

Re: Can Not Get Sighted In!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! I have to agree that a scope is in order. If your running out of adjustment then your not doing something right but what that may be is anyones guess as we can not see you shooting. Maybe your canting the gun slightly with your hold/grip...??? Good luck.

Re: AHHH.....need advice!!!!!!!!!! Sounds like my entire bow season buddy. I know I have deer on my property and have several nice bucks on the trail cam. Every picture is at night though... I did not see sqwat all Oct and hardly at all during the rut here in VT the last couple weeks. We had 50s and rain just about every time I went out except for the past few days which I then saw plenty of deer moving, just nothing legal this time of year. I think my situation was weather related. Sounds like yours is as well. However they have to eat sometime and maybe you can catch them during the last few minutes of legal if you set up on a trail heading to food. JMO

Re: Antler color question I always thought it was how badly it was stained by its velvets blood. I have seen deer with 1/2 white 1/2 dark too thinking the areas that were darker were not rubber as much. JMO

Re: how long was your shortest hunt? 1st hunt on my father-in-laws property (currently mine now) and I knew of 3 others who had his permission to hunt it as well. I go in WAY before legal light to get in my ladder stand so things would settle down before game time. From my perch on the side of the ridge I could see the gate threw the tress and saw them arrive right before legal. I am not very happy since I knew it would put them coming past me a few minutes before legal light thus most likely spooking everything for 1/2 mile. I knew the path they took up into the woods and waited for them to get by and be quiet. I was surprized they were not that loud and I still had a few minute of peace before it hit. Legal light approaching fast and I hear "another hunter" crashing up the ridge behind me. I stand up, turn around, and saying out loud being discused with his timing. "How many freakin hunters are there up here?!?" I mean loud enough so this guy can hear me from where I was. I then cringe when I notice its a nice little 6 pointer about 50 yards behind me. I check the watch and its 1 minute past legal. Bang-dead. The thing that sucked about that is I arranged for 2 weeks of vacation many many months in advance, packed an all day lunch, I was there for the long haul. LOL

Re: Team 4 Well my firearms season is over. Got to work 12s the last 3 days of it. (Then 5 days on nights.) I got a chance to go out thanksgiving morning and saw tons of deer moving, 3 bucks even, but nothing legal. Story of my entire season thus far. I have 8 days of work now then ML seasonstarts. I have a doe permit so hopefully I can at least put some veni in the freezer and 5 points for the team. Still hopefull for a decent buck but ya know how that goes. Good Luck to those still hunting.

Re: WTB:Encore grey lam rifle butt stock. I saw that one Charlie but he has it listed as "Green" even though it looks grey. If I have to pay that much for it I might as well buy a new one unfinished so I dont have to mess with stripping and sanding. Thank for looking though...

Re: Handgun Contest Entry page? Nice Jake! Post-em up and lets get a look at him! Congrats!

Re: Team 4 Congrats to both of you! I went out yesterday after 4 days of 12s. Sat all morning and got nuttin but cold. (did not eat supper the evening before nor breakfast-I had nuttin in the furnace-LOL) Got down early to go wqarm up in my heated box stand until 10am and then went to check my camera over looking a scrape but only had 1 event. I checked some of the other scrapes around this tiny food plot and saw 1 was absolutely hammered with doe and buck prints. Dirt kicked everywhere. I set my camera up over it and went home for lunch. Got back about an hour later and sat in a bow stand that is about 75 yards down wind from this scrape. Had 3 come directly behind me with about 10 minutes of legal light left. They stayed RIGHT under me and never made the last few steps to exit the wood line. I could not move since they were right under and behind me so I could not tell if it were buck or doe but it was 3 of them. They snuck around and exited the woods line about 60 yards away still wanting that food plot. 3 doe. Tongiht I bring the little girl out with me and hope to see something for her sake. Keep at it team 4!

Re: tc encore caliber & scope After seeing the write up AJ linked me to on my new 7mm Rem Mag, that sounds like what your looking for. A bit more juice being a magnum with lower recoil, somewhere around the 30-06. Not sure but check into that if you want. That link is listed in my post on this caliber here in the rifle room. Good Luck. BTW I agree that the 30-06 will do the trick.

Re: Black Water Bottles??? Ive always got them at Walmart. But I never use em anymore. I just bring regular ole bottled water. Seems white is as much a camo color as black now-a-days. LOL My buddie bought one of those camo bottle coozies at Walmart and he really likes it. Says he can stick it in the crook of a branch or tree trunk and it grips the bark well. Every black water bottle I have gotten with a pack or whatever has eventually leaked at the wrong time. JMO

Re: scrapes below rubs Sounds like a community scrape area that sees traffic from all sorts of deer, bucks and doe. I have one with this same sign, with 4 other scrape in the same general area. This area geting this sort of sign every year and most times on the same exact tree.

Re: Still Think this is a Good Idea!!! Yep would make me watch too. Like the Survivor show on TV but in Big Woods vs little tropical islands. LOL

Re: 1st good deer How did you get the pic one 1 pixel wide? I can seem to make mine small. LOL Congrats on the deer never-the-less.

Re: Finnaly got one I have many of that caliber hangin on plaques on the wall. They eat as well, if not better, then the bigger ones IMHO. Congrats! But man sorry you have to haul Buckee around with ya. We all know how that must be a burnden. LOL (JK Steve!) Way to go and help out a buddie!

Re: Youth hunt success in Ohio! with pic Yet another super amazing survival story of just how tough these animals are. Arrow right threw it and it lives. Congrats to your sons 1st!

Re: mad as all get out They grey squirrels are not as bad as those freakin chipmonks in VT. At least the squirrels hope around deliberatly and slowly. Chipmonks can not move unless its 100 mph for 6 inches at a time. LOL Those little *&$&%#@@ can mess with ya and then sit there and chirp at you, sounds almost like two pieces of dry hardwood being knocked together (if they see you), for hours on end. Then they seem to fight over one freakin piece of log if another one comes to close. Its funny to watch them defend a small square of woods but man can they make some noice and be distracting. Its one good thing about all the rain we have had. No dry leaves for them to fool you with.

Re: It really is unreal... Sounds to me like a mature doe knows your stand location from past encounters. Had that issue with a certain big momma for a few years. God I hated that deer! She would ruin so many potential shooting opportunities for me. LOL Id get busted from way to far out and up wind of my stand everytime she would try to go up a particular trail. Normally with other in tow or well in front of her. Sometimes its not you, your outline, or that you were winded. Sometimes they know where your stand is and check it everytime time they go by. If that one time it looks "different" they wig out. JMO

Re: How to take a picture. [ QUOTE ] Not always possible to get good field pics. I try to take better pics now, but some of the best memories and pics of some of my best deer, I did not drag a camera with me nor did I have a digital at the time, and those pics to me have no less value as a photo then the cleaned up pics do. [/ QUOTE ] Agreed, Same here. I normally do not have my camera out with me and get the tail gate shots during the hours of dark back home. Very rarely do I even have day light to make those efforts worth while. I agree they are more pleasent to view if your looking at someone elses deer, but mine dont bother me. LOL Seeing him cleaned up in a pic does not erase the field dressing, dragging, loading him up part from my memories. LOL

Re: Does/Button Bucks Lots of good ways already listed. But sometimes your faced with that last few minutes of light and theres a "deer" out there. If not sure dont shoot is the best advice. No matter how good your binos are its tough to see buttons at distance no less in low light. I normally can tell by the shape of its head and face 1st off. Short and stubby, neck is thin, and belly is not filled out. Fairly easy if standing next to or with its mom. Later in the season when the doe are in heat and being chased you will not have this comparision. Best thing to do and I know this is not much help for the here and now but try to observe as many as you can during the earlier season. Learn body launguage of doe and buttons together and apart. Study head and face shape which to me is the biggest difference other then the obvious buttons or his tig-n-berries. LOL

Re: The Encore Draws It\'s First Blood NIce mature doe and dont sweat the shot placement. Its a risk on any animal to drop the hammer on. I am sure one thinks poorly of you for it. Congrats!

Re: WTB:Encore grey lam rifle butt stock. Thanks for the link but I can get a brand new unfinished, (which is best since I plan to refinish anything I get to my finish of choice), from Boyds for $52 plus shipping. I was hoping someone had replaced one of theirs or upgraded to camo or whatever and had one sitting around collecting dust. Still looking.