hunter_mike

good call dbHunterNY on the Nikons. Ive been planning on buying those binocs since last fall when I borrowed my buddy's pair and the cabelas deal is the cheapest i've seen. Needless to say I've got some nikons in the mail with my name on them now!!

Agreed. I want one of those wolf tags asap

this is a pic of where the buck landed. I had to leave it out of the original post because it wouldnt let me put in 6 pics [ATTACH=CONFIG]11290[/ATTACH]

Just got this email. I actually worked on this road project this past summer. The email story goes as follows: [ATTACH=CONFIG]11285[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]11286[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]11287[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]11288[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]11289[/ATTACH] "This buck literally jumped off our Washington Ave bridge today at 1:30. We watched it walk past our field office at about noon today. Then at 2:00 we got a call from our grading contractor foreman that a huge buck just jumped over the edge of the Washington bridge (just on the south of Marshfield, new Hwy 10) and is laying dead on our new slab. An old lady that lived on Washington Ave. just south of the bridge was driving over the bridge when she came upon the deer, her car scared it, and it jumped over the parapet and landed on his nose without breaking his antlers 40 feet below. So the old lady went to her other neighbor who is a hunter, and he went and claimed it (the one in the orange hunting jacket)"

i have been in the nearly the same situation before. I was sitting in my climber in a new area I had not hunted before and about a half hour into my hunt, I realized there was a hang-on stand 30 yards away. An hour later, sure enough, a guy comes walking in. Lucky for me, he was as reasonable of a person as i am, and we quickly decided that we would both hunt. We quietly sat and hunted without argument and saw lots of deer. At the end of the day he walked over by me and I told him that I would keep a courteous distance from his stand from now on since he was there first. I honestly didnt know there was anyone hunting there when I first set up shop. In your case, I think that you both should have sat quietly and hunted that night, but at the end of the day, you two should have worked out an agreement. He may not have even realized that he was so close to another person's hunting spot. If he insists that he should hunt in that spot, there really isn't much you can do about it. Bringing the landowner into it may not be such a great idea because it is likely a non-issue for him and if he finds you guys bothersome he may just decide not to let anyone hunt.

Thats such an awesome buck!! i'm jealous i just want to go hunting but i'm stuck in school. Oh well, i get my degree in may and then I can go kill a big buck like yours next fall ha ha. NICE DEER!!

I attempted to bare shaft tune my bow (hoyt x-tec) today and I am completely baffled now. Trying to achieve good arrow flight as i was not happy with the twirling flight i had. I have 70# draw weight 28" draw and using carbon express terminator express 6075 which is the correct size arrow for this combination. 1. I began setting up my new string loop using a string square, making sure my nocking point was level with the bolt hole for my rest. 2. I put my rest in an initial position by eyeballing it the best I could. 3. I began bare shaft tuning. Using a bare shaft I took my first two shots at 8 yards. i eventually backed up to 30 yards so that I would be able to watch my arrow flight. 4. Using my initial rest position, I watched the arrow flight. Vertically, the arrow flight was good. Consistently, my nock trailed to the right every shot. So I moved my rest to the left of initial position. This worsened the flight. 5.So then i moved the rest to the right of initial position. Arrow flight got better. Nock still trailing to the right. 6.So i moved my rest to the right again. Arrow flight got even better. Nock still trailing to the right. 7. I moved my rest as far to the right as possible. Arrow flight was at its best but still not great. Nock still trailing to the right. 8. The problem now is that i can see that my rest is obviously WAY to the right of my actual centershot. Anyone know whats going on? I am thinking that either I don't have a clue what i'm doing or my bow is a pile of junk. I am posting this on a few other forums as well.

I attempted to bare shaft tune my bow (hoyt x-tec) today and I am completely baffled now. Trying to achieve good arrow flight as i was not happy with the twirling flight i had. I have 70# draw weight 28" draw and using carbon express terminator express 6075 which is the correct size arrow for this combination. 1. I began setting up my new string loop using a string square, making sure my nocking point was level with the bolt hole for my rest. 2. I put my rest in an initial position by eyeballing it the best I could. 3. I began bare shaft tuning. Using a bare shaft I took my first two shots at 8 yards. i eventually backed up to 30 yards so that I would be able to watch my arrow flight. 4. Using my initial rest position, I watched the arrow flight. Vertically, the arrow flight was good. Consistently, my nock trailed to the right every shot. So I moved my rest to the left of initial position. This worsened the flight. 5.So then i moved the rest to the right of initial position. Arrow flight got better. Nock still trailing to the right. 6.So i moved my rest to the right again. Arrow flight got even better. Nock still trailing to the right. 7. I moved my rest as far to the right as possible. Arrow flight was at its best but still not great. Nock still trailing to the right. 8. The problem now is that i can see that my rest is obviously WAY to the right of my actual centershot. Anyone know whats going on? I am thinking that either I don't have a clue what i'm doing or my bow is a pile of junk. I am posting this on a few other forums as well. :helpsmilie:

go visit a zoo or deer park where there are some live tame deer. Spend some time there and get close to these tame deer. Or try to watch deer more often. As you get more used to being up close and personal with whitetails you will feel more comfortable and be able to focus more on your shot

Nice pics!! Yes that sucks man. I can relate, I just had my camera out for 8 days and went out to get my cam and realized that my SD card was locked so no pictures were taken.:bang:

That is awesome!! I think i'm gonna start doing that, but its gonna take some time to get that many!!! wow

We always hear a lot about making your bow quiet-shooting, but hardly ever hear much about making your arrows quiet-flying. I was just out in the yard shooting and realized how noisy my arrows are. I use natural feather fletching and I am confused because some of my arrows are quiet and others make a buzzing noise as they fly through the air. I was wondering if anyone has any good information or advice on what types of fletching make your arrows fly quietly. [ATTACH=CONFIG]10422[/ATTACH]

never seen anything like that before! at least if you find one shed u are guaranteed to find the set. I wonder if it hurts the buck to lose all that antler! thats really crazy thanks for sharing

Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this post.............. Well the search did not end the way i wanted it to. A few hours after posting this thread i went back out and found a couple faint drops of blood and no way of distingishing the wounded squirrels tracks from the many other sets of tracks around the base of that big oak tree. I feel bad that i couldn't recover the thing. I am sure many of you can relate to the feeling i have about this hunt. While i sit with this feeling of regret and doubt about ever even taking that shot, its not going to stop me from trying to kill a squirrel with my bow. As any bowhunter knows, sometimes we wound animals and never are able to recover them. It is a sad truth. HOWEVER, it is our responsibility to try with all of our will to take game cleanly and humanely every time. - - - This is what i am going to do differently next time to make sure that squirrel dies when i hit it: Thank you guys for your input and advice. It has helped me rethink my squirrel hunting. - Range: While i feel totally comfortable shooting at 40 yards with my bow, i have realized that this is an unreasonable distance to shoot at a squirrel. Too many things can go wrong. I am almost sure that i would hit a big fat squirrel 9 out of 10 times at this range. I have now realized that i can not garantee that i will kill a squirrel at this range. When i took that shot the other day, my subconscious told me that as long as i hit the squirrel with that big fast blunt tip it would die right? Wrong. Squirrels are way tougher than i thought!!! I am gonna limit my range to not much more than 20 yards. I need to be able to focus on the vitals the same way i do on deer. - Broadheads: I think i am going to abandon the blunt tips. I feel that unless i make a head shot, this tip may be somewhat unreliable. I know that many people have probably had much success with this broadhead but i am now nervous about trying it again. I am going to use a broadhead with a cutting edge. I think if i was going to be shot at, i would rather be hit with something that cuts instead of something that smashes. - Respect: Squirrels are tough! I never would have thought a squirrel could survive getting smacked in the rib cage with a blunt tip. I will shoot at a squirrel with the same focus that i use when i shoot at a deer. Thank you all for your advice and i think i have wisened up. I'm going squirrel hunting the next chance i get and this time i think i have a better chance of bringing one home.

I was in the backyard today with my bow and i wanted to try to get a squirrel. Right away i was able to get a shot. It was a 41 yard shot through the rangefinder but i was still able to hit the squirrel in the rib cage. I thought it was a done deal but to my surprise the squirrel ran and kept running out of sight. I was shocked! It looked like a great hit and even made a thud sound like it smacked him. My buddy was watching me as i took the shot also and he saw the same - a solid hit in the rib cage and a definite body hitting sound as the arrow connected. I just cant understand how this squirrel is not dead and i'm really discouraged about shooting at another squirrel. The only thing i can think of is the type of broadhead i was using. It was a "shocker" type with a blunt metal tip and springy metal prongs. Has anyone else had bad luck with these broadheads? And does anyone have a recommendation for a better type of broadhead to use specifically for squirrels?

awesome deer congrats !!!!!!!

I was in the backyard today with my bow and i wanted to try to get a squirrel. Right away i was able to get a shot. It was a 41 yard shot through the rangefinder but i was still able to hit the squirrel in the rib cage. I thought it was a done deal but to my surprise the squirrel ran and kept running out of sight. I was shocked! It looked like a great hit and even made a thud sound like it smacked him. My buddy was watching me as i took the shot also and he saw the same - a solid hit in the rib cage and a definite body hitting sound as the arrow connected. I just cant understand how this squirrel is not dead and i'm really discouraged about shooting at another squirrel. The only thing i can come think of is the type of broadhead i was using. It was a "shocker" type with a blunt metal tip and springy metal prongs. Has anyone else had bad luck with these broadheads? And does anyone have a recommendation for a better type of broadhead to use specifically for squirrels?

I believe that those big does are just as hard to kill as the mature bucks and i get just as excited when i see one. This is by far my biggest doe ever. She resembled a small moose when she came trotting through the swamp. I was 6' tall at the time this picture was taken. that doe had some HAMS on her lol. Never weighed her, now i wish i would have. Maybe not quite as big as squirrelhunter91's doe though that thing is massive.

yeah i definitely agree with GWSmith on getting there early. It is pretty entertaining to be sitting up in your tree, dead quiet, and then hearing a fourwheeler start up and a bunch of clanking and cussing, and then minutes later see deer trotting towards you from that direction. public land is a different game and it is fun. learn to use that pressure from other hunters to your advantage.

some of my favorite spots. I hunt out of a climber though so i only show the view from the stand. this was two years ago. look a the shadows on the ground and you can see me lol this is a cool spot by the river below and the one below, really isn't a tree stand but it is still a spot in the woods that i like to sit with my bow

Last year i gained access to a new hunting area in Southwest WI. One of the first things i noticed throughout the fall was that i could not find a single rub. not one. no new ones, or old ones from last year, or anything that resembled a rub at all. At first i thought that there maybe there was just a lack of bucks in the area. But as the season progressed, i saw several bucks, even fully mature bucks. No Buck Rubs Anywhere! This past early spring i went back out there maybe six times and walked much of the property (approx. 720 acres). I found 1 rub. a small pine sapling. I just think its very strange that these deer do not rub??? especially when there is a decent buck population. The only thing i can think of is this. The area in infested with multiflora rose, which grows in very thickly. it makes it extremely difficult to walk through the woods without leather gloves to grab the thorns, or a machete/hand saw. these bucks might be rubbing on the multiflora rose instead of trees?? i dont know. It doesnt really bother me that i dont find rubs, i just think its odd. Anyone else ever heard of this or have any explanation?

yeah man i hunt mostly public land. i think you should really give it a try. i have had some good hunts and some bad ones. example of a bad one: i was up in my climber and had a deer coming, when all of a sudden some guy drove down the logging trail in his little pickup truck and started sawing firewood (legal in this area) about 100 yards away from me. haha it was a real bummer. when hunting public land, things like this are bound to happen, but i can tell ya for sure that i have had many more good hunts than bad. Lots of success One thing i recommend for sure is that you try to hunt this land during the week if at all possible. There will be fewer hunters around and i think the deer can almost tell when the weekend rolls around. hunt it. If anything, its always fun to try a new area, and you might be surprised at the kind of deer public land holds. I've seen some big ones! Just hunt harder and smarter than the other hunters and you will be successful

try to walk along the edges of fields as much as possible to get close to ur spot. also if you are hunting near a road you can wait for a car to go by and use that noise to cover yours. i have also heard of people using a leaf rake to make nice dirt paths to their stand but if you are hunting on public land, that would probably attract people to your stand. I have also had luck with walking in creeks. if you have a pair of hip waders it would be even better. i have snuck up on deer and turkeys alike by walking right down the middle of the small creek that runs through my hunting area. and one thing i have also tried that works is to pretend to be a turkey. walk a little ways, stop, make a few clucks with a mouth call or other call and walk again. The sound of a turkey will quickly ease any deer that may be in hearing range.

i see most everyone seems to be dragging them out, but me and a buddy got a doe on a really steep hillside so we carried it out indian style with the legs tied around a big limb it was ten times easier than it would have been to drag. i now use this technique very often when i am far from a vehicle.

i was walkin out of the woods last night in a new area and had to kind of blaze my own trail out in the dark. My fleece pants got plastered with little green burrs and they come off really hard. Anyone have any tips for getting rid of these burrs???