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Shiloh Shepherds were originally German Shepherds that had a breeder split from the AKC breeding standards in an attempt to breed out some really bad genetics that are getting into the AKC German Shepherd lines. A lot of AKC German Shepherd lines these days are riddled with hip problems and temperment problems flaring up everywhere, even some of the top AKC German Shepherd lines are having issues with this in some way. What the original Shiloh Shepherd breeder attempted to do was use selective breeding to bring back the original German Shepherd in a sense. They tried to use selective breeding to get a gene pool of dogs that weren't riddled with hip problems and temperment problems. The Shiloh Shepherds are bred specifically to be "gentle giants". They were selective and picked dogs that had good hips, were extremely intelligent, and larger in size than a normal German Shepherd and bred many litters and generations in order to try to lock these features into the breed. Shiloh Shepherds are pretty good dogs when you get a "true" Shiloh Shepherd. They are very simliar to German Shepherds, but in my opinion much more reliable on being healthy and more naturally stable tempered than a German Shepherd is. The biggest problem with Shiloh Shepherds is there are a lot of fraud breeders out there advertising selling "Shiloh Shepherds" when they are just someone with a German Shepherd who is too big for the AKC standard or a mixed German Shepherd trying to make extra money off the dogs. True Shiloh Shepherd breeders are registered and active with the ISSR and is a member of the SSDCA. I highly recommend if you want a "true" Shiloh Shepherd to only purchase a puppy from a breeder on the ISSR breeder list. You will find that it may be a long wait to get a puppy from a "true" Shiloh Shepherd breeder as most are quite pricey, very picky on what families can take home one of their puppies, and have rather large waiting lists. I'm currently the owner of a German Shepherd from an AKC show line who is riddled with genetic problems and if I was to ever buy another dog after she passes away someday it'd probably be a Shiloh Shepherd just because it's so hard these days to get a good German Shepherd that doesn't have some sort of temperment issues or health problems and I'm quite disappointed of the route the AKC is allowing German Shepherd breeders to go with their gene pools these days. So, if you like German Shepherds and don't mind a dog that is a bit bigger and possibly requires a bit more grooming than a normal German Shepherd then you'd probably enjoy owning a "true" Shiloh Shepherd. They still, just like German Shepherds require a dedicated owner willing to stimulate, train, and socialize them in order to bring out the true beauty in the breed, though.

Thanks everyone! I had a great birthday. Sorry I haven't been around the forums much. I've been quite busy with other things lately. I'm glad to see you all haven't forgotten me, though.

Hey guys and gals. I'm sorry it's been a while since I've last checked in with the team. I've been extremely busy with my hunting trips and work. So, I haven't had much time to pop in and post on here until now. My archery hunting trip was a bust. I only saw three deer total from my stands at over 100 yards away the entire two weeks of archery hunting. I saw a lot of deer while out scouting, but not when actually in the stand with my bow. I also saw the same big black bear twice in the one area we hunted which made me wish it was bear season and that I had a tag this year. My rifle hunting trip went a bit better than my archery hunting trip. I saw a lot of deer, including four legal bucks, but couldn't get any clean shots on them due to heavy cover or out of range for my rifle. I managed to shoot a big doe the one day and another hunter I was with ended up shooting her button-buck fawn that was with her. My hunting seasons are now over, so I submitted my doe for the team. I won't be hunting the late archery season or muzzleloader season. Congrats to everyone that got deer this season while I was gone! Here's a picture of me with my doe. She's a bit beat up and frozen stiff. We had a lot of heavy snow/ice and it took a toll on her when dragging her out of the woods after I shot her. It also turns out while gutting her I noticed she was a tad bit of a piebald in color. Her hooves were half black and half white with a bit of extra white fur coming up from her hooves onto her legs on some of her feet. I thought it was pretty neat.

Username: M00N Team Name: Trails End (Team #6) Submission: Doe Date: 12/10/2008 Location: Pennsylvania ENTERED THROUGH HERE 12/22/08

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Hey guys and gals just checking in again. Sorry I've been quiet, but I've been having internet issues recently. Finally the router blew up the other night letting me know it was the issue that needed repaired. Now I got a new one and am back up and online again. My hunting season hasn't started yet, but it's getting close. I was suppose to only get a chance for a 1-week archery hunt, but the other day I was notified by my hunting partners that they got extra time off and we're going to pull off a close to 2-week hunting trip. So from October 24 - November 9 I'll be out in the woods chasing deer and eventually turkey towards the end of my trip. Hopefully I can seal the deal this year and tag my first archery deer and maybe even my first turkey. If not I still always have rifle season to try again during my December 5 - 14 hunting trip.

Ruth the signature is the proper dimensions and filesize to upload on the Realtree profiles. I made sure of that when I made the signature that it would work. Anyone that wants to use the team signature needs to simply follow these instructions. 1. Navigate to the Edit Signature section of your User CP. 2. Scroll down to the Signature Picture section and find the Upload Signature Picture section. 3. In the Option 1 - Enter the URL to the Image on Another Website section copy and paste the following link into the box: http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/1679/trailsendku5.gif 4. Click the Upload button on the Edit Signature page. The team signature will appear afterwards under the Your Current Signature Picture section. 5. Click the Insert Signature Picture link to the right of the team signature image in the Your Current Signature Picture section. This will add a SIGPIC code to the Edit Signature box. 6. Once finished editing your signature click the Save Signature button at the very bottom of the page. For your signature to show up in your posts you need to make sure you always have the Show your signature option checked under the Miscellaneous Options on posts.

Finally I got Realtree to load. I've been locked out of this site all day with loading errors. Otherwise I would have posted this up earlier. I think the high winds yesterday must messed up my internet a tad bit. Anyway...How's this Ruth? I lightened up just the text a bit more and added a tad more black around the edges of the team name. It's not a drastic change, but I think it makes a difference on catching your eye quicker. I can go lighter if you want, I just didn't want to get too light of a green in there because some of the real light greens on an LCD screen can sometimes be eye bugging in my opinion. lol OLD: NEW:

Okay first attempt. I can change it if someone has any suggestions.

Another vote for Trails End. If you all want me to make the sig just have to let me know.

Hey everyone! I'm just checking in with the team. It looks like we got a pretty good team this year. I'll volunteer to make the team a Signature if we can all come up with and agree upon a name. For those of you who don't know me my name is Nadine (or you can call me by my nickname which is Moon) and I'm 23 years old from Pennsylvania. This will be my second year of archery deer hunting and my tenth year of rifle deer hunting. I have two hunting trips planned this deer season. The first one is coming up the first week of November which will be a week long archery deer and turkey hunting trip. My second trip will be the first week of December and it will be a week long rifle deer hunting trip. I pulled three doe tags again this year and of course I have a buck tag that comes with my license. Hopefully I'll at least come home with a doe, if not a buck this year. I hope everyone on the team manages to check in on time and we all have successful and safe hunting seasons! Good luck everyone!

Username: M00N Age: 23 Season: [Pennsylvania] October 4 - November 15 (Archery); December 1 - 13 (Firearms); December 26 - January 10 (Archery);

I hope you get well soon Steve! My best wishes are being sent out to you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM!

It looks like either a young black chow-chow or a young black chow mix. Here's what a black chow-chow looks like.

This will be my second year hunting with the QAD Ultra Rest Pro HD and it has not let me down one time and worked perfectly for all my hunting styles and needs so far.

I shoot a Predators View Peep in their bowhunter model. The bowhunter model is 7/32" opening that lines up nicely with a 1-3/4" to 2" pin housing. I used to shoot a 1/4" G5 Meta Peep then tried a 3/16" G5 Meta Peep and finally switched to the Predators View Peep Bowhunter and I like it a whole lot more and will never switch back.

I was hunting just slightly above 40# @ 26" last season, but I shot 100-grains on a 360-grain arrow setup. When I started my setup last year it took me awhile to find a good broadhead that fit my setup correctly and didn't waste so much kinetic energy and penetration power and still flew straight. I ended up, after much testing, going with ABC Buckmaster 100-grains and have been very happy with their results ever since. I highly recommend staying away from mechanical broadheads and sticking with cut-on-contact fixed blade broadheads. There are pleanty of fixed blade broadheads on the market now-a-days that will fly like your field tips without having to be mechanical. Plus you need all the extra kinetic energy and penetration power you can get at low draw weights and cut-on-contact fixed blades deliver this best, in my opinion. A few brands that come to mind that are good true cut-on-contact broadheads that come in 85-grain are ABC Sonic, ABC Sonic Pro, ABC Buckmaster, G5 Montec, Magnus Stinger, and Wac 'Em Triton.

Last year I started my first year of bowhunting out with 26" @ 40# with a set personal max-shot distance of 20yrds. This year I'm heading out with 26" @ 45# with a set personal max-shot distance of 25yrds. Hopefully next year I can continue the pattern and be working with 26" @ 50# with a set personal max-shot distance of 30yrds. I don't have any intentions of going past 50# in draw-weight nor ever increasing my personal max-shot distance of 30yards. I feel it's a suitable weight for the distances I like to hunt at. I like to be up close and personal with the game when bowhunting, as it's all part of the thrill of bowhunting in my opinion. Also, with previous shoulder injuries in the past I don't feel pushing my limits with my draw-weight and shoulder is a smart idea. I'd like to still have a shoulder left to hunt with when I'm much older and hopefully still bowhunting.

Good job everyone! Some nice birds entered for the team.

First impression was the Diamondback Water Snake. They can very greatly from area to area with their colors and their patterns are similar to a Diamondback Rattlesnake. Here's a picture of a darker version of the Diamondback Water Snake. Unlike a Diamondback Rattlesnake they are NOT venamous, but it's said their bite is EXTREMELY painful due to they have very sharp teeth to catch slippery fish with. If unsure on the type of snake my best suggestion is to call your local wildlife department and have someone identify it to make sure it's non-venmous.

This is the same stabilizer I shoot and it works great for my setup. I used to shoot completely without a stabilizer for years when I was younger and never had a problem. Infact I used to hate stabilizers with a passion because I was always told to buy a stabilizer that was weight-forward to make the bow tip forward on release. So, every stabilizer I've tried on my bows in the past have been weight-forward stabilizers. I actually shoot ten times worse with a weight-forward stabilizer than I shoot with no stabilizer at all or with one that keeps the weight closer to the base on my bow. My bow is very weight balanced already to start with, so I really don't have a need for using a stabilizer for the purpose of off-setting weight to balance the bow, but merely as a noise suppressor aid instead. I only added a stabilizer this year for the sole purpose of additional noise and vibration reduction. The Limbsaver Mini S-Coil stabilizer works perfectly for my needs. It wasn't too heavy, nor too long to get in the way when hunting, and it kept the weight it did add closer to the base preventing from adding too much front weight and throwing my already balanced bow off, and it does its job in the noise reduction and vibration supression department. I highly recommend actually taking your bow to your local pro-shop and trying out each stabilizer you're possibly interested in to see if it gives you what you're looking to get out of a stabilizer and fits your shooting style.

My next target investment will be a McKenzie Shot Blocker. I had trouble with the "Block" style targets with the layered foam having whole sheets of the foam come out when shot with a broadhead or even having a sheet shifting from broadhead usage. The problem I had with most "broadhead" targets is field points don't remove too easily. I got a chance to shoot into the McKenzie Shot Blocker with broadheads and field tips and they are not hard to remove the field tips from the target and yet can handle broadheads better because the "sheets" of foam are "welded" together in the McKenzie Shot Blocker so they can't sliver apart. So, if I was going for strictly field tip usage the layered foam "Block" style targets would be a great choice, but for broadhead usage they just can't make the cut for me. If I was going for strictly broadhead usage then the Yellow Jacket targets would be a great choice, but they don't perform too well with field tips in my opinion, at least when it comes to ease of removal with field tip arrows. For now though I'm slowly destroying a Bass Pro version of the Block targets away bit by bit until I have an excuse to get a new target, which will be a McKenzie Shot Blocker.

I got my new arrows all setup for the upcoming Archery Deer/Fall Turkey season. I'm really loving my new arrow setup this year. I figured I'd post up some pictures. Gold Tip XT Hunter Black 3555 NAP QuikSpin ST 3.125" Vanes Above are some pictures of my new arrows fletched with two fluorescent orange NAP QuikSpin ST 3.125" Vanes and one fluorescent yellow NAP QuikSpin ST 3.125" Vane. I'm still pondering using some Easton Tracer S Nocks possibly, so I left the Gold Tip GT Nock that came with my arrows in them for now. ABC Buckmaster 100-Grain & ABC Turkey Tearror 100-Grain Broadheads ABC Buckmaster 100-Grain Broadheads ABC Turkey Tearror 100-Grain Broadheads Additionally I was happy with the performance of the broadheads I used last year for deer, so kept them again this year. I'm shooting 100-Grain ABC Buckmaster Broadheads. Additionally, this year I finally found a fixed blade turkey broadhead that will work with my setup. Now, some of my arrows are sporting 100-Grain ABC Turkey Tearror Broadheads. I can't wait for Archery Deer and Fall Turkey seasons to roll around! I'm really itching to stick one of these arrows in something and hear a big THWACK! My setup for archery this year is just about complete. Here's my setup post. [LINK]

We currently own and use a Cabela's Lightning Set 4-Season Hunting Blind. It gets the job done for what I use it for and I haven't ran into any real problems. It's easy to setup, not too heavy or bulky, and pretty sturdy. The only draw back I found was they used velcro to close the windows and if I want to keep my windows all shut and open different windows in the blind while out hunting that the velcro noise is extremely loud. I haven't had it spook an animal yet, but it sure echos through the woods. My next blind is probably going to be the Cabela's Full Draw 5X Blind because it uses quiet elastic closures for the windows instead of velcro and appears to have a better camo technology (Blur 3D) on it that might help me blend the blind in easier in my hunting area without me having to brush it up so much as I do my current blind. If I was to increase my price range some from the under $200 range that I'm currently at to an under $300 range then I'd probably be looking at an Ameristep Signature Series Dominator Ground Blind with the magnetic silent closures on the windows and scent sealing ground skirt and maybe add an Edge ReLeaf Cover System to it if needed to it.