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Congrats Timbo and glad you had a great trip!

Please explain yourself with this comment before I say anything else.

What about people on forums, such as RT?

That ain't going to help you in the deer contest. Im doing a Bull Elk hunt this year for 4-5 days. OTC tags for you, if you want to come. Hard hunting, High Mountains, but there are some quality bulls in the area.

Glad all is going well #2. Be safe out there.

Just a question in general, not relating to any issues with me. I will call people out as soon as I feel they need to be.

At what point do you call someone out on being too full of themselves? When it happens day end and day out, do you just let it go and never say anything, or do you say something?

I'll be tagged out in 3 different states before The October 15th duck opener. Well, I hope so anyways. :clown:

Bring it!

Hopefully not, makes people less honest.

What environment are you hunting with your jerk cord? I will give you some ideas that I learned last season with my jerk cord. If you are hunting from shore make a concrete weight with an eye bolt in it to place at your feet. Run the cord through that so you pull straight up on the line or however you want to pull it. Without this weight/anchor every time you pull you will rip your line across the surface of the water and the ducks will flair big time. You dont want them to see the line or ripples at all. If you are in a boat, run the line under the boat and pull it into the boat on the back side. This will keep the line underwater as well. Make your weight over 5lbs but doesnt need to be as big as ten. Anything under five or so will rise up when you pull creating ripples around your feet, which you dont want. You might know all this already, but I took your post as this will be your first time using one and hopefully these tips will help. Also, if you have some 60/40 keels use a few of them on the jerk cord as well. will short burst, they will dive head down and look like feeders.

For everyone that has tried to send me a PM in the last couple of days, please try again now. I just got everything cleaned out and didnt realize it was full untill just now. Thanks.

Here is a more thought out plan. The stand locations near the road to the left are late season stands when the hunting pressure has been going on for a while, but only then. In the past 14 years of hunting our lease no one has killed a deer the last 2-3 weeks of season besides me. 50% of those late season deer have come from me climbing 50' up a pine over a 6 year old clear cut that is 7' tall of briars and bushes and I have shot straight down at them. The other 50% has come from hunting within a VERY close distance to a paved county road that boarders our lease. The deer travel parallel to the road in the late season using it, as it seems, as a safe area since no one thinks to hunt near a road. And yes, I was/am within legal distance of a public road. The green blob on the left, I would hand rake and spread a shade plot and see what grows. I would also plant your dirt road and move your stand to the 45* corner with a feeder where your stand was. That way you look left down a long road with a foot plot and look right to the feeder. I would do the water in a somehow central location that can be somewhat easy to get to to refill and clean when needed. I would still set up stands somewhere in the corners of the property and for sure have a stand in the hardwoods. I love my climber and would use it in all the places I have marked.

I put in two small black plastic tanks in the middle of a field. There is no known water source for a mile or two around and the deer were drinking out of these tanks within 4 hours and placing them in the ground and filling them. I will get a picture next weekend when I get back up to the land for you. They are maybe 30 gallons each and I sunk them level with the ground. easy to pick up and dump put to clean every other week or so.

I didn'y say hunt their land. Those spots could make for some great bow set-ups. I have no idea how hunting your own land and not maximizing the space that you are paying for is rude and un-neighborly. Put their land at your back and dont shoot anything over there and they wont mind or say a word at all. And I would place stand somewhere in the area of the red dots, not exactly on them in every spot I marked.

I would hang stands where the red is and hunt the hard woods more. Plus, I would get a rack and go hand rack as much of the ground as possible where the green is and sprean a shade food plot by hand.

clearly a K9 going to join his other dog friends. He is in a run/trot/hop with his front leg tucked up and his rump in the air during stride. Also ears flopping with his run/trot/hop to give them the rounded effect.

Where in NC are you located?

the first deer of the year on RT? My vote will be Leo. But I might try and beat him with our September 1st opener.

Cool video old man.

I would actually sign up this go around if there is one. Now that I've some what figured out this west coast hunting and have a few out of state hunts lined up, I might have a good season.

I hate that I dont get those channels. I would love to see footage of the Kansas hunt. I saw the Montana on MonsterBucks.

Amazing Leo. Congrats again!

I do...since last season ended. I live this stuff. I got everything ready the weekend after the season ended for this upcoming season. One thing I have new is a 18'6" war eagle. That should help out with getting to different spots. Just need to re-rig a few dekes for a little deeper water and I will be good to go. Unfortunantly I will be missing opening day this year which is bitter sweet. Instead of chasing the first ducks, I will be in Southern Idaho chasing trophy mule deer, but the ducks will be in my mind. I love this flyway.