Anyone else chomping at the bit for bow season to roll around?? I cant wait, our season starts in Sept. and I have been watching a couple of decent bucks in one of our pasture fields every evening. I can hear the string music now

Gotta get new arrows made up soon, and start shooting in the evenings. What kinda bows you all shoot out there? Mine is a Martin Cougar Magnum, and I love it.

Tom

 

I'm waiting for all of it, dove, duck and deer. I don't know how to shoot a bow though.
I 'usedtocould' get out early with my black powder but Texas got hip to that.

I've duck hunted for 30+ years now, only about 12 on the deer.
My fever is bout 103 right now!

 

I should have taken my digi cam in the field, I just got back from installing new battery in deer feeder and tossed in 250 lbs of whole kernel corn...... on the way out I was swamp stompin and an 8 pointer jumped out of the tall grass and headed away from me........ then I snuck up on a junk rack 3 pointer that was completely stooooopid and walking away from me in a wheat field, I got within 30 feet of that one.

 

I've been on a stand building kick here the last couple weeks, have a pretty good design for salt treated stands that you can take down and move if you really wanted to. Built 3 of them, gonna put them up soon. I can't wait. I might bow hunt a little, but I'm really excited about the October black powder season we have. This should be a great year, I've seen some nice bucks so far this summer. I mainly hunt big fields during the rifle season, and either lay on the ditch bank or on a big dirt pile from where they cleaned a ditch out. Sometimes I lay right out in the middle of the field if the wind isn't right. But during the BP season I hunt the woods, and will have 7 stands hung for this year. 3 big wooden ones, 2 chain ons, a tripod, and a 18' ladder stand from cabelas that hasn't arrived yet. I shoot a Browning Ignitor bow that's almost 10 years old, but I like it. Got a new TC Omega BP gun last year, it's hard on bambi. I mostly shoot a weatherby accumark in 7mm STW during the rifle season. I ordered a new Marlin cowboy gun, the .45-70 with the long octagon barrel and no checkering, but they're hard to find and might take a while to come in. Should be fun to shoot deer in the woods with.

 

Dayum timber, sounds like you are chomping at the bit big time, I have limited myself to portables, used to build big stands, but I tend to mosey around in them, when I am stuck on a 2 x 2 stand I stay put / more still and see more critters........ I hope these buggers apreciate the 60 bux I spent on them for corn and saltblocks yesterday......... I also hope that the rumor of them banning the hunting over bait, their concern is with something like mad cow, chronic wasting disorder or something like that........ heck, I just like seeing more during shooting light, especially if they look like this :

 

man! i am not getting excited for bow season but a little nervouse. i am planning a trip to alaska to hunt moose. i have friends that work for a well known outfitter off the kenai penn. they guide fisherman on the kenai river and on the salt. come sept they take the month off and moose hunt. all i need is my air fare, ship my guns there and buy my lic. no fees. our trip is being planned around the new regs that have not been posted that i know of. so i am on standby. we are hoping to hunt around the non resident thing.

last sunday i took a friend up to my place in northern mi to go trout fishing. on sat night we took a ride looking for deer etc. we saw 4 deer with antlers above the ears. pretty good for state land. lots of woodcock. lots. should be a banner year for the bird hunting. i have a german shorthair pointer and cant wait to get her out. sunday morning i was up before daybreak and took the dog for a walk to one of my blinds out back. lots of deer tracks. i checked my spin feeder and it still had corn in it from last year. it has been wet so that corn is nasty. i gotta get up there and cleanit up.

i shoot a hoyt fast flight. i have a 36" draw and have a hard time finding a bow in my draw length. i will sit in that shooting house and poke one with the bow or handgun. lol a couple of pics in my gallery of hunting stuff

 

I'm getting antsy too. This will be my first year going for Deer, traded a friend for an older High Country compound... I am really excited for September, going camping in Kansas the first weekend to shoot the doves!!! I'm getting ready to chase the quail. And we will be running 3 dogs most of the season, as I will be getting my own in a month or so!

 

Gave up bow hunting after my crash, got Kaley. Use to shoot PSE. Birdy's are right around the corner though.

 

I don't know why I'm so anxious, but I even dream about deer hunting a couple times a week. I like using portable stands, I got an old man vision climber that I use sometimes. It is nice having stands already up and ready to go, with good tree steps and a pull rope already hung, so you don't have to mess around. Just sneak in there, hang the gun on the rope and climb up. Not as much sweating and cussing and nothing to pack up again. I hunt on a big private farm, but I still camoflage my stands to hide them more from people than from deer. If people can't see them I know the deer can't. I paint them, then hang holly limbs from the stand, nail some to the tree so they hang down beside me, etc, hang small limbs and pieces of bark from my steps. People never can find them if I don't show them. That's good cause it keeps my brother and my buddy from hunting em! Too much time and strategery (like that word) and planning and effort into hanging a stand in a great spot to kill a monster, and planning the conditions you need before you can hunt it, like wind, and hiding the thing, and planning how to get to it in the dark silently, to have some knuckle head come in there and smoke cigarettes and **** and stomp all around.

 

I'm getting anxious too, I just got my 14" wide 8-pointer back from the Taxidermist that I killed last fall(not very big, but nice sized deer for our part of the state). I have a couple of ladder-type stands made out of 16' tall salt treated 4x4s that stay up all year long, although I do need to move one of them for this coming up year. It looked like a good spot when we put it up, but once it rained real good, the whole area flooded pretty good, so I have to have at least knee boots on to get to it. I have to move it about 100 yards north, and all will be good to go, right on a path I have seen many, many deer come through.

My other stand is in a spot I've had it at for about 5 years now, its my honey hole stand, where I killed my 8-pointer. I've only killed a few other deer out of the stand, nothing big, but I see deer quite a bit. Its at an "intersection" of deer paths, and last year I counted 12 deer around the stand while hunting, and there were more than that around in the woods and field. Nothing big enough to kill, and it was dark as all get-out. I'm probably going to get me a deer feeder to put up in front of my stand, that way my stepdad doesnt have to go in there every day to feed up. I'm looking at getting one of the new quiet phantom feeders, so my buddy who hunts on the property next to ours cant hear it.

The stand we built are super heavy, takes at least 3 people to move them any distance at all, and to set them up. BUT, a couple of years ago, some of the people my neighbors were letting hunt on their land were trespassing, and came across one of my stands, and decided to try to break it. Long story short, the only thing they could do is twist it a little on the tree, it is chained to the tree with some heavy chain with a turnbuckle on it to tighten it. Needless to say, they were kicked off my neighbors property, and I guarantee you they will never set foot on our property again

 

hey redleg, i have a place in irons mi. not far from the pm. spent alot of time on that river. looked in your gallery. nice cabin. fished the big man last sunday on the north side.


i just got the mail, cabelas archery 2006 catalog just arrived. guess i will go check it out. lol;

 

Cool! Have to give me a bump when you want to hit the river. I'm right by the Pine at Bristol. You fly fish by chance? Where do you pheasant hunt?

 

lmao! a couple of years ago i put 35 gallons of fuel in my truck at bristol corners. lol... used to run to the travelers in leroy. my buddy has some land at 130th and 22 mi.

i try to fly fish. lol have the gear, usually end up tossing crawlers etc. i have some spots to pheasant hunt in the thumb and we usually do a few preserve hunts a year. this year was an exception, we did six preserve hunts and i put the dogs on over 120 phez. woodcock and grouse is the main bird hunting we do. lots of woodcock and some grouse.

sorry to hijack your thread ohfarmboy. still hunting talk though. how is the bird population down in ohio? how about goose hunting? i have a goose rig that needs to be hunted over. have birds? will travel!

 

Sweet deer!!! What did he score??? Ive only killed one buck so far, and several does. I'll try to get some pictures up asap of my deer and my dads best buck so far. Ive also got a picture of my uncles deer that he shot in 2002. 36point non typical, was the Ky state record, and the biggest whitetail killed in northamerica in 2002. Will get pics up soon

 

not as high as he looked, green scored 130, unfortunately rack was stolen from taxidermy shop b4 I could get him officially scored and my name in the book