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- Mon Sep 27, 2021 8:49 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: 6 more days
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2235
Re: 6 more days
I don't know where you are headed to in Missouri but I'm glad you are coming next week and not this week. Southern MO is supposed to have highs in the 90s early this week and northern MO (where I hunt) will be in the mid to upper 80s. Next week looks cooler so you should be fine. I'm actually going ...
- Sat Sep 25, 2021 9:53 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: First crossbow turkey
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2295
Re: First crossbow turkey
My initial post may have implied that this is my first turkey. It's my first crossbow turkey but far from my first overall. I killed my first turkey in the mid 1970s and have killed at least 35 - 40 birds overall. Like Gerald Strine mentioned in his post, I skin turkeys and cut them up somewhat like...
- Fri Sep 24, 2021 4:45 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: First crossbow turkey
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2295
First crossbow turkey
Wednesday morning I drove up to the farm to mow and (hopefully) hunt. After mowing in a rush I got out to one of my stands about 5:00 PM. The stand I was in is a tripod stand in the southeast corner of a field of standing corn. In late August I mowed a path between the crop field and the woods ( I h...
- Fri Sep 24, 2021 4:06 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: O/T Rainbow Bridge Little Abby
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2380
Re: O/T Rainbow Bridge Little Abby
I hated reading this. Dogs break our hearts way too often.
- Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:40 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Game changers for hunting
- Replies: 49
- Views: 14500
Re: Game changers for hunting
I never bowhunt without a facemask. The lightest one I have isn't too bad in early season hot weather. I usually take my hat off and just wear it when it's really hot. Deer, squirrels, owls etc. have looked right at me without alarm.
- Mon Sep 13, 2021 1:47 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Ideas for tree stand camo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2835
Re: Ideas for tree stand camo
It wouldn't work with your climber, but I zip tie camo tarps over the tubular pipe insulation I put on the shooting rails of my tripod stands. I have to double the tarps over to cut the downward drop length down, and I add grommets to make them fit well. From the ground (the deer's view), 2/3 - 3/4 ...
- Wed Sep 08, 2021 3:33 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: How many of you are ready to roll?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 11013
Re: How many of you are ready to roll?
I spent the day yesterday cutting the brush that blocked access to my two tripod stands, then cleared up some shooting lanes, installed pipe insulation on the shooting rails then zip tied the camo tarps (that hide about 3/4 of the deer's view) to the shooting rails. I also put the seat back into one...
- Mon Sep 06, 2021 10:22 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: It's about time...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2572
Re: It's about time...
We had some friends over yesterday for "dinner and a movie" (Airplane - absolutely hilarious). Dessert was blackberry pie and ice cream.
- Mon Sep 06, 2021 10:07 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Opening day success (Crossbow in gun season)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3035
Re: Opening day success (Crossbow in gun season)
Great story with a happy ending! I really enjoy forum members hunting stories and I look forward to reading many more of them now that hunting seasons are finally starting. Your story reminded me of something I did a long time ago. I had a late Friday night softball game during spring turkey season ...
- Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:39 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: It's about time...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2572
Re: It's about time...
Our season opens 9/15 which is a week from this coming Wednesday. We ate the last of this past season's backstrap fillets last week but we still have a few pounds of ground venison. We have had a tremendous tomato crop this year and I have been slicing and freezing the ones we don't eat or give away...
- Mon Aug 30, 2021 10:29 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Hunting supplies and parts
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3092
Re: Hunting supplies and parts
The ammo shortage is caused by irrational panic hoarding. I'm old enough to have seen it several times before. A few people buy up much more than they need and the average guy who buys a couple of boxes a year is out of luck. The ammo manufacturers love this cycle. It's not here stay, things will d...
- Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:50 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Hunting supplies and parts
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3092
Re: Hunting supplies and parts
The ammo shortage is caused by irrational panic hoarding. I'm old enough to have seen it several times before. A few people buy up much more than they need and the average guy who buys a couple of boxes a year is out of luck. The ammo manufacturers love this cycle. It's not here stay, things will di...
- Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:17 am
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: 7mm-08
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7931
Re: 7mm-08
A few years ago I was at a charity event and they were raffling off some guns by selling half of a playing card and putting the other half into a bowl to be drawn for a winner. My card was drawn and I had my choice of a .270 Winchester without a scope or a Savage 6.5 Creedmoor with a cheap Weaver on...
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:53 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Hawk crawler deer cart
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1614
Re: Hawk crawler deer cart
I don't need one but that thing sure looks well designed and a good value at the price. I don't blame you for ordering one. If they're as good as they look, they might run out of them.
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 1:23 pm
- Forum: Crossbow Hunting
- Topic: Farmland
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1668
Re: Farmland
Post by Ankh » Sun Aug 22, 2021 11:22 am The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States. Pennsyltucky is 71% private land ownership. Our state government has oil wells , fracking and constant logging in most of the state gamela...