Wiljo05

Whack em! That's all I've accomplished in my hunts so far. Smoked turkey breast will be good, but really wanting so smoke some summer sausage. All the deer I'd been seeing on cam have disappeared as of Friday night it appears. They aren't even showing their faces on any of 3 cams I have out! They will mess up though, and I will be waiting on them. Spent a total of 23 hours in the stand since opening morning and only have a turkey and one dear 'yote to show for it. Turkey at 5 yards and the coyote at 15. Coyote was stalking a fawn that had just passed with its momma. Craziest thing I've seen. Almost cat like. Hunkered down shoulders up like you see lions hunting. He never saw me stand and draw. Stuck him high between the shoulders. Spun for 20 seconds or so and lights out. Once I edit some film (gopro cam) I'll share it with y'all. Stay in the woods and stick em if ya can!

When your enemies out weigh the number of rounds you have, you gotta find an alternate weapon / means to defend yourself. I've rode motorcycles for years, and 100% say mow em over if they have surrounded you and are threatening. I showed my wife the video, and asked her what she would do, she said I would try not to run over the ones not trying to get in the car. At that point I told her I deem them as guilty as the others because A) they are blocking my exit intentionally B) guilty by association. They didn't have to follow the monkeys trying to get into the car. And yes, I saw 2 instances where I would have fired my weapon. That RR would have looked like it rolled down a mountain, because I refuse to go out without a fight

The bright side, weather you find him or not, is that you got the monkey off your back of that first shot. First shot that makes contact that is. From here on out, you only have to worry about distance and shot placement. Don't beat yourself up on the shot placement though deer move so fast that you may have been on the money, and it was just time for the deer to move a little.

Quail and dove are the filet minõn of birds! Bacon wrapped, tossed on the grill with just salt and pepper is tough to beat! You are talking about raising for eating right? Prob should have asked that first...

Ruger it sucks but happens to most at some time or another. I stuck a 170's Illinois buck 3 years ago. Arrow passed thru and didn't leave enough blood to figure out where he went when he got out of sight. It was with a Rage...but, I still hunt with them because 99.9% of the time they are devastating! Like 30 yard and drop devastating. Some deer seem to be like people, just more will to live, and either run forever and die, or I like to think that they make it. I hate wounding an animal more than anything like you do!

I should be sleeping, but can't yet! I'm trying to take a one antlered scrub buck that is polluting the gene pool at hone. That and coyotes!

Loading up the truck in a few min. Looks like it's gonna be a heavy fog for me again in the morning. Didn't burn off until 930 the past few days. Cam still showing activity though. They will likely be under me before I ever see or hear them coming! Good luck in the morning, and like Ruger said, let's see some pics tomorrow!

Less than 24hrs boys!

Pasture is fine, but a month before slaughter you def want to go all grain. It increases fat and marbling in the muscle. If the number of animals exceed what the pasture can support, you have to buy hay. Most horses are finicky and won't eat or don't like to any way, your run if the mill mixed grass hay. They will prefer alfalfa or Bermuda, and while the cows will love it, it's gonna be expensive to support them on "horse" hay

Does anyone else play hunting games on their phone while in the hunting lol? I learned my lesson last year and got smoked by 2 coyotes that walked right under me while I was busy hunting lions on my phone!

I feel like mine used to have everything from toilet paper to enough tools to dismantle a Cold War Soviet submarine! No more! I feel liberated now. I only carry the essentials. Im generally no more than a 20 min walk from my house or truck, so I have limited my stash. Some will still say you need everything, and I do agree in certain situations. I just re packed mine and below are the contents. Sharp Knife Matches Para cord Poncho 2 screw in steps Toilet paper Rubber gloves Scent kill spray Spare flashlight Multi tool Ziplock bag Extra pair socks Handful of zip ties This is just for hunting at my house. Any time I go anywhere else to hunt, I go with a more substantial amount of supplies/navigational aids for that "just in case" situation. What's in your hunting pack?

Your not alone on the over packing part! I'm a 15 min walk from my house and I still pack like I'm going on a moose hunting expedition! This year not so much lol. I've gone to the basics. Toilet paper, knife, spare face mask, scent kill, water, spark energy drink pouches, and pbj from the freezer section (like finding the golden egg when they thaw!), and 2 screw in steps, one for backpack and one for the bow.

Lol!

Stupid is as stupid does

Battery life = 30 seconds on high! Just kidding, wouldn't trade my sure fire for any other light!

I'm getting ansy, kinda like going on a first date, 'cept that likelihood of scoring is much higher :-)

3 days and counting gentlemen! Starting to daydream about sitting in my stand!

So here is my trick. Pick out a tire at Discount Tire online. Print that page. Then go to sears.com and see if that tire is available. Look at their coupon codes/discounts. Apply those discounts to the shopping cart on the sears.com site. Print. Take that to discount tire and they price match. I got 4 18" all terrain tires for 115 out the door from discount tire simply by bringing in the print of my shopping cart from Sears. This has worked twice for me. This year alone

Contrary to a lot of peoples opinions, AND mine up until 2 years ago, I use my AR in 5.56 with a 68 grain Speer Hollow point boat tail under 24.3 grains of powder, with no crimp. It's super accurate, and had dropped 9 deer out of 9 shots. The bullet holds together and expands, but the wound channel is almost as big as when I shot deer with my 7mm. The pressure it generates is crazy. I don't do head shots like some, simply because stuff happens and a single leaf could deflect the bullit just enough to become a maiming shot vs a kill shot. Plus, I'm on a coyote thinning mission, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper to sling those vs the big rounds while hunting!

Pretty sick work!!!

Even though I don't hunt to sustain myself, I find that if I take a doe or scrub buck early in the season, I will really hesitate on taking a deer that would be nice next year just to get some meat in the freezer. An early doe or two has saved some medium bucks lives several times. As I posted earlier, being smoked by a neighbor 2 yrs in a row gets to you though! I let a decent 9 pt walk last year, thinking man if he makes it he'll be a daddy next year, about 80 yards after he jumped the fence headed to bedding ground, boom goes the neighbor and pile drives the buck...sometimes it doesn't pay to be patient lol. He was excited he finally got "his" deer. It was his since he'd watched it come from my farm almost like clockwork every evening :-)

Reason number 6 to take does early: Does make great jerky and summer sausage to snack on while hunting for "THE" buck you're after :-)

Just goes to show...don't f with an eagle!

I took vacation starting Thursday and covering the full first week of bow season. I feel ya on the struggling thru work part, just knowing that even though I'm off I can't go into the woods till sat. Makes me wanna sleep in my stand Friday night!

That's a good deer! Def a shooter for me down here. Heck, last day of season in Illinois it's also a shooter :-) I hope you get on him opening day before he wanders into someone else's arrow! Two years in a row I've been beat by a neighbor that does nothing but reap the rewards of my hard work lol