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Post by M4Madness on Dec 6, 2021 19:44:35 GMT -5
I have an API Grand Slam Lite, which weighs 21 pounds. I bet I bought it around 20 years ago as well. I also used to have an API Bowhunter, which had an open front and was 18 pounds, I believe.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 24, 2021 6:25:15 GMT -5
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 17, 2021 11:37:58 GMT -5
That looks interesting and priced fairly IMO Especially when you consider that a non-resident license is included in the price and youth hunters hunt for free with a paid adult. I wonder if I can pass for 17 years old? LOL!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 17, 2021 9:51:48 GMT -5
It’s actually with a place up there called Bushycreek. Seems like a nice older gentleman that runs it and it’s pretty cheap. Supposed to be around 2000 acres of huntable farms and super kid friendly. I would love to come up and hunt public land but my boys are quite ready for it. I am hit the point where all of my hunting is focused on them. www.bushycreekwhitetails.com/Hope you guys have a good time in Indiana! Good luck!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 15, 2021 20:25:26 GMT -5
I pulled into my hunting spot around 3:45 PM today and there were 8 to 10 does feeding in an adjacent grass pasture. No bucks in sight.
I saw a 6-pointer from my stand on the wooded ridge. He played around with a licking branch on a logging road then meandered off into the brush.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 14, 2021 11:14:43 GMT -5
Rainy and windy at dawn this morning, so I stayed home. Hopefully I'll be out this afternoon. Good luck to all.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 13, 2021 20:22:42 GMT -5
Let's face it guys, we're old and our blood is thin. Im glad there are leaves on the trees, cause it hides my teeth from chattering. My Heater Body Suit kept me warm today. I was EXTREMELY skeptical when I was researching them. I figured it was snake oil -- until I actually wore one. All I had on today was an XGO base layer and a fleece jacket and fleece pants. That's it. The temps were in the mid 30's, and with that horrible wind, I know the windchill was easily in the 20's. I got drizzled and sleeted on the entire morning sitting in my ladder stand. The only time I got cold was when I took the Heater Body Suit off so I could walk out after the hunt. This evening was the exact same scenario, minus the precipitation.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 13, 2021 16:07:38 GMT -5
I'm in a different stand on same farm I hunted this morning. I've been in this stand an hour, and the wind is brutal. I just had a doe trot by and about 30 seconds later, a 2.5 year old buck came through chasing her. A minute later on the adjacent property, I heard two shots ring out. I hope it wasn't the buck I let walk. They would have had to have taken a hard right turn after I lost sight of them to get in that hunter's sights.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 13, 2021 9:06:06 GMT -5
My first hunt of the year. I'm the sole hunter on a 250-acre farm, and I'm in a ladder stand on a wooded ridgetop. It's been cold, windy, and rainy so far, with no deer sightings. I'm about 75 yards from a cellular trail camera that has been producing pics all week. No deer sightings yet, and very, very few shots in the distance.
Sleeting now...
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 9, 2021 11:45:02 GMT -5
That is a beautiful buck, onebentarrow. I'm glad you were able to recover it, and as quickly as you did.
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 8, 2021 11:50:30 GMT -5
I appreciate your thoughts. I think that sting is twice as bad when you feel good about what you saw or think you saw and it doesn’t work out. These things happen when bow hunting. They just do. Will keep hunting hard. May be back in a tree by tomorrow afternoon….. My first hit at 30 was the spine shot. The buck spun around and the arrow broke off on a small tree. He just stood there looking around, wondering what buck had done that to him (I'd grunted him in before the shot.) I grunted again and he came right to me, stopping 20 yards broadside. I would have sworn that the second arrow was dead nuts in the ribcage behind the "elbow" joint -- a perfect shot, so to speak. That buck was dead on his feet. I never dreamed that he'd still be alive two months later! LOL!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 8, 2021 11:12:34 GMT -5
Well no deer. I honestly can't figure out other than it had to be in the shoulder. Maybe the way he moved his leg or something.The blood was a little bit darker red not real dark like liver and not a lot either. Grid searched since first light. Taking a day or two. Very frustrating. I'm sorry to hear that. The same thing happened to me on November 10, 2013. I still remember the date because it stung so bad. LOL! I put not one, but two arrows into a nice 10-pointer, with the farthest of the two shots at 30 yards. We trailed it a couple hundred yards after dark, until coming upon a bloody bed. We took up the trail the next day, which took us hundreds of yards into a neighboring forest, bloody bed after bloody bed. We finally had to call it quits after making a valiant effort. Fast forward to a very snowy night in January. Someone had hit a buck not 300 yards from my driveway. The rack had already been sawed off. The snow eventually melted and the buck was being scavenged on. My wife noticed something peculiar one day and texted me at work to tell me that the carcass had an arrow stub in it. Sure enough, it was my arrow and Rage 2-blade broadhead lodged in the vertebrae where the spine dips low in the shoulder region. The broadhead was still in the closed position! Good luck to you, and get back out there and keep hitting it!
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 6, 2021 10:46:57 GMT -5
I haven't been out any this year, but don't plan to miss the gun opener. I'm hoping to get excited about deer hunting again and get back into archery next season.
I've been getting bucks on my cellular camera every day this week between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM. They're definitely cruising for does.
Congratulations to all who have scored! Good luck to everyone!
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Post by M4Madness on Sept 26, 2021 12:01:18 GMT -5
I DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT DEER HUNTING ANYMORE! LOL!
Seriously, I haven't shot a buck since 2017, haven't hunted with a bow or muzzleloader in three seasons, and the last two firearms seasons consisted of a single doe harvest each year. I just lost all excitement for it, and for over 20 years it was pretty much all I thought about. I don't know what brought this on, but early archery season starts in 5 days and I could care less.
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Post by M4Madness on Sept 11, 2021 14:51:49 GMT -5
Last year was my first year hunting with a .300 AAC Blackout pistol. I took a large doe with it and had zero problems. The cartridge was designed for short barrels, so you won't suffer any performance loss in a pistol. Everyone (including myself) seems to like the Barnes 110-grain "black tips" for deer-sized game. They're solid copper and are a great performer. The hard part is going to be finding either the bullets themselves or loaded ammo. Good luck on your season! Bullet part number: Barnes 30321 Loaded ammunition part number: Barnes 21548
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Post by M4Madness on Mar 5, 2021 19:15:07 GMT -5
It sounds like what you need to research is a “Prescriptive Easement”. THANK YOU! Uninterrupted use for a minimum of 20 years (in Indiana). Well, technically, I've gained ground from my neighbor then. LOL! Back in 1990, the previous owners of both my property and the neighbor's property came to an agreement to move the fence back away from the true property line towards the neighbor's side. This was done because the true line runs at an angle and comes three feet from one of the corners of my house and the neighbors had cattle at the time that would moo in the bedroom window. LOL! Both my neighbor and I moved into our respective homes three years later in 1993, and the new neighbor agreed to leave the fence where it was. It has now been that way over 30 years. The neighbor approached me recently about buying some of his ground to clean up the line and gain a buffer. So, while I can now technically claim the section of his land on my side of the fence as mine, I'd be better served to accept his offer to buy more and move his fence back even farther.
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Post by M4Madness on Mar 3, 2021 18:40:54 GMT -5
Got the 50 and over text today, but I'm passing on it. I've never had a flu shot in my 53 years either.
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Post by M4Madness on Feb 6, 2021 20:14:27 GMT -5
Drove to Ferdinand today and passed the Amateur Extra license test. Still waiting on the QSL cards your be trading and passing out! 😊 I read online that printers scour the FCC rolls for new licensees and spam the heck out of their email inbox with offers to print QSL cards. Not a single one has bugged me yet. LOL!
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Post by M4Madness on Feb 6, 2021 18:34:34 GMT -5
Drove to Ferdinand today and passed the Amateur Extra license test.
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Post by M4Madness on Feb 4, 2021 6:34:35 GMT -5
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