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Going into the 2024 deer season I didn’t know how much I would be able to hunt if any. Things were going good so I was able to hunt during a few hiccups but I decided to stay close to home except for three days. Thursday and Friday I did the annual Halloween hunt with my friend. Seen several...

I said earlier in the year that I would post a thread on a project this summer. The shop is closed and I’m glad to get away from that lifestyle after 33 years. This was always my dream for the shop when the business was closed. If I didn’t do something to the shop it would turn into a junk...

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This is a hard thread to make as it’s hard sometimes showing our personal lives but here it goes. I meet my wife when I changed high schools during my freshman year and she’s been the one ever since. She’s had a nagging cough since August and we just thought it was the respiratory virus that...

I found a place to hunt much closer to home to save on travel time and quicker hunts. The area is wide open crop fields with tree lined creeks. My confidence was zilch on hunting it for the fourth time in two years! I’m used to hunting large wooded tracts and not edges. The stand has one of the...

Posting pictures on this site has always had its ups and downs. I have IW as a favorite on my Home Screen and only use my IPhone for getting on this site and posting pictures. Curtis Walker gave this tip after the latest upgrade and it’s on a thread but hard to find and probably missed by many...

I’ve finally decided to part with this stand and sticks. The stand and sticks were bought from LW before the business was sold so nothing ChiCom made here. The stand has the offset bracket and the pack straps and tow rope is included. I used this stand 100% as my mobile setup and was never...

On opening day I had the blind set up at 3:15 and by 4:00 I had birds all over. 4-5 long beards and a couple Jakes with many hens. The Toms were very quiet but was fun watching them. A little after 7 this bird snuck in to my right. He wanted go under the fence but made a mistake to check out the...

What will they think of next :rolleyes:

After 31 years of doing animal science I’ve found many interesting things and today was another. The hunter said from TC pics the buck lost his right eye last year. I couldn’t tell that a broken arrow was even there until I got to the eye and sew the shaft that was barely sticking out. It...

I shot a buck here last year on Veterans Day but it took a few months to finish the story after things went bad. I hunted this tree a couple times already and seen deer but it requires a SW,W,NW wind. It’s super thick with only two shooting widows and visibility is very limited. The tree only...

This year I did a couple different improvement to my tree stands. The goal is to increase the grip, limit the edges and soften the noise and to give a personal touch with one method. The early season stand was quick and easy to fix up. I purchase Slayer Tape from LWCG and cut the pieces to...

I’ve put off starting this thread for some time but I sharpened a IW that was a pass through and buried in the dirt so I took pics to write up a thread. Many friends have asked myself how to do it and I show them so I wanted to share it here! The trick is to get a even burr that keeps rolling as...

A long read November 11 Veterans Day I left the truck for a all day hunt to a tree that requires a west wind of some sort. It had rained a little in the night and not far from the truck I seen a couple sets of eyes. One set of eyes looked like it had good width and both just stood there by a...

I normally don’t hunt the late season if I don’t tag during the first bow season but with the temps December 23 at 53 degrees I had to go. So I did a afternoon hang & hunt and was tucked in at 1:00. I was in the same tree that I closed down the first season on the last day and had 4 bucks come...

Here are some tips and steps on aging whitetails. I’m only familiar with DeerAge.com and have used them for 4 years now. First let’s get the front two teeth out. Cut the skin away on the lower jaw. If you want the deer mounted let your taxidermist cut the skin. Take a small knife and you will...

Take a moment today to remember the lives that were lost Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve been having tough luck on birds wanting to commit since the opener but the farms I’m hunting have a good supply of toms. This morning the toms were fired up and I was working two birds over the hill since fly down. One of the toms peeked over the hill but went back to his side and kept...

My Bonus Hunt October buck is done. He has smaller mass, crazy height and a 13 7/8 inside spread and will be a great addition to the deer room. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Dried Venison (Deer) This is a simple recipe and by following the very important basic steps great results will be achieved. I’ve cured many football shaped roasts and the middle never seemed to get cured enough even though they were under 2 1/2 inches thick. If I ever cure the football shaped...