Wiljo05

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

I have a spare lee scale that came in a reloading kit I bought years ago. Pm me and I could send it to you to get you by if your interested. I come to Clarksville about once a month for work if you can wait for about 2 weeks?

Check out living social...there was a deal that just populated today for $65 I think. Here is the link I got in my inbox. It's like groupon... https://www.livingsocial.com/cities/28-nashville/deals/792362-chimney-sweeping?afsrc=1&utm_campaign=digest_dailyus&utm_content=28&utm_medium=email&utm_source=blast

How is the pricing on that? I looked at one setup before I built mine, and it was roughly $44 a month for 25 pics! Thought ouch that's high! So I built my own setup.

I'm using about 4gb of data on the pictures coming in. I don't do video and only have the cam send pics. It's an 8mp camera, and each photo is roughly 8mb. Roughly 128 photos per gig. Setting the delay is key to keeping in the 250 photo range per month. That's assuming you have lots of activity. Breaking it down, that's 8 photos a day... Hope that helps? Also, any questions about the setup, don't hesitate to pm me. You will run into an issue with the CradlePoint if you don't have a static ip on the wireless card. And only biz accounts can get the static ip ($500 also) that is unless you are using another program to send out the pics vs removing in to the old laptop and viewing a live stream.

The problem lies in all those storm chasers that promised and followed thru with getting people new roofs when their roofs were old and in need of replacement just by calling it storm damage. I was with Farm B. and cancelled them and went with liberty mutual because for now they don't prorate roofs

I've rigged up a remote setup where I don't go check it. It emails me photos as they are taken (pelican case, verizon mifi for Internet, old junk laptop, deep cycle battery and solar trickle charger). I messed up by checking too often a few years ago and learned my lesson! I have had lots of coyotes on cam at the same time the deer had been moving through. I feel like they may be avoiding the yotes?