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  1. floydfreak

    What's your dumbest injury?

    Earlier this week I manged to find my self in an emergency room with a smashed up pinky. Long story short I was working out when I fell off a bosu ball holding some small kettle bells. I ended up crushing the tip of my pinky under the kettle bell. As a result the pinky nail came completely...
  2. floydfreak

    Ice Fishing Recap

    With the end of the ice fishing season drawing to a close figured I would start a chat about things you've learned this year ice fishing. This is my second full season on the ice. I was out once a week all season, almost all my time was spent on Lake Simcoe fishing for white fish and lake...
  3. floydfreak

    Amsteel ladder aider too long

    I've been using an amsteel 3 step ladder that @DanO sells attached to a treehopper treesuit to one stick all year. Today was the first time I was fully dressed for winter and at one point couldn't get my foot into the next rung of the ladder. I bought the shortest step distance available but...
  4. floydfreak

    Dark blood means a liver hit...lesson learned

    Figured I would share my story for the hoards of new guys like myself. This is only my first year saddle hunting and third year bow hunting, all my other hunting experience is with a gun. Prior to Saturday I've shot 2 deer with a shot gun, first was a spike buck that toppled over instantly...
  5. floydfreak

    Broadhead orientation

    This is my first time building arrows. Just picked up a pack of Grizzlystik Maasi's and I'm not really sure how to orientation them. My plans was to nock tune the arrows without having the inserts glued in until everything was flying perfect. Then once they were tuned Fletch the arrows and...
  6. floydfreak

    Anyone not using a peep?

    My kisser came flying off a week ago and rather then replace it I started shooting without it and love it. Now I'm thinking about getting rid of the peep sight. I really hate having to focus through the peep to get to the EZV sight and then finally look at what I am aiming at. I have my...
  7. floydfreak

    Thumb Release

    I've been shooting a wrist release since I started shooting and it works fine for me indoors but once winter/hunting season roles around it becomes a royal pain. I want to switch to a thumb release sooner then later this year so I can get ample practice with it now. I know the Nock 2 It is...
  8. floydfreak

    CWD and what I should know about it

    After talking with @Jgetch and finding out that where he hunts CWD rates have hit 60% I quickly realized I don't know enough about this. I do plan to start going down some rabbit holes myself but figured it would be good to get a discussion going about this. I've been on the site for over a...