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    Deer cart

    Kinda shocked by this to be honest. Maybe I'm old school but I sure hope this hasn't become the mindset of a lot of hunters. If I seem a little passionate, it's because I have hunted and studied whitetails passionately for fifty years, been hoodooed and outsmarted by them countless times and...
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    Deer cart

    I'm not going to mince words with this "leave the shoulders in the woods" thing. Not bringing out all the meat is a sin! If you kill it, haul it out and use it, otherwise, go watch football. It's not only a waste, but a black eye for every ethical hunter and ammo for every anti. The carcass...
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    New toy when I get home.

    Love those stories! I've deck-handed on a shrimp boat a time or two and did some guiding too, fishing and then gator hunting. Just retired from the gator guiding business a couple of years ago. Had a lot of fun gator hunting and met some great folks from all over the world, but it's a young...
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    New toy when I get home.

    That thing looks like a backwater dream! Are you going to run a long tiller handle? We fished mostly at night down there too. Snook was the main target and we fished Redfish and Captiva passes mostly, throwing mirrolures from the beach. Feeling those smashing strikes and then hearing them come...
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    New toy when I get home.

    Wow, that thing will float in a heavy dew! Got a motor for it? I used to fish your area back in the 70s, hope the red tide has missed you. It's been all around us, don't know what kind of damage it's done offshore but I'm praying for the best.
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    First Public Land Buck!! Big MN Swamp Donkey

    That's a gorgeous deer and some really good pictures.
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    Anyone have any experience training tracking dogs?

    I don't know "proper" methods but like CB, I used to drag a hide and gave little pieces of trimmings for a reward. The little miniature dachshund I trained from a puppy was as good as any I've seen. I'd stick her in my pack, take her to last blood and she'd work her magic. Sometimes I'd swear...
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    Recovering bow shot whitetails

    Sheer bulldog tenacity is one one your best assets. The guys that want to give up on a sparse blood trail after a few minutes need to find another hobby. You not only owe it to the animal you shot but to every other hunter to do everything in your power to recover it. Another pet peave of mine...
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    New guy Amsteel question

    TreeStuff is a good place to find cordage of any kind. Look under rope/tech cordage for amsteel. There are other, better options there too.
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    Tree Spurs? What kind? Costs?

    Not just new climbers. Tree gaffs are overkill for anything most hunters will ever climb. Even on 100 plus year old longleaf pines I use pole gaffs.
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    New guy Amsteel question

    I'm not sure what you're calling your safety line but Amsteel is not very abrasion or heat resistant. I don't use it in any of my climbing applications for those reasons. Polyester is significantly better in both those categories and still plenty strong. Cordage in the arborist industry has...
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    Tree Spurs? What kind? Costs?

    Don't know what length gaffs you're looking at, but for 99% of the trees I spur climb in my work and my hunting, pole gaffs are my choice. The longer tree gaffs can make climbing more uncomfortable and awkward for new climbers than it has to be with virtually no benefits .
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    Diy meat grinder?

    I can't speak for today's Cabelas grinders but i'm sure my twenty year old one has ground, stuffed and cubed thousands of pounds of meat, and seems as powerful today as the day I bought it. Read reviews, buy a quality outfit and it will last you a long, long time. I'm a natural cheapskate and...
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    Diy meat grinder?

    I've got a 1 horse Cabelas that I've had for a lot of years that I have run many, many deer and hogs through and it works flawlessly but I've also got a #32 manual that I put an old Craftsman lathe motor on and grind chum for my saltwater fishing and it will eat whole mullet, pogies, or anything...
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    Peep didn't line up tonight

    Is that the Center Shot with the two dots?
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    Peep didn't line up tonight

    Keeping a peep aligned can be frustrating. Any slippage of the D-loop or string stretch throws it off and sometimes I think archery demons fiddle with it just before a target animal walks up. Bungee peeps solve that problem but introduce new ones. I'd like to get away from a peep altogether too...
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    new hunter

    Welcome D from the Florida panhandle!
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    Would this be a good tree to hunt from with a saddle?

    Being that low to the ground with no cover would definitely be tough.
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    Closed

    I've spent a few minutes in climbing gear and I would go with full length shanks.
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    My DIY Bow press

    Great looking job. Obviously not your first rodeo with metal work.
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