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Random Musings From Your Resident Contrarian and Underage Curmudgeon

I want to be really clear. Just because I don't like sticks, or rubber boots, or dump pouches, doesn't mean I don't like YOU or think YOU have something wrong with you. I like you just the same, and fully respect and defend your right to rock that stuff, despite my poopooing it.
 
kyler1945 said:
I want to be really clear. Just because I don't like sticks, or rubber boots, or dump pouches, doesn't mean I don't like YOU or think YOU have something wrong with you. I like you just the same, and fully respect and defend your right to rock that stuff, despite my poopooing it.
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I wanna be really clear.

If you don't chew Big Red...
 
I hate carrying more than 10-12lbs in a pack without hip belt and proper torso length. It's too easy and cheap to get into a pack that will last forever and greatly improve comfort and willingness to continue on all day missions. Part of this is my dumb idea that walking all day will result in dead deer. Part of it is my sneech like build. But man, I don't see how some of you folks do it.
 
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Bwhana said:
I went there back in August, can't agree more, use the damn search! http://www.saddlehunter.com/community/index.php?posts/412072

Here are just a few of my peeves so I can vent and feel better too! The BOLD items are for you guys who can't or don't read!
  • Nothing in hunting is absolute, even a 7 year old B&C buck will be taken dead downwind while smoking a cigar on a rare occasion. Scientific study and statistics on deer behavior are gold standards. If you want to be a more consistently successful hunter, stick to the %s on where, how, and when you hunt. Nothing wrong with going out on other times, but you will not be consistently successful doing so. Hunting harder or longer is not always the best answer, it's OK to do other things and NOT hunt, it won't kill you (if you knew me during my early hunting career, you would know how radical that is coming from me).
  • Hunting tools are not always necessities or necessarily better than an another option (got news for some of you, but a Summit Viper still beats a saddle in some applications, and visa versa).
  • ALL STICKS SUCK!
  • WIND + TERRAIN on great/good deer land is king, everything else is just outdoor writer fodder (scrapes, rubs, tracks, calls, scents, scent eliminators...).
  • Mature bucks are a different sub-species than does and small bucks, at least here in the pressured South (no they are NOT more intelligent, but have slightly different habits, and must be hunted differently accordingly). And to pressured states, I'm sick of hearing about how Michigan and Pennsylvania are the worst, I challenge any of you to come down here from there and compare, it is more like a tie in that respect, at best, and you don't own that, but I wish you did and it wasn't like that here.
  • The bias toward bow hunting on this site and hunting shows irks me - the best hunting takes place during muzzleloader season and the first week of gun here. Bow season is generally too hot, and while you can take a big buck then (usually on a bean field or a bed, it is the exception more than the norm.
  • And hell yes, you can use an HSS rope for saddle hunting, and you should have already known that 10,000x by USING THE SEARCH feature!!!!
This past weekend, I challenged myself to leave everything I didn't truly need in the truck and the items I took had to fit in cargo pockets of my pants. No pack, no worries! ML, license, cell phone (in AIRPLANE mode), lwhc, and saddle/ropes = more fun and a freeing experience for me, you should try it sometime!
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When I watch the video I did on not carrying a pack with the hybrid now, I get anxiety seeing how much stuff I lay out on the table. And then I think about how most people bring considerably more stuff into the woods.


Out of curiosity, what's a scenario you'd see yourself using the climber?
 
ImThere said:
I have to admit I’m firmly in the I love my climbing sticks camp


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X2, I've tried most climbing methods out there, some more than once. But sticks are simple, effective and most importantly reduce the time that I don't have my weapon within reach. I'll deal with packing/unpacking them at the base of the tree.
 
So @kyler1945 I shouldn’t be posting pictures of my first saddle deer, unless I made similar claims on my first climber deer, and first hang-on deer. I still remember my first wooden ladder stand deer.
 
I hate baiting and having to hunt in a woods with bait. Yes it is nice to get a kid to see a few deer and get a shot at one but I think it makes deer nocturnal and on edge.

I told my son we're going to be hunting fresh sign this gun season and crapping in the woods. I'll maybe intentionally forget the toilet paper too. I'll just grab a corn cob from some bait pile and leave a treat there.

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kyler1945 said:
Out of curiosity, what's a scenario you'd see yourself using the climber?
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Mature row pine plantations with thick scrub underneath while gun and muzzleloader hunting. I can climb much faster and higher with my Summit or Xstand than I could comfortably with any saddle method there and more importantly, sweat free. In this situation, it is worth the hassle for me to carry it for the ease of use.
 
EricS said:
So @kyler1945 I shouldn’t be posting pictures of my first saddle deer, unless I made similar claims on my first climber deer, and first hang-on deer. I still remember my first wooden ladder stand deer.
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I have professed my love for pictures of deer in boats. I'm also a huge fan of old pictures of deer camp, old camo, ladder stands, and the deer killed from them. Post away!
 
Bwhana said:
Mature row pine plantations with thick scrub underneath while gun and muzzleloader hunting. I can climb much faster and higher with my Summit or Xstand than I could comfortably with any saddle method there and more importantly, sweat free. In this situation, it is worth the hassle for me to carry it for the ease of use.
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Makes sense to me.


I miss hunting pine plantation, that's where I cut my teeth as a younger sneech.
 
I hate that new/inexperienced hunters chase after shot deer too early without enough reason to do so. I don't hate them, I hate that youtube/hunting videos have given the impression, despite the actors saying out loud they wait a long time, that you can shoot a deer and get down and get to tracking. I hate that they can't find a positive mentor to help influence their deer learning.

The only thing that will kill a new hunter's desire as fast as not shooting deer, is shooting them and not finding them.

For the love of god. When you shoot a deer and don't watch it die, and you don't have video confirmation of a double lung hit, don't hear the deer crash, and you don't recover the arrow and have confirmation of lung/heart shot and full pass through (if you don't know what you're doing, get that confirmation from someone who does), Just wait. The meat is gonna be fine. You're gonna be fine. I know you're excited. I know you have a busy life. But if the goal is to recover deer you shoot, just wait!

Lots of good information available with a quick google search, or the search function on this website. Leverage that knowledge!
 
Bwhana said:
Mature row pine plantations with thick scrub underneath while gun and muzzleloader hunting. I can climb much faster and higher with my Summit or Xstand than I could comfortably with any saddle method there and more importantly, sweat free. In this situation, it is worth the hassle for me to carry it for the ease of use.
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How about less-than-mature pine plantations with visibility of 6in or so?
 
kyler1945 said:
buckshot, carhartt jacket and jeans, and a firm camp rules to include "no decoys" and "don't leave your pinned area"...
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You and I have hunted similar areas in very similar manner! I have a worn out 870 from many hunts of if it's brown it's down over 25 years to show for it.
 
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