• The SH Membership has gone live. Only SH Members have access to post in the classifieds. All members can view the classifieds. Starting in 2020 only SH Members will be admitted to the annual hunting contest. Current members will need to follow these steps to upgrade: 1. Click on your username 2. Click on Account upgrades 3. Choose SH Member and purchase.
  • We've been working hard the past few weeks to come up with some big changes to our vendor policies to meet the changing needs of our community. Please see the new vendor rules here: Vendor Access Area Rules

Search results

  1. WestGoesEast

    Need Wide Cut 2 Blade Fixed Heads

    Planing can definitely be an issue. Broadhead tuning, bigger vanes (or feathers) to a point, more helix (sometimes) all things to try to get them to fly better. Check out those Iron Wills ,they are making them 1 & 3/8 inch main blade...
  2. WestGoesEast

    When do you go to plan b?

    With terrain I include the forests, swamps, other features. Minnesota is about as flat and monotonous as they come (aside from the SE bluff country, but I don't hunt that). The point is terrain features over sign, because hunters hunt sign, once the pressure hits, you can have more success...
  3. WestGoesEast

    Need Wide Cut 2 Blade Fixed Heads

    You might look at the Slick-Trick magnums, they don't meet your specifications, but are wide and deadly. I have killed an Elk and two bucks this year, and never had to look further than 100 yards. Next on my list would be the Iron Will broadheads, they make a wide cut now. I switched to a...
  4. WestGoesEast

    When do you go to plan b?

    I'll pile on this a little, all of this is in my very fallible opinion. All the pre-season sign is irrelevant after the first week or so of season on public land, and you are better off looking for habitat features, and hard to reach places. Pressure trumps just about everything else on public...
  5. WestGoesEast

    Sterling Oplux/Kong

    Yeah, thats what I use on both my lineman and tether, no issues. Wonder if your thinking of the Ropeman 1 Ascender with 8mm?
  6. WestGoesEast

    If you were a deer, what is the LAST state you would want to live in

    I was going to second California as a state I would not want to live in, instead of getting shot and hopefully dying quick, I would probably get tagged by a car and die slow of a broken pelvis, or eaten alive by a cougar, or slowly torn apart by a damn black bear since they are talking about...
  7. WestGoesEast

    New Saddle hunter from SE Michigan

    I am married into a Wayne county family, welcome.
  8. WestGoesEast

    Best sharpening system for fixed blade Broadheads.

    seems fairly easy
  9. WestGoesEast

    Who has snorted the Fairy Dust?

    I really like what the Fairy has to say, not that I am snorting what he is on necessarily. Anything that forces you to pay more attention to your set up and ask questions is a good thing, if the fairy dust gets you to do that, perfect. I am shooting a 300 spine arrow with 125 grain standard...
  10. WestGoesEast

    Oklahoma's Proposed Bigfoot Season

    Not a single BF will be killed, but a bunch of folks will get shot by mistake. The benefit is every BF hunter killed will raise the average IQ in Oklahoma a point.
  11. WestGoesEast

    Tethrd Gear; Tether, Lineman, Ropeman 1, Sys Hauler ES 2.0-SOLD; PLEASE CLOSE

    Have a Tethrd lineman, tether, ropeman1, and a sys hauler ES 2.0 for sale. Bought in November, nothing wrong with any of it it, just like the oplux more so I don't need two pouches, and a ropeman isn't rated for 8mm. Price: Wanting to move everything at once, $100 (shipping included) Payment...
  12. WestGoesEast

    Freezer fillers UNITE!!!

    Here is my chest freezer, with all my meat processing equipment on top. Got my MT bull elk, a MT mule deer, and a CO mule deer, no MN whitetails so far (got one more sit left), but that is kind of my own fault. Had a chest freezer for years, the stand up came with the house (made sure to put...
  13. WestGoesEast

    Wisconsin Packing out deer in 5 pieces

    The rule is vague and stupidly written, intentionally. Basically if you write a law that is hard to pin down, it allows a lot more leeway for local officials to prosecute. Think about this scenario, you catch a poacher, you got this person on one charge, but then, hey they broke the deer into...
  14. WestGoesEast

    Looking for advice on First ElK trip 2021

    Since you have GoHunt, see what you could draw in CO with 0 points or as a second choice (if you want to build points there). A lot of units went draw, mainly because there were just a lot of folks going there, for example there is a cluster of units near the Flat Tops, elk population has stayed...
  15. WestGoesEast

    Looking for advice on First ElK trip 2021

    Grew up out in Colorado chasing bulls, I still go every year (different states now that I live in the Midwest, and am paying NR prices anyway), backcountry all the way, solo and with a buddy. You won't know what the hell your doing the first year, and nothing on a forum will prepare you for the...
  16. WestGoesEast

    2020 Broadhead choice?

    125 Grain standard Slick Tricks. Never had an animal run more than 100 yards (Deer (mule and whitetail) or Elk).
  17. WestGoesEast

    Do you carry a first aid kit? What's in it?

    Folks have offered up a good basic kit. Thinking about most situations, you basically need to be able to stop bleeding or deal with a broken something until help can arrive. In a lot of situations (bad fall, bad cut) you are going to need some assistance. I'll throw these two things because I...
  18. WestGoesEast

    Was the change worth it? Kill data survey

    Previous Years: Hoyt Faktor 30 at 70lbs. Killed two bucks at 30 and 35 yards from 19 feet up, with a GT Kinetic Kaos 340, shooting 100 grain slick trick standards, arrow weight was about 425 grains and heading about 315 fps. Both pass throughs, deer #1 ran 30 yards, the other made it 60 yards. I...
  19. WestGoesEast

    The No-Shame Thread

    There is the Texas heart shot, that might be the Alabama arrow. As in"Hey ya'll watch this, go'int ta givem the ole 'Bama arrow, Roll tide!"
  20. WestGoesEast

    Need Help Choosing Caliber for New Rifle

    Its the eternal debate, but for good reason, while I would always advocate to buy em all, unfortunately you can typically only choose one. I grew up hunting out west (from Alaska to California and everywhere in between), life circumstances find me living in MN, so now I spend a lot of time at...
Back
Top