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  1. NMSbowhunter

    2024 Hog Hunting Thread

    I looked around I did not see an official 2024 hog hunting thread. So, I will humbly propose one. Once deer season ends, we need something to hunt before and after (during!) turkey season. I'm no hog hunting expert and I have to travel farther afield to find hogs than deer, but I do love to hunt...
  2. NMSbowhunter

    New target idea, cheap simple and fun

    I threw this together today to have a reactive target for my longbow so I could practice at various unknown ranges. It is a simple 5x5 inch piece of cardboard held on a short piece of river cane by a steel binder clip. The idea is it gives me a 5x5 sized kill zone about the right height off the...
  3. NMSbowhunter

    Web bridge question

    I built a Wraptor 2 panel saddle a year or so back and I really like it. I have the bridge made from tubular webbing. It is routed through some heavy duty steel "triglides?" I bought from Eastern Woods. I think they are 4000 pound rated. I have the tag ends doubled over and sewed so they won't...
  4. NMSbowhunter

    Anyone make a self bow? Trying my hand.

    Ok, so as if I don't already have enough going on, I have been slowly falling down the rabbit hole of primitive archery and bow making. My goal is to make a selfbow, my own river cane arrows, and knapped stone points and kill a deer with it. I doubt very seriously I will be anywhere near ready...
  5. NMSbowhunter

    First attempt at knapping

    I baked some rocks the other day to heat treat them since I had some wood around the yard that needed burning anyway. I knocked a few good flakes off one and pressure flaked out this little "bird point", as they are often called. I used a deer antler to do the pressure flaking. I've been...
  6. NMSbowhunter

    Christmas in July! Plan to up my ground game.

    I've been good so Santa dropped off a brand-new Waldrop Pac Seat just now. Well, Fedex to be precise and I haven't really been all that good, lol. All joking aside, I have been wanting one of these for several years and so I finally broke down and ordered one a couple of weeks back. All the good...
  7. NMSbowhunter

    Making up some more arrows

    I decided to make up 6 more arrows and broadheads for the upcoming season. These fly like darts out of both my 60 and 44 pound Mathews Heli M bows. The recipe is Easton 6.5 340 spine arrows with 155 grain Grizzly right bevel single bevel broadhead on a 100 grain steel broadhead adapter. TAW is...
  8. NMSbowhunter

    Shark week...OK, Treeshark week

    On a lark I decided to see how these 160 grain Treesharks would do shot from one of my compounds. It is the 160 grain glue on variety and I added a 100 grain steel insert to get it up to just about where my regular broadheads are. I was pretty happy to see it flies well out of my Mathews Heli M...
  9. NMSbowhunter

    SOLD Please close Mathews Heli-M limbs RH

    For sale one set of 70-pound draw weight limbs for the Mathews Heli M bow. I had my Mathews dealer switch out these 70-pound limbs for a set of 50-pound limbs. These are for a right-hand bow. Asking $165 TYD lower 48, Paypal friends and family.
  10. NMSbowhunter

    Folding Kayak...anyone see or used one?

    8' Folding Kayaks | Enhanced 2023 Design (foldupkayaks.com) Just saw that this existed today. I had no idea. This might be great for hunting. Thoughts? Experience?
  11. NMSbowhunter

    Cranford rope steps and saddle scaffold set up

    Ok, so, as much as I love 2TC for run and gun hunting I have a couple of spots that are way back in the thick and nasty and have trees that are not too conducive to 2TC (or much else for that matter). I had a few Cranford rope steps on hand I bought a few years ago so I was familiar with them...
  12. NMSbowhunter

    Boot dryers are awesome

    How has this not come to my attention until recently? I overtopped my rubber boots for the second time in as many weeks today but this time I had a Peet boot dryer on hand that I got from my father-in-law. Those boots were a sloshy squishy mess at 2 today and now they are dry. I love this thing...
  13. NMSbowhunter

    My 2023 post season scouting begins.

    The 2023 post season scouting begins. I took some time yesterday to go out and thoroughly walk an area that I have hunted the periphery of the last 2 seasons. Earlier this year I found a primary scrape in thick security cover that needed to be hunted. I hunted it once even though the set up was...
  14. NMSbowhunter

    Bluewater Assault line 11.4mm by the foot source?

    I picked up some of this several years age and can't remember where. I think it was REI but I'm not sure. I've looked around and all I have seen are long lengths. I'm thinking about replacing my tether once this season is over and I will probably buy enough to make several while I am at it. I...
  15. NMSbowhunter

    Thinking about this bow...talk me out of it, lol.

    New for 2023 is Mathews Image. It is designed to be a lower poundage alternative to folks who are having shoulder problems and need a lower poundage but full size bow. Shoulder issues have become an issue for me. I'm finding that this year I have been struggling to draw my 60# Hei-M. It is...
  16. NMSbowhunter

    School me on rain gear

    Ok, so hunting in the rain is one area I need to improve on. Generally speaking, around here if it is raining it means the temperatures are in that 40 to 60 range late season and can be much warmer early season. I want this for bowhunting and I want waterproof, not water resistant. However...
  17. NMSbowhunter

    Pumpkin Ghillie for the ground

    With 2 and a half months of uninterrupted and unrelenting high powered rifle season starting here tomorrow morning, I decided to make a "pumpkin ghillie" for those occasions when I want to hunt off the ground and not get shot in the process. It is a simple orange cotton hoodie with some strips...
  18. NMSbowhunter

    Single bevel sharpening hack

    Ok, maybe not groundbreaking but it sure saved me a lot of time today. I love my Grizzly single bevels, but I hate setting the initial bevel. They come rough ground and that has to be taken care of. I use a KME jig, and it is great. Until today I was setting the initial bevel with 80 grit...
  19. NMSbowhunter

    You are being watched.

    I found this the other day while out scouting. I think the first time I heard about this was from Dan Infalt. He commented that deer, especially bucks, will bed in locations where they can watch for hunters entering the woods. This spot is just that. There is a main access lane leading off a...
  20. NMSbowhunter

    October lull buck gps tracking. MSU deer lab

    (391) The October Lull Doesn't Exist - YouTube I thought this video was pretty cool. Watch the spots the buck keeps going too and passing through. The U of the oxbow is pretty interesting.
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