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How far would you be willing to drive for a SH meet up?

How far would you drive for a Big SH meet up?

  • Less than 1hr.

    Votes: 3 4.9%

  • 1-2 hours.

    Votes: 27 44.3%

  • 3-4 hours.

    Votes: 13 21.3%

  • 4 plus.

    Votes: 12 19.7%

  • I ain't hanging out with you guys.

    Votes: 3 4.9%

  • I love you guys. I'd drive two days if I had to.

    Votes: 3 4.9%
  • Total voters
    61
Florida in March is out for me again this year. I’ll be working in Tn half the month and New Jersey the last half. Headed to Hazelton, pa the week of the Jan 29th, I need to follow along and see where I can meet up with you guys when I’m out of state! lol


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DelaWhere_Arrow said:
Nvm, answered my own question :fearscream::
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Npt only are they thorny, but the thorns really hurt. They must have a sap or something that's an irritant.
Plus, and I know from experience, you can't cut the thorns off for a preset in March...they grow back by November.
Plus, the tree is harder than woodpecker lips. I've snapped off the lag on screw in steps tring to set stands. Definitely a case for a Treehopper drill and bolts. Treehopper drill goes into hard wood trees like butter.
 
Allegheny Tom said:
Npt only are they thorny, but the thorns really hurt. They must have a sap or something that's an irritant.
Plus, and I know from experience, you can't cut the thorns off for a preset in March...they grow back by November.
Plus, the tree is harder than woodpecker lips. I've snapped off the lag on screw in steps tring to set stands. Definitely a case for a Treehopper drill and bolts. Treehopper drill goes into hard wood trees like butter.
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A friend of mine and I had a stand set up in a three forked locust tree like that. I told him if I fell out of that stand down through those thorns and was still alive when he found me to just finish me off, lol. He said dito. That thing was scary. When we were setting that stand up there was a huge pile of thorns on the ground under the tree from where we chopped them off. They would go through the sole of a rubber boot like butter and the wound would stay sore for a long time, like the thorns had some sort of poison or irritant on them. The thorns will also puncture a truck tire.
 
NMSbowhunter said:
A friend of mine and I had a stand set up in a three forked locust tree like that. I told him if I fell out of that stand down through those thorns and was still alive when he found me to just finish me off, lol. He said dito. That thing was scary. When we were setting that stand up there was a huge pile of thorns on the ground under the tree from where we chopped them off. They would go through the sole of a rubber boot like butter and the wound would stay sore for a long time, like the thorns had some sort of poison or irritant on them. The thorns will also puncture a truck tire.
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I hear ya. I've set stands in those and realized there there was a cluster of thorns inches from my face and eye. Hey, I can accept those hazards if the damn things didn't grow back in a few months.
One other thing that scares me is when I have a stand that hangs over a extremely old and mature multiflora rose bush. I had a stand in Ohio like that. I'd look down below the platform and think 'If I ever fell into that, there's no way that I could free myself'. Seriously, I was 120 miles from home, hunting alone, and nobody knew where I was. MFR will grab you like trebble hooks and not let go.
But here we go again...morphing the thread. My bad, sorry. I get distracted by shiny objects.
 
ImThere said:
Florida in March is out for me again this year. I’ll be working in Tn half the month and New Jersey the last half. Headed to Hazelton, pa the week of the Jan 29th, I need to follow along and see where I can meet up with you guys when I’m out of state! lol


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We aren’t doing it in March, we are doing February 16th thru the 18th
 
ImThere said:
I meant to say February. I could do March. Didn’t finish typing out my thoughts! Lol


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Sorry buddy. I wish there was some way to accommodate everyone. I think that was sort of @MattMan81 idea with this post is to figure out if there was a way to be centralized enough to get maximum amount of the group together at one place.
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
Sorry buddy. I wish there was some way to accommodate everyone. I think that was sort of @MattMan81 idea with this post is to figure out if there was a way to be centralized enough to get maximum amount of the group together at one place.
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Yeah. It was just a toss out. If someone knew a place, or lots of people were excited about it. Maybe something will materialize. But if 10 people are interested in driving a long way. Not worth it.
 
MattMan81 said:
Yeah. It was just a toss out. If someone knew a place, or lots of people were excited about it. Maybe something will materialize. But if 10 people are interested in driving a long way. Not worth it.
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It’s hard info to capture in a poll. I voted 3-4 hours but was thinking of a single day event. Depending on what/where/when I’d go considerably farther for a weekend event with the ability to camp.
 
DelaWhere_Arrow said:
Nvm, answered my own question :fearscream::
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I would drive several hours just to watch some of you guys one stick climb one of these fellas.
I would have to say, if you are hunting places with honey locusts usually you are in a big whitetail state…my brother has killed some good bucks out of these trees, now when I climb them I just get poked and see NOTHING !!!:tearsofjoy:. Don’t get me started on multiflora rose.
 
Y’all tryin to climb and hunt the wrong honey locust. The best ones with the best pods that the bucks flock too don’t have thorns.

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One I found this past weekend in an area of the WMA I haven’t been in before. There are 2 really nice persimmons about 15 yards behind me too. Might have dropped a pin on the spot.


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