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My challenge to you

Time is more important for success than anything else, but I can't make more time than I have... Between work and family I get stretched pretty thin, but I do what I can! I remember the days when I was in the woods 5-6 days a week, for a least a few hours. All that aside: I lost, I'm lost, I'm losing... LMAO!!! CO this year, baby!
 
bowhunthard88 said:
Time is more important for success than anything else, but I can't make more time than I have... Between work and family I get stretched pretty thin, but I do what I can! I remember the days when I was in the woods 5-6 days a week, for a least a few hours. All that aside: I lost, I'm lost, I'm losing... LMAO!!! CO this year, baby!
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4 kids under 10, I feel blessed I got 24 hunts in 13 week season(across 2 zones). You should see my wife’s face when I mention post season scouting :tearsofjoy:
 
gcr0003 said:
I can’t think of sane reason why someone would buy a bridge buddy
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Are you talking to a friend of yours?!?!?!

Should your post read like this:

"I can't think of a sane reason why someone would buy a bridge, buddy."

gcr0003 - There are insane people everywhere, so the line of selling a bridge to someone is still likely to get someone to take the bait.
 
Center Punch said:
Are you talking to a friend of yours?!?!?!

Should your post read like this:

"I can't think of a sane reason why someone would buy a bridge, buddy."

gcr0003 - There are insane people everywhere, so the line of selling a bridge to someone is still likely to get someone to take the bait.
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Lol, a bridge buddy is an actual metal device that gets in your way for a shot. It's not an actual bridge.
 
Seeing as I just got into saddle hunting last fall, I had a lot to test and improve upon during the '23 hunting season. I am pretty well set, although just yesterday Amazon dropped off a couple of different connectors for the new BWMG platform pack setup I got for Christmas. It is pretty well finished now and I alreadly built a set of DIY Amsteel daisy chains for the new Beast Gear sticks I got in December. So for saddle hunting per se, I am in a really good place without much to think about other than off-season practice and improving technique. I have some 6mm and 8mm prusik cord for testing hitches, in case I decide to replace the Ropeman 1 on my tether.

I recently upgraded my bicycle bench vice for a genuine archery vice.....an OMP that I found online for an excellent price. That pretty much finishes my home bow workshop 'man cave'.

AS far as my bow (new last year), arrows, BH's and actual hunting gear.....I frankly don't need a thing for years to come. Whether I hold to that reality or create a new one remains to be seen. Same with camo, boots, gloves, etc.

A serious question.....what about 'shelf life' of saddles, bridges, linemans and tether? Do you replace them in X amount of time....or figure they are fine since outdoor use is limited and they are stored inside.....unlike a typical treestand or sticks?
 
Alaska at Heart said:
A serious question.....what about 'shelf life' of saddles, bridges, linemans and tether? Do you replace them in X amount of time....or figure they are fine since outdoor use is limited and they are stored inside.....unlike a typical treestand or sticks?
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You should replace them every time you need to get the wife something nice. Hide the expense in those months. :p
 
Samcirrus said:
Lol, a bridge buddy is an actual metal device that gets in your way for a shot. It's not an actual bridge.
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I like to run a short bridge and tether. I’m hoping that my testing will show that I can run even shorter with the BB. As far as getting in the way of a shot….meh, probably not. I’m a big boy so I’m thinking my 31” draw and 33” bow will way more than overcome any of that nonsense.

I’ll scout where I need to scout, but off-season for me finding the holes in my setup and fixing them. If I try it and it works out for me, awesome. If it doesn’t work out then I’ll a) be shocked and then b) sell it, lol
 
OSUTodd said:
It's my new alibi - It's not mine - I'm making extra money from other guys shipping their stuff to me to repackage and send to them.
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I bet I've purchased $100,000 worth of stuff over the years that my friends kindly reminded me of that I purchased and that it was absolutely not them or their stuff and that they didn't buy it.
 
Ummm, yeah.....i failed....
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We got a bunch of snow last week so I took the opportunity to break out the snowshoes and do some scouting this weekend. I did 3 miles and 2.5 hours Saturday and another 3 miles and 2 hours 15 minutes Sunday. For all the dads out there my strategy for post season scouting days is to let my wife sleep in as long as she wants. I wake up with the baby (who will be 2 this week :openmouth:) and hang out with her until it's her nap time. Once I get her finally sleeping I head out for a few hours while she naps so the burden is easier on my wife.

It wasn't a super productive weekend as far as finding buck sign but I made a transition midway through Saturday's session and decided to use the snow to just focus on where the deer are hanging out in the late season specifically. To me this is the most challenging part of the season to hunt. Everything is harder with the cold, lack of cover and more limited chances for me to be in the woods. My strategy going into next season is to assume that bucks are not going to be leaving a ton of buck sign at this time of season and just to focus on where I find the deer hanging out (although I did find a fresh February scrape!). Looking at tracks it seemed like many of the areas had bucks, does and young ones in the same areas.
 
redsquirrel said:
We got a bunch of snow last week so I took the opportunity to break out the snowshoes and do some scouting this weekend. I did 3 miles and 2.5 hours Saturday and another 3 miles and 2 hours 15 minutes Sunday. For all the dads out there my strategy for post season scouting days is to let my wife sleep in as long as she wants. I wake up with the baby (who will be 2 this week :openmouth:) and hang out with her until it's her nap time. Once I get her finally sleeping I head out for a few hours while she naps so the burden is easier on my wife.

It wasn't a super productive weekend as far as finding buck sign but I made a transition midway through Saturday's session and decided to use the snow to just focus on where the deer are hanging out in the late season specifically. To me this is the most challenging part of the season to hunt. Everything is harder with the cold, lack of cover and more limited chances for me to be in the woods. My strategy going into next season is to assume that bucks are not going to be leaving a ton of buck sign at this time of season and just to focus on where I find the deer hanging out (although I did find a fresh February scrape!). Looking at tracks it seemed like many of the areas had bucks, does and young ones in the same areas.
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I find that some of data collected during mid winter also applies to hunting season - though it requires a nuanced eye to recognize and categorize the time line. One of my recent lessons has resulted in multi phase winter scouting approach: I’ll go out and cover a lot of ground when there is snow. Tracking shows me alot of details that would be nearly impossible to find without it - such as the specific routes used by mature bucks and their specific beds etc etc. As soon as snow melts away I’ll go back to through those areas and use the sign buried under the snow to help sort out timeline of use. One of the things I most love about hunting whitetail in the big woods of the east is that is a slow and constant process of building a comprehensive understand of movement patterns, and it’s constantly changing. To be truly tuned in requires constant attention.
 
Jammintree said:
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I find that some of data collected during mid winter also applies to hunting season - though it requires a nuanced eye to recognize and categorize the time line. One of my recent lessons has resulted in multi phase winter scouting approach: I’ll go out and cover a lot of ground when there is snow. Tracking shows me alot of details that would be nearly impossible to find without it - such as the specific routes used by mature bucks and their specific beds etc etc. As soon as snow melts away I’ll go back to through those areas and use the sign buried under the snow to help sort out timeline of use. One of the things I most love about hunting whitetail in the big woods of the east is that is a slow and constant process of building a comprehensive understand of movement patterns, and it’s constantly changing. To be truly tuned in requires constant attention.
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Where I'm hunting now I have figured out how to shoot bucks consistently up until around Thanksgiving. After that I find it challenging because the area is a big hilly open hardwoods. It's my biggest weakness as a hunter and one I'm determined to rectify. If I were to go to where I grew up hunting its thick cover and I could look at a map and walk in blind and pick a spot where I'd have a chance at shooting a buck on any given day. I know that I'm not going to ever be able to give myself as high as odds at shooting a buck on any given hunt during the late season as I can during the early season but I want to give myself the highest odds I can. I have traveled to other areas where I can up those odds but the closer to home I can hunt the more chances I can put in and it's easier on the family. Plus I feel like it's the last big challenge in my hunting career and I'd like to conquer it to fully round myself out.
 
redsquirrel said:
Where I'm hunting now I have figured out how to shoot bucks consistently up until around Thanksgiving. After that I find it challenging because the area is a big hilly open hardwoods. It's my biggest weakness as a hunter and one I'm determined to rectify. If I were to go to where I grew up hunting its thick cover and I could look at a map and walk in blind and pick a spot where I'd have a chance at shooting a buck on any given day. I know that I'm not going to ever be able to give myself as high as odds at shooting a buck on any given hunt during the late season as I can during the early season but I want to give myself the highest odds I can. I have traveled to other areas where I can up those odds but the closer to home I can hunt the more chances I can put in and it's easier on the family. Plus I feel like it's the last big challenge in my hunting career and I'd like to conquer it to fully round myself out.
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Sounds like a great goal. How long have you been hunting these particular woods? How big of a parcel is it?
 
Jammintree said:
Sounds like a great goal. How long have you been hunting these particular woods? How big of a parcel is it?
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This particular property I've been on for about years. There was a chunk of time in there where the deer population was down pretty good so I didn't hunt it that much and I was spending a lot more time on one of the park management properties I was on. I stopped doing the management hunts and have refocused on this area since it's close to home. The entire area is around 8000 acres but it's broken up. There are a couple larger segments that are probably 2-3k acres and then various other areas fill it in.
 
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