Team 3 2019

[ThePennsylvanian]

Haha sorry I took him home and processed myself. Then got my boy, then dinner, you know how it goes...

Thought he was a doe for a bit. Then I thought I saw antler. Then I said f it this is a management hunt and the year has been rough so I don’t care. Not something I’d normally shoot but meat in the freezer so I’m happy. Quartered him up and ate some tenderloin tonight first saddle kill

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No need to justify a clean kill! It's got to be satisfying to finally connect! Congrats on the first saddle harvest and filling the freezer!

 

[Kurt]

Who still has a season that's open?? Who still has tags left? Curious to see how late yall can hunt. Here we have until Jan 25. Getting close to the end ...

I've been done since the end of Nov. I don't really firearms hunt any more, kinda turned into a bow snob. You can bet if I don't have enough meat for the year then the gloves come off and anything goes. I did actually go out the primitive season with the recurve, but that was more a late season scouting /stump shooting outing.

 

[Kurt]

Haha sorry I took him home and processed myself. Then got my boy, then dinner, you know how it goes...

Thought he was a doe for a bit. Then I thought I saw antler. Then I said f it this is a management hunt and the year has been rough so I don’t care. Not something I’d normally shoot but meat in the freezer so I’m happy. Quartered him up and ate some tenderloin tonight first saddle kill

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Nicely done. I'd eat 5 of those deer over one old crusty buck any day. I LOVE VENISON. Good job on the first saddle buck. My first saddle buck could've been that deers twin.

 

[hokiehunter373]

No need to justify a clean kill! It's got to be satisfying to finally connect! Congrats on the first saddle harvest and filling the freezer!

Haha thanks. With the monkey off my back I went out and did some squirrel hunting for the first time today. Added a little bit more meat to the pile and had a crap ton of fun. Definitely need to upgrade my .22 scope though. Coulda had a few more but sun glare ruined it.

I've been done since the end of Nov. I don't really firearms hunt any more, kinda turned into a bow snob. You can bet if I don't have enough meat for the year then the gloves come off and anything goes. I did actually go out the primitive season with the recurve, but that was more a late season scouting /stump shooting outing.

Exactly what happened to me this year. Last year I didn’t wanna touch a gun. This year I needed meat. I love the smell of gunpowder after firing a round in the woods but it doesn’t beat outsmarting one in bow range.


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[hokiehunter373]

Last day of the season here and I wasn't able to make it out any more. Fun participating with you all in my first year saddle hunting.

Now that the off season is here.. I'm going to work on an arrow build. I've got a super short draw so in the past I erred on the side of speed instead of arrow weight. Like 5 years ago, after a couple of non pass throughs, I knew I had an issue and added a 75g insert and went up to a 125g head moving my total arrow weight to a whopping 395 grains lol. That gets the job done but this year I've decided I want to bump that up some more in the interest of quieting my bow and having an arrow ready that's more equipped for larger game if I can ever make it out to chase elk. I got some Easton Hexxs and I plain to majorly load them up up front. I'm guessing I'll end up with a finished weight around 525. I'm going to install normal inserts on a couple arrows and play around with different field point weights to see what shoots best and then subtract 125 from that up front weight and glue in ethics inserts to use with my current 125g QAD Exodus's or get some cutthroats. Plan to do this by paper tuning but I never have before and I don't have the normal paper tuning set up available to me that most shops have. So here's my question: how do you all tune your setups at home? Do you paper tune? If so, any different setups than what you're used to seeing at your pro shop that works just as well? I.e. paper held up by some sort of supporting device?

Hope everyone enjoys their offseasons... anyone chasing turkeys?

 

[ThePennsylvanian]

Last day of the season here and I wasn't able to make it out any more. Fun participating with you all in my first year saddle hunting.

Now that the off season is here.. I'm going to work on an arrow build. I've got a super short draw so in the past I erred on the side of speed instead of arrow weight. Like 5 years ago, after a couple of non pass throughs, I knew I had an issue and added a 75g insert and went up to a 125g head moving my total arrow weight to a whopping 395 grains lol. That gets the job done but this year I've decided I want to bump that up some more in the interest of quieting my bow and having an arrow ready that's more equipped for larger game if I can ever make it out to chase elk. I got some Easton Hexxs and I plain to majorly load them up up front. I'm guessing I'll end up with a finished weight around 525. I'm going to install normal inserts on a couple arrows and play around with different field point weights to see what shoots best and then subtract 125 from that up front weight and glue in ethics inserts to use with my current 125g QAD Exodus's or get some cutthroats. Plan to do this by paper tuning but I never have before and I don't have the normal paper tuning set up available to me that most shops have. So here's my question: how do you all tune your setups at home? Do you paper tune? If so, any different setups than what you're used to seeing at your pro shop that works just as well? I.e. paper held up by some sort of supporting device?

Hope everyone enjoys their offseasons... anyone chasing turkeys?

It was awesome this year being part of this team, we gave it a good run!

Now the arrow build! First your going to want to build a few different arrows to play with before tuning, as I'm sure you know. Not trying to insult your intelligence!
Once you figure out what weight works best for you, build a simple 3' x 3' square out of 1"x, get a cheap paper towel holder, like the ones that have two tabs that slide into the roll. Cut it in half and space it to fit wrapping paper rolls. When you unroll the paper, do it so the color side is facing the target which will leave a clean white face for you to paper tune through.
Back to arrows, You can piece together a heavy enough arrow using what you have (with a little extra weights) but it will take a little playing around. I personally shoot aluminum 30" easton game getter's with a 50gr brass weight on the back of the aluminum insert with 125gr magnus stingers.
Turkeys, that's my game right there! I enjoy deer hunting but I'm obsessed with turkeys. My wife would say I'm obsessed with both but that her story. Although, this year I may have a little less time to get after them with the baby boy coming in april, so I'll probably just focus on getting my daughter her second bird this year.
Good luck, god bless.

 

[Kurt]

Hey guys, right back at ya. I had a blast being on TEAM 3 !!! I appreciate ya'lls support through one of my toughest seasons in recent memory. I was glad I was able to put up some numbers for team but it was the interaction that made it what it was. Everyone have a productive and safe off season. @ThePennsylvanian enjoy your new youngun. As for arrow builds and turkey huntin, yes and hell yes. Catch ya the interweb.

 

[BRAVEHEART]

@ThePennsylvanian That's some good advise right there!

 

[hokiehunter373]

It was awesome this year being part of this team, we gave it a good run!

Now the arrow build! First your going to want to build a few different arrows to play with before tuning, as I'm sure you know. Not trying to insult your intelligence!
Once you figure out what weight works best for you, build a simple 3' x 3' square out of 1"x, get a cheap paper towel holder, like the ones that have two tabs that slide into the roll. Cut it in half and space it to fit wrapping paper rolls. When you unroll the paper, do it so the color side is facing the target which will leave a clean white face for you to paper tune through.
Back to arrows, You can piece together a heavy enough arrow using what you have (with a little extra weights) but it will take a little playing around. I personally shoot aluminum 30" easton game getter's with a 50gr brass weight on the back of the aluminum insert with 125gr magnus stingers.
Turkeys, that's my game right there! I enjoy deer hunting but I'm obsessed with turkeys. My wife would say I'm obsessed with both but that her story. Although, this year I may have a little less time to get after them with the baby boy coming in april, so I'll probably just focus on getting my daughter her second bird this year.
Good luck, god bless.

Just got into turkeys last year and I’ve got a little girl on the way the end of March this year. Not looking good for my season lol


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