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C1295

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Time for the longest week of the year for me. šŸ¤£ Even though I haven't had the opportunity to kill in 2 years still enjoy it. Hopefully these year I will get one. Going from all private land my whole life to public has been a struggle. šŸ˜… But Hey at least I still am able to be in the woods!
 
My bow is ready. I'm sharp with it so I am ready. Everything else falls in behind that. Got several public spots I'm gona check out. I'll probably ruin some folks' hunts by hunting squirrels with my bow so if you see me please don't shoot. I'm just the village idiot doing idiot things šŸ¤Ŗ
 
Ski said:
My bow is ready. I'm sharp with it so I am ready. Everything else falls in behind that. Got several public spots I'm gona check out. I'll probably ruin some folks' hunts by hunting squirrels with my bow so if you see me please don't shoot. I'm just the village idiot doing idiot things šŸ¤Ŗ
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squirrel with Bow??? Dang Robin Hood!
 
CCAGLE95 said:
squirrel with Bow??? Dang Robin Hood!
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Not hardly Robin Hood šŸ˜‚ I have to be close and they have to be on the ground. I can shoot pretty darn ok but I've flat missed squirrels at 15yds before. Won't even try at 20yds. Doesn't matter how accurate you are. Deer jumping the string ain't got nothing on those little acrobats. It's good practice getting close and picking a spot while aiming.

I like squirrel hunting because it forces me to move real slow and quiet, and hit all the nut trees. I get to take my time scouting and usually have enough squirrels at the end of the day to make a pot of dumplings or fry up with some gravy & biscuits. I keep two arrows with broad heads just in case because I do see a lot of deer.
 
Ski said:
Not hardly Robin Hood šŸ˜‚ I have to be close and they have to be on the ground. I can shoot pretty darn ok but I've flat missed squirrels at 15yds before. Won't even try at 20yds. Doesn't matter how accurate you are. Deer jumping the string ain't got nothing on those little acrobats. It's good practice getting close and picking a spot while aiming.

I like squirrel hunting because it forces me to move real slow and quiet, and hit all the nut trees. I get to take my time scouting and usually have enough squirrels at the end of the day to make a pot of dumplings or fry up with some gravy & biscuits. I keep two arrows with broad heads just in case because I do see a lot of deer.
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I use squirrel hunting to scout as well. BUT there aint no way I am hitting one those suckers with a bow! I am impressed at 15 yards.
 
My first hunt won't be until the third week in October, but I'm getting ready, all the guns have been cleaned, sling swivels installed, going to the range in a few days to make sure everything is still sighted in, just bought a new game cart that needs to be put together, knifes sharpened, just ordered AAA and AA batteries for lanterns and flashlights, still a lot to do.
 
Yes sir this was the last step lol

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CCAGLE95 said:
Time for the longest week of the year for me. šŸ¤£ Even though I haven't had the opportunity to kill in 2 years still enjoy it. Hopefully these year I will get one. Going from all private land my whole life to public has been a struggle. šŸ˜… But Hey at least I still am able to be in the woods!
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Good luck.
 
Just gotta shoot the xbow again to make sure things are good. Wanted to use the compound this year but work has been so hectic that I setup the xbow a month ago. Just gonna make certain nothing has changed. The disappointing part for me was the public I hunt didn't have good acorns down. I'm sure there somewhere, but after covering group for close to 3 hours I didn't find it.
 
Good luck opening day of bow, I don't normally bow hunt till 2nd weekend of October if I go at all lol. Like BSK said Muzzle load is normally my opener.

This year might be a tad different, need meat lol boys are eating my meat up from last year lol
 
No hunting for me as I'm still recovering from hip surgery but close to being able to be out there. I probably wouldn't hunt anyways as for whatever reason I haven't bow hunted much the last few years. When the temps turn cooler, it may be a different story.

Now for my son, he's ready and has an itchy trigger finger. Does and good bucks beware, lol.
 
TN Larry said:
No hunting for me as I'm still recovering from hip surgery but close to being able to be out there. I probably wouldn't hunt anyways as for whatever reason I haven't bow hunted much the last few years. When the temps turn cooler, it may be a different story.

Now for my son, he's ready and has an itchy trigger finger. Does and good bucks beware, lol.
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Your youngens kill enough for you all šŸ˜‰
 
No where near ready , just don't have the fever yet . Tried to go to the new lease Saturday to help do a little work and get a look at the place but had what I thought was trailer trouble . Had the SxS loaded headed that way and stopped a little ways to check make sure everything was OK as I was heading over 200 miles but thought the trailer tire was a hotter than it should be . Turned around sure didn't want to be broke down that far away . Got a couple decent places here plus my property so may get some if not this weekend next week hopefully. Just not excited feel my hunting days are dwindling down .
 
Snake said:
No where near ready , just don't have the fever yet . Tried to go to the new lease Saturday to help do a little work and get a look at the place but had what I thought was trailer trouble . Had the SxS loaded headed that way and stopped a little ways to check make sure everything was OK as I was heading over 200 miles but thought the trailer tire was a hotter than it should be . Turned around sure didn't want to be broke down that far away . Got a couple decent places here plus my property so may get some if not this weekend next week hopefully. Just not excited feel my hunting days are dwindling down .
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Snake your still 10' tall and bullet proof! Hope you get you a big one Brother!
 
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I'm waiting for a nice cold front to move through. I'm conserving freezer space for the time being and don't really have the space to be shooting a bunch of does right now.

As for being ready, my climber and safety harness are in a walk-up storage space in my attic, I shoot my bow year round, there's 6 broadhead tipped and tuned arrows in my quiver, and a kill kit is in my car from squirrel hunting. I could probably be out the door to deer hunt in 10 minutes any day of the year.
 
rem270 said:
Nothing yet. Could have killed some does but the total bucks I've seen would have been about 25'' combined lol. I've only hunted 7 times so far. Seen 8 does and 5 bucks. September is usually about like this for me. October it starts heating up though.
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My freezers empty I would have took a doe. šŸ¤£
 
I'm not fired up yet. I plan on going but not as excited about it like I was 25 years ago. But once I hit an early morning hunt I'm always glad I went and then that usually gets the fire smoldering till muzzleloader. That's when the flames begin to grow. Then by gun it's on.
 

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