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Now thats what I call a STIMULUS PACKAGE!!!! Good luck, cant wait to see your pictures.

I would love to bowfish, and have the verde river full of carp in my back yard...but I have never done it and have a couple questions that maybe some of you can answer... Can I just use my hunting bow, or do I have to buy/use a stick and string bow? If I can use my hunting rig, can I shoot an arrow made for fishing? I am worried about the poundage of my bow vs. the spine/strength of the arrow. If I cant use a fishing arrow with my hunting bow, can I use one of my carbon arrows with modifications? I am complelety lost....and dont know which way to go....

Lt. Col. Grant L. Rosensteel, Jr. USAF is my hero. GOD, BLESS OUR TROOPS...AND FOGIVE THE IGNORANT LETTER WRITER.

Al Gore and Venus Envy Thursday, January 29, 2009 By Steven Milloy E-Mail Print Share Al Gore has a new argument for why carbon dioxide is the global warming boogeyman -- and it’s simply out of this world. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday with yet another one of his infamous slide shows, Gore observed that the carbon dioxide (CO2) in Venus’ atmosphere supercharges the second-planet-from-the-sun’s greenhouse effect, resulting in surface temperatures of about 870 degrees Fahrenheit. Gore added that it’s not Venus’ proximity to the Sun that makes the planet much warmer than the Earth, because Mercury, which is even closer to the Sun, is cooler than Venus. Based on this rationale, then, Gore warned that we need to stop emitting CO2 into our own atmosphere. Incredibly, not a Senator on the Committee questioned -- much less burst into outright laughter at -- Gore’s absurd point. In fact, each Senator who spoke at the hearing, including Republicans, offered little but fawning praise for Gore. It’s hard to know whether the hearing’s lovefest was simply an example of the Senate’s exaggerated sense of collegiality, appalling ignorance and gullibility about environmental science, or fear of appearing to be less green than Gore. It is true that atmospheric CO2 warms both Venus and the Earth, but that’s about where the CO2 commonality between the two planets ends. While the Venusian atmosphere is 97 percent CO2 (970,000 parts per million), the Earth’s atmosphere is only 0.038 percent CO2 (380 parts per million). So the Venusian atmosphere’s CO2 level is more than 2,557 times greater than the Earth’s. And since the CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere is increasing by only about 2 parts per million annually, our planet is hardly being Venus-ized. Gore’s incorporation of Mercury in his argument is equally specious because Mercury doesn’t really have any greenhouse gases in its atmosphere that would capture the radiation it gets from the Sun. As a result, the daily temperature on Mercury varies from about 840 degrees Fahrenheit during the day to about -275 degrees Fahrenheit at night. Mercury’s daily temperature swing actually belies Gore’s unqualified demonization of greenhouse gases, whose heat trapping characteristics tend to stabilize climate and prevent wild temperature fluctuations. Column ArchiveAl Gore and Venus Envy Zero-Calorie Sin? Browner: Redder than Obama Knows Time for a Surgeon General-ectomy? Let There Be Dark? Full-page Junk Science Archive Related StoriesGreens Exploit Wall Street Bailout The significance of Gore’s testimony is that the Venus scenario seems to be his new basis for claiming that CO2 drives the Earth’s climate and, hence, his call that we must stop emitting CO2 into the atmosphere. At no time did he refer to his two An Inconvenient Truth-era arguments concerning the relationship between CO2 and global temperature -- that is, the Antarctic ice core record that goes back 650,000 years and the 20th century temperature/CO2 record. There’s good reason for his apparent abandonment of these arguments -- presented fairly, both actually debunk global warming alarmism. (Note: This YouTube video that I produced explains this point.) Gore seemed to “wow” the Senate Committee with images and projections of environmental and even political upheaval allegedly already caused and to be caused in the future by climate change, such as melting glaciers and the 2007 fires in Greece that, Gore says, almost brought down the government. Gore repeatedly said that global warming threatens the “future of human civilization” and could bring it to a “screeching halt” in this century. Gore said that we are on a fossil fuel “rollercoaster” that is headed for a “crash.” We are near a “tipping point,” he said, beyond which human civilization isn’t possible on this planet. Such melodrama, of course, is necessary to conceal and distract from the fact that there is no scientific evidence indicating that manmade emissions of CO2 are having any detectable impact, much less any harm, on the Earth’s climate or its population. During his testimony, Gore invoked the specter of James Hansen, NASA’s global warming alarmist-in-chief, to bolster his climate claims. But like the ice core and 20th century temperature records, Hansen may soon have to be dropped from Gore’s presentations. Hansen’s former NASA supervisor -- atmospheric scientist Dr. John S. Theon, who recently announced that he is skeptical of global warming alarmism -- recently wrote to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staffer Marc Morano that, “Hansen…violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it) … [and] thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress.” Commenting on another key deficiency in the manmade catastrophic global warming hypothesis, Theon also observed that “[climate] models do not realistically simulate the climate system … some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results … This is clearly contrary to how science should be done … Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy.” The same could be said for Gore and his slide shows. Venus envy? Yeah, why not? There’s no Al Gore there.

what happened to the good-ol-fashioned camp out? and i am sure we could have added shed hunting in there as well. good poll

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In the last several years, I have seen some amazing things happen. Two years ago, on a bull hunt, my buddy shot a bull quartering away at about 50 yards. The shot was a little back, but was angled into the chest cavity. We felt like the shot was mostly in the guts, and we backed off for several hours before looking for him. We shot him at 8 am, and started looking after lunch. Eventually, about 6pm, we ended up finding him quite a ways away while on a quad. The bull was just laying there as we drove up, but his horns were up in the air. I got all excited figuring the bull was dead as we drove up to about 20 yards, but the bulls eyes were closed and with the antlers up we werent sure even though we were right next to him on the quad. Anyway, to be sure, my buddy puts another arrow into him, and the bull jumps up and tears off down the hill at 100 miles an hour! I was in shock...I was left standing there with my mouth open in amazement. He had been playing dead the whole time. The second shot was a double lung shot and he only went just over a hundred yards before he died. When we cleaned him, we found that the first shot was pretty good, but was mostly in the liver and was still inside the chest cavity. We also found a Muzzy broadhead attached to a broken off arrow sticking out of his neck. He had been shot at least a year before as the skin had healed up around the arrow. Lessons learned: a) liver / gut shot animals probably do need about 12 hours to die they can play dead but still be very much alive! c) dont shoot them in the neck with a Muzzy I shot a mule deer last year that was standing broadside, and I knew the shot was pretty good (watched the Lumenok fly all the way to his chest), but did feel it was a little low. The buck turned and walked away like nothing happened, then just trotted off over the hill. We couldnt find the arrow, but found good blood within a few yards of where he had been standing. After a 45 minute wait, we went to following the blood trail which was as good a trail as you can hope to have. We found him bedded down about 200 yards away, but with his head up looking around. We waited and watched for quite a while, and eventually I snuck up on him to about 30 yards while he laid there. I was able to stick him good a second time but was amazed at how much energy he still had left as he bolted almost 200 yards through the woods before he laid down for the last time. Fortunately, I was able to see him the whole time. The first shot was good, and he was going to die within a few hours. There had been a huge amount of blood to follow, but the low shot allowed the blood to flow out of his chest cavity and never filled up his lungs. The first arrow had hit the back of his heart. Lessons learned: a) 45 minutes is the minimum waiting period for me from now on, more like an hour to two what seems to me like TONS of blood, was not so much c) better to hit em high, than hit em low Great topic. I have enjoyed reading others experiences and cant wait to read the rest.

I agree with Gamehauler, dont think the buck is dying. in my limited experience and opinion. hope you find him again. Did the arrow smell when you found it? Or have any green slime on it? Both would be signs of gut shot. Good luck.

have to agree with what others have said, looks like muscle blood to me. ifd you only got 3-6 inches of penetration with the arrow you most likely did not hit the guts. was he humped-up in the middle with an arched back? if not, again might mean muscle hit. hope you find him again, but my bet is that you will find him on the hoof still. good luck. twoguns

IMO the only way a treestand is really worth sitting is if no one else is around. Sitting on stand while other hunters are running around under you is not too great a plan. I think you have a huge advantage if he is sitting in his stand...just means he can only hunt that one spot...and that leaves the rest of the woods/area to you.

Adam, the only thing you might need to learn from this thread...is to not share information that does not need to be shared unless you are willing to listen to people try and judge you and your bow and your set up and your broadheads and everything else. My opinion which counts for very little in this world, is that you cannot trust people, just about ever. Don't tell anyone anything they dont need to know. You keep on shooting that bow and keep your confidence up. I killed my first buck at 78 yards, and if I get the chance to shoot another one at that distance, its going down. Just like you, I know and trust my equipment and my comfort zone because I practice. And I think you would be smart to shoot fixed heads, my experience has led me to not trust mechanicals. Darren

I bought my dad the 12x 50 predators few years ago and he likes them a lot and he sure is able to spot all kinds of animals with them. I think steiner makes quality glasses. IMO

Hope you find that deer. I agree with others that you should go back as I have seen it many times....no matter how good you think you hit an animal, they are REALLY tough. No need for anyone to question the 95 yard shot. I shoot my bow that far on a regular basis, just takes practice. Kind of like shooting a deer with a rifle at 500+ yards or more. IMO.

glad you didnt get smashed up as well. my advice...go hunting! you can look/buy new vehicles any day, but deer season only lasts a short, short 4 weeks in Jan. IMO

mlowe, sweet pics. love the wolf pic, course I am glad that I will never (cross my fingers) get one of those here in Arizona on my trail camera. What sony did you hack? looks like maybe....p32, or p41 ??? What control board do you use? I am working on two right now using sony w80's with yeti boards. Hopefully they turn out ok...any experience with either? And I am sure you have more of those cool pics to share... Darren

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SWEET!! What a cool story Shorty, and congrats on a sweet buck. There is nothing like flingin arrows at bucks, it is very addicting.... Keep up the good shootin. Darren

David, what happened to your cam? I'll have to ask around town, you coming up this way to go hunt? My buddy this year elk hunting ended up dry firing his bow and messed up his cam and limbs on his drenalin....oops. The local archery store owner's son is on my basketball team...maybe he has one. Darren

Sent pm. havent heard back, just checking to be sure you got it. darren

that is so awesome...you are an inspiration to every father out there....no dad can ever give any excuse for not taking their kids with them after reading your story and seeing those pics. congratulations.

Seems like you are getting plenty of good advice on how to adjust your bow. One thing that helps me make sure my arrows are flying well, is to shoot in the evening with Lumenoks on my arrows. It really helps to see the flight of the arrow downrange, especially if you have someone to stand behind you and watch while you shoot. Just a thought. twoguns

Well, at about a nickel an hour on site...I guess I should send Amanda about.... $236,000 each year. Great idea Chef, without CWT.com I would be so bored.

I recently bought a used Yamaha Grizzly ATV and want to put a winch on the front. Hoping someone out there might have an extra one laying around, or have some advice on where to find a good one at a good price. thanks, twoguns

I wont be surprised at all if Mexico bans GRONG from crossing the border in the future....and probably for more than one reason. Good luck Josh, cant wait to here the story and see the pics in some magazine next year. Has anybody else noticed that every single hunting magazine has an article about Josh, or a picture he took, or some reference to our famous Gronger? That guy is everywhere.