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i dont necessarily love the blaze orange, but pretty slick indeed

I have the sprint mini tripod with a velbon head and it is awesome for the weight.

im in

Awesome bull fellers, sounds like you had your work cut out for ya

i personally like straight but if your buddies are looking thru the scope a lot its esier with the angled, you just lean outta the way and they can look. Also if you use it a lot to at the rifle range to check groups angled is nice b/c you can have the scope/ tripod outta the way and lean over to look thru it. im currently workin on mounting my glasses and spotting sope together on the same head looking at the same object, so when i find something in my glasses i can look through my spotting scope and size it ip w/o the trouble of removing glasses, finding object again ect.

awesome, you guys really put some thumpers down there, great bucks, congrats

i have shot mathews since thier conception and lovem to death but i think that there is better out there now or its a more level playing field now, if your looking for a short axle to axle bow, look them up, if you want speed, look at bowtech or pse, if you want a longer ATA bow hoyt has great options. My next bow will prob be a hoyt. p.s. i love my mathews but thier grips are horrid

i doesnt help me, every time i log on i dig my hole a little deeper and go a little crazier. all it does is let me know that im not the only one with a shovel

i like to watch him and his harem bed, then close the gap, if hes in a real stalkable spot ill give it a go. if not i like to keep 100-200 yards away and cut them off as they rise from thier bed and feed.

wish you the best of luck on putting your tag on the buck that used to own that monster

What a TOAD, great buck, congrats

I shot this deer on tuesday evening with my bow at 20 yards during the Early whitetail general hunt. He green scores 102 6/8. I had seen this buck in velvet during the archery hunt and got a couple of game cam photos of him w/ hard horns (game cam photos dates are not correct). thank you for viewing rob

thank you all, i really apprieciate all the kind words. A lot of really nice bucks taken this year, congrats to you all, and good luck for those who havnt harvested yet

i got the swaro mount when i bought my glass and it was ok, but then i got the outdoorsmans mount and i really like it, no experience with the jim white one but if its like anything else of his its superb

any great ideas i can steal yet?

patience is a virtue, congrads on a great buck

I have a little honey hole i have been watching for a couple of years now but never hunted it, i knew it had potential for some decent deer because ive seen a few that have came out during the previous couple of years rifle hunts. I put in for the rifle hunt as another excuse to go hunting/scouting and to check out the quality for this winters hunt. Also my girlfriend just got a bow last christmas and was itchin to shoot a deer. so i set up a ground blind with all the great advise i got from this forum. I had seen this buck during my one day to hunt during the archery hunt a coupla months ago, and close like 15 yards but the dense cover prevented me from putting an arrow in him then. there was another couple of bucks with him in the 70/80 class and i thought this would be perfect for my girlfriend. So i kept an eye on the spot and checked it every week or so, while putting out game cams ect. I was getting no pics of him or his buddies all the way up to the rifle hunt. So opening morning i found myself sitting in a pop up ground blind w/ my girlfriend tryin to find her a buck to shoot at. well the blind was a little small for the both of us and we put in for this hunt so she could shoot a buck so i packed up my gear and went off on my own to glass, shed hunt and stay outta her way. she had does coming by every day but no bucks. this continued for the next 2 days of the weekend. She had to go back to school and work on monday so i spent that day regrouping and regearing up to go out by myself tuesday. Tuesday morning i had a hard time getting outta bed because i knew what was ahead, a 45 min drive, a 2.2 mi hike in and a day of boredom in a sweltering ground blind, but i managed to pull it off, and made the 2.2mi. hike in barely on time. The day was HOT and LOOOOOOONG with not much action at all but i kept telling myself it would happen. at about 12 i got out to stretch my legs and swap the batteries and card on my game cam. quietly i got back in the blind and went to work on readying the cam to solve my boredom. i had my external card viewer and got to looking at the card i had in there for last week and BAM, bucks like crazy. i had like 5 diff. bucks traveling that route, and a bobcat to boot. so now i was really pumped. at about 5 pm my 2 does and 2 faws came by like clockwork. i was enjoying the show and only had about 30 min of light left to shoot. then all the sudden My buck stepped into view in my shooting port. i slowly quietly reached for my bow. He started walking right toward the blind the stopped. A chest on shot is no dice for me even at the 15 yard away he was. and boy i was shaking. then he stomped like he was alrmed, turned quickly and walked away............. i was sunk. twice now i had this deer inside of 20 yards and had yet to draw my bow. about 5 mins later a 70" ish buck walked by at 17 yards followed quickly by a slightly larger buck, still no shooters. and then HE came back, dead broad side, 20 yards on the money. i still had my bow in my hand form a couple of mins ago. i went into auto pilot trying not to look at horns. dead focused on 1 spot, behind the shoulder. i drew my bow and achored solid and tried to burn a hole in his ribs with my 20 yard pin. i dont remeber squeezing the trigger but suddenly there was an expolosion and i watched my motec tipped easton blow through him as he tore off for the thickest cover in the area. Now i thought i was shaking before the shot.......but you woulda thought i was epileptic after the shot. the realization hit me like a ton of bricks..........i had just connected with my best buck. i still had no idea what he would score but it didnt matter any more. the 30 min wait in the blind b4 starting the blood trail was the toughest 30 mins of my life. i exited the blind and went over to where he was standing at the shot and found a great start on my blood trail. i went and found my arrow and graet sign all over it. my arrow had zipped though him and went 30-35 yards out the exit wound into the woods. so i started on the blood trail. i had an awesome walking blood trail for 40 yards. the kind where you dont look for blood you just walk becuase it s everywhere. then at the end of it the were marks like he had locked up and skidded to a halt. no more blood. the grass and brush were eyeball deep. and i had lost the blood trail after only 40 yards. so i started doing little circles at the last blood sign and after 15 mins coundnt come up with any more. no tracks no blood. i went back to the skid marks and last blood to try again and for some reason i looked off the right side of the trail and there he was augered into a dense mesquite. There was no ground shrinkage here. By now it was real dark, im by myself, in illegal country, 2.2 miles deep as amatter of fact and i couldnt be happier. after a few quick pics with the self timer on my tripod, i was off to work. a friend gross scored him at 102 6/8 thanks for reading and thank you all for all the support and help on this forum. good luck on your upcoming hunts

amen, prechin to the choir here, i got jipped outta a spring turkey tag, my app got rejected but they still managed to take thier $7.50 app fee out. if its rejected from the draw thats fine, but dont take the app fee if the app never made it to the draw, bs

i do believe that deer coulda been taken with a well placed fastball or a swift kick

i liked the trucker hat/mullet combo

big...shoot

Awesome buck, way to stick with him and put him down

sorry bout the no tags, but on the bright side if your in to harvesting little defenseless quail youve got the time

smoke that toad before he fully developes his smart jeans and passes them on

welcome and good luck or your hunt