yotebuster

FOR SURE!!! Go with a string loop, have it tied by a professional, in a good pro shop and you'll never regret it. If you're using a drop away rest make sure you tie a small knot of serving material under the nock and then tie on the loop, this gives more room for your arrow to "flex" on the string as it raises up... i.e, the loop wont pinch your knock... Stay away from the metal ones, as they are noisy, hard on strings, and way more then you need when a string works so nicely.

I did the same thing a couple years ago, upgraded from my old 2 mile ones (which would often go 3 or 4 miles in flat country) to the new 15 mile motorolas, figuring I should be able to get 10 miles at least out of them... WRONG... they were worse then my old ones... if it wasn't for the fact that I dropped one of my old ones down a ice fishing hole, I'd still be using them... they don't do much good with only one though, unless you yell into them really loud

i did to, they are taking money from everyone this year, i don't think it means we drew... they tried to hit my card for sheep i see to, but my $3k limit was to low so it bounced it back... gonna have to get that changed tomorrow and hope they try again... don't think they are taking money for elk and deer though, so if you get charged for those, it means you drew.

I think you're about on with that price... That'd be a nice setup for someone to get into bowhuntin for that kinda money... the guys that bug me are the ones that say they have $1200 into their 5 year old setup, and they want $900 out of it... bows depreciate like nuts, but you are about on... I used to be a salesman in an archery shop, and I HATED when guys would bring trade in's in... I would almost always end up offending them with what we could offer on their bow... good luck selling it!

You guys haven't been to North Dakota have you!!!

POW!!!!!

321 5/8... 6 points... BANG!!!!

How the heck did they catch it??? Hounds?? Some kind of trap? I need to get ahold of their tracking device, I could use a new coat....

I just noticed in you picture, yours does have the winlite choke, thats cool, there weren't to many of those made, they're worth a bit of a premium. Winchester made that gun in a 24 guage, as a demo, only made a few of them, they are worth a ton of money, but I'm sure they've all made it into the hands of people who know what they're worth!

My dad has a couple of those, they are very cool guns, way ahead of their time. They had some problems with the fiberglass peeling back at the muzzle, so they actually came up with a version that had "winlite" chokes, essentially a screw in choke that was way before they had chokes. Dad has one wiht the chokes and one without. We also have a couple model fiftys, like was said before, thats the same gun with a steel reciever and barrel. They are all good guns, and like said above, the 59 is a tough gun to shoot accurately because all the weight is in the stock, and they swing funny. Dad uses his all fall for roosters back home, he's gotten pretty good with it. They are neat guns, hold onto it, and hunt with it, sitting in a case is a sad death for a gun in my book!

I've sent a lot of yotes to USAFOXX in duluth minnesota, I know they were way cheaper then anyone else around and easy to deal with... the logistics of getting it up there could be tricky though. Check their website, its really user friendly and tells you actual prices for everything. YOTE

Check your mail...

One word "Kenetrek"... or is it two? I have a pair of mountain extreme 400's and a pair of hardscrabble hikers. I was in the same boat as you buying a pair of Danner cr*p every year, until I saw the light, I've gotten two hard seasons out of my Kenetreks and they aren't gonna be slowing down anytime soon. They are simply awesome... I've tried Meindls as well as the cabelas ones (same thing), they fit me good, but didn't last like I wanted them to. You WILL NOT be dissapointed with Kenetreks. The 295 bucks is well worth it, as you won't have to keep dropping 160 a year for Danners (just saying that word makes me want to puke....). I would go with the uninsulated for used down here, I use my 400's back home in ND for all winter coyote calling and icefishing, I've got cold blooded norwegian toes though... The leather is really thick, so I think the unins would be similar in warmth to a 400 Danner.

Not more then $200, but I'll give you $300 for it J/K... I would think a gun like that should be worth around 400-450 bucks. That is a sweet caliber, it was way ahead of its time, but in my opinion is the absolute perfect deer round. My dad had one in a Pre-64 model 70, unfortunately it burnt up in a fire, but he always said the 120gr. were the only way to go... If I'm not mistaken 140's are the only factory load made for it... But... go to www.thehuntingshack.com, they custom load ammo, and it is surprisingly cheaper then factory ammo, if I remember right, they make a wicked 120gr. load for .264 Win mag... Oh and let me know if you want to sell it, I'd be interested, of course get a few more opinions on what its worth!

I've seen that in sheep back home, a lot of times it had to do with what they were eating, they call it "foundering" or "floundering" never could hear what the old ranchers were actaully saying! Maybe they got a bunch of rain or something in the area and it caused some better forage then normal? An abnormally high protein diet is the cause I think, the only way to fix it once they get really long is to trim them (on the sheep anyhow!). Funny the lions or coyotes didn't make lunch out of him before you got him!

How do I get signed up for one of these? I'm sure this is on another thread somewhere, but just a quick idea would be good, I'm in the NW valley if that helps. Yote

Hey, I'll take the maps, I'm new to AZ, that looks like a pretty good selection of maps to get me started in any direction from Phoenix!!! Shoot me a message if you still have them, thanks

2118, my lucky number

When the snow gets real deep back home, herds of deer use the train tracks for a travel route, if they are in a particularly deep drift area (5-10ft) the deer can't get off the tracks when a train is coming and get wiped out, the winter of 97 we got dumped on, and I heard stories of trains going through herds of 15-20 deer at a time. They put a huge plow on the front to wipe out drifts (and deer) I could easily see that sending a deer a long ways!!

One that I'm working on right now for the 4th time is "Meditations on Hunting" by Jose Ortega y Gasset. It is a MUST Read for all hunters in my opinion. y Gasset was a spanish philosopher in the 1940's that did works on all sorts of crap, but he really hit a home run when he wrote this one, he was a non-hunter, but wanted to understand the drive that humans have to hunt. It is an incredible book, fairly short, and full of insight on exactly why we love to do what we do. I like being fluent in it cause you can make any nonhunter look like a complete jack_ss using your brain rather then anger, you all should seriously check it out. And no he doesn't state that we are primordle hunters trying to break free of a shell, but rather that we've picked hunting as a sport to retreat to from the daily grind of our lives. This really helped me in my quest to figure out whether I was truly doing the right thing by trophy hunting, and it truly is a natural thing to trophy hunt, handicap ourselves (ex. bows) etc.

Who can I send them too? While new to hunting AZ, we're going through the exact same battle in ND, the G&F is trying to get our congress to vote it in so they don't have to field the backlash after they put it into play, they've been showering the hunting and general public with anti-baiting propaganda for the last year now, even included a pamphlet called "Implications of Baiting Big Game" with every license they sold, it was supposed to be non-biased, but as you can tell by the title, it wasn't quite that way!!! I should post it on here, the cover has a heard of deer standing in at least a truck load of corn in a giant pile. Next thing you know they'll be dumping them out of an airplane with a fake $100 bill printed on one side. It's all because of two G&F employees with a vendetta. My friends and family played a big part in fighting it down two years ago, so keep you're opinions flowing in, but I'm afraid this year the G&F's full on biased non-scientific campaign is gonna win. Good luck to ya'll down here, and give me a contact that I can send my emails to, I'll spread the word back home, get some non-residents in on the tally! P.S.- if you are anti-baiting, please don't lecture me, I'm sure there's another thread to argue that on...

Very cool, its idiots like them that make me sick though, thankfully they let the lion finish that deer, but who the heck worries about going to the bathroom or getting back to hiking after witnessing a spectacle like that? Just goes to show how completely out of touch with reality some people really are.

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Bill, Isn't it amazing what one gov't employee with an agenda can cause!!! Back in ND, about ten years ago, we had a Game and Fish Dept. biologist that had a personal vendeta against bowhunting, and he actually singlehandedly got the Archery Antelope season closed for a year! Don't ask me how he did it, his reasoning was (he stated) that the does weren't getting bred becasue of the rut season dates (gun season is in october after the rut), but at that time, in ND, bowhuting for goats was a new fad, that had barely caught on. There were less than 200 tags sold statewide (OTC) and fewer than 25 animals harvested the year before, so it got no resistance or headlines until the 200 guys who were into it tried to buy tags the next year!!! Well, it was repealed the following year, but it just blew my mind that one person with a personal agenda could make such a change..... Really scares me when I think about what Obama Clinton could do!!!!!

although the mother will start to push the fawns away, its usually the bucks that run the fawns off in the rut, in an attempt to isolate the doe when she comes into heat, kind of natures way of weaning the fawns off I guess. A zoology degree and having raised whitetails since I was a kid has filled my head with tons of useless information on the behavior of whitetails I guess!