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How prepared are you for archery season?

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  1. Sota

    Sota Legendary Woodsman

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    Check with me next Sunday, I will be much closer. I need to get my bow tuned.
     
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  3. Fix

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    Hey is your boy hunting this year with you
     
    Fix, Aug 17, 2020
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  4. Sota

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    No he bought a house and is doing a renovation. I would be surprised if he wants to drive up.
     
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    Almost there. Bow is tuned, shoot every few days. Clothes washed and stored. My son's bow is tuned, he shoots every few days. His clothing is straight/. We need to begin shooting from the tree soon. I will do some scouting in September but from my experience so much changes between Sept and the first weekend in Oct. Acorns if they are there will be on the ground more so in Oct and the rest of the month. It changes what they do from the summer. But Id say I am about a 7 out of 10 ready.
     
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  6. Ridgerunner3

    Ridgerunner3 Grizzled Veteran

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    Getting some broadhead practice in. I always feel a little nervous shooting them for some reason and wow does it show. I had to tell myself to chill the hell out and execute the shot. Groups at 40 were crap. Like 6 inches off crap. Once I settled in shots tightened up to 1 to 2 inches. Even nailed the bull at 30 several times. The mental game of this is crazy sometimes. You really have to have confidence in what you shoot at all times.

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    Ridgerunner3, Aug 17, 2020
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    tynimiller Legendary Woodsman

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    This made me chuckle, but is so true.

    New job, a house move and all the need to do items from that, first year with a kid (he is nearing a year old)....all have led to me simply not anywhere close to the normal level of preperation I have done by this time and habitat time spent earlier in spring. Shoot...mix in losing the family property (parents downsizing), half a riverbottom property (they sold half) and another small piece....even my options got cut dramatically.

    All that probably means I'll kill two bucks this year for the first time in my life and watch one of them be the biggest or oldest ever LOL

    (Oh and my bow is still at the shop even....I'm usually into my season prep type practice by August 1st but nope)
     
    tynimiller, Aug 18, 2020
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  8. Justin

    Justin Administrator

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    I'm leaving after work tonight to head to Wyoming and will be hunting antelope on Thursday morning. Ready or not, here I come.
     
    Justin, Aug 18, 2020
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    Got the last of my arrows delivered over the weekend and put together Sunday night. Now, just need to nock tune and fletch then arrow building is done. Hoping to make time to do some ground scouting next weekend.
     
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  10. tynimiller

    tynimiller Legendary Woodsman

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    Best of luck, shoot straight and if you don't be quick with the follow up LOL
     
    tynimiller, Aug 18, 2020
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  11. Happy

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    Much more now!! Just went to LAS and got set up with a verifier peep. Wow what a difference. Cleared the pin up so much more than I ever expected. Not sure why I didn’t do this a few years ago. I hate shooting with my glasses on. I was dealing with a fuzzy pin for awhile.


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    Happy, Aug 19, 2020
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  13. Sota

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    Went to the farm and got after it this morning. Mowed thru prickly ash a path about 60 yards long. Mowed and cut a path to get a 12' disc from the alfalfa field to the browse plot and from the plot to the property line about 6' wide The plot is 60 by 120 just a push in the path to an alfalfa field and water. Seeding tomorrow night, little late but it will be all right putting out cameras tomorrow as well. Can not believe how much easier food plots are with farm tools a skid loader with a grapple bucket a tractor with a disc we were done by 1:30.
     
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  14. Fix

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    Back ta chorin
     
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  15. Sota

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    Chorin with implements is way easier. So stoked
     
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    Any luck?
     
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  17. cls74

    cls74 Legendary Woodsman

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    I'm mostly prepared. Have to check my broadheads, but pretty sure I do not need to buy anything but permits this year.

    I can't think of anything else I have to buy aside from gas.

    38 days to opening day.....
     
    cls74, Aug 23, 2020
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    cls74 Legendary Woodsman

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    Scratch that, will be buying a hunting shirt/jacket.
     
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    cls74 Legendary Woodsman

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    Ordered

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  20. camo75

    camo75 Die Hard Bowhunter

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    After a 2week battle with hornets, I have not shot enough to be ready yet. The short version is I was using a pole saw to clean up our woods line. Next to my shooting house I cut a some maple branch’s with a nest in it and they lit me up good. They started building another nest in the same tree. Knocked them out with some hornet spray but it didn’t kill them. They are vicious and messing with my shooting time!
     
    camo75, Aug 23, 2020
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    Wait a few days and then go out and spray them after it is dark so they are all at the nest.
    Bees can be a real PIA.
     
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