I went for a quick hunt this morning and had a small buck come through at first light. Then, on my walk out, I bumped a doe and a couple of fawns. I only hunted until 8:15 because I had to get to work but it was a beautiful morning! It was 30 degrees, pretty calm, and we had our first hard frost of the year. My next chance to get out may be Friday or maybe one hunt this weekend. Lots of football and cheer happenings this weekend that are going to take up much of my time.
Have any of you guys heard of this or used it? After last weekend's debacle with the bow falling I am considering it as Christmas present. I have always hated using a pull up rope to get my bow up in the tree. I am feeling like this has a chance to remedy that problem. I have tried climbing a few times with the bow strapped to my pack, but then you have to take the pack and bow off together. https://www.amazon.com/Bow-Spider-U...=1729092543&sprefix=bow+spider,aps,113&sr=8-1
I can't imagine that its easy to get your bow into that stupid thing when it's dark and cold and you're wearing a bunch of thick clothes and have a pack on your pack. But maybe I'm wrong. Why do you hate using a pull rope?
Always seems to be getting caught up on my sticks, on tree branches, tangled up in my linesman's belt. I think they serve a purpose in preset stands. I found them to be a nuisance in mobile hunting.
I have a Doyle's hoist that stays in my saddle at all times and I absolutely love it. I'm strongly considering getting another one to put in my pack and use it when I'm stand hunting - that's how much I love it. http://www.huntinhoist.com/ I've climbed plenty of trees with my bow on my back or slong over my shoulder and it gets caught up on sticks, limbs, etc just as much as it does with a hoist IMO.
That is the dilemma, packing it up gets it caught up as well in trees with lots of limbs. It is not as bad on straight, limbless trees. There seems to be a shortage of those in the spots where I hunt. I had the HSS bow pull up system, but it is not self-retracting.
I’m going to try the Doyel’s. I’ve often times been frustrated with my cheap pull rope getting caught on stuff, but I thought I was just being whiny, and at the end of the day, it worked…until it got wound up in my stick the other night and I had to one stick down.
The Doyle's is bigger than I would prefer and looks like it was made in the 1980's but it's truly one of the best investments I've made in years. The attachment method is silent and pretty genius in how it works, and since it's self-retracting there's no cords or cables flapping around to get caught up in stuff. Can't recommend it enough.
you already made up your mind and don't blame you, but what kind of pull rope you using? I ask because I used to have and hate that problem as well, then I randomly bought a Hawk flat-braided haul rope and it almost never (almost) gets tangled/twisted/notted up. Had it for like 5-6 seasons now... Bonus- I've also used it to fish up dropped gloves, hats, quiver, and release. Hopefully it lasts longer than my similar HSS gadget- which lasted precisely 3 sits after receiving as a Christmas gift the year prior (so outside the return window.) I do see they have a newer version, maybe it's better quality.
My wife got me this for Christmas about 4 or 5 years ago. I do not recommend this product, but I had to use it bc she got it for me. Now that the Doyle’s will be here Friday, I’ll let her use the old one when gun season comes around.
I used that Tink's one for a few years - it's okay but not my favorite. I also have a bunch of those Hawk ones in my fixed-position stands and they're great! But when it comes to mobile hunting, our boy Doyle knows what's up! Side note - my buddy shot a good one on one of our local farms last night. A big 4-year-old 7 pointer that we were after. So there's one less target for your boy JZ this fall. RIP, homie!
My wife has come to accept the reality that she must only buy what is on a preapproved list, exactly as listed.
Since I don't have any bucks I'm all that interested in shooting, I've decided to focus on making things more difficult to keep myself entertained. That means more sits from the ground without a blind and more hunts with the buck decoy. If I'm going to try and kill a buck I'm not excited about, I'm at least going to make it entertaining to watch.
you should do all that while driving around the midwest, hunting only public land, with your bros, sleeping in the back of your truck. You could do that while wearing old school camo and ratty homemade ghillie suits. You could even do a spinoff from BHOD and call it Hunting The Public.
I can’t decide if I should make a move this weekend or wait until the next temp drop. Supposed to be 77/45 Sunday. I don’t feel like there is a high probability he’ll daylight with the warmer temps. It was 52, windy, and a few rain showers came through other day when I saw him.
If I didn't have a real job and real life responsibilities I would be all over this. But alas, needing to pay a mortgage, feed my children, and buy them new baseball bats and video game skins keeps me grounded. I would call it HUNTING MY BALLS OFF if I did it.
