I got down at 5:30p forecast was wrong about the wind it was suppose to die down. Ended up being 20 mph Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I guess my gut feeling was just gas, didn’t see anything but squirrels and a raccoon. See you fellas in the cold morning.
Pretty sure it was this guy I had come out of the bedding area and destroy a tree for 10 mins then popped back in timber and gave me 10 yard shot but I passed. Happy the spot worked out like intended but wrong deer . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I saw two doe yesterday evening that followed a faint trail that several other doe have traveled in the last week, or so. I ranged this trail from my blind, and it's 27yrds away. I'm thinking a buck trailing a doe during the rut would likely take this same route because the does often use it. Where I live, I can only practice shooting at a max range of 20yrds, and my CB is dead on at that range. I have a question. Does anyone know roughly how much bolt drop I'd get shooting at 27yrds compared to shooting at 20yrds? I shoot a Horton Yukon SL 150lb CB, with Bloodsport 20" bolts and 100grain Spitfire expandables. Thanks for any insight.
the googles says that is about a 275FPS crossbow, considering that's about the speed of my compound bow with my lighter arrows i would guess you'd see 4 inches of drop in an additional 7-10 yards I might take a bag target and find a country road with a nice flat ditch and take a shot of 2 at 30 yards just to make sure I found this arrow "ballistic calculator" but this can't be right, its saying 12 inches of drop from 20 to 30 yards http://peteward.com/ballistic.calc.htm
I agree, 12" of drop from 20yrds to 30yrds sounds like a bit much. Your 4" drop in an additional 7-10yrds sounds realistic though. Thanks for your input.
There is a pond just to east of my property on the neighbors and on the south end out my property. I have stands on a lot of the trails going to it, just have to pick the right one. Although they tend to go wherever, whenever.
Yes, multiple. The bad thing is that it is really thick everywhere so they can literally bed down wherever and feel safe. They do tend to move east to west or west to east and I set up accordingly. The other problem is all the pressure from predators, wolves, coyotes, bears, bobcats.
Hoping, praying, to get in the woods tomorrow evening or Friday. Plan was to hunt last early this week but the kiddo has been home sick with hand, foot, and mouth. Now he's feeling much better. If we can send him to daycare and momma doesn't have to take off work to watch him I will be headed up! Saturday, I also sliced the hell out of my left thumb while slicing some deer for steak and egg burritos. Came about 1/2" from severing it off! 3 stitches later, I can still shoot lol
30 degrees when I got up this morning for work. Check my cell cameras and LOTS of movement, just all racoon
Skunked this morning, blew out a deer on the way in. Relocating for evening. Nemesis was lurking last night Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
