The Orion Syndicate (#12) - 2020 & 2021 Champions

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Well it took around three years of scouting some northern forest public land but I have finally found some good deer on it. Lots of daylight so most likely sneaking there for the opener on the 18th. Which I did find out the party I was supposed to go to on opener got canceled.... shucks lol.



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Well I despise that I made a switch this close to season but the delay on the shipping cost me a few weeks for the HHA Virtus rest to come in to the bow shop. Swung up to grab it at my friend's pro shop and I gotta say I'm loving this thing. I can see why so many love it and use it. Switching to only broadhead practice this week and will commence my normal practice of only one shot on a target at a time - mindset of hunting practice.

The time is gonna be here before we know it! Gotta get all my hunting totes out and organized back for early season hunting and cannot wait for that first hunt chaos where nothing flows smoothly LOL

 

Good buy Ty! If I ever get another rest, that's what I'd get. Really like how easy it is to set up. with cord adjustment at the rest.

One arrow at a time is best practice. Sure keeps from wrecking arrows also.

 

especially since most of time I have broadheads on. I switched to one arrow shot practice about four years ago and it has further enhanced the shot process and accuracy honestly - vs the days when I’d practice with field tips and shoot maybe half dozen at a time. I think it is the slight fatigue and visual cues the other arrows provide, which doesn’t happen in field.

 

Ty have you seen any differences between the Virtus and QAD?

 

I was shooting the Vapor Trail ProV for about five years prior. I appreciate the Virtus total enclosure style and the quick cocking and decocking ability.

 

Have fine tuned what I think is the bedding to food pattern on one of my main bucks in Wisconsin. He has been religious on coming from a hilltop bedding area (prickly ash/hickory) and feeding down some saddles to feed by some larger white oaks that are dropping heavy this year. Gonna slip in this week when the wind is right to get a set hung for the opener. He shed out on the 25th/26th so shouldn't have to worry about the goofy shedding habits.

 

@Oldcarp you around?

 

That's right! Good deal we should be golden then with no one ghosting this year. This has been an awesomely active team - one of the best in that category probably of all mine save maybe one.

 

I'm ready for some cool crisp days, hurricane weather and humidity need to move on. All my summer chores are done, let's get on with fall.
We (TN) open 25Sept, I'll probably do evening hunts like I did last year, they seem more productive than mornings.
My son has soccer every Saturday until 23Oct...there go some of the morning sits; I can replace morning sits, I cannot replace those soccer days. Wife also has a fall break vacation with friends planned, but I am sick of traveling...so I guess I'll be going on vacation again 11-19Oct. Hopefully...that is all the big stuff I'll have to deal with this season, I need some down time.

 

I am working on more plots this evening. Putting in some Buck Forage Oats, tillage raddish, purple top turnips and winter rye.

On another note, the new 40 where I had the pond built was limed last week and worked up for seeding on Sunday. Before the neighbor was done working up the soil, there were already about 80 Canada geese there grubbing around in the dirt. Should be a great early goose season! Dove season opens on Wednesday and there were literally hundreds of them on the field within a couple of hours of it being worked up. I am rushing to get all my plots finished up before some decent chances of rain over the next week or so. Fingers crossed.

 

Someone needs to put a leash on Ty, he's out stirring the pot again. Chief, can't you keep this bunch under control?

 

I thought deer season was 24/7-365 in southern MO?