I just scoped out 22 acres of ground I just recieved permission to hunt and it is THICK. It is so thick of green briars, you can see 20 yds tops when walking. It is loaded down with oaks so hopefully I'll have a big bruiser in velvet down Sept 15.!!!

jm
I wish my extreme sniper xlt was that bright, its poor in low light unless I use the light. How long are the 900's fibers?

Ok here it is boys and lady:

After 5 nights in the RAIN, and up to 11:00 I am done with the swing Palace.

If we move, I am hiring a helicopter to air lift it to my new house

Great job ! Looks like there's someone else that's glad it's done too ! Send some of that rain this way please. I think we are -9 inches for the year !

They are only about 6" max. I was told it has a lot to do with the material, not just the length. Better fiber = more light transmission.


Hey Germ, it looks like that swing thing would make some good kindeling wood. Maybe bring some for the campfire at next years G2G.

John, I've posted on this topic quite a bit in the past. I've been weighing most of my bucks live weight and dressed for 10 +years now. We have so many predators here, I dont dress bucks in my good hunting areas, I get them out and dress them at home. The weights of bucks 3.5 and older here almost always top 200 lbs live weight and 175 plus dressed. I've killed two bucks that field dressed over 215 ...so they pushed 250 or 260 live weight.. Cold winters and pretty decent feed keep the body weights up..we dont have the 300lbrs like I see in hvy ag country of the mid west or in Canada....

Here the majority of the deer I hunt are products of logging habitat which produces excellent feed in the form of many different browse type species of plants. Some of our deer get the best of both worlds, where ag like alfalfa, wheat, oats, etc butt up against mountain habitat. In the farm country I have seena couplehuge bodied bucks that I know would push 300 lbs live weight, I just dont have any access to those types of private ground. Most of my bucks are Timber/mountain bucks..


Hey Gary, the swing set looks great! I wrestled with one of those earlier this summer..looks almost like yours... I know what you mean when you talk about putting it together..geesh I hated ours by the time I was done, but the kids love it! thats what counts.. I took rebar and bent it in a big U shape and pounded like 6 of them into the ground to really anchor ours..

Tlutter, great bud, I hope it turns out to be a nice honey hole!

rybo...

If you get a chance....check out the Viper line of sights. Rob/PA turned me onto this one last year.....and it's the brightest either of us has ever seen. I tore the fiber sout of mine oming out of the turkey woods when Rob was here in the spring.....and had them replaced with Fitz fibers. They're great. I don't need a sight light.....even in my blackened out DB.

just my .02

Gary,
the swingset looks great. THat thing is MUCH bigger than I expected it to be.

I will agree with GMMAT, after the season I am getting the Fitz Fibers.

I have owned a lot of sites, so far this one is the best!!

Guys I am siging off for the weekend.

I will be in Northen MI hiking and canoing with my family.

Later