Hey evryone!! Just stopping by to wish you all luck this year. Hunt hard, and hunt safe.

Darren

Mauser
I did that 3-2 engineering thing. Started school at Thiel college. Back then it was nothing to keep a bow in your dorm room. We'd shoot groundhogs from out hallway window. I usedto walk out my dorm & be hunting in under 15 minutes.
Then I transfered to Pitt. I still managed to hunt weekends & one day a week thanks to my Dad coming to pick me up. I only live 35-40 minutes away though. I got a buck on one of those weekdays off too.

nice rybo!!

i just got 2 bad classes my freshmen year...had calc 1 in HS no problem..got here and took precalc..first test grade was a 32...studied, did homework, went to class...went and got a tutor after that...worked with him every week...learned more that semester than all of HS..that 32 was the highest test grade. i KNEW what the homework was and what the tutor helped me with..tests were just totally different. failed the 4 credit course...kept it thinking id get through it but never did and couldnt drop it because i dropped chem...same semester i had my first ever chem class...professor blew us all out of the water...all the chem tutors were full...1/2-3/4 of the class dropped by the time i dropped....i was lost from day 1 and there was no helping by the time i realized how lost i was...he was teaching too fast, too hard to understand and jumped alllll over...only ones that could hack it were the ones with a good history in chem...did get an A in my engineering class that semester

soooo i stumbled into my current major of Park and Resource management...worked at Cape Cod national seashore this summer as the park dispatcher...in my schools park LE academy this year and will hopefully be working as an LE ranger in the national parks starting this summer...got a great chance to be back to cape cod next summer...no, i'll never make the kinda money some engineers do....but i believe i'll be happier..ive ALWAYS wanted to work LE all my life...dad talked me outta local and state police jobs for numerous reasons...namely pay and job availability...did alot of work with rangers this summer and i think im gunna love it...thats what matters most...got alot of different potential career paths...but im going to start out as a seasonal LE ranger in the national parks...

Sounds like a plan.
If I had it all to do again I would have never picked Chem E. Maybe mechanical if anything, but most likely no engineering at all.

Rybo, I'm here to bury the hatchet from another post where we got into it, and say good luck to team 15, yall have a nice lineup. Don't down engineers too badly , I'm in my junior year in industrial eng here at Auburn. If youstudiedin chem-e, you got my respect buddy, very tough curriculum. I hate chemistry. By the way, I like the whole indian themed team name, what does Elowapi mean? Is it a certain tribe or some other meaning? Good luck fellas!

Ah but it's not that easy, it's explained in our thread. The whole thread is worth the read so enjoy. [8D]

Oh, but it is that easy! Elowapi means "hunting manly" which in this case is purely false advertising!

My target buck for this year. I have pictures of higher scoring bucks, but this guy I have a lot of history with. Back in 2006, I got several game camera pictures of him, and even had the opportunity to arrow him, but passed. He has unique main beams that wrap around & almost touch in the front. I also have a shed antler from him at 3 1/2 years old.

The next year in 2007, hegrew up a descent amount in size. Unfortunately this was the only game camera pic of got of him last year, and didn't seehim the whole year until late December when I watched him at about 80 yards for a while, so I know he made it through the hunting season.

And this year, at 5 1/2, he didn't grow much, if any,in terms of "Inches" but seemed to gain mass and some abnormal points on brows. I don't think he's going to get much bigger than he is now.I'd love to be ableto harvest this guy when season opens.

2006 at 3 1/2


2007 at 4 1/2


2008 at 5 1/2

He's a nice one! Looks like although he didn't grow a ton over the past two years, he added some mass. Plus the fact that you have a past history with him is great.

Just an update on what's going on in my area. We were able to plant the outer strip of our clover plot with the winter wheat, peas, and brassicas over the weekend, but we were in desperate need of some rain to get them going. Well yesterday we had a nice steady soaking rain for much of the afternoon and evening! I'm pumped, that's really going to jump start the growth, and we have already spotted a nice wide 8 in the clover, so I'm hoping with the addition of the winter forage, I'll be able to draw them in.

Joey, he's freakin gorgeous! I hope to see you holding that rack for the camera!

Dumb question I know but.....if one of the higher scoring bucks presents itself, shoot or hunting exclusively for this one pictured above?