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Finally!!! Im in New York for the weekend and my girlfriend's computer wouldnt let me post for the past two days [:@]. Some sort of cookie problem. Showed me logged in but wouldnt display my posts. Oh well, its fixed now.

Do we have any ideas on an avatar yet. I was thinking one of those paintings w/ the indian kneeling next to his kill as the background. What do you think?

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i realy like that idea

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right there with mauser on the coondogs Rob dont seem to bother them at all i wont coon hunt as much during bow season because i liek to deer hunt or will go to diffrent spots but i cant say we bother them much and the dogs wont run one or ealse they wont like me much lol


matt

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I like that idea for our avatar as well.

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I also like the idea of the Indiana kneeling next to his kill. Sort of shows respect IMO.

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I agrea CM.

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mauser,

You seem a little confused lately about your avatar. Did you use your bow for the coons?

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ive shot coons with my bow just wont let me dog chew on them incase of blades and stuff well good news guys tomorrow i go to hang stands and mark shooitng distances and so on what should i use flags or tape? also i was thinking 10,20,30 yrds ? if the camera is working then i will get pics for us. why dont yall get pics of your area's also so we know what eachother is hunting in as far as surroundings and type of terrain? just a thought


matt

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I like the avatar idea as well, it goes well with our name.

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another vote for the avatar...always loved that painting...

thanx for the info on the extension...makes perfect sense...

dave, no ive never killed a coon with my bow...arrows are too danged expensive to send up a tree! lol we dont kill too many period. if you kill em all, you wont have any to run in the "off season" coon season comes in mid oct and goes out late jan or early feb. we try to only take one here and there out of the areas close to my buddies farm...if we travel more than 10 or 15 minutes to hunt in kill season we will kill more in those areas....try to keep the ones close to the farm so we can always have coons to run when its not kill season and we dont gotta go far...fur prices dont mean much to us....dead coons cant be chased another night...cant train good hounds without coon to run. thats our views on coon management....though we know if they get too thick disease and such set in...between road kills and the couple we take outta each woodlot, the method seems to work.

not confused at all....i love runnin hounds! started running when i was about 5 or so...its kinda engrained in me....

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Ok, guys, I'm back from NY. I saw your requests for the kneeling hunter, and I was already started on one, so let's take it from here. I searched around a bit, and couldn't locate the kneeling archer painting, either, so if someone has a location or the painting's name, let me know. However, I did could with a somewhat "tribal" theme with this avatar. Let me know what you guys think.

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My only comment is the bottom change in color makes it tough to read the team name.

Otherwise not much going on here for me. Just shooting and getting some other guys bows tuned up.

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Nice work Matt but I do agree with rybo as well as far as the name goes. I can't find that photo yet but here's some great paintings by http://www.jackpaluh.com/

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Ok, one with the colors removed, and an arrow cutout through the words:



Also, here's one just normal with the colored bar removed, and no arrow cutout:

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A good start unless we/you/ someone comes up with something better....LOL

See to the left. :D

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Nice. I have mine as well.

Opinions are welcome. Likes/Dislikes? I'm not a professional graphic designer, but I do it on the side a bit, so I'm open to ALL criticism/comments.

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I like the avatar. It has a 'tribal' theme and definitely doesnt look like the usual team avatar. Its something different, just like our team name :).

I think a past team has probably used the kneeling indian anyway. Either that or Ive seen it in someones avatar.

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nice work Matt! i like it!! thats some good work!

like the arrow too but it makes the avatar a bit "too busy" IMO...too small of a space

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Okay, we have all 10 checked in, we have a name and an avatar. Now we need open seasons and antlers on the ground. Who's first?:D

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first day of class today......i really dislike the first day...its like being back to kindergarden....probably have to introduce myself to the same people 5 different times...already had to do it once last night for an online course...i just never know what to say lol.

thats alright....i know it wont be long now till im 18ft up in a tree....

whens everyones season begin?? our PA opener is october 4th....

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Well Captn, mine is the same cause we feller PA'ns.;)

I'm hoping however to hunt NC with Jeff in a couple weeks.

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i like it but i also like the picture The Provider on the site rob had

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Nice Work on the Avatar! Looks great!

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I just checked. You guys are still tied for last place.

We are currently tied for first. I just wanted to make sure y'all were aware of that. [:-]

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well guys i made this not as nice as MGH PA but i liked the pic and thought to give it a try i know its basic but i realy didnt see a reason to add much?


matt

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Isent your avatar to the state photo forensic lab and they were able to bring out the original. A magnified view shows all the deer in the avatar are indeed slickheads and the original team name says the rest.

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Oh, before I forget, Rob hasn't told you all yet, but he got in early with his kill. Nice "deer" Rob!

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Come on down, Rob.

I've got my eyes on a nice +/- 100" 2.5 ......and some others. You've got PA nd IL to hunt, too......so make your decisions count;)

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That is quite a span for error!!! Your not that good at judging antlers, aye? [8D]

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That would be a good picture to use. Let me see if I can do something with that later today.

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Rob, Can't you filter out some of these transients here? Invitations for our team members to hunt are always appreciated, but the fear driven poor attempts at trash talk are just annoying[8D]


MGH, avatar looks good, I’ll swap mine over this evening. Although now I see we have an avatar contraversy. ;)

Technically I’ll be getting a little bit of a jump on the rest of yinz guys (at least the PA ones), as I’ll have a whitetail tag in my pocket for my Idaho elk hunt. Call it being overly-optimistic, or just being prepared but who knows what I may run into out there. That hunt starts Sept 19th. Ohio’s season starts the 27th, but that is my return from out west. I plan to be sitting in an Ohio grown tree the evening of the 3rd for a one day head start to the PA season.
History shows to not expect anything other than does from me before Halloween. But from Oct 31 thru Nov 15 I will be hunting 12 of 17 days split between PA & OH, so hopefully I can find a shooter during that time frame.

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well our season starts oct 13 its a national holiday so i got no school lol but hope to just get meat in teh freezer to start then im looking for the racks ;)


Story time .
2years ago my 2nd year archery hunting i seen a big 10point by my stad didnt get a shot didnt see him for 3 days and i decided to sit another stand well the next morning its in the papers a guy shot the big 10 point i talked to him he shot it "By" my stand the one night i didnt sit there i was kicking myself but what can ya do i wasnt happy as he walked out on the rail road bed in regular cloths with a bow and the thing walked out 30yrds from him and he got it any of you all got a story abotu "the big one'' that got away?

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PT.....don't blame me because I know what +/- 100" of antler looks like and you don't.[8D] Just remember that old Billy Preston song to help you decide what to shoot or let pass (if that "pass" word is in your vocablulary).:D

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well just hung a stand and the area is rank with buck sign so shuld be a good year even though our season dont open for over a month!

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Season starts Sept 15th here in MO. Ill be hunting my local property the first two days and then heading north for the 1st weekend.

I spend most ofmy time hunting in northern MO (Harrison County), which is where the trailcam pics I posted are from. But this year Im going to spend quite a bit of time at my parents farm in Franklin Co. Besides being only an hour away, there is a certain buck Im am after. I have his sheds for the past two years. He's a typical 8, with LOTS OF MASS! In April of 07, I found the 1st matched set within 5' of each other while turkey hunting. Despite the find, i didnt hunt there at all that fall.

Fast forward to spring 08, this time I went shed hunting before turkey season and found the left side 30 yds from the spot he dropped them in 07. Spent two more days searching three different farms for the other side with no luck. Two days later the neighbor calls me and say his dog was chewing on a deer antler in his yard. Sure enough it was the match. Im not letting him go undisturbed another year ;)

In 07 (fall 06 antlers) he scored roughly 66" per side, with a conservative spread of 16" he would have been around 148". Last year I scored him at roughly 68" per side, which would put him around 152" last fall (same spread added). He had 20.5" inches of mass! Not bad for an 8 pt, huh ;).


top set is from this spring, bottom from 07

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hope you get him that will help us out alot!

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love the pic bluetick!!

drhntr, good luck with those guys!! looks like they aughta be gooduns!!



im somewhat bummed right now...already found out TWO weekends are gone and possibly a 3rd for my LE academy...one actually eats up a thurs-sunday oct 16th-19th...the other is nov 1-2 so theres another saturday.....just hope the 3rd falls BEFORE november!!! i'll be happy to have the LAST 2 saturdays and the first 2 saturdays and whatever days inbetween i can get out...still aughta get out a fair bit...i knew id be missing some weekends...cant complain...

likely going to head to the state game lands i hunt here at school tomorrow and do some leg work....got into a couple deer last year which is more than ive been into the past few years in that area...so now i need to fine tune things and take a hard look into the area i spotted the deer last year while hunting...it was up on an oak ridge...i gotta find the bedding area tomorrow...or atleast heavily used trails coming out of the bedding area...last year the deer i saw were way too far off because i just took stand in the middle of the oak ridge...i gotta find something to key me in...no class tomorrow so thats likely what i'll be doing

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If Rob did that, this thread would be barren of any posts by anyone including Rob!:D Keep him on a leash in your thread and get him to removed "polls" from other threads, and you want have people annoying your precious team.:D

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Pass is not in my vocabulary [8D]I'm shooting a spiker and adding 10" to our team's total :D..... by the way ... there is no such word as vocablulary :D

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Ok, did another avatar this evening. Let me know which one you like better (or what you think in general).