Rob, id imagine you expirience critters kinda regular climbing poles? them flying squirrels are neat...used to see them regularly coonhunting at one spot thats now posted and cant hunt....amazing little animals...

i can relate to your story...i was doing a wood duck project...landowner i was working for/with had boxes up that werent maintained...he had a JD Gator so we loaded it up with tools and such, and a SMALL homeade flimsy alumanum ladder. bad news kinda ladder. i never thought to wear my harness...that would been a brilliant idea...all the boxes were higher than the small ladder. im on the top rung of this flimsy ladder...hole to the entrance of the duck box was about face level..a little lower..i was undoing the cables to take it down when i saw a flash of SOMETHING jump out of the hole and run up the tree...i screamed like a girl and about fell off the ladder...looked up and theres a gray squirrel barking his head off at me..the old timer that i was with was ROLLING...he loved it. he was yelling about how he wished he had a camera coz it was halarious how scared i was and how i screamed....i saw nothing funny about it lol.....so i calm down and go back to work....surely cant be more than one in that dang box....sure enough another one scared me worse...think it actually used my jacket to climb the tree lol...them suckers had that box absolutely FULL of leaf litter and acorns...it was amazing.....i felt terrible leaving them out in the cold(waited till like feb to do the project so we could use the Gator...ground had to be frozen to get to the boxes....



im pumped....weather looks amazing for Saturday!!! and i get to head home 4 hours earlier friday my last 2 classes are canceld!! i need to do some more broadhead shooting...i shot this weekend and dont know if it was the fact i was cracked out on cold meds or if something is wrong, but they werent flying as great as they were....been shooting at my buddies with FPs and its been shooting great...so im glad i get to go home early...i'll have time to verify flight and/or fine tune it....though i had atleast 4 arrows ready to go...probably fine i know that day time cold medicane kills me....

I'm headed out today, for the long drive to Canada.. Good luck to you guys who have seasons opening on Saturday. I'll see ya in a couple weeks.

Good luck Joey.

Thanks Ryan.

I was talking to Troy about your hunt out there with him... sounded like you we on a lot of bulls. Good to hear you guys had a great hunt.

good luck joey! have a safe trip!!



ya'll fellow PAians ready!?!?! i know im chompin at the bit....got saturday morning until afternoon and all day mon and tues to hunt here at home...got 3 spots i wanna hit....the honey hole saturday morning...a new spot (funnel) i never hunted a morning and evening....and a funnel/corn field edge i never got to hunt with corn against the edge...landowner says theres so many deer in there it reminds him of the "old days" its going to be hard to get into there without busting them all out...i cant decide how i wanna do it...

im really hoping it all comes together saturday morning in the honey hole....i hate to "end" my season so early...i just know my head needs to be focused on books...not bucks....started into laws this week, and i already know that these next couple weeks are gunna be zero fun. i'll still get time to hunt...but an unfilled buck tag is like a little voice in my head..lol...ya'll know how that is....we'll see how it goes...gotta have atleast 4 1" points on one side...a 4pt half rack has a spread of infinity doesnt it?? (just kidding i'll atleast wait for one with both sides....well....unless the ONE side is REAL nice...lol)

well PA boys, less than 12hrs and i'll be waking up!!!!


i finally got around to final tuning the muzzys today....they just werent being consistant at all...i couldnt figure it out, but figured i needed to TUNE it out...noticed my longer range groups were much more open than i felt they should have been as well which told me something wasnt 100%...wanted to do it last weekend but was laid up sick...no BH target at school meant it was TODAY or i wasnt hunting in the morning plain and simple. woke up and spent about 2hrs in the back yard....well...a good hour or so of shooting and tuning...a couple minor rest adjustments had me shafting BH arrows with my FPs at 30yds...about 6" right...(i do it backwards..i shoot the BHs then i shoot the FPs to BH tune...shoot 1 BH at a spot..then a FP at the spot..saves shafts!) figured that was PERFECT...adjusted the sights to them and am shooting GREAT...i swear i gained 20fps....i couldnt notice that my arrows werent flying true....till i hit that "sweet spot" and boy them suckers are like lazers and hitting like a sack of bricks...

got all the gear ready...feels like im forgetting something....but i got all the gear ready...i got my arrows, bow, release, camo, boots harness, and stand...and pack...not sure what i can be forgetting, but i have that feeling....i got the essentials, i know that much...its all going in the truck shortly...that way its daylight and i can see what i got and wont forget something at 0430 when its dark and im half asleep...


be safe out there...dont forget the camera...YOU, BUCK, BOW!!!

weather still looks beautiful....im pumped. wish we could hunt this evening....the somewhat poopy weather just cleared out...this evening would been good...but tomorrow morning aught be good as well..its gunna be chilly with these clear skies...

ahhh better throw the hunting license in the bin with the camo!! maybe thats what i felt like i was forgetting....

Sounds, good Mauser. I have all the clothes sprayed and hanging outside, bow was shot one more time tonight, and I drilled the 20 and 30yd marks. Put the quiver on, and shot, and it was still dead on. I may leave it one depending on how cumbersome I'm being in the stand tomorrow in the dark[&:]

I'm about to head to my cabin for a meeting, then it's back home to get some sleep before the A.M. I have a busy day tomorrow in between hunts, so I won't check back in probably until Sunday sometime. Good luck guys, I expect to see some antler from you guys tomorrow!

Good luck guys. I'll be anticipating tomorrow nights recaps on the day.

wow am i fuming.....pretty sure there was ZERO percent chance of rain.....its absolutely pouring right now....

still got a longgggg while before the sung comes up....gunna take my time and get to my spot and sit in the truck till it slows down or quits....radar looks like i'll be getting wet off and on all morning....

the only good thing is that it might help my hunting...


good luck guys!!!

It only sprinkled then cleared here in my neck of the woods. We saw 1 spike and a doe with 2 fawns. No shots taken this morning. Here's a pan of my hunting area on video if your interested.

Will be back in this stand this afternoon.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v499/Poorguy/Videos/?action=view&current=HoneyHolefoodplotstand.fl v