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Matt, you must have made that for another team....The buck has antlers! And on both sides too!!! Rob will be too depressed to go out and hunt if you make that your avatar.[8D]

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I'm thinking I like the new one Matt. Very nice.

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I think I like you new one Matt.....nice job.

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Thanks guys. I realized the original is too large, though (Rob, you must have resized yours, right?). Here is the one that is sized correctly for the forum:

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Matt, that looks AMAZING!!!!

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awesome matt!! i love it!!

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Nice one. Lets see how this bad boy looks
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Oh yea, lil more B-head tweaking, just about have them dead nuts. Ran out of daylight.

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Nope, it was fine.

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Weird. The original was 12K (forum limit is 10K). I got an error message when trying to upload the original. Makes me mad because the new resized one is a bit fuzzy.

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Dunno bud, I saved the original to my computer and uploaded it as my avatar.....PFM I guess.;) Or I'm special.;)

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i cant get either of them to work!!! even tried saving your avatars and they are still too large!?!?!?! errrr! lol

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Thanks, Tony! As does yours.

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Difference is, I didn't make mine AND it cost the team $20 :eek:

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Ok, guys. Try this one:

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thanx matt!! she worked that time!! not sure why it worked for everyone BUT me last 2 times lol....weird!! i love it!! great work!!!

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I slightly resized mine and it was fine

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Looking good guys.

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Testing, and it works! You did a great job with the avatar. I liked both but it seems we are using this one?

My season starts October 1st and if this weather keeps the current trend I may do more bowhunting than usual in early season. Nice and cool this morning when I got home from work and walked the dog. Actually I can't wait until Labor Day when dove season comes in. I hope to shoot a few with my old 1100. The DNR actually planted sunflowers this season.....something they hadn't done in a while. Surprised me due to the continuous cutbacks our moronic governor has been making with our DNR.

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Ahhh, cute avater guys.Now you picture a shot of a proud native as if your great-grandfather wasn't the one passing out small pox infected blankets to the unsuspecting natives. Nice, real nice.

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Now if that sick twisted humor won't make you laugh then I don't know what will:D

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Lol, I wouldn't have charged a thing;) Couldn't gurantee it would turn out as nice as the one you got, but I would try:D

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It might be funny if you spelled avatar right or even correct English. Okay, maybe not. ;) ;)

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Season for me is sept. 15th and i should get to hunt over my chickory plot that evening but depends on my football game and practice.

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Levi, your one of our first to get started. Good luck to you out there. Sept 15th will be here before we know it.

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what the hell is an elowapi? Cool avatar btw

Nice to see your into comics, give you something to read, while were killing deer

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Rob - thanks for the PM - I have not been on much for quite a while, needed a swift kick - Thanks!

Hey Ryan - have not talked for a long time - put one of those big tan whitetails down and send some pic's! - when you leaving - want to make sure I am sending good thoughts when you are out there!

Oh - if you see those two nice bucks on that clear-cut - smoke either one of them they were both nice!

Best of luck guys!

Mike

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Hey Mike how's it going?
Give me a holler sometime, or I will try and call you. I can't believe this summer is flying by so fast.
Hope all is well.

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Saw a real nice ~110" 8 this morning on the backroads driving into work this morning. Jumped two large does and three fawns out of my back yard as I walked to my truck yesterday morning (they were in after our apple trees). I'm hoping they're hitting the corn hard, because I'm not seeing ANYTHING in the fields at night. I'm counting on that one stand of mine on the inside edge of the corn field as being a potential producer, otherwise, it might not be looking that great[&:]

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Matt--did you get the PM I sent you?

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Matt- Thanks for doing the avatar. It looks great. And speaking of corn, how are the crops up your way in PA? Here in MO, the flooding
preventeda lot of our crops from going in. On three ofthe farms we werent able to get any corn in at all. We finally got milo in on one of them
and just planted winter wheat on the other. One is still under water [:@]

On a bad note, I just found out I have firearms qualification on Saturday of the first weekend. That ruins my plans of heading up north for the weekend. I guess Ill head to my parents farm friday and then again on sunday.

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Yeah just receieved it today. I'll try to get something worked up for you tonight. Sorry about not getting back to you sooner. You're the Bonetech commanders, right?


No problem! The corn here is doing excellent. We had a great summer for growing corn. Very hot days, with plenty of rainfall. Not good weather for making hay, but the corn did well. It's just now starting to get pretty dry here and it's beginning to curl, but they're all so far along now, it's too late for them to be badly affected. Last year the corn was horrible, so it's good to have a good follow up year.

Sorry to hear about your situation out there. Floods will certainly do you in, and it makes the already tough farming job even tougher. Hopefully next year, you will have a rebound like we did. Good luck to you, bud.

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like the new avatar so guys went up to the feilds i hunt drove around last night seen a few does no bucks well my buddie that dotn hunt calls me and says holy **** get up here i go and man this deer was a solid 14pnt probley 160''or so a complete cow i think he is a big ten i saw last year at abotu 130'' is it possiable for them to jump that much in antler size? im gunna try and get pics tonight ill go up and see if i see anything

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My season starts Sept 22nd, but my wife gets to hunt 1st. If she doesn't have any luck in September, then I'll be hunting once October rolls around.

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drhntr....the corn in PA was looking pretty awesome....till we hit this "drought" its still decint...but my farmer buddy says we needed rain the last couple weeks to produce more....


Captains log...8/26/08 :D L O N G :)

today i bought my books and parking permit etc on campus and headed north to my state game lands i hunt from school.

little history....i been hunting that SGL since i was 12...mainly rifle and turkey and small game seasons...used to see numerous BIG bucks and bucks in general yearly....rifle season dad and i were always hungry and dropped the first does we saw...only ever killed 1 1.5yo 6pt from there...used to see 20-30 deer a day easily though....then herd reduction came....

i turned 16 and dad and i lost time to hunt together so i started hunting with my buddies and hunting alone...early flintlock season i hunted up there and through the week of rifle season some...started bowhunting 3 seasons ago....the habitat changed. i couldnt find a deer to save my life. id see them when i wasnt hunting them but that wasnt doing me no good.

last bow season i tagged my buck early and went up there to "doe hunt" with no intentions of taking a doe unless i saw 30 of them...just wanted to enjoy the day...hunted an oak ridge...last place for me to bother trying up there....burned alot of shoe leather scouting and couldnt find much of nothing...but that day i saw a 1.5yo 6pt on the oak ridge and another deer...looked like a big bodied deer, and body language said BUCK! but i couldnt tell...never got a look at the head...

Todays update
today i went back there to scout...beautiful oak ridge with thicker woods prettty much surrounding it...OLD logging road running right down the middle of it...ridge runs East/West. i wanted to find trails, old rubs etc...anything that would help me figure out where to hunt...deer gotta be coming FROM the thicket TO the oaks to eat...almost to the end of the old logging road and i turned around to take a gander...there i spotted it...a FRESH start of a rubline!! 3 rubs in a row...good sized trees and tore up pretty good...bark still laying at the base of the tree and hanging there...YES!!!!

the next solid hour i spent trying to piece those rubs to the thicket or SOMEWHERE. they ran West to East...could still see where he stood! couldnt locate anymore or any REAL deer trails....so i started "thinking" like a buck and walked the edge of the thicker woods trying to find the THICKETS part....sure enough there was a REAL old logging trail going down to a bench...sun was shining on a patch of ferns...deer trail leading down to it...and sure enough a bunch of grassy circles in that patch of ferns....sure enough...deer crap in the grassy patches!!!!

i just might have pieced the puzzle together....now lets hope that i didnt spook everything by walking around aimlessly!! heres some pics for the TEAM!! ;)

can anyone ID the green nuts?? what kinda acorns are we lookin at?? i stink at tree ID and didnt bring my tree book up with me...pretty sure theres a good bit of red oaks on the ridge...the green nuts seem to only be in the area i found the rubs...maybe a hot source right now? ideas?

first 3 pics are of the rubs...4th pic is of the bedding area(a little too close but i kinda "stumbled" into it") 5th pic is looking from the rubs down to the end of the old logging road...bed would be somewhat left and down the hill...you can kinda see how the ridge is open and the rest is thicker all around...last pic is of the nuts...














love hunting the "big woods" past years tells me there was slammers when hunting pressure was rediculous....aughta be MORE slammers now that the pressure has dropped ALOT. over 10k acres and im excited over 3 rubs and an old bed...lol ;)

any advice?? anyone need more info to give advice?? i have no idea if thats HIS bed...alot of old rubs scattered the whole ridge...i have no idea how to go about hunting it...im going to most likely just hunt in the oaks a little close to the thicker edges and just try to locate their trails come season....start off with observation stands before i move right in close to the thicker edge..i dont know...should be a good spot ALL season....any advice would be great....i know this post is rediculously long...but id like to get it RIGHT. do my own leg work and make it all happen...a big PA public land buck with a bow! thats got a ring to it eh?? :D

should also work out good because a West wind will be perfect and thats usually the wind we have come season

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forgot to mention....i got permission from a private farm to groundhog hunt! thats a foot in the door...saw about 10 groundhogs and a deer in the field....introduced myself and asked if he owned the land up on the hill and he said he did...i asked if hed let me hunt...he asked what i wanted to hunt? i said i seen a ton of groundhogs id like to hunt and maybe bowhunt in the fall...he said sure you can come hunt the groundhogs...said a couple guys stopped and asked but never came back.....seems to be about the biggest set of woods on the "block" so i'll be there next week with the groundhog rifle...after a couple visits maybe he will let me bowhunt! going to stop at other farms throughout the week...would be nice to find something close to my appartment to hunt if i am tight on time....my SGLs is a good 20 minutes away...

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Mauser, sounds like you're putting the footwork in to set yourself up with a nice one this year. For all the hard effort, I hope it pays off for you big!

Went out and shot this evening. I put my barrel back on my ST-3, and it changed my anchor a little. After some minor windage tweaking, I was driving them in at 30 and 40yds. I realized how much better I shoot with the barrel on. I'm able to really relax my release hand and use those back muscles. I shot 4 30yd groups all 2.5" and better, and I shot three 40yd groups. One at 2", one at 2.25", and one at about4" (had a flier on that one...two shafts were about an inch apart and the third...well:D). So all in all, I'm very happy.

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Acorns are dropping big time in my neck of the woods. Corn is starting to turn brown, the cooler mornings are really getting me stirred up. Oct 4th can't get here fast enough but it looks like I'll be hunting in NC first, Sept 20th..... I'm there for nanny's but one never knows.

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its cooling down alot here gunna go chekc the feilds for deer ill let ya know!

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Good news. My dad was just out for a walk, and he decided to glass our food plot. He said there was a real wide 8 with his nose buried in the clover (this is about 60yds from my ladder stand). Said he was wide, but not real tall. Can't wait to get a look at him this fall (hopefully).

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Are the acorns falling a little early this year?