Whatsup fellas... Hope everyone had a great holiday. We did - got to spend some time with the family, relax a little. Looking forward to New Years weekend (finally get to go back out and hunt some more). LOL

Blue- those are some IMPRESSIVE trail cam pics bro! Really nice deer there. Wow.

130 - that buck your buddy killed over xmas weekend was a brute! Lookscold too. Bowhunting in those temperatures....he definitely deserved to take a gorgeous deer like that one. Looks like your management plans are really paying dividends.

Mike - good to hear that you're finding sheds already. I got out for a short time on Sunday morning, but didn't see anything noteworthy. I built a couple ground blinds for this Friday's hunt. After brushing out those blinds, I did walk a couple field edges for sheds, but the best areas are all cut cornstalk stems - which is a needle-in-a-haystack scenario for me. My eyes just can't pick up a shed in a cut cornfield. Too many smooth, pointylines and bony colors. Even if I have a "practice shed" - sometimes I throw it out there and can barely find the blasted thing. LOL I'm not sure if it's just something with the way I see, but cut corn just isn't conducive to me actually finding any damn thing. I'd step on 10 just to find one.

I'm buying a recurve bow tonight (out of my xmas Cabela's gift card haul) - so I'll have it out on Friday (off work and still have a doe tag). I'll be taking the crash course in traditional archery tonight/tomorrow in the basement. Hopefully, I won't put an arrow through the garage door or into the hot water tank. I can't decide whether the thoughts of me being back out there with a recurve bow is sad, funny or just plain scary. I shotrecurve a lot when I was a kid, andhave tinkered a lot withthe old one through the yearsso it won't be totally foreign.