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HAS ANYONE HEARD FROM AHUNTER55!!!! I WONDER WERE HE CAN BE !!!!!! ITS GETTING DOWN TO THE DEAD LINE , [:o][&o][:o][&o][:o][&o]

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i think ahunter55 posted to one of the poll forms just not team page bowhunter80 is MIA though !!

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

Hey guys, looks like I've been added to this team from the alternate list. I don't get to spend a whole lot of time on the computer, but that's because I'm in the woods. That is a good thing, right?? ;)

Anyway, a little about myself. I'm 38 years old, and this is my 27th season. Started with a bow at age 12 and since no one in my family bowhunted, or hunted much at all for that matter, I'm pretty much self-taught. I've managed to take a few over the years.

I hunt Ohio and New Jersey, mostly bow hunt, and use a compound (Mathews) and a Sky Archery recurve. I also do a little muzzleloader hunting, but mostly love bowhunting. I have a new wife and two kids as of a few months ago, and tend to work too much, but will manage to get out some this year.

Good luck to all.

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

WELCOME TO THE TEAM!!! THATS A GOOD THING YOUR NOT ON THE COMPUTER ALL THE TIME . A HAVE ALL MY STANDS UP JUST WAITING FOR OCT.11 IT S A MONTH AWAY .I JUST CANT WAIT GOING CRAZY IVE TAKING SOME DEER BUT NOT LIKE SOME YOU SEE FROM THE MID WEST ALL WE CAN DO IS ARE BEST. ITS IN FUN,AND I THINK IT WILL MAKE EVERONE WANT TO PUT THAT LITTLE EXTRA EFFORT IN.BECAUSE WE ALL CANT GET ONE THATS WHY ITS CALLED HUNTING. GOOD LUCK AND HOPE TO SEE YOUR POST SOON:D:D:D

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You're not the guy getting cameras off me are you? Sounds similar, busy all the time and hunts Ohio and NJ.

Welcome to the team. Should make for a fun season.

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Welcome to the Team NJ, hey don't feel bad it's not about posting to the thread this time of year...lol

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Yep, that's me Todd. Can't wait to see them. Hey, since I'm a team member, can you make me the model that sprays the knock-out gas when a big buck trips it. And make the setting for tripping the spray about 140 inches P & Y. That's adjustable, like the delay setting...right? :D

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

I've been squeezing in a few minutes of practice each day for a while now, and am more than ready for Saturday's opener. Last night I matched my arrows to my Thunderheads, and have them flying dead on out to 30 yards. In fact, my Thunderheads, and field points hit on top of each other at that distance on in to 5 yards. At 40 yards, my groups open up a little to about 4 inches, but I don't shoot deer that far anyway, just practice at that distance to make the 30 yards shot seem easier.

I'm also trying spitfires this year, but they seem to fly consistently 2 or 3 inches to the right of the Thunderheads, and they have some wobble in them. The bow is paper tuned, and my arrows fly pretty with Thunderheads, but the spitfires seem to wobble. I've never used them for hunting, and only shot them for the first time the other day, but a buddy bought me a pack to try because he thinks I'm missing something by not using them. I'm not impressed.

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No chit, that's pretty wild we got teamed up. Thing is I know you're too busy to hunt so you might as well turn over the Ohio hot spots to me. :D

2nd camera will be done this week. Part got shipped out Friday.

Here's a recent pic a buddy up north sent to me. Same setup as yours.

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

LOL. Now that's quite a shot. Don't worry about Ohio, I'm sure I'll make time to get out there. I have a few decent spots, but the vegetation is so thick, and not many fields, so it's tough to tell what is there. We should have a few nice ones around though.

RE: Team 17 Thread
 

ahunter55 posted this on a different thread. Looks like he is out of town for a little. I think we are all set for a team!

RE: Team 17 Thread
 

I am here fellas-Just got back from an Exotic/hog hunt in Texas.
We had a great time & pretty good luck. This is the Fallow Buck I took & now it's Whitetail time Oct. 1.. I will either get a good one or NONE at all. Do my best for you all. I am still unpackin so will write more later.

RE: Team 17 Thread
 

congrats ahunter55 and glad to se you finally joined us here in the winning team thread LOL positive thinking atleast

so that makes 9 of the original 10 checked in and ready who did we get for the alt for bowhuntr80 anyone know ?

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

Team 17
FL Bruin
VAsavage270
Louddrummer69
wesbowhunt
T In PA2
NJ_Bowhuntr
Jamiebuck
Pkfd7535 alias MI_Bowhuntr
Triplespool
ahunter55

so this is the new everyone here checked in team ?removed bowhuntr80 and put NJ_Bowhuntr in place

btw i got a more fitting screen name for this board so if ya see a MI_Bowhuntr post that is me also thanks

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

btw seems we don't have a captian picked for th team for all the offical business stuff and it seems to me that T in PA 2 is doing a great job and following up on things for the team i nominate him as TEAM Captian for all the headaches that goes with the job :D:D:D

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pkfd7535 checking in again

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shameless bump and woot i made spike 51 posts !!

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HELLO ALL!!! WELL GLAD TO SEE WE HAVE ALL CHECKED IN! WELCOME TO THE TEAM ONE AND ALL. I DO NOT PLAY ON COMP. MUCH DO TO NO TIME BUSY WORKING!!!!!! BUT I WILL BE HUNTING HARD THIS YEAR AND EVERY YEAR... TAKE CARE ALL AND SAFE HUNTING...OUT IN INDIANA

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

Greetings again fellas. looking forward to out team taking top honors this 1st year. I always think positive. I have a couple good ones located but then, I have for the last 3 years. I have one that we have had some close encounters but he's managed to stay out of bow range. I plan on lots of Bowhunting Whitetails this year & with my recent trip to Texas for Exotics & hogs know the equiptment is working fine. I wish you all good luck & hope your season is great, no matter what passes your stand-enjoy the time spent in the woods & remember to enjoy your family also. They deserve more attention than the deer-I know, it's hard to think of anything else when Whitetail season is on.. Later.

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hey ahunter its good to see that you have checked in.

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NICE TO HERE FROM YOU AHUNTER 55 SEEMS YOU ALREADY STRTE YOUR SEASON OFF TO A GOOD START:D:D

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The season opened here yesterday for us in NJ. I didn't get out in the morning, too much to do around the house, but did manage to get out around 2:00pm. I went to check on a trail camera, and in a week only 2 pictures had been taken, so I decided to move it. I wanted to set it up near my stand to see how the deer react, and learned a good lesson. When I went in to the stand, I found a scrape 20 yards from it that wasn't there a week ago.

I set the camera up quietly, and was up in the tree by 3:10pm. At 4:50, a fawn with half it's spots came by and messed around until about 5:05, then walked off. When I turned to look back down the hill I saw movement, and a healthy six-pointer was slowly making his way up the hill. When he saw the camera I had put out, it got his attention. He kept looking at it, doing the head bob, and was definately nervous. He changed direction and tried to circle down wind, but changed course and decided to get out of dodge before he made it to the downwind side. He didn't run, but just sort of trotted off.

Then, right at 7:25, I had a buck with 4 points on one side, and nothing on the other, come in. His forehead was glowing in the dim light. The hair between his antlers was bleach blonde. Pretty good afternoon to start, but I have to take a doe first so I'll work on that.

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

I second the nomination for btw as captain.

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Here is a couple infrared pictures from a camera I converted to see IR. Instead of a white light flash you get a small red blip that is barely noticable. The deer don't seem to notice it.

Not seeing any BIG bucks. Jumped a half decent buck setting a camera up in a different location. I'm in PA and need 3 pts on one side to be legal. He was legal atleast.

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

nice camera trick for the skidish deer
and the nomination was for T_in_PA2 not BTW my bad sorry for confusion just T seems to be doing the captian job might as well have the title !!

BTW is not on this team hehehe i just did a btw as= by the way eheh [8D]

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GREAT CHOICE T-IN -,PA 2 NICE PICTURES, THE BIG ONE IS HIDEING, HE MIGHT BE ALITTLE CAMREA SHY,CANT WAIT FOR THE SEASON,OCT.11 CANT COME QUICK ENOUGH,GOING ON A FISHING TRIP THIS WEEKEND TO NEW YORK ON THE SALMON RIVER FOR THE BIG ONES 30-40LBS SALMON ITS NOT BOW HUNTING BUT ITS SOMTHING TO DO BEFORE THE SEASON STARTS,SINCE IAM DONE HANGING STANDS CUTING SHOOTING LANES , ALL I CAN DO NOW IS WAIT AND PRACTICE SHOOTING. WELL GOOD LUCK GUYS!!! LETS GET SOME BIG ONES:D:D:D

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Yawnnnnn, 2 1/2 weeks to go yet.

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Hey team,

I've been busy fishing to kill my urge for slinging arrows, however today I went out snooping around and ran into these. Does only, the buck ran off small 4 pointer.

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LoL the only sign the buck left behind., my partner was attempting to set up a video camera and I guess spooked him.

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

I went out again yesterday afternoon after work. It was my second time out. I just went to a piece of public land near work to get my doe out of the way, but again, all I saw from the tree was bucks. Hunting in the rain is usually pretty good, and yesterday was no exception. Going in at 3:20pm, I jumped 2 does and 2 fawns on the grassy field road right up against the woods. A white oak was dropping pretty good there, so I guess thats what they were eating. My stand was actually 30 yards inside the edge of the woods off a bean field, just to the north of those oaks. There is also a standing corn field about 300 yards south of the stand, and a grown over field in between the beans and corn.

I sat getting soaked until 6:30 when suddenly I saw a deer move through the holly's to my left. It was gone in a flash, but I saw short spikes on it's head. About 5 minutes later, another spike appeared 5 yards away. He had long, curving spikes and a long body, pretty deer. He will be a heavy buck some day. I drew and held on him for a while, just for practice.

At about 7:05pm, I saw a deer moving through a brushy area up near the field. I couldn't tell how many points, but he had a decent rack. He got in some thick cover, but disappeared, and never made it to the field. I glassed the field before getting down and taking the long route back out and saw 3 does and 3 fawns about 200 yards out into the field. Interestingly, both spikes were directly downwind of me, and never knew I was there, and no, I wasn't wearing Scent Lok.

Still no does in shooting range, but having fun.

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

I hear some NJ boys pick up road kill to claim as their doe (hint, hint) :D

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Pulled a couple cameras this afternoon. This is about as good as the bucks get for me. Either one came into range and presents a shot expect an arrow to be flying!!

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

same here i think either of those are shooters to me i'm no trophy hunter i would love to bag and tag a big "10" but either of those have scoreable points and would put venison on the table. i think it has been said if everyone on the team scores even a small 6 or somthing we could be in the running alot of trophy hunters in other teams that would pass on those i think .

on a side note i just picked up my "NEW BOW" an Archery Research 34 70# 30" draw i was going to get a fall away but went with new biskit instead seem to work great icon stabilizer and a HHA slide single pin sight so i will be doing alot of shooting to get ready for oct 1st opener !!

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NICE PICTURE T-IN-PA2, ARE DEER IN MA. ARE SIMMILAR TO THAT, ILL TAKE HIM OUT IF HE WAS IN FRONT OF ME. JUST LIKE PKFD SAID LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD LET HIM GO BUT IF WE ALL GOT SOMETHING OF A GOOD SIZE LOOK OUT. JUST GOT BACK FROM NEW YORK FISHING HAD A GOOD TIME . NO FISH ,THE LAKE WAS LIKE A OCEAN, LOOK OUT ON A FOURTEEN FT. BOAT ,HERES THE PERFECT STORM ALL OVER AGAIN. WELL IT WAS SOMTHING TO DO BEFORE BOW SEASON, SEEN SOME DEER UP IN NEW YORK LOOK LIKE CORD WOOD, ALONG THE TRU- WAY ALL DOES BUT IT WAS NICE TO SEE SOME DEER,NOW LETS GET READY TO TAKE THE REST OF THE TEAMS :D:D:D:D:DOUT

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Well, got everything in place so hope to get out opener (evening) Oct. 1st.. Things look good-been seeing Does & Fawns around one of the stands I can watch from a distance. Good funnel area.
Good luck to all.

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Well, I managed to get a doe to fill the earn-a-buck requirement, so now I'll be trying some observation stands to pinpoint a good buck. The doe I shot was the first with a spitfire broadhead. I was given a pack this year as a gift to try, and my first experience was not that impressive. Sure, it did the job, but the blood trail was not spectactular, as promised, and the deer would have been just as dead with a Thunderhead, which I normally use. Actually, there was very little blood on the ground. The entrance was midway up the body, and the exit out the bottom of the body (the shot was only 5 yards), but the exit hole became plugged up, and after 20 yards, there was no blood. The deer traveled about 80 to 90 yards from the shot.

Good luck to all those starting next weekend.

RE: Official Team "The Unknown Elements" (17) Thread
 

Nj, Congrats on the harvest

IMO, I shoot spit fires and muzzy's from my experience and hearing many others myopic views. Normally on an exit if the path of the arrow travels through the lower portion there's a greater chance of not seeing a spectacular blood trail and that the exit whole will become plugged. We even spoke about that in the IBEP class today.

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GREAT JOB ON THE HARVEST NJ.I NEVER TRIED MECHANICAL WHILE HUNTING, I HAD 3PAC OF THE BLOOD TRAILERS BUT GAVE THEM TO A FRIEND,I JUST THING THEY MIGHT FAIL SO I JUST STICK TO MY 3 BLADE MUZZYS. IAM JUST WAITING FOR OCT.11 TO START MY SEASON!!

Take Notice!! Rules
 

I thought I would point this out so there is not mistakes when it comes to members entering a buck into the contest. Please make sure you are aware of this rule in particular.
The other rules are found HERE but this one really can mess you up if you don't have the picture taken correctly.

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The long waited anticipation of the season is almost near! Three nights and a wake up and arrows will go flying!!!..lol I will be taking it easy at work from here out, you know no finger cuts etc..lmao 5 Days off beginning Oct 1 thru the 5 Woahhhhhhh Nelly!!!!!!!!!!!!

I must admit this, if a nice doe comes into range she's down, I need to insulate the deep freezer...lol