Shooter McGavin

I have been out of the archery scene for about 12 years now. I sold my old PSE bow (old dinosaur type) and now I am in the market to get a new one. I am just getting my 8 yr boy into it now and he loves it, so with that being said I went to PSE and was measured and found out I need at least 30 1/2-31" draw. Anybody out there looking to sell a 31" draw with 60-70#. Preferrably a newer style bow, 2-4 years old. Let me know what's out there. Thanks in advance.

Well good ole Santa Claus did what he does best and brought me a new PSE bow. Well not brand new, but new to me. I ended up getting a PSE Mach X with some bells and whistles. I ran over to Bull Basin and picked up some arrows to get started. Shot it there and fell in love with the whole archery thing again. My boy also got a small Bullseye 20# recurve from Santa, so we went to PSE to sight both bows on Tuesday. Today I called up a friend and picked up some straw bales so that we could shoot in our backyard. We could only shoot at a max distance of 19 yds due to our backyard configuration. Now where I am going with this is; I know when I go into an archery shop I always go to the shooting lanes and give a quick looksee to see who is shooting and look on the walls to see how many arrows have Robin Hooded (I call this arrows that have been shot with another arrow)it has always been a goal or a trophy so to speak to arrow another arrow. Well today that happened to me on my 4th set of shots on my new straw bale target. I let the arrow fly and instantly heard a strange noise rather than paper and straw, I thought great need a new nock. As I walked up I see a rather longer arrow sticking out of the bale and what do you know it arrowed another arrow. Of course I had to take a pic and send it to all my friends and now the arrows that are stuck together are on my wall in the office. Not a trophy buck or bull elk, but just as cool if you ask me for not shooting in 12+ years.

Thank you much, very helpful website

I am looking to purchase a single pin archery sight (new or used) for my sons Bulllseye youth recurve bow, any for sale out there or steer me in the right direction to get one. Thanks.

Never in that area, good luck though. Be sure and post pics and stories.

I had to ask my son who is kindergarten to borrow his 6" ruler to measure my monster. Unicorns are trophies in there own special class. My trophies consist of the memories that are made out in the field with my buddies and mother nature. Yeah it would be nice to have a truly record book mount, maybe one day. Plus this minus that who cares.....

Their is nothing on the tin or blade stating what type of steel

I have the following items for sale: (1)-U.S. Army folding knife (brand new)5 1/2" folded length, 9" fully extended, comes with nice decorative protective tin enclosure $12.00 (1) Cabela's stainless steel shears, these work really well on quail and dove wings $15.00 (1) Black 511 tactical series molly bag (8" x 6") velcro pouches inside and out $8.00 (1) Cabela's bright orange over the shoulder pack with chest and waist straps, it has large zippered pouch on back to keep things dry as well as a small to medium sized pouch ontop of that one, (2) front pouches as well as (2) water bottle pouches. I used this on many of my elk trips in deep thick forests where visiblity wasn't very good. $25.00 (2) small pelican 1120 cases. Inside dimensions are 7 1/4 x 4 3/4, they do still have the foam where you can tear away to make whatever you put in there to fit snugly. I use these for my 10x42 binos as well as my game camera from getting wet. $ 22.00 each (1) green leg holster with small molly pouch. This worked well with my XD40, but would definitely work with a pistol with a larger barrel. $20.00 Getting a new bow for christmas and need some accessories so that I can bow hunt in January, thanks for looking guys and gals.

As of right now they are SPF, you will be 1st in line if deal falls through.

Browning Auto 5 light 12 gauge with mod and imp chokes. I won the gun back in 96 and had to replace the wood butt stock because it broke in two while checking out my shot pattern on a piece of cardboard. I screwed 2 very large wood screws into stock to hold it together and wrapped it with camo duck tape, for 5 seasons left it like this. Looked like A$$ but sure shot great, I finally broke down and replaced with a black synthetic forened & butt stock. Still shoots great.

location of items?

location of items where?

I pulled this up and bet the kids .50 cents to locate the deer, needless to say I am out a buck fifty. Thanks for sharing.

I am shocked, are you telling me that the butcher you use doesn't put dirt and sticks in your meat. I guess it must be some new thing down in good ole Tucson. I am kidding with ya. As for cleaning the meat, I can tell you out of the all pigs, deer and a few elk that I have shot there is no way you can get all the hair/sticks/dirt off prior to getting it to the butcher if you are in the field with limited cleaning supplies. A good butcher WILL do that for you, with the exception of an occasional hair. I have found a good butcher and will continue to use and brag about him.

I agree with you on that there are good ones and bad ones, like I said in the post I only used this outfit once, my buddy took his deer there. I wish he would have called me first. I have found a very good and reputable meat processor way before I started dabbling on the CWT site. I am not blaming anybody, I am just disappointed.

All 4 cots have sold, thanks to all for inquiring

Used-4 military GI camping cots. Three out of the four can be assembled and slept on instantly, the fourth one needs a new plastic end cap insert(broken off) picture shows what I am talking about. These parts can be ordered on Ebay (Military Cot repair part- Dowell Plug) it appears they are starting out at $2.00 plus shipping. I just haven't gotten around to order this piece and install it. All 4 cots $100.00 or $30.00 each if want individual ones.

I tried that when I shot a few of the bows at PSE and the techs there said it was still a bit short for my draw length. They said you could possibly get a longer loop as well as an adjustable release with the bending of my left arm and it would work but then there would be no extra room for any kind of adjustments or room for errors. Not in a huge rush, one will turn up eventually. It gives me more time to save $$$$. Thanks though, all help/advice is surely appreciated.

I am 6'2", was measured at PSE and verified at Bull Basin at 30 1/2". I guess I have some long butt ape arms, lucky me

I generally carry the full twenty out of the box into the field: 270WSM 140 gr 3 in the mag, 1 in the chamber 4 in (L) front pocket 4 in ® front pocket the remaining in fannypack FNP 9 MM 17 in gun back up mag filled to the brim in fannypack as well I always have another full box in my camping box back at camp for those just in case days. I wish I could say that on past hunts that I have never had to dip into those, but that would be a little white lie.

Where about in pix located?

Can any quiver fit on this bow? How fast is this bow roughly?

definitely a jerusulum cricket, we saw the same thing in unit 33 last week. Not your everyday cricket though.

Well what can I say except laugh with me and thank me for removing this deer from the WT gene pool so that it never breeds and warps our whitetail population again. Shot it opening morning @ 6;32 AM in unit 33. Story goes like this: woke up at 4 AM and made my long 1 1/2 hour trek (by foot) to my special spot (not knowing how really special it was going to be). So around 6;25 this buck walks into view, I range it @ 182yds just for poops and giggles . I am thinking alright the bucks are on the move. So I say to myself WOW, if I were to shoot this how much grief am I going to get from my buddies, but at the same time thinking meat in the freezer. I take the safety off and decide ok, if I miss the 1st shot and the deer runs off that it wasn't meant to be. I aim and shoot, I do end up missing but the deer actually start to trot closer to me. I tell myself one more, so once again I miss and again it just stay right there. Now I am kind of getting a little upset for missing, so the 3rd shot goes off and I miss again. Now I am thinking what if these are signs from the man upstairs telling me to hold off for a larger buck. Nope I tell myself and try again because what if this was a really big buck and how horrible would I feel if I never connected, so I try again. So I line up again and boom the deer goes down, whew I tell myself and give me a high five. I walk down to the deer and start chuckling, my buddies call me on the radio and ask if I got it and how big. I told them yes I did get it but they would have to wait until they got back to camp to admire the sheer magnitude of this buck. I did end up going out as an extra set of eyes with my buddies, but never did see another buck just does. Maybe it was meant to be, but I can tell you this, I will not be shopping in the meat section at Fry's or Costco anytime soon. Enjoy the pic!!!

My friend's son shot this deer in unit 33 on 10/9/11, he had an any antlered deer tag for this unit. I wasn't there to witness the shot, but I did get the whole story and this pic. He said it was a coues, but by looking at the tail and dark patch on the forehead it appears to be a muley, maybe I am wrong. I guess it could even be one of those hybrids. Any help on distinguishing it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.