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I really find these posts entertaining. Look at how many views. As always I will offer my opinion on this. KRP and 270 probably stated the reason the camera was turned off. If I was sitting that water I would turn off your private property. I would not want my picture taken and i would not want the flash going off. Why do you guys think an unattended item has private property rights on PUBLIC land! Yes I would touch your private property if it is screwing up my hunt. And guess what? It is perfectly legal for me to do it. So I am saying it is OK to mess with other peoples stuff if it is unattended on public land and screwing up someone's hunt. In addition when i am just passing by a camera much like Couesaz I leave a souvenir for the lucky camera owner. Bobbyo is bringing sexy back to the great outdoors. Another thought I really love these keyboard threats of butt whuppins. Give me a break. You guys are so full of it. In this day and age you are not going to go up to another unknown person who is likely armed and give him an old fashioned butt whoppin. Cut the crap. Bob

Redskin, I said this tounge and cheek. I am old school in my setup, but carbon arrows are superior to aluminum in every aspect. They are the way to go. Here is what I would do if I were in your sitution. 1. Check vane clerance. 2. Check drop away rest timing. a) a simple way to check both is to fletch one of your carbon arrows with 4 inch low profile fletching. See if you get the same reaction as blazers. Same reaction as blazers go to step 3. If you get good arrow flight then have to address 1 or 2. Easiest way without changing settings on bow is to fletch with shorter vanes. 3. Paper tune: http://www.pabucks.com/paper_tuning_your_bow.html 4. Walk back tuning. (I use french modified. Not a new way to get a thrill! Come on guys get your mind out of the gutter.) http://nybowhunter.blogspot.com/2008/04/mo...nch-tuning.html 5. Broadhead tuning. http://www.eastonarchery.com/pdf/tuning_guide.pdf You will be able to do all these things. All you need is time. You really cannot hurt your bow. You can only make its tuning worse, something I do all the time with my tinkering. When the tuning guides say move nock point you should adjust your rest instead. You move it in opposite direction. Nock moves down= rest moved up. Never move anything farther than 1/8 of an inch and you will never get way off. Good luck, Bob

Redskin. The Blazer vanes are much taller. You maybe contacting the rest the riser or the cable when you are shooting. If I was having this problem this is the order of troubleshooting the problem I would take. 1. Keep the aluminum arrows. 2. Sell the Carbons Problem solved! My little rant: Why do us archers take perfectly good equipment. Replace it with something new then spend a week dicking around with our equipment. I do it every year. Completely take apart and re-tune my bow every year the night before opening day. I just accept that I am going to do it. Part of my hunting tradition. Bob P.S. Hey Dallas, Great minds think alike.

WOW! What a unique muley. INLINE RACK! awesome. That is the ultimate in hunting. Chasing a single buck for a few years and finally getting him is the best feeling in the world. Congratulations, Bob

Way to get it done. Looks like quite a hike for that deer with the high elevation. Congratulations. Bob

Casey, Now you made me put pen to paper. Here is what I came up with. If I had length of main beams and mass at base I am sure I could get it real close. MB 13x2 = 26 Spread = 13 G1(normally G2) 5x2 = 10 G2(normally G3)3.5x2= 7 Mass 3" ave x8 = 24 Total = 80 Like I already said, Nice Deer!

Always go to unit 23. Best unit in the state! Bob

Awesome buck Eagle Eye. Congratulations. I think this year is turning out as a tough year, so you should feel fortunate. As far as score, it is just a numbers game that often times does not give the true quality of a buck. I think you have a buck that illustrates this point. You have a Deer that has a rack that has a so called 90" frame, but will not score that high due to the lack of brow tines. I think this buck (really hard to judge from pictures) will be in the low 80s, Yet In my opinion it is a much nicer buck then a low 80s buck because it has nice mass and is probably an older buck. Those are factors that I appreciate more than a couple inches of brow tines. I would be delighted if I harvested this buck. I have bucks that score more point wise, but in my opinion are not as nice as this buck, due to the mass and age factor. Hope you understand what I am trying to say. Nice Buck! Bob

Awesome, Congratulations on a beautiful deer. Looks old! Long brows and great mass. I like it. You should be excited. Bob

Dude, Hope you are not on "my" hill. Bob

My best friend bought The Claw at the NRA show last week and we took it out for a test drive. First let me state i am not a gun freak and rarely shoot at the range. I am a terrible bench shooter. In addition i am not affiliated with The Claw folks in any way. We went out to one of our favorite camping spots to do some shooting. It was windy 10 Mph. We had the Claw set up on a Manfrotto graphite tripod and 701 fluid head. I brought my son's gun. A 243 savage 110 with a burris fullfeild scope. This whole gun including the scope would cost $550 dollars new. But it always has been a shooter. We had a target at 490 yards. Insert rifle in claw. Move the tripod arm and put cross hairs on target. Once set i would not even look in the scope. I just placed my thumb on rear of trigger guard. and index finger on trigger. Really not concentrating at all on squeezing. Just pull. Shot a 5 shot 5 inch group. Follow up shots just required slight adjustments and were done quickly. The tripod handled the entire recoil. Let me remind you it was windy. My buddy's 300 short mag had an even tighter group. Tripod handled recoil. Really incredible. The claw is basically a bench rest that is highly adjustable and very portable. Works standing or sitting. Point and shoot. Would be great for sighting in rifle. You will not need any other bench rest mechanism. Basically takes out all human error in aiming and firing a rifle. Quite frankly it takes all shooting skill out of the equation. Lets put it this way. You could have your $5000 dollar hot rod gun with its $2000 dollar scope and your 10,000 rounds of practice shots and I am willing to bet I will print right next to you with my Walmart gun and The Claw with 20 rounds of practice. I'm not sure that is a good thing? I know i am old school I think hunting and woodsmanship is about developing a skill set. Will people get so dependent on the Claw that they will not be able to cope without one. Sort of like the TV remote. " Oh my god I forgot my claw, I have to drive home to get it." Or possibly this: "Dad I want to look in the scope when I shoot." "No son you might move the gun. Just squeeze your thumb and index finger together. and watch with your eye's. You will be able to tell your friends you shot a deer at 650 yards." "Daaad, The claw is shooting the deer. all I'm doing is putting my fingers together." I think this is going to change western hunting significantly. I just don't know if it is for better or worse. Bob P.S. We were both using hold over lines in our scopes. not target turrets.

This thread is real useful. From all your observations it seems a full moon could cause a deer to be active early morning or early mid-morning or late mid morning or plain ole mid morning or even early late morning or possibly late mid morning or late morning or mid day to change shade or mid day when the moon is up or early afternoon to mid afternoon or early afternoon or early mid afternoon or late afternoon to mid evening or mid evening to late evening. Now I know now when to concentrate my hunting time during full moons. I owe you all a debt of gratitude for narrowing down the precise time for me. Thank you, Bob

First off I use both calibers. I believe both are fine out to 400 yards, but I am more comfortable with the 7 mag 300 yards and beyond. I use corelokts in both and feel they are a great round for Coues. Of coarse I think they are a great round for all animals. From Javelina's through Elk. Sometimes I create medium size wounds with them. Other times I have had massive wounds. Really depends on shot placement. I will be helping fill tags in 36c Elkhorn area. The fire is going to have no effect on my plans. It is a complete non factor. Meaning I don't think it will help or hurt you in finding a deer. Bob

Lance, Best post I have seen in a while. This is what hunting is all about. Those junior hunters will remember these hunts always. Bob p.s. O.K. I have ask What is the story with the guts on the face? A Crowther family tradition?

I was down there this weekend. I believe the fire will have no effect on deer hunting. in fact i was hoping some of the catclaw would be cleared out in the lower canyons. I was disappointed. Mostly brush fire with a few oaks and mesquites taken out. Definitely not a scorched earth type situation. Bob

just wondering. did you have any fun! Congratulations. BOB

I read an article some where that said that Duane Adams likes to get to his glassing point an hour before sunup. I have gone up at first light, I have gone up early I have gone up at noon. I have been skunked and i have seen lots of deer on all of of them. Remember your ultimate goal is to get a deer not get to a glassing point. If you sense you are spooking deer or know you are spooking deer maybe you should be glassing your glassing hill. In 36 A me and my buddy always climb a big hill that gives us 360 degree panoramic view. We can see probably 50 square miles from up there. It is a steep 1/2 hour walk to the top. A few years ago we kept bouncing a couple 90' BUCKS OUT OF THERE. Next time we went to the hill we got into a big argument. i wanted to glass the hill. He wanted to go up before first light. We compromised on a short scan at first light and then hustled up. Sure enough it was white flag retreat half way up. Bob p.s. in addition i know some very successful hunters that never climb to glass. they stay at the base of hills and glass up.

There is exception to every rule. Coues don't have to follow any rules. My ideal glassing spot would have me on on a high point with the ability to glass south. I will be looking at north facing slopes with some cuts, some saddles and maybe a canyon with a water source. If this is the case you could glass areas that are shaded that would not be in the direct sun. That being said I still spend many mornings and evenings squinting through the sun. When it happens in the morning I say to myself "Why didn't you come here in the afternoon and vice versa for the afternoon. What can I say I'm a slow learner. Bob Desert Bull W.T.H. does I-L-L I-N-I mean. Is that some kind of hip hop gangster language i don't know about?

Awesome!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations. Bob

Now that's the Wildcat spirit. Make sure you are in a glassable area. When I was transitioning from carp to Coues I picked areas that had lots of CWT, but were way too thick for glassing. Most of the pictures of the successful hunters this year show glassable terrain. Think cactus. Desert Bull, What the heck, you trying to make me cry at my work site? Why don't you give us a video of Anderson Hunt shoving Kenny Lofton down and drainig a three or maybe a video of Shane Battier slamming Jason Gardners head into the basket support and not even getting a foul! Cold blooded. Bob

Are you kidding me! What would Lute Olsen say? When the going got tough did Lute say " lets go back to the WAC conference the Pac Ten is too hard." Hunting carp is playing in the minor leagues. No way beardown. You have to 'BEARDOWN'. Now get back out there and find a Coues. Any will do. Forget your Job. Forget your family. Forget all obligations.Even forget the Red Blue scrimmage! Coues hunting comes first. Now get back out there and give it 110%. Quitters never win and you only lose when you stop trying, so don't let the team down. Hustle! Bob

WOW! Great first buck. Great any buck. Awesome story. Congratulations. Bob

I feel I am fully trained to take on murders from the drug cartels. I have seen The Outlaw Josie Wells at least 50 times. Bob

Hammy and Bryan Payne, Thanks for your measured remarks it calmed me down slightly. Really where do people come off saying there going to shoot human beings. What is the mentality of you morons. Bob

This post is really getting me pumped up for the early hunts. Not! Here is what I would do. Take down his tape. Its littering. Reposition it "THe Long Way" through the uncut cat claw to some other glassing point out of your way. Give the scratched hunters the thumbs up opening morning with a big smile on your face when they are glassing you in the morning, wondering WTF. Bob Of coarse if you do this you know they will shoot a monster in their new spot right before your eye's.