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    Court upholds warrants for F&W officers

    In a past life I worked in fisheries management at the state level. We had a federal game warden give us a rash of s*** while conducting an electro fishing survey in a state owned tidal creek one day. We turned off the generator, told him we had a collection permit and gave him the deuces on the...
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    Bow Hunting Turkeys

    How common was it for limb hanging gobblers to die before the last week or so of the season before hyper realistic Jake decoys and fanning became as wide spread as they are now? It was as rare as hens teeth in this part of the world, so rare that everyone in the county talked about it until the...
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    Bow Hunting Turkeys

    I feel for you. You’ve probably got the same gag order and have to self censor your true feelings on wildlife and fisheries management like every one I know that’s still working for a state agency. Anecdotally, I’ve seen chamberlain’s hypothesis play out in real time. A farm I’ve hunted for...
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    Bow Hunting Turkeys

    Theories are well tested, objective and stand on their own, i.e, gravity, atomic, cell theory, evolution. Hypotheses are educated guesses that are subjective to a person hypothesizing. You cherry picked my post, first and foremost was safety. No matter how you cut it. We’re killing too many...
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    White Turkey Spurs

    It’s genetics. There’s places I’ve killed white spurred birds year after year, and there’s places I’ve killed black spurred burred years after year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    2024 Cold Bow Challenge

    User Name : Fatlander Bow Brand : Hoyt Bow Model : Ventum 33 Sight Brand : Spot Hogg FE Triple Stack BH Brand : QAD Exodus MER : 70 Hit (X/3) : 3/3 Easton 6.5 with 50 grains of brass, 125 grain points, 3 blazers/rapt x. 480 grains total arrow weight. Moving along just a touch over 280 fps...
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    Bow Hunting Turkeys

    1.) It’s a fantastic way to get shot in the face. 2.) It’s the easy button. Shooting them over bait would be harder. 3.) Wild turkey populations are plummeting across the country. There’s a myriad of reasons, but research out Dr. Mike Chamberlain’s UGA Wild Turkey lab has pointed to the...
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    Technology & efficacy = lost opportunity?

    It’s already happening. Turkeys are down about 30% across their range. Efficacy of hunters is largely to blame. We’re too good at killing dominant gobblers thus interrupting the breeding ritual and leading to hens not getting bred. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Stabiliser setups - pros and cons of quivalizer and rear stab vs front and rear bar with bow quiver

    You said that he needs to master his equipment. Stability isn’t depended on gear, rather it’s the shooter. You followed up by saying traditional archers are proficient. They are, just not nearly on the same level as compounds. The shooter plays a most certainly plays role, but apples to apples...
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    Stabiliser setups - pros and cons of quivalizer and rear stab vs front and rear bar with bow quiver

    If your right nut depends on you hitting a 10 at 50 yards. You picking your compound or your long bow? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Stabiliser setups - pros and cons of quivalizer and rear stab vs front and rear bar with bow quiver

    They don’t shoot well in comparison to the local asa club champion, or even a decent compound shooter. 25 yards with my satori 85 yards with my ventum 33. Just a narrow mind on his narrow way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Stabiliser setups - pros and cons of quivalizer and rear stab vs front and rear bar with bow quiver

    That’s simply not true. There are platforms and stabilizer setups that are much more stable than others. There’s a reason people whose livelihood depends on hitting x’s shoot 40” axle to axle low let off bows with multiple 30” bars and weigh 10 pounds. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Stabiliser setups - pros and cons of quivalizer and rear stab vs front and rear bar with bow quiver

    I’ve got a 10” front and back bar on my ventum 33. It’s a little heavy and a little awkward, but it flat out shoots better with both bars than one or none. I’ve kicked around the idea of a quivalizer on my next bow. I may give it a try. The biggest issue I see with the quivalizer is not being...
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    Firsthand info on SEVR

    I’ve killed a bull with an iron will and I lost a bull that should have and most likely died with a SEVR. The bull I killed with an iron will was uphill from me at the shot. High lung shot. He trotted down hill to my elevation for another lung shot. He tumbled down the hill for another 35...
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    Bow Hunting Turkeys

    We’re saying different things. A gobbler called to sub 20 yards without a decoy is supposed to die. You won. Dyed in the wool old school turkey hunters will overwhelmingly agree with that sentiment. Calling birds in only to bust them gets old quick. A gobbler will only be fooled by the...
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    Amazon Arrows?

    The overwhelmingly majority of archers can’t outshoot the difference between a .006 and .003 shaft, of the few that can, the overwhelming majority of them can’t outshoot the difference in a .003 and .001. Get you some Easton 6.5 bow hunters (.006) or gold tip hunters (.006) and call it a day...
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    What UL hammock tent?

    He liked it so much he’s convinced two of his hunting buddies to make the switch. I’m one of them. I’ve only had my 30 degree superior bundle out once. It was in a January snow storm with driving wind and temps right around the 10 degree mark. It lives up to its name. The sleep quality was...
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    Bow Hunting Turkeys

    It’s really hard to kill turkeys with a bow, no blind and no decoys. Your experience is pretty common. Decoys would have been useful when you don’t have them and birds shy away from them when you do. You’re going to get busted way more than it’s going to work out, especially without decoys...
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    Montana season change proposal

    So you’re saying that you’re okay with the current harvest (and relative abundance that’s subsequent of the harvest), as long as you yourself and your fellow statesman did more of the trigger pulling? I thought the issue at hand was over harvest of antlerless does and cows? Sent from my...
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    Hoyt alpha X is awesome

    I run an 8” out the lower hole and an 8” back bar on my ventum 33. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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