Wind and species being chased dictate my methods. Nice days with sun and light wind after perch, no shelter. Wind up to 20 mph and chasing perch, a flip over. Wind over 20 and crappy weather or when I'm after snot rockets means I'm in my permanent.
Went out on early ice with a pop up 4X8 home made shak with 2 two trucks. Set up and everything was great until the shack moved a bit. When we tried to get out we realized the weight of two trucks pushed the ice down to the point the trucks slid on the ice, right to the door on the one side...
No such thing as "Safe Ice". However, most smaller lakes seem to have between 4 and 8 inches. Be Safe and check the whole darn way out and back. Unexpected ice baths......SUCK!!!!!!
I'm not quite 50, but lots of those stories I remember having to do when I was a youngster as well. The open oven door, the wood stove heat that was either colder than ice or hotter than blazes. Wet shoes/liners/hats/gloves lined up under the wood stove to dry and coats hanging along side...
Will it kill a deer? Yep! Is it the best option? Nope! Frontal shots regardless of weapon used, normally result in the gut cavity being perforated and many times the bullet or arrow ends up in the hams. Field dressing gut shot deer is distasteful to say the least and marinading the meat in...
While stationed in Jacksonville Fl, the biggest concern with respect to a dog was the dog carrying sand and salt water into the car and destroying the interior. Dogs tend to taste the water and then leave it be. Call it instinct or whatever, but I've never seen a dog quench it's thirst in the...
You better be careful there Guy. You're dangerously close to losing your bungee cord sponsorship. They seem to be conspicuously absent in your list of possible attachment items.
I think that stuff works too good as evidenced by the numerous melt marks and holes I've seen on many of these types of clothing items. I'd probably spring 79 bones for a water/wind proof jacket, but for the most part I'll stick with my carhartts. They go through buckbrush, cattails, trees...
Made a deer stand out of a semi sleeper and it was a HEAVY buggar. Much of the floor supports, at least in the one we used, was made of steel. The fiberglass in the walls and ceiling isn't the lightest either. We used 5/8ths inch plywood to cover the big opening, make a door, and put in a...
Some light rut activity this weekend, but the bucks are still tolerating each other. My bow hunter took a tank 5 1/2 yo 9 pointer that was only a couple of feet from two smaller 8 pointers when he was shot. Very little posturing, chasing, or other peak rut activity observed, but he did hear...