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  1. Anybody have an opinion about the digital licenses? Yay or nay?

    Digital license seems convenient for upland birds and general fishing, but you still have to buy a physical federal duck stamp and still have to put some kind of physical tag on big game animals, plus have pictures and then I really lost interest when you have to create a harvest report online (or offline and then remember to upload it later). Nope.
  2. Aim for the exit and practice at the elevation/distance similar to your stands. Also if the wind isn't right, there's no reason to even sit at your blind. 

    Maybe the most succinct and 100% accurate advice on bowhunting ever written. It is nice to have a setup that works for the prevailing wind direction and a setup for a North wind. I have a really high tree stand which helps take the wind out of the equation but it’s tough to make shots from due to the down angle. You have to bend at the waist for steep down angling shots.
  3. So a little Merry Christmas to me.  I ordered a few of the new Spypoint Flex-S cameras.  Good clarity on these BTW.  When the box arrived it was much bigger than what 2 cameras should be. I guess the packaging line lady was high that day because they included this.
    Spotting Scope
     

    That’s a hell of a happy accident! Do you have a tripod for it? Phoneskopes are great too.
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  4. Shot and handled a bunch of different bows and ended up taking home a Matthew’s phase 4; put a QAD fall away rest and a black gold 3 pin sight.
    I’ll mostly be hunting tree stands and appreciate the advice. Excited to get a lot closer and hone my hunting skills. 
     
    I definitely want to hunt the West before I get too old but right now just trying to narrow down my arrows and broadheads (fixed vs mechanical etc)

    What is the soil type where your tree stands are? Point being: if it is rocky/hard pan: an aluminum broadhead will probably not survive more than one shot. They bend and then don’t shoot straight. Not something that people talk about a lot with broadhead selection, but at $15 a piece, it’s irritating. Slick Trick has some steel heads (blades are a little thin and don’t always survive), along with G5 montec (not my favorite geometry but it has a record of success), and if you really want to go down the rabbit hole, you can read Dr. Ashby’s data and look at Grizzly Stik and IronWill broadheads. Heavy steel heads are really tempting, but it will really knock your speed down and shots over 20 yards will be dicey with the amount of ducking the deer might do.

    Mechanicals can do amazing damage when everything goes right, but they are frequently a one shot deal (even if the shaft survives, the blades usually all bend), and you can loose confidence in them if you see the blades popping out of the retention device while your arrow is nocked (catching on tree limbs, etc)

    Texas white tails are a very challenging archery quarry. Archery hunting is a roller coaster - awesome highs and despondent lows. I missed a short archery shot on a 140” deer years ago and didn’t get over it for a year. But when it all comes together it’s the best.
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  5. Why hit the rut around December? Is that not the secondary rut where you hunt? Mid to late November is where it is at out here.

    Last year our biggest rut activity was early December, it was surprising. Chalking it up to changing weather patterns, etc. It was very dry at our place last fall (a little Sept rain but very dry Oct and Nov), and it has been extremely dry the last 6 months. If we don’t get fairly good rain starting in September I’m thinking it will delay things again, but who knows.
  6. Time to start looking at the calendar and getting some dates reserved. Ordered my OTC Elk tag for Colorado today. Third rifle season, Nov 11-17.

     

    Also looking at:

     

    Central Zone Dove opener Sept 1-2

     

    Teal hunt Sept. 16

     

    Whitetail rifle opener Nov 4-5 (probably try to get the kids on does)

     

    Probably do some hunting thanksgiving week and try to hit the rut around early December.

     

    May try to tack on a crane hunt, big duck hunt, or nilgai in the spring (if I don’t get an elk and have freezer space).

     

    Was driving on 77 yesterday north of Raymondville and saw a big nilgai bull over the fence, I really want to make that hunt happen soon.

     

    Got out to the range over the weekend to function test my phoneskope and spotter, it worked well. My shooting was bad at first, but after the rust was knocked of it improved to not great/not terrible. Something to build off of and stretch out to 500+ with the help of real-time feedback of the spotter and spotting scope with video.

     

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    Second group was sub MOA. Room for improvement.

     

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  7. I’m still trying to Figure that out (it’s only been a week). I think I’m going to do 5x5 schedule 3 times a week and elliptical and stairs the other two days. If anyone has any better suggestions I’m all ears. 

    What lifts are you doing in the 5x5? Are you doing machines or freeweights?

    Some Thoughts:
    I’m sure you’re doing this but start out light and work up slowly.

    Machines can be great IMO when you’re starting up/training muscles that have atrophied, or for specific weak points. E.g. my back hates sit-ups but I can do ab machines no-prob with acceptable results.

    Go slow with the movements - lighter weight with more “time under tension” is probably a good idea. I.e. let the weight down slowly during the rep, like 2-3 seconds.

    Build up the coordination / muscle memory with the movements before you load up the weight.

    Stretching/yoga might also be a really good use of time.
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  8. Shame that this was scrapped a few years back:
     
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    I don’t know why Project Azorian hasn’t been made into a big budget movie. So many great themes:

    Cold War
    Covert ops
    Moonshot type of innovation/R&D
    Risky/huge physical forces involved
    Hughes cover story
    O&G driller cowboys
    Boat full of Russians / some bikinis
    Near disaster during execution
    Partial success
    Everybody lived (except the dead Russians we gave a ceremonial burial at sea to)
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