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A long day.  We caught up with a few bucks we left last night.  Unfortunately we were c-blocked by a fork horn that had us backing out by mid-day to ensure we didn't mess up the big bucks we had spotted in the area we were hunting.

Excitement, humility, humor, and an all around great time.  Our first hunt day was a ton of fun!  We saw some great bucks, yet gained more of an understanding on why big Mule Deer are some of the hardest big game animals to hunt.  We are having some technical difficulties with uploading pictures, but hopefully we'll get that worked out in the next day or two.

Hey Everybody...

  How about some trail cam pictures???  This is that little spot I found where a rancher tossed a salt block for his cattle.  He pulled the cattle out of the area but my deer are still around.  I suspect that the deer are going to really start hitting the area once our summer rains start.  This spot is on the edge feeding and bedding area.  It is about a 1/3 of a mile for a pretty significant water source so I think the deer are going to stay in the area.  The only issue I have is that I KNOW that there are much bigger deer in the general area but I can't figure out where they are bedding or where they are watering.  During the rut this area was TORE up with scrapes but I didn't get a chance to hunt it.  The crummy part is that I might not even get to hunt this unit because it is a tough draw.  So this weekend I planing on scouting my 2nd draw choice.

 One think you might notice is that  my Coues Deer are holding onto there antlers well into April.  For deer in the Southwest that is pretty common. 

 Again I am using Covert Trail Cams that I picked up from Amanda at www.coueswhitetail.com

How about this Buck?  He has nice mass and a great frame but he need longer and more points...

Hey Guys..

 I hope everybody is still scouting hard... This is the time of year where we see what animals made it thru the hunts...  In NM, the deer started dropping their antlers about two weeks ago...  BUT alot of them are still packing, last week I saw several 1/2 rack mulies. 

BUT I did find some older sheds.  

Hey Guys...

  If you have been reading my blog long you might remember that I found a place that doesn't get hunted very hard but that I always find scrapes in the area.  So once our season finished I hung a Covert Camera in the area to see if I could pick up any deer in the area.  The good news is that I found a ton of deer.  The bad news is that most of them are Mulies.  I also found a nice herd of Javelina's.  

BowCasters!  Hope everyone is getting ready for turkey season. 

BowCasters!

Fletching a BowCast Arrow 

This blog is a continuation on the steps you can use to tune your bow in your own home bow shop.  If you don't have a paper tuner then check out my blog, Paper Tuning Part 1, which shows how to build one. 

2009 BowTech Bows

Although I wasn't able to hold any velvet mule deer or whitetail racks in my hands this year, I did hold the velvet risers of the BowTech Captain and Admiral and these bows were dead in my hand after I shot them. 

Mathews Reezen 6.5 

Sorry BowCasters I haven't gotten this blog out sooner but I have been busy the past few weeks chasing whitetail and was gone for a week visiting family for Thanksgiving.  I didn't kill a buck yet so I will have to wait until late season where the difficulty increases once again.  But I have done it before and I will let you all know how I do.

Howdy folks,

I am back from Montana and collecting all my thoughts and pics to share with you all over Thanksgiving. Stay tuned for the debriefing.

DIY Montana Antelope

2009 PSE Bows

I hope everyone is having a great whitetail season and possibly some late season elk.  I will be chasing both the next two weeks and keep you posted on my efforts.  During the next few weeks I am going to try and shoot as many of the new 2009 bows as possible and give you my thoughts on how they compare.   

Part 1-Making a Paper Tuner

I am still working on building my home bow shop like I'm sure many of you are.  There is a great PodCast, episode #53, on what tools and supplies you will need to start your own home bow shop.  One of the items missing from my shop was a paper tuner.  I have tried many times to quickly tune my bow shooting a piece of paper taped to my ladder rungs.  NOT a good idea and one I would NOT recommend as I put a few holes in the wall of my basement and was out a few arrows.  This blog entry will show you how you can make your own paper tuner by simply going to your local hardware and grocery store and spending around $30.

For those of you having issues updating your iTunes feed to BowCast, it appears the issues have been resolved.  You should be able to successfully update BowCast, and latest episodes that you are missing should be downloaded to your iTunes client.

Folks,

It appears there are some issues with the BowCast iTunes feed that is preventing that ability to update the feed in the iTunes client and receive the latest episodes.

Talk about RAIN!!! It has been a long time since I have seen this much rain this late in the year. In fact, we had TORNADO warnings for the first two days of our Antelope season. I was praying that the area that I was hunting was relatively dry and that I might be able to sit a tank until I was forced to do a little spot and stalk.

Because of birthdays and family visiting I wasn't able to make the first two days of the hunt, usually two days isn't that big of a deal but our Antelope season is only 7 days long so you have to take advantage of everyday. So I rolled out of Silver City Monday morning around 5:00 am trying to make it to my hunting spot before noon. I was able to get to my camping spot around 10:00 am. So I quickly setup camp and headed to the mountain. I say mountain but in reality the area I was hunting was pretty flat. The good thing about this area is that I could see and glass a long way but the problem was that the antelope would see me coming.

In NM we have had two cases in the last week where a wild animal has either attacked and dragged a child away or has eaten someones little FOO-FOO. Could it have been one of these? What is the name of this little animal? The person who comments first with the proper answer will get the other Nocked and Loaded DVD and window sticker. See Aneal's blog for details... This video came from one of my trail cams.