What Did You Do Today?

[Poggins]

My supervisor handed me two rattlers today , one large dimondback and a smaller pigmy or velvet tail, I'll get pics when I get home , the big one is hole and has been in a freezer and the smaller one has been skinned already . I hope the dimondback is long enough to cover the bow I'm building for him ( I'm sure when I give it to him the bunch that he hunts with will keep me supplied with rattlers, they cook them every once and a while but I think they just throw the skins away ).

[Eric Krewson]

Spent the day getting"stuff" ready to deer hunt this evening. Tested my broad head arrows, one flew poorly, put the broad head on a different arrow, great flight now. Stuck one woodsman in a tree with a high shot at my broad head target, real good penetration on a red oak. I found you can't extract one from a tree without ruining it, made up another arrow to make four for my quiver, all fly really good, sharpened all the broadheads to shaving sharp.

Now it is dragging out my tree stands, safety harness, and the multitude of nick-knacks I put in my cat quiver pack.

In spite of all my gear I will probably set up on the ground and just observe this evening, now where did I put my hammock seat?

A footnote;

I didn't see any deer but did notice hogs had torn up a food plot I just planted. No hogs on the place 3 years ago but hog sign has been abundant in the last year or so. Never seen one, I suspect they are nocturnal, time to make a trap.

[PEARL DRUMS]

I played around in the shop a bit yesterday. Added the "R" to my R/D yew project. Bent like rubber and stayed put.  Im excited about the outcome of this bugger.

[Poggins]

I got the pics of the snakes to finally load .

[Eric Krewson]

Been tied up for the last 14 months and let the house go, little by little I am getting it back into shape. Yesterday I started cleaning my deck, hand scrubbing it from top to bottom to get rid of the mold and dirt. The foreground has been done, the background is todays project, notice how black the siding is near the ceiling.



Another footnote; after 5 hours on a ladder hand scrubbing every part of the deck from floor to celing I am done, looks much better.

[YosemiteBen]

Being on furlough - not as much as I should have!

[Olanigw (Pekane)]

Today I get my motorcycle license, then get my materials for the Christmas present.

[TRACY]

Being on furlough - not as much as I should have!

Hope this is short term Ben. I would say you could have some more knapping time, but your one of a few that I know that actually gets to knap at work

Tracy

[Poggins]

Worked on my hunting spot today , yesterday I stood in a little patch of trees and let six walk around me , lost track of the doe without fawns so I didn't take one.
I cleared me a path so I could get to the spot silently and made me a blind out of brush and some old plywood that was there . I hunted the blind this evening and had a small five point at the feeder about sixty yards away , after he left the doe without fawns came in by herself , after feeding at the feeder for a while she came within ten yards of me and offered several good shots , I didn't draw on her because of work tomorrow and I would have to process her tonight and not get much sleep . I'm carrying a bow given to me by a good friend and mentor Ralph Renfro and a stone point I made myself .

[Eric Krewson]

Hunted this evening, saw 7, passed on a chip shot on a doe, didn't feel like killing her, getting old I guess.

[Marks]

Moved my trail cam one last time before bow season starts next week. I had 2 cameras last year but for the life of me I can't find one of them. I don't know if it is on a tree somewhere or hidden well at home so I'm down to 1 at the moment. Squirrel season is open now so I took the dogs. Boone treed 1 squirrel and surprisingly I found it in all the leaves. That's hard to do this time of year. Lila treed a chipmunk and Boone caught it on the ground when it tried to make a run for it. Seen a big fat doe on the way in. I'd say overall it was a good afternoon.

[Stoker]

Played around in the shop.. Building a powder horn outta buffalo horn.. Can't walk around the great plains of western Canada with a smoke pole and not look good...
Thanks Leroy

[Eric Krewson]

Had one of those gratifying days where your bow student walks off with his first completed selfbow. Hickory bow, a little string follow, dead in the hand, no hand shock and really spits out an arrow.

[JW_Halverson]

Had one of those gratifying days where your bow student walks off with his first completed selfbow. Hickory bow, a little string follow, dead in the hand, no hand shock and really spits out an arrow.

In one little corner of the world, for just a while, everything was good like it should be.

[criveraville]

I got the pics of the snakes to finally load .

Nice snakes! What type is that bottom one?

Cipriano