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Bud, If you're going to shoot Forsyth tomorrow, track me down. I've been carrying around a sack of trad archery magazines for months, if you're still sending them to service members. We've zigged and zagged this 3-D season I guess.
-------------------- "You can learn more about deer hunting with a bow and arrow in a week, than a gun hunter might learn all his life." ----- Fred Bear Posts: 3708 | From: Zoo City, NC | Registered: Aug 2010
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What is the minimum eight for a tree stand, by the way? I am thinking of climbing one of the trees at the back of my house. I don't want to harm any tree and the only one which that is easier to climb is one that has a natural kind of platform because it's bendy and the limb goes off and has a nice solid lookind fork. But it's not that high.I would say about 3 meters from the ground.I want to practise as well but I'm kind of reluctant to climb it...
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Whatever you climb make sure the tree is sturdy and you have a good solid well anchored platform to stand on. Mine is 10 feet high, roughly three meters. But the terrain to the front of the stand drops.
The tree stand in the photos is in a sweet gum tree. My dad hates them and if it eventually dies it'll be no loss to us. I picked the sweet gum because it is a very strong tree. Poplar, oak, and pine are everywhere, but this one was my tree of choice. I'm 47 and my Dad is 74. He doen't hunt anymore nor does he visit the woods, unfortunately.
-------------------- "You can learn more about deer hunting with a bow and arrow in a week, than a gun hunter might learn all his life." ----- Fred Bear Posts: 3708 | From: Zoo City, NC | Registered: Aug 2010
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Just gonna bring this to the top as a reminder that Sept is closing in...
I got out last week and shot some more. I also took some pictures of how the area looks now.
This is the same view of where I saw the button buck two years ago. I need to trim the sourwood a bit.
The pic from two years ago. Note the same sourwood on the right of the screen.
This is a zoomed in shot of a balled up napkin I shot at. You can just barely see the black nock in the napkin background. This is about 8-10 yards from the stand.
I got a good feeling come opening day
-------------------- "You can learn more about deer hunting with a bow and arrow in a week, than a gun hunter might learn all his life." ----- Fred Bear Posts: 3708 | From: Zoo City, NC | Registered: Aug 2010
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