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Matthew, I planned to take my osage selfbow as my primary but my arrow setup got kinda loud. I'll sort that out before whitetail season. In the meantime I'm blessed to have two bow/arrow setups that I'm 1000% confident with.
Left is my NM Classic 68" drawing 57#. Arrow with that is a 250 Heritage 4 fletched with a 160 grizzly up front. with inserts and everything it totals up at 650 grains with 260 worth up front.
Right setup is my Bigfoot Sasquatch 60" pulling 63#. Arrow is a four fletch xx78 super slam with a 170 grain delta up front. Total grains is also 650. It may be less of an arrow, but it's just creepy how I can pick that thing up cold and drive nails with it.
Shedrock, I'll check out that thread!
The rest of you yahoos, you're gonna be sick of these campfire stories after a year or two
Gary, 90% packed and will be ready to roll! I gotta ask, did you get about 50 pictures like this from Nebraska today? Thom
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Thanks Matthew! I've got no blood on either of them yet, but that will make them even prettier to me
I sent Gary the other 49 pictures to go with that dude up above, it sounds like seeing them may have given him insomnia. Of course that will mean he can do all the driving out there Thom
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Cool, my test post from the iPad of pictures using the cellular network worked! I might be able to update this thread from the road! Thom
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That does it, no more shooting my NM inside the house! I hit the nock on an arrow hard enough to drive it through my target and into the wall behind... Dang.
Now I need to find a pronghorn at 12 yards, and a house with a longer hallway. Thom
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When you asked me to test shoot in your hallway and I declined it was just cause I didn't want to be the first to punch a hole in the wall but now that you own that; what the heck, let's shoot at Thom's! Hope I can sleep tonight; just gotta keep tellin' myself I can't hunt tomorrow. See ya at 7.
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In Iowa and its cloudy and raining, wonder how much they are gettIng in Nebraska. Saw a coyote in Michigan, hope it's good medicine. Thom
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quote:Originally posted by huntnmuleys: im anxious to see pics from this trip! i 2nd the alfalfa if he has it, antelope love that stuff, and i love to eat antelope that have been eating that stuff!
Thats the truth for sure.
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Crossing from Iowa into Nebraska we got to see some nice storms raining on the dead corn.
Gary and I got out of the rain in Omaha and picked up a few last minute items at some foremost outfitting store then headed on to Lincoln to meet up with our third hunting partner. Looked at some P&Y mounts he's collected from this ranch over the years and did a camp checklist.
Intel from the ranch says no water over on that side and water will be the key. Leaving at 5am so we can have camp up by 2pm and start scouting around. Will have a few double bulls and my penthouse to replace some of those little pop ups with.
All in all looks really promising, too bad it will be several days before I will get close enough to a cell tower to post any more updates. Thom
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What coincidence, I'm living in Box Butte county. Its a good week to hunt, while its dry the temps aren't 100+ like its been almost everyday for the last month. Good luck and hope you two have success flinging arrows at those prairie rats!
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Well no goats on ice, but good stories for the campfire. 18 hours to home... Thom
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