Recent content by bowmaker

I can tell you make the switch. I have an original Knight disc with the orange discs. With no alterations I switched to Blackhorn 209 and used a Barnes Spitfire 290 grain sabot and just killed large shed buck. He stepped out at about 100 yards broadside and I hit him just behind the shoulder...

You guys might want to check the regs. I read a couple years ago that with a crossbow you must use at least a 3 blade head. When I first got my crossbow I was using Swackers as well, but found it was not legal. I don't believe that has changed!

I find it hard to believe that this thread has gone on this long, but it does show how self righous and self serving people on both sides of this issue can be, myself included. I currently use a crossbow and enjoy hunting with it just as I enjoyed hunting with a compound and recurve and hand...

Ok as I have said before I am currently using a crossbow because I am old and have bad soulders. I started shooting a compound bow in 1984 with one from Bass Pro with a 65lb draw and 60% letoff. I killed some deer with it, but then in 1995 I move to the farm and built my first wooden selfbow...

Another issue to consider in this increasing debate might be disallowing handguns from this late muzzle loader season. If you are concerned about a weapon with a legitimate effective range in actually hunting big game of 30 or 40 yards, what about the handguns that can be scoped and shoot and...

With everyone carring a cell phone with picture capabilites it would seem easy to get pictures of people like this and the truck and the license plate and if the antlers all had tags on them. Then the DNR would have a case and not have to catch them litterly red handed to take action. Snapping...

Tenant tags are only good on the acres that the tenant controls the farming activites on. If not for this there could be 10 tenants that each rent 10 acres on a 100 acre farm and each would be able to hunt the whole 100 acre farm. Look into the defination of a tenant.

My only gripe at first was the idea that deer drives were unethical. In my neck of the woods there is not anyone that I have seen or know of that chace down deer with trucks, but I don't doubt that it happens in some places and that need to be addressed. I have been deer hunting since about...

Ethics are in the eyes of the beholder, but laws are laws, and traditions are traditions, all of which vary greatly from State to State or Province. On a crossbow site forum many of the southern states and many Canidian privinces allow baiting in the form of bait piles or feeders and no one...

I just heard in our sales meeting this morning that Paul is now finally at peace and our world is both richer for his being and poorer for his passing. "Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened" Dr Suese.

We have been to Yellowstone three times and I believe that everyone should see it at least once. I would suggest trying to stay around Cody or between there and the Parks east entrance. The scenery going in that way is tremoundous and it brings you right along Yellowstone Lake. Then you can go...

I am one of those dasterdly hunters who have crossed over to the dark side of carrying a crossbow to more easily be able to poach and jacklight every big buck in the county.:D The grin is just to help point out the sacasim in that statement. Because of old arthritic shoulders I got a crossbow...

Lots of variables here, but if it is a common two story house built in 1905 you will pretty easily use between 1200 and 2000 gallons of propane a year. My boss has a big old two story house and he has already used over 1000 gallons so far this winter. I had a fill 2 weeks ago of 350 gallons @...

I gotta agree with Daver! How far do we need to go to protect and safeguard "OUR" free roaming deer as they move around and across property lines? While I would not have done this, I don't use cameras at all, so it really is not an issue until the fence is crossed on purpose for the sake of...

I hope that those supporting this kind of approach understand that almost half of our counties this year had 500 or less doe tags avaliable for hunters, 43 to be exact. That would mean that for thse counties with 0 tags now there could be 3 doe tags avaliable for every hunter in those counties...