With three weeks till Michigans early doe season I am still totally unprepared, with the exception of my bow, arrows, ad broadheads. Anyone else last minute like myself?
Maryland opens on Friday. I have been ready since the season closed on January 31.
All I have to do is load up my gear in my truck on Thursday night try and get some sleep and head out on Friday am
I might be worse. With the exception of my bow and arrows I havent even looked at anything else yet, and our season opened up two days ago. I cant seem to get too excited until the temp drops a bit
QuoteOriginally posted by Stixbowdrew:
With three weeks till Michigans early doe season I am still totally unprepared, with the exception of my bow, arrows, ad broadheads. Anyone else last minute like myself?
What else do you need? Doesn't take more than that to hunt a deer.
he grew out of his snuggy last year and he has had trouble finding a new one... hahaha
I just need to fletch up a few more arrows and strop the broadheads. Come on October!!!!!
Waiting on my new bow to be completed and shipped. It'll be much easier to work with it and off-the-shelf components than my giant draw self-made attempts.
Now I have to figure out how to draw 5" short.
Will we truly know if we are ready until the arrow is on it's way? :dunno:
I am also not ready. I will get home from this deployment 1 week before the season starts in good ole indiana. Got a new bow to get set up and stand still to hang. Its gonna be a busy week. Hope it will pay off.
With the whole family's schedule these days I pretty well scout as I hunt. I will pack my bag and give my broadheads one more touch up the night before season. Never can sleep that night anyway. :D
Rob
I'm in same boat. Nothing ready and running out of time. It will all come together some how...lol
Definitely not ready. I just got a new set of arrows tuned up. They are now flying great with bare shaft, field tips and broadhead hitting together, but now I need to sharpen the set of Zwickey 160 gr single bevels that I want to shoot this year.
There is nothing even approaching an edge on them out of the pack. You couldn't cut yourself on one of them even if you were suicidal. Finished one of them last night, but I was having trouble keeping my eyes open and gave up for the night.
I still have 40 plus stand sites to get ready!! Did about 25 so far but more to go! I have 2 weeks to get them done and than 2 weeks later the season opens. Shawn
Got to get stands ready and more scouting done, but by October I'll be there.
Well, I have checked all the stands, and relocated where needed. However, I still need some more tune up shooting and form review, but what the heck, I always need that. I will strop the broad heads during the week before opening day. But in terms of desire and great anticipation, I am always ready!
All Im waiting on is the temp to drop. I hate sweating while hunting. I don't want the meat to spoil from the hour ride home from the farm. I process my own meat, I just can't bring myself to take it to a processor and spend over a hundred dollars to get done what I can do for for free.
Seems like I always fly by the seat of my pants to get ready for bow season. Somehow get it done though. Having teenagers keeps me very busy. Shooting everyday. But my gear is still needing attention. Good luck.
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I just need to fletch up a few more arrows and strop the broadheads. Come on October!!!!!
This is me,but it is still hot down here in October.
QuoteOriginally posted by Stixbowdrew:
With three weeks till Michigans early doe season I am still totally unprepared, with the exception of my bow, arrows, and broadheads. Anyone else last minute like myself?
You definately need a knife - maybe more than one - and good footwear. Then you should be set. :archer2:
Have one more stand to hang , steps and rapid rales up, cut oak branches and hung them today. I do not hunt until it cools down also but looking at that tree with my brush hangers with oak leaves is tempting.
Urban season starts Sept 15th in Indiana. I'm gonna go for some 11am to 7 pm shifts just so I can get some early morning hunting in! Only 14 more days :bigsmyl:
I'm ready I hope this guy is ready to do his part.
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If I wanted to, I could spray the beans in one last small foodplot, (not essential)and check two cameras. Otherwise just need to dig through the equipment and do a prelim trial run at home at the practice stand, clean my truck, and go. Two weeks left. Grandson and I did a pretty thorough job this year. It's all looking good. Just resting the place till the opener. Hope it cools off.
Irv Eichorst
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If I wanted to, I could spray the beans in one last small foodplot, (not essential)and check two cameras. Otherwise just need to dig through the equipment and do a prelim trial run at home at the practice stand, clean my truck, and go. Two weeks left. Grandson and I did a pretty thorough job this year. It's all looking good. Just resting the place till the opener. Hope it cools off.
Irv Eichorst
www.truesouthadventures.com (http://www.truesouthadventures.com)
Delaware bow season starts tomorrow and I'm ready as I am going to get. All I need to do is try to get some sleep!!! :rolleyes:
QuoteOriginally posted by Stixbowdrew:
With three weeks till Michigans early doe season I am still totally unprepared, with the exception of my bow, arrows, ad broadheads. Anyone else last minute like myself?
What else do you need? Doesn't take more than that to hunt a deer.
All that's left to do is put a hunting edge on the broadheads that we have been shooting in practice!
A little organization of my pack, sharpen some heads and air out the clothes and I'm ready to go. :archer2:
Well went up this morning built one blind with fence posts and burlap, and got my dbl bull set up and brushed in so now I am truly ready! Didn't take too long, come on September 21!
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Took a vacation day so got a four day holiday. Family is with me and we spent the cooler hours of the days finishing up stuff. Did a lot this winter on major stuff for some new stand sites and resurrection of some old ones. Need to set a pop up today for the early antlerless and youth season. Then get some licenses. Just taking a break now. Temps finally dropped off so will be a good work day.
I am usually ready to go and highly wound up for it by mid August having done most of my prep in late summer.
Last year at this time was the worst ever year for me. I had nothing ready and was having one of those years where I wondered if I would even feel like hunting. Didn't need to do much for stand sites so it was not to big a big deal. I shook it off and had the toughest bow season ever. Very slow, but stuck it out and managed to fill the freezer with a lot of work. It one point I kind of thought I would be even more behind and less motivated this year, but I spent more time late winter and spring getting ready than ever before. I think that will be my new way to go. It paid off kind of because one of my hunting properties that was well set up and typically ready to go easy got sold this spring so I needed to have more going on where I put in the work this winter.
Work and family stuff really took up a lot of time last year. Not being ready really impacted my attitude. I learned to do as much as I can as early as possible now so things don't put me so far behind when they pile up in the summer and early fall.
I decided yesterday I'm going with the 125 gr Wensel woodsmans I purchased on the st Jude's auction for heads this year. That was the last piece of the puzzle for me!
Too much to get done.....