where do u hunt/my area

[Maynerd62411]

Non-resident tags are pretty steep, here, too. Archery and firearm.
I hunt Fayette County, IL. Not the biggest deer in the state, but up there in the harvest numbers.
Them Shawnee deer have a odd taste, Too many acorns, I think. We have "corn-fed" deer around here. :winking:

 

[Slamfire]

Mostly off'n the back porch. My Dad used to hunt from the kitchen, until he actually shot one from there, then Mom banished him to the breezeway. :nono:

 

[Hoyt]

Well..them Shawnee deers can take a deep sigh of relief..cause I ain't goin. Probably not goin to bow hunt at all or even pull one back (two yrs. in a row no bow huntin)..my upper back went out on me during the tail end of spring gobbler season from carryin that flintlock smoothbore around so much without gettin a shot. I was hoping it would get better but it's not going to soon enough to be ready.
Anyway the cervical area is out of wack and I'm scared to even try pulling a bow for fear of making things worse and not being able to hunt at all.
Hell gettin old.

 

[Rebel]

Try a good Chiropractor. They keep me up and moving. And yep, this gettin' old ain't fer sissy's is it?

 

[Hoyt]

Rebel..I think it's past Chiropractor help..already had my lower back operated on (needs more) and the upper is same problem. The disk is deteriorated and it's about bone on bone. It usually will go away after a while, but hasn't this time.

 

[Rebel]

Sorry to hear that, i know all about back problems. They are definately no fun. Hope it gets to feeling better.

 

[roundball]

Sorry to hear that, i know all about back problems. They are definately no fun. Hope it gets to feeling better.

"Front problems" can be bad too...when I had my quadruple bypass in '99, I was at the peak of my bow-hunting years, actually getting halfway decent at it, filling tags, etc.

With my sternum cut open for the heart surgery, I was then warned not to pull a bow during the first year...and by the end of the first year, I had become so consumed with flintlocks that I've never gone back

 

[Rebel]

Yep, you are definately right on that point. A good friend of mine just had a double bypass a couple months ago. He was a bow hunter also. Not now. At least not for quite a while. He said he will probably just sell his archery stuff now. H**l gettin' old.

 

[Hoyt]

I found out I had heart problems back in 1989 and had two angio plasties to try and open the main blockage..didn't hold up...but did kill a nice buck with bow about a wk after my second angio plasty. Thought I was going to die dragging it out the woods...was in Aiken Co. S.C. and during the hot early bow season there.
Had to have a triple by pass about a month later and didn't bow hunt or gun hunt for a yr. But got back into all of it after that. I wasn't able to pull 70lbs. like I could before and have finally dropped down to right at 60lbs. I've since had two more angio plasties..but it's right at time for open heart again. The graphs don't last but about 14yrs. or so.

 

[Rebel]

Hoyt, sorry tovhear about all the heart problems. Hope they are able to fix you up for keeps this time. My friend is doing a lot better already. Before the surgery he couldn't walk to his mailbox and back without being out of breath. Now he is jogging on a treadmill on an incline for 20-30 min. and the Dr.s are amazed that his BP and heart rate are no higher than they are after that. Good luck.

 

[Slamfire]

Tell your friend to keep an eye out for signs of peripheral artery disease. When your legs start starvin' for blood joggin' gets tough. :sorry:

 

[Rebel]

Thanks for the advice. I'll let him know about it.

 

[Wink]

I hunt the Chequamegon National Forest in NW Wisconsin during the gun season and on land that I own In Door County during the bow season.

 

[luvv2hunt]

I hunt in north central and south Alabama.I love to hunt white oak bottoms when they are dropping acorns and i also love to hunt around the edges of about three to four year old cutovers.I have had good luck planting an oat strip about six feet wide and a hundred yards long through a big ol grown up cutover,the deer seem to enjoy the thick cover on both sides of them just a step away.