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Welcome home, darling. I've always wanted to own a Black Widow. Their catalogs have been laying around the house for years. Late last summer, I decided to make the purchase and scratch the itch. I was told it would be about a 7-8 month wait when they called about my order to confirm...

I left a non-cellular camera (on private) over a historical scrape in a logging road for the entire season. The camera was up from mid-Sept through yesterday. I doctored the scrape/licking branch once when I put the camera up and once in Nov when I hunted, using Black Widow Branch Butter and...

I'd been seeing a lot of these on the socials and couldn't resist making a few of my own. There are a lot of different styles and shapes, but the common thing is obviously the horseshoe nail which is like a striker against a call surface. The easiest to obtain and best call surface I have found...

I got these from a Moultrie cell cam a few days ago. Public ground, SE Ohio. Nearly all of my bobcat pics from this fall/winter have been night time black and white pics.

I'm a little (emphasis on little) surprised that this story isn't gaining much traction in the big media machine yet. A few years ago, Trevor Bauer (pitcher for the LA Dodgers) was accused of sexual assault by a woman he had been with. Seemingly without all of the facts, Major League Baseball...

Build is a loose term. It probably should be called assembly. I've "built" two fly rods, both turned out fine and I use them often. After the last one, I told myself "no more." The process is not all that enjoyable to me, but the payoff is you can have a new rod for a lot less cash. I was...

I'll be shooting these from my trad setups but figured I'd post here in case anyone else was interested in these heads. A buddy got me started watching the Lusk broadhead reviews on YouTube a few weeks ago. I was on the fence about what to shoot this fall, and hadn't heard of the Cleaver's until...

Because @Hedgelj and @TinyTucky asked questions, here's a step by step of how I tie that almost weedless craw. My nickname for it is the Cheat Code Craw. I was tying one a few nights ago and snapped pics to show how it's put together. Recipe -junk hook shank, I use Mustad 37187's in size 6...

No, I'm not going. :confused: A friend of mine is going elk hunting this fall. I'd like to make him an elk call (cow call) for the trip. I see some "bite and blow" style calls (sounds painful lol) and some open reed style calls. Any suggestions on these types of calls as far as ease of use and...

I spoke to a good friend of mine over the weekend that runs an incredible hunting property. His leasers had to back out on him for this season, so his property is currently available. I confirmed with Jackalope that it was alright for me to post here about the property availability. Here's a...

Today I made my first coyote hunt of the summer. I had two public land spots close to home in mind for this morning. The spot I wanted to go into, where I located some coyotes a few weeks earlier, was a no-go with the steady west wind. Pretty much, given my entry and where I think the coyotes...

I had been watching online for a few weeks for a decent deal on a vintage Bear Kodiak Magnum and finally pulled the trigger on this one. It's a 1968 Kodiak Mag, 45lbs@28". She shows signs of age and use, was missing the Bear medallion, but was being sold as being in good working/shootable...

So I had this call, an E.L.K. Power Howler. I like it, it sounds pretty good, but it didn't have a lot of volume. Yesterday, I spent portions of the day working on boosting the volume by adding a horn to the barrel. Here's where the day started. This horn I could tell had some color, but it...

Any of ya'll trad brethren have any experience with shorter recurves? The bows I am shooting now are 60" (Stalker) and 62" (Sage Elite). The more I try to hunt from ground blinds and, to an extent, some tree setups, I see the advantage to a shorter bow. Do any of you folks shoot (or have shot)...

I got my .22-250 out last week and found out I was damn near out of ammo. I had not shot it in a while, and haven't bought ammo for it in probably 15+ years. So what is out there? What are you folks shooting in terms of ammo in similar rifles? I know ammo prices have gone through the roof, and...

I've been wanting to try a horn howler for a few months. I follow some call makers on social media that produce some beauties. My expectations were set much lower, trying something brand new. Here's what I started with. I knew when I pulled the first horn out (I ordered a couple, expecting to...

I used some Amazon gift card money from the holidays to grab this Foxpro howler I'd been wanting to try. I mainly wanted it for the latex reed howler, and I gave little thought to the diaphragm. I have never been comfortable with diaphragms for turkeys so I just assumed I wouldn't like this...

I had an interesting experience yesterday. I had a few hours in the morning and a cell cam on public that had run dry in the last week or so. I wanted to move it to a new-to-me location so I set out to retrieve/scout/re-hang. When I get to the lot near the trail head, there was a guy beside his...

Can anybody relate to this? My three Spypoint CellLink's all have a microSD card in them for storage before they are uploaded. My best-producing camera, of course, gave me a card error a few days ago. The last thing I wanted to do was go in there, intrude on the area, and pull it...but I did...

Sit #1: opening morning I had hoped a group of public bucks would continue hitting a mock scrape in daylight hours for Sit 1, but their pattern changed (of course) a week before the opener. Instead, I hit up another public land spot where I always have good encounters in the early season. The...