Athens Archery

[rodney482]

I really want to thank you guys....A few months ago I saw you guys posting on every bow thread literally pushing your bows on people. Rodney asked you guys to lay off a bit. I can tell you in my opinion it has benefited you guys 10 fold. I am really interested in getting my hands on one of your bows to shoot and possibly purchase. Two months ago I wouldn't even have considered an Athens.

If your wondering why I am posting this, it is because since my short tenure as a member of archery talk. I have decided that there are some products I don't want to be associated with because of the type of people representing the product. Therefore, instead of being a negative poster and bashing those guys, I decided to be positive poster and compliment you guys.

Rodney great job managing your At guys and God Bless you and all Athens shooters.

Thanks for kind words.

We will continue to strive to be the best that we can be.

[J-Daddy]

That really sucks J-Daddy! IMO, the stands can be replaced. That buck cant. And the only thing I could see myself doing, is leaving a truck down river, and having someone drop me off up stream with a canoe. I'd have to try it, but wouldnt expect to find it. What a bummer man!

Well if it was down to the summer pool I could have walked out there and got him where he crossed cause it wouldnt have been much over knee deep but with the rain we've had in the past couple of weeks she's up and rolling now. I'd be willing to bet that deer isnt even in the county anymore. Plus this river is deep & swift, not alot of shallow spots in it.

[MidMoJeff]

Well if it was down to the summer pool I could have walked out there and got him where he crossed cause it wouldnt have been much over knee deep but with the rain we've had in the past couple of weeks she's up and rolling now. I'd be willing to bet that deer isnt even in the county anymore. Plus this river is deep & swift, not alot of shallow spots in it.

I understand...and that sucks! We've had a ton of rain too. And if the river your talking about is anything like the one I'm around....it would be to dangerous to even attempt it until it came back down. But you might be surprised at how far it drifted. I found one a few years ago under much different circumstances that was hung up in a downed tree.

[Bohica]

Guys I had a crazy afternoon yesterday, got ready and left to go to my honeyhole which I hardly ever hunt because it's so small and I dont want to burn it out before the rut starts "It's a chase zone". Anyway, no one hunts this spot now, a few years ago a farther & son hunted it and they had some steel ladder stands in there but they moved away and left the stands so they have been on the trees for years, I used them "landowner said it was cool" and I replaced all the ratchet straps on them...I hunted it once a couple weeks ago and saw 10deer that afternoon..Go in there yesterday and see 5 in the field behind it on the way in, get down to the creek bottom and both the stands are gone...Somebody came onto private property and took down 2 huge and crazy heavy steel 20' ladder stands and even stole my damn ratchet straps!!!! So I dont have a stand there now so I leave and head out the other farm and get in another stand. Grunt in a little 8pt awhile later and then just at dark I Roar'd & Snort Wheezed and a big, wide 8pt comes crashing in. I stopped him at 20yds and hammered him, watched the LumeNok blow right through him on the edge of the shoulder and bury in the ground, deer runs maybe 30yds, tips over, gets back up and decides his best line of escape is to swim the river that's about 5yds away from him...So I set in the stand and watch him hit the river, make it about half way out and roll over dead as a hammer and off he floats. We've had alot of rain lately and the river is deep & swift and my big 8pt is history, thing looked like he had a Johnson Outboard straped to his butt. No shallow spots, no way to get to him since he's in the middle of the river. As much as I hate it I guess I lost that one. I took my light and walked down the river bank for a long ways but he was long gone by that point. If there's one positive thing, the Grim Reapers left a massive blood trail and I'm really surprised he got back up after the initial 30yd sprint. I guess you win some & you lose some.

J-Daddy I can only imagine the sick feeling you had to have watching that!.

I really want to thank you guys....A few months ago I saw you guys posting on every bow thread literally pushing your bows on people. Rodney asked you guys to lay off a bit. I can tell you in my opinion it has benefited you guys 10 fold. I am really interested in getting my hands on one of your bows to shoot and possibly purchase. Two months ago I wouldn't even have considered an Athens.

If your wondering why I am posting this, it is because since my short tenure as a member of archery talk. I have decided that there are some products I don't want to be associated with because of the type of people representing the product. Therefore, instead of being a negative poster and bashing those guys, I decided to be positive poster and compliment you guys.

Rodney great job managing your At guys and God Bless you and all Athens shooters.

Kahkon, another thank you. Sometimes peoples can get too caught up with emotions on forums, it can happen to really good people. I believe we really are exited with our Athens positions and the great equipment and maybe get a little carried away at times. Rodney does run a great ship and won't let us stray out of bounds. As maxx532 said, join us over at the Athens site.

[-bowfreak-]

Guys I had a crazy afternoon yesterday, got ready and left to go to my honeyhole which I hardly ever hunt because it's so small and I dont want to burn it out before the rut starts "It's a chase zone". Anyway, no one hunts this spot now, a few years ago a farther & son hunted it and they had some steel ladder stands in there but they moved away and left the stands so they have been on the trees for years, I used them "landowner said it was cool" and I replaced all the ratchet straps on them...I hunted it once a couple weeks ago and saw 10deer that afternoon..Go in there yesterday and see 5 in the field behind it on the way in, get down to the creek bottom and both the stands are gone...Somebody came onto private property and took down 2 huge and crazy heavy steel 20' ladder stands and even stole my damn ratchet straps!!!! So I dont have a stand there now so I leave and head out the other farm and get in another stand. Grunt in a little 8pt awhile later and then just at dark I Roar'd & Snort Wheezed and a big, wide 8pt comes crashing in. I stopped him at 20yds and hammered him, watched the LumeNok blow right through him on the edge of the shoulder and bury in the ground, deer runs maybe 30yds, tips over, gets back up and decides his best line of escape is to swim the river that's about 5yds away from him...So I set in the stand and watch him hit the river, make it about half way out and roll over dead as a hammer and off he floats. We've had alot of rain lately and the river is deep & swift and my big 8pt is history, thing looked like he had a Johnson Outboard straped to his butt. No shallow spots, no way to get to him since he's in the middle of the river. As much as I hate it I guess I lost that one. I took my light and walked down the river bank for a long ways but he was long gone by that point. If there's one positive thing, the Grim Reapers left a massive blood trail and I'm really surprised he got back up after the initial 30yd sprint. I guess you win some & you lose some.

DUDE! Are you kidding me? What a bunch of crap. Man....I hate that you lost your buck!!!!! Let us know if you find him.

[J-Daddy]

DUDE! Are you kidding me? What a bunch of crap. Man....I hate that you lost your buck!!!!! Let us know if you find him.

A guy here intown that I know lost one the same way in the same river last year...He said he didnt get a pass through and his arrow had a LumeNok on it and he could see the nock under the water floating down the river out of sight...Back in the spring I found a dead buck in the same river at exactly the same spot where mine jumped while I was turkey hunting. If a deer gets in this river in bad shape he's as good as gone...It's notta huge river but it's deep & swift, not many riffles or shallow spots in it at all to actualy find a deer, they just keep going unless they hang under a log under the water which is what happened to the deer I found back in the spring.

[rodney482]

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[cartman308]

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Already put my vote it
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[Okie101]

Added another vote.

[lilcajun]

another vote just added!

[Beastmaster]

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[guanche]

Another vote for athens

[J-Daddy]

I voted too...Doesnt look like we'll be catching Hoyt anytime soon but atleast we're gaining some ground.

[ike_osu]

Anyone else have trouble getting motivated to go when it is 75 degrees. I got up this morning and the wind was howling and it was 55 degrees with a high of 75 today. I just went back to bed. I got all next week to hunt and a trip to KS to look forward to so maybe that is why but this weather is killing my motivation.

[Terps1]

yep voted a while back

[bhill12]

added my vote

[J-Daddy]

Anyone else have trouble getting motivated to go when it is 75 degrees. I got up this morning and the wind was howling and it was 55 degrees with a high of 75 today. I just went back to bed. I got all next week to hunt and a trip to KS to look forward to so maybe that is why but this weather is killing my motivation.

I hear ya, I'm in the same boat. Over the past couple of weeks I've barely seen any true rut activity around here and the warm weather doesnt help motivate me any either. I got buddies from all over the country calling & texting me asking if I'm in a tree and I tell them no...I'm just not feeling it much right now for some reason.

[-bowfreak-]

I hear ya, I'm in the same boat. Over the past couple of weeks I've barely seen any true rut activity around here and the warm weather doesnt help motivate me any either. I got buddies from all over the country calling & texting me asking if I'm in a tree and I tell them no...I'm just not feeling it much right now for some reason.

I know what you mean......I don't want to even keep track of how many hours I have logged in a tree the last 7 days. The weather has been fine here just NO deer. I saw on the news yesterday they said this area had a 40 year low acorn crop. In 20 years of bowhunting I haven't seen it like this. The deer are nowhere in the woods. Just bedding and feeding in honeysuckle thickets or in fields. I have seen like 7 deer from my treestand the WHOLE season here in my home county and I didn't even see one in October or September! I did end up shooting a small 7 pointer last night. He is a dink but, I plan on hunting OH so it was going to be my last set in KY till mid Dec.

[J-Daddy]

I know what you mean......I don't want to even keep track of how many hours I have logged in a tree the last 7 days. The weather has been fine here just NO deer. I saw on the news yesterday they said this area had a 40 year low acorn crop. In 20 years of bowhunting I haven't seen it like this. The deer are nowhere in the woods. Just bedding and feeding in honeysuckle thickets or in fields. I have seen like 7 deer from my treestand the WHOLE season here in my home county and I didn't even see one in October or September! I did end up shooting a small 7 pointer last night. He is a dink but, I plan on hunting OH so it was going to be my last set in KY till mid Dec.

Man it sounds like KY has went downhill the past few years..I keep intouch with a few old buddies down there weekly that I used to bowhunt with when I lived there and all of them have said the same stuff "It freakin SUCKS!!!"
None of them are seeing deer, muchless big deer, one of my buddies said he's seen fewer deer in the past 2 years than since the early 80's when you hardly ever even saw a deer at all. He food plots the crap out of his place and said he walked around the plots last weekend and found 1 little doe track and that was it. I know 2 guys down there that have shot does to eat and that's it this year.

[-bowfreak-]

Man it sounds like KY has went downhill the past few years..I keep intouch with a few old buddies down there weekly that I used to bowhunt with when I lived there and all of them have said the same stuff "It freakin SUCKS!!!"
None of them are seeing deer, muchless big deer, one of my buddies said he's seen fewer deer in the past 2 years than since the early 80's when you hardly ever even saw a deer at all. He food plots the crap out of his place and said he walked around the plots last weekend and found 1 little doe track and that was it. I know 2 guys down there that have shot does to eat and that's it this year.

Yeah it has gone down hill. My friend has a farm in Central KY that has deer crawling all over it. I go down there on doe patrol and have seen plenty of deer there this year and killed one slick

[OHsneaky1]

+1 for Athens!

[rodney482]

update

Under Armour deal, I am still waiting on UA to get me the cards. So please be patient...I too would like to do some purchasing.

If any of the staff is unclear on any of the specail deals that you get here is a list.

If you are unsure how to receive the deals..send me a PM.

If you are on Phase 2 most of the deals are listed in your contract email,,Please read through it. Some are not due to when I sent you the contract.

Buck Addicts
Under Armour
GoldTip
BOCOMO wrist slings...PM him here on AT
Jayhawk Optics..........PM hm here on AT
Scorpyd Crossbows


remember if you are not receiving the mass email and you are a Phase 1 staff shooter, send 909bowsniper a PM.

[Mule426]

check out this poll......I know there are more than 29 of us...

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We are up to 58. I know there has got to be more than that.

[missed1once]

Day started by having a 140-150 class 10 point walk accross the road in front me. Get to my stand only to find that it was stolen! Locks and all. See not much at all even though the farm we are at is crawling with deer. Hunting partners arrive late, see deer all day, and fellow staffer John (designed to hunt) ends up shooting a nice 8 point right where I told him to go! I am happy as hell for John, but still steamed my climbing sticks and my lock on stand were stolen. Here' s to you John!
oh well, got a week left!

[29innovator70]

Man, with all the stands we've had stolen, I think rodney should work on a deal with millenium or summit for us!

All joking aside, sorry to hear that, I had the same thing happen to me last weekend, it's really sad that people can be such low lifes.

[Hock]

Man it sounds like KY has went downhill the past few years..I keep intouch with a few old buddies down there weekly that I used to bowhunt with when I lived there and all of them have said the same stuff "It freakin SUCKS!!!"
None of them are seeing deer, muchless big deer, one of my buddies said he's seen fewer deer in the past 2 years than since the early 80's when you hardly ever even saw a deer at all. He food plots the crap out of his place and said he walked around the plots last weekend and found 1 little doe track and that was it. I know 2 guys down there that have shot does to eat and that's it this year.

It's not too bad. I hunt and live in central Ky and we have been on big deer all year. On the three farms that I hunt, they have harvested a 172", 158", 148", 142" and had a kid take a 137" with a crossbow. I've also seen plenty of big deer this week on their feet. Hope to get my crack at one this week.

[bloodtrail1]

Pics I just got from my trail cam......Hope to get one of them with my Athens!
http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1058685

[Sfd_324]

Man, with all the stands we've had stolen, I think rodney should work on a deal with millenium or summit for us!

All joking aside, sorry to hear that, I had the same thing happen to me last weekend, it's really sad that people can be such low lifes.

Lone Wolf, Muddy, or even Trophyline.

[giddi1820]

Man, with all the stands we've had stolen, I think rodney should work on a deal with millenium or summit for us!

All joking aside, sorry to hear that, I had the same thing happen to me last weekend, it's really sad that people can be such low lifes.

Rodney, I'll second this, with the police work, under armour, phase 2 and hunting there should be plenty of time left in the day to get us some stands LOL.

[rodney482]

Rodney, I'll second this, with the police work, under armour, phase 2 and hunting there should be plenty of time left in the day to get us some stands LOL.

lets not forget about working on the Arc, the 300, the protege...establishing staff programs in other countries, list goes on and on...

I did send Millenium an email...

[Kahkon]

Rodney, I'll second this, with the police work, under armour, phase 2 and hunting there should be plenty of time left in the day to get us some stands LOL.

Hmm, Interesting, I did not know know Rodney was a Police Officer. I guess I should read more profiles. Thank-you for your service Brother Rodney.

[cartman308]

lets not forget about working on the Arc, the 300, the protege...establishing staff programs in other countries, list goes on and on...

I did send Millenium an email...

Do they make a climber?
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[lilcajun]

Do they make a climber?
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yep they just came out with it like last year.....that thing is comfortable too!!!

[cartman308]

yep they just came out with it like last year.....that thing is comfortable too!!!

Sweeet! I need a climber sooooo bad! No way I'm hangin the LW Alpha Elite on public land
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[maxx532]

Stolen stands and cameras, seems to be a problem, no matter where you live. Maybe what we need is theft insurance. lol.

Probably a light weight climber is the way to go, on public land. Keep it with you.

[ARCHERYXPERT]

Stolen stands and cameras, seems to be a problem, no matter where you live. Maybe what we need is theft insurance. lol.

Probably a light weight climber is the way to go, on public land. Keep it with you.

Not just Public land. I headed into my stand last night on Private Prop. and My stand was gone. So I headed to the another stand I had near by, Gone as well. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr!

[rodney482]

Hmm, Interesting, I did not know know Rodney was a Police Officer. I guess I should read more profiles. Thank-you for your service Brother Rodney.

One would think that I work at Athens...

[autumn]

I received my 34 on friday,went down to the pro shop an got it set up,shot a few arrows, an then there was a line to shoot it,everybody in the shop wanted to pull it back,that made me a little nervous, but it got nothing but good reviews everbody liked the wall, an how quiet it was.
I got to meet another field staff shooter who is waiting for his bow,let him shoot mine an now he can't wait to get his. GREAT BOW ATHENS

[Smoke-Walker09]

I guess not only do we have to put camera's to watch Deer, but putting them up to watch who steals them stands would be great and the look on thier faces when they get a visit from the local police would be priceless to see.

[ike_osu]

I have a question. I have seen several threads about companies offering contingency programs and a couple of the company that I am involved with offer them. But what are they exactly? I have shot 3d for a while but this is the first year that I will be shooting indoor leagues. Thanks

Ike