[dougell]

On the bright side Joe.With the price of gas,you may have someone to haul you guys around now lol.

 

[TauntoHawk]

So here's the picture version and I'll save long winded stories for the guys over on my turkey hunting form. After a slow opener, family and work kept me out to the woods for the next 10 days, finally I was able to slide away for a week long hunt and remote working the afternoons with my father. We had plans to hit 3 states as I did last year.

Hunting couldn't have been better, we didn't have a single day where we didn't get on gobbling turkeys, even a truck alternator going out couldn't slow us down and just added an extra day to the trip to get fixed while I borrowed a car from a friend in NH. We shot 7 birds in the first 7 days and day 8 was just a quick 2hr public hunt in NY on the way home and while we did get on a bird another hunter's shot gave him lockjaw or a funeral.

It was truly a spectacular time and one I will not take lightly to have done with my father each day, we had 5min flash hunts and 5hr chess matches, and a bird that must have been part merriams as he marched 600+ across the rolling NH landscape in 15min only stopping to gobble.

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[TauntoHawk]

Continued picture dump

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[nicko]

Looks like it was one of those trips for the memory bank… Congrats!!!!!

 

[12-Ringer]

Nice!!!!

 

[LetThemGrow]

Awesome!

 

[Mr. October]

Hi all . . Haven't been on for a while. My company offers a sabbatical after so many years of work and I jumped on it. We were on the road in the RV for the last month. I visited my brother in Florida for a couple weeks then we made our way up the coast to Brunswick, Savannah, and Charleston. After that we took a left turn and headed out to the Smoky Mountains. They were beatiful! Tons of turkeys, bear, and deer. I could live there happily.

Now I'm frantically getting ready for Total Archery Challenge next weekend. I didn't take my bow along camping so playing catch up. Thank goodness Gold Tip still builds lots of arrows.

 

[rogersb]

My bow has been at Nock Busters in Berwick for almost 2 months. All I needed was a new string. I called 3 weeks ago and the owner said he'd call me back in a couple days when it's done. No call yet. Anyone know a decent place in the hazleton/ Wilkes-Barre area?

 

[nicko]

My bow has been at Nock Busters in Berwick for almost 2 months. All I needed was a new string. I called 3 weeks ago and the owner said he'd call me back in a couple days when it's done. No call yet. Anyone know a decent place in the hazleton/ Wilkes-Barre area?

Not from that area but it definitely sounds like it’s time to find a new shop.

 

[AjPUNISHER]

My bow has been at Nock Busters in Berwick for almost 2 months. All I needed was a new string. I called 3 weeks ago and the owner said he'd call me back in a couple days when it's done. No call yet. Anyone know a decent place in the hazleton/ Wilkes-Barre area?

That's why I started doing my own bow work, many of the shops have gone under in my area. I used to shoot at the Fuzzy Grub, but that's gone. I also went to Shultz's Archery and Toms Archery Hut but there gone too. I have never been to Nock Busters...but I think Soaring Eagle in Nescopeck is still there and There's a shop in Benton that is still open, formerly called Suttons.

 

[AjPUNISHER]

I hit NY pretty hard after another tom mid last week thru Saturday morning but wasn't having much luck with that. I got dad out for his 3rd outing in PA in the afternoon Saturday...and got him on a bird!!! I hit a different property in NY this morning and ended up coming out heavier than when I went in . Pics and some story time when I have more time to share.

Hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day spent with their loved ones!

 

[LetThemGrow]

Saturday I finally hiked in to some of the more remote camera locations on the very heavily posted lease. 2 cams had padlock hasps snapped off and memory cards stolen. 1 cam was removed from Python and left lying open on the ground without memory cards, ruined. 3 other cameras had been turned while thieves tried to remove them from the tree.

I am so disgusted with this. Respect is gone. Fear is gone. How 2 generations have drastically changed our society is astounding; our decline is like an avalanche.

 

[nicko]

Saturday I finally hiked in to some of the more remote camera locations on the very heavily posted lease. 2 cams had padlock hasps snapped off and memory cards stolen. 1 cam was removed from Python and left lying open on the ground without memory cards, ruined. 3 other cameras had been turned while thieves tried to remove them from the tree.

I am so disgusted with this. Respect is gone. Fear is gone. How 2 generations have drastically changed our society is astounding; our decline is like an avalanche.

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Unfortunately dirtbags will always be dirtbags. But that does suck

 

[jacobh]

Wow LTG sorry to hear and see this. I agree scum are running rampant throughout this world. U can’t whip their hind ends or they sue u. So theirs no percussion to their actions and they know it!!! It’s a damn shame what this world is becoming.

 

[138104]

My bow has been at Nock Busters in Berwick for almost 2 months. All I needed was a new string. I called 3 weeks ago and the owner said he'd call me back in a couple days when it's done. No call yet. Anyone know a decent place in the hazleton/ Wilkes-Barre area?

Do you have the string or are they building you one?

 

[138104]

Hi all . . Haven't been on for a while. My company offers a sabbatical after so many years of work and I jumped on it. We were on the road in the RV for the last month. I visited my brother in Florida for a couple weeks then we made our way up the coast to Brunswick, Savannah, and Charleston. After that we took a left turn and headed out to the Smoky Mountains. They were beatiful! Tons of turkeys, bear, and deer. I could live there happily.

Now I'm frantically getting ready for Total Archery Challenge next weekend. I didn't take my bow along camping so playing catch up. Thank goodness Gold Tip still builds lots of arrows.

That sounds like a great trip! That is what I hope to do if I make it to retirement…lol!

 

[Mr. October]

Not from that area but it definitely sounds like it’s time to find a new shop.

It’s crazy. I had my old bow at Lancaster last year for a new string and it was 2-3 months. This is the result of people turning to buying everything online and letting local shops like French Creek go out of business. The shops left are overwhelmed and with the supply issues wait times are nuts.

Best to DIY


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[Mr. October]

Saturday I finally hiked in to some of the more remote camera locations on the very heavily posted lease. 2 cams had padlock hasps snapped off and memory cards stolen. 1 cam was removed from Python and left lying open on the ground without memory cards, ruined. 3 other cameras had been turned while thieves tried to remove them from the tree.

I am so disgusted with this. Respect is gone. Fear is gone. How 2 generations have drastically changed our society is astounding; our decline is like an avalanche.

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I’m sorry to read this but you are completely right. There is no common decency, common sense or respect for others and their property anymore.


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[rogersb]

Do you have the string or are they building you one?

The shop ordered it. When I spoke with the owner he told me the string was there he just hadn't put it on yet.

 

[nicko]

My local shop (which is no longer open) is what incentivized me to learn to do this stuff on my own. Glad I did and will never look back