Thread: shot a dandy buck today......

Originally Posted by Chiplifter

Rango, shoot me a pm if you might be interested in selling the bow set up..

its left handed... you still interesed?

No, sorry, can't deal with the lh stuff. the Matthews bows are still around though, some of the best made. You could probably Ebay it and get a good price..Thanks

Man you ain't right.............:D

Originally Posted by rango

i love deer hunting, especially with a bow or muzzleloader. id like to have the money back i paid for my new bowhunting setup that i never used but one year. its been hanging on the wall collecting dust for a pretty good while now. that bow cost me an arm and a leg. with the bow quiver, rests, all the other doo dads a bow hunter sticks on his bow, that rig was over a thousand bucks. that bow was a mathews, which was popular and expensive back then. i dont know if they even still make em. then i got the itch for one of the new inline muzzleloaders. so i bought one the knight disc supreme stainless. I did kill 5 bucks with it before i stood it in the gun safe to collect dust. the wife bought her a T/C you can get interchangeable barrels for. she hunted with it one year, its been collecting dust since. i been thinking about gettin a .22 target barrel for it to squirrel hunt with. that rifle was expensive. much more than the knight rifle. then time you scope em, buy all the things you feel you gotta have, youve got a lot of bucks tied up in em you probably aint ever gonna get back. so i guess now that i aint working, with no extra chunk change coming in, its good i aint into all that stuff anymore cause id be doing a lot of wanting and not much getting, which is a pretty uncomfortable situation to be in. .

I hear ya. Got a Bear/Jennings Unicam (was the fastest bow on the market 20 years ago) with sights, stabilizer, grip, quiver,etc and a nice climbing tree stand, 3030 rifle, muzzleloader and all the crap that goes with that, a Winchester 1300 with a slug barrel I bought to use in New York State (never fired) and all the hunting i do now is for muskrats off my deck using a 1250 fps air rifle..lol. Just can't bring myself to put all that huntin stuff up for sale on Craig's List. Bet it won't take my ol' lady long to do it when I croak!

Ain't many muskrats near here now tho

Originally Posted by kunes

I hear ya. Got a Bear/Jennings Unicam (was the fastest bow on the market 20 years ago) with sights, stabilizer, grip, quiver,etc and a nice climbing tree stand, 3030 rifle, muzzleloader and all the crap that goes with that, a Winchester 1300 with a slug barrel I bought to use in New York State (never fired) and all the hunting i do now is for muskrats off my deck using a 1250 fps air rifle..lol. Just can't bring myself to put all that huntin stuff up for sale on Craig's List. Bet it won't take my ol' lady long to do it when I croak!

Ain't many muskrats near here now tho

i got two of those piston powerd air rifles. i had one i let folks on my mail route borrow to shoot squirrels in their pecan trees. it passed from hand to hand till i forgot who had it. several years went by and i thought it was gone forever till one day i got a call and someone told me theyd found it in a closet, forgettin they had borrowed it. i got it back. those souped up air rifles will knock a squirrel for a loop without much racket. im like you are kunes. i got all this hunting stuff i dont ever use but cant seem to part with either. i guess when im gone, whoevers left can fight for it. i started with a ben pearson recurve, then went to the bear whitetail, then had several jennings, then had a couple martins, then several hoyts, which i still have. the hoyt pro hunter was my all time favorite, then went to the mathews, which has hardly been used. what made it so hard on me was the wife was into all that stuff to, and when i bought for myself, i had to buy for her to... guns, bows, tree stands, arrows. all that stuff she had to have to. all its doing now is collecting dust.

Originally Posted by rango

i got two of those piston powerd air rifles. i had one i let folks on my mail route borrow to shoot squirrels in their pecan trees. it passed from hand to hand till i forgot who had it. several years went by and i thought it was gone forever till one day i got a call and someone told me theyd found it in a closet, forgettin they had borrowed it. i got it back. those souped up air rifles will knock a squirrel for a loop without much racket. im like you are kunes. i got all this hunting stuff i dont ever use but cant seem to part with either. i guess when im gone, whoevers left can fight for it. i started with a ben pearson recurve, then went to the bear whitetail, then had several jennings, then had a couple martins, then several hoyts, which i still have. the hoyt pro hunter was my all time favorite, then went to the mathews, which has hardly been used. what made it so hard on me was the wife was into all that stuff to, and when i bought for myself, i had to buy for her to... guns, bows, tree stands, arrows. all that stuff she had to have to. all its doing now is collecting dust.

I started out with a popsicle green longbow, went to the Ben Pearson recurve then a Jennings compound someone gave me.It was a piece of crap and the cams broke over at different times so the bow shook like crazy when you released. Killed alot of deer with it tho. Then I got the Unicam--nice and smooth.

The air rifle I got will lift a muskrat a foot out of the water even using .177 ammo.

While on the subject of hunting, do any of you know of any decent clubs or land for lease?

Shoot Deer hunting would get in the way of my fishing. And I would rather fish then hunt.
Pete