OK I know that this is the middle of July. But Bow Hunting season is just 2 1/2 months away. And I've got to ask this. Is anyone getting an itchy trigger finger yet?

Theres only two seasons in my world. Hunting and Snowmobiling. Screw the rest !!!!!!!

HELL YA!!! Set out 4 treestands and set up the dig. trail cams Sun. Gona get the bow out shortly!! Anyone using a 2 man ladder stand?? Saw one in a mag, 20' made by Big Game . Think I want one..... Mike

Just started to figure out where we are going to hunt this year.....for those that hunt deer and not just bucks Antlerless permits go on sale for private land owners the 16th of August.

I'd be getting excited but I don't think I'll bowhunt this year........no where to go.

Paul. I can show you some places that takes less than an hour to get to.

been looking at the aerial photos and topo maps pretty hard this past month or so and ive been out for a few walks in a couple new pieces i am going to hunt this year that have a couple booners in them! ive got a couple spots picked out but i dont have any stands up yet which doesnt really matter cause most of the time i use my climber anyway. i actually just came in from shooting my bow a few minutes ago, its the first time ive picked it up since i shot my turkey with it this spring.

I am ready
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Ive been seeing plenty of bucks where i hunt down here.. Bear baiting starts the 28th so we will be doing some scouting up north too..


snopro703, i see you are from southern Maine, so arent i.. I live in Westbrook, how about you?

Already started the scouting and planning! Putting in a food plot this year for the first time too, that ought to be interesting. I've got poor PH levels in the spot so i'm going to have to Lime the crap out of it. Because of that, i may not get any decent growth this year. But next year should be awesome. Still though the area is good and few nice buck have been spotted and video'd. So i'm DEFINITLY getting the itchy trigger finger too.

True this, I got 4 maybe 5 stands on my property. Then at me Grandpas hes got about 5-6. Looks like im gonna have to get my bow out and sight it in again. What kind of bow does everyone have? I have a PSE

I shoot a Mathews FX.

i use a 20' 2-man ladder stand and it is uncomfortable as hell. id rather have a single climber that is a lot more comfortable. i also use a pop up blind sometimes. I use a reflex grizzly.

lol how to you get Trigger Finger With A Bow lol

^^^^^^ trigger release, most people use them

Matthews Outback here..

yea i Realized that right after i posted this lol
i use one or else my hands will be all fucked up

yz426......nice avatar buddy.

yz426 i live in springvale about 35 min south of you i hunt westbrook a few times a year.

i shoot a hoyt

Caribou and grizzly bear hunting first week in September...Patriot VFT and 500 grains of pain...Meat for the freezer and rug for the wall...






bowhntr

Matthews switchback XT. Love it

we started baiting bear the beginning of the week and we get to hunt them at the end of the month. archery starts the second week in sept and then ducks start a couple weeks after that. CAN'T WAIT!!

Oh ya man!! We also have bear baits, after one week they are getting hammered!!

What kind of dog do you hunt ducks with.. I just got a female yellow lab puppy (9weeks) and want to train her for ducks!!

yz are you the one that had all the pics of your turkeys with a bow earlier this year? i got my first bird this spring with my bow!

That was me!

Awesome bud!!! Im hooked on it now, its so much fun!

so your the one who's been sitting in my stands ha?
theres some good hunting close to home paul. weekends at my cabin and around home after work has been good to me. open your eye's and you'll be surprised where you can find close to hunt.




yep! give me a nice ass and leggs anytime, ya'll can have them plastic titties.



worst thing i ever did was shot my buddies switch. makes my trusty z-max feel like a kmart bow. saving my gold dollars for the new drenilin.





just put bear bait out last weekend. two old sights and two new ones. only one of four of us drew a tag. and wouldn't ya know my greenhorn drew it too. it'll be fun to guide him to his first bear.

come this fall, stay tuned for a michigan cougar update, close and personal like. my new quest.

i dont think i will ever shoot another turkey with a gun!




that sucks that you guys have to get drawn for the bear tags all we gotta do is go buy it.

Na. I'm the one in the stand NEXT to yours. Yeah I agree there are alot of nice spots around where you don't have to go to far to hunt.

very much so. especially this year after the dnr posted results of the drawings without facturing in the preferance points, and had to redraw. broke alot of hearts.




yep many good places to hunt if you do some home work. urban bucks are savy and don't fall to easy for sloppy hunting practices. you have to bring the whole bag of tricks to bag the big boys.

friend Of mine, just got back from the U.P., got 7 deer ,using farmer permits, lots of hamburg now.What with that. didnt know you could get that many.

Me either.. This year i wanted to shoot one with a gun, but where i hunt, its bow only!

depending on how deer season is going i may be up your way with my bow this fall for a turkey

There is plenty around the area!

there sure is!

actually now i may be hunting up there most of bow season for deer its been a couple years since i really hunted it other then a day here or there but i know of atleast one buck in the area that will go BC and i we have seen a couple others spotting that will be close to BC

BC in westbrook??

you will be surprised there are more around here then you think. i have 3 places around here that have booners in them, one piece alone has 3 and one was in the 180 class last year! we have another piece that has a buck thats around 150 or so and in the same piece there is one that will prob brake 200 non typical in the next year or two we have seen him twice this summer in is a big main beam 14 with 3 drops and a few stickers but we have yet to get him on the trail came cause they are all out on the bear baits right now

Holy shit man, i guess im in the wrong spot!! Oh i know there are some big deer here, i shot a 220 pound 10 pointer in 05 in windham that scored 135, but in westbrook, weve seen some decent deer this summer but nothing that big!!!

By the way, if your looking for a taxidermist, my dad owns Black Bear Taxidermy right here in Westbrook.

if i get another one this year worth mounting i will probably give you guys a call. i have one mounted already by stone ridge taxidermy in shapleigh and im not overly happy with the way it came out, he said it was because of the way i capped it but i dunno, but we will see what happens when i get my deer back from last year in november.
what does your dad charge for a bear or a deer?

Umm for a deer shoulder mount its around 500 i believe, not sure what he charges for a bear. how did you cape that one out?

I am ready ... have all my licenses, mass... maine and new hampshire..... bought a new omega last week incase i need to hunt through muzzleloader this year. havent picked which week for camp in maine yet.... rthinking 3rd week this year, hopefully its colder than last november.

no doe permit for maine but have for mass and nh .... hoping to get the bruiser i missed in mass. last year, he is still out there!!!

bow... rifle.. blackpowder.... here we go !!!

it was the first one i had done so i wasnt exactly sure how to do it but i went behind the shoulders and i dont think this years was to much different i dunno if he was just using that as an excuse or what but we will see what happens with this one i get it back in november i cant wait to see how it turns out though cause its a sneak and peak mount

If its done well it should look awesome!!! My father will tell you how to cape them out, makes it easier for not only you but for us also!

yeah i know how to do them now they are pretty easy

you getting itchy to get in the bear stand yet?

Yeah i am! The baits are getting hammered too! Going back up saturday to bait before monday.. I have school until around 2 ish so i have to hustle to get up there, but i should get there with plenty of time to hunt.. I cant wait!

your lucky i wont get to hunt till the middle of the week maybe not even till friday or so. i have still have double sessions for soccer and my second training session doesnt start till 6 tomorrow night

good luck tomorrow and be sure to post some pics if you get one

just reloaded my friends baits near my cabin in glennie michigan (n.e. side of the lower). they're all getting hit hard. one has tracks of a very big one hanging around. another has light brown hair stuck in the dark side of the scratching tree that is freshly made and has 9-10in tracks left behind so it's a shooter. it's his first tag, so i can't wait to see his face after the first sitting. it's public land so a trail cam would grow leggs if found and that sucks.

where abouts is your camp in maine?

yz, how did you end up doing last night? my buddy hit one yesterday with his bow and we tracked it from 815 to midnight last night and then they went back out and tracked it for another 3 or 4 hours this morning but the blood just ended up slowly dying out. it was his first time ever bear hunting and his first time ever shooting at anything with a bow so all in all he had a pretty decent night. we are not exactly sure where he hit it but it was dark blood so i figure he hit back a bit and we ended up finding half his arrow.

Can't wait for OCT 1 here in Michigan............going to put up tree stands this Weekend

there are 28 days until are bow season cant wait i have seen alot of deferent bucks in the past two weeks hope they stay around good luck everybody

Probably a muscle hit.. Couldve hit it too high too.. You hit a bear too high, or even in the liver, they wont always die, and can go forever and ever.. Believe me, ive been around bear hunting and seen a lot of bears shot, and tracked a lot. If its a big one you better hope for a pass through, because the fat will plug up the hole in no time and there goes the blood trail..

Personally i didnt see anything besides a cow moose..

My dad shot a big one, pushing 300 pounds. We got pictures of them but he has the camera, ill post some when he comes home tomorrow..
Another guy that goes with us shot one about 140-150ish.
And another guy that goes with us, his kid wounded a small one that we never found..
Needless to say, we werent back at camp until 130 this morning, we tracked the wounded one for a long ways, and decided to wait until the morning to look (they looked but lost the blood), the 140 pounder the guy shot with a bow and we tracked that for about 200 yards (went in a big circle), and my dads dropped right at the bait.. I havent talked to him yet about on how much it weighed, ill find out tomorrow.

Another guy that hunts with us shot a small one tonight..

Ill be back up on saturday hunting..