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2009 Suburbanbowhunting Adventures

2009 Suburbanbowhunting Adventures:

Tuesday December 22nd 2009: 2pm Stardust Motel I setup a Primos GroundMax Vision Ground blind. Unfortunately I see zero deer plenty of tracks but no deer it could be that the shotgun season has the deer spooked. I will try hunting again on the 26th.

2009 Suburban bowhunting adventures

December 12th 2009 Yesterday was my youngest daughter's 14th birthday. I decided to go out today around 3pm and hunt for about 2 hours the weather wasn't too bad, about 25 deg and a south wnd. I decided to set a new stand because my standby stand was not working. As I am setting up I look over to the SE of me and I see what looks like a coyote runnning I hurry up and set the stand in a white oak tree about 50 yards south of my LLSWP stand. By the time I get up in the tree here comes two dogs barking. These dogs chased an 8 pointer about 120inch right by my tree.

One of the dogs come bag I yell at it and it takes off. Today I am trying to get a doe killed. About 15 minutes go by I look back to the south and another small 8 pointer is about 50 yards below one of the dogs on the opposite ridge about 1000 yards away. He heads down into the marsh and comes up right into my shooting lane hot on the trail of something because his nose was nearly touching the snow.

About 10 minutes pass and I again look to the south ridge and a doe comes out of the brush heading east she keeps looking back behind her but nothing ever comes out.

I get down about 515pm and when I hit the ground there is a doe there waiting for me she was just as surprised as I was she took off running back to the north she didn't wind me and she was directly north of me with a steady south wind. All in all another great day to be a bowhunter.

2009 Subburban Bowhunting Adventures

12-06-2009: I decided to try and hunt at the LLSWP stand. Unfortunately I saw zero deer one cat and one gray squirrel. I drove by the mall after shooting hors and there was 7 does in the field.

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures

12-05-2009 I decided to go hunting on the southside of LL property I used my climber because I had pulled it down last night. I got into a tree setup and waited about 20 minutes before sundown 3 does come from south of me out of the bottom marsh. I pretty sure now the majority of all the deer are down in the bottoms. The deer take forever to work their way to me its two large does and one yearling fawn. It is too dark to shoot so I just watch them I am up 30 ft if they had of come out earlier I think I would of had a shot. Now I think I need to start hunting from a ground blind. I can set it up in the bottoms and the deer won't know I am there, Plus there will be better chance because of a much clearer shot path. I also drove by the mall there were 6 does bedded down at 645pm. I need to get in there and try to get some killed. We are supposed to have a south wind so we will see how that does.

New Stand Location LL Property

12-04-2009 Using MUDDY climbing sticks and a MUDDY stand I hiked 500 yards west of my location. I hung me stand and waited. I was a bit upset because I had not taken the right opportunity to organize my gear after a 1/2 dozen hunts or so your gear begins to get a bit disorganized. Well to make a long story short I grunted a bit watched a couple of gray squirrels then to the east of me out of no where a small 8 point buck appears. I look to the North of me and there are two does feeding in the yards. What I like the most is that this was a steady 10 mile an hour west wind and this buck was 50 yards directly east of me and he never spooked. I was wearing two layers of synthetic under garments, a layer of thermal underwear, a pair of thermal coveralls and on top of that my STICKSNLIMBS coveralls. My boots are 15inch Guide Gears from Sportsmansguide. It is a great thing to be able to be warm and concealed. Needless to say the deer moved on and I got down right after dark. All in all it was cold 13degs but a good hunt tomorrow is the opening day of shotgun season, I am not hunting the morning, but afternoon should be a good time to be in a border property because the shotgun season will drive deer into town. Bowhunters cannot bowhunt during the gun. Seasons but we can in urban zones.

Suburban Bowhunting Adventures November 14th, 2009

November 14th, 2009: LLNC Stand: Since it was a nice afternoon, cold but no rain, I asked my daughter Whitney if she wanted to go with me and run the camera and see if we could harvest a deer on camera. I have been trying to get better at videotaping my hunts, as they will be memories for my kids and grandchildren to see in the future. I have been having all sorts of problems with my back, but my daughter and I decided we would make a go of it. I had decided that no matter what size of deer came in, if Whitney, who had never seen an animal harvested in person, came with me... I would harvest whatever deer we saw. Since I hunt in this order, meat, video, trophy size. I decided that we could take a chance and "pack it in" meaning we would haul in two muddy tree stands and some sticks and see if we could set-up and harvest a deer in the same evening. We left the house about 2:30pm and we got to our stand area about 2:45 I hung the stands and sticks and we were settled into our stand by 3;15pm. I explained how the video camera (JVC GZ7HD) and I began rattling and calling.

I have been reading a book by Jud Cooney "Decoying Big Game Animals" and he has some very unorthodox (or long forgotten) tactics for getting an animals attention. one of them was to put a funnel on the end of any of your calls so you can get the "megaphone" volume to reach out. So I have a Sceery coyote howler, so I took the funnel part off of it and put it in my backpack.

Speaking of my backpack... I want to share with all you readers, if you are sick and tired of having an unorganized backpack, spending hundreds of dollars on backpacks that now hang in the shed, I will tell you I have found a system for a backpack that I think is second to none. Military men will know what I am talking about. I purchased an ALICE/MOLLE pack frame online for 12.00 on ebay, it was a surplus, no straps nothing. I purchased two 2" nylon belts like carpenters use and made them into straps for the pack, after using these I broke down and bought the GAMEPLAN GEAR treestand carrier. which was only $49.00 at BassPro in Altoona. Now this is a luxury and totally unnecessary for this project. I also bought some pipe insulation for 1/2" pipe which I put all the way around the packs frame. Here is a list of everything you need.

1. A.L.I.C.E. pack Frame

2. (1-3) Fieldline or Remmington Tactical Field Bags

3. (6) 1" chain links (like a caribiner but they screw instead of snap shut)

4. (6) 2" carbiners (like they sell at walmart)

5. (6) 3/16" x 1" eye bolts and nuts

6. (12) 3/16" x 1" fender washers

Basically you drill holes in the side of the stand two at the top, two about a third down from the top and two about 2/3 down from the top, install the eybolts then install a chain link on each eyebolt, then put the carbiners on the loops of each of your tactical bags and and put the stand onto your treestand carrier or add two straps to it and a belt. it is the easiest backpack ever. In my pack the Top bag holds my camera arm and related accessories. usually my lunch. The middle bag holds my "hunting equipment calls, everything that would be in my pack. The bottom bag holds my video camera and related accessories. If I am not video taping I take the top and bottom bags off and only carry the middle bag. it works out great.

Now back to the hunting: I made a few quiet grunts and then some rattling. I use the Treestand Rattlr which allows me to lower it to the ground. Well it gets to be about 4:15pm and then I hear the sounds of something in the distance. I am wearing Walker's Game ears, not the expensive one's but the $29.00 pair from Wal-Mart. They work awesome as I was able to HEAR the deer before I SAW the deer and get Whitney ready with the camera. I waited for the buck to come in, I was looking at him through the binoculars, when get got to 20 yards I was at 1/2 draw and he looked right up at us.!!! we were both in sticksNlimbs non-insulated coveralls and had sprayed down with homemade scent killer. email us at jpjones@suburbanbowhunter.com if you want the recipe. He looked right at me, I finished my draw he turned back down and I released. My arrow hit a branch and hit him right in the neck, he dropped right on the spot. I hurried up and put another arrow into him while he was on the ground except he was at the wrong angle. So to be safe and humane, I followed up with another shot. Which immediately pierced his heart. I believe that you owe an animal the quickest death, even when there is a mis-shot like hitting a branch. You can watch the video on my website at http://www.suburbanbowhunter.com/

What made this hunt special it was only the third time my daughter Whitney has been hunting and the first time I have ever harvested an animal with her. I knew that taking her would be good luck and she would have a good time, and she did. Check out the video:

First Buck on Video November 14th, 2009

Equipment we used on this hunt:

• Bear Archery Truth Compound Bow
• Satellite Bronze Arrows
• 100Gr Muzzy 4 Blade Broadheads
• Treestand Rattlr
• Diamond 8 Arrow Quiver
• Homemade Backpack
• Fieldline Tactical Bags
• SticksNLimbs Camo Clothes
• Muddy Hang On Treestands
• Muddy Climbing Sticks
• Muddy Harness
• Bowgrunter Grunt Tube
• MAD Buck Growl
• Mad Snort Wheeze
• JVC Video Camera
• Ameristep Camera Arm
• Viper BowSite
• Trophy Taker Rest
• Truball Stinger Release
• TrophylineUSA Tree Saddle

Sat October 31st 2009 600am I got up kind of late. I have been battling a cold, but I can be sick at home or sick in a tree I found two tarsals from my buck last year so I thawed them out and set them on the back of my decoy. This morning I put out a buck decoy. 725am I start a rattling sequence qith my rattle bag for about 3minutes. I hit my bow grunter a few times and wait.

745am I hear movement come out of the bottom a young buck a perfect 8 pointer comes up from behind the pond. Hes perfect but not mature enough to shoot I have the decoy set up so it is about 23 yards north east of my stand and the wind is a light breeze from the south. The 8 pointer is about the same size as the decoy maybe a little bigger the set up is perfect I could killed the buck 4 times he tries to circle around but he cant get the scent of me or the decohy I am also using some smoking sticks and I made a dispenser out of some PVC parts. The buck finally looses interest and walks off, but not without blowing a couple snorts towards the decoy. This buck was maybe 115 and he might of been 2yrs old.

845am a small 10 pointer checks out the decoy from the east side of the pond bank. wind 9mph shifting west. But doesn’t commit. This decoy may be a bit much for these smaller bucks I think I am going to attach a set small forkhorn antlers to my Flambeau decoy and fill the head with foam or try to find some small platsic antlers I really just need a small spike decoy.October 31, 2009 Afternoon Hunt – I went out this morning, but saw zero deer, however I have checked my trail camera, check out I was pinned down by 3 does after dark.

Here are some Trail Camera Videos from the camera I put out yesterday. This is just on a travel pathway about 10 yards off a scrape. And about 70 yards from my stand.

October 30 2009 8:30PM

October 30 2009 9:33PM

October 31 2009 3:33AM - 8 Pointer I called in this Morning

October 31 2009, 745AM Another 8 Pointer This Morning

October 30 2009 8:27 PM

The season is really picking up. I see a lot of bucks and they are working scrapes and cruising during daylight hours.

10-30-2009

10-30-2009 LLSWP 4 does 2 Bucks 7:30AM I have had awesome encounters this morning but it is 25 mile an hour winds I have been playing cat and mouse with two Pope and young whitetails since 8:30 they stay hung up about 60yards out. I am going to sit in this stand all day if I have to. One is s big lopsided nine pointer the other is an big 10 pointer. They loose interest then they come back I rattle then I grunt and snort wheeze I just need them to commit. I am on a tight funnel. This morning I was in the stand a full 2 hours before sunrise and The first buck was under my stand for 20 minutes but it was too dark to shoot. I saw a couple of does and then because the wind was blowing so hard KI was going to climb down and go home but low and behold I look to the south there is a big buck 60 yards away. I kept working him but with the 27 mile an hour winds he just would not commit, About 30 minutes later a different buck comes out of the ditch same thing no visual would not commit. All in all its been a good hunt I am going to build a mock scrape and hang a code blue drop time and put up two cameras as well so I can check them tomorrow to see whats in the woods.

October 17th, 2009

October 17th, 2009: SD Property, Wapello County 4:00am the alarm goes off. I head to this property and decide to use my climbing stand because of the 7 mile per hour wind I am able to get a lot higher up. about 35 feet to the bottom of my feet.

This doe came out on the 4 wheeler trail about 7:00am and I hot her at 6 yards.

I tried hunting with out my cameras, and thought I could substitute the Epic Stealh Cams, I have to say that so far the two Epic Stealthcams I have purchased have been pretty much useless. Their light gathering capabilities is pretty much the same as a cardboard pin-hole camera. The idea is sound the technology is not. So for a bowhunter these deer were out at 7am and I couldn't make out the deer in the video. Back to the drawing board for a more portable solution to videoing bowhunts.

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures

SEPTEMBER 26 2009
Drew-Shawn and I head to leisure Living to see if we can get his first doe killed. We hunted from 530am til 930 didn't see anything but a couple of ducks and heard some raccoons fighting.

400pm Jaclynn and I go to the Mall to see if we can get her first doe killed. We are hunting in a Primos Vision Blind. We are using a Flambeau Fawn decoy and some bottles sprayed with doe urine hopefully that will put the deer at ease.

The deer have been coming out about 125 yards south east of our position. My hope is that they will see the decoy from 100 yards and circle east and north giving JacLynn a 15 yard shot. If not I am good out to 50 yards.

Its amazing how easy it is to setup in a groundblind. I think we had everything setup in less than 15 minutes that includes video camera decoy two trail cameras on tripods every thing. It has been raining most of the day and it actually rained on Drew-Shawn and I this morning. I think I have overhunted the stand we were at. I think I will have to stay out of that stand until rut.

Well its 630pm and we have just saw two does so I set my bow grunter to fawn bleat and I sort of get the does attention the out walks a 6pointer, the older doe wants no part of him.

Now I can see him faintly through the trees harrassing her. 3 really wish my kids had buck tags.

Anyway he of course chases off our backstraps. We are again waiting. We have about 45 minutes of camera light left. We will see if we can get a doe for JacLynn.

Well both does came back check out the video.

Tomorrow morning I think I will try and do a same day setup with my climber on some public land. Well lets see where the hunt takes us...

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures

Sunday September 27th 5:45am overslept. Got dressed quickly. Last Night I packed my hunting equipment into yet again a different pack thi time the Fieldline combination fanny/daypack. I still had to use a fieldline tactical bag for my camera equipment, but this helped to eliminate (I hope) the noise of having everything attached to one belt. Since there was a south wind NONE of my hunting areas except the two public grounds were any good for morning hunts with a south wind. So I go to hamilton park unfortunately someone else already had the same idea. So here I am 45min before sunrise with no where to go I was about ready to give up and have a bad day when I realized I could go to East Court if I spooked deer walking in so what. I am just trying to get a doe killed so I grab some tree steps and my Lone Wolf Alpha and I head into the field. This is one of those prime urban areas clear cut lane about 40 yarda wide with about 60 yards of timber on either side and then the rest of it surrounded by yards and houses, definitely a place for an all day sit.

As I walk in day is just breaking, I spook some turkeys and a deer within 25 yards of the truck. I am hoping thats not the only wildlife in here.

I have only hunted this property twice and that is before the city cut a clear path for storm water drains through the property. There is a hay field to the south. Which again is surrounded by houses. I hope the deer will use this path as well.

I was watching Deer and Deer Hunting TV and the subject was hunting pressured whitetails. One thing they said was hunt odd times, stating the fact that most hunters leave their stands by 11am to gvet lunch. They also said that whitetails need to eat and drink a minimum of 5 times per day. Usually Early Morning
Late Morning
Mid Day
Early Afternoon
After Dark

Most hunters cut out the MidDay and Early afternoon hunts infavor of evening hunts.

I am testing this theory today by trying to sit on stand for at least 6 hours 7am to 2pm So far I have done zero calling. I got my stand hung and I am wating quietly until the magic 10 and 2pm time.

Well 940 am on the dot and across the yards to the south I catch movement here come 6 does unfortunately they duck into thick cover before I could get a shot. I had jsut been grunting and bleating, bu it looks like these does had been spooked. Thats a total of 9 deer seen this morning. Two up on the ridge one coming in and these las ones.

I have been trying Judd Cooney's BenGay cover Scent theory and the does didnt blow or go tail up even though they were down wind. I am hoping if I wait it out a buck might appear for a mid day drink. All in all its been an awesome morning. My guess is as the neighborhoods wakeup more deer will pile into this timber. This timber is on the backside to where two huge bucks were spotted last year in someones yard.

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures Post #13

September 12th 2009 400am:

I spent most of the previous night trying to get my equipment together. Clean my truck go get my buddy's canoe. I get into my stand about 5:10am and after getting settled waited for daylight which was scheduled for 647am About 652am I get a text from one of my students Jake Van Polen wishing me luck. I literally was texting a reply when out of nowhere a doe and two fawns are RIGHT IN front off me the big doe gets past me and so does one of the fawns the last one however waits a little two long and I nail her with a Muzzy tipped arrow. Unfortunatelly I did not have the camera on.

Note to self get my motion activated system complete today. This is the opening day of the Ottumwa Urban Deer Management seasonwhich runs through Jan 31 2010. I do believe I shot the doe a little too far back but literally from the time I saw the deer till they were out of my shooting lane was less than 12 feet. I am pretty excited to get a doe down on the ground. Note to self if filming with my video camera start recording 3 minutes before sunrise and let it roll for at least 30minutes During this very short hunting excursion all I saw were the three deer a racoon ans two squirrels. I don't know how long I am going to wait to collect this doe which I shot at exactly 712am. Pictures to follow. I text my buddy Jake and tell him I doe down he's squirrel hunting.

Well I decide to use a Bowgrunter set to bleat and get my camera together. I then put on my bowgrunter call (which I think is by far the best deer) call when in comes a very small 8 pointer. Two seconds after he came in his big sister appears! I cannot turn down this opportunity. I let a Muzzy tipped arrow fly and down goes another Doe. Watch the video to see what happened.

Two deer down before 8am. The doe and buck actually came in from the south and I shot her quartering away within inches of where I shot the first doe. This is one of those killing trees. I have shot literally from this tree a large spike I believe 6 does an 8pointer I do believe I got this on video we will see in a few minutes as I am checking the footage now.

My youngest son gamohunter0909 and I are going back (tomorrow) to the same stand that I hunted today. its one of my only double stand set-ups. I hope the boy gets his first deer tomorrow. He's got all of his gear ready, amd I just got my gear put together. Right now I am downloading the files from my digital camera to the computer so I can delete a bunch of the files. of my camera. I actually got a harvest on video today. I had to radically modify much of my set-up for my camera.

I have an Ameristep Archer's Choice camera arm, but the problem with this thing was the trouble with carrying it into the field, A short piece of rope and a cabiner fixed that, it was also fairly unstable. but a few strategically placed 5/16 x 1-1/2" fender washers fixed that as well as replacing the long arm for adusting the up and down with a key screw and a chrome spacer. Because all of the inexpensive cameras arms have a pivoting head that is junk. so I bought a Bogen/Manfrotto professional tripod head.

What I did was get a 1/4 to 3/8" adapter plate and I attached the Bogen

to the quick release plate for the Ameristep. That way I have angle adjustment that once its set gets tightened down and won't move again. The Bogen is a professional grade true ball bearing fluid head.

IT makes a world of difference when you are trying to bowhunt and videotape your hunt. ALso since my camera has ifrared remote I had to attach a fiber optic cable to it in a way that I can shoot the infrared light down the toslink cable and it directs it into the decoder on the camera. Now I have a "wired" remote We will see how much better it will tomorrow.

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures Post #12

Saturday September 5th, 2009: I have been trying to stay out of my hunting areas, only going in once per week and on a different day each time. All of the corn was gone from my cameras, I checked my cameras today. The camera in the weeds didn't work as well as I thought and I only got one doe during the day on it. But I had 213 pictures on the camera in front of the corn. The great thing is one of the 8 pointer is hitting the corn around 5:30am and he seems to be staying in the area until about 7:30am. The bad thing is I will have to make a long bicycle ride/walk in order to cut him off and get around him.

I am really liking the way this deer looks and since he is considerably larger than any other buck I have taken, I am looking forward to hunting this year. I however hunt the does and let the bucks lay where they lay.

I have a couple of plans, because I do believe that these bucks are hitting this area prior to heading to bed, I think what I am going to try to do is cut them off on their way back to bed.

I am very excited for season to get rolling. I have to work 3 days this week. But it will seem like an eternity. I have things to do, which one of those things is get all of my batteries charged for my camcorders. Cell Phones and walkie Talkies. My son is wanting to go with me Saturday Morning so this week we will get everything packed and ready to go. Right now I am looking for a mini-van which will make bowhunting easier.

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures POst #11

August 28th, 2009: I went to check out my camera at LLE I decided since most of the bucks are coming out of the timber through the thick cover instead of using the open path, I put another camera on a tree at 5 ft in the thickest multi-flora rose patch. I think that it will reveal that there are bigger bucks on the outside of the of the other camera's range.

I spoke with my good friend and he is going to loan me his canoe for opening morning. So that I can boat across the lagoon to one of my hunting spots. I am going to go in and put up a stand the night before opening day. or I am going to go in and hunt with a ground blind. Either way I will be able to hunt my does easily this way.

These bucks are pretty awesome. I am hoping I am going to get a chance at one of them.

More great Pictures 08-26-09-6:16PM Now he's hitting the corn during the day

08-26-09 6:17pm Trail Camera Video

08-26-09 6:19pm Trail Camera Video

08-26-09 6:20pm

08-27-09 12:05am

08-27-09 3:18am

08-27-09 6:23am

08-27-09 11:17am

08-27-09 2:29pm

08-27-09 5:34pm

08-27-09 5:35pm Does Have found the corn!!!

08-27-09 11:41pm

08-28-09 4:28am

08-28-09 8:52am Turkeys

08-28-09 8:34am More Turkey's

08-28-09 11:40am Putting out More Corn

The season is looking better and better everytime I go and check my cameras. I am hoping to get my doe killed 1st thing Saturday Sept 12th, pick-up my Buck Tag.

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures Post #10

August 24th 2009 here are some videos from my Moultrie I40 game camera.

Tuesday August 25-2009: A good buddy of mine Jeremiah Grooms introduced me to a landowner who owns 17 acres across from where I hunt at LL Estates. The landowner was really nice and said I could hunt there anytime. I have been working pretty hard at putting out trail cameras and corn to try and catch what bucks and does I have in the area. Check out some of these videos below

8/24/09

Dear fellow bowhunters,

With all the talk about "going green" and "carbon footprint" it got me to thinking, "How much do I spend on non-American made items, and is there a simple way for me to balance my own personal "trade deficit" with China and non-American manufactures, packagers, assemblers? So I started looking at my own "not made in America purchasing footprint" or Non-American Purchasing Footprint (NAPF)

I was not impressed...so now before I purchase anything that is a "want", I am asking or researching if its actually, "made in America by American workers". I did not realize how much of our hunting equipment is imported from China. I am not trying to start a "who's better" debate. What I am trying to do is see if any of the rest of you on here realize how much hunting gear is imported from China. Its almost hypocritical how all of these Television Personalities get on TV and profess how they are "proud to be an American" but they promote and profess products that are definitely not made in America. Products that could be made in America or are made in America by another manufacturer a small manufacture. This is not patriotism it is hypocrisy at its finest and every citizen of the United States including myself takes part in promoting this hypocrisy every day in one shape or another. I looked at my Hunter's Specialty packs and bags, All of them Made in China. I know that they are an Iowa based company, but facts are I wont quit using them but when the time comes to replace them...I will be looking for something from another company. I was proud that: My bows are all manufactured in U.S. My Arrows Manufactured in U.S. My Broadheads Manufactured in the U.S. My Lighted Knocks Manufactured in the U.S. All my Vehicles Bicycle Camo Clothing is Manufactured in U.S. but Cloth is Made in China Here's the crazy part All of the below items are "Made in China"

My

Gutting Glove Kits

Cheesecloth Bags

Nylon Rope

Toilet Paper for Tracking

Flashlight Batteries

Notebooks for writing in

Climbing Tree Stand

Several of my Hang-On Treestands

Several of my Climbing Sticks

4 Wheeler

Motorcycles

Deer Cart

Ground Blind

Cloth for my Camo

Tracking Markers

Wind Checker

Grunt Tube

Can Calls

Snort Wheeze Call

knives

pruning saw

What this tells me is that I cannot BLAME my Government for Americans loosing Jobs. I contribute to this problem as much or more than the government does. We all say that its because the government allowed free trade with China and Mexico. Well are we all bunch of stupid 5 year olds that NEED someone to tell US HOW, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE TO PURCHASE? Who's actually doing all the PURCHASING OF THOSE GOODS AND PRODUCTS, WE ARE AMERICANS, the government isn't buying the peaches from Mexico, or the Toilet paper from China, or the electronics from Japan. WE THE PEOPLE CREATE THE TRADE DEFICIT.

I know that there has been a lot of debate about our new President, (does not matter what side you are on) versus the old ways. But if every American hunter estimated at 45,000,000 total were to STOP purchasing $100.00 worth of product(s) annually that are manufactured in china (as long as there was an American made equivalent). As you can see this creates no hardship on the hunter, just a little THOUGHT. $4,500,000,000.00 annually would be pumped back into the American economy. I am talking about spending. $0.27 per day on American Made Hunting and Outdoor related products instead of Non-American Made Products. Now relate this to everyday life. 217,800,000 people over the age of 18 in the U.S. if each of us were to spend $100 LESS (annually) on Chinese made products and take that money and save it on American made products (everyday items).

It would generate $21,780,000,000.00 directly into the American economy. Now this takes some thinking and a little thought process, next time you go to the store and look at a can of Peaches or a can of beans, if they are "packaged in mexico" or you are looking a dish soap, or laundry detergent and they say "manufactured in china for Walmart" buy something else if its available and even if it costs a few cents more. You will be saving someone's job. The median Household income (according to the census) in America in 2007 was $50,233.00. So if all Americans were to spend $100.00 less per year on non-American made products and take that same money and spend it on American made products. We would save the equivalent of 433,579.52 middle class jobs. I know this doesn't take into account overhead profit etc. (bear with me I am on a soap box here)

If any of you disagree with what I am talking about here. We as sportsmen/women can make an impact that directly affects, the lives of 89,583 American families. Just by spending $100.00 per year more on American made items vs. non-American made items. I know that it could mean that some companies won't be able to compete, because they are really importers, who profess patriotism while letting the American way of life erode for profits and big gains, because Walmart has a factory in China that pays its workers 3.00 per hour instead of a factory here in the U.S. that pays its workers 14 per hour plus benefits. I am not blaming the poor Chinese worker trying to feed his wife and children, I blame myself for 40+ years of buying whatever was "on sale" or the cheapest.

I am not going to promise that I can stop purchasing EVERYTHING that isn't made in America, that's pretty much unreasonable, but I can try to purchase $100.00 per year on American made items versus non-American made items. Anyone else yah or ney for this proposition. If you are for it, then please forward this onto every website and forum you can are active on.

Sincerely, gamohunter

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures Post #5

Friday August 21, 2009: I pulled the SD Card from my camera today. There were 637 video clips on the 4Gig card. But the most exciting thing today is my oldest son and I went to Whitetail Archery in order to get him qualified for the Urban Hunting Season and for me to sight in my indoor target bow which is actually my BuckMaster 4000 I used for the 2006 season, I forgot how well that bow shoots and how fast it is. Anyway here are some photos and videos from the trail camera.

I literally only had this camera out for 1 day with apple flavored corn and the deer hit it like crazy. This ia moultrie I40 camera set to standard definition video, but the avi has been converted to mpeg

I can't wait only about 3 weeks until the season starts.

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures Post #4

Thursday August 20th, 2009: It was a lazy day today, I have been trying to figure out how to have a better control over my JVC GZ-HDU7 digital video camera. Since the camera uses an Infrared remote, when I bought it last year I thought that it would work great for outdoor work, the camera has automatic or manual focus, automatic or manual night vision, it takes photos and video its 3CCD and 1080i HD and uses a harddrive so no tapes to loose.

Well a couple of problems with this camera, the sensor for the remote is of course on the front of the camera and for all of you who bowhunt with a camera know that doesn't do much for you if you are recording yourself. So I have been experimenting with Fiber Optical cable. I have been able to attach a Toslink Fiber Optic Cable to the LED on the remote and then I attached the other end in front of the sensor on the camera, WOW the response of the remote/camera is so much faster. I now have ordered the necessary proper connectors to make this work on any remote.

So if you are using a camera with a wireless remote you can do this as well.

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures Post #03

Tuesday August 18th, 2009: My son and I went to our LL property and checked our camera. Looks like one doe and a turkey on video. We also went down to the police station and picked up the rules for the Urban Deer Management zone so we could deliver them to to the proshop Whitetail Archery. My youngest son Drew-Shawn and I shot and both of us qualified on the proficiency test.

Here's a video using the Epic Stealth Cam. I am not too impressed with this camera's video quality but it will work for a back-up camera.

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures Post #02

August 16th, 2009 Well I have had a bit of an obstacle with my QPM property which is a commercial property owned by a large corporation, this year they were requiring proof of insurance. It was much harder than I thought to find insurance for bowhunting. The cheapest I could find it was 550.00 per year from a "hunter's insurance agent", but he was trying to insure me for 1,000,000.00 and it wouldn't cover a calendar year, it went from August to August. It was really set-up for clubs. Anyway I made a phone call to my homeowner's insurance company and come to find out I am ALREADY covered for hunting and recreational activities liability (personal and property damage) insurance up to $300,000.00 per incident.
I ran into Sgt. Jones today and he said I could come down and pick-up the rules and we could start qualifying for in-town season. I have to go down in the morning and pick-up the information.

PERMISSION GRANTED: I gained permission for another great property about 10 acres on the edge of town. On a great travel route. Thick brush and timber. Owner and I talked on the phone today and he said no problem just stop in and talk to the front desk when I show up out there. That gives me exlusive rights to five prime properties in town a total of about 300 acres or so in the city limits. I have been talking with Matt Short aka "The Huntin Junky" he has an awesome podcast, and is helping me to get my podcast together. If you get a chance go and visit his site. One guy with no camera man.

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures Post #01

2009 Suburban Bowhunting Adventures

August 14th, 2009: Well its about a month until the bow season starts. I am looking very forward to getting back in the woods. Its amazing how hard it is to get through the summer. Generally I would of spent a lot of time at 3D tournaments, but due to health issues, I had to take it easy. A couple of surgeries later I am back in the game. I am very excited for this upcoming season. I will be trying to video tape as many hunts as possible and I have build my own trail camera system that uses 4 cameras that transmit wirelessly to a base unit. Some new equipment that I am going to be using this year is a miltary web ladder and some foot pegs that I build myself.