NC4X4 Hunting and Fishing

Sucked to throw that one back. Didn't measure, but probably 18" or so
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Lizooki said:
Pay for the string replacement.
Then buy the few tools and google tuning.
You know how you shoot .... the shop don't.
Then learn how to fletch your own arrows.
Back in the day .... this took my 40 yard group from 6" to 2" with an occasional stray out at 3".
The big thing with fletching is have arrows identical .... the only way is DIY or always go to the same shop.
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Loganwayne said:
Yep I have the shop make sure everything is in time. Then I'll paper tune my bow out to 30 yards bare shaft then fletch then tune every single arrow. It takes ALOT of time and fine tuning but once its done you can stack arrows on each other all day long
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Worst thing I have read in a while, lol! Since these post I've went down a rabbit hole of reading and learning finding I really would enjoy getting my older bow back out. Now I have a dinosaur sitting at a shop who told me it would be over a month to get back and I'm almost willing to pull the trigger on some tools and go for it. Cavit being the stuff I looked at is al most nice enough to get a new bow and seems anything archery is as hard to get as reloading supplies. The other part is nearly any decent shop is an hour one way in any direction.

PSE is currently at God's Country Archery in Claremont. They want to junk my old overdraw rest, sell me new sights. My tech is over 20 years old. I really thought arrows and a new string for safety was all I was getting into.
SOOOOO.......where is the best bow learnin channels and diy shopping done?
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Worst thing I have read in a while, lol! Since these post I've went down a rabbit hole of reading and learning finding I really would enjoy getting my older bow back out. Now I have a dinosaur sitting at a shop who told me it would be over a month to get back and I'm almost willing to pull the trigger on some tools and go for it. Cavit being the stuff I looked at is al most nice enough to get a new bow and seems anything archery is as hard to get as reloading supplies. The other part is nearly any decent shop is an hour one way in any direction.

PSE is currently at God's Country Archery in Claremont. They want to junk my old overdraw rest, sell me new sights. My tech is over 20 years old. I really thought arrows and a new string for safety was all I was getting into.
SOOOOO.......where is the best bow learnin channels and diy shopping done?
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Bear bows are probably the easiest to tune and setup. they have several that dont require a press to change stuff. lancaster archery is a good place to get supplies they usually have most stuff in stock. if you want to get into the deep stuff and setting up not so standard arrows your probably SOL on getting those arrows setup this year.

archery talk also is a good place to get newer stuff cheaper but bow tech hasnt changed enough to really make much of a difference after the mid 2010s youd still be light years ahead of a 90s bow.
 
I have a compound bow that I will give away if anyone wants it. Don't know anything about it. My old boss moved to Ireland and couldn't take it with him, so it became mine. If somebody wants it (and is willing to drive to Stanley to get it, I ain't shipping it), then PM me for more info.
 
Loganwayne said:
Bear bows are probably the easiest to tune and setup. they have several that dont require a press to change stuff. lancaster archery is a good place to get supplies they usually have most stuff in stock. if you want to get into the deep stuff and setting up not so standard arrows your probably SOL on getting those arrows setup this year.

archery talk also is a good place to get newer stuff cheaper but bow tech hasnt changed enough to really make much of a difference after the mid 2010s youd still be light years ahead of a 90s bow.
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Ive got a gen 1 high country from like 94ish.
Its so old school it should be a paper weight...but #1 Ive killed so many deer with it and #2 I just think its cool that I cant trash it and no one would pay a $1 for it so it sits.
 
Ron said:
Ive got a gen 1 high country from like 94ish.
Its so old school it should be a paper weight...but #1 Ive killed so many deer with it and #2 I just think its cool that I cant trash it and no one would pay a $1 for it so it sits.
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biggest changes are stings vs cables now and the let off. the let off is the nicest part LOL hell some states have laws that say you cant have but so much let off because 90% is to easy to hold back for a long time
 
Ron said:
Ive got a gen 1 high country from like 94ish.
Its so old school it should be a paper weight...but #1 Ive killed so many deer with it and #2 I just think its cool that I cant trash it and no one would pay a $1 for it so it sits.
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Tried getting an old bow restrung and adjusted at a bow shop where I lived at the time. They pretty much laughed me out of there. Said they didn’t make parts for it anymore and they wouldn’t touch it. They had no problem pushing a new $900 bow on me though. I left, bow is still sitting somewhere collecting dust like yours.
 
jeepinmatt said:
I have a compound bow that I will give away if anyone wants it. Don't know anything about it. My old boss moved to Ireland and couldn't take it with him, so it became mine. If somebody wants it (and is willing to drive to Stanley to get it, I ain't shipping it), then PM me for more info.
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Pm’d you
 
At 20 yrs. old, it still capable of 320+ on the arrow speed.
I don't think new tech has got much past 370.
The set-up tools are fairly cheap on ebay.
The old tech cams aren't all that extreme ..... makes tuning easier.
You'll have fun, learn, tune the bow and yourself in the process.

Win win win IMHO
 
I have not seen any deer in my backyard since about Febuary. The herd was 6 or 9 coming to the backyard sbout everyday and I tossed corn to them of my deck. I heard that a neighbor walked down the creek behind my house and down the creek for about 300 yrds and found deer skeletons up and down the creek and this comes today.....
www.ncwildlife.org

Hemorrhagic Disease Reported in Deer in Numerous Counties

RALEIGH, N.C. (August 24, 2022) – Scattered observations of sick and dead deer due to an outbreak of hemorrhagic disease have been reported in numerous counties across the Mountains, Piedmont and Coastal Plain of North Carolina over the last month. Officials with the N.C. Wildlife Resources...
www.ncwildlife.org

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mommucked said:
I have not seen any deer in my backyard since about Febuary. The herd was 6 or 9 coming to the backyard sbout everyday and I tossed corn to them of my deck. I heard that neighbor walked down the creek behind my house and down the creek for about 300 yrds and found deer skeletons up and down the creek and this comes today.....
www.ncwildlife.org

Hemorrhagic Disease Reported in Deer in Numerous Counties

RALEIGH, N.C. (August 24, 2022) – Scattered observations of sick and dead deer due to an outbreak of hemorrhagic disease have been reported in numerous counties across the Mountains, Piedmont and Coastal Plain of North Carolina over the last month. Officials with the N.C. Wildlife Resources...
www.ncwildlife.org

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It happens to just about any deer population that is over the Carring compacity. About 10 years ago we went from seeing 30-40 deer a night to zero. Same thing they are slowly building their numbers back up and I expect it will happen again once it reaches that level again
 
Loganwayne said:
It happens to just about any deer population that is over the Carring compacity. About 10 years ago we went from seeing 30-40 deer a night to zero. Same thing they are slowly building their numbers back up and I expect it will happen again once it reaches that level again
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"Carring" technical term I need to google? What you mean sir?
 
On another note I tailed some fed guys leaving our property and went plum to Sparta following them.......was wanting a convo since they pulled out from our property. So I went investigating. They have a net loaded up ready to fire over some corn by the River. A blind was within 15 yards of said net with a electric two wire cord. I made a few calls to find out what was what......they are capturing ducks to tags and have been monitoring the area so long they don't contact my father in law anymore. Neat but methinks a gate will be installed in the future and somebody needs a phone call before folks go cutting trails and setting up booby traps.
 
Might not hunt too much this year.... May just hut tree rats.


www.ncwildlife.org

Second Deer in North Carolina Tests Positive for CWD

RALEIGH, NC (August 18, 2022) – A second deer in North Carolina has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Officials with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission say the deer was tested as part of ongoing CWD surveillance efforts cooperating with farmers that have active depredation...
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Metto said:
From what I have read, CWD isn’t a concern for deer you eat unless you eat the spinal cord and or brain…it’s a preon disease like mad cow right?
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But let’s see if the gov increases tags to cull the heard as in other places. Maybe releasing coyotes hasn’t done the job they thought it should?
 
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