What are you doing right now?

Home-made? Probably my death-row final meal if it ever comes to that!

Never knew those places made B&G. Best place I ever had it was on a North Slope oilfield man-camp. Made you never want to venture out into the fields.

I wasn't quick enough on the trigger to get an over the counter firearm licence for deer in central Illinois. However I did get a last minute opportunity for archery. Sadly my 30-year old Martin Warthog compound (wood limbs and riser) needs a new cable. I also have a Browning Cobra II recurve but I'm cautious about stringing that one up due again to the amount of time since I've last used it. I busted a long bow when I was a teen and still kinda gun shy about cracking a limb.

Anyway my buddy says that I can use his Ravin crossbow. I was aiming at a target at 20 yards just to get a feel, and this thing shot EXACTLY where I was aiming and the bolt shot thru the target. Impressed the hell out of me.

So talk around the table one evening was about having a separate archery season for crossbows as they are too deadly. If that's the case I mentioned, why not just have an archery season for recurve and long bows etc as compounds/crossbows have both come along way since the Bear Whitetail Hunter was designed. Between the scopes and sights, stabilizers, silencers etc. the nuance of primitive achery has been lost to the masses. Apparently that didn't sit too well with the compound guys.

Musky67, where in central Illinois? That's my old stompin" ground!

Hi Bill
My hunting buddy ownes a little over 1000 acres on various farms which he leases out to farmers.

The plots are primarly in Marion County east of Salem. Lots of deer hunting pressure seems to have whittled down the number of huge bucks from years past.

He also owns some farmland in Douglas and Coles counties which hold decent pheasant populations, but again nothing like the old days.

Nice.

Are those carbon fiber? I still have a dozen aluminum, times are a changing.

I remember shooting a straight bow with wooden arrows, feather fletching and no arrow rest when I was a kid. I cant tell you how many times the fletching would comes off and sink in about a good half inch into my left hand. Figured out wearing a glove was a prudent move..

Heard of the chain but its not in Alaska that I know of, certainly not in the SE. Very few chain fast foods outside of Anchorage and Fairbanks.