tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14630233400416449502024-03-05T12:11:18.349-06:00Hunting WisconsinA blog on hunting and fishing in Wisconsin.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-89565572316848890822011-05-04T09:15:00.018-05:002011-05-04T21:59:35.911-05:00Early Season Bowfishing<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">This last week we had one of the nicest days yet in the year with temperature in the low 60’s so me and my friend Matt decided to take the canoe down the river. Matt only had about two and a half hours to do our small trip,</span></p><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQtVcqpyOI83MO2Dw7mQ_FEQ2DZXYlpu5sJWoVVGS2V_FTGYWJiPEWw8l7QC_ICFDtBKVigxOR6GyC9MH_mKcf0joTlrcaozJRjYVWoOkNaG_YXAHEaqGI69tkdLrWywk4eSgis5jjcCg/s320/river+pic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602880358468802658" /><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">so we picked out a 2.5-mile stretch of the Mullet River to go down. When we made the decision to do this stretch of the river we knew that it wouldn't take the full two and a half hours for us to take the trip. I knew that my Matt had never been bowfishing before so I thought that it would be a good chance to introduce him to it. So I grabbed my bowfishing bow, and we headed out to the river.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">When we got to the river we loaded up the canoe and started out down the river. I had my Matt sit in the front of the canoe with the bow so that he would have the best opportunity for a shot. The river is still high from the snow melt and spring rain which mad it easy for us to navigate the river. When we would get to spots where the river had slower moving water I had Matt stand up and get ready to shoot.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_NCcTZe2fxLTbqDC2rOdLzCFMLRPrxzYsBJe3NeQGq6W7emFDbrkwJB57WNzlaCPY40Qx7IOyWt81bvQurgrNofpECnvX0GW07Rh1FleehdQBGdFDFlvBxUflTjR6DdJzPQohlUjWCEo/s400/Matt+Derse+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602875279492883714" /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Soon we had the dust trails of carp going everywhere. Matt Started taking shots at the carp with no success, but he was getting excited. Soon all the carp had fled from the area we were in so we continued down the river. Not to far down stream we got into some more but with no success. He was getting closer to hitting them but not close enough. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdaeXpou3foJY4k4hxckTsv5clIJMBjaN8Pw7NTQO5SZ4nA4hP_g4ZAKcIpCdquKAQcLZWOpqCmHJ6H8xyaF7BoVvmMs6nuxkr7wu_i5ir2Tw0wrW09RwAAU5QyOisglO60i5c_dm_osE/s400/Matt+Derse+3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602874307318066738" /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">As we continued down the river we continued to have shooting but had yet to have the arrow make contact with a fish. As we were getting close to our take out point I was start to worry if Matt was going to get one that day. But then it happened the arrow finally made contact with a fish. With the fish fighting at one end of the line and Matt pulling it in from the other end, it was a great time and a </span><span style="font-family:Cambria;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">great way to end the day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi- mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latinfont-family:Cambria;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX31NxXlX3ESJq6_IGRjBabv1pINgvW7cyC44xk5OyLrGbNkEyAbEHhQvChdrbmkOM112jHalxFDjfBahNZscejq0Q80Mx7OX0BAgG2uEGALHKb0lh0_2zibUuTY_Is3ThtPiAHIpmVGI/s400/Matt+Derse+2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602868600143940274" /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latinfont-family:Cambria;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://www.boatinglicense.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Boat Licenses</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Shoot Straight,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Caleb</span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latinfont-family:Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-1587235356605272422010-01-25T10:22:00.003-06:002010-01-25T10:42:10.613-06:00Rain Rain Go Away Come Again A Summer Day<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">For the last several days here in Wisconsin it has been in the low 40’s and raining, not the best snow conditions for winter sports. Snowmobiling had a pretty good couple of weeks but lack of new snow for the trails slowly ended that, and the rain ruined whatever snow base we had left. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Ice fishing has been mostly unaffected by the warmth, besides having a mess on top of the ice. The ice has is still a good 15-18 inches thick. From what I have herd is that the fishing has been slow for the last week or so. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I don’t know much about other outdoor activities right now so I am going to end this here. The weather is supposed to start cooling off tonight but there is no snow in the forecast right now.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Good Hunting,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Caleb</span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-37243978567614272132009-11-13T13:58:00.008-06:002009-11-13T19:23:13.765-06:00I messed up<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">On Wednesday afternoon I went out bow hunting. My stand is only about 70 yards away from the property line of the property where the </span><a href="http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20091109/SHE0101/911090398/1973/SHE04/Big-buck-is-talk-of-the-town"><span style="font-size:130%;">potential world record typical deer</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"> was taken last week. I was out for about 15 minutes when a nice heavy racked 10 pointer came and walked to about 15 yard from my stand I grunted to make it stop and let the arrow fly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">But like I said I messed up, I put my 20 yard pin right on the deer and the deer was at 15 yards. Normally that wouldn’t have made much of a difference, because my bow shoots about three inches high at 15 yards with my 20 yard pin at a target that is at the same height, but I was 20 feet higher than the deer when I shot, so when I shot the deer I hit it just under the spine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">The deer ran about 20 yards and then started to walk so I started to grunt to see if I could get it to stop again so that I could get another arrow in him, but he didn’t stop. So I watched him walk off. And then I heard something right behind me so I looked back and there was a really nice 8 pointer. I must have called him in while trying to get the other one to stop. He walked right under me and then walked off.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">I waited a half hour before I got out of my stand to fined the blood trail and see how hard he was bleeding. When I found the blood trail it was just as heavy as the last deer I shot and I shot that one through both lungs and the heart. So I was really hoping I had a good hit. I went back to my stand and called my dad and he came out to help track. By the time we started to fallow the blood trail it was two hours since I had shot it. We started to follow the blood trail slowly so that if he was bedded down we could hopefully sneak up on him if he was still alive. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">The blood trail was really heavy for the first 200 yards and than started to slow. We trailed him for just under a mile when came to ware he came to a river. And we could not pick up on the trail any ware on the other side of the river. What we think happened was that he laid down in the river just long enough to stop the bleeding, and go on his way and find somewhere to lay down and most likely die.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Good Hunting, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;">Caleb<o:p></o:p></span></p><!--EndFragment-->Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-51602039567506739092009-09-21T14:18:00.012-05:002009-09-21T21:55:32.856-05:00My First Bow Deer<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#996633;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#996633;"><p style="text-align: center; "><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51); "><span style=" ;font-size:x-large;"><span>"I placed my sight pin accordingly </span></span><span style=" ;font-size:x-large;"><span>and I let the arrow fly"</span></span></span></p><br /><p><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">On Saturday I went out bow hunting for the second time this year. I got out to my stand at about 2:00 pm. The woods where quiet until 4:00 and then a group of two bucks and four does came through the woods. They where around for about 15 minutes before finely heading on their way. For the rest of the day deer kept filtering their way through the woods. I even had a porcupine (which I have never seen here before) came through the woods.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">And at 7:00 I finely had a doe came into bow range in a pretty good clear part of the woods, but it had its vitals behind a tree. So I held my bow at full draw until the deer walked out from behind the tree. I estimated the yardage at 30 yards, and when the deer walked out from behind the tree, I placed my sight pin accordingly and I let the arrow fly. Since hunting hours on Saturday closed at 7:13 it was pretty dark by the time I shot it, so when I shot, I saw the lighted nock on my arrow fly through the air, hit the deer and then come out the other side.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">After I shot it I watched it run off and sat in my in stand for 20 minutes so I would not jump the deer if it where close by. Then I got out of my stand and found my arrow because it had the lighted nock. The arrow was nice and soaked with blood. Since I forgot to bring a flashlight when I went out to my stand, I went back to my truck to see if I had a flashlight in it, on the way back I saw 5 more deer; all together I saw 16 deer total. When I got to my truck it did not have a flashlight in it, so I went home for a flashlight and some supper.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">I went back out at 8:30 with a friend to look for it. We went to where I shot the deer and found blood right away, so we started to follow the blood trail. The trail was easy to follow as there was a pretty steady trail of blood. Then we found it only about 40 yards from where I shot it. When we got there I found that the arrow hit right where I had intended for it to, since the deer was quartering away I placed the arrow behind the ribs so that it would angle up into the chest cavity, so that it would have the biggest wound channel in the vital area as possible. Then we took some pictures, and then gutted it. When gutting it I found that I got both lungs and the heart when I shot it. Then on Sunday we cut it up and put it in the freezer</span></span></span><p></p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 402px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 302px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384009552477361218" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjya9llPV4hz0e9VA75F_1XZN7mx-qpLVODTV3c014z7YTYR1D81Bd5j1slUTTX41IjZcinWZXXe6cPHqs2Ah6e3tdN687C-bGWjdxgQ23MNqcUGOs2awkzRC2Y0ljlgUUfmca4jpCj6v8/s400/Bow+Deer+Small+Imig.jpg" /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></o:p></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">This is not the first deer I shot with the bow, but it is the first one I have recovered. Last year I shot I nice big 8 pointer. It laid down 3 times after I shot it then I trailed for 3 ½ miles and lost the trail. I spent several hours trying to pick up the trail again but was never able to. I know this one is not a very big deer but it was a yearling which makes the best eating.<br /><br />I'll be having some for supper tonight.</span><br /><br /></span></p><p><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">Good Hunting,</span><br /></p><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">Caleb</span><p></p>Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-38817983795406609952009-09-13T08:46:00.001-05:002009-09-13T23:32:49.529-05:00Bow Season is Finely Here<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday was the opening day of Wisconsin’s bow deer season. I went out in the afternoon because I had to work in the morning. I got out to my stand at about 2:00pm.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">After I got out to my stand it was quiet until about 3:00, and then 5 squirrels started to run all around and play, I even had one fox squirrel clime on halfway onto the seat of my treestand. At about 4:00 a raccoon walked thru and all the squirrels ran off, and then about ten minuets later a red fox walked thru and while I was watching it, it walked right past a deer.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">At first I couldn’t tell whether or not it was a buck or a doe but as the deer came closer and more out of the brush I could see that it was a doe. A doe is what I wanted to put some meat in the freezer, I wasn’t going to shoot a buck unless it was a huge buck, and I know that there are some around I have seen a couple nice 10 pointers around and there is at least one 12 pointer around. That doe came within 40 yards but never came out of the brush enough to give me a shot.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">That doe hung around for about a half hour and then walked off. It wasn’t long after that one left that five more deer came in. there were 3 adult does and 2 yearling does. They all came within 40 yards one even came to about 20 yards, but I was never presented with a opportunity to take a shot that I was shore that I could have a clean kill. They walked around the woods eating until about 5:30. And then the squirrels came back but there were about 15 of them, and I hunted until 6:00 because I had to be some ware by 6:30. All and all it was a awesome opening day of bow seoson.</p> <!--EndFragment-->Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-86488149279333068982009-08-26T21:22:00.001-05:002009-08-27T07:35:34.165-05:00Time to Dust Off that Shotgun and Get Ready for Goose Season<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">With goose hunting in Wisconsin starting September 1</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">st</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, its time to get out that shotgun and do some practice. Practice can make the difference between cleanly killing and harvesting a bird, and crippling one, or even missing all together. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I know that you have probably been shooting trap all summer, but you need to shoot at different angles from different positions. This will help you recognize different situations in the field and how to react to it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If you hunt over decoys, it’s a good idea to set up your decoys and have the clays set so they land in the decoy spread like they are geese landing into your decoys. One thing to remember is that pieces of broken clay are going to be flying around, so I am going to say, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">do not do this without safety glasses</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. It will also be good Idea to not set up your good decoys because pieces of broken clay can damage your decoys. This can be vary fun and great practice if you do it right. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Practicing from your blind in your full hunting gear so you get use to the feel and positions you use when you hunt. This is probably the most important thing to do when practicing your shooting for your hunt. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Patrice at home before the season opens is a good idea because you cripple fewer birds, and it cheaper to practice at home with trap load and clay targets that cost $0.23 a shell, than in the field shooting at geese with shells that cost $1.00 a shell.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-19870349386966419272009-08-10T14:58:00.001-05:002009-08-11T09:06:15.217-05:00Polls are ClosedOn the 1st the poll <strong>What is your favorite kind of fresh water fish to fish for?</strong> Closed. There where 5 votes thank you for everybody that voted, and here are the results.<br /><br />Walleye- 2 (40%)<br /><br />Northern- 0 (0%)<br /><br />Musky- 0 (0%)<br /><br />Trout- 0 (0%)<br /><br />Small Mouth Bass- 1 (20%)<br /><br />Large Mouth Bass- 1 (20%)<br /><br />Salmon- 0 (0%)<br /><br />Pan Fish- 1 (20%)<br /><br />Crappie- 0 (0%)<br /><br />Other- 0 (0%)<br /><br /><br />This month’s poll is <strong>What is what is the kind of hunting your most looking forward to?</strong>Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-31912803566493544592009-08-10T14:56:00.000-05:002009-08-10T14:58:04.262-05:00I’m BackSorry that I took so long to post anything here, I have been very busy for the last month and I never took the time to let you know that I would be a while before I could post again, and for that I am very sorry. As of right know I am still pretty busy but I am going to try to start posting on a regular basis’s. So sorry again and bear with me while I try to get posting again on some kind of regular basis’s.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-37106006574088129322009-07-04T12:29:00.007-05:002009-07-04T19:40:05.856-05:00Polls are closedOn Wednesday the poll<strong> Did You Get a Turkey this Spring? </strong>closed I would have to say that I was hoping that more people had better luck than me this spring. There were 14 people who voted hear are the results.<br /><br /><br />Did not get one- 9 (64%)<br /><br />1- 1 (7%)<br /><br />2- 0 (0%)<br /><br />3+- 0 (0%)<br /><br />Did not Hunt- 4 (28%)<br /><br />Did not pull a tag (for places that- 0 (0%)<br />have a drawing for turkey tags)<br /><br />This months poll is <strong>What is your <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">favorite</span> kind of fresh water fish to fish for?</strong>Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-81747580541523132772009-06-28T16:56:00.002-05:002009-06-29T09:15:35.578-05:00stealing posts!Albert at the <a href="http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/">Rasch Outdoor Chronicles</a> has found that someone has been stealing post from <a href="http://outdoorbloggerssummit.com/">OBS</a> bloggers. The two blogs that he has found are just full of posts from blogs like <a href="http://whitetailwoods.blogspot.com/">Whitetail Woods</a>, The <a href="http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/">Rasch Outdoor Chronicles</a>,and others. I have no problem with posting someone else's post on your blog as long as you have their permission, and link back to the original post. From what I gather they have done neither of those. For more information I have Albert's Post linked <a href="http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2009/06/plagerizing-obs-bloggers.html">hear</a>.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-13987912645549814262009-06-20T06:00:00.000-05:002009-06-20T06:00:18.132-05:00Bow Season Prep Starts NowNow is the time to get everything ready for bow season. Although I spend all year looking for deer sine and potential stand sites, I really start to kick it in to gear about now. I will go and really see if any thing has changed from last year and get an idea of how the deer are traveling. Deer will bed during the day and feed at night, the idea is to catch them from their way to and from these two points.<br /><br />Before I go out to a potential new hunting spot I will look at it on Google Earth and get an idea of the lay of the land. I try to get an idea of where might be the best places to hunt so I can maximize my time out in the field. When I am looking at it, I look for potential bedding areas, potential feeding areas, hills, valleys, water and anything else that might effect how the deer will move thru the area that I am planning to hunt.<br /><br />Deer are lazy, they will take the path that is the easiest for them. Because of this they will take valleys and ridges as much as possible. Look at almost every valley there will almost always be a deer trail down the middle of it, the likewise will be for the ridges. A deer trail is a path that is used by deer on a regular bases, the result is lack of vegetation on the path that they take, making a highway thru the woods.<br /><br />When I am out in the woods scouting things that I will look for are, bedding areas, feeding areas, valleys, deer trails, tracks, droppings, exedra. I feel the most important thing to finding the place to put your stand is to find the most traveled trail between bedding and feeding. Look at the tracks in the trail most of them will be in the same direction. So if the tracks in the trail are facing away from bedding and toward feeding, you can assume that a stand placed on this trail will be most productive in the evening. The same will go for if the tracks where facing bedding will be most productive in the morning.<br /><br />Now is the time to go over your tree stands and equipment and make shore that it all in working order. Sound proof the tree stands and any other gear that might make noise in the woods. If you use any lubricants make shore that you use one that will work at all temperatures. Some lubricants can make it even noisier than if you didn’t use any at all in cold temperatures. Even thou the cold weather is a long time out, you don’t want to take time that to mess with your stands in the middle of hunting season. I personally don’t lubricate my stands because of the varied of temperatures that I hunt in. In early season it can be in the 80’s a lot of the time, but I have been out bow hunting when it was in the 90’s. In late bow season I have been out in when it has been in the -20’s.<br /><br />Practice shooting your bow, if you don’t everything else you do will be in vain. Practice at a low poundage and focus on form and shooting consistently. After the season in early winter I will drop my poundage on my bow to about 55lb. than I practice all year and about this time of year I will start to increase the poundage back up to 70lb. Make shore you know your effective range of not only your bow but your shooting ability. I feel that my effective range right now is 50 yards, and unless it is a really nice shoot that I know that I can hit it and kill it I will not take the shot.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-67795749151783491412009-06-01T14:55:00.003-05:002009-06-01T15:24:42.649-05:00Polls are closedLast night the poll <span style="font-weight: bold;">Who Makes The Best Riflescope? </span>came to a close. Thank you everyone who voted, I greatly appreciate your input. I gess the results didn't surprise me much, but I didn't think that they would so one sided. So hear are the results of Aprils poll.<br /><br /><table style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="answerText"><div title="Leupold">Leupold</div></td> <td style="margin-top: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><div style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="resultText" title="Leupold"> 12 (100%)</div> <div class="resultBar" title="Leupold" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; z-index: -1; width: 100%;"> </div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="answerText"><div title="Tasco">Tasco</div></td> <td style="margin-top: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><div style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="resultText" title="Tasco"> 0 (0%)</div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="answerText"><div title="Bushnell">Bushnell</div></td> <td style="margin-top: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><div style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="resultText" title="Bushnell"> 0 (0%)</div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="answerText"><div title="Nikon">Nikon</div></td> <td style="margin-top: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><div style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="resultText" title="Nikon"> 0 (0%)</div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="answerText"><div title="Zeiss">Zeiss</div></td> <td style="margin-top: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><div style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="resultText" title="Zeiss"> 0 (0%)</div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="answerText"><div title="Burris">Burris</div></td> <td style="margin-top: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><div style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="resultText" title="Burris"> 0 (0%)</div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="answerText"><div title="Simmons">Simmons</div></td> <td style="margin-top: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><div style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="resultText" title="Simmons"> 0 (0%)</div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="answerText"><div title="Other ">Other </div></td> <td style="margin-top: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><div style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="resultText" title="Other "> 0 (0%)</div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />This months poll will be <span style="font-weight: bold;">Did You Get a Turkey This Spring? </span>Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-8092162804039566672009-05-26T10:32:00.005-05:002009-05-26T10:47:32.724-05:00Blog Spotlight: The Rash Outdoor Chronicles<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDNXBNRonoKT6K-VTUVL3eDHB-VtbLkn6b0eyx478NP026AK7TeFM8v1VUe864lwcqgsWX1m2k4rGffVC31Y_40XF9v5wSp3xyOhWW4wiuHxcjxk-DS26f-bHns9cmYTKu2V-7mMHwwE/s1600-h/the+rasch+outdoor+cronicilspx.http.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 171px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDNXBNRonoKT6K-VTUVL3eDHB-VtbLkn6b0eyx478NP026AK7TeFM8v1VUe864lwcqgsWX1m2k4rGffVC31Y_40XF9v5wSp3xyOhWW4wiuHxcjxk-DS26f-bHns9cmYTKu2V-7mMHwwE/s400/the+rasch+outdoor+cronicilspx.http.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340155999300621490" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The <a href="http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/">Rasch Outdoor Chronicles</a> is written by <span style="font-size:100%;">Albert A Rasch. He wrights about everything that has to do with the outdoors, from his great hunting stories to his insightful product reviews. Albert doesn't just wright, his word choice really gets his point across to his readers. He also uses previews in his posts to intice the curiosity of his readers, like this one he used in his post <a href="http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2009/04/hunting-hogs-on-horseback.html">Hunting Hogs on Horseback.</a><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:180%;" >"<span style="font-style: italic;">I reached into my pocket and pulled a chocolate brown, plastic cased, thumb thick shell and dropped it into the ten gauge's chamber</span>..."</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br />This one really got me wanting to read the post.<br /><br />Albert also does awesome series like <a href="http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2008/12/project-x-blakes-pirogue-part-i.html">Project "X" : Building Blake's Pirogue</a>. In this series Albert writes about a home made Pirogue he was building and the process of how he built it. He also has sparked some great </span><span style="font-size:100%;">discussions</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> on some of his posts. My favorite discussion so fare is the </span><span style="font-size:100%;">discussion over high fence hunting, in his post <a href="http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/2009/03/game-reserves-high-fence-hunting-what.html">Game Reserves, Preserve Hunting, High Fence Hunting, What are the Facts?</a>.<br /><br />The </span><a href="http://trochronicles.blogspot.com/">Rasch Outdoor Chronicles</a> is definitely one for you to put on your reading list.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-53096963083352328952009-05-18T09:53:00.005-05:002009-05-18T12:11:28.371-05:00a Busy WeekendThis weekend was pretty busy. Saturday was the last day of 4H archery for the year. I ran a station in the woods at 2D animal targets. we shot all day, and had Johnsonville Brats and hamburgers for supper. it was a great time and every one had fun.<br /><br />Yesterday I went to shoot state for high school trap. we shot 4 rounds of trap in a row, we went from one trap house to another. It was windy and every one on the team shot bad yesterday. I ended up with a 83 out of 100, compared to last weekend I shot a 91 out of 100. After we shot we grilled brats and hamburgers for lunch in the parking lot of the trap range with the hole team. After lunch a cupel of us went and shot some sporting clays. For those of you who don't know what sporting clays are, sporting clays is as close to hunting as you can get with clays. There are stations set up normally in the woods and heavy cover. And the targets are all sorts of different sizes and colors, throne at all sorts of angles, hights, and distance's, there is also a rabbit target that is a clay target throne on its side to make it role and bounce on the ground. There are stations that you have to shoot singles and stations that you have to shoot doubles. Sporting clays are normally 50 targets a round. My favorite station was one that had a rabbit angle away and a small bird angle in as a double. Out of everyone that shot sporting clays I was the high gun and I only had a 35 out of 50, but I did shoot at the last 10 targets with the gun over my head. The funny thing is that one of the guys that shot with us normally shoots 25 out of 25 wen he shoots trap and he ended up with a 19 out of 50 at sporting clays. sporting clays is allot of fun and I recommend that if you ever get the chance to shoot them that you do so, because it is allot of fun and great practice of hunting.<br /><br />Sorry that I do not have any pictures I forgot the camera both days.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-16164513685200690132009-05-07T23:10:00.003-05:002009-05-07T23:38:23.812-05:00Finely some fishToday I grabbed my ultra-light and went fishing on the mullet river. The mullet river is a nice little river between 30 and 40 feet wide in most spots. I spent about a hour and a half fishing, and I caught 12 fish, 9 Rock bass, 2 Small Mouth bass, and 1 chub. I used a size 8 hook with a twister tale with a split-shot about 5 inches up on the line. This setup works good on the river because you can drag the split-shot across the bottom and rocks and the twister tale will float about 2 inches above the bottom.<br /><br /> Sorry I forgot the camera so no pictures.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-19841091313869635702009-05-05T20:32:00.003-05:002009-05-05T20:50:44.302-05:00Slow Start to the Fishing SeasonSaturday was the fishing opener, altho panfish and ruff fish are open all year round. I have been out a few times but no luck so far. I found out that I need to look at one of my reels the bail kept closing on me in mid cast, I lost 3 lures because of this. So I have to take look at my at the reel one of these days. All and all it has been nice to get out even thou I did not catch any thing yet, the wether has been worm and vary nice out.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-29292182465492189522009-05-01T14:45:00.003-05:002009-05-01T15:03:44.364-05:00Polls are closedlast night Aprils poll closed. the question was, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Do you think that baiting deer should be banned?</span> There where 15 people who voted. Here are the results of the poll.<br /><table style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="answerText"><div title="YES">YES</div></td> <td style="margin-top: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><div style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="resultText" title="YES"> 8 (53%)</div> <div class="resultBar" title="YES" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; z-index: -1; width: 53%;"> </div></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="answerText"><div title="NO">NO</div></td> <td style="margin-top: 2px; padding-top: 2px;"><div style="position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="resultText" title="NO"> 7 (46%)</div> <div class="resultBar" title="NO" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; z-index: -1; width: 46%;"> </div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Thank you for everyone who voted, your input is greatly appreciated. This months poll is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Who makes the best riflescopes? </span>If you choose other I would like to hear what it is so leave a comment here to let let me know.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>In fact if you ever want to comment on a poll go to the last <span style="font-weight: bold;">polls are closed</span> post and comment.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-22020132948244277442009-04-28T16:17:00.009-05:002009-04-29T09:27:17.041-05:00Grouping the .22<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsR9NdtDUTQh8hWtsqN1rOhLuYDz4yKHbU7nyeEZ2MJs9nWsu3weyKGn7WADQmfiPDcMBQp5_W_5JXfhddfuxwSOPtpZheLiAryrbimzlUBgTejj1B-YQLtQWmAvKfBoWy3eyXeyPDCsA/s1600-h/box+of+.22+shels+in+a+target.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsR9NdtDUTQh8hWtsqN1rOhLuYDz4yKHbU7nyeEZ2MJs9nWsu3weyKGn7WADQmfiPDcMBQp5_W_5JXfhddfuxwSOPtpZheLiAryrbimzlUBgTejj1B-YQLtQWmAvKfBoWy3eyXeyPDCsA/s400/box+of+.22+shels+in+a+target.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329869119378102626" border="0" /></a><br />The other day I sighted in my .22, and today I thought I would shoot a box of 50 shells In a target and see what kind of pattern I got. So I put up a target at 60 yards, and set up a shooting bench. There was about a 15 mph side wind so the bullets drifted left. The target is about 4 inches across. Not bad for a rifle that all I paid is 90 dollars for. I didn't know that a .22 could group like that. I wander what kind of group I could shoot if I put more money in to a .22?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCBk_oyucLjOoqAFdG4vrWEIG4P7bK2_gkLegtPI-VPuTFZ3UU-2csLNQQGlosUAYLxbiIMLLsAG4MXl6SPI-5IcToF3Tp5i9P2zn8EjcWxLsCLHs3CAO7yinP_5xToHymY0dVX7vvj98/s1600-h/22+on+sight+in+bench.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCBk_oyucLjOoqAFdG4vrWEIG4P7bK2_gkLegtPI-VPuTFZ3UU-2csLNQQGlosUAYLxbiIMLLsAG4MXl6SPI-5IcToF3Tp5i9P2zn8EjcWxLsCLHs3CAO7yinP_5xToHymY0dVX7vvj98/s400/22+on+sight+in+bench.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329875811511606050" border="0" /></a><br />Click on the image to enlarge, then you can see the target just to the right of the tree at the edge of the grass on a blue piece of foam that I staple targets to.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-11519315144684313282009-04-27T00:11:00.002-05:002009-04-27T00:16:25.066-05:00Badge HelpI am having trouble putting the badge code up as a display on the post, it keeps showing it as a link. Does any one know how to help me?Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-81878912444950613472009-04-26T23:34:00.004-05:002009-04-27T00:07:41.704-05:00Turkey Hunting Comes to CloseToday my turkey hunting season ended with a empty tag. the last two days have been Thunder Storming so I did not go hunting yesterday or today. We have got about 3 1/2 inches of rain in the last to days.<br /><br />Having had extra time this weekend I made a header and a badge for my blog. If any one want to have the badge on there blog her is the code. I cut the code in half so it would fit so wen you put it in the html/javascript you will have to where it goes from AAAAA to AAAAD4 put it together in order for it to work. let me know if it works for you and how you like the header and the badge.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS-9A8d5psVIeOu-S1OxnqS6mGeWFzOkC0B7J0bN4giE1wJHJPUhBq3IIRO9isLydTXfJo4tvQ9LC3tBZsS1NtK9tZfosHdFPvW_GT0w6c6e4xDbFSMRJ5wzb42i6_yOjzaQA_dQiPkoI/s220/Hunting+Wisconsin+badg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 186px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS-9A8d5psVIeOu-S1OxnqS6mGeWFzOkC0B7J0bN4giE1wJHJPUhBq3IIRO9isLydTXfJo4tvQ9LC3tBZsS1NtK9tZfosHdFPvW_GT0w6c6e4xDbFSMRJ5wzb42i6_yOjzaQA_dQiPkoI/s220/Hunting+Wisconsin+badg.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><blockquote></blockquote><a href="http://huntingwisconsin.blogspot.com/"><img width="200" alt="Hunting Wisconsin"<br />height="200"<br />src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jzmpl70fiRU/SfUv6cRDaSI/AAAAA<br />AAAAD4/emX4qgdF3bM/S220/Hunting+Wisconsin+badg.jpg"/ /></a>Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-91279892548378103662009-04-25T11:28:00.004-05:002009-04-25T12:14:04.351-05:00Turkey Hunt Update Day 3Sorry that I didn't post this last night but I was tired and went to bed.<br /><br />I got setup by about about 5:00 yesterday morning. their isn't much to say about yesterday, I didn't see any turkeys. It was 80 degrees about 9:00, that was very hot to sit in. the fist to day it never got over 45 degrees. I stopped hunting at 11:00 and went home and got some my brothers and sisters and went fishing at a pond on the property I was hunting on.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0aozR_ILCPzAVABQBHvtNswfSETqUPoMvpyURfjdKcRXD8DVW6J0sbFsK9tTkzT7euhqinkm4H2lt6M2F3EzaqMAcIMX4yNs2ergBMN-TlA0t5ZooCIwO7jYSDhCH6PgKvSv_BA4TdDU/s1600-h/DSC03238.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0aozR_ILCPzAVABQBHvtNswfSETqUPoMvpyURfjdKcRXD8DVW6J0sbFsK9tTkzT7euhqinkm4H2lt6M2F3EzaqMAcIMX4yNs2ergBMN-TlA0t5ZooCIwO7jYSDhCH6PgKvSv_BA4TdDU/s400/DSC03238.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328674348561860866" border="0" /></a>We didn't catch anything in the pond, so we walked down to the river that is about<br />75 yards away from the pond. At the river they caught some chubs. We spent the rest of the day fishing.<br /><br />There was fish in the pond because I saw one. But there are quit a few turtles in the pond. Yesterday I caught a snapping turtle that was about 18 inches across, at the edge of the pond. I put him in the river.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-33460644810054234722009-04-23T22:39:00.003-05:002009-04-23T23:08:35.014-05:00Turkey Hunt Update Day 2I got set up in the field at about 5:00 this morning. The first cupel hours hunting was pretty quite at about 8:00 I hadn't seen a turkey yet and didn't hear much all morning and I had to go pee so I got out of my pop up blind relieve myself and but wen I zipped up and turned around, <span style="font-weight: bold;">It Happened Agin. </span>There was a hen about 70 yards, so I suck back into the blind. Luckily it didn't spook.<br /><br />As Othmar Vohringer said in my last post:<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Now that right there is funny because something like that happened to me a few years ago"</span></span><br /><br />I guess if it happens to days in a row that must make it hilarious. About<br />15 minuets later 4 hens and a tom came out into the field. I was able to call two of the hens into my decoys and keep them there for about 5 minutes, but the tom followed the other to hens and I was not able to even get him to stop with my calling. I didn't see anything the rest of the day.<br /><blockquote></blockquote>Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-31558148040373584302009-04-22T21:58:00.003-05:002009-04-22T23:00:54.110-05:00Turkey hunt update<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0yLRiccn___uTg3WW3p5-ABujwsFtBrGKs65Oe2QK1n0KKo0DFHujq-8pHE_D5ZtS7BgnMIkXo2cQrwD1xYvtSCKZ-1IV97W8JTNNC8gJNMmZlBGTHmwBaT7eFrbsNYgpsd_nFJ1Lwq4/s1600-h/gun+and+turkey+deeks.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 482px; height: 361px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0yLRiccn___uTg3WW3p5-ABujwsFtBrGKs65Oe2QK1n0KKo0DFHujq-8pHE_D5ZtS7BgnMIkXo2cQrwD1xYvtSCKZ-1IV97W8JTNNC8gJNMmZlBGTHmwBaT7eFrbsNYgpsd_nFJ1Lwq4/s400/gun+and+turkey+deeks.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327731664987707538" border="0" /></a><br />I got in and set up at about 4:45 this morning, the turkeys where already gobbling even thou shooting hours did not start until 5:25. I saw my first turkey a hen at about 5:40. It was 8:45 and I hadn't seen anything sense then and I had to pee so I got up and walked about 5 yards and went, but wen I turned around and there was a tom at about 60 yards out in the field. He saw me turn around and started to run around trying to figure out ware to run so I went and grabbed my gun and took a shot! <span style="font-weight: bold;">I MISSED!</span> If only I had sat for 5 minutes longer he would have came right in to my decoys. I sat the rest of the day and saw one more hen at about 1:00. Shooting hours were done at 7:45 so I figure that I hunted 15 hours today. After shooting hours were done I sat at a pond on the propriety I was hunting on until it was completely dark. This pond is kinda in the woods and about 1/2 an acre, and wen I was sitting there for Wood Ducks came landed right in front of about 10 feet out, that maid the hole day worth it.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-89055980392797367682009-04-21T21:29:00.002-05:002009-04-21T21:54:36.996-05:00Geared up for Turkey SeasonI spent most of the day today getting ready for turkey hunting. My 5 day turkey season starts tomorrow. I am still not shoer where I am going to hunt in the morning, I have a couple of places in mind I will make the final diction in the morning. I will try to make a progress report post at night the next couple days.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1463023340041644950.post-32971202548487439142009-04-14T08:58:00.008-05:002009-04-14T09:16:08.153-05:00Google Earth as a Tool<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit_dLSBHS_9HLA2yIcCD668X5DqHc4JcVEESvg-FX10RbUl9xFTJ7Gri1b9MToPS7uH6yr-1j6_NOiLlZRGM23-7PfyO5U5Gf8NxnoUO1SZo0dj56bHuzJ0U6M878MTo4vF9MxbzgVEQk/s1600-h/google+earth+1.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 363px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit_dLSBHS_9HLA2yIcCD668X5DqHc4JcVEESvg-FX10RbUl9xFTJ7Gri1b9MToPS7uH6yr-1j6_NOiLlZRGM23-7PfyO5U5Gf8NxnoUO1SZo0dj56bHuzJ0U6M878MTo4vF9MxbzgVEQk/s400/google+earth+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324546546466879874" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Google Earth can be a very useful tool for the outdoorsmen and outdoorswoman. Whether you hunt or hike if you use it right it a grate way to help plan your trip. I am going to tell how you can use it to your advantage.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlABs25prFo_5NM01fB5s6IEzdFL_qIsnzcS5ZrTMhhyphenhyphenpv8a32lDUpiEtRKPJ9nouBlMaolrr5yv5e1fPl6YAlE57pwQk-jyAee1cyFkLu9tmvib4SDeLt78A17SFdAPmrFo28RYBgB18/s1600-h/Google+Earth+2.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 363px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlABs25prFo_5NM01fB5s6IEzdFL_qIsnzcS5ZrTMhhyphenhyphenpv8a32lDUpiEtRKPJ9nouBlMaolrr5yv5e1fPl6YAlE57pwQk-jyAee1cyFkLu9tmvib4SDeLt78A17SFdAPmrFo28RYBgB18/s400/Google+Earth+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324548162982681842" border="0" /></a><br />Google Earth is a digital global map of the world. It uses aril photographs and satellite imagery to form a map. Google Earth also utilizes the ability to have to have terrain in 3D. From mountains to the smallest hills are visible. This forms a map that isn’t only round and flat but is allot like the real earth.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Lns8bn2upcSaxPHTXLi3C7q-is0xLkHTnhS_fA4Nwgk4xHz6ZHboYdXHq268hVN2Oiu_IzE0DIyF5m-3oIw_nTmxZON8pRm0dQ4-rEvhWuPvUfybendjwdCeQG1DFnW39bgvHZ3kB3Q/s1600-h/Google+Earth+5.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 363px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Lns8bn2upcSaxPHTXLi3C7q-is0xLkHTnhS_fA4Nwgk4xHz6ZHboYdXHq268hVN2Oiu_IzE0DIyF5m-3oIw_nTmxZON8pRm0dQ4-rEvhWuPvUfybendjwdCeQG1DFnW39bgvHZ3kB3Q/s400/Google+Earth+5.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324546916487114578" border="0" /></a><br />You can use it to keep track of your stands and other points of interest.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20KMKhqZGYa8WTFSswiDSNNKcFoXD7G_wQTEyq4OsL2YUeIdpvhwEC9LYt2PKva3-o6vd2IVBGBk083nsIaMHZuHUj7RA-dXNUI3IX8XnoQSyHbo9QH6uhXQbn9wP_cy6JyvkFQOXBko/s1600-h/Google+Earth+6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 363px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20KMKhqZGYa8WTFSswiDSNNKcFoXD7G_wQTEyq4OsL2YUeIdpvhwEC9LYt2PKva3-o6vd2IVBGBk083nsIaMHZuHUj7RA-dXNUI3IX8XnoQSyHbo9QH6uhXQbn9wP_cy6JyvkFQOXBko/s400/Google+Earth+6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324547524611041170" border="0" /></a><br />You can plan your path in or a hike by placing your path on the image. this is a hike I planed in the <em>Peshtigo River State Forest.</em><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguz4naCmF_ItPUIlyH4zGaNgACd3xEnKc-jx2X1kUKjJtcmIklNkjLlPRVLlaDKvg7Z9y3lTCpSLyyr1krq7vVjiCLr0BgDXOnwycuI0T5hfwmhmAYTzvoM73gryi1R9gX94JbH0aFovI/s1600-h/Google+Earth+4.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 363px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguz4naCmF_ItPUIlyH4zGaNgACd3xEnKc-jx2X1kUKjJtcmIklNkjLlPRVLlaDKvg7Z9y3lTCpSLyyr1krq7vVjiCLr0BgDXOnwycuI0T5hfwmhmAYTzvoM73gryi1R9gX94JbH0aFovI/s400/Google+Earth+4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324548630305504034" border="0" /></a><br />You can also see the whether on it.<br /><br />This is just an over view of all you can do with it. Google Earth is a grate tool to use in addition to the rest of the your other navigational tools such as your compass and topo maps. Google Earth is a free download at <a href="http://earth.google.com/">http://earth.google.com/</a>.Caleb Pearcehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03331940359174211773noreply@blogger.com130