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What are the Odds

Northern Rancher

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The cows moved into the thick bush with a 100 or so left to calve-so I made the kids a deal-five bucks for every calf they find and get tagged and BVD tested-this little brat has made 50 bucks off me in two days-lucky he ran out of tags tonight or would be worse lol. Saw a hog of a whitetail buck out in the meadow tonight has 8 inch browtines and 4 inches wider than his ears already-only 75 days to archery season lol.
 

Northern Rancher

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Dang kid is roping me out of house and home now lol-next thing he'll think he's a timey heaven forbid -it's not easy work lots of swamp and bush and mosquitoes.
 

Angus Cattle Shower

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NR-you'll hafta come south and help me get my buck with the bow-the same son of a bag i saw last year is living next to the cattle-he'll make a good mount, thats for sure. lol.
 

Northern Rancher

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Well punch an arrow through him-works every time-Ty hunts 5-6 hours a day gets up at 4'00 on schooll days than hunts after supper too. One thing for sure is you'll never kill a big deer if you don't get out and hunt them-one thing about archery you don't get those drive by road hunted deer-you earn every one you shoot.
 

Angus Cattle Shower

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lol. know that, and even in rifle season Im up at 4. lol. But ive never used a bow-just got it from an old neighbour that wasnt goign to use it, and i hafta be with an adult to go. lol. And I got a feeling you may know something about bows. lol. just a feeling. lol
 

cert

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Mighty fine looking crew you got there. Good looking kid and a well built and hard muscled horse. For the record, 5 bucks a calf is dirt cheap. Give the kids a raise!!!
 

Northern Rancher

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Geeze he's making thirty bucks an hour at $5 a calf lol. That mare is a half sister to the mare we lost through the ice. ACS-Ty has got a bow for sale all set up for hunting if you are interested-trying to hunt with a bow that doesn't fit is like wearing your shorts sideways-it is uncomfortable and not very effective.
 

Faster horses

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My compliments to your son!!

What's that he has around his waist? Looks like a support of some
sort. Hope he isn't having back trouble at his age. That's a long time
to have back trouble.
 

Northern Rancher

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That's a camo fanny pack he packs his tags-bvd sample vials-taggers-calving book etc in it. Saves you making ten trips back to the saddle bags-plus you can hit them EXT's a good smack when they blow snot on you.
 

Angus Cattle Shower

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Northern Rancher said:
Geeze he's making thirty bucks an hour at $5 a calf lol. That mare is a half sister to the mare we lost through the ice. ACS-Ty has got a bow for sale all set up for hunting if you are interested-trying to hunt with a bow that doesn't fit is like wearing your shorts sideways-it is uncomfortable and not very effective.

I may look into it-i just may. lol
 

Northern Rancher

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No kidding we eat a couple beef and 10-12 deer a year here-nothing like half a dozen teenage cowboys invading the house with a hunger on. There's a stray teenage boy following my daughter home from school now too-I picked up the elastrator yesterday and looked at him and said "in the long run it will be for the best lol' Ty would do it for free but like I said it's a crappy job out in that pasture-he'll just pay entry fees with it anyway.
 

Northern Rancher

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It's a Martin Jaguar-with Cobra Sidewinder sights,whisker biscuit rest,detachable quiver-stabilizer. He bought a new bow last year-why I don't know he's killed half a dozen deer with this one-it goes up to 55 pounds which is plenty for a young guy or an old guy for that matter.
 

IL Rancher

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You are telling me NR.. I started of with a 70 pound bow and have decided that my newer bow at 55#'s is a lot more pleasent to shoot.. Much more..
 

Northern Rancher

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Have you run an arrow into any of those Illinois hog whitetails we see on R.T. videos-Ty won three DVD's for winning Realtree.com's youth deer hunting contest-they just came this week-some real nice deer there. My favorite hunt was Tiffany Lakosky- that was one excited lady when she smacked her big deer.
 

IL Rancher

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Can't say that I have... Have seen a couple... Saw a monster last year, walked right past one of my stands, problem was I was about 100 yards to far away in a different stand... WHOOPS. It is interesting in Illinois. Down i souterhn you get some light bodied big rack deer.. I mean, real big racks... Up in this part of the state it is like some of that northern whitetail blood is around because our deer seem to be significantly bigger bodied than the ones I saw down south when I was looking at a farm near Effingham... Of course, nothing compares in body size to those true Northern deer you have up there...

Tiffany Lakosky... A lot of folks like her :shock: she seems to do a good job every year tracking something down...They have pretty muched moved out of Illinois and are spending more time in Iowa now, less hunting pressure it seems.
 
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