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  1. TheBenHoyle

    2024 documenting hunts/somewhat live

    @bigfin Can we get a sub category on Hunt Talk called Ben Talk?
  2. TheBenHoyle

    A Short Story About Landowner Permission Not Being Simple

    I have noticed that often times landowners don't even really realize that they have the right to decide. They don't want to be the bad guy and want everyone to just get along. So whoever is the bad egg can push the issues and make things uncomfortable for everyone else and then the landowners...
  3. TheBenHoyle

    2024 documenting hunts/somewhat live

    Hey Ben and Ben. Ben here. Just chiming in to make sure we are all present and accounted for.
  4. TheBenHoyle

    Woodworking Hunt Talkers?

    I hope you can glue it back together ok. That's a beautiful bowl.
  5. TheBenHoyle

    Woodworking Hunt Talkers?

    I made a handle for a pizza cutter a a Christmas Present for my mom. The wood is from a pear tree that was in my backyard when I moved to my house in 2010. I took the tree down and saved a Buch of wood. This piece looked like a handle so I made it into one. No lathe work, just rasping and...
  6. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    Saturday was cold. Got into the woods about 45 minutes before legal shooting light and waited until sunrise before I slipped down the quarry and still hunted through the woods. I heard no turkeys and saw no deer. I got all the way to the northern part of the L and looked to the north but there...
  7. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    I've got one last hunt on the 2024-2025 archery tags on my pocket. Headed out in the morning. I'm going to try basically the same thing I have done the past three hunts, but I might be a little less patient if I'm not seeing deer. I might move north and try to get closer to the creek since...
  8. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    I went out for an all day sit on Saturday. There was fresh snow and I saw tracks in the snow, but they looked like they had been snowed on. So the deer had been in those woods within that past 24 hours. I was hoping they would wander through in the morning, or midday or just before dark. I was...
  9. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    The plan was to go out today and sit all day in those same woods. On New Year's Day I tested positive for covid and I have been pretty badly wiped out. Yesterday I felt better and I was hoping I would feel even better today. I modified my plan to be an afternoon hunt thinking I would feel good...
  10. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    It was a very foggy cold morning, which led to a neat hoar frost effect on the upper limbs and branches of the trees. Looked like the type of flocking effect that model train builders try to add to their trees for winter scenes. I got into the woods without bumping anything and just sat at the...
  11. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    I'm headed out in the morning for what I call my birthday hunt. My birthday was yesterday but it fell in a late season firearm season and I try to not be in the woods when I have to wear orange because it drastically reduces the chance that I could put an arrow through a turkey, and they are...
  12. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    Friday was a beautiful snowy morning and I slipped into the woods about 20 minutes before legal shooting light. The snow was fresh and there was a lot of traffic noise, so I thought I was getting into the woods pretty cleanly. The sun came up and I didn't hear any turkeys, which is weird. That...
  13. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    It's that time of year. I have the rest of today and tomorrow left for work. I won't have to be in front of a spreadsheet for 14 days. To celebrate, I am going out hunting on Friday. It should be a northish wind with fresh snow on the ground and I have permission to hunt in those woods near my...
  14. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    I went out Sunday with a friend of mine who wants to get into hunting but doesn't have much time. For the third year we went out for one day of firearm hunting for deer. We got a little bit of a late start due to some alarm clock issues and the fact that it is a 2 hour 15 minute drive. I would...
  15. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    I have been trying to spend a decent amount of time hunting a piece of public land to get to know better in hopes that it can be a place I can have more success in the future. In making my plan for yesterday's hunt I went back and forth about going to the public land or going to the private...
  16. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone. As much as I would love to hunt on Thanksgiving, I also like to host, which means I am up and cooking instead. But I will be going out on Sunday. I will be hunting the woods near my parents where I have had so many good hunts in the past. This property doesn't get...
  17. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    I wanted to get out this weekend to the Public land I have been hunting. I figure the more time I spend the more secrets I will learn and eventually I will have figured out how to get on turkeys in the spring and deer in the fall. I really wanted to go out Saturday morning, but I also wanted to...
  18. TheBenHoyle

    My biggest/longest road trip yet.

    There are some great videos of the build process on Stan's Youtube channel.
  19. TheBenHoyle

    Leather Working HT’ers

    I've made a few things: a couple belts, a couple of little purses for my kids, etc. I have ambitions to do more but I definitely have too many hobbies to draw my focus away. My most ambitious project was a shotgun bag for sporting clays. It is pretty cool, although I wish I had done some...
  20. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's semi-live 2024 hunt thread

    Here is a cropped picture of my buddy with his first deer. It was very hard for me to convince myself I didn't need to go back out this morning. I was somewhat confident that I could set up in a tree on that path I had observed on Saturday and I would see the buck. But it was going to be...

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