-C.B.
The last few weekends have either been spent getting gear cleaned, organized and stored for the upcoming hunting season(s) or hitting the woods to do a little scouting of old and new places. Since I'll be hunting South Carolina for the first time in 10 years, I've been driving down an hour and a half from my house on Sundays to scout with my father and grandfather. They've driven me by places I used to hunt when in my teens and we have walked new places I have never been to before. Let's just say the amount of deer sign we have been finding has me pumped for the October 1st muzzleloader opener down there in the Upstate! I foresee a stocked freezer of SC deer just due to the number of good places we have to hunt, long season and liberal bag limits. Not to be forgotten, I've also been checking out a spot on Alcoa where Paul was blessed to take a mature doe last December on a hunt with me. We planned to cover the whole parcel of land one Friday, but a boot blowout back at the truck after making our way through one half of the area didn't let that happen. But we did a test run with my boat (a 10 minute boat ride saves us a mile to mile and a half walk!) last Saturday with our friend Seth, the cool morning making us all ready for deer season to get here. Parking the boat near just a 100 yards from a tree we had picked out for Seth, we were able to make a quick and quiet approach to said tree, validating the use of the boat come hunting season. But the day was just not for a test run, we let Seth practice using a climbing stand, got a video setup picked out and bushwhacked our way through head high weeds and briars to see where the deer that accompanied Paul's December doe had went to. Outside of a few Sundays in September scouting in South Carolina, my pre-season scouting will end on Monday morning at Alcoa after hunting the North Carolina dove season opener with Paul; I've got to get a tree picked out for next Saturday afternoon (that's right, bow season opens here in North Carolina a week from today!) so I can watch some oak trees from afar in order to pick out an ambush spot for the following weekend's hunt with Paul. From then on out it's in-season scouting, checking out spots on the walk out after morning hunts, during midday and on the walk in during afternoons.
-C.B.
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Shew, long time no post and I apologize for that. It seems the blog gets put on the back burner when it comes to work, weddings, mowing grass, you know, when life happens. Back in July my buddy Seth and I hit Mountain Island Lake up a couple Saturday mornings and the following slideshow is of a few of what we caught those weekends. Enjoy! -C.B. Working overtime early this year while in Ohio allowed me to set my sights on a new bow. Well, that along with the fact I sold my 2008 Bowtech Guardian to my friend and was in need of a bow before Summer rolled around and practice time would be at a premium. Having shot different brands and models of bows the past few years while debating on updating what I had, I knew I liked the way Hoyt's balanced not just during the draw cycle and the shot but also just while holding and carrying around. As you'll hear in the video below, I shot numerous Hoyt models once I had decided that my next bow would be one and really liked the way the Vector 32 felt in my hand. I could continue to type out the pros and con (yes there is one slight con about the bow now that I have been shooting it but I believe I can get that taken care of) but I'll let the video of me talking do the, um, talking instead. Enjoy!
-C.B. As July is coming to an end (and yes I know we were hardly as active blogging wise as I said we were going to be on the blog this summer, apologies are in order for that so please forgive me) and August looms on the horizon, mine and Paul's focus is getting turned to the upcoming hunting season. There is still lots to do in the final preparations department with certain spots on public land we have to get ready for camera setupds as well as equipment to be bought and weapons to get dialed in and practiced with, but the other week I start giving my Summit Viper a little TLC and the finished product is discussed in the video below. Give it a watch and maybe it will give you some ideas on how to spruce up that treestand you've had a few years.
-Cory Back in June you might recall that I made a trip up to New York. While we were there we did get in a couple of days of fishing. I personally had no luck other than a few bites. However, Jackie, who sat directly across from me on the boat, got her limit of Lake Trout with her largest weighing in over 5 lbs. We were fishing with live Mooneye minnows as we usually do for the trout. My Grandfather also had some luck as well. It was great to get out during our short trip home and even better to see Jackie catching fish! I've attached the other photo in our media section so take a look! -Paul Nicolucci I stumbled across a site on accident the other day. What I found was unexpected, yet very useful! I found a website that has hundreds of firearms manuals for free download. You can find the site here. If you have been looking for a manual and could not find it I would take a look here first if you can't find it at the website of the manufacturer.
-Paul Nicolucci I forgot about this quick, easy and delicious Venison recipe until I was talking to my buddy Ken in NY.
- The first thing you need to do is get some Venison loin cut into steaks or some already cut steaks. - Next you'll need some good whole-grain or spicy mustard. - Take a cast iron frying pan or any other pan and put it over medium-high heat and put some peanut oil in the bottom of the pan (peanut oil has a smoke point of about 450 degrees Fahrenheit). - Now the easiest way I've found to do the next step is to get a gallon sized ziploc bag and place all of your steaks into the bottom of it. Then take whatever mustard you are using and place a liberal amount into the bag. Shake the bag up until each of the steaks has a good coating of mustard on them. Add more mustard as needed. - Your pan should be good and hot by now; you could also use a grill if you wanted! Place your steaks in the pan or on the grill and let me cook an even amount of time on each side to your desired wellness. I like to cut the steaks thinly and just place it in the pan on each side for a minute or so to get a good sear on the outside and leave a medium rare wellness on the inside! - Now serve this with some fried potatoes and onions and you have one heck of a dinner! -Paul Nicolucci I'll be heading up to NY as I do every summer, however this time I have two weddings to stand up in. I'll be in NY from June 15th - 23rd with a wedding on each weekend. I do have most of the week free and plan to hit up the lake and do some fishing! Usually this time of year the Trout are biting strong and Bass season will have just opened ( third Saturday of June each year ).
I'll be sure to keep our readers posted and write up a few recaps! Hopefully many pictures to follow! -Paul Nicolucci
The creek that shall not be named
As May turns into June, I always start daydreaming during work about hitting the small shaded creeks and rivers that can be found throughout the United States. There is just something about using an ultralight rod and matching wits with skinny water fish that gets me fired up. To quench that thirst, I headed out for my first skinny water excursion this year Friday afternoon, hitting a creek near my home that shall remain nameless so I can continue to have zero to low pressure fish at the end of my line! I was able to hook up with two small bass and numerous sunfish, all coming on a 3" plastic lizard.
After talking with my wife when I returned home, we decided to head out there again on Saturday to enjoy the nice weather with the dogs. It's about a 15 minute walk back there from the development where mine and Paul's buddy Seth lives, so after a nice and HOT walk back there, the dogs were happily playing on a sandbar and in the water while I was fishing and my wife was sitting back enjoying the scenery. Using a little 4" red shad plastic worm, I wore out the areas I fished the afternoon before with no luck. I waded my way on up towards a tall railroad trestle that crosses the creek and finally felt a heavy tug on the end of my 4-lb line. After a good fight on the ultralight, my prize was a 1-pound largemouth! A quick photo-op later and back in he went to fight another day. All in all, the past two days have given me a few quality hours on a creek that makes you feel you are in the middle of nowhere, yet it is only 15 minutes from downtown Charlotte. I plan on fishing it more as we enter Summer and eventually will float up it as far as I can in a kayak as it empties into the river just a half-mile below my house. Be sure to hit the "Read More" link to check out a slideshow of some pictures we took Saturday. 'Til next time, may your casts be true and your bites be plentiful! -C.B. This week's video comes from the guys at Xtreme Pursuits Outdoors, whom we showcased before with their bow tuning/setup videos they so graciously allowed me to post. Today I wanted to showcase one of their turkey hunting videos they put together from footage this season, so without further ado, here it is. -C.B. |
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