SHS Hunting Chat Contest 2006-2007

Take part in the SHS Hunting Chat Forum Contest and WIN!

I am proud to announce that we hold our very first forum members contest. The contest topic is, Hunting, Fishing or Outdoor Adventure. The idea is simple, write a story which can be true, fiction or humorous, as long it has to do with hunting and, or fishing. The contest begins on November 01. 2001 and ends midnight on November 30. 2006.

Here are some suggestions what you can write about. Your first hunt, a special memory connected with hunting or fishing, a humorous camp fire tale, what it is like to live with a hunter (if you are the non hunting spouse of a hunter). Or write about the biggest buck the longest fish you harvested. An exiting trip or a trip where Murphy’s Law was a constant companion and many more subjects, what ever you think is worth telling others about.

Every registered member of the SHS forum in entitled to take part in this contest. This is a good time to tell your friends and family about this contest too, because, in addition every new member registering between November 01. 2006 and November 29. 2006 is also eligible to take part in this contest.

Here comes the best part of this contest. Courtesy of Heirloom Custom Turkey Calls we have some fantastic prices to give away.

1st Price:
A set of two custom made turkey friction calls, one cherry with stained glass and one mahogany with a inlaid picture. These calls come in their own custom built case made from mahogany and maple that opens like a book to reveal the calls.
Retail price: $125.00











(Here is a small teaser of the 1st price. Heirloom Turkey Calls are not only pices of art but they bring gobblers in too!)
2nd Price:
A single custom-built turkey friction call also from mahogany with a blue/grey stained glass and no case. The striker on this call is made from mahogany, maple and birch for a sweet, soft sound.
Retail Price: $50.00

3rd Price:
Is custom-built picture frame made from mahogany. It is basically a circle with a recess for the picture and glass, it sits in a holder that allows the center to be removed for viewing and then put back in. The holder is a square piece of mahogany as well.
Retail Price: $30.00

4th Price:
A camo hunting baseball cap printed with "Heirloom Turkey Calls" on it.
Retail Price: $8.00

Now these are no ordinary prizes, each item, except the camo hat, are unique and specially made for this contest, as such these items are destined to become in a very short time collector items. As is custom with Heirloom Calls, they are of the highest quality and craftsmanship. Each call is a hand-tuned piece of art. So don’t delay and start writing your contest story today. To read the contest rules and other pertaining info or register as a member visit the SHS Contest Forum.

I am looking forward to read all you contest entries on the SHS Hunting Chat Forum.

Bucks Fighting

I found this amazing video on YouTube. At first I thought that this might be set up, you just never know nowadays, do you! But them I read the information that came with it.

Video Information:
The location of this occurred a 1/2 mile from our land down on the Wisconsin River near Gotham. Assume footage! The two deer were found on Sept 28th. I had been watching these two bucks all summer in the fields at dusk. Of course they were not locked up at that time.
The Hunter received permission, from the DNR since 1 of the deer was dead, to put it down. He was trying to get a taxidermist to mount them both. The deer were both witnessed, as being attacked by coyotes, note the back end of the live deer........could you imagine !!! The dead deer is a 12 pt.

What's the best time to kill a big buck?

On my hunting forum SHS Hunting Chat I opened a poll in which I ask. “What's the best time to kill a big buck?” Is it in the early hunting season? The Rut? In the Late Season? Or All of the tem? I voted that in my opinion shaped by experience, the best time to kill a big buck is the late season (Winter). And here is why!

While it is true that good bucks can be taken at any time during the hunting season. One look into the trophy record books shows that most trophies are taken in the late winter. And for good reason.

Consider this. In the early season the vegetation is thick, plenty of cover that makes it hard to see a deer. Food is plentiful and everywhere available to the deer. Most hunters generally agree that the early season is the toughest time to take a buck, or any deer for that matter, simply because they are hard to pattern.

During the rut a buck travels non-stop in search of hot does. Bucks do not eat during the breeding season, in fact they will loose as much as 25% to 30% of their body weight. A smart hunter will stay with the doe's and set up a treestand in the thick stuff downwind from doe feeding and bedding areas. Other hunters will sit over a scrape for days on end, like a brooding hen over eggs. But all this will not ensure that a buck can be killed, simply because, and here it comes again, it is though to pattern a buck that could be here today and gone tomorrow.

Now comes the winter, food is scares, in many places there will be a lot of snow and it is cold, very cold. The rut is over with and the buck's priorities change again. Now his only concern is to eat as much as he can in order to gain his weight back and make it trough the winter. Eat and sleep that is all a buck does in the winter. Very often bucks will bed close to the available food source to conserve energy. In other words the bucks become now very predictable, their once huge territory has shrunk that a few hundred yards. This is the reason why I voted for the late season, because it is now much easier to find a buck and set up on him. Often I snow track bucks in the deep winter just after a new snowfall is the best time. Another plus to the late season is that most hunters never leave the house again after the rut is over and so I have the woods all to myself, even deer are aware of this fact and are nowhere near as spooky, nocturnal bucks move now during day time again too.

In the southern regions of North America it may not be so important for a buck to find food and quickly gain back lost weight as the climate generally is milder and food is available in decent quality and quantity for much longer. But in the northern parts where the snow lays in thick layers for many months this may be the best time to kill a big monster buck.

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