Hello, is there anybody out there?

I'd love to throw a few rounds through my gun as well or atleast get out with my muzzleloader or bow. Just been too warm for me. I prefer not to harvest something then basically try to beat the clock to get it under refrigeration. :waiting: I'm hoping cooler temps arrive by the time deer gun season opens if not I'll be a spectator.:winterrules:
 
My stands are set and expecting a SW wind this Friday for the Illinois firearm opener. One stand is perfect for this wind, so I am hopeful of filling at least one tag Friday and using my new 1140 CPX to haul it out. I'm two miles off the road and it's a long way to drag a deer :myopinion:

Got the winch on and the snorkel air intake last week and this week HD shocks going on the front to handle the plow for the winters to come. Peanut is sending me Stick Stoppers next week Awaiting UTV Hitchworks Farmboy/Plowboy and hydro controller unit later this month for the CPX to be fully accoutred!

I am already loving this machine.

Good luck to my fellow hunters!

Davooda
 
Depending on terrain, Dragging a deer 200' can seem like 2 miles ... so I'm with you ... use the machine! Unfortunately, I hunt on property I personally don't own and really has never been laid out or cleared to get anything with four wheels back to where you'd want to hunt. Though if you can drag out from the woods into a meadow or pasture the owner will bring it out for you with a tractor. The two farms I hunt on are surrounded by Public Hunting so you have to be careful if you do use an ATV or UTV and not stray onto Public Land with it or else they can fine and/or confiscate the vehicle (Happened to some guys on a nearby farm). Game Wardens look for any infraction anyways around here since they split the fines etc... between property owner, game warden, county and state. You have a few property owners that do nothing during deer season but spot folks near their land (usually these folks butt up to public land - in Ohio Public/Private property bounderies there are only signs on posts and can be very difficult to know exactly where the line is running since you usually can't see the next post) and report them -- the game warden will accept the property owner as a witness and never bothers to check whether it's factual or not. I usually stay as far from the boundaries as possible. Last season the game wardens set up some road blocks and you should have seen the deer, shot guns, etc... confiscated let alone the citations I'm sure that were issued. I've hunted since I was a 6 and have always made sure I knew what the laws were, property lines were located, etc... and complied with them and haven't had any problems but have seen game wardens give problems to others for the most trivial of things. Some of things even defy common sense. Overall the higher the cost for licenses and tags here in Ohio the less game wardens I've seen during deer season. I've also seen a decline in hunters in the area I hunt as a result higher licenses and tags and I know a few others that had run ins with game wardens in the past and won't hunt in Ohio saying it's not worth being hassled.
 
Davooda said:
and this week HD shocks going on the front to handle the plow for the winters to come.
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Davooda,

Not sure if you're interested in selling the take-off shocks but if you are, post it on the forum. I can't find the thread right now but thought someone was looking for a set recently.
 
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