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Re: Bows in the brush?
« Reply #30 on: December 30, 2011, 11:38:53 AM »
There Is thick brush everywhere. But the my brush isthicker than yours.are always funny. Like my dad can beat up.your.dad!
The nastiest I.have been in has been a blackberry choked clearcut on westside. Those are hideous... tasty... but hideous to manouger through.
Just be careful working through brush and your bow.will be fine. They are.sturdy pieces of equipment.

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Re: Bows in the brush?
« Reply #31 on: December 30, 2011, 07:06:08 PM »
JLS and Seabass don't worry all their talk is trying to compensate for their tiny 3pt (aka 2pt with eyeguards) German shephard sized deer and their monster 220" bull elk.  :tup:
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Re: Bows in the brush?
« Reply #32 on: December 30, 2011, 09:25:18 PM »
You guys realize that there are a lot places in the west that have thick brush and big vertical drops. I took a couple coasties to Wyoming with me a few years ago and it took them 2 days to catch their breath.

taking guys used to 200' to 5000-10,000' yahh there gonna have some breathing issues!
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Re: Bows in the brush?
« Reply #33 on: December 31, 2011, 07:38:51 AM »
There Is thick brush everywhere. But the my brush isthicker than yours.are always funny. Like my dad can beat up.your.dad!
The nastiest I.have been in has been a blackberry choked clearcut on westside. Those are hideous... tasty... but hideous to manouger through.
Just be careful working through brush and your bow.will be fine. They are.sturdy pieces of equipment.

I hunted Winston in the late season. I was going downhill through some really thick reprod and started getting into the blackberries. At one point, I fell in a burrow that was completely covered and almost broke my leg. My arms and legs were really bleeding from all of the thorn rips. Later that day, we got stopped on a license check and when I handed the gamie my license, he saw the blood all over my hand and got curious really fast, even after I explained it got there from pushing through the blackberries. That thick stuff mixed with blackberries is the pits.
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Re: Bows in the brush?
« Reply #34 on: December 31, 2011, 11:01:06 AM »
There Is thick brush everywhere. But the my brush isthicker than yours.are always funny. Like my dad can beat up.your.dad!
The nastiest I.have been in has been a blackberry choked clearcut on westside. Those are hideous... tasty... but hideous to manouger through.
Just be careful working through brush and your bow.will be fine. They are.sturdy pieces of equipment.

I hunted Winston in the late season. I was going downhill through some really thick reprod and started getting into the blackberries. At one point, I fell in a burrow that was completely covered and almost broke my leg. My arms and legs were really bleeding from all of the thorn rips. Later that day, we got stopped on a license check and when I handed the gamie my license, he saw the blood all over my hand and got curious really fast, even after I explained it got there from pushing through the blackberries. That thick stuff mixed with blackberries is the pits.
Had a similar experience, man I hate blackberries !!
Also just does not seem like I tried hard enough, until I follow an "easy" trail down into a creek bottom, slip on the mud, reach out for something, and get a handful of Devils Club !
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Re: Bows in the brush?
« Reply #35 on: December 31, 2011, 02:35:37 PM »
Your bow is going to get wet, so make sure to take care of it and wax it up when you get home.  Accessories are what you need to worry about while hunting.  A quality sight with protected fibers is most important on my list.  I've had more fibers break than I can count.  Next, is a good quiver that will actually hold your arrows when crawling through the thick stuff.  My Tightspot quiver does a pretty good job at this, although I did lose one arrow this year.  I'm sure there are others that work well, but most of the cheap stuff will let you down. 
One last piece of advice is to always check your equipment after you take a hard fall, which you will.  Two years ago I fell face first and landed hard on my bow.  I did a quick check and everything looked fine.  The next morning I had an elk coming in so I nocked an arrow.  The elk never gave me a shot, which turned out to be a blessing because when I look at my arrow, it was just kind of dangling there, cracked right in the middle.  I proceeded to check the rest of my arrows, and 3 of the 6 were broke.

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Re: Bows in the brush?
« Reply #36 on: January 01, 2012, 09:31:45 PM »
All good suggestions already.  If the Iceman is like my Admiral, you should consider carrying a backup string and a big allen wrench to change the string.  Don't need a press.

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Re: Bows in the brush?
« Reply #37 on: January 02, 2012, 11:55:08 AM »
All good suggestions already.  If the Iceman is like my Admiral, you should consider carrying a backup string and a big allen wrench to change the string.  Don't need a press.

The Iceman is your Admiral only it has a single cam system rather than the binary cam.
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