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Post by johnnybandit on Jun 27, 2023 21:06:32 GMT -5
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Post by swampdog on Jun 28, 2023 7:41:14 GMT -5
Cool pics. The pics get me a little amped for the season. Getting ready to spray my clothes with the annual permethrin treatment. Thermocells stay ready😉
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Post by JS84 on Jun 28, 2023 12:46:59 GMT -5
Thanks for the reminder SwampD. Need to order some more sawyers myself
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Post by pinman on Jun 28, 2023 20:14:24 GMT -5
Thanks for the reminder SwampD. Need to order some more sawyers myself Dont buy any Sawyers. Go to a feed store and buy Permethrin and mix yourself. |
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Post by JS84 on Jun 29, 2023 6:58:46 GMT -5
Even better idea  |
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Post by james243 on Jun 29, 2023 8:21:57 GMT -5
Been using the same bottle of concentrate for a few years. The mix works not only on hunting gear but even on bug issues around the house. I add a couple drops of dish soap to each batch, it seems to help emulsify the oil, so I feel like the application is more uniform.
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Post by JS84 on Jun 29, 2023 9:45:00 GMT -5
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Post by meateater on Jun 29, 2023 10:03:21 GMT -5
so give us the recipe for this permthrin stuff you spray on clothes im a thermacell and deep woods off guy and still the no see ums eat me alive sometimes. mostly under oaks |
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Post by swampdog on Jun 29, 2023 10:16:30 GMT -5
Meat I use permethrin for tick prevention. Spray my clothes and socks outside on a still day and let them dry. It will last through several washes. No-seums are a real pain when fishing and I usually cover up and use skin so soft. Maybe someone else can add some updated no-seum prevention.
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Post by richm on Jul 9, 2023 11:45:42 GMT -5
just saw that FWC recently arrested a guy driving around with spotlight and xbow at Dinner Island. Hmmm.
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Post by meateater on Jul 10, 2023 14:02:38 GMT -5
just saw that FWC recently arrested a guy driving around with spotlight and xbow at Dinner Island. Hmmm. guess he couldnt wait to shoot the big 11 point that 100 people have seen at the corner of farm field road by the old cattle pens there will be 10 guys there opening morning maybe 15 now. |
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Post by bowhunter4life on Jul 10, 2023 16:16:21 GMT -5
just saw that FWC recently arrested a guy driving around with spotlight and xbow at Dinner Island. Hmmm.    guess he couldnt wait to shoot the big 11 point that 100 people have seen at the corner of farm field road by the old cattle pens    there will be 10 guys there opening morning   maybe 15 now. Shhhh, that’s Johnnys secret buck!..🤫 |
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Post by johnnybandit on Jul 11, 2023 17:02:26 GMT -5
just saw that FWC recently arrested a guy driving around with spotlight and xbow at Dinner Island. Hmmm. guess he couldnt wait to shoot the big 11 point that 100 people have seen at the corner of farm field road by the old cattle pens there will be 10 guys there opening morning maybe 15 now.
I went to Ocala last weekend for a change of scenery..
Two weeks ago there were two trucks parked right in there..... I figured they were trying to scout him...
That is not a dumb deer though. He was hanging around in the same area last year.
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Post by johnnybandit on Jul 11, 2023 17:15:54 GMT -5
guess he couldnt wait to shoot the big 11 point that 100 people have seen at the corner of farm field road by the old cattle pens there will be 10 guys there opening morning maybe 15 now. Shhhh, that’s Johnnys secret buck!..🤫 Not mine.... I have one buck I consider mine... But I since I did not get drawn. I gave that intel and intel I have on a few others to a member here...
Funny thing about those close to the road bucks..... And yes most of my buck photos are taken close to the road....
At least four and probably five of the nice bucks I have posted this summer, I have photos of the same deer from last summer and some the summer before (but I cannot be sure on some of the 2021 deer because I was still taking photos with my cell phone in the summer of 2021)
Those close to the Road deer have a way of surviving.... I am mostly going with... people are idiots.
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Post by One Man Gang on Jul 12, 2023 7:15:02 GMT -5
Too many people walk right on by those close to the road bucks thinking that if they aren't busting a gut hiking in at 0200 through 2 miles of cypress swamp and 8 inches of mud, after a 1 mile e bike ride, they aren't "hunting".
I don't know about you guys, but I'm just as satisfied (actually more) killing a deer 50 yds from my truck as I am killing one 2 miles deep. There's one thing I have learned over the years... there is no public hunting land that hasn't seen the footprints of a human and there's always someone out there who is willing and able to outwalk and outwork you. You show me a deer close to my truck and I'm your huckleberry. You guys go right ahead and kill yourselves for that hog or deer. That shit is no longer worth it to me.
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Post by meateater on Jul 12, 2023 10:04:00 GMT -5
gonna be 1 more guy parked at the cattle pens opening morning. one of my associates just picked up opening day in re draws. just kidding i go to the end of road 5 then walk out west, or is it road 11 then head north, wait a minute its trail 7 to the end then go south east and hunt behind where the biologist lives, oh man i cant remember i better call mr bandit. i will give away a spot, this guy moved to alabama so he dont care, for a many years there was always a guy who climbed a telephone pole just west of the check station yes a telephone pole and i used to crack jokes everytime i would see him sitting up there baking in the sun, then one year he stopped me in the dark and asked if i had any batteries his headlamp went dead, i gave him some and offered to help him track his buck, hour later we were dragging a nice 9 point. that was his 3rd buck off that pole in 4 years. this was over 10 years ago , we kept in touch and became friends. moral of the story theres no 1 great spot out there bucks could be anywhere and theres a lot less of them today. maybe across from the dove field on farm field road at one of the 2 gates yea thats where im going, bucks always cross there.
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Post by tampaspicer on Jul 12, 2023 10:37:45 GMT -5
Them big bucks love hanging around check stations, camps, and random places you'd never expect them to be. They are going to go to the places with the least amount of pressure.
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Post by johnnybandit on Jul 17, 2023 21:00:31 GMT -5
Too many people walk right on by those close to the road bucks thinking that if they aren't busting a gut hiking in at 0200 through 2 miles of cypress swamp and 8 inches of mud, after a 1 mile e bike ride, they aren't "hunting". I don't know about you guys, but I'm just as satisfied (actually more) killing a deer 50 yds from my truck as I am killing one 2 miles deep. There's one thing I have learned over the years... there is no public hunting land that hasn't seen the footprints of a human and there's always someone out there who is willing and able to outwalk and outwork you. You show me a deer close to my truck and I'm your huckleberry. You guys go right ahead and kill yourselves for that hog or deer. That shit is no longer worth it to me. I got a few more this weekend..... It is entertaining to watch bucks move away from people that are in the woods scouting
Look at the right rack on the second  deer....
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Post by swampdog on Jul 18, 2023 9:45:20 GMT -5
The right side looks like a sawblade…Thanks for sharing.
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Post by One Man Gang on Jul 18, 2023 9:58:41 GMT -5
Cool little buck John.
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Post by JS84 on Jul 18, 2023 10:03:22 GMT -5
Love those dark swamp buck antlers
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Post by fishingsouthflorida1 on Jul 19, 2023 7:12:42 GMT -5
This was from a couple weeks ago. Been seeing ALOT of bucks out there with little to no brow tines. It’s a shame how that genetic trait has been passed all around in Florida. We’d have some real studs if they grew some brow tines Attachments:
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Post by meateater on Jul 19, 2023 9:41:29 GMT -5
This was from a couple weeks ago. Been seeing ALOT of bucks out there with little to no brow tines. It’s a shame how that genetic trait has been passed all around in Florida. We’d have some real studs if they grew some brow tines some guy on here was saying that exact thing few months ago , oh yea that was me, dinner island has always had this. i have seen some big 6 pointers with no brows and plenty of 4 pointers with no brows as far back as 15 years ago. weird cause i never noticed this at the slough or a lease i hunt sometimes as a guest and both touch dinner island. even in big cypress you see a buck with no brows sometimes but they usually got at least a inch or more. |
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Post by tampaspicer on Jul 19, 2023 14:02:02 GMT -5
Brow tines would add anywhere from 8-12" of score typically on a decent buck.
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Post by johnnybandit on Jul 19, 2023 19:04:29 GMT -5
This was from a couple weeks ago. Been seeing ALOT of bucks out there with little to no brow tines. It’s a shame how that genetic trait has been passed all around in Florida. We’d have some real studs if they grew some brow tines There are plenty of single and double brow tine bucks in dinner.... The area does seem to have quite a few bucks missing brow tines..
But there is no shortage of brow tines out there....
These are some just in the last few weeks...
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Post by johnnybandit on Jul 19, 2023 19:06:04 GMT -5
This was from a couple weeks ago. Been seeing ALOT of bucks out there with little to no brow tines. It’s a shame how that genetic trait has been passed all around in Florida. We’d have some real studs if they grew some brow tines There are plenty of single and double brow tine bucks in dinner.... The area does seem to have quite a few bucks missing brow tines..
But there is no shortage of brow tines out there....
These are some just in the last few weeks...
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Post by johnnybandit on Jul 19, 2023 19:07:42 GMT -5
There are plenty of single and double brow tine bucks in dinner.... The area does seem to have quite a few bucks missing brow tines..
But there is no shortage of brow tines out there....
These are some just in the last few weeks...
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Post by fishingsouthflorida1 on Jul 21, 2023 9:43:14 GMT -5
This was from a couple weeks ago. Been seeing ALOT of bucks out there with little to no brow tines. It’s a shame how that genetic trait has been passed all around in Florida. We’d have some real studs if they grew some brow tines    some guy on here was saying that exact thing few months ago ,    oh yea that was me,    dinner island has always had this. i have seen some big 6 pointers with no brows and plenty of 4 pointers with no brows as far back as 15 years ago.  weird cause i never noticed this at the slough or a lease i hunt sometimes as a guest and both touch dinner island. even in big cypress you see a buck with no brows sometimes but they usually got at least a inch or more. Same here. I hunted the slough last couple of years and didn’t see that either. But come to think of it I have been getting a couple bucks on cam at the slough that don’t have them either. And on a property I hunt in labelle the bucks have brow tines but they are an inch tops |
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Post by johnnybandit on Jul 22, 2023 18:19:45 GMT -5
some guy on here was saying that exact thing few months ago , oh yea that was me, dinner island has always had this. i have seen some big 6 pointers with no brows and plenty of 4 pointers with no brows as far back as 15 years ago. weird cause i never noticed this at the slough or a lease i hunt sometimes as a guest and both touch dinner island. even in big cypress you see a buck with no brows sometimes but they usually got at least a inch or more. Same here. I hunted the slough last couple of years and didn’t see that either. But come to think of it I have been getting a couple bucks on cam at the slough that don’t have them either. And on a property I hunt in labelle the bucks have brow tines but they are an inch tops Bucks are getting skittish.... People are romping and stomping and calling it scouting....
But I got photos of this guy today.
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Post by bowhunter4life on Jul 22, 2023 18:25:02 GMT -5
Nice picture Johnny!.. I’ll spot burn and guess it’s somewhere near road 1?
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