3 Months, 3.5 weeks and the opening of Suffolk Archery will be here. Time to pull all the gear and start getting ready..

I know isnt it great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait. I am goign to try and hunt more than last year and spend more time upstate. My nephew can hunt both gun and bow this year with me so it will be an added treat. He'll be here with his younger brother this summer for a month or so practicing with the bow and working with me at the range. He should be ready when the opener rolls around. I am going to put in a lot of time in the next month or so to pattern the deer so he has the best stand to shoot a deer from. I really need to keep it within 20 yards for him, he is great out to 20 yards. maybe by the end of the summer and with a lot of practice he'll be at 50 lbs and can shoot the Bowtech equalizer I got him for doing good in school and getting accepted to a good HS. Needless to say I am psyched about hunting with this kid, he deserves it so much. Listens, learns all he can about the outdoors, deer patterns and so forth. Teaches his younger brother when he is willing to listen. Always eager to do anything around here, split firewood, hunp firewood, clean the twigs and branches goign to and fro the stands. He's just eager to hunt, reminds me of myself. Every year in April the trails are a mess with twigs. So him and his brother take the quad and go throughout the 45+ acres of stand trails and clean all the winter debris off them. They do it again after the summer is winding down, this way we have an easy quiet in and out to the stands. They also go through the woods with garbage bags and pickup any garbage that blows in from the roads or the horsefarm. So he deserves a good hunt and I will give it to him... If we both get a deer the day he hunts that would be a real treat.

Hugh,

Thats awesome!! Wish more kids were like that... Good Job..Pass it on!!!!

I've got my Younger brother (14) signed up for his bow course in August. He's been asking to come along with me and go hunting. I got him his own bow about 2 years ago, but hasn't done much shooting with it, since he couldn't hunt. Now that he's of age, he's chomping at the bit! I can't wait to get him out there and get him his first deer.

That's great rob. You bring your brother out here one weekend that i have my nephew out and with any luck one of the kids will score.

I really never thought my younger brother was going to get into the outdoors, but it seems he might be coming around. He's 19 now, no kid really, but even if he just sticks with fishing I'll be happy. Last year I took him upstate and the year before that we spent an overnight in Stueben County, so hopefully this year he wants to go again. It's always great when someone younger wants to get into it.

Air- Just some motivation: I didn't start hunting until I was 21. I fished sporadically my whole life with dad, but never hunted til then.

X- We should definitely talk about that. I desperately want to put my brother on a deer. More so than I want one myself. As season comes closer, we'll make the arrangements. That would be so cool if we could get my brother and your nephew to draw (lung) blood on the same day!

cool we'll amke a date. hey I would like to see you stick one good with the traditional.

Sounds great!

I've been practicing up with the Bear. A nice summer of practice should get me in line for some old school deer slayin'! Maybe we'll make all this work together - I'll bring the Bear and my brother, and you have your nephew, and we can make a grand ol' time out of it!