What Did You Do Today?

[BowEd]

Nice set of shoots burtonridr!!!
Here's this bayou Clint.I've had it for 17 years.It's drug many a deer out of the bottom for me.Along with many other jobs.With coon hunting I mounted an air kennel on the back.Used an air kennel on the front also.
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[osage outlaw]

Ours is the same except a blue seat

[BowEd]

I got this one dirt cheap back then.Apparently a kid got out of hand and rammed it into a wall or something solid and bent the crap out of the front pipe rack.I just welded up a new one to fit for out of 80 gauge 1" pipe.It's been a virtually trouble free piece of equipment.

[burtonridr]

Stained shafts yesterday. Today crested/painted, made knocks, and urethaned them today. Also cut fletchings.

[osage outlaw]

Those look good!

[BowEd]

Nice work burtonridr.I always like self nocked shoot shafts.

[burtonridr]

Thanks guys, 

I got the fletchings glued on today, I posted pics already in the christmas trade thread. Almost done!

Other than that, pretty relaxing weekend though.

[burtonridr]

I ran about a 1/4 bucket of sluice concentrates last night through my mini sluice, the concentrates were from last summer. I ended up with a fair amount of gold, but less than I expected. I think I ran through the process to fast and because I skipped the step of classifying it produced poor results. I will run the material again and it will be interesting to see just how much I missed by going faster.

[osage outlaw]

Let's see some pictures of the gold!

[burtonridr]

Here are a few pics, the first is the micro sluice setup and the second is the gold from a run this summer. 

[osage outlaw]

Very cool.  I've found gold twice in my life but it wasn't like yours.  Once was a wedding ring when I was little and the other was a bracelet a few years back. 

[chamookman]

Gotta love that - great find    ! Bob

[bjrogg]

Very cool burtonridr. Looks like you recovered the fine stuff pretty good. I hope you find some more in there.
Bjrogg

[Eric Krewson]

An interesting and challenging day;
I bought a super nice ladder stand to put on my land, the instructions said it would take a minimum of three people to put it up, it is a beast.

I have a 20# weight limit from hernia surgery but consider myself somewhat inventive so I was sure I could pull it off.

I thought I could pull it right up the tree with my deer dragamatic and almost burned the drill motor up trying. it was a no go as the stand slid across the ground instead of lifting.

Plan B; climb the tree with a treestand and put an eye bolt 19 feet up in the tree, put a line through the eye, hook the line to my four wheeler and pull the stand up to the correct position.

Here is the start;

[Eric Krewson]

I pulled the stand up with my four wheeler but missed the tree, I had the eye bolt in the center of the tree but should have put it on the uphill side. The slope of the hillside complicated things, the stand wanted to fall downhill for some reason. I struggled with this dilemma for over and hour but finally thought of a solution. I used a log chain and come-a-long tied off to a tree up the hill to pull the stand back to the center of the tree.