Chas0218

My bird does a great job with the dual beam cone. I haven't had an issue putting fish on the ice and side by side marcum mine shows smaller jigs with less gain. You can keep your vex, it's all about the settings.

I would say no they look the same age in both pictures, they do look like the same gene pool though.

Skipper everyone has bad shots you can't be too hard on yourself. I have been very fortunate to only wound 3 deer in the last 16 years of archery hunting. One was a high hit in "no mans land" the other 2 were unfortunately gut shot and none were recovered. I didn't let that stop me but it forced me to become a better archer, I still play out what happened in my head on all 3. the 2 gut shots I have no idea how it happened they were shorter shots within 30 yards maybe they took a step as I released I don't know. the high hit was because I didn't range the deer and thought a 30 yard shot was 40. 2 years ago I shot a nice 8 point that was looking straight at me I was trying to put the arrow at the base of his neck into his chest but hit high and directly in the spine folding the deer in his tracks and also hitting the main artery. Either way he didn't go far or move after the shot. You have to take the good with the bad. I have learned a lot with those 3 lost deer. I hate loosing deer half the reason why I don't do deer drives during gun season. I am looking forward to the upcoming season I have been thinking about since the end of July when the temps were in the middle 90s. I just kept thinking how nice it would be when the temps start to drop.

I have to agree, I shoot out to 60, I have taken a deer at 50 in a field but I don't think I would attempt a 60 yard shot. My arrows loose too much energy at 60 for me to feel comfortable humanely taking an animal. My 60 yard groups get a little wider than my 20 or 30 yard groups but 20 and 30 are chip shots once you move back to 60. I also like how fast my bow seems at 20 yards and how slow it sounds at 60 big difference in time between the twang thud sound.

I have the QAD HDx and love it. I had the ultra rest hunter grenade on me 2 years ago literally the day before I left for the northern zone early season. The only place that sold the QAD rests in my area had only the HDx in stock ($150). Long story short put it on, paper tuned it in the garage, shot 20 yards out back with the outdoor floodlights, everything was good up at 5am to hit the woods. QAD overnighted a replacement rest to where I was staying free of charge. Stand up company and a great rest.

How much are the Raymarine ev 100 systems going for? I would imagine they aren't over $1000 EDIT: they went up a little butt can be had for $1200 I would highly recommend the hydraulic pump instead of the wheel drive. I can't hear mine over my kicker and even with the kicker off you can barely hear it and it's mounted right under the steering wheel. Sent from my thinking chair...

Hey it's functional and gets you on the water. If you want to get a nicer finish that's what winter is for! Go fishing!!Sent from my thinking chair...

Good to know, thanks for the help!Sent from my thinking chair...

For what it's worth it, you could buy another battery and 2 bank charger instead of buying a kicker if you can't justify the money. How much are you planning on trolling, only you can answer whether it will be worth the money. I would run no kicker for one season and see how much has you end up spending and use that number to figure out if it's worth the money. Depending on the lake conditions my 8hp Johnson pushes my 23' boat about 3-3.5 gallons for 8 hours of trolling this is a light 1'-2' chop. In a 4' chop going into and with the waves I can use 6 gallons in 8 hours. That still beats 9 gallons in 8 hours with my big motor. Don't convert that long shaft and run it see how it works and pushes the boat. Add the 2nd battery with 2 bank charger and hook up all the electronics to the non starting battery. This will isolate the big motor from any interference that could happen and won't drain your starting battery. Sent from my thinking chair...