Southern IL Deer Gun Season 2022

Southern IL Deer Gun Season 2021

Southern IL Deer Season 2020

Deer Season 2019

Deer Season 2018

Southern IL. Gun Deer Season 2017

Christmas Trail Camera Catches and ATV 2" Receiver

Trail Cam Catches Part 2.

Trail Cam Catches 2017

Deer Season 2017

Well deer season is just a few days away. I am looking forward to hunting but it is looking like the weather is gonna be wet and windy this year. I sighted in my gun today and the sight seems to be good unlike last years issue. It is a little frustrating to look forward to something all year only for the weather to totally crap all over it but it is what it is. You just got to make the best of it and see what happens. I will update at the end of the season, hopefully I will have some luck....I'm gonna need it.

My stand.

Grouping at 50 yards.

Wheel Job

Since I just mounted new rubber on the 4 wheeler and while doing so I scuffed up some of the paint on the rims, I decided to repaint them. The wheels were a factory silver color and I always thought a nice matte black would look better so I decided to repaint them.

 Off with the tires.

 Sanded, masked primed and painted.

 Had to do a little touch up where the masking covered the wheels.

Finished product.

Before

New Shoes For The Honda

Last year after I lifted and spaced out the wheels on the Honda I decided I was going to need some new rubber for the quad in the near future.. I had some spied out but decided to give the tires another year. I settled on Intercos Swamp Lites, they have gotten really good reviews for an general all purpose tire and have been around for years. I got the itch last week so I pulled the trigger and ordered from Motosports.com. I went with the stock size 22x7-11 for the fronts and 22x11-9 for the rear. The tires on the Honda were the original ones that came with the 4 wheeler 10 years ago and were getting pretty worn down. The tires arrived in just under a week and came in 2 large boxes. I decided to put my new manual tire changer to work and after watching several YouTube videos felt like I had a grasp of how this was going to go.

 

 

The front tires were a little compressed in shipping so I had to use a ratchet strap around the circumference of the tire to get the bead to seat. I thought I would start with the fronts because they would be the hardest to mount by the look of them....WRONG! The back tires were very hard to get the outside lip of the tire over the rim. The tool that came with the tire changer was too thick and there wasn't enough room to slip it between the tire and the rim. I ended up shoving one edge of the tire under the lip of the rim and using a ratchet strap to keep it there while using 2X4 wood pieces to compress the lip down into the rim to allow enough room to work the lip around the rim inch by inch with a couple of screw drivers. I again had to use a ratchet strap to get the bead to seat.

Front before

Side before

Frontish after

 

 Side after

Lugs on the swamp lites.

I haven't had a chance to ride it much yet but hope to be able to remedy that this weekend down at the farm. I think they should do a lot better than the stock tires. I will report back on how they do.

2015 Buck Mount

I finally go my buck mount from my 2015 shotgun season. It was about 13 months from when I harvested the buck. He is a nice symmetrical 8 pointer scoring about 132. Glad to finally get this one on the wall.

Six Weeks of Trail Camera Footage.

Deer Season 2016

Browning Strike Force 2016 Part 2

Trail Cam Videos 2016 Part 1

 

Video clips from Oct 9th to Oct 30th.

LED light bar install

Thursday night I install a 20" Auxbeam LED light bar on the front of my Recon that I purchased from Amazon.. Its is puts out a lot more light than the stock head lamps.

2" Wheel Spacer Install on 07 Honda Recon

Ever since I put the High Lifter 2" lift kit on the Recon, I was a little concerned about the wheel base being narrowed so it may have taken me some time but I finally did something about it. It ordered the Factory Spec FS-201 2" wheel spacers from Amazon. The spacers arrived Friday and I couldn't wait to install them. After installation the quad feels a lot more stable in turns. Check out the install video below and subscribe to my YouTube channel to see more videos.

Deer Hunting 2015