Showing posts with label western Kentucky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label western Kentucky. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

LIMB SHAVER, Walnut Grove Hunting Products

Walnut Grove Hunting Products

I had a great chance to try out another quality product from http://www.walnutgrovehunting.com/
Our hunting group used the Limb Shaver with Saw attachment for clearing shooting lanes.  This is a fully customizable saw and works very well in many different applications.  What I really like most about the Limb Shaver is the easy way in which it can be packed in a packet or hunting pack.  I cut a small tree down to about 7 ft in length and used it as a saw handle.  This gave me the ability to reach limbs up to around 15 ft high which worked out great.  I would recommend the Limb Shaver with the offered Saw attachment Walnut Grove also offers just the attachment unit to use with your existing saw. 
Limb Shaver with Saw mounted on a 7 ft limb.

Kaitlyn using the Limb Shaver to clear shooting lanes.
Joe and Jeff using the Limb Shaver.

Limb Shaver without saw blade. Photo from Walnut Grove Hunting Products.

Limb Shaver with customer supplied saw. Photo from Walnut Grove Hunting Products


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Monday, July 22, 2013

Average Joe?

A good friend Joe Perkins has been hunting in Western Kentucky for 10 years now.  He has had some great hunts over the years and has been very successful bringing back 5 wall hangers from 130 class to 160 class deer.  What makes this remarkable is this is not pay hunts he's going on.  Joe hunts with our group on privately owned and leased land.  He has a few traditions he lives by and they pay dividends for him.  He will never make the trip north without an ice chest full of shrimp.  The first year he took shrimp to Kentucky he killed the largest buck of his life.  Needless to say he is in a panic each year when the calendar turns to November to try to locate some fresh off the boat shrimp. 

Joe Perkins with 10 pt.

I wont give up all his tricks but check out some of his buck pictures from the last few years.


Joe Perkins


So come November if you see a truck north bound on the Interstate that appears to be the Beverly Hillbillies.  It might be the LA Hillbillies (Lower Alabama) loaded down with gear (shrimp, pecans, satsumas) and any other items that brought a little luck in the past.


If you guys run into Joe ask him to tell you about his cover scent.
He's definitely not your Average Joe when it comes to hunting.

by: Shelby Byrd
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Outpost Venice La.

Have you ever been on a real adventure.  I'm talking about leaving the country in a small puddle jumper airplane and landing in a place where things are a lot different than the norm.  Well take out the small plane and leaving the country and put in its place a 4 hour ride in a truck to South Louisiana and that's where our adventure begins.  A group of good friends got together and wanted to go on a real blue water fishing trip.  We live in a coastal county in Alabama and could have stayed in state for the trip but the short distance from Venice La. to the fertile sport fishing grounds around the Midnight Lump was an attraction we could not pass up.  We booked a February trip with Capt. Scott Avanzino with Paradise Outfitters out of Venice Marina.  We had a pretty crazy trip getting through New Orleans and all the small Parish towns.  It was Mardis Gras in the Big Easy so we skirted parade routes to south of town.  If you have never been south of New Orleans on Hwy 23 some of the small towns I remember are Port Sulphur, Empire, and Buras.  Hwy 23 runs down the west side of the Mississippi River and for most of the trip you are riding along the side of the flood levy.  It's exactly what you think it would be for the most part until you see the exotic animal farms and the citrus groves.


We arrived in Venice on Saturday evening and our 12 hour trip was set to start the next morning at 6 am.  We had  comfortable lodgings set up by Paradise Outfitters and the Captain and Deckhand of our boat stayed at the same lodge we bunked in. Our vessel for the trip was a 32' sportfisherman 6 pack known as the DELTA DAWN.  Our group picked a huge room at the back side of the lodge that was full of bunk beds.  We settled down about midnight for some restless sleep.  It's hard to rest when your on fire for the trip ahead.

    
Shelby Byrd, Matt Achimon, Rick Gaines,Joe Perkins and Elvin Byrd

After getting to Venice Marina we found the fog to be very thick.  The captain decided to make the short run down the Mississippi River to Tiger Pass and run the bay on out to the Midnight Lump.
River camp on the Mississippi
 
We cruised in the boat for about 1.5 hrs and then set out a spread and trolled the rest of the way to the lump. The seas where pretty heavy and we cold see smaller craft disappearing between the huge rolling seas and returning on the next wave crest.  We dropped the anchor and started chumming for Yellow Fin Tuna
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  It started a little slow and we had several Black Fin bites and landed many of them. About 3 hours into the trip we started getting the hammering bites that bend the broom stick size rods over to the side of the boat.  Talk about a fight, its a test of endurance when you have a 90 + lb fish with a attitude heading in the other direction.
Elvin Byrd with a Yellowfin Tuna
Shelby Byrd (me) and Rick Gaines with a Large Yellowfin
  
We landed several nice Yellow Fins and Rick had the fight of the day when a 96 lb wahoo hit and  violently screamed the line off the reel for about 10 minutes before all went quite.  The deck hand earned his pay at this point by offering good instruction. REEL,REEL,REEL he said that fish is heading for the boat you've got a wahoo.  Rick double timed the reel and gained ground before the wahoo had a chance to spit the hook.  It made several more intense runs before it was landed and hauled aboard.  Talk about some high fives and pictures flashing.  That one fish made it a trip to never forget.
Rick Gaines with a 96lb Wahoo
I do hope to make that trip again one day and can only hope we have the same results.
   Rick Gaines and Joe Perkins
2 Nice Yellowfin Tuna

Cleaning Stations at Venice Marina


Shelby Byrd on the Delta Dawn

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Shelby Byrd

Friday, July 5, 2013

Why Kentucky?

The old buck that got me started going to Kentucky. 

(The Rare Breed Buck)
killed by Tim Bond

Pictures of this buck Tim killed in the 1970's had me ready to pack my bags.  This is a huge 10 pt buck.  The tines are 10" to 12" long, it's hard to tell in this cell phone picture.  In a turn of luck we are now hunitng a lease 35 years later on the same hill where Tim killed this deer.  Tim was amazed when we went to view the land and he realized we would be hunting a few hundred yards from where he killed this deer so many years ago.

It's amazing that some of the deer we kill on this lease and in this area have some of the traits shown in this old bucks rack.


I killed this buck in 2011 and his tines look a lot like the old buck's.  Maybe he has a few more relatives hiding on the side of the hill to pass the blood line to future generations