The saga continues

I met with my hunting partner Joe this past weekend to work on some details for our trip. Its looking like we are a lot more ready than I thought. I put my Fuse sight from my old bow on my new one and it looks pretty sweet so that will stay on.

Bought a Barska spotting scope from Midway USA and have been glassing the neighborhood picturing antlers on the neighbors' dogs. Also got another trail camera for an awesome price. Typically when I see Larry Potterfield on the Midway USA commercials I usually have a feeling similar to a 5th grade bully when he sees a 3rd grade nerd. I just want to put the guy in a headlock until he can't squeeze out his "thanks for the business" crap. But I must say, he runs a business with an amazing logistics department. I received my order in about 3 days, Gandermountain.com took 5 days and Cabelas always takes 10 days. I was very impressed with the accuracy of the order, the speed of receiving it and the quality of the products.

Introducing the newest addition to my family!

My new bow is here! Thankfully my fiancee had a snow day so she was able to man the post waiting for the Fed Ex guy. Looks awesome! Can't wait to shoot it. Now I only need an arrow rest, sight, quiver, peep sight, loop, arrow nocks and some dampeners. Probably will be shootable by mid June. Haven't jerked the old string in a while, 70lbs. might be tough now but I have plenty of time to get back into hunting shape. I am taking it in to Gander Mountain next week to get a Zebra Barracuda string put on it instead of the stock one.

NEW BOW!!!!

Well, I would say the wait is over but its really just begun. I ordered my new bow just minutes ago. Going with the 2010 PSE Bow Madness XS. Will be delivered next week sometime. There will be a lot of sleepless nights until then that's for sure. Went with the XS over the other regular and XL Bow Madness bows because of the great price, the ease of carrying a smaller bow and it only shoots 10 FPS slower than the other two. Fifty bucks off on Gandermountain.com and free shipping. I went with PSE over Quest because I got some Gander Mountain bucks for my birthday and the deal at GM was too good to pass up. Cannot frickin' wait! Now I will have a decent bow and a back up for my season. Can't wait to shoot it but first I will be hitting up Spot Shooter for some help customizing this bad boy.

Look what showed up today.

Tags showed up in the mail today. Even better, on my birthday.

Best Birthday Present Ever: GOT THE TAGS!!

So I noticed that North Dakota cashed the checks I sent for our licenses this morning, mostly because it overdrew my account. I posted on archerytalk.com forum that they had cashed the checks but there still was no way to check your draw on the ND website. I figured if they were going to give a refund they would cash the checks as well so I tried not to get excited. A guy on the forum said to go to reprint license and put in your info and it would show if I got it and it did. Can't wait for September 3rd! Got a lot to do to get ready though but that can be just as fun. Especially bow shopping! Tomorrow is my birthday so this might be the best present ever.

Spring is coming.

I saw probably over 500 geese flying on my way to work this morning. Could be a good sign the snow is done. Have yet to hear anything about any tags being drawn yet.

Any Day Now

Feeling overwhelmed with the unknown, I called the North Dakota Fish and Game Commission today to see what was going on with the archery season. The woman on the phone as always was very polite but had no clue. I asked when and how one might find out if they drew an archery tag and she just said watch your mailbox. Easier said than done. I didn't even get an approximate date of arrival. My fingers are starting to fall asleep keeping them crossed for so long...