Awesome Bucks.

I got to go out scouting with my brother yesterday. It couldn't have gone any better. Even though I forgot the keys to the security cages and had to make extra trips, had to saw through a cable with my new knife which is now a butter knife, and it rained like crazy all day. We saw some awesome deer all over and got some decent pics. My best camera's infrared is not working apparenly so 113 pics that would have been of awesome deer were washed out. Also, I had to send one in to be either fixed or replaced and haven't heard anything about it in 3 weeks. Don't trust Gander Mountain's warranty process, I am out one of my best cams because of it. I recently got a Gerber Instant. Its an awesome knife with assisted opening that shoots open with one hand use. The lock I had on the cable that held one of my treestands had rusted shut so I had to saw through half inch cable with the knife. It now has no blade at all but it got the job done. We will see how well the Gerber lifetime warranty works.

Gander Mountain Update

Well, I put in a survey about my experience at the Novi Gander Mountain store. The store manager personally called me to apologize. This was huge to me, I was amazed. He wanted to do whatever it took to fix it. I went back to the store to get my arrows cut to see if the place was any different and it was. I had a great experience so I let the guy know it wasn't all bad every time I was in there. The manager really impressed me! He said my opinion was important and would use my experience in the morning meetings in the store to better his staff. I appreciate how he handled the situation and he won me back as a customer.

I'm Ready!

I got my bow set up at Spot Shooter in Holly, Mi today. Those guys are awesome. They can do anything with a bow and explain every step of the process. I had my Apache rest put on, my G5 peep tied in and a kisser button tied in. Not to mention they checked my draw length. The bow looks sweet and I got to shoot it for the first time. All I need to do is get my Carbon Express Pile Driver arrows cut tomorrow after work and I'm ready to shoot.

I feel like I would be doing everyone a disservice by not reporting my last experience in the Novi Gander Mountain store. I went in to buy two 6 packs of arrows that were on sale and my Apache rest. I could not find anyone to help me. Mind you I was one of three people shopping in the store at 2pm on a weekday. I found a man sweeping who was the ONLY helpful employee but he could not help me but went to find someone who could. After 15 minutes a guy walks up and says "Yeah?" I asked if they had camo Apache rests and he said no and began to walk away. I told him to wait I'll just take the black one. He opened the case and gave me one and left the area. I then went to get the arrows and they only had one box. I wanted two. I looked for someone again and every associate I saw and made eye contact with looked straight to the floor and seriously ran from me. The cashier sent someone back because she did not want to write a rain check and saw that the store should have two boxes in stock. Some guy came back to assure me of what I already knew; they had no more. He then said the company frowns on rain checks and I was out of luck. I would be embarrassed to be the manager of this store. I will not ever be back.
 Anyway, I was unsuccessful as expected for Michigan Bear and Elk. Got my preference points though. 

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.