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Posted By: Top Cat on Apr 16, 2010 12:10 pm
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Triple D Hunting:
Informative and Family Friendly
By DaWayne Spires
Social networking is a phenomenon. With the advent of myspace and facebook, distance between two or more people has become irrelevant. The trading of information, ideas, and photographs on the internet has become common place and almost a daily necessity. The trading of information, ideas, and photographs is something I have done many times, but it was around a campfire at my deer camp. Today’s outdoorsman has many more tools at his disposal than those just a few short years ago. The internet gives access to unlimited resources that can make the difference success and failure. I believe knowledge is power. One tried and true way of gaining knowledge to help make maximize your next outdoor venture is the sharing of strategies with others such as myself. There are so many places to look, so how do I pick a website to search? Is it easy? Is it safe? Is it family friendly? Is it informative? And most important, is it fun?
With a multitude of quality sites available, the finding of a secure user friendly hunting website can be daunting. The need to find a site whose informational and educational content equals that of its entertainment value is paramount. I know such a website. www.tripledhunting.com fills all the criteria needed for today’s outdoorsman ands his family to a have a really good time.
Triple D Hunting is the brainchild of Gary and Cara Laraby of Belleville, Ontario Canada. Both having been members of various other hunting websites, they found them to have all the basic components that most have: forums, photo galleries, articles, and chat rooms, but lacking in proper” looking after”. The moderators who oversaw the activities from the forums to the chat room tended to be not properly trained. With inconsistent tendencies of those moderating the goings on, family friendly activities sometimes got pushed to the back burner. Political, religious, and personal agendas became the rule and not the exception. Gary and Cara felt that these things were important but did not belong on a hunting website. They also felt that if you got issues of that nature; you should take it to the blogs. The Laraby’s saw the need for a more personable family friendly oriented site that was well moderated by moderators who understood people and administrators who were knowledgeable of the facts at hand. Mark Perry of Trenton, Ontario designed Triple D following Gary and Cara’s vision. The road to where they are now has not been an easy one. Because of server inadequacies, their site crashed on several occasions. The loss of precious information was devastating. An upgrade in servers took care of that problem. With every aspect Triple D being top shelf, the only thing left is for the word to spread throughout camo cyberspace.
Many members come to hunting websites for the chat room. Though friendships and relationships do develop at times between members, this is not a dating website. Gary and Cara met at a hunting website. She was in Northern Arizona; he was in Ontario, Canada, but they have seen what happens to a chat room when members are hunting for something other than big game or when a personal relationship turns bad. If you got a personal thing going on, take it to AIM, MSN Messenger, or Yahoo. The chat is for members from across the world to share, compare, and fellowship with others like themselves.
The forums are diverse and user friendly. The posts from Triple D members are some of the informative and at times entertaining passages I have ever read. The diversity of topics covers every aspect of outdoor life from big game to recipes. If you like short stories look for Outdoor Adventures with duckleberryfinn. I will give you three guesses who that is.
Members’ home 20’s range from Canada to Georgia from New York to Washington and everywhere in between. Triple D is a global community as well with members in New Zealand, South Africa, and England. As diverse as Triple D’s members home are; their user names are equally so. TopCat, Squeaks101, 1Ranger49, MissPriss, Brobones, silvertip-co, and iadeerhunter20 are just a few. There are many others that warrant mentioning, but my fingers would fall off before I could finish.
I have drank the Kool-Aid and come on board with TrapperG( Gary), TrapsBear(Cara), and wbsmperry(Mark). Triple D Hunting is the future of outdoor social networking. Gary and Cara believe it so much that they have made their site a legacy to their seven children. For as long as the two of them are alive, www.tripledhunting.com will be up and open for business. Gary and Cara’s love of the outdoor is second only to their love of their family. You see, the three “D’s” in Triple D stand for their three young boys: Darren, David, and Dillon. www.tripledhunting.com is definitely informative, user friendly, and family oriented. So the next time you are surfing cyberspace’s outdoor sites drop by and say hi. Tell them that duckleberryfinn sent ya. Hope to see you there!
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| iadeerhntr20's Deer Hunting Story |
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Posted By: Top Cat on Feb 14, 2010 12:49 pm
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To begin with, has anyone ever really had a "typical" deer hunting experience? I have to say this was definitely not your "typical" hunt at all. There is this neighbors back yard (which is a vacant house), I have been yearning to hunt for a few years and never have. There has been a lot of deer pass through here and I have just always watched them. I have never asked the neighbors before if I cold hunt on their property until this year. Well this is how it all went down.
I was doing my normal daily routine of hauling in corn and was pretty well preoccupied with going hunting. I wanted to hunt that spot in the neighbors back yard, where I know I have gotten a good picture of a buck on my trail cam. I know I couldn't go hunting until the chores were done, so I pushed the thought out of my mind. Well as luck would have it, around noon time the combine broke down and there was no way of getting the parts to fix it since it was Thanksgiving day. I am thinking this is a good thing,,whoooo hooooo!. I was so excited that I finally called the neighbor and asked if it would be ok for me to hunt on his property, and he said that would be fine with him. I really felt awkward about asking him, but glad I did.
I hurried home and gathered up all my gear as quickly as I could, and just on a whim I decided to grab my video camera as well. I finally get there and now the question is where am I going to sit? What is going to be my best spot where I can see but not be seen or heard? I thought maybe the grain bins would be good spot with the best view, but I realized real quick like that wouldn't work. It would be pretty awkward for me to be able to draw my bow standing on a very slippery surface and probably would be pretty noisy as well. I was looking around for another spot and saw an old gas barrel. Hmmmm, Thinking that would be the perfect spot for me to be in, so I climbed down and moved over there. It was about 4:30 and I went ahead and set up my video camera on some blocks and aimed it right at the place I figured the deer would be coming through. I waited and waited, hoping the deer wouldn't sense that something was up. This spot is surrounded by timber, soybeans, and corn so I should be seeing something and I was hoping soon, since corn and soybean fields draw the deers attention. Well looky there I thought, here comes a large doe. I watched her walk the edge of the timber line for a while, in hopes that she would come my way. Go figure, my plan didn't work. She went the other direction, dang it! Then 2 more deer walking the same path, only instead of heading into the timber, they began working their way towards me. Ohhh my God, I was getting so excited. When I put my binoculars on them, that is when I realized it was 2 bucks! I watched in anticipation as the bigger of the 2 checked a scrape. I was in awe, that all this activity was happening so close to the house. They crossed the fence and began to make their way towards the barrel. Then I saw that the bigger of the 2 had one regular antler and one misshapen one, along with 5 points on one side and 2 on the other. I know I have seen this buck before in the summer time while I have been catfishing and he was running the same cornfield too. I am sitting here just waiting for the a shot. I know if I get the opportunity, I am going to take it. Time just crept by sooooo slowly. He had a limp in his hind leg and I didn't think he was ever going to make it to me. There he is just on the other side of my video camera, slowly walking. I just know he is going to turn. DANG! I was wrong he continued to move straight. I quickly forgot about capturing it on film and was just concentrating on making my shot. Ohhh my God, here he comes. He walked within 15 yards of the barrel and was broadside from me. This was my dream shot, now if I could just get him to stop. I grunted to stop him and I pulled back and let my arrow fly! It flew true and lodged right into his chest, taking out both lungs. He ran a short distance and completely forgetting about his limp and then he stopped. He walked slowly towards the timber and collapsed within sight of me. He couldn't have gone more then 60 yards. This my firends was a great end to a very frustrating season for me.
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Failing a Survival Test
By: duckleberryfinn
On: 2010-05-21 02:34:03 |
Being the internet savvy person that I am, I was cruising (or is that surfing) through my Facebook page the other day, when a friend’s status caught my attention. She asked,”What happens if you fail a survival test?” Numerous attempts at comedy followed in the form of comments including my own. I responded, “You hope God grades on a curve.” Sometimes what I or someone else says in a whim will echo with me until it is heard and understood properly (or improperly as I have been informed at times). Are we failing our survival test? Are we counting on God to grade us on a curve? It has got me wondering.
When analyzing a situation, the usual way of going about it is through statistical data. The average John or Jane Outdoorsman as well as I become bored with the mere site of cumulative numerical averages and theoretical mathematical postulates. We believe that so long as one + one = two; there is chance that things might level out. Scientists call that homeostasis. Those ... read more
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