Jack Attack

[HARPERC]

I got a Foxpro Jack Attack for Xmas instruction 6 says insert stake firmly into ground.....it doesn't say what to do when the ground is frozen solid. Curious as to what solutions others have found?

 

[pressman]

i have used a piece of 16" long 1/2 diameter rebar. drive the rebar into the frozen ground then use 3-4 zip ties to tie the jack attack stake to the rebar. works pretty well. It helps if you take a 4" grinder and sharpen on end of the rebar before you head to the woods.

 

[Nimrodmar10]

Metal tent peg and rubber mallet or rechargable drill.

 

[Tikkamike]

I would not want to be pounding in stakes at my call stand. I would build a small stand with 3 or 4 legs that sit on the ground parralel to the ground, with a piece of tubing or something in the middle that your stake will fit into....does that make sense?

 

[HARPERC]

I would not want to be pounding in stakes at my call stand. I would build a small stand with 3 or 4 legs that sit on the ground parralel to the ground, with a piece of tubing or something in the middle that your stake will fit into....does that make sense?

Yes it does. Thanks. Was going to try to day, but wind is up a bit. Not Wyoming up a bit, but inconvenient.

 

[Tikkamike]

its beautiful here today, but its -5 so i dont feel like being tough today.

 

[HARPERC]

Metal tent peg and rubber mallet or rechargable drill.

Actually close enough to the house in some cases a pre drilled hole is feasible. Thanks

 

[HARPERC]

its beautiful here today, but its -5 so i dont feel like being tough today.

We were supposed to get snow last night, and today. Once have a few inches it usually crust enough placing the decoy will get easy. Our last snow melted to bare ground mostly then froze hard. No subzero yet. Keep warm!

 

[tomestone]

We were supposed to get snow last night, and today. Once have a few inches it usually crust enough placing the decoy will get easy. Our last snow melted to bare ground mostly then froze hard. No subzero yet. Keep warm!

-48C wind chill here today dont have to wait long for the rifle barrel to cool off.

 

[HARPERC]

its beautiful here today, but its -5 so i dont feel like being tough today.

LOL, I was sitting enjoying the fire about noon, on the computer by the window, watching it snow. Whitetail busts out of the brush with a big coyote on her tail. She runs through the front yard, and down into the lower part of the property. He stops at the brush line, but now I'm interested. The weather wasn't as bad as imagined, but still couldn't pull him from the brush.
With your tripod idea it clicked that my partner has about a 12" tripod. This thing has followed us for 25 years nobody remembers where it came from. We've packed it to move a half dozen times, stored at my house when he got divorced, and vice versa. Totally useless until now, we've stepped over it, moved it griped about it, threatened to throw it away. Punch line 2 old guys rummaging through boxes, shops, garages, etc. saying I know the **** things here somewhere. Well these new "gorilla" things are about 10 bucks, and one leg can wrap around a sage brush if we get a serious Wyoming wind.
A BC guide/friend reports -40 for their trapline hunts, I checked an online calculator and oddly enough -40C = -40F. After a certain point it's just cold in any language.

 

[Tikkamike]

hahaha that reminds me of those two old coots on the movie Grumpy old Men

 

[RMulhern]

2# C4 oughta work!