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in reply to: Listing longbow for sale #165227
My favorite place to spend money that I don’t have on stuff that I don’t really need is eBay. I’ve bought my last 8 or 9 recurves there and am happy with them since they fixed that ‘last second outbid’ problem.
So …………. What kinda stick have you got ??? Right or left, poundage, length and all that good stuff ??????
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #165154Well, good luck & Ray Charles blood trails to you !!!! The area that I normally deer hunt is a long still-hunt that usually takes from morning to early afternoon and comes back out on the two track that I park on. Hiking back to the truck is always a hoot seeing the ‘neo-hunters’ in side by sides, wife / girlfriend driving & Nimrod riding shotgun wearing the latest digital camo head to toe.
Since the weather’s been warm and the weather wonk’s were forecasting only 2 to 3 mph wind on the lake I thought that I’d put the canoe on Roosevelt and try some late summer bowfishing. I should probably stop thinking ’cause apparently I’m not very good at it. The water was like glass all morning and I got way up past where I normally go. The carp were running small, 3 to 5 pounds and really spooky. Got a few shot and landed one to fillette and try a new recipe on. By late afternoon I called it a day and headed back out onto the main lake only to find a stiff headwind & swells with whitecaps between me and the boat launch. It was a rough trip back. This morning, everything hurts.
>>>>>>————-> One thing of note; Somewhere in the past, I acquired a kayak paddle to try in the canoe. It works great and I no longer even carry a ‘regular’ canoe paddle.
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #165131Yes, I believe that I’ve seen their clips.
I usually do opening morning of deer season wearing a green & black checkered wool shirt just ………………. because.
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #165120My magic is strong and my power is growing !!!!
Got the torn / detached retina repaired and good news from the cardiologist. (I’ll live.) The wife’s health is holding pretty steady and it’s time to call coyotes. I generally leave them alone until the young of the year are out and on their own.
Made five stands and was not encouraged. No howls, no tracks, no scat ……….. nothing. And, the light sweatshirt that I was wearing became a poor choice when the temp. unexpectedly hit 90*. Camo head to toe ??? Who needs it ?? I noticed that my tanned torso pretty well matched the desert clay so I was making stands in the heat shirtless. If Gerry Blair could call wearing a Santa Claus suit, who am I to argue ??? Stay in the shade & stay still.
One thing that was working well was a pair of nylon ankle gaiters that I was trying. Zero Foxtails or sticky weeds in the boots or socks. These will be a regular thing from now on.
Then there was stand #6. Had a coyote come trotting in from behind me to about 20 yards. Since at that angle I was in direct line with the caller I don’t think that any amount of camo would have helped. The coyote was alarmed but not spooked and cut behind me and away. I took a chance, stood up and came out from behind the bush at full draw. Got the shot at about fourty yards as it trotted away looking back over it’s shoulder. Just missed taking one of it’s ears off. I may have missed but I always consider any shot at a called coyote with a bow a win. Did the Happy Snoopy Dance back to the truck and called it a day.
in reply to: Big Game Recovery Products #164621Unless there’s snow on the ground I’ve been leaning toward Kleenex instead of tape. Multi-use; tracking, toilette paper, rub a little candle wax on it for fire starter, clean my glasses & blow my nose. Kleenex makes a sorta wound dressing with a bit of duct tape, although the nurse at the clinic won’t be too happy when it comes time to change the ‘bandage’. Plus it’s bio-degradable if I do miss picking some of it up when the trailing’s done.
Since I’m primarily a still hunt / spot & stalk or a varmint caller I haven’t used a tracker since the bait / bear hunts. When I was setting up for that, though, I had two spools. The ‘hunting’ spool that I tried once to make sure it was good to go and the ‘practice’ spool to adjust the mind to shooting something ‘different’.
And lastly; Stephen ………………. Some friends & I have been trying to figure out what the arrows are sticking into on the cover of The Long Fix. We’ve narrowed it down to a sycamore leaf, the souls of competitors who have shot against you or (my th0ught) a shirt tail from an old camp ritual where a missed shot resulted in a shirt tail being chopped off. Inquiring minds want to know ????
in reply to: Big Game Recovery Products #164580Cool.
Beautiful country there in Missouri. I lived in Rockaway Beach for a while. The fall colors were awesome.
We used to have turkeys up on the Rim where I hunt here in Az. Now we have wolves & turkeys not so much.
I used a string tracker years ago on a bear hunt over bait. After a summer of fishing for catfish, there was an overwhelming urge to ‘set the hook’ as the line peeled out of the tracker. Bears don’t always leave a good blood trail, either.
FWIW; I normally carry a good supply of broadheads and blunts. When I get a hit on an animal my usual routine after the animal runs out of sight is to shoot a blunt to where the animal was standing when I shot it, another to where the last place that I saw the animal and stick an arrow in the ground where I shot from. I can then go over in my mind where I ‘think’ that I hit the animal and how it reacted. Then I can decide how to proceed.
in reply to: Big Game Recovery Products #164569Welcome aboard, Roger.
Yes, sometimes it’s just that one little thing that leads to the next drop of blood that leads to the next drop of blood.
So ………. Where abouts are you from and what kind of stick are you shooting ????
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #164500Yeah, wish that I could say that I do that all of the time but six or seven hits are more the norm.
I’m fortunate that I can go back to 125 yards on my property. I do enjoy the long lob at practice targets. I’ve found that back about 60 yards the target will start talking to me and letting me know where faults in my form are that don’t get noticed at closer ranges.
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #164493Got out this morning to shoot a few. Tied my high score on my ‘Safford Round’. (One arrow each at 10 yards, 15 yards, etc. to 70 yards. 13 shots total.) Got 9 honest hits on the paper plate with my #1 hunting bow. Did the ‘Happy Snoopy’ dance all the way back to the workshop.
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #164452Thanx, but that is waaaaay beyond my extremely limited computer skills. I’m getting stuff written down in an actual folder. Technologically I’m almost Amish.
in reply to: fiber glass bows . can you paint them and how? #164451Not sure who Ed Scott is, but sure.
Clean the limbs up with rubbing alcohol, mask off anything you don’t want painted and get a good grade of rattle can paint. You can use camo stencils of leaves, or spray on a base coat, let dry and then cross hatch a couple more colors for a different kind of camo or just paint it black or whatever color suits you.
I would avoid painting the grip area as it will wear off pretty quick.
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #164439I seem to remember some film on a nature program that featured snakes ‘leaping’ from branch to branch. South American jungle I believe. The cool factor was pretty high.
Snake pit target problem solved. Gray foam pipe insulation sorta painted to look like a rattlesnake, couple of those goofy ‘googley eyes’ for the head and some stiff wire for a bit of curve. When the head gets shot up I’ll just cut it back and replace the eyes.
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #164435Horror story ????
Wife is sick, truck is in the shop, and micro-soft sent me a ‘need to shut down / restart for upgrades’ notice. No big deal, they do this every now and then. However, this time ALL of the log-ins on my desktop were wiped out. I am NOT computer savvy and it’s been a rodeo getting back. Found another way in here off of another page after several tries to reset the password. Fun times …………… NOT !!!!
Now then ……….. Latest project; Chopping a hole in the caliche and filling it with clean sand for a 1 yard ‘snake target’. (Don’t laugh; I’ve won bets with our compound brethren over that one yard gag.) What I do need are some suggestions for targets. Cigarette butts are nasty, Oreo cookies are to big and draw ants. Mayhap a shiny penny ????
in reply to: Bok report; The American Longbow #164431Kees;
While you’re at it grab a copy of his book ‘The Long Fix’. I’m currently reading it and it meets / exceeds expectations.
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