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in reply to: Grayling TBH shoot 2011 #59063
My apologies for taking so long to post pics of Grayling, I’ve been learning how to snakeskin back my Great Northern…and I’ve found I’m not very good at it:)
It was blast to shoot with LimbLover and Ripforce…those two together are a trip! Pretty tough to keep up with them on the 3D trail too.
Here are a few pics from our adventure. LimbLover carefully pulling his pine from the bear. Take note, none of those marks on the tree belong to us…whew!
in reply to: Grayling Shoot – Anyone want to meet up? #50567I thought I wear that hat so you can recognize Patrick:lol: I mean, how many Chinese guys do you see at these events–I oughta stand out like a sore thumb:)
I hope you guys are there early, with coffee ready. I have to be in TC later in the afternoon so I’ll have to miss some of the fun. Upside is I’ll also avoid spending too much money on the evening trades!
in reply to: Kalamazoo Traditional Bowhunters Expo #28567I’ll be there. I’ll be wearing my favorite black shooting hat just so you guys know that you can ask the guy next to me for an autograph.
in reply to: Hunting Hats for 2010 #18127Happy New Year everyone!
I thought it fitting to bring this thread back to the top, I hope you don’t mind, but I got a new snow camo hunting hat for Christmas. I figured I should show you the last thing the doe saw this morning before she tripped over herself laughing and beatin’ feet outta there because I MISSED.
It actually makes a great snow camo hat, heck it’s got giant snowflakes knitted right in–had three under 20 yards, too bad I am inept, at least I look cute:)
Any other new hunting hats out there?
in reply to: Dressing Warm #55018Oh, almost forgot. If I am planning on a long walk to my spot coupled with a long sit, I carry another set of Under Armor and change that layer as soon as I get to my spot.
If I were to simply still hunt all day without stand hunting, I would just ditch the Mackinaw and adjust the layers.
in reply to: Dressing Warm #55013Sorry, the system was logging me off…
Anyway, I am surprised the coat doesn’t impede my draw. Everything is pretty loose fitting, the bibs tie it all together and the Mackinaw over the bibs seals the deal.
Snug as a bug in a rug!
Oh, almost forgot…underarmor socks…best thing ever invented. One pair until now. One pair with big wool socks over them from here on out.
Boots until now are Uggs slip-ons with sheep skin fur lining just because they are so danged comfortable.
As it gets cold, I’ll switch to a set of thinsulate high top, lace-up hunting boots.
On my neck I have a gaitor for the really cold…but that’s almost too hot for me so it stays in a pocket.
Headwear is an old wool hat, Elmer Fudd style, that I bought in Ishpeming, MI years ago. It’s advantage over stormy kromer is that mine has earflaps.
Gloves are rag wool fingerless. I carry a muff around my waist for my bare hands, but it usually ends up carrying things instead…shooting glove, face mask, grunt tube, bow hanger, flashlight…you know the drill.
That’s about it…I know that stuff sounds pretty rich, but it took me about ten years of scouring end of year clearance tables to gather it all for a fraction of retail. And I figure this stuff will last me the rest of my life.
And, as you can imagine, I never go near a sheep farm for fear of hearing ‘daaaaaaaaaaaady’ 🙂
Have fun out there!
Berniein reply to: Dressing Warm #55002Just thinking about this myself. Planning for an end of December hunt here in Michigan. Here is what worked for me this week down to the teens in degrees farenheit:
Bottom layers–
1. Poly pro
2. blue jeans
3. Old classic Woolrich bibs.
When it starts to get cold I’ll replace the jeans with fleece pants that I wear under my waders in winter.Top layers–
1. A loose fitting, but long Under Armor shirt. The skin tight ones are too restrictive to me.
2. Thin Filson moleskin vest.
3. Lined flannel shirt.
4. Classic Filson wool vest
5. Scentlock shirt…not because of the scentlock (it’ll take more than a shirt to hide my stink!), but because of the material it’s made from…it slides easily over everything underneath without binding on the draw, it’s quiet on the outside, and as a top layer the sleeve is tight enuf on my arm that I usually don’t need an armguard.
6. Finally, a 1950’s-era Woolrich red and black plaid Mackinaw.Until this week, I left the coat at home and just wore another thin layer of fleece under that Scentlock shirt.
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in reply to: Some Labor Day Weekend Stumping! #58980Looks like a great time Ripforce!
Hmmm, I don’t recall hearing the phone ring:D
in reply to: A visit to the Great Lakes Longbow Invitational #35638I used my 16-yard pin and glanced the arrow off it’s back:D
in reply to: A visit to the Great Lakes Longbow Invitational #34528I’m not sure if I can embed a video here, but I’ll give it a try. Here is the long-awaited video of the elusive jackalope. Wow, does that thing have some armor-plate skin.
Side benefit: depending on your bandwidth, the sound and video aren’t necessariy in sync. So it looks like an old Godzilla video! 😆 Yup, it’s ok for me to say that 😉
in reply to: A visit to the Great Lakes Longbow Invitational #33827Glad to see you guys finally took care of that Jackalope. Wait til you see the video Patrick shot of that thing kicking my butt!
in reply to: A visit to the Great Lakes Longbow Invitational #33572Last batch I think. And this one is a little photo story…
Mr. Patrick goes for the two bucks fighting in the clearing.
Sooner or later all of us discover the targets are one arrow short so we have to make that inevitable trip behind the critters to look 8)
After a bit of searching under the leaves, ya gotta remember to look up. 😯
And of all things, ol’ Patrick punched right into a giant poison ivy vine (dang, there was a LOT of poison ivy!).
So since I was the designated arrow puller outer on that course, I made Patrick clean off that poison ivy juice so I could keep on tightening his field tips when I pulled arrows.
The END. Thanks for coming along.
in reply to: A visit to the Great Lakes Longbow Invitational #33563Ok, more shootin’ pics. We’re gonna have to get with some other folks on the range just to get pics of other folks on here. C’mon guys, I know others had cameras on the course. Post ’em up!
Here’s Patrick…and there’s that neat log hut back there on the wood line.
There’s that crazy hat again…
Had to throw in this one to show the aiming points I gave him to shoot at! When I finally make a good shot, or two, I take a picture!
This is how we stupid city boys shoot at skunks…quartering AWAY…DUH.
No caption needed.
And here’s the sucker bet I took. Patrick said I had to aim at a spot on the deer JUST to the right of the tree and see if I could do it. So instead of cheating, I did it. That fresh green hole in the center just below the knot is the result:cry: The fat bullet point smacked and bounced right back. The second shot, however, was right on…and hit only about 3/4″ to the right of the first one…but in the kill zone!
in reply to: A visit to the Great Lakes Longbow Invitational #33549Here’s more of the story with pics if ya want to come along with us through a course at GLLI:
As I said before, I like signs. A bit of irony here though, the lawbreaking idiots that shot up the park sign at least used shotgun slugs, thus following the ‘shotgun zone only’ rules in that area! Idiots.
And since this is TradBow, I figured I’d better get da back o’ da hat. (He’s shooting a Yooper bow, so ya gotta get da language right.)
I’ll call this one ‘Father and Son: A Study in Concentration’.
Yet another 10-ring…smokin’ the ol’ man.
A pretty darned cool little cabin/hunting shack greeted us on the back 40 between targets. It was quiet and nobody else was on the course…and it just finished raining. History…you could just feel it.
in reply to: A visit to the Great Lakes Longbow Invitational #33525Here’s another camp angle so you can see the flash of bright white light mentioned above:D
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