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in reply to: Southwest DIY Javelina Hunts? #27937

Nobody going back this year? Id love to but have a five week old little girl here now.

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in reply to: Tendonitis? #43096

I should have been doing physical therapy as soon as this started. Every idiot doctor I spoke to said to lay off and stop doing everything with my left tricep. Wrong!!!

Ive been doing eccentric exercises for five days and feel better than I have in four months! I started real light and added weight every day. Initially, it hurt like heck but after less than a week I am almost pain free. I feel like a moron. Finally found the right orthopedist. He was disgusted that a doc had prescribed me an anti inflammatory and rest. All those nsaids do is prolong recovery.

After five days I can already do one arm push ups on my right said where I do the entire negative with the left (injured arm).

A final note to answer a lot of responses Ive gotten. My workouts are bodybuilding style. I focus on making gains in muscle mass and strength but I dont do any powerlifting anymore. There are very few bodybuilders (who use proper form) that ever face serious injury. The reason people get injured as they age is because their tendons and muscles are weak. I can assure you all that a proper weight training routine would prevent more injuries in anybodys life than would cause. And I dont know any distance runners at my age even that dont have knee or back issues. I know guys in their sixties still pounding out heavy weights in the gym and they still look forty.

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in reply to: Added snakeskins to my 2015 hunting bow! #28350

Looks good! Grey Rat Snake?

I have a set of limbs being skinned with two copperheads right now. Big jim is working them up for me. I couldn’t risk my meager skills on my zipper bow.

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in reply to: Barbed broadheads #23177

They are not. Totally legal.

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in reply to: Tendonitis? #38803

I have gotten to where there is no longer any pain. I tried to go back to some presses after a month off but when I got into the heavier weight I felt a twinge and quit.

I spoke with an orthopedist the other day. He said that based on how quickly my pain diminished that I should heal fine but to wait until the pain completely leaves again and then wait 4-6 more weeks before trying to resume shooting or lifting in those motions.

Thanks for the notes on the brace, but because I don’t have any day to day pain anymore, I don’t know if it would help or not.

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in reply to: Tendonitis? #33902

Problem is, it is tricep tendonitis. On the upper arm portion of the elbow.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #29165

dwcphoto wrote: Beautiful day here. It pretended to rain last night and we really need it.

Trying to get my form back. I’m hitting pretty well, but the bow makes noises when my form is off.

Doc, sorry to play opposition, but climate change is real. And what is really real is not natural climate change, but Global warming, which is man made climate change. The outcome is not good, even for us optimistic types. A story in the NYTimes told of a team of Chinese scientists heading to Antartic to find evidence that climate change is not man made. China and India have huge coal reserves and now they want to have their turn. Hard to blame them, but it ain’t gonna help the cause. Wish I had some answers. Dwc

Watch the HBO show “vice” on climate change. Any evidence against climate change is provided by oil companies. You’re just burying your head if you can’t see it. Personally, I don’t care what you believe because the world will not change so there is no way to stop it. I drive a big truck. Burned probably 200 gallons of gas to go hunt javelina with smith hammer. I’m part of the problem, but it’s totally silly to think that this isn’t going on.

Anyway, my business should slow down in two weeks. Awesome fishing opportunities but it’s hard for me to leave my bears. Will probably be up watching them every couple of weeks through the summer. The opener of our season will be mid september but I gotta run to the mountains whenever I can this time of year. I’ve noted some wild brook streams while bear climbing (wild trout are a rarity down here) so I’m gonna tie some caddis and get to chasin!

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in reply to: Tendonitis? #29120

It’s coming around. Wont be shooting more than 5 arrows for a while but will start back in the gym next week.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #29118

One thing is for certain, thousands upon thousands of square miles of land will be under water next year because antarctica and greenland are melting. Carbon Dioxide causes global warming. We are making millions upon millions of tons of it every single year. None of this is debatable.

Anyway.

I went bear scouting in the big mountains yesterday. Saw five. Went trout fishing this morning. Caught about 20. Great weekend really.

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in reply to: Our Arizona Javi Hunt #19182

Smithhammer wrote: [quote=Etter1]Man, I would sure love to be planning this trip again in January but got a little one due in November.

Wow – great news, Sean! Congrats!

I’m thinking you could still bowhunt with Mini-Etter along in a backpack…:wink:

Ha!

For a big time hunter, the due date couldn’t get much more inconvenient. NOV 20!!!

Oh well, I guess it’s time that I made some sacrifices. I’ve been living extremely selfishly for 32 years and have gotten to do a whole heck of a lot in that time. Luckily, I will still get to hunt the early bow season for bears without worry and I have a club 25 minutes from the house with good cell service so I’ll get to do a good bit of deer hunting too. Might be a few years before I disappear to AZ for ten days again though. 😀

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in reply to: Our Arizona Javi Hunt #18420

Man, I would sure love to be planning this trip again in January but got a little one due in November.

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in reply to: Mitten's article in the current TBM #10687

All in our own minds and that’s a fact that we should remember.

I don’t use trail cams during hunting season and I don’t bait deer in S GA (it’s legal below the midline of the state). But I will choose to rib friends of mine who decide to pour corn and to run cams to kill deer and turkeys. A lot of my friends who I “ribbed” for hunting with compounds and crossbows are now shooting recurves and longbows and are now re-exploring life.

After hunting with trad gear became “usual” to me, I probably decided to hold off on button heads, yearlings, and small bears. Pigs are just vermin so they all get killed but I don’t care what anyone decides is below their “standard” for the hunt.

I would say the ultimate hunter is someone who chooses to use the most primitive form of killing and also chooses only a small percentage of his quarry to chase. My hat is off!

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in reply to: Tendonitis? #63378

colmike wrote: Etter

I was a competitive powerlifter from my early 30’s to late 40’s class 2 USPF. That 500 squat and 550 deadlift caused many problems later in life. Find a good physical therapist that knows “injuries of excellence”.

As my brother in law the retired doc says–never ever go under the knife unless it’s life threatening.

Good luck with your decision.

Mike

I dont go heavy on legs and no longer do deadlifts because of the fear of injury. Im only going up to the mid 300s on bench now and never do one rep max anymore. I see a good many guys in my gym that are still going heavy in their 60s. Maybe Ill get lucky like them. This supplement stack is really helping and Im only six days out from my last day lifting. Im just hoping for the best. Im active and do a lot of cardio too but I do not think there is anything better for the upkeep of an aging human than high volume weight training.

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in reply to: Tendonitis? #59731

Steve Graf wrote: I had the same thing in my elbows from shooting and doing pull ups. It took a couple years for the pain to go away. Still can’t do pull ups without new pain.

Two weeks, two months, isn’t enough for tendons to heal. More like two or three years. Pain means injury, so every time you “test” your tendons by lifting weights, you are setting yourself back.

I got these “braces” down at the drug store for tennis elbow. It’s a strap you wrap around your arm just below the elbow. It helps support the tendons. It has an air bag that presses into the pocket on the outside of your elbow.

Tennis elbow – pain on outside of elbow Golfers elbow – pain on inside of elbow. Brace helped with both.

I wore that brace every time I did work: chainsaw, shovel, shoot bow, chop wood, etc. Really helped.

I had a bad flare up about 5 months ago. I took two weeks off and it was fine again for a while. IF this is the way it has to be then it’s how it has to be, but i’ll have surgery before I quit lifting.

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in reply to: Tendonitis? #59035

I stopped by the health food store today (old workout buddy from high school owns it) and he hooked me up with a mixed pack of supplements that he swears by. Some herbal stuff that helps with the inflammation plus glucosamine and chondroitin to help lubricate and a few other things that actually are supposed to help repair the tendon damage. As I understand, tendons are very slow to repair due to their lack of blood flow. I’m going to lay low for two weeks and give everything a slow go. HATE not being able to do normal workouts. 👿

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