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in reply to: Spring Turkey Hunt #20945

There is a feller on here handled “tailfeather” that Ive heard tell knows a thing or two about chasing turkeys.

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in reply to: Man Eaters of Kumaon #16346

Great. Now I have to order three more books. I live reading of these man eaters. Its nice to know that we get to be the prey once in a while as well.

I have “the tiger” and “maneaters of tsavo”. Cant wait to add these to the collection.

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in reply to: Book Rec for black bear hunters/lovers #13437

Ordered both of them. Ill always read anything that is about black bears.

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in reply to: Book Rec for black bear hunters/lovers #13421

Thanks. Ill check them both out!

Over the summer and early fall, I had the oppurtunity to watch 29 different black bears here in N Ga.

I noticed a lot of things about their size and sex and how they grouped into certain areas. It made no sense to me at the time but after reading the book, it is amazing to see his observations being the same as mine, and now I understand them.

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in reply to: Book Rec for black bear hunters/lovers #12136

Thanks Jim! I sure wish I was as constantly positive a person as you are!

Its a strange relationship I feel with bears. I have to hunt them to have hunted them but I feel an immense grief each time I kill one. It is a massively contradictory set of emotions.

I sure hope that the dnr will plant some good food plots this spring but we should have a massive blackberry crop this year so late summer will be tough pickings for me.

They are just incredibly near animals. Their social structure (after reading this book) is even more fascinating than I ever could have imagined.

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in reply to: Book Rec for black bear hunters/lovers #12133

I ordered another peacock book recently called “walking it off”. It largely deals with his rehabilitation by nature after his years in vietnam. Cant wait to get it.

Out on a limb reminded me a lot of “illumination in the flatwoods”, which is definitely the best and most insightful book ever written on the eastern wild turkey.

The author (cant remember his name at this moment) raises dozens and dozens of orphaned cubs and essentially acted as their mother. He then returned them to the wild of new hampshire and constantly tracked and reconnected with them throughout their lives.

I spent a lot of this summer watching bears in north ga. A lot of what I read in his book suddenly made complete sense. It’s remarkable how much misinformation is peddled about black bears. The author constantly fed his bears “human food” in the backcountry and completely disagrees with the idea that baiting bears in the wild causes bears to become “people food” dependent.

He disagrees with the practice as a whole but has seen no evidence that it causes human interaction. Quite the opposite actually. He proposes supplemental feeding of bears in lean years to prevent human encounters.

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in reply to: broadhead #60946

For deer, black bear, feral hog sized game, I cannot speak highly enough about the simmons tree shark. Some people have trouble sharpening them but its really not difficult. They fly great, penetrate well, and leave a massive wound channel.

I add two weight washers to them to bring their weight up to 200 grains and use a 100 grain brass insert. Ive killed three deer, a feral hog, and a bear with them and none went more than sixty yards. I shot the bear coming down a tree. The head entered just in front of the hams and passed through the body lengthwise, exiting through the sternum bone. She went about 50 yards.

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in reply to: installing fur silencers (quick & easy) #51152

My experience is that wool puffs work much better at silencing a bow. I havent found anything better yet. Having said that, my black widow was a little loud at first so it wears both wool puffs and otter fur. The combo has got the bow whisper quiet again.

Great video!

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in reply to: recurve bows #51147

I have yet to shoot a faster, more accurate, or more likeable bow than my black widow paII. Im sure there are better or comparable bows made by others but Ive never held one. That bow just puts arrows where I look and even with a heavy arrow, the speed at which she does it is unreal compared to my other recurves.

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in reply to: A selfbow for Molly #51140

I am the friend. 😳

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in reply to: ratio #22760

This will vary by species as well. Bears have much less meat per pound of body weight than a deer does. Feral hogs have even less.

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in reply to: brace height problems? #19519

I have three recurves and all of them shoot better and quieter on the higher side of the recommended brace height. 6″ sounds way too low to me. I’d twist that string a bunch and re-tune if necessary.

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in reply to: Blackbeard Bound! #13677

paleoman wrote: Very cool pics and place. That game trail (was that deer or piggies or both?) gets any hunters attention! What was that in the pan? I am not used to lots of snakes though!

It was mostly pigs but there was deer sign all around that Savanna as well. The can was smoked oysters. One of my favorite mid day snacks.

And yes, there were a lot of cottonmouths….and gators. I was actually surprised because there are a lot of pigs at Blackbeard. Usually they do a pretty good job of eating whatever snakes they can find but I guess cottonmouths are usually in water, and thus, safe.

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in reply to: Guy's that take their bows in kayaks/canoes… #9568

My bows seem to get soaked in saltwater every time we go back and forth from blackbeard island. I always just rinse them off with freshwater and then flush the fletchings and shoot the bow a few times to dry out and “re-puff” my silencers.

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in reply to: Man can live on peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches #8289

Most days here in ga dont require long days away from the truck but if Im hunting in the mtns, I always carry some jerky, swiss cheese, canned tuna or oysters and some sort of carb like chinese rice crackers. We have water everywhere so sodium isnt an issue. Pistachios arent bad for me either.

I have zero interest in sweets and never eat sugar but every now and again Ill buy a pack of twizzlers to chew on when I get bored.

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