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in reply to: String Leeches Vs. Beaver Balls #45851

I shoot a calf hair tab. It’s definitely louder than when shot with a glove or bare fingers. I just don’t feel comfortable shooting anything else.

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in reply to: String Leeches Vs. Beaver Balls #44778

I’ve not owned a longbow but I’m sure they’re much easier to silence.

For my recurves, I’ve tried several, but the only thing that I find to work very well are the yarn ball puffs. I just haven’t found beaver or otter balls to work very well, even though I prefer the way they look.

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in reply to: Cut carbon shafts with flat file #38784

Thanks for posting this?

I’ve had six arrows riding around in my truck for four months now. Every time I go to Dick’s (my only option here) to get them cut, there is some sort of issue. Cut all six today in no time at all. They are as cleanly cut as any I’ve ever seen off of a saw.

This is especially useful for tuning a new bow where you want to try several different length shafts. Quick, Easy, and I just like doing everything I can on my arrows.

Thanks Aussy!!

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in reply to: Fondest Memories #36285

Mine are similar to Tommy’s. I grew up in GA, but went up to visit my dad in PA in both winter and summer. My first deer camp experiences were in our family camp that’s been there over 100 years. Wood stove, propane lights, big mountains, tons of orange. It was just awesome. Killed my first deer up there on a deer drive with a flintlock.

Probably my fondest memories were also those in Canada. My dad took me to Quebec ever year since I turned 13. We caught thousands of walleye and pike in a gigantic reservoir (gouin). The camp was rustic as it gets. Over 100 miles back dirt roads. We did all the baiting and hanging stands ourselves and I saw and killed bears, and experienced fifteen weeks in my favorite habitat in the world…..the boreal forest of the far north.

It makes me physically ill ever year, right now actually, to know that I cannot go spring bear hunting in canada for a long, long time. (I own a swimming pool service and repair business)

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in reply to: Honesty and Ethics. #36273

This happens to me regularly, mostly from my pool supply wharehouse. I’ve always returned everything or pointed out their mistake.

Today though, I drove 1.5 hours round trip to replace a pump motor and they had given me the wrong one. Makes me think a bit..:D

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in reply to: Boom stick frustrations! #35147

I re-started hunting with a flintlock last year after a very long gap, and loved it. Missed a small doe, and killed a nice buck with it. Loved seeing that deer bounding away through the cloud of grey!!

I had really missed it. It’s the “traditional archery of gun hunting”!

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in reply to: Don Thomas Spot On! #35139

Tailfeather re-posted an article on here recently that he pulled from GA’s most popular hunting forum. It was about how hipster types are getting into the farm-to-table craze and some have gone to taking up hunting to accomplish that goal. You wouldn’t believe the responses from the typical southern, ignorant, redneck, slobs that I read over there. Not surprisingly, they were largely homophobic as well.

Anyway, I welcome those types to the clan. We could use more respectful, open-minded types, rather than the horn porn, food plot, rack tapers that have taken over the “sport”.

PS- I’ve long been banned from that site and proud to say so.

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in reply to: Continuing with the bear theme… #33775

That is unreal!

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in reply to: Ed Wiseman video interview, last CO grizz #32783

Coffee and beer have nothing to do with the time of the day.:D

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in reply to: New Java Man on the block #32780

Nice looking stick!! Bet she’s quick and quiet too!!

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in reply to: Different arrows for each draw weight? #30621

Every bow is different. I have a 50lb howatt, a 55lb sammick, and a 57lb black widow. The first two will shoot beautifully with a 3555 carbon and 200 gr up front. It took a ton of tuning to find what my widow would shoot. It required a 28″ 5575 with the same up front to shoot well. It just depends on the riser cut and the effective energy transfered from the limbs.

If you’re in a 45-55lb sammick, I would say that a 3555 carbon left at full length with 150-200 up front will be fine.

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in reply to: Hair-raising bear video #30609

ausjim wrote: [quote=Etter1]It was pretty hairy. 😀

Most of them are aren’t they?

:D:D

:D:D:D

That one was. I have the rug to prove it, but surprisingly, some of them look absolutely pitiful in the spring. A really rubbed up hide looks like a dog wearing the worst and sparsest hair plugs you’ve ever seen. Like a coyote with mange.

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in reply to: Going Trad #30607

I’m in!

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in reply to: Hair-raising bear video #29354

The biggest one I ever killed came up the base of my tree. He got his nose to platform level and, thank god, went back down. It was pretty hairy. 😀

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in reply to: What's your first hunt? #27244

lyagooshka wrote: BTW: Etter, are you doing blackbeard this year again? Hope to hear some more about it. Wanted to join in this year, but the moose thing came up. Maybe 2014? Let me know. Be well.

Alex

😀

Absolutely. This will be year four for me. I have some annual trips that just never ever get missed. We may be expanding our family in the future so some of these might change, but opening weekend of turkey with tailfeather in SW GA, Opening of bear season in the N GA mtns, and the december blackbeard hunt are my most favorite. Somebody from our group will always be going so you’ll always have people to hang with, should you decide to head south.

ps- I would’ve done the same thing. The boreal forest is just so awesome.

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