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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168294

I’ll have to find a copy of it.  I’m always looking for a good historical read.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168210

I would like to bowhunt Nilgai down there some day.  They are very skittish.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168208

One of the animals you can see running wild on the ranches is the Nilgai, a large Asian antelope.

A few of the rattlesnake skins decorating the radio HQ ceiling.  These were caught in camp over the years.  The longest one is right at 6′ long.

Some fresh trespasser tracks on the ranch.  My #10 boot for reference.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168207

A couple of scenery shots.  Lots of sand, Mesquite, and Live Oak trees.

One of the team members brought this.  1952 Willys Jeep.  It was a fun ride on the ranches.

The instrument cluster reminded me of the 1979 CJ5 I owned.

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in reply to: 80 joule with recurve bow?! #168191

Wow.  That would leave me completely out of hunting.  I have a 60# Great Northern Bushbow that I can’t even string anymore because the Moderna Covid vaccine screwed up my muscles.  I used to shoot up to 72# draw but 85# would still be too much back then.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168190

I just got home from south Texas and am now watching my yard turn into a pond.  Lots of rain today and they say two more days of it is coming.

I joined a group a few years ago called Texas Border Volunteers.  We set up on the ranches at observation posts and report to the border patrol and Department of Public Safety of any illegal immigrant traffic.  There is a lot of traffic and the ranch owners are tired of the trespassers and the damage they do.

I try to make the trip at least once a year and it’s nice to see the volunteers again.  I’ll post a couple of scenery pictures when I get stuff unpacked and stored away….If I don’t float away with all this rain.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168082

There’s only a couple of places around here that shoot 3D but none are trad.  I’ve shot at them but waiting for a group of compounders look at the target with binoculars, check their range finders, set their sights, double check with binoculars and range finders is worse than watching grass grow.  Multiply all that with five or six guys in the group and you can set up camp and cook supper.

I do like the sneers we can get when we walk up to the stake, draw, and shoot and still beat some of them.

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in reply to: TBM Group Hunts? #167867

A hog hunt sounds good.  We aren’t allowed (legally) to hunt them here in Kansas.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167837

My daughter had a BBQ for my birthday on the 2nd and I took a few bows for the ‘yard darts’ fun.

I’m the old pf*rt.

With my son-in-law

I’ve been chasing arrows for 58 years now and making bows for 20.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167819

I’m shooting the picture at about a 30* angle to her.  Follow the line on the gym floor.  She’s shooting straight across the gym.

The set up is two kids shoot at the same target with different color fletch.  The girl behind her is shooting at the same target.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167731

My granddaughter has started middle school and is shooting in the archery in the schools program.  She had a start shooting in my yard since she was six years old.
She is on the far right shooting at target 12.  She’s doing better with the different type of bow and the shooting regimen.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167682

Winter came back here last night.  Yesterday temps were in the low 80’s.  Right now it is 22* and very windy.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167562

Same here Kees.  The batteries never die on a printed magazine.

The book is a good read.  The Osage people were really screwed over by the govt and the swindlers.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167473

I’ve felt four tremors here and all of the quakes were around the same area in Oklahoma.  The first one was several years ago and it was a mild vibration.  I thought one of my daughters cats was pawing the back of my recliner and then I noticed they were in front of me with the ‘what the heck was that’ look on their faces.  My daughter was on the internet and said one of her friends said there was a quake down there.

One morning just before I got out of bed it felt like someone grabbed the end of my bed and shook it as hard as the could.  I felt another slight tremble a year or so after that and if I had been walking I wouldn’t have noticed it.

This one was the longest rumble I’ve felt and it’s been long enough it surprised me at first.  My oldest daughter lives in Pittsburg, Ks about 20 miles further east of me and she said it shook the entire house.

The authorities say the cause is the fracking method used for oil wells there in Oklahoma.  Lots of oil production in that area.

The Osage Indians were placed on a reservation around Pawhuska, Ok and when oil was discovered on their land they became very rich.  There’s a book and a movie about the murders committed there.  The book is a good read about the evil done there.  The movie is very long and hard to keep up with unless you have read the book.  Killers of the Flower Moon is the book if you are interested in a chapter of the native American history.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167449

Felt an earthquake last night about 11:25.  I was in bed reading and it came like a wave and shook the house for about five seconds.  Sounded like something very big running across the roof.

Initial report said it was around Miami, Ok but later said it was NW of Prague, Ok.  That’s SW of Tulsa a ways.

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