[James Harvey]

in reply to: goose'n the longbow #58330

That first photo should be in the magazine. Well done mate, beautiful photos.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Hunting canoe #58324

zimjohn wrote: Jim,

Did you catch the news yesterday? Apparently a New Zealander got trapped on a small island off the coast of Western Australia up by Broom by a large saltie – estimated as close to 20 feet long. He was on a sea kayaking trip and the saltie could move faster than he could paddle away.

Got rescued by a local fisherman but was running out of food and water.

John, I did read that. I couldn’t help but wonder though, if a croc sidled up next to me in the open ocean, how much I’d start seeing it everywhere. A man alone is a fairly paranoid beast 😀 Got your email too, will reply when I get a chance 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: video yourself shooting #57558

Ubersense is great for your smartphone. I’ve been using it a lot lately. I thought my bow arm was rock solid. It is not.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Coffee #57375

I’m the same Paleo, I like to pretend I’m a tough guy and have a dingo’s breakfast (a piss, a fart and a good look around) but if I have time I’ll always make up a coffee in my little travel flask, which has the same effect you described.

Learning how to do a tactical wee is a critical part of my job and I’ve done some awkward ones. I’ve read a silver lining for you guys hunting deer in rut is that they can’t tell the difference between your wee and theirs so they’ll be interested in the scent. Do you know if that’s true?

[James Harvey]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #57289

Paleo, Rabbit Hash is one of the little pilgrimages I do every time I go to the US. Beautiful Kentucky hills all the way down to the Ohio River. Australia doesn’t have any inland rivers quite like the Ohio. It’s filthy now but I always sit and wonder about the men who explored the river on canoes, paddling into unknown lands. It must have been beautiful pre-industry.

The last time I went though I think ownership of the general store changed hands. They used to always have a backroom full of old tools and bits and pieces. Now it’s all full of new age merchandise. The way of the world I guess.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Tracking #57270

Thanks for posting that Mike. Id love to find out more about the attempt to run down a pronghorn the American marathon runners made. I know an old Army chopper pilot (not Dave P :wink:) who reckons he and another couple of pilots ran down an Eastern Grey Kangaroo on a pilot survival exercise. From memory they were lucky enough to accidentally run it into a narrow box canyon, rather than genuinely run it down.

Good stuff.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Look at what I found… #56835

I was just reading the Feb/Mar 2003 TBM and there was an article by Don Thomas where he was describing running around a station down here. He was just a stones throw down the same basalt flow that I saw these deer on. Shock horror he was hunting them (along with the obligatory Aussie bush pig) 😉

Anyway, I’m back out there this weekend, if I see any deer, I’ll tip my hat in honour of Don’s little history with them. It’s funny how one man’s exciting new thing is another man’s ‘been there done that’. The joys of being a rookie 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: EFOC in flight #56649

Damn you fellas, I was happy to pay off that nock right as a crummy release on that shot, now you’ve filled me full of doubts and I’m going to have to go recheck the bareshaft 😆

[James Harvey]

in reply to: EFOC in flight #56377

S.T., no substantial cross wind. In the first frame after release you can see the shaft flexing one way, then in second frame after release it flexes the other way, even more substantially, with the nock right. One of the things I want to see in a longer flight is if how quickly that settles down. I would anticipate that the shaft would straighten out substantially over the 5-10 yards subsequent to that second frame.

It’ll be interesting to see. These shafts bare shaft tuned very nicely to my eye once I built out the strike plate a little, but I never thought to look at them like this bare shaft.

The safest place for that camera with me shooting is probably the bulls eye 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: 2013 hunting rigs #56186

That looks very slick Alex.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: A first harvest… #53970

Must be a very proud dad 😀 For the record I thought bows were cool when I was a teenager, but I was a nerd 😉 Congratulations to both hunter and mentor.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: 2013 hunting rigs #53965

Smithhammer wrote: It’s back to the bow quiver for me…:D

I just received a bow quiver for my longbow this week. It’s going to be hard to convince myself to carry the back quiver around now 😕

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Samick 62'' Sage #53954

I bought two (one for my wife as well) when I was last in the States. They’re pretty darned good.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Review–Trophy Ridge Fred Bear Razorhead #53007

That’s rigorous man.. I want to take some of my broadheads and shoot them at things they shouldn’t be shot at as well! That thing seemed to stand up to a heap of abuse.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Wolves? #52802

I found the 2012 Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wolf hunting season report which says of the 225 wolves taken by hunters and trappers in 2012 only one was harvested by an archer.

On a sidenote to this thread the 2011 report also mentioned total revenue in excess of four hundred thousand dollars courtesy of the 2011 season and the 2012 season was much the same. Almost a million dollars in two years in one state. Hunters, putting their money where their mouths are to support wilderness.

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