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in reply to: Resealing shafts? #56868
Cheers mate, I love it when I’m told what I want to hear 😀
Jim
in reply to: Pack for elk #55828Looks like a good pack Shawn. I hope it serves you well for years to come!
Jim
in reply to: using test weights #55046Dave, when I bought mine I had to choose either straight or helical as the clamp that comes with the jig is one or the other.
Biscuit, I bought the straight one, which you can fix at an off-set, so the feather sits diagonally across the shaft. It doesn’t look as nice as helical but it stops the arrows from planing.
Perhaps more knowledgeable folks can tell you more about the pros/cons of either set up.
in reply to: Getting in shape #55012Dave, I lifted it from the internet, but I think it’s from “Country”, which I’ve not read. I’m reading a book of his at the moment called ‘The Explorers’. A thing that grabs my imagination about Australian exploration (and may grab yours) is wonderfully summed up by Flannery:
There is a certain moment in Australian exploration which has always transfixed me. It is the instant when white looks on black, and black on white, for the first time. Neither knows it, but such meetings bridge an extraordinary temporal gulf, for they unite people who became seperated at least 50,000 years ago. That’s 40,000 years longer than people have been in the Americas or Ireland, 20,000 years before the Neanderthals finally surrendered Europe to my ancestors, and 25,000 years before the worst of the last ice age turned most of Australia into a howling desert, a vast dunefield. No other cultures, meeting on the frontier, have been separated by such an unimaginable chasm of time.
Magic stuff.
in reply to: Pack for elk #52724Bruce that looks like a hell of a lot of pack for the money!
in reply to: Close encounters and backup #52314You guys get me so excited talking about big predators!
in reply to: Pack for elk #52295Shawn,
I have a mystery ranch day bag that I like a lot, but man you pay a huge premium for modern camouflage patterns, molle attachments and fastex clips. I’m not at all across the variety of packs available stateside, but I reckon the best bang for your buck field packs are the vietnam era ALICE packs. They’re not as volume friendly as modern hiking style packs, but they’re light and rugged. Best of all they’re cheap as chips. I just did a google search and found this:
http://www.amazon.com/Large-ALICE-Field-Frame-Outfit/dp/B004LRDU4G/ref=pd_sim_sg_2
$85 man, 9 pounds, 3800cu in, will comfortably carry 70-100lbs. Molle is the ducks nuts, but you can just sew extra pouches onto the outside of the ALICE and it’s good to go. I know guys who use those packs to replace the ones our Army issues us. They’re fine for about 3 days I reckon, if you have to pack your own water. If you have a water source, the world is your oyster.
Might be worth your consideration. All the best with whatever you get though 😉
in reply to: Getting in shape #52259David Petersen wrote: Well, long ago I was a trainer in an iron gym and can tell you that there are two basic approaches to strength training: low repetitions with high weight for bulking up … and high repetitions with lower weights for endurance.
Dave, you can’t flex fitness… I met an old Hungarian trainer who skulled yard glasses. You get a good, heavy one rep lift combined with a long endurance hold. Old school. Imagine doing a yard glass of schnapps! Now there is a test of manhood.
in reply to: Getting in shape #50255Smithhammer wrote: [quote=David Petersen]When I’m into serious upper-body strength training, like now, I increase the weight from American pints to British pints and double the reps in my daily bow-arm-curling workout…:lol:
Dave –
I’m curious – do you pay attention to specific gravity with your pint lifting as well? I now personally, I’ve found Imperial Stouts and Scotch Ales, for example, help me achieve my peak threshold a lot quicker….
You guys are living in the past with your heads stuck in the sand. I know it’s counter intuitive but the densest lifting beverages are those with the most dissolved sugar and least alcohol. Real men lift schnapps. I like butterscotch. Man up.
in reply to: My Elkheart has arrived!! #49150Looks beautiful Alex. Can’t wait to see more pics!
Jim
in reply to: Turkey Hunting to Bear Scouting #48328Etter, I know its quite a different thing, but pig hunting with dogs is quite popular here. Obviously the dogs aren’t treeing pigs they’re running them down and pinning them for the hunter. Dogs often are wounded, occasionally killed. For the guys that stick them rather than shoot them, they assure me it’s quite a challenge. Shooting a bounding roo at 100m with a compound is a challenge too. Or chasing one half to death through tight scrub on an mx bike before jumping off and wringing it’s neck. I’ve seen both of those done.
I don’t think just because something is violent it’s inherently bad, but I’m wildly unimpressed by the assertion that because something is physically hard it is inherently good. There are plenty of ways to be challenged without tormenting an animal.
My little opinion and we are each entitled to our own.
Jim.
in reply to: Does altitude affect arrows? #48300Mike, from memory, the fall of shot into the porcelain target had no effect on the efficiency of the flush. No need to aim off.
Jim.
PS
Some men shoot smaller groups, some men shoot bigger bullets 😉
in reply to: Dutch explorers account of a 'cat' #48285Alas my friend, all my ancestors are the breed of Scottish and northern English miscreants that the good people of Her Royal Majesty’s Commonwealth sent abroad to help beautify the English countryside. In a 1901 edition of the UK’s ‘Country Life’ magazine they had a list of England’s worst eye-sore’s. The first was some recent industrial installation belching smoke, the second was ‘the working classes’. Haha, the country life line is not true, but it made me laugh 😉
in reply to: "The Untamed" – film #48271Looks great mate, and liked on vimeo.
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