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in reply to: Scouting and picking blackberries #13599

They’re so fast I’ve never seen one….but my dad often talked about them…and turpentined cats….:D

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in reply to: Scouting and picking blackberries #13191

I saw a beautiful young buck, 4 pointer in the velvet on another piece of property down in the delta. He was fat, there’s lots of food and water this year…

I saw him first, when he saw me he took off like a striped-a$$ ape…

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in reply to: Scouting and picking blackberries #12624

Based on many years of observation and prognostication I really believe we’re going to have an early fall. Normally it’s just a few degrees hotter than Hell around here at this time of year, but our temps for the next week are way below normal, and so is the humidity. In August of 1981 we were wearing flannel shirts and light jackets due to the sudden coolness, but it had been a very cool summer as well…this one is the same.

I think it will be cooler earlier this fall for archery season. I hope so.

I’ve also noticed that sumac and some other bushes are already turning red…

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in reply to: Thumb rings? #60648

Thanks everyone, good information..

Ben, I was just in the Flint Hills during Holy Week. Beautiful country…

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in reply to: Thumb rings? #58237

I guess it’s my age, but I never think about YouTube. It’s interesting to watch those videos. Maybe a person who practiced a lot would be faster, but it seems slow with some of the people who are demonstrating it. ..

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in reply to: Had a great day on the farm… #53960

I haven’t seen any traditional shoots in our area. I will ask around.

I grew up in Doniphan, MO. We used to play ya’ll in basketball all the time. We went to Pokey as much as we did to the Bluff…

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in reply to: Question about wood arrow finishes #48090

R2 wrote: Just my guessin’ but I betcha the first combo could be an issue.

I’ve used tung oil without a problem though.

By the way, tung oil will bring new life to an old faded set of antlers. 😀

Thank you. I didn’t know that about antlers…

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in reply to: Converting Browning compound to recurve #12728

I see hairline cracks near the wheel axles on the limbs.

This was just an idea that popped into my head when I was looking a website that sold risers and limbs for take down bows.

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in reply to: Custom touches on arrows… #55284

My youngest son, the artist of the family, has ordered some markers that act like paint when applied. He’s been practicing on some old arrows with a fine tip marker, I will get some pictures out, hopefully this week.

Those arrow wraps are a neat idea, maybe down the road I can order some and have my arrows made with them. I(f I’m reading it right, the fletching is glued to the wrap?

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in reply to: Noteable Quotes! #53049

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous…”

Father Thomas Merton

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in reply to: Going after a grass grizzly #51375

If you look at a map of Butler County Missouri you will see that we are where the Ozarks meet the delta. We are about half and half hills and delta. The topsoil in the delta is over 200 feet deep. Rice accounts for 30-50 thousand acres depending on the prices expected in the coming year. Otherwise it’s mostly soybeans, milo, and corn.

Groundhogs love to tear up the dikes the farmers build for the rice fields. They eat the grubs and other critters in there turned up by the big plows.

I did get to hunt a little today but all I saw was an otter playing in the ditch. It was fun watching him going in and out of the ditch and sliding down the bank.

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in reply to: When "friends" turn out to be enemies #47664

While I disagreed with the NRA on this particular bill I do not consider them to a bunch of nut jobs. No one has done more to protect our 2nd Amendment rights than them. It sure as heck wasn’t a bunch of politicians and judges. The NRA only went extreme if you will when the government(s) went that way.

Washington DC, Chicago and many cities have (had) very restrictive gun laws and they did nothing to curb the crime. The only people affected were honest citizens.

As with any information be careful of who gives it to you. GunTruthproject.org is a very anti-gun organization that is financed by Mayor Bloomberg who feels that no one has a right to own a gun, except the police, military and his bodyguards. 99.9% of all gun owners are honest law abiding people, the concentration needs to be on the criminals. I might add that the Aurora shooter, the Army major who shot up Fort Hood and the guy who shot Gabby Giffords, as well as many others, were all on someone’s radar already, but no one acted.

The Center for American Progress is a very anti-gun organization and very left-leaning in all of their ideas. This organization also refuses to release information on who contributes money to them, although it is known that George Soros gave them millions. I can’t find anything concrete on them as to hunting, but these type of organizations tend to be anti-hunting, at least on some level. A similar organization in the UK all but outlawed hunting in that country.

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in reply to: A real nice visit with good folks today.. #45581

My arrows came in today. 6 with field points and 6 with Zwickey Eskimo broadheads. Red and white feathers.

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in reply to: Short recurves…suggestions? #38629

Waaay back in 1979 I bought a Browning Nomad bow at a yard sale. I got to hunt with it for 2 years and then it broke,,and Browning had stopped making them, so they gave me a huge discount on a compound Nomad..nice bow, still have it,,,but I really liked that short recurve…

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in reply to: Going after a grass grizzly #38325

paleoman wrote: Long ago my grandmother told me my great grandfather had to shoot them while in the Russian army or they would have starved. Never looked it up though if woodchucks are native over there?

Groundhogs and their cousins, marmots, are pretty much stretched across the northern hemisphere. My wife’s great grandmother was from Ukraine and she would cook groundhog or about anything else you brought in.

They have caused considerable damage to some of my buildings; along with coyotes I consider them vermin.

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