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in reply to: Comfortable Bow #25863
Stump — I’ve often wondered why no “historic cult following” has developed for old Pearson bows, as has for Bear. My first real bow was a Pearson Bobcat, very short dramatic recurve styled after the Bear KM, but sold for half the price. I know I wasn’t the only one back then, early 1960s, who had a Pearson, around $40, because he couldn’t afford a Bear, around $90. How times have changed! Anyhow it would be cool to see a photo of an old Pearson Bobcat. I shot competition with mine as well as hunting, I think it was an amazing 48″ long if memory serves. Back then few folks I knew owned more than one bow. Nice photo, dave
in reply to: EFOC with Wood? #25856East Coast — we’re ALL in good company here. 😀 Welcome. dave p
in reply to: Bow Weight Reduction #25816I just spoke with Joe and he will respond here when he gets home this afternoon. dp
in reply to: Holmegaard #25152Holten and other Holmegaard fans … is that bow you built “here” still shooting? Elm just scares me and I’m betting if those ancient Danes had osage, they’d have used it instead. But I was wrong once before, so could be again :). Can anyone think of a reason other than “purity” that we can’t build the Holmegaard design from an osage stave? Has anyone here tried it? I have some prime osage staves coming and would like to try something a bit different in a selfbow. Thanks for any advice, dp
in reply to: New TBM, question for Don Thomas #25145Welcome, Stumpkiller! In fact, we must have extra hard stumps around here, as they kill more of my arrows than I kill of them. 🙄
You say in regards to “modern” “hunting” as portrayed on TV’s Outhouse channels and too many hook-and-bullet rags: “Legal perhaps, but it’s not the legacy of bowhunting I want to remember or be known for or anything I want any part of.” Brother, you have just stated more clearly and succinctly than I ever could with a zillion words why the old cop-out “If it’s legal, it’s ethical” just don’t get it. Thank you! dave
in reply to: Homemade alcohol stoves #23692FUBAR — In any conditions they are susceptible to even light winds and are very slow to heat or boil water. That and my dislike of carrying liquid fuel in my pack prompted me to end the experiment. Like many things in life, tiny alch. stoves are more charming in their appeal than they are practical. I now use a little Peak1 stove that screws into one of the newer “flat” cans of propane/butane fuel mix. The stove itself is just folding wings, sturdy and compact. There is also a compact 50-watt tent lantern. The hassles here are the weight of the fuel canisters, and that you have to pack out the empties. They cost about $5 a can, which ain’t cheap. Yet one can will last through many pots of water and meals if you’re judicious, and the fuel is blended especially for fast lights and hot burns in deep cold and high altitudes. It’s a basically fail-proof system and I swear I think you could melt alumunimum with the intense heat it produces. Want you’re coffee water fast on a cold morning? Nothing I know of beats this. Several backpack stove companies now offer stoves and fuel but I think the WalMart setup is as good as any and far cheaper. I use mine for car camping also, when one burner is enough. One camper’s experience. dp
in reply to: The Werewolf #23680Bruc and Biggie — Forgive me for answering for Blake, but I know he is currently distracted by family issues. I’m holding a prototype single-bevel Werewolf in my hand right now and yes, the back edges are beveled and as sharp as the main blades, which are as sharp as any resharpenable heads I’ve seen from the factory. I personally will want to touch them up before hunting, but it’s a touch-up job only with no filing necessary. And the bevel is perfect for the ABS single-bevel touch-up sharpener. And like the ABS Ashby, the Abowyer Brown Bear and other top-end single-bevels, the Werewolf’s blade is machined from a single sturdy piece of stainless, rather than two thin plates welded together. This provides a wider bevel shelf for more torque, and I believe also greater tip strength. I find myself just staring at this head as one would a shapely knife blade. I can’t wait for the snow to melt so I can get out and put this promising new offering through my personal testing regimen for penetration, flight stability, skip resistance, etc. I love pretty new toys! dp
in reply to: Homemade alcohol stoves #21653Fubar — an interesting link! Back in my ultra-light backpacking days I used an alcohol stove for a couple of years … basically it was just a small can that I poured the fuel into and lighted, with a little grate over the top to support a small pan. I think the weblink you provide is pretty good in describing the pros and cons of alch. “stoves.” I no longer use this rig for reasons of my own, but for ultra-light deep-backcountry hunters the Zen appeal alone makes it worth a try. dp
in reply to: Northern Mist Longbows #20536Me too! (Like to hear opinions and even better, see pics.) I’ve heard good things …
in reply to: Some Family Hunting and Scouting Pics #20531T — these pics give me late-winter heartburn: so close in miles, yet so far away in time (until fall). If anyone can view photos such as these — the people as well as the wild places they are enjoying — and still wonder why you and I and a growing number of others proclaim fiercely that “The only future for true traditional hunting is wild, unspoiled, silent and unroaded public lands,” well they didn’t apparently evolve in this one real world. Only thing missing here is a pic of your lovely wife. Thanks for posting. ol’ dave
in reply to: 61 days away… #18413Regarding what bears eat — “the proof is in their pudding.” 😛
in reply to: Ground Hunting #18408EcoRover — great to have you posting with us. Hang around! In general I think Don Thomas summed it up for me as well. In fact before this winter I could count all the hours spent in a tree stand in my entire hunting life on less than one-hand’s fingers. Very early in my hunting career I climbed big trees and strattled limbs and killed my first whitetail that way. But that was hardly a manufactured treestand. And frankly, though it’s done, I don’t feel ethically solid hunting elk, my primary game for the past 30 years, from a treestand due to the difficulty of getting an arrow through both lungs and heart. But then, real recently, I got hooked on whitetails, which we don’t have here and I have to travel for. And frankly, while it’s not the only way, a treestand is definitely the “best” (easiest and most reliable) way. But like Don, my newfound appreciation of treestands is limited to that one species and now having “done it,” my whitetail goal is not a bigger buck, but to take one from the ground. As a former military pilot, I prefer to be on the ground for reasons of a very personal relationship with gravity :P. But I also appreciate the views and freedom to “get away with more” from a tree. Bottom line is that I too find pop-up blinds claustrophobic and just something else to buy and lug around that we really don’t need. I much prefer impromptu natural brush blinds, and have rarely hunted where they can’t be well used.
Just another opinion and I’m frankly grateful that we don’t all share the same preferences in life. What a bore that would be!
Bottom-bottom-bottom line for me is that if I can do it myself rather than buy it, I much prefer to. dp
in reply to: 61 days away… #18027Do you have wild pigs up there? Wouldn’t seem like it, which leaves me wondering about your website name? Merely curious. That first pic is gorgeous, with the contrast between shade and light and the rainbow within the curtain of rain. Good work. And congrats and best luck with you efforts to take a bear fair chase. Scouting as you have to identify potential food sources — now that’s good old-fashioned hunting. dp
in reply to: TBM's Ol Dave Petersen got his Coues #13573Wild — you have no idea how I’d love to do that! Maybe if I start buying state lottery tickets … 😆 dp
in reply to: Photos from a winter hunt in the Ogeechee Swamp #13570Tailfeather — pig wallow, elk wallow … they all look pretty much the same except the surrounding vegetation. Elk wallows of course smell like bull elk in rut. I’m betting a hog waller don’t smell so sweet!
And you sure have it nailed about the impact of wildness on sanity. As wild country disappears, we become ever less human, ever less sane. People who enjoy it yet don’t fight to protect it disappointment me terribly. I think trad bowhunters are among the most tuned-in to this reality.
Thanks for sharing the great pics! dave
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