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in reply to: clay hayes #61866
Here’s the youtube link to Clay’s film. Find a quiet time and place to watch it.
in reply to: clay hayes #61161Mike, I’m just back within the hour and doing the quickest possible confuser visit. It was the biggest and best rendezvous so far–tons of stuff to tell about that I’ll leave to others. But to answer your question, they gave Clay’s film the spot of honor Sat. evening and it was a standing ovation. I wasn’t the only one reduced to tears (granted, two nights of sponging up beer may have had some bearing on the mood, but it was still spectacular and a major hit). Now back to unpacking …
in reply to: Our Legacy #56450More good work, Clay. You are doubly blessed to have a young son and a puppy dog. If it’s too much responsibility, I am happy to take the puppy dog off your hands. 😆
See you Friday evening in Denver.
in reply to: string wear #55389It’s pretty easy to use an x-acto to carefully cut the serving string, unwind it off and replace with a new serving, which can be hand-wound on. Worst case scenario, you can buy a top-end string for about $20 and many are cheaper.
in reply to: FPS/Slugs and bones…. #52999What King says X2!
David–that boar looks like a hippo with bananas, I mean tusks. If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were raising these big boys on a feedlot with hormone-laced Purina Hogzilla chow. THAT would be a hunt of a lifetime for me but I doubt I’ll ever even get a crack at a feral wiener.
in reply to: What bow to buy #52055Steve — Let’s hear more about Omega bows. In another thread here recently the Samick Sage got the vote for best cheap bow. I’d be interested in other votes for the title, since folks so frequently ask that question.
I’ll be there, though I had to hock my wife and dogs to pay for the flight. 😆 Since Friday evening is open to anyone who wants to come and can pay $20 for the dinner, etc., and we’ve flogged it heavily in the Denver area, there could be several hundred folks there. I hope the hotel has plenty of bartenders on duty that night. For the full weekend we’re gaining on 200 registered. Probably half, at least, will be trad bowhunters, and all will be traditional-values hunters, a minor distinction. Clay’s film has been a big attraction.
in reply to: What bow to buy #51900I second the Hammer, only more directly: use the C points for something else and buy a good used custom bow elsewhere. Or save until you have a bit over twice the $300 and you can have your choice is many superb new customs. IMO it’s worth the wait.
in reply to: 300 grn field/target points? #50970Red, both in Doc Ed’s extensive testing and my limited experience, the lighter and/or slower a bow (as per most wood bows), the more crucial high arrow weight and FOC become. Think fast dart vs. slow spear … you’re onto something.
in reply to: Wolves and Rivers Video #50968I will eagerly drive to Montana, or fly to Alaska, in hope of seeing and hearing wolves and for the inimitable experience of camping in grizzly country. I wouldn’t do either for beavers or elk, which are abundant elsewhere. I guess, on a personal level, how we feel about predators and the costs we’re willing to pay to have them in our lives comes down to aesthetical supply and demand.
in reply to: 300 grn field/target points? #50874Red, Tuffhead sells them, big brass “artillery shell” suckers. I like them because they’re easy to pull from a target. Like the broadheads, they fit 11/32 and 23/64 wood shafts both just fine. $4.50 per 3-pack. The only thing they don’t have for the 300 is blunts.
in reply to: Hunting As Humanizer: Then and Now #49803Thanks, Robin, for posting this.
And thanks, as always, for your kind words, kindly gents. And it’s true what the Hammer says, that I am locked into a core of basic ideas I just keep torturing from every angle I can find. Over beer and burgers lunch with my personal therapist today (only a half-joke, as Doc Dave Sigurslid did special training in psychology and psychotherapy and sees more patients in that way than for physical ailments,plus he is one sharp cookie), this (what Hammer said) came up in conversation and it struck me for the first time that what I’ve been doing all these years, with no conscious awareness of my motivations, is trying to figure out and morally reconcile my deep love for animals and the natural desire to protect them that comes with love, with my equally deep love of hunting. Thus, I guess I am guilty as charged of being an elitist: IMO, if people can’t hunt without disrespecting the animals, they have no moral right to hunt. Perhaps I should look for some new ideas to torture myself and readers with. I have one, but it has naught to do with hunting. Anyhow, I do appreciate all the support you exceptionally good folks on this site have always offered, and also your honest feedback, bad as well as good. Of course, good is for the public forum and bad is what PMs are for! 😆 Or, as they say on a radio blues program we listen to: “If you like what we’re doing, tell everyone. If you don’t like it, don’t say nuthin’ to nobody!” 😆
in reply to: I found one today also #49798Ahh, you old archers are so sentimental about vintage equipment. Maybe I’ll live long enough to get there someday. 😛
Congrats on the find, Ralph.
in reply to: cool documentary #49504I love this flic too. It’s on Netflix instant watch. While not meaning to take anything away from these hardy happy folks, I have a couple of friends in bush AK, 250m north of Fairbanks and more than a hundred miles from the nearest village, who have lived a far more primitive life there for over 30 years now. No electricity until he hooked up some solar panels. No village for support, dogs rather than snow machines. Mark Richards is chair of the AK chapter of BHA. They fish with nets in summer and eat grayling 3x daily. They kill one or two moose in Sept. and eat moose 3x daily all winter. Visiting there is a cross between the ongoing excitement of survival, and insufferable food boredom. Amazing people. Not for me. I much prefer the edge.
in reply to: What's in his mouth?……. a banana!!!!!!!! #48868Mostly, I wish I’d had a fine son to share such experiences with. Or a father to share such with me.
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