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in reply to: Side quivers with arrow grippers #27647
Jim– I’m curious why you apparently don’t like bow quivers? For stumping I like a hip-pocket quiver or a standard shoulder quiver. For big game I’ve not used anything but a bow quiver since my first hunt a few light years ago. Only complaint I ever had was that you had to unstring the bow to get it off and on, but that’s long since been cured with strap-ons. When I hunt I have a big daypack with an attached fanny pact, and other stuff on my belt so that entire waist area is already taken up. I have stuff in my cargo pants pockets also and a side quiver would really seem to be clumsy, unless you hunt in flat fields or desert with no bending or climbing necessary. Just curious about the reasons for your preference?
in reply to: Brown Bear Help #25365Welcome, Abel. Might you happen to know my blood brother Mark Richards from any of those AK forums? As co-chair for AK BHA he’s in Fairbanks right now (lives in the bush) testifying at the wildlife commission meetings, which sound like a downright colorful zoo-full of human variations. 😛
I don’t know squat about what it takes to kill bear, though I’ve seen my share of grizzly/browns in AK and can appreciate the wall of bone you’re up against if the arrow finds a scapula or heavy front rib. I’m hoping Ed Ashby might chime in here, as he’s killed darn near everything with trad gear. Or Don Thomas, who has killed browns and guided others for many more kills.
My opening opinion is that you are on the right track with the broadheads but I’d try to get total arrow weight up to around 800 (I shoot that for elk and generally shoot plumb through, bones and all, with 300 Tuffheads), and would forget the woods and go with carbon. Reasons why include the great ease with which you can swap heads and change head weight with carbons, which will save time and money when putting together your arrow system, and their greater resistance to breakage behind big heavy heads. If you do decide to go with the woods you’ll find that the fairly narrow spine range, compared to carbons, will dictate the head weight, which is going at it backwards. In either case I’d consider an aluminum sleeve extending from behind the head back 4″ to help prevent breaking should you hit heavy bone. The idea is to build an arrow that will hold together and penetrate, no matter the obstacles, deep enough so that you don’t have to use the backup gun and spoil the memory of the bowhunt. As Doc Ashby says, there’s no such thing as overkill in bowhunting … especially when your prey can turn around and knock your head plumb off with a swipe of paw. Kodiak, that’s one heck of a place to live!
in reply to: pictures of animals #25355That’s a mighty long doe, Alex!
in reply to: World's best bunny hunting! #25353Steve– Hammer’s link worked for me, and takes you to the 10 best adlibbed scenes in movies, specifically Monty Python and the killer rabbit. From there you go to Jack Nicholson’s classed “Here’s Johnny!” in “The Shining.” One of the others is a Marine bootcamp scene from “Full Metal Jacket” with a real DI playing the DI role. That’s what I was responding to. The pic indeed is me, age 23, 1969 at Marine OCS, after I’d already been in nearly a year and completed all the enlisted training, basic and advanced. It’s a close-up from a platoon photo and the giant behind me is standing on a raised platform. Indeed, all just off-season joking around, but not intended as private jokes. 😆
in reply to: World's best bunny hunting! #23347Ha! I don’t even have to watch the vid to know what’s coming.
“Run away!”
But you really didn’t have to take me back to bootcamp, 1968. That’s the stuff of nightmares and the DI I had makes this gentleman look like Little Miss Two Shoes. Laughing
Sir! Yes SIR!
in reply to: Attraction #21702Last line, what Jonas said!
Plus, it’s a great way to meet girls. 😉
Just as it took me decades of searching to find the one bow that does it all the way I like best, I have come to prefer Tuffheads. I mostly hunt elk so am heavily biased in the tough-head direction. The smaller the animals you hunt, the more workable heads you have to choose from. But do stick with fixed blades that have cut on contact points. As more and more manufacturers are coming around to the necessity today to provide hard steel (52R seems the norm) and hunting-sharp from the factory (because hard steel can be the devil to get sharp the first time), there’s no reason to buy anything less. If you can see parallel grinder marks on the bevel faces, they’re nowhere near sharp.
in reply to: Art Vincent Pocket Quiver #20013Hammer, if you don’t already have a son, best get right to work on it as you sure have lots of great stuff to leave to him! Or maybe have a daughter and wait for a grandson. 😆
in reply to: too much time in the woods? #19955Mike — considering you’ve had to canx so many runs already this winter due to weather, it might be fair to assume the same for late March. I say, either “dump the chumps” or leave them to your two very capable ladies and come on out to Denver to join the warrior-clan drunk, I mean very serious meeting. 😀
in reply to: too much time in the woods? #19950Mike, I was going to intro Clay’s film if he couldn’t make it. Happily for all, he will be there to grease his own skillet. Probably with fresh bear fat.
in reply to: wood v. carbon #19811I think you have it right there, PT. You interpreted what Ed said just so. I doubt that many have spent more time and money than me trying to make woods work for EFOC, because I just really prefer shooting woods. But once again and for now I give up. While I have never bought in to the BS we hear from compounders that “it’s more humane thanks to the technology” (it could be if they shot real arrows with real broadheads at real bowhunting distances, which darn few do), I do buy in that an arrow of the perfect weight for the game, with at least EFOC (20%) and the right broadhead for the animal … now that truly is a case of “humanity via technology.” If I never hunted anything but deer, etc. I wouldn’t worry about it as much as I do and a heavy hardwood shaft with a good head, with or without EFOC, I think would get the job done. But I hunt elk almost exclusively so I always embrace Ed’s logo, “There’s no such thing as overkill.” It’s always great to hear from folks like you who are concerned about doing it the best, that is most consistently lethal and humane, way possible, rather than wishful lazy thinking and denial of past failures.
in reply to: A club for those of us without any back country #18842While BHA’s name is misleading–in fact it’s a sportsman-conservation group trying to save public wildlife habitat for the public and the wildlife–it is definitely about public lands so less acutely resonant for so much of America that has little to none.
Tragically, you guys are onto something, and I fear it is indeed the “future” of “hunting” without public land. BHA is trying to keep the industrialists and others from doing to public lands what you already have to deal with in private lands.
When I was a kid you didn’t even have to ask to hunt … just drive into the country, park the car and start walking. A wholly different world today! Might it have anything to do with quadrupling our population in those 50 years or so?
Wisdom is always so much easier to find in retrospect.
in reply to: Nothing says Happy Valentine's like… #18835Tail — what kind of drugs to you use to get the kids in bed before dark? 😆 For a proper Valentine evening, I’d want them miles away with Grandma! 😛
in reply to: Man Eaters of Kumaon #18758As one who has long written true stories for a marginal living, I must say from this point of view that I detest writers who insert lies in their so-called “nonfiction.” It gives them unfair advantage over those with a loyalty to the truth and it’s just plain cheating. And if such writers have an agenda, political or otherwise, that makes it even worse.
That’s why God created fiction–so that we can spin out yarns any which way that works best for entertainment. Lying in “nonfiction” equates to cross-breeding a skunk with a songbird.
I guess I’m old fashioned. 🙄
in reply to: Man Eaters of Kumaon #17678Critch — Writers rarely tell the whole truth. Nor much of anyone else for that matter, since NO one really knows what the truth is and anyone who claims to know is either a fool or a scoundrel. I know that’s not what you were saying, but sometimes I can’t help myself. 😆
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