[David Petersen]

in reply to: Photos of Where You Hunt? #8690

Rocky Mtn. elk spring …

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in reply to: Photos of Where You Hunt? #8683

After a rain shower …

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in reply to: Photos of Where You Hunt? #8681

Looking north from the cabin … into the wild blue-green yonder …

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in reply to: Photos of Where You Hunt? #8670

Good thread idea. Here are a few from my CO stamping grounds.

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in reply to: Gas Prices Keeping Me At Home #8651

Me too. Combined with my boycott of AZ until they outlawed baiting for deer (which they recently did!), gas prices cost me my beloved winter Coues whitetail hunt this year. If we didn’t have a wise and necessary prohibition against blatant political talk on this site, I’d have some comments on where all the gas is going and why it costs so much. But it doesn’t take a lot of thinking to parse it out across the past decade and more. My wife craves to move to a small town where she can walk everywhere in case I croak. While I have no current plans to move to the crematorium, small town life sure would make sense from a fossil fuel consumption pov. But then I’d have to drive to hunt where I can walk to now. And the bars would be so handly I’d spend as much on booze as I do gas … hmmm, come to think of it that might be a good swap! 😆

[David Petersen]

in reply to: EXTRAS #8422

Ditto what Alex said. When I put a new string on a bow, the one I took off, if still functional, becomes the extra in my pack. Thus they get rotated out annually or so.

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in reply to: Anyone eat coyote? #8420

Giggle — Happy Birthday! 35 is good and there’s no reason to get any older (other than to stay alive). I’m not surprised you didn’t like that coyote blackstrap. 😛 Dave

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in reply to: Anyone eat coyote? #63995

True story: A few years ago here, a Chinese restaurant went out of business after it was busted by the health department for raising cats in the restaurant basement. These folks were right off the boat, couldn’t speak English, were arrogant toward their customers, so anything was possible, or even likely.

On this topic I’ve not said enough, yet I’ve already said too much. 😯 As it happens we’re having purple hull (blackeyed pea) soup for dinner and the only meat is a bit of bacon. Elk supply is already running low and that’s the last time I’ll shoot a yearling cow … delicious but just not much there.

[David Petersen]

in reply to: Please introduce yourselves, I'll start #63967

Great to hear from you, Michael. Just today I noticed your long-ago post here and wondered wtf happened to you. Hang around …:D

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in reply to: Anyone eat coyote? #63963

Alas, there is more to determining what we like and don’t like to eat than how it tastes to the tongue … it also matters, to some, how it tastes (dare I say it?) to the heart. This is why I don’t hunt bear. I’ve eaten it and don’t care for the grainy texture but love the taste; I’d eat it any time I was hungry and knew it was killed in fair chase. It’s something else that keeps me from hunting them. Lot’s of ways to skin a cat … and that leaves me wondering if anyone has ever tried feral housecat? With apologies to Robin, I hear they are delicious and recommend that we all go out and whack and stack every free-roaming murderous fat cat we can find. 😈

[David Petersen]

in reply to: Anyone eat coyote? #62893

Giggle — I personally applaud your ill feelings in this arena. While lots of ethical bowhunters love to hunt predators and esp. coyotes, including several regulars on this site, I feel as you do re “If I won’t eat it, I won’t shoot it.” Many years ago I gave an ethics talk on precisely that theme to a couple hundred hunters from all over Canada. After the talk one gentleman came up to me and said he both trapped and hunted coyotes, and ate every one of them and “coyote eats good.” I didn’t doubt him for a moment, but then lots of Canadians love jackrabbit too, which I’ve tried and found suitable only for last-ditch survival food. So just a regionalism can have a ton to do with ethics, so too it apparently has to do with what eats good and what doesn’t. Let us know what you think of it, and perhaps more important, what you wife and kids think of it, assuming you have such live-in food critics. 😛

[David Petersen]

in reply to: ''The Hammer '' small game blunt #62884

Here a link to the 3Rivers page:

http://www.3riversarchery.com/The+Hammer+Small+Game+Blunt+Glue-On+3+Pack_i4911X_baseitem.html

It’s a variation on the Ace theme. I’ve used Ace for years and will stick with them for now. I never cared for the Judos either: too expensive, can’t conveniently be carried in a bow quiver even when put in backwards, aren’t notoriously accurate, break, can in fact slide under leaves and get lost. I had a couple a zillion years ago but when I shot one completely through a squirrel and it didn’t kill the squirrel — knocked him out of the top of his tree and stayed in so I recovered him, but it didn’t kill him — I tossed ’em. Many ways to skin a cat, or a squirrel. I think this Ace-Hammer idea is the best blunt design yet and I’m glad folks are now making them in the heavy head weights that Ashby’s research and personal experimentation are encouraging more and more of us to turn to.

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in reply to: Please introduce yourselves, I'll start #62745

Smithhammer said: “And Dave, that is one of the more interesting quotes I’ve seen in a while. Had no idea that Burroughs was a trad enthusiast.”

Neither did I, Bruce. :lol::lol::lol::twisted:

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in reply to: Please introduce yourselves, I'll start #62717

Alex is the most joyful hunter I’ve ever partnered up with — like a child in the purity of his appreciation of every moment of the experience. And as a musician he’s no garage-band or cocktail lounge player but one of the heaviest hitters in his genre of progressive jazz. If we could just get Alex to perform in a loin cloth and shoot flaming arrows on stage at each concert, we’d have a trad archer’s refutation of Ted! 😀 Take a listen …

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in reply to: ''The Hammer '' small game blunt #62689

Can you provide a photo or link to photo?

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