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in reply to: Garbaging for Bears #39786
What ptaylor said pretty well sums up my feelings. Extreme polarization and a bunker mentality are always the enemies of sound decision making. Sounds like folks up in Maine don’t much like their bears, or else only baiters vote.
in reply to: Caught with my pants down… #32394Jim — I almost never read “Me and Joe” hunting yarns, but you pulled me right in on this one. Be prepared for many deserved jokes about you waiting until game is in sight to assemble your gear. Is that Aussie military training? Reminds me of a wealthy Texas rifleman I once guided for elk, who carried his custom Seika in a case through the whole hunt. As with your hunt, no animal was harmed but the weaponry went home safe and unscratched. 😆 Believe me, the little Shrew isn’t that delicate. I guess it’s true what they say about folks doing everything upside-down in Ozzieland.
in reply to: Goin with the flow #32376Been there, done that–at least half of my trips to AK. At least you have beer, be joyful! All things pass, except the weather in AK.
in reply to: Garbaging for Bears #25591More good publicity for hunting …
http://news.yahoo.com/maine-bear-bait-vote-sparks-interest-around-us-133925342.html
in reply to: Question about wood arrow finishes #11382Wojo — I’m afraid that Tung oil and cresting paint don’t mix, either chemically or aesthetically. If you like bright colored cresting, you won’t like Tung oil. Art is a highly individual choice and more often than not can’t be rated on a scale of “practicality.”
Mike — With all due disrespect :P, total feather weight depends on total feather length. In most cases 4-fletch weighs less than 3-fletch. Example: standard 3×5″ fletching equals 15″ total feather. 4×3″ (which I use and love) totals 12″ of fletching, thus weighing less yet (arguably, and depending on circumstances) offering greater stability and speed. Add to this the fact that the longer feathers tend to be higher as well, and we move into the square-centimeter realm where 4-fletch weighs even less relative to 3-fletch.
But in the end both work and we don’t always need math or engineering to justify what we prefer. 😀 I need not bring up the old “blondes vs. redheads” analogy. But I will anyhow. For one thing it leaves out brunettes and for another, at my age, any hair is good hair. 😳 Just how close hair resembles feathers depends on the bird in hand.
in reply to: Dream Hunts #7795Ralph — That’s the first I’ve heard of feral hogs in CO! I’ll check it out, thank you. Living here, distance is a major obstacle to hog hunting, making it “exotic” to me.
Etter — For several months in 1969-70 I was stationed at Hunter-Stewart while undergoing Army helicopter flight training. This included a weeklong jungle survival class in the swamp, where we were larded with spook stories about giant hogs, gators and quicksand. All I ran into was plenty of rattlers, which taste like chicken when you’re hungry. I recall flying treetop along those forest-shrouded winding rivers, and very tough walking and navigating. Perfect Bigfoot country! I lived at Savanna Beach and there was nothing there but nice old frame houses. I’ll bet it’s unrecognizable now.
in reply to: Dream Hunts #63351A fair chase feral hog hunt (no bait, no hounds, etc.) someplace other than Texas.
in reply to: Elk Hunt – Bad Penetration! #63346MSFK–first, you have my respect for publicly admitting your mistake and trying to learn from it so it doesn’t happen again. Beyond that, it’s a tough call. Like J.W. said, your FOC should be higher and likely you’re figuring it wrong … not that it really matters here. I’ve had only one case of poor penetration when using a single-bevel broadhead (Brown Bear), several years ago, and that was due to pulling a snap-shot on a spinning bull at six feet, and failing to reach full draw. I still recovered the animal but it took a while and he suffered unnecessarily. I too had a shaft break right behind a Tuffhead, two years ago, but it was Doug fir with a hardwood spline and the head and inch or so of shaft alone still had enough momentum to reach the heart and make short work of the young cow (shot from 20 yards). Do you use the same shafts for practice that you hunt with? If so, the one that broke could have been nicked and weakened. I keep mine segregated. In sum, purely guessing, my guess is that you didn’t reach full draw. Your setup, as described, sounds just fine. 50# is pushing our luck, but with the right arrows and heads I’ve consistently shot plumb through elk with a 52# bow. Best luck in future.
in reply to: New (to me) Shrew Classic Hunter #57461Jim, I’m glad “Elkheart Too” (my first Shrew Classic Hunter was “Elkheart,” so the “too” has double meaning as second and also “also,” as in “another of the same”). I went through a few of Gregg’s bows before settling on my current Java Man Elkheart takedown, and I loved them all. But I’ve long had a rule to own only one custom bow at a time in order to keep financial peace in the family. The one I rather wish I still had was a 52″ recurve, called “Li’l” something, that Gregg made for Shrew. The antler trim on your bow, Jim, is from an elk I killed here. Just keep it away from your strong daughter! 😀
in reply to: Thought I would Share….My first Longbow Elk #51302Youbetcha! 😀
in reply to: bow quivers and tuffheads #41955I second Joe on Kanati. I shoot the Tuffhead 300s and they fit fine. This quiver is especially good for the smaller lighter bows like Shrew and Java Man.
in reply to: Assumptions and Biases #36690Bruce, what weight arrows is your compound buddy shooting, and what kind of broadheads. There are a lot more reasons to be concerned about the modern compound culture than bias and lack of an open mind, etc. The entire culture is predicated on taking longer and longer shots, which demands light arrows that, esp. at the terminal end of a long shot, lack the momentum to get the job done, thus lead to an elevated level of wounding loss. You want to shoot a compound, fine by me so long as you hold your shots to 40 yards under ideal conditions and use a lethal arrow. There are also problems with archery seasons being cut back due to the inflated number of “bow” hunters afield thanks to the compound crutch. These problems are real, and directly associated with the mechanical arrow launching device technology. To view, as this thread is so far, as merely a “matter of personal” choice misses the point. OF COURSE there are good people using compound, I’ve hunted with a few myself. OF COURSE there are exceptions who hold their shot distances to sane limits and use lethal arrows … they are a tiny minority. It’s the compound culture that’s the problem, and that is driving by industry, media, and gullible people who just accept what the see in the magazines. So far a biblical implications, I think the Boss would object to sloppy work and ignorance and laziness leading to a sinful wounding rate, don’t you?
in reply to: thoughtful reading #36672Patrick, welcome back! Brother, could I ever argue your argument above! You’re being a literalist. 😛 But I’ve said it all before and too busy being a hunter just now to philosophize. Stick around for a while this time, eh?
Meanwhile, check out my new camo headgear!
in reply to: Empathy for wildlife #24211I must say, with all respect that’s due, that once in a while people say things on this site that come like a kick in the gut, at least to me, in their unexpected and stark departure from the unique thoughtfulness of folks on this site established across our years of insightful conversation here about ethics, respect, empathy, the meaning of hunting, etc. In this case, it’s a double kick with TBM providing the other boot, the first boot in fact, by inexplicably posting that “cowboy” photo after years of having a policy against it. This is a far bigger issue, and problem, than can be addressed with “I’ve seen worse.” Yes, we have, even in TBM, but not in many years. How appropriate that Mike introduced that photo shock to this discussion on empathy–as does not empathy imply respect? If I had to reduce the single most important issue today for the justification of the survival of hunting to one word, that word would be Dignity.
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