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in reply to: Happy Thanksgiving!!! #15872
Thanks. I’m particularly thankful tonight for the bottle of good tequila and four limes I brought home and plan to surprise my wife with after dinner. Of course, we may not feel so thankful in the morning,:shock: but friends are doing the cooking (I provided the elk).
in reply to: Small game points? #15869Aaron — That’s a lot of work, but if it works and you enjoying making your own, why not. To answer your question, though, from threads like this before, it seems that most who have tried the hex-head blunts, such as Ace, really like them over anything else. And compared to Judos they are cheap. The head is bigger than on a straight steel blunt with sharp edges so that you get both shock and cutting. Check ’em out.
in reply to: OK it finally happened and I need to vent #13673Joe — While I suspect that most of us would prefer the “open season on ATV jerks” solution (my personal favorite is piano wire), we no longer live in a Clint Eastwood world, if we ever did. So our best bet is precisely the path you have taken. And I sense satisfaction in hearing your story. BHA is no magic bullet and far too many folks approach it with the same old attitude of “I’ll send in some money and let others do the work.” In fact BHA was founded precisely NOT to follow that old path but rather to facilitate real sportsmen and women who want to stand and speak and be heard. It has worked out to be such a powerful group, though still young and under-funded, precisely because of good folks like you, Joe, and Greg Munther and so many others, many or most of whom are trad bowhunters. We have learned that if we write letters and comments and attend meetings and simply say “I am a hunter and I know this piece of public land intimately, boots on the ground, and you need to take better care of it,” we win far more often than you’d expect for a group that’s small in numbers and is mostly volunteer. There is SO much to complain about these days … and one of my primary complaints are all the people who complain and not only DO nothing, but so often criticize those of us who do stand and deliver. Good work, Joe!
in reply to: Wood Burning Question #9199Well we’re off topic here by a good ways, but it’s within the “mood” of traditional philosophy. Your local wisdom is correct insofar as conifer/soft woods create a lot of pitch, which can build up and cause stove pipe fires. On the other hand, that’s about all we have in much of the West, along with aspen which is technically a hardwood but is quite soft and burns as fast and puts out about as much heat as most evergreens, but not the creosote. Our only real hardwood is Gambel’s oak, which is mostly brush with a century-old tree mabybe 4-6″ in diameter. I have heated our cabin exolusively with wood for 30 years and have avoided pine as much as possible and won’t touch spruce, fir or cottonwood. We use mostly aspen in the days and oak to carry coals through the night. But sometimes I’m stuck with using ponderosa pine. So I guess I’d say that if you have an abundance of easy pine, go ahead and burn it. But use small amounts at a time so you can keep the fire hot; it’s when you shut the stove down that lots of smoke and creosote are created. Burn pine days, small hot fires, and hardwoods at night when you shut the stove down. Clean your stove pipe at least twice a winter and if you have any elbows give them special attention as that’s where pipe fires generally start since the smoke is slowed and more creosote is deposited. Knock on wood, I have never had a single pipe/creosote fire … so far. From late fall through spring our stove never goes out. “Split wood, not atoms.” 😀
in reply to: source for Sitka spruce? #8076Thanks, Ben. I’m on it!
Any more suggestions?
in reply to: My new longbow #8073Gorgeous! Is that zebra wood on the back of the one? The more we put into anything, the more we are rewarded. I really miss building bows but never in my best moment came close to the good looks of these. The few, the proud, the backyard bowyers! 😀
in reply to: Public Land hunting ethics #8067Yes, and let’s leave it at that: we agree to disagree, both claiming science on our side. Mine at the moment is wine, and likewise, Cheers! The different ways different folks perceive this small brief world we all share, matter not a whit in comparison to our ability and willingness, or lack thereof, to talk about those differences in a civil way. Selah …
in reply to: Public Land hunting ethics #8017Etter — All good questions and fair, and politely put as appropriate to this forum, thank you. All I can say is that I’ve written and spoken tens of thousands of words attempting to explain my “biases,” and just can’t reduce such complex and personal topics to a website post. While I totally understand your position and thus, you confusion with my stance, I must disagree that baiting bears, and shooting treed lions, is necessary for management, that is, predator population control. Necessary to what, to whom? I try hard to see the big picture and the long run, even when the “answers” don’t sit well with what I would prefer. I have always, most always, viewed the intelligent, educated, interested, open-minded nonhunter as my primary reader or audience, convinced that’s the best way to force myself to fight free of my personal biases and address hunting issues as the majority of people do (those at least who give a damn, which most of course do not). This isn’t a dodge, but simply the best I can do here, after doing my best to be as fair-minded and unbiased as possible through a lifetime of dealing with these hard questions. Thanks again for your good questions and lack of emotion, and I apologize if I’ve failed to supply a satisfactory answer, either here or in a career of doing my best to do so. I can say that I rank “hunters” who take long crazy low-odds shots with impotent arrows, then boast in public about their “stuck ’em” woundings and lack of efforts to recover, and speak of the animals we hunt as if they are enemies is some stupid oil war, or of no more value than cockroaches … compared to these scum among our ranks, our differences on your issues of concern are insignificant. Dave
in reply to: Last minute Bowhunting Adventure #8002Vajd — “Right many bear” … I love it! You should be writing mountain man dialogue. 8)
in reply to: High FOC works #64137Tom — A few responses to your points, from personal experience. While losing ten grains from a really heavy head doesn’t equate to losing ten grains from a light head, there is a limit to how much we can file a damaged head before it ceases to shoot in syncrony with undamaged, full-weight heads. There is also the risk of filing one side more than the other and losing flight balance. If I had a head damaged sufficiently that I couldn’t hone out the nicks without taking off a lot of metal, I’d take Joe up on his offer to replace it. That sort of guarantee, in my mind, is part of what justifies the high prices of premium broadheads these days.
On your suggestion about practice broadheads, I fear it won’t work for a couple of reason. First, they would be almost as expensive as the real thing. Second, even with sharped cutted edges they would penetrate a lot more than field points, which is hard on targets, and pulling broadheads from targets is the fastest way to destroy foam. In my experience, with well-tuned arrows most well-made two-blade broadheads shoot precisely where field points do.
On the KME sharpener — have you tried repositioning the head in the clamp to get a more uniform contact with the stone? If the stone is contacting the ferrule on a Tuffhead, there is something wrong. I have never had this problem and suggest that you call Ron at KME and let him walk you through possible corrections on the phone. Congrats again on the doe.
in reply to: Public Land hunting ethics #64120Yes, all of this bad news and more. Yet we fall right into the industry lie that says “unless we create more hunters, hunting will lose its political power and cease to exist.” I have never gone for that and can only repeat that we don’t need more hunters, we need better hunters. Only industry greed needs more and more. The entire culture has largely forgotten about quality in favor of quantity. But let us be careful with such discussions and keep them general, leaving out partisan politics.
It could be, if human numbers continue to grow (nobody even talks about overpopulation and birth control any more, but only jobs and “growth”) while wildlife habitat continues to shrink and what is left is overused, all states eventually will be forced to go to draw-only hunting. Not a good option, but better than shooting one another in the woods over treestand locations. Sometimes I feel so lucky to be old …
in reply to: browning wasp #63328Apparently we can’t help you on that one, David. But welcome to tradbow.com. 😀
in reply to: NPR on hunting… #63326Dan — Who were the guests speaking for hunting? I was on that same show many years ago but the host, different guy than now, gave all the time to call-in critics and between the three hunter-speakers I got only seconds and was so frustrated I swore off call-in talk shows and have turned many down since. If you can provide a link, I’m sure many of us will check it out, thanks.
in reply to: Last minute Bowhunting Adventure #63023Alex — Try to keep open a few days in late January for Kzoo. 😀
in reply to: Hardwood shafts? #62370Steve — Once again you’ve thought of something I had not, thanks. What sort of serving would you recommend, and what sort of sealant, epoxy or otherwise? I’m currently shopping for a source to get more SS shafts in the low weight and high spine I need, then will start trying to break them while testing various reinforcements.
Dan — I too suspect I had invisibly nicked or somehow damaged the shaft that broke, during practice. Already I’ve switched gears to identify my hunting shafts and after a test shot or two putting them aside and not practicing with them. That should cure that problem. But reinforcement is still in order I think.
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