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in reply to: 100 Year Anniversary Main Hunting Shoe #43550
Patrick — Smarty pants! 😳
in reply to: New Quiver and Armguard – Rasher Quivers #43548Matching quiver and armguard — way cool! 😀
in reply to: 100 Year Anniversary Main Hunting Shoe #43447Todd — I’m a long-time cheerleader for the LL Beane Maine Hunting Shoe and wear them for virtually all my hunting, unless it’s so cold I need an insulated boot. They’re fairly priced by today’s standards given the excellent quality. They’re as waterproof as any boot you can find short of milking boots, they’re light and if you keep them clean they are as close to scent-proof as any boot you’ll find, and they are quiet enough to stalk in. What they SUCK at is climbing trees, the soles lacking an aggressive tread. (I’m not looking for excuses for falling from a tree a couple of months ago, but it did involve a foot slip that I doubt would have happened with a lug-soled boot.) So in sum, they are my absolute favorite fair-weather hunting boot, unless you’re climbing around in trees.
So far as your question, Todd, I’d personally say no way are those cosmetic changes worth an extra $30. What most hunters can benefit from is requesting speed laces, which come at no extra cost I believe, but you have to ask for them. And believe me, Montana Pitch Blend is the treatment to use, not SnoSeal.
in reply to: who carrys a backup gun #43436Wayne — yep! 😀
in reply to: The Proverbial Soapbox #43430What Jody and Smithhammer said! Whether you hunt or not will make about as much difference to the Powers That Be as a drop of water in the ocean. If you want change, you have to work for it, probably long and hard. In addition to organizing “Utah Sportsmen for/against” etc., write letters to agency leaders and elected officials. And if/when those fail to make a positive difference, start a letter-writing campaign to major newspapers across the state. Too often, I find, you have to put public pressure on these people to get them to do anything. That’s how the system works. Either we stand for something, or we stand for nothing. IMHO
in reply to: Mother Earth News #42734I like that, David, and may have to steal it from you, maybe as: “Extreme liberals and extreme conservatives are neither liberals nor conservatives, but just extremists.” Something like that …
in reply to: Mother Earth News #42376Thanks, guys. I was the western editor for MEN back in the ’80s and it’s nice hooking back up with them, via an editor who doesn’t hunt but understands how it fits with the magazine’s “back to the land, take control of your own life, do more with less” theme. Best of all it let’s us get the good news about hunting out to a huge (over a million subscribers) audience of mostly nonhunters. And overall the reaction has been gratifying. Ironically, this past weekend, I received (through the magazine) several letters from disgruntled vegan MEN readers who think I’m evil for praising hunting as an honorable way to feed ourselves … and at the same time I’m writing responses to TBM readers who think I’m a liberal elitist because I set high standards for hunting and wildlife management. The fate of a contrarian, but I don’t mind. 😛 Like an old friend advised, honest men have a right to disagree.
in reply to: who carrys a backup gun #41611Hammer, what, you worry? I too have bears and lions but have never given either a moment’s worry. But then, you be in grizz country, eh?
What really worries me is the growing threat of Zombie Bowhunters! 😯 And of course they are NOT traditional. Since I hear they prefer human brains, I’m considering starting to wear a motorcycle helmet with a lock on the chinstrap. Good luck finding the bit of meat in there … 😕
in reply to: New to me "old" longbow #41279Hi Chuck — These specific bow questions are the hardest for folks to help with, as there’s so little info and so very many current and former bowmakers, professional and amateur. Apparently you have a mystery bow there. But for $27 it hardly seems you can go wrong. Most wood bows break eventually, but I have found the older they are, assuming they haven’t been abused, the less likely they are to break. Enjoy, dave
in reply to: Fantastic Armguard #41123Patrick — They come with or without knives and in several different patterns. More than one knife blade design and several handle choices also. Check the Farr West Leather website.
in reply to: A long look at fletching and EFOC #40356“For maximum performance you want to use the least amount of fletching possible to counteract the broadhead’s windsheer. Any fletching above this amount merely detracts from the arrow’s downrange performance.”
While it all seems so simple when considered one piece at a time, when taken together, Ed, some of your most basic research findings often get lost in the shadows. For example single-bevel broadheads almost as wide as they are long. In light of what you say above, it’s obvious that shooting a long-narrow head, close as possible to 3:1 per the Tuffhead, will reduce wind shear way below what a fat head will create, thus allowing for less fletching. Thus, it’s not just UEFOC and arrow tuning that allow for less fletching drag, but a high MA as well. MA is the least-mentioned factor in all of these discussions, but one I’ve always felt to be extremely important … and when the head hits the abrupt transition from air to flesh or bone, a high MA’s import multiplies, eh no? Given the same force, am I going to be able to stab you deeper with a short fat knife, or a long narrow dagger? And as force/bow poundage decreases, the MA takes on increasingly great import, eh? Yet broadhead manufacturers, even some who have been pioneers in other areas of bringing your research to market and so should know better, continue to sell Fatheads. But progress is absolutely being made, censorial inertia notwithstanding … lead, as all worthwhile freedoms are lead, by the freedom of speech.
And whatever happened to Steve Sr.? He starts this, the most ongoing thread thus far in the history of tradbow.com … and then disappears. Maybe he fell into the same hole Patrick has been bobbing in and out of for the past many months. I hope he’s OK.
in reply to: Noteable Quotes! #40347Patrick — I think what Steve meant to say, is “I don’t think, thus I am not.” 😛
in reply to: Dave Petersen's new avatar #40344Patrick, your own new avatar is right on — Da Shadow. You slip in and out silently and are only seen and hear from when you wish. I hope the Joker ain’t gone forever.:twisted:
Youth,as they say, is squandered on the young. From pumping iron and sprinting half-marathons back then, to physical therapy these days. Gotta take it as it comes and love it all.:?
in reply to: who carrys a backup gun #40171Mine is a SW .38 Special +P hammerless snubby “Bodyguard” air-weight with a laser sight. The ammo weighs more than the revolver. My wife has a twin. Here again, what I view as the only rationale for a mentally mature person to pack a gun is to give you the confidence to not have to use it to kill, but rather as a threat tool to facilitate finding nonlethal ways out of a bad fix. The laser is even better than the racheting of a pump shotgun or the snap of a double-barrel slamming shut. Put that bright red light on a guys face, chest, or someplace lower — and there’s even a rapid-blink function purely to be more terrifying — and unless he is totally insane and suicidal he’s out of there; problem solved, no shots fired. Of course if he is totally insane and suicidal, you’re not likely to miss. (“What part of the eye?”) I feel a bit uncomfy discussing this sort of thing publicly, because there are so many different views, often strongly felt, and so many variables that no one point of view is ever purely right or wrong. But in sum and aside from serious grizzly country, where I’ve been known to keep a sawed-off double 12 in my tent (since bear spray is less than useless in a tent), first barrel with rubber “bear buckshot” and second barrel with 00, I don’t feel the risk in wilderness is worth the weight of even an airweight. So often, when we really enjoy a toy, we invent justifications for playing with it and keeping it with us. Although I was quite good at it as a young man, I’ve never been a gun guy and feel totally safe and comfy in wilderness unarmed except for a belt knife and bear spray. “I haven’t said enough … I’ve already said too much.” (Who said that, you trivia buffs?)
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