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in reply to: 2013 hunting rigs #38017
I know what you mean. I just start shooting one and if I feel the harmony I hunt with it. If I don’t I go to the next one. I think the Shrew is going to be the one this year. I’ve also been messing around with a new squirrel bow. Its a Kustom King Black Forest. I think I finally got it tuned yesterday evening. It came with a FF string and I didn’t like it so I made up one of B-50. It will take some more shooting to break it in to get the brace height to stay put. I’ll post some pics maybe tomorrow.
in reply to: Hunting canoe #36806Jim,
I’ve built several 11′ pirogues which is sort of canoe like but is flat bottomed. It is native American in origin and the Cajuns perfected it. They can be made in different lengths for different loadings. I find mine very stable and not to heavy.
I have had a couple of poly canoes over the years to and they tend to be less tippy if they are the longer and wider models. Anything under 14′ is going to be tippy.
But canoes can be used without fear of going over with a bit of practice.
I guess you already know why the crocs have that permanent toothy smile on their snouts. Be careful on the water.
Edit: Here is a guy I grew up with that lives in Melbourne and builds boats. He may be able to give some advice if he is still around. Check out his builds.
http://www.mackhorton.com/Mack_Horton/Home.html
Duncan
in reply to: Sacred Places #36788Doc,
Why can’t it be both? Some will go for the target experience and some will go for the hunting experience. And as always some will reject it all. But the desire for new experiences is the driving factor with the young people I’m meeting.
I think the desire to try game meats is a natural draw to the sport as well as hunting in general. There is an uptick in interest in wild game meats and not necessarily farm raised animals or so I’m hearing. Guess we will have to wait and see.
Duncan
in reply to: Sacred Places #36778Hey Grumpy!
Glad you made it through alright. How long will you be one handed?
Traditional archery won’t die if we don’t let it. Studies have already shown that Gen Y is less interested in status and more interested in experiences. I think a renaissance of traditional archery is right around the corner and Gen Y will make it happen. All we have to do is plant the seeds. Show them there is a better experience to be had.
I too get caught up in the seemingly endless unbelievable things happening today but I have to remind myself that there is another way to look at it. Think in terms of good fortune and bad fortune, one follows the other and we have all experienced both. Like Yin and Yang one does not exist without the other. So don’t worry so much, nothing stays the same for very long. Feeling out of control makes us worry. All we can do is our best.
in reply to: Organized work area? #35524A shot of my work bench in the shed. Way too messy for a full view shot.
And some leather work on the outdoor bench under the watchful eye of the green dinosaur….
A neat work space is a sign of a sick mind. 😀
in reply to: Orion Rising!! #35489Colmike,
If you taught celestial nav I would definitely defer to your expertise! I’m more or less an arm chair astronomer who looks around once in awhile with a telescope, visits the planetarium once in awhile and remembers summer nights spent star gazing with my Dad in the summer who seemed to know all the constellations and their names and stories. I had forgotten about old Betelguese. The orange glow is the fading light of a dying star. May already be dead but the light is still traveling to us. But to try and keep this about Trad, is Orion drawing a recurve or a longbow? 😀
Duncan
in reply to: Sacred Places #35469Development has encroached on some of my old stomping grounds. My safest place is still there on public land, I just can’t access it the way I used to through private land. I really miss that place and the trees we named for our stands as points of reference in our conversations. “My Old Tree” was the best of them to me. I would always stay late after dark just listening to the night critters coming out to hunt. I have imagined it as one of the top spots for the final resting place of my ashes. I loved it that much. I’ve never owned the land I’ve hunted so I have not lost anything except maybe the ability to go there. It was never mine.
Sorry to hear of your friends wife Paleoman, may she rest in peace. Edit: And you too Dave, sorry for your loss as well.
in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #33061I do what Ausjim suggested only I use 145 gr steel blunts. Works on woodies and carbons. I expect if you used the 200 gr steel blunt plus a 11/32 rubber blunt it would be around 300 gr. If it is little light you could try adding some weight by dropping a few shot in the blunt before sliding it on. The fishing tackle stores offer something called “suspend dots” for adding weight to fishing lures. Basically a stick on lead dot that would go perfectly on the end of the steel blunt. I have actually not tried it, just thinking on the fly, or outside the tacklebox, or….
in reply to: COULDN'T HELP MYSELF #33042Hey Grumpy,
Hope your surgery goes well and a speedy recovery to you too. Cool bow!
Duncan
in reply to: 2013 hunting rigs #33023Tailfeather,
That is a great job on your selfbow. Love the snake skins, recognized them as EDB right away. Its too bad they are declining. It’s the same here in NC along with the cottonmouth, timber rattler and the pygmy rattler. Encroaching development and more and more chemicals in the ecosystem.
Beautiful Hill bows there two4hooking.
in reply to: Orion Rising!! #31893Bruc,
I don’t know if you will be able to see it from up there. Down here Orion is tracking across the southern sky so from where you are it will be low on the horizon. Orion’s belt should be easy to spot and then his bow and anchor locked in a perpetual full draw. He has his eye on Ursa major I believe?
Wish I had paid more attention to the sky when I was in Quebec bear hunting. I don’t remember seeing Orion from there.
in reply to: Treed Partridges and trail cams #31366I don’t use trail cameras. One, I’m pretty much limited to public land and what private parcels I can go on are just not big enough to warrant the use. The effort in checking them involves regular visits to the cameras and that puts you and your scent in the woods entirely too much before the season. I’ve never been a trophy hunter so the biggest rack is not my purpose for hunting but I know guys who love that aspect and they will all tell you that once you find where a large buck is using staying out of that area as much as possible before the hunt starts is key to having a real chance at that buck. I’m sure there are plenty of stories to the contrary out there. For me it then becomes a matter of what is Trad and what is not.
in reply to: Organized work area? #31355Yeah, my work bench requires clean up almost every time I need to use it. I too have used the kitchen table as a fletching area but it is a matter of contention. Trust me you don’t want to get any fletchtite on the table finish. 😥
But since the sprout moved out I now have the office as my man cave. So now there are 2 work areas that have to be cleaned up before using.
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