[William Warren]

in reply to: Why do you hunt #10909

Thoreau said it best when he said that he went to the woods in order to live deliberately. I read this many years ago but it has never been more apparent than it is today that to choose deliberately is to live, I mean to truly live. To hunt to feed yourself is a choice, a deliberate choice. To know where your food comes from, to touch it, smell it, taste it, makes you feel alive.

Reading the posts here one observes the natural world and the man-made world, a facade men have made to cover the natural world. We are all caught up in this facade, but those who see it know they must return to the natural world which is our destiny no matter how much we deny it. With that, I enter the natural world in order to hunt, recreate, and to live deliberately.

Duncan

[William Warren]

in reply to: Camo, Thermals, Depends… #63847

This thread made me think about my uncle, my Mom’s baby brother who is only a year older than myself. Stricken with MS and now wheelchair bound he must wear the depends all the time. But I never saw anyone in his predicament with a better attitude. Now he and I were more like brothers and we hunted all over together. If it ran, hopped, flew, or swam we were after it. So one morning we are hunting a beautiful cypress swamp next to a creek and had agreed to meet back at the truck at lunch. So I’m waiting for him to come out and I see him walking very carefully balancing something in his hand as he walked out of the woods. When he got closer I see that he has a very full zip lock bag sealed and filled with piss. “Forgot my pee bottle, but lucky I had this bag for the heart/liver in case I got one. Came in handy for a pee bag, he said with a lighthearted chuckle.” So as they say, Improvise, Improvise, it will get you by.

Duncan

[William Warren]

in reply to: How About the Samick Sage? #62831

I’ve had good luck with my Samick Volcano 45# one peice recurve. And the workmanship and materials are very good for a 250.00 bow. I have also thought I would like the Sage to have around in a lower weight bow for my wife or nephew to use. In checking around I found that the Sage is the same as the Hoyt Huntmaster sold in the mid to late 80’s, probably made by Samick for Hoyt. I have one of those with 45# and 55# limbs. It shoots great and yes it is 26 years old with no problems. For the price, you can’t go wrong.

[William Warren]

in reply to: Camo, Thermals, Depends… #62771

x3 on the pee bottle.

I ’bout peed my pants laughing at your description of using a depends. Too funny!

Duncan

[William Warren]

in reply to: Last Colorado Grizzly #19504

OK here it is. Not the best photo but…..

Cool huh? That mailing address no longer exists. DOT built a road through it.

[William Warren]

in reply to: Last Colorado Grizzly #18347

I have the Jan 1980 issue of Outdoor Life with the article by Ed Wiseman recounting the event. Has a cool rendering of him fighting the great bear on the cover. I’ll post a pic of it if no one objects.

[William Warren]

in reply to: Rattler / Copperhead Skins #10147

What Steve said but I would stain the bow first then apply the skins.

I use a natural stain on my hickory bows of the outer hull of the walnut. These can be collected when the walnuts first drop and the hulls are green. Just crush the hull and in a matter of hours it will turn black and can be soaked in a can with water to get the stain. Just keep applying as Steve mentioned to get it darker. For really really rich color use the fresh green hull and rub directly on the wood. Wear gloves or you will stain your hands and it will not wash off.

[William Warren]

in reply to: Bullet casing to suit 5/16 wooden shafts #15205

Handirifle is right its not voodoo. I think we got the message out to be careful and always use in a ventilated area, and melting a few shot in a few casings will probably not hurt you as long as you don’t hover over the fumes.

If you do breathe the fumes you will probably notice nothing immediately if ever. That is because lead has long term effects on the brain in even small amounts and it will build up in your system over time. Don’t take my word for it, look it up.

Zinc oxide fumes can and will make you sick, I know first hand as a professional welder, however the low heat at which we melt lead with zinc alloys will usually not release enough to hurt you. The lead itself is more of a risk.

Antimony is what makes shot hard to minimize deformity and increases accuracy of the shot by retaining roundness when shot. It is heavy like lead and occurs naturally like lead in nature. When something occurs naturally in nature it does not mean it won’t hurt you. Antimony carrys some heath risk too. Look it up.

To me its like this, if you ate enough onions it would kill you but nobody does that so use lead responsibly and it won’t hurt you.

[William Warren]

in reply to: Bullet casing to suit 5/16 wooden shafts #13597

handirifle wrote: Sure you can get lead. I live in CA also. Go to tire shops and they usually have plenty of lead they pull off wheels. They may need to recycle it but most usually will give some. I used to get buckets of it from them. Gun shops might sell it. Dont buy shot, too hard and too expensive, get lead bars. Also check ebay

Don’t want to sound like a killjoy here but please be careful with molten lead, not only is there the obvious burn risk but more importantly the risk of breathing dangerous fumes. Tire weights are likely alloyed but with what metals? Melt lead outdoors and keep your head out of the fumes. By all means please don’t use commercial shot as it has high levels of antimony and may contain arsenic. Melting it releases these agents that help it retain roundness when used as shot. I think most who use shot just weigh out what they want and drop them in the casing and then epoxy it in place with no need to melt the lead.

Duncan

[William Warren]

in reply to: Sometimes things get a little too good! #11220

J.Wesbrock wrote: R2,

Congrats, but believe me, it loses its novelty rather quickly. Those are the times I really miss the old XX75s with the swaged nock ends. You had to hit those absolutely dead center to tube one. Far more often than not, you’d just blow off the nock and nick the end of the shaft. A few seconds with a swag tool, some Krazy Glue, and a new nock and you were back in business. In all the years I shot XX75s I only stuck them twice. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for carbons.

X2 on that. I only had 1 robin hood with the xx75’s but plenty of knocks removed.

And R2 good shooting there!

Duncan

[William Warren]

in reply to: Bullet casing to suit 5/16 wooden shafts #63869

Well I’ve used .357″ (.38/.357)cases on 11/32 shafts. According to the Speer Manual the next sizes down are .338″, .323″ (8MM) .321″ (.32) and .308″ (.30).

You could mic your shafts to see which one of these closely matches them but my guess might be to try .32’s. They probably will be to light to fly right. Another suggestion would be to cut some 2″-3″ sleeves from a 2217 aluminum shaft and epoxy them to the end of your shafts, Then you could slide a 11/32″ rubber blunt over that. If your shafts are cedar this will only move the weak point to the rear of the new sleeve so they won’t be “break proof” This works best on carbons but would also work on tough wood shafts. Good luck.

[William Warren]

in reply to: Bowfishing today #57571

It was great meeting Steve and Liam and spending a day on the river in search of carp. The water temp was maybe a little low so the fish were hanging closer to the bottom but we did catch a few near the bank where we could see them. We also enjoyed seeing all the wildlife along the river, Blue Herons, Red wing Blackbirds, a Coot, a juvenile Bald Eagle, an Osprey, and an American Redstart (for those who are into birds)at the end of our trip. At one point a bunch of small butterflies descended and hung out on the boat which was cool.

Here are a couple more shots of the action with Steve wrangling a fish we found mouthing some dead tree limbs in the water

THat carp looks like it is eating Steve’s finger. Lol!

[William Warren]

in reply to: Bowfishing today #56542

J.Wesbrock wrote: I see you’re using a Retriever and Safety Slides (excellent choices, BTW). What tips are you using?

I think we all had Warheads. Steve, correct me if you had some other head. I lost my only fish that was hit in the tail due to the head partially unscrewing itself, the barbs flipped up and the fish was off. Note to self: keep those heads tight!

[William Warren]

in reply to: Bowfishing today #56478

OK heres another pic with Steve Graf, aka the “Carpinator” and that one eyed carp. This guy is deadly with that bow he made himself.

[William Warren]

in reply to: When you can not find it you make it… #56452

Beautiful bow Troy. I admire you talent.

Duncan

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