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in reply to: 300 yard 22lr shooting! #14865
Great shooting Chris. I have not done much 22lr shooting past 200 yards. I have a couple of 100 yard squirrels to my name though. I have an old Winchester model 69 bolt action that is rather finicky. It only digests the standard WW long rifle ammo accurately. It will also fire most brands of shorts accurately. Originally, it only had iron sights but my Uncle ran a gun shop and he custom drilled and tapped it for a scope mount and I put a Bushnell 4x on it. Though it is not pretty to look at, it was my Dad’s rifle and I only have to hold it to let it take me back to the October woods of the mid 1960’s with my Dad taking me squirrel hunting before school or on Saturdays. We had many good times along the river sometimes leaving off hunting to look for old bottles in an occasional decades old dump pile. Sorry for the ramble guys but that old rifle always gets me nostalgic!
Duncanin reply to: Avatar (The Movie) and Longbows #14816Well when I get around to seeing it I will just have to remind myself that its only a fantasy and ignore the message if any.
in reply to: Holmegaard #14805Nice work Holten! I love the grain in the elm. Can’t wait to see it finished!
in reply to: ? re: altering a bow's weight #14796I would’nt try it and I have 11 years experience with tillering selfbows. I would take it to someone who is skilled at tillering that type of bow. Assuming they would risk making your bow too weak. Definitely a job for a professional.
in reply to: Making a Better Forest For Deer (Hunting) #14782That sounds like a great project. If the pines are not useful for anything else like lumber or pulp wood, I would pull them up in wind rows leaving most of your ground open for food plots or natural browse to grow up. The wind rows or brush piles as some may call them will attract birds and small game. I had to clear a 1/2 acre at my place in 2008 for a new septic system and we piled the brush in a row. The squirrels and rabbits love that stuff. Theres always some critters playing around in it. Good luck with your project and be careful!
Duncanin reply to: How do you hang your bow? #14754When I was stand hunting I had some bow holders that fastened to the side of my stand. They could be mounted right or left handed. I also used the screw in hooks for hanging my pack which could double as a hanger. Truth is I only used the hanger/holder for when I needed to answer nature’s call into the bottle I had handy in my pack. The rest of the time I held my bow with an arrow knocked.
When ground hunting what Steve Graf describes is pretty much what I do too. I’d rather have the bow in my hand. I use weather rests on my recurves and don’t shoot off the shelf like many of you do. The arrow seldom falls off the weather rest, so that is not a problem. On one of the recent threads RRZESCH posted a neat home made bow holder for ground hunting. But I don’t remember which thread it is on.
Duncanin reply to: Kalamazoo Traditional Bowhunters Expo #13559Actually, the airline tickets to get there in 6 hours and 2 plane changes ain’t too bad for this short a notice. But realisticly I think I would need to plan for next year, maybe. And maybe next year Michigan will be having a heat wave instead of the coldest winter ever!
Duncanin reply to: First Shooter #13555Bow,
I had the same problem. I found that you need to set up a photobucket account or some type of like account and then in sert the url or http from that location into the script prompt editor that pops up when you press the download icon from your post. If that don’t work IM Robin at TBADMIN she can get you going.
Duncanin reply to: Making a Better Forest For Deer (Hunting) #12305Patrick,
There is no doubt in my mind that creating clear cuts enhances deer habitat for several years after. I have seen something as small a large tree dying and creating an opening in which saplings grew up become a deer magnet in one of my favorite old haunts. But also controlled logging will do the same thing on a larger scale. One of my hunting spots was logged and the following year the fawn drop was at least double. The herd grew and there were more bucks using the area. And this without planting anything to help them along. Good luck with your venture. Will you do this your self or bring in professional logging equipment?Duncan
in reply to: Chundoo or Doug Fir #10284MontanaFord wrote: A friend of mine and I cut firewood to sell, and every now and again, I’ll make him cut me out a block of wood so I can someday try and make some arrows. Haven’t gotten around to making anything yet, but still have the pieces to do so. What’s the best way to start out? The pieces I have him cut are around 40-45″ long, typically, to give myself a little extra length to play with. What’s my next step?
MF – you will need a table saw to reduce your block to 3/8″ square blanks. There are a few options for making shafts from 3/8″ blanks. If you can afford a Shaft Shooter that is one. I have a hand planing jig that I got from 3Rivers. It takes some time to make a dozen shafts but we have plenty of that in winter. Another option that takes some patience is to use a small hand plane to slowly take off the corners until you have a rough dowel and then finish by sanding with sand paper starting with 80 grit and so on.
Have fun!
DuncanPS: If you require closely spined shafts you will have better luck with Steve McD’s suggestion.
in reply to: BLOOD TRAILING BASICS #9149I reckon you and your Dad drug the hair off that one!:D
in reply to: This one really takes the cake! #9130Greatreearcher wrote: Now what Snuffornot is really trying to say is that we need to hide the bow behind our backs and just casually walk up to them with regular clothing on:D
No, don’t move Bucky’s coffee table and he won’t know you’re there. 🙂
in reply to: BLOOD TRAILING BASICS #8786There are some good blood trailers on here! I can only add one thing to this thread. The GPS thread made me think of it.
I always carry a compass with me even in small blocks of woods. (My good friends laugh at me for this) After the shot note the last land mark where you saw the deer and take a compass reading on it. When treestand hunting or in uneven terrain this is valuable since everything looks different down on the ground. Do as you normally would, find the arrow, look for hair, blood, hoof prints and begin trailing. If you get confused or there is no blood you can skip ahead to that landmark you got a fix on with your compass. Just go back to your stand and get a fix on it and go straight to it. If it is a good hit you should pick it up there or may help comfirm a miss. They may laugh at my compass but I have never been lost with it in my pocket and I have lost my bearings trailing deer and used it many times to regain my bearings, sometimes not wanting to believe it!PS: Sorry guys, I see Steve McD covered the use of a compass/GPS in the original post 😳
in reply to: Fred Bear Grizzly #8770Once known as the working mans bow because of the retail price. I have one at 50# that I bought for 50.00 in the mid 1980’s. People were going to the compound and selling these bows right and left. I don’t know if that was a deal or not but it is still a great shooting bow. I’d do what Gab suggested and look on E-bay. I see these bows on there all the time.
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