[Charles Ek]

in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #175598

Somewhere on YouTube there’s a video posted by a compound shooter. He missed an exceedingly royal elk at five yards because he had never practiced the shot.

A local 3D course owner outside Duluth, a trad guy himself, enjoyed tormenting the compound shooters with all manner of short-range shots.

 

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #175594

I saw what you did there, Three Fletch.  😉

I do the one-yard shot frequently on a 3D bear target here – “just in case.”

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #175582

Good stuff there, Roop. If’n I’m ever in an environment with a 60-yard shot window, I’ll keep it in mind. Here in the felicitously named Arrowhead region of Minnesota, you have to be out on Gitche Gumee to see that far:

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #175574

What’s old is new again. I was just thinking about submitting a tip of the week regarding cartridge cases for blunts and I stumbled onto Webmom’s comment here.

I’ve taken to using the expanding form of Gorilla Glue to fill the void around any case that is larger in diameter than the shaft in question. This allows the use of various cases to achieve a desired weight. (I don’t put them inside a rubber blunt.) I don’t have any of the old traditional .38 Special cases that my father taught me to use, but they are apparently around 67 grains. FWIW, a .45 ACP case is 86 grains, a .44 Magnum is 120 grains and a .35 Remington (my standard for 11/32 shafts) is 154 grains. These are all primed and fired cases with the expended primers still in them. Additional weight can be obtained by adding shot from shotgun shells before installing the case.

And I have some 300 grain factory-made blunts, which I purchased from the predecessor of these folks:
https://siriusoutdoorgroup.com/product/hex-blunts-glue-on/

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Spine testing #175530

The straight and narrow on the subject of testing methods is available here in the comment from Walksalot45 (not me):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Archery/comments/we5osa/comment/kyhouor/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #175529

We might as well fill out the trifecta while we’re at it:

https://tradbow.com/product/the-traditional-bowhunters-handbook/

 

(Beat ya to it, Webmom.  😉   )

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #175336

The (occasionally beneficial) effect of peer pressure:

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/UJv5T-BQuWs?si=T-ZBnY9EAS2bRlzt

 

 

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[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #175211

Went out yesterday with my BIL to try a hunter walking trail where he hunts grouse. On the way there I passed a hen looking for companionship. No sign whatsoever of anything with the goods she needed.

The HWT was easily the worst habitat for turkeys I have encountered. OTOH, it does seem to provide Bullwinkle what he needs – heard him in the brush as I came across this:

 

 

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #175129

We dodged the storms here in northeastern Minnesota for the most part, but it did feel like hell to this Duluth native when the temperature went into the mid 70s the day after the April 15th opener. So much for the tracking snow.

Went out again early today to ”slightly” different conditions:

Walked and sat for four hours without hearing any turkeys. Did find evidence of a recent passerby that lifted my spirits. This is on the fringe of the area that is the focus of efforts to restore a recently-hammered moose population:

Walked back to my truck, drove a quarter mile and spotted a turkey diving for cover:

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #175069

The population trend is the opposite here in MN. There’s even talk of increasing the bag limit in at least part of the state to two. The birds are now resident in all 87 counties.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #175065

”In Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of (gobblers).”

 

Eight days and counting, but the tracking snow will probably not survive the weekend. Sigh.

 

 

 

 

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Trouble with the Website #174998

Thanks, Webmom! Your efforts to provide a healthy alternative to The Dark Side are appreciated.

Meta hit with $375M verdict in New Mexico child safety case

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #174882

Nobody ever raised snowshoe hare for a restaurant menu, which I have seen done in Anchorage with rabbits. Here’s a good hare recipe:

https://honest-food.net/tuscan-hare-sauce-and-pappardelle/

On two separate occasions, I have found two arrows nestled one over the other behind a target on my home range after the snow melted. I usually have good luck finding arrows in the field in the spring, partly because I recall where I shot them and the frozen ground is harder to penetrate.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #174874

These are snowshoe hare I’m hunting. We have both hares and cottontail rabbits in town, but it’s illegal to hunt anything in Duluth except deer (during a city-sanctioned bowhunt.) The rabbits are ill-equipped for deep snow and I rarely see their tracks outside the city.

Finding arrows is hit or miss sometimes and their (temporary, mostly) loss is part of the game.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #174859

The hare season ends here tomorrow. Despite leaving some exceedingly fresh sign, this rascally bunny kept hisself safe this week by keeping his cool.

 

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