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in reply to: Possibles bag #33938
And now for something (slightly) different.
Frost River was started by an ex-employee of Duluth Pack Company. I have no dog in that fight (don’t even know whether there was any ill-feeling involved or not). Both companies have excellent reputations, stemming undoubtedly from their proprietors being heavily influenced by the ethic of the city they both occupy and which happened to spawn me. 🙄 😉
I grew up using Duluth packs (that’s a style and a brand) on canoe trips, made by the Duluth Pack Co. My wife owns their large shell bag, their regular size all-leather purse, and one of their totes. These are used on a daily basis for hauling a load to her office job only slightly smaller than what a certain jarhead colonel used to hump around. 😉 None of these show any signs of wear (well, with the possible exception of said colonel, perhaps ..)
So, here’s my radical suggestion: Take a long hard look at the #200 version of the all-leather purse. This is identical in size to the large shell bag my wife has, which I just examined for its capacity alongside the regular (#50) purse: Classic Leather Purse. The #50 seems better suited to a minimalist hunter.
Feeling a little extra entitled? Have your spouse spring for the #200 Bison Leather Purse.
in reply to: New Broadhead #16938Personally, I think we should just let nature run its course here.
Consider the effect on breeding success for the purchasers of these. To the extent they actually attempt to use them, it will reduce the likelihood of bringing any meat home. In addition, the money spent (at $27 a pop!) will not be available to buy food otherwise. This nutritional deficit will result in smaller and less frequent litters.
And perhaps even greater is the effect on the ability to attract and hold the interest of the opposite sex: “You spent WHAT on those?”
Over time, natural selection will take care of this.
Finally, if they do actually succeed in reproducing, their offspring will most likely reflect on the purchase choice and say to themselves, “WTH was he (or in the rare case, she) thinking when buying these?” and will be quite unlikely to follow the example set.
in reply to: Turkey Talk 2015 #15622Now THAT’S what I’m talkin’ about!!! Thanks very much for sharing your story and photos, and good luck next time.
in reply to: Mitten's article in the current TBM #63687If you ain’t usin’ an atlatl, you ain’t traditional ’nuff. 😛
Sorry Mom, but someone had to speak the truth to these poseurs.
😉
in reply to: Signs of Spring #59554Hey grumpy, if you’re visiting your mom this weekend, better pack your woolies. We have 34º this morning, and those aren’t cottonwood seeds drifting with the stiff north wind …
Nine days and counting. Now where did I put that snow camo?
in reply to: New Dwyer Endeavor #59212Wonderful looking bow. Needs a turkey on the ground alongside it, though. 😉
(For those who aren’t aware, that wonderfully hilly country in the background is called the Driftless Area, so named because it missed out on a visit by the last glacier that came through and dropped a load on the Upper Midwest. It’s a unique and beautiful landscape – just don’t be camping in those river bottoms during a big thunderstorm …)
in reply to: Surewood Shafts #57689After I made up my first batch this winter and shot them, I promptly forgot where to find the contact info for any other supplier of wooden shafts. Gonna do my best to fling one at a bird starting eleven ( 🙂 ) days from now.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #55695Doc Nock wrote: I used to be fearless, but in recent years, things I’m not sure about doing right, I hesitate and if it involves running away I don’t run much anymore!
Let the record show I hired a tree contractor a month ago to take down two very large oaks underneath our utility lines. Gravity is a you-know-what, and electrons move far faster than I can jump out of the way. 😯 😆
in reply to: What ya got goin? #55532dwcphoto wrote: Been nursing a twisted neck i earned chopping a dead locust widow maker. Cut it clean off and it’s still hing up in a big maple.
I feel your pain. Well, at least I dodged some pain by dropping a large dead oak that hung ominously above my archery range, at an angle suggesting imminent injury or worse to your correspondent.
Didn’t cut the first notch deep enough, for fear of working too much under the lean, and the #$%^!@# rewarded me by hanging up on its stump at about a fifty degree angle from horizontal, partially supported by another tree. Finally got it down but it took far more of an afternoon than I intended or wished.
donthomas wrote: Go get ’em, eld. I’ve never figured out how a digital device on your wrist is supposed to help you get up the mountain. Don
And even more importantly, build knee and ankle joints for the trip back down, something many a runner has discovered to his or her dismay.
in reply to: I think I have a record here… #54318Spikebuck wrote: 18 is a lot for sure.
Several years ago a friend and I were out stump shooting and walked through a brushy area. I don’t know how many ticks we had on us when we exited because they were beyond counting. We literally “brushed” them off our clothes in droves. 😯 Dozens each, I’m sure. We had to basically undress right there and turn pants and shirts inside out and they were everywhere. I’ve never experienced anything like that time.
As a kid I remember occasionally getting a tick. Maybe even two in a whole day in the woods. The big “dog” ticks. Now I’m constantly aware and checking as picking up a dozen or more little deer ticks is nothing anymore, especially in the spring.
Spikebuck, my mom grew up in Embarrass during the Depression era. She said that they never had ticks in the woods when she was a kid, and they only showed up after cattle were imported into MN from TX.
Some good stuff in this article from the Northern Woodlands organization:
in reply to: I think I have a record here… #53616Twenty-eight, several years ago. The price you pay as a SAR dog handler while hiding for someone else’s dog during training, in head-high grass in deer habitat.
The experience induced me to compose the following as I reflected on it and similar ones:
Dog Handler’s Lament
Tick tock, tick tock.
Is that a tick crawling up my leg?
Tick tock, tick tock.
Flick the light.
Grab the tick.
Drown the tick.
Back to bed.
Tick tock, tick tock.
Is that a tick crawling up my leg?
(By the way, during that same outing, I had a deer run straight across my chest, striking my arm once, as the dog approached my location …)
in reply to: Turkey Tips – Backcountry College #49903Excellent idea! Thanks.
in reply to: Turkey Tips – Backcountry College #49252You’re doing it wrong, Clay. You’re supposed to put the arrow under the bird, not over it:
Nineteen days and counting …
in reply to: Signs of Spring #44396dfudala wrote: Hey SH, I’m not sure how feasible this would be for you guys, the logistics may be a bit extensive but I’ve hunted bear and deer in the boundary waters canoe wilderness for some years now. If you’re interested in a true wilderness waterways hunt maybe we should consider a group hunt up that way some day? Tags for bear and deer are easily obtained and the seasons overlap in September. Could be just what yer lookin for?
Uh oh. I was thinking of the very same thing. I see the risk of some marital discord on the horizon …
Ely or Grand Marais? Or do you have some secret Isabella stash?
“Have Penobscot 17, will portage for venison.” Or at least a whack at seeing one or two portages again.
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