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in reply to: Anyone Experimented with EAOC? #33501
Four hours, 6 minutes and counting. EDT, that is. 🙄 😀 😈
Hint: “Back-assward” was chosen deliberately.
in reply to: Anyone Experimented with EAOC? #33266What if you turned the arrow around and shot it back-assward? Wouldn’t that give you the best of both worlds?
(However, extensive experimentation has shown that this only works at most one day a year or so.)
grumpy wrote:
I DO have string twang!! Guess the quiet string is unique to my bows. Need to go dig up some beaver fur, and make some balls. Sorry the silencers you make from bass bug legs are just a little too ugly. As I’m sitting here thinking about it, mink mittens might have a bit more class than beaver balls.
Sent you a PM.
in reply to: Mass produced hickory longbows? #31234Critch wrote: Back in the 60s when I was in junior high we had about 20 hickory longbows we used for target practice at school. The bows were all pretty much identical which leads me to believe they were mass produced, ie by machine.
Is that the case or were they made by hand? I keep thinking of those big machines they use to make rifle stocks, a blank is inserted the machine takes over and grinds, sands or cuts the wood down to a certain point.
Don’t know about the manufacturing method, but I might have one of its cousins here. The grip is way too skinny for my liking, but it’s in a hunting weight (nominally 55#), 66″ and stamped with a four-digit number. Very similar in profile to a custom bow made for my then teen-aged Dad in 1943 – that’s the one in my avatar.
grumpy wrote: assuming that you are not being RUDE… I am a small person, and have short arms. Actually I shoot with a straight wrist, and anchor near my ear to get just a bit more draw.
Yes, I buy my clothes in the BOYS dept.
Sitting here with my sleeves rolled up because they are too long…
Audrey says I have a perfect body.
And having followed some small-statured SAR dog handlers through the woods at times, I can imagine it comes in handy here in New England at times!
in reply to: Don't feed the deer in the winter! #26374wojo14 wrote: commercial deer feed….corn?
I don’t think it was straight unprocessed corn. It was described as pellets. I’ll try to get the specifics.
in reply to: Don't feed the deer in the winter! #25890Wose wrote: It looks like they archived the link in the original post, but for right now, this one is working:
I knew enough not to feed deer in the winter, but was unaware about how their digestive system “shifted gears” towards poorer winter browse.
I assume that the folks who fed these deer were leaving hay or apples or something like that, but I think I need to do a little research into this. We have a patch of ground we are sheet mulching to reclaim from some invasive knotweed. Around September or so I was going plant it in winter pea, as legumes seem to really help the soil here. They would come on about November or December, and I was planning on leaving it unfenced to let the deer eat it. Seemed like the least I could do, since I was planning on killing one of them and eating them.
Our winters are nowhere near as harsh as NH, and there is actually browse here year round, so I don’t know if this will be harmful. Also I would imagine there is a difference between winter pea and a big bag of appples, but it sounds like I need to do my homework.
Thanks for the link.
Thanks for updating the link.
The deer in question were found to have commercial deer feed in them.
The Evergreen State has the same advice as NH, for the same reasons: Winter Wildlife Feeding
in reply to: Traditional Snowshoes for Hunting #25882vintage archer wrote: Snow shoes styles all have their advantages and dissavantages . Naturally the shorter ones are better in woody or brushy areas and the longer ones in open areas.
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I am a traditionalist and no I do not own a compound bow 😀 but given a choice for a leg taxing, sweat breaking,lung busting hike in the mountains I will become modern .Even at 76 years old you can change your ways 😀
The MSRs in question are the second pair I’ve purchased of those. The first pair did hard duty on SAR missions in AK and New England and are still serviceable after fifteen years of use. They have the best traction of any snowshoes on the planet, bar none, plus a device to lift your heel when ascending long slopes, and bindings that can be attached to boots while you’re wearing mittens. In short, they’re the cat’s you-know-what for their purpose, which is hardcore mountain snowshoeing on terrain that’s likely to be icy. But they’re ill-suited to hare hunting.
I started on snowshoes in LBJ’s first term. I’ve trod the path from ash and rawhide to neoprene and aluminum to plastic along the way. I like to think I’m one of the people responsible for Smithhammer’s wise choice earlier this winter, and I’m deeply envious of his good fortune in having them available. 😉
in reply to: Traditional Snowshoes for Hunting #24880Kewl – I just got to get me some of those! It’s hard enough sneaking close to snowshoe hare (flushed one the other day that wouldn’t tolerate me any closer than 30 yards and kept bounding off at that distance, which is fortunately rare in my experience!) The gawdawful racket from the MSRs can be heard by bears sleeping in their dens up on the hillsides, not to mention the hare.
drew4fur wrote: I used to live in Coastal Alaska, and the mussels, to use the parlance of our times, OMG!! For my taste buds, I don’t think ANYYTHING beats fresh mussels!
Ditto on all counts. ‘Cept for Dall sheep. Shot with a bow. 😉
(For the record, the only time I’ve been able to shoot a Dall sheep personally was with a 500 mm lens.)
in reply to: Signs of Spring #22529I don’t know what state you actually went to or what you were smoking at the time, grumpy, but this was what things looked like today slightly southeast of Winni. 😉
WARNING: This video depicts the harsh reality of late March in New Hampshire this year. Sensitive viewers may wish to turn their attention elsewhere, for instance, cat videos from Oahu.
in reply to: Happy Birthday, Mr. Bear #19936After a winter of more skiing and arrow-making than shooting, I took three cousins to the backyard range this afternoon to compare results with the arrows – a 1958 60″, 58# Kodiak; a 1970 60″, 60# Super Kodiak; and a custom Talon Swift (built on the 1959 Kodiak lines) 60″, 55#.
Mr. Bear, I’m here to tell you, ya done good. 😉 If I may mix images, that hot blonde once again had me feeling like I was striking the target with Thor’s hammer. And I think I’ve found the setup that will finally warm my heart to the SK. Finally, I wish I could tell the late Dave Paxton how much he honored the Bear tradition with his rendition.
This boy, he be smilin’ this afternoon. Thanks, guys.
in reply to: Signs of Spring #19072Apparently humans aren’t the only ones eager for this NH winter to pass. Came across the first bear sign of the year this afternoon. Looks like Ursus has been lying in daybeds and visiting the neighborhood at night the last couple of days. Time for the bird feeders to come down!
in reply to: Spring shoot #18920In addition to the targets, youse guys iz killin’ me here. Every 3D shoot I know of in New England that was scheduled since last fall has been cancelled because of the snow depth. We still have two feet on the ground and windchills dipping near zero. I enjoy shooting in the winter, I even relish cold weather – I just dislike losing arrows that I’ve known since they were uncut shafts! 👿
in reply to: question about stoves #18574I have a Coleman single burner that is serving a life sentence in the garage for having tried to kill me once. I have a GAZ stove inherited from my parents that I keep as a memento. I have a Whisperlite that I bring on trips when I need something to occupy my mind and there’s no room for a book.
When I need a reliable stove that has never failed me, down to subzero temperatures, and has never been maintained, I bring the SVEA 1-2-3 that my parents gave me when LBJ was President.
I should mention that the addition of a SIGG Tourist cookset is very helpful with the Svea. You can find them easily on eBay at reasonable prices.
One caveat: This is not a stove to bring on a SEAL mission. The roar it makes while in use will draw the attention of every sentient being within a hundred yards or so.
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