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in reply to: Anyone Experimented with EAOC? #34678
Webmother wrote: 8) Don’t make me regret this…
The video can stand for now, but it cannot start a “discussion” of political views, no matter how civil.
Much appreciated!
I shot my bow yesterday and thought today about how it went. 😉
in reply to: Anyone Experimented with EAOC? #34460For the benefit of those who missed it the first time it appeared on the world stage (and with a fervent hope that our Webmom lets this stay), herewith presented for your edification and amusement, the etymological provenance of the phrase:
in reply to: Traditional Snowshoes for Hunting #33539colmike wrote:
On a personal note–in the early 80’s when I was doing a security recon of the AK pipeline in one village we stopped in an elder had snowshoes of wood, aluminum, and whale bone hanging outside his home–I asked which are best–he pointed at the dog team we were driving-then pointed out back at his snow machine and said–that good for short runs–your team good for living–snowshoes good for walk to dance.:roll:
But Joe–I wouldn’t recommend a dog team to anyone that doesn’t enjoy lots of work.:lol:
Ek’s Laws of Nivean Locomotion:
1. Never walk when you can snowshoe.
2. Never snowshoe when you can ski.
3. Never carry something when you can drag it.
4. Never drag something when you can get a dog to do that.
5. Never rely on a snowmobile or helicopter to get you back out the same day.
in reply to: Anyone Experimented with EAOC? #33501Four 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.
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