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in reply to: Does it really matter ? #46295
Some non-fabulous advice from people who get paid to advise the rest of us:
“Keep your freezer at zero degrees (0°) or below to maintain the quality of frozen foods.
Most foods will maintain good quality longer if the freezer temperature is -10 to -20°F. At temperatures between 0 and 32°F, food deteriorates more rapidly. Fluctuating temperatures, such as those in self-defrosting freezers, also may damage food quality. Do not plan to store frozen foods for the maximum suggested time if your freezing unit cannot maintain zero degree temperatures. Even foods stored properly will lose color, texture, flavor and nutritional quality but will not cause food-borne illness.”
Refrigerator and Freezer Storage advice from the University of Nevada.
in reply to: Bear Kodiak Magnum #45825I own and regularly shoot a 1966 Kodiak Magnum, a Kodiak De Luxe, a 1958 Kodiak, a 1970 Super Kodiak and a Dave Paxton Talon Swift that replicates the famous 1959 Kodiak. The Swift is the smoothest, best shooting of the bunch and would probably be in any group of recurves.
But it is worth remembering that the Kodiak Magnum as a model has undoubtedly killed more game than all the custom bows and all the high-tech production bows ever produced.
in reply to: Traditional Snowshoes for Hunting #45277Smithhammer wrote: Of course, she also went all the way up the valley and back on her xc skis, in the time it took me to hike about a 1/2 mile. And then, without a trace of irony, she asked me how I liked my new shoes. She’s a keeper.
I’ve been known to bring both many times. (It’s easier when there’s a dog or two available for pulk pulling duty on a camping trip.) I have an extraordinarily low tolerance for inefficiency when it comes to winter travel.
in reply to: Back stops #45240The tires are certainly a good idea. One reason I favored the stall mat is that I can shoot from both sides, which is feasible on our lot. I should have added that it’s probably important to suspend it and not anchor it on the bottom. By being free to move, it absorbs energy better and probably will last longer.
in reply to: Does it really matter ? #45215It’s said that if you stand at London’s Picadilly Circus, eventually you’ll see one of every type of human walk by. Looks like the same is true for fables on the Internet. 😉
The supposed inadequacies of game taken at subzero temperatures would come as a large surprise to many people, including my late grandfather, every Inuit who has ever walked the earth, and the entire population of Siberia.
in reply to: Traditional Snowshoes for Hunting #44864It’s a very good thing you’re 2000 miles away right now. Otherwise I’d come over there, steal your new ‘shoes and smack you upside the head for posting these pictures while I sit here looking at brown ground.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, that Santa of yours is a real catch! 😉
BTW, if you haven’t done so, you should send the pics to the folks in Bingham. I’d sure they’d get a lot of pleasure from seeing these.
in reply to: Back stops #44061Rubber Horse Stall Mat from Tractor Supply. Great for field points. However, a broadhead will penetrate it but the arrow will not pass through. This leaves a very tough, dangerous extraction for glue-on broadheads.
It weighs 100 pounds, so have a well-thought plan ready for hanging it. I sandwiched it between two old skis along the upper edge and hung it from eye bolts at the ends using two pieces of rappelling rope tied onto a pair of oak trees. A come-along and a big extension stepladder played prominent roles. More normal people usually build stout frames for this with substantial timber, but I hate maintaining any wood that is not used for bows, arrows, or watercraft.
in reply to: They are Really HERE!! #43478For those who might be interested, may I suggest you consider joining and supporting the Rocky Mountain Goat Alliance.
I joined this past summer. Having been involved in other nonprofits as a founder, board member and executive director, I am impressed with this organization’s early accomplishments and credentials.
in reply to: They are Really HERE!! #43454Iron Bull wrote: I’ve always been under the impression that Goats were native. The ones in Jellyrock / Cody would then be transplants?
I was thinking that I remember reading in Osborn Russell’s (Journal of a Trapper) of them seeing the white hairy animals that resembled Goats… and they traveled up the Canyon.
The FWS resource I linked to above describes the history of transplantations.
I took a look at Journal of a Trapper and didn’t find any references to goat-like critters. But I did find this passage that will cause some to smile:
“It is an exercise which gives vigor health and appetite to a hunter to shoulder his rifle at day break on a clear cold morning and wind his way up a rugged mountain over rocks and crags at length killing a fat old Ewe and taking the meat to Camp on his back: this kind of exercise gives him an appetite for his breakfast. But hunting sheep is attended with great danger in many places especially when the rocks are covered with sleet and ice. I have often passed over places where I have had to cut steps in the ice with my butcher Knife to place my feet in directly over the most frightful precipices, but being excited in the pursuit of game I would think but little of danger until I had laid down to sleep at night, then it would make my blood run cold to meditate upon the scenes I had passed thro. during the day and often have I resolved never to risk myself again in such places and as often broken the resolution. The sight of danger is less hidious than the thought of it.“
in reply to: They are Really HERE!! #43448Smithhammer wrote: I was on a sheer cliff trail in Glacier NP one time years ago, and here comes a billy up the trail, completely unconcerned about me. The trail wasn’t wide enough for both of us, so I had to flatten myself against the cliff wall to let him walk by. That was a close encounter! Of course, these things never happen when you’re hunting….:wink:
You wuz lucky. This didn’t turn out as well in 2010 for another guy: Mountain goat kills man in Olympic National Park
in reply to: They are Really HERE!! #42382The feds have a good resource describing the species at Oreamnos americanus.
in reply to: Suggestions: History of Archery Books #39149snikkerbua wrote: Hallo.
Two books I have learnd a lot from is:
The bow builder`s book
european bow building from the stone age to today
ISBN: 978-0-7643-4153-3
Traditional bowyer, more unnecessary fun
By Jack B. Harrison
ISBN: 0-97266393-0-6
The first one is at my elbow right now, waiting for me to make up my mind which ancient Danish design to use for a selfbow project. (The wood I will use has benefited from my procrastination, even as the project has not …) It’s a great resource on the history of European bows and I strongly second its nomination here.
(Til snikkerbua – Velkommen! Bare send meg privat beskjed dersom du vil snakkes om buer og jakt osv. Jeg er oversetter av de skandinaviske språk til engelsk.)
in reply to: Wolves relisted #32948David Petersen wrote: J.– I’ve always felt that your posts set out to brighten every room you walk out of. But this, above, is just brilliantly clever and funny! Seriously, thanks for the much-needed chuckles. 😆
Mr. Petersen, you need to come east of the mountains occasionally. 😉
in reply to: Wolves relisted #31720Smithhammer wrote: Out of curiosity, are there harvest stats that have been collected by Fish & Game agencies in these states, since a season was opened for wolves?
The figures for Minnesta are here at the “Mortalities” tab at the bottom (not sure how current the 2014 numbers are): Minnesota DNR Wolf Management
I’ll leave it to the Badgers and Wolverines present among us to provide their respective numbers. (Yeah, I’m a Gopher. That has become less of a badge of honor over the years.)
in reply to: Wolves relisted #30817Folks who are going to comment on this might do well to read the court’s decision first, whatever your perspective:
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES v. JEWELL
Want to know how to tell when a federal judge is pissed? Here’s a clue:
“The D.C. Circuit has noted that, at times, a court ‘must lean forward from the bench to let an agency know, in no uncertain terms, that enough is enough.’ Pub. Citizen Health Res. Grp. v. Brock, 823 F.2d 626, 627 (D.C. Cir. 1987). This case is one of those times. The FWS’s Final Rule challenged in this action is no more valid than the agency’s three prior attempts to remove federal protections for a population of gray wolves, which are otherwise members of an endangered species. The challenged Final Rule is predicated on both an untenable reading of the ESA and otherwise flawed findings. For the reasons more fully detailed below, the plaintiffs’ motion is granted and the defendants and defendant-intervenor’s motions are denied.”
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