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in reply to: Put the joystick down and go shoot your bow #13164
The van Zwoll article indicates that English military archers carried from three dozen to a hundred arrows onto the battlefield. When they burned through the hundred at Crécy, they plucked replacements from the ground and the corpses of the enemy …
in reply to: Nonresidents and Wilderness #12472This is economic protectionism, pure and simple. It’s solely intended to create and reserve opportunities for guides to earn a living.
The Alaska requirement applies only to three specific species, not geographic areas. A case can be made that this is consistent with the state’s role as manager of those species. No such case can be made for Wyoming’s requirement with a straight face when the requirement only applies to wilderness areas.
The problem with challenging it under the Interstate Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution is that Wyoming can probably trot out an argument that will satisfy a federal judge. More on that later.
I say all this as a lifelong SOLO backcountry enthusiast in all seasons and a former SAR dog handler who has looked for overdue hunters in the backcountry in Alaska and Washington.
in reply to: How's the hunting? #60139I need a helmet to walk out in my driveway because of the acorns falling. Biggest year ever for them in the last thirteen years here in southeastern NH, by the looks of things.
I’ve been out twice. Plenty of moose and bear sign, but scant evidence of whitetails on those forays. That was mostly my fault, I was too obstinate in my choice of location to go where the acorns are heaviest. 🙄 Next time will be different.
in reply to: 2014 Hunting #39304Deer and turkey opened here in NH on Monday (9/15), and I finally got out this morning for the first time this season.
It was a beautiful day, temp was around 35 degrees (that would be Fahrenheit, ausjim …)when I entered the woods before dawn. As per usual – no deer or turkeys sighted, while a moose spent the better part of an hour browsing about a hundred yards behind and alongside me. 🙄 And yes, I had a heckuva good time!
in reply to: Mountain Bikes #37859skinner biscuit wrote: More pack horse than bike. I can haul my game bags,pack board, meat saw, push it up a mountain on gated logging roads.
This is EXACTLY why I need to get more serious about rigging a trailer in anticipation of our return to the Puget Sound area. Thanks for the kick in the pants, and to Duncan for starting this thread!
in reply to: 7 year spike #35888In addition to the spike, yer killin’ me here. 😉
Thanks for sharing!
in reply to: Campfire Cooking #35343Ramen with a can of chicken added. Dinty Moore stew if I’m livin’ high on the hog. 😆
No more sardines or kippers in the tent, even in winter: It’s winter – what could happen?
in reply to: Grizzly b'heads giveaway #34552PM sent.
in reply to: Grizzly b'heads giveaway #34526I will send you $50.00 to be donated to the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, or the land conservation organization of your choice, if you agree to send me one package of six. (I doubt I would ever need twelve.) I will also pay for shipping.
in reply to: Lets sit on our kills #30093Occasionally the Conrads and their partners in this venture shine very brightly. Well, actually pretty much all the time, including when they own up to being mere mortals. 😀
in reply to: Coyote/Wolf hybrids #26188Thanks so much for the tip on this! I’ve been following the progress of the genetic studies by the featured researcher and others for several years. (If anyone wants copies of the scientific articles I have, shoot me a message.)
When I first arrived in New Hampshire in 2001 from Alaska, an animal ran across the road in front of me one evening that had me wide-eyed. I grew up in Minnesota, which has big gray wolves and small Western coyotes. I’ve also lived in Alaska, which has even bigger wolves, and now the small Western coyotes to an increasing degree.
This critter was tall and downright lanky compared to the coyotes I knew well. Since then, I’ve seen them on many occasions. There was one particular mostly black male that used to hang out on land where I hunt. He was a bold guy, and one evening I found evidence that he had been trailing my wife and her dogs. As it happened, I arrived as she was coming out of the woods. I could see in the snow as I progressed back along her route, with the wind at my back, how he had turned off to the side when he became aware of my approach.
I don’t shoot canids, a fact that saved two of these animals one day when they passed twenty yards from me while I held a shotgun and deer slugs.
Smithhammer wrote:
I also see too many people who seem to think that our entire history begins and ends with certain notable individuals of the 20th century, and that whatever they did is the ‘end all, be all,’ rather than making the effort to grasp the much broader and varied history of our sport across millenia. If one only pays attention to the former, then the idea of what is ‘proper and traditional’ is quite limited. Expanding beyond that quickly drives home the point that what is ‘proper and traditional’ in bow and arrow design has varied greatly over time and place – including the not-so-new ideas of EFOC, reflexed longbows, minimal fletching, etc. We aren’t discovering anything new here – we’re just applying new terminology to old concepts (and in some cases, re-learning those old concepts) that have been well understood in various parts of the world since long before Saxton Pope picked up bow.
If there ever were an individual who was devoted to exploring changes major and minor when it came to traditional bowhunting, it was that guy with the fedora from Michigan. Pretty ironic that people would be citing him as a reason to stop examining possibly better ways to do this.
in reply to: Empathy for wildlife #16739adirondackman wrote: I think that Empathy comes from the respect that we have for the animals that we hunt and the reason that we hunt them.
+1.
And this: What some call empathy here would be a very familiar sensation to people whose very existence depended on finding and killing animals, namely those bowhunters who preceded all of us on this continent and the ones on other continents. It’s not my intention to co-opt any group’s sacred traditions, as is done so often these days for good and bad reasons. Let me just put it this way:
If you weren’t feeling this “empathy”, after having spent so much time among and studying all animals – not just our prey – I’d think there was something wrong with you. As there is in fact with the great majority of people, whose ties to the natural world are infinitesimally weak if not altogether absent.
in reply to: Another Noisy Recurve #16259Etter1 wrote: The hunter is a fantastic bow. Try yarn puffs over cat whiskers. IMO, there arent any better string silencers.
You probably haven’t made the acquaintance of these:
I have used them for a couple years. I’ve had numerous favorable comments at 3d shoots on how quiet it made my bow. Liked them so much, I bought a ball of musk ox yarn from Canada to make my own. Have them now on all my bows. They’re very light because of the properties of the musk ox wool.
AlexBugnon wrote: … the New Jersey hunting regulations book is like a penal code book. By the time you finish reading it, and understand it, you won’t feel like going hunting at all anymore!
If it’s any comfort, the AK regulations demand the same effort to understand and stay legal. (But the cervids are a tad larger and the bears a tad more fearsome …) 🙂
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