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in reply to: Longbow shot while sitting #12589
As much as I enjoy shooting my 66-inch selfbows (including from a Hammock Seat), you’d be hard-pressed to find two trees that far apart here in New Hampshire.
The rack here includes a 52-inch K-Mag, 56-inch Grizzly, 58-inch Morrison Dakota, two 60-inch Kodiaks, one 60-inch Super Kodiak, and two 66-inch selfbows. (Yeah, I have a problem, and no, I’m NOT working on it. 😆 )
in reply to: Turn for the better #51659Good on ya! Congratulations.
in reply to: The Hammock Seat #49792Patrick wrote: Even works in a corn field…right?
Absolutely. Just as long as you’re a Wallenda.
in reply to: Greetings/Introduction #44750For answers to questions you haven’t thought of yet (and more), may I suggest getting a copy of The Traditional Bowhunter’s Handbook, written by a guy who happens to be your host here. (I don’t get any benefit from such a recommendation other than a warm glow from helping another bowhunter. 😉 )
in reply to: Cold Weather Gloves #43290Smithhammer wrote: I recently got these gloves from John Turner at American Leathers. They come with full fingers on both hands, and you can trim them to accomodate your glove, as needed. The seams are intentionally sewn so that they won’t unravel when you cut the fingers off.
Thanks for the tip! My niece is supposed to be working on custom shooting mitts for me, but if the much-maligned, equally misunderstood polar vortex actually gets here before she’s done I may have to grab a pair of these.
in reply to: Traditional Snowshoes for Hunting #41334grumpy wrote: Have used both (but we called them bear paw, not Green Mt. here in New England)
This will come as news to some folks in that verdant state to your north, who came up with the design – and the name. 😉
1979 Sports Illustrated article:
AT VERMONT TUBBS THEY STILL MAKE SNOWSHOES THE WAY THEY USED TO
in reply to: From Spain #39658¡Bienvenidos a la hoguera de campamento!
Your article is fantastic. We need to see many more like that.
in reply to: Traditional Snowshoes for Hunting #38880I started with snowshoes when neoprene was something only divers knew about. I would be all over that Rabbit Hunter if I didn’t already have four pairs of ‘shoes in the house. The Green Mountain would have been my first recommendation of all types available until I saw the former – the style has had a well-deserved reputation for versatility for a long time and used to be made by many makers.
I suppose I should explain that I’m thinking here specifically of hunting for game that likes heavy cover. I’d have a different recommendation for ptarmigan and other open country applications with very deep snow and long treks.
in reply to: Totally Traditional #38637Here’s a paradoxical philosophy (hey, I’m a Homo sapiens – I’m entitled by birthright …)
Like the guy just to the east of me, I hunt in some pretty thick woods here in NH. Seeing deer on the all-too rare occasions is a kick; shooting a deer is pretty darn tough with a bow in these circumstances.
So I hunt with traditional tackle for three months of the year and three weeks in the middle with a rifle. I’ve even been known to carry a weatherproof shotgun during truly nasty sweather, just to avoid the rifle maintenance when I’m don’t have time for it.
When I carry the bow, I’m a bowhunter. That’s my frame of mind. I’m fortunate to be able to shoot a variety of hunting situations behind my house virtually daily, and I have thousands of acres within ten minutes for stumping. So I don’t feel like carrying a rifle for three weeks (if it takes that long) gets much in the way of “getting my mind right” for bowhunting.
However, if I were a sort-of-former compound shooter struggling slightly with doubts of whether to commit fully to stick and string, I’d sell the wheels. I would want to have my mind in the trad game when presented with an animal. The shooting that goes on between our ears is crucial to success, and doubts about our abilities are inimical to success.
in reply to: Shooting Gloves #24961Thanks for the info. When the three pairs of SuperGloves here have all worked themselves out of the rotation, I’ll keep this in mind.
in reply to: A Few Days in the Wilderness #18214Excellent report, thanks for sharing.
Watch your footing when you come east, we have a monster acorn crop in New England this year.
in reply to: Put the joystick down and go shoot your bow #13740colmike wrote: Steve
I believe he is referring to the joystick that you fly planes with not the one that shortens in equal increments as your draw length:lol: Now time to go order some more arras as Dr Ed would say.
It was in fact computer game joysticks that I had in mind, in the context of new games that distract archers from practicing … ’nuff said. 🙄 😀
in reply to: Nonresidents and Wilderness #13173You want complicated, I got yer complicated right here. Here’s the decision in a leading case involving Wyoming’s fees and guide requirement, which I recall from when it was decided. Note that it did NOT decide the validity of the guide requirement, because the plaintiff/lawyer hadn’t paid enough attention to the murky waters of “standing” when starting the case:
in reply to: Put the joystick down and go shoot your bow #13164The 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.
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