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in reply to: Not gonna work #7697
Never, ever carry when you can drag. (It’s even better if a dog or two is available for the dragging, but I digress.)
I use the Paris Expedition sled to haul deer out of the woods. I also use this sled to haul winter camping equipment into the woods. During an ice storm I used this sled to haul wood into the house. Other people have used this sled to haul winter camping equipment to latitudes far north of 80 and to lung-sucking elevations on Denali.
Get thyself to Aubuchon Hardware, stat: Paris Expedition Sled
in reply to: video yourself shooting #60349R2 wrote: Didn’t realize what perfection was til I filmed me and learned quick that me it ain’t.
28″ draw, ha! Pause before release, ha! After all these years shooting I’m surprised I hit what I do. Solid bow arm. Wat dat?
Actually not that bad but you don’t wanna see:D:D.
I have greatly improved since I watched me. Nice to know what others won’t tell. Busted ego a good thing maybe.
Yeah, what he said.
in reply to: video yourself shooting #57525I’ve done it with both a Handycam on a tripod and an iPhone stuck anywhere I can get it to stay put. I’ve also put the iPhone atop a 3D target, to put a little more pressure on me. Having the video is a great tool for improving form, IMO. Like you, I found out things about my release that I was not aware of.
in reply to: Practicing the "Cold Shot" #57403Looks like she’s expressing an opinion on your brace height.
in reply to: Hunting canoe #36715Jim,
Like some here, I grew up paddling in canoe country (might have passed Mr. Moe on a portage or two!)
Some of your neighbors over there in the Pacific have the solution figured out already:
In fact, it’s probably how some of them populated Oz way back when …
in reply to: Anti attack! #32059Well, there are still a few left in the East. I found evidence today of this year’s crop just behind the caution tape I put up around my backyard range. It was quite amusing to see how Mom had stayed just outside the tape as she led Junior past.
in reply to: Otzi Exhibition #30937Something to ponder: On a planet populated by upwards of 7 billion people, the number of us who can actually relate personally to how this person found daily sustenance is quite small. And it doesn’t include anybody riding training wheels, in my book. 😀
Here’s to the memory of a fallen comrade in the brotherhood of the bow.
in reply to: Treed Partridges and trail cams #30920On this and all matters (be they related to hunting or not), my personal opinion is that the only basis for justifying any choice is personal preference. You can’t show me any choice in life that is not rooted in it, notwithstanding any protestations to the contrary from the various purveyors of various creeds through the millennia.
To wit: I will use a selfbow or a glass-laminated recurve, but I won’t use high-tech limbs or a riser that was never part of something growing out of the ground. I won’t use a trail cam to scout, but I will use a computer to scout. I own a GPS receiver and am expert with it, but I won’t use it to record the location of sign. (Stopped doing that several years ago.)
And I hunt with both traditional bows and a scoped rifle. 🙂
in reply to: Some camping advice… #20857A person who spends half an hour making up homemade pancake mix that will still need a fresh egg when it’s done isn’t getting enough Krusteaz in her diet.
And BTW, it makes a pretty good backcountry fish batter as well.
in reply to: Bows in the Military #13683Not since this guy:
“On the 27th of May 1940, whilst in command of a mixed force holding the village of L’Epinette, near Bethune, during the retreat to Dunkirk, Captain Churchill, who had been slightly wounded on the 25th, became the only European for centuries who, in the action of war, had killed an enemy with the longbow. Climbing into the loft of a small granary, through a vertical opening in one wall, normally used for hauling up sacks of grain, he saw, some thirty yards away, five German soldiers sheltering behind the wall but in clear view of the granary. Quickly and quietly Captain Churchill fetched up two infantrymen and instructed them to open rapid fire on the enemy but not to pull the trigger until he had loosed his bow, took careful aim and loosed the shaft. At the same time as the bow string twanged, the air was shattered by the rapid fire of the two infantrymen. Captain Churchill was delighted to see his strike the centre German in the left of the chest and penetrate his body; the remaining Germans of the party slumped to the dusty ground… Five years before the first atomic bomb exploded and nearly 600 years after the Battle of Crécy an English archer had incongruously and briefly returned to the ancient battlefields of France.”
in reply to: Why I like bright fletches #13045Sorry, the first picture did not convey what I wanted it to do here. If you look at the stump, there’s a light-colored vertical stripe just left of center. Immediately to the right of that stripe, dead centered on the stump, is the fletching.
We have all kinds of orchids here in NH. Unfortunately, I don’t know them without their blooms, and most of those are gone for the season. I’ll try to identify it.
in reply to: Cold Shots #12782I’m the polar opposite on most of this. My best shooting usually comes when I subconsciously rely on lessons learned from past practice sessions and let one (and only one) fly. It reminds me a lot of making good tennis shots. The more I thought about my forehand once I started having a problem, the worse it got. Ditto for my bow shooting.
Of course, it’s essential to be in the right frame of mind for all this. In my case, it seems necessary to be alone, just as I am 99.99% of the time I’m in the woods. I shoot a fair bit better on 3D courses by myself. (Yes, you’ll have to take my word on that. 😉 )
in reply to: Hang your bows? #57843Well, my system of hanging them in a room with carefully controlled temperature and humidity, with custom hangers, is worth a picture. 😉
in reply to: 2013 Poke and Hope Rendezvous pics #57745Steve Graf wrote: Looks like fun, and looks like the sun was shining. You got lucky!
This wet cloudy weather pattern is starting to wear on me. Yesterday, the weatherman promised sun today, but now he’s saying tomorrow.
My neighbor mowed his lawn in the pouring rain 2 days ago. That was a thing to watch as I drove by trying to see the road through the downpour
Our tomato’s have sprouted roots from branches that are 3 feet off the ground. It’s like the tropics around here.
We had the same thing here since the beginning of June until last Friday. The start of this week is forecast as sunny but hot, with those #%^! showers and thunderstorms supposed to return on Thursday and Friday. But it looks like (and feels like) the pattern is finally changing.
in reply to: Look at what I found… #46700Good on ya! Are those rusa? (As if I actually know anything about the deer down under …)
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