[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Maximizing my moose mojo #20183

Thanks!

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Safety Glasses #13832

R2 wrote: I think your more apt to run into a low hanging branch when hunting or stumping and poking an eye rather than when shooting a bow.

On two separate occasions, I’ve had to lead someone out of the woods by the hand as a result of them getting poked in the eye. On another occasion, my niece took a twig in the eye that required three surgeries at the Mayo Clinic to save the eye and her sight in it.

If you don’t wear a brimmed hat and some sort of eye protection in the woods, you’re rolling the dice every time you go out. JMHO.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: "The Good Hunt" film trailer #13827

David Petersen wrote: I’d much rather sound like Bear Claw Chris Lapp, the real star of the show. That other fella was just a straight man.

“You sure you know how to skin griz, pilgrim????”

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Resealing shafts? #60804

R2 wrote: Just think, if sloths were predators they’d be undetectable until the pounce :D. Might be a thought to another thread on here.

There’s an example to follow, but I doubt many of us are capable of catching a deer or elk asleep in its bed:

Slowest Greenland shark hunts sleeping prey

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: "The Good Hunt" film trailer #60792

There’s a special place in hell reserved for teases. 😉 I just sent a contribution to help speed things along and save your mortal soul from eternal damnation.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Solo River Trip #60781

I grew up canoeing, and apart from time spent with my wife on dog walks and various excursions, I’m alone when I’m in the woods. It will be a cold day in hell before I complain about someone sharing such an experience here. Thanks!

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Into The Wild #54721

I sat here for several minutes, debating internally whether to involve myself in this. In the end I decided to do it.

A reporter and outdoor editor for the Anchorage Daily News, Craig Medred, covered the story at the time. I read his accounts then and his later writings on the matter. He is not a man who shies from expressing himself. I happen to share the opinions he expressed in The Chris McCandless example, 20 years later.

This will probably make me fairly unpopular in some quarters, which is OK – to each his own.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Close encounters and backup #53432

David Petersen wrote: Just don’t make the mistake I did one night up along the Canadian border and have a roast big greasy smelly sausages on a campfire. I was young and dumb then and assumed the fire would burn off all stench of grease, but it didn’t and we had to abandon that camp in the middle of the night. Now, being old and dumb, I know better. 😆

And don’t make the mistake I made one warmish winter up along the Canadian border and open a can of sardines in the tent. I broke my own “no food in the tent” rule ‘cuz, hey, it was midwinter and what could happen? Well, bruin (Blackie, in this case) happened. I spent all night holding onto my Newfoundland dog as the bear circled the tent, trying to get to the fish without tangling with the dog.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: River Monsters #45651

Well, you will notice that there were no scenes in that video of E.R. actually taking a bite of the celebratory pie …

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Does this sowbelly make me look old? #45516

As pretty as that white glass is, it’s not very practical for hunting. (Which is undoubtedly why it had such a short tenure in the Bear hunting bow product line.) It was time to find something more appropriate to wear – camo limb socks, a new string with qiviut silencers, plus a Bear hair rest and plate.

It was a blast shooting stumps today, in one case literally as a judo point blew right through a stump, showering debris in its path. “I love the sound of stump thumpin’ in the morning.”

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Great nock set #45239

Thanks for the link. If I weren’t about to head out for some stumpin’, I’d be stuck to my desk chair watching the whole collection of videos from these folks. Great stuff!

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: River Monsters #45228

Oh, you poor unsophisticates in the Colonies. You simply have no idea what a true delicacy is. 🙄

Fit for a Queen

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Webmom's Day #42297

Hope you had time today to smell the flowers!

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Stalking #37481

I made a real bad mistake stalking a flock of turkeys last fall for the first time, which some of you might recall hearing about. I put an arrow smack under the feet of a nice tom, number two in size in the flock. Nope, that wasn’t the bad mistake.

I had only the single arrow with me. I had to hold my sides in as I watched the number one bird in the flock and then a parade of another dozen birds follow in the footsteps of the first one. Nope, failing to be properly equipped wasn’t the bad mistake.

The real bad mistake was ever putting a stalk on a turkey in the first place. There’s no turning back now …

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Fred Bears Memories of the Hunt. #26520

Very nice work!

(lyagooshka, you will want to think long and hard before spending the time and money to go to Prudhoe Bay. Just ask wildman, or you can find a nearby wet swamp and imagine it dotted with pipelines and oil tanks.

I’d go to Bethel before I’d go to Prudhoe Bay, and that’s sayin’ sumpin’ … 😉 )

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