[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Traditional Hunts for Carribou #126870

Nonresidents are currently banned from hunting the Mulchatna herd, after it crashed.

Alaska recently increased the fees for non-resident hunters substantially. They are currently:

Nonresident annual hunting $160.00

Nonresident caribou tag $650.00

There’s a good short summary of the AK caribou opportunities at http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=caribouhunting.opportunities&performsearch=true

And now the warning:
HUNTING IN ALASKA REQUIRES THOROUGH READING AND COMPREHENSION OF THE AK REGS  TO STAY OUT OF JAIL, KEEP YOUR MEAT AND KEEP YOUR LICENSE BACK HOME. IGNORE THEM AT YOUR PERIL.

Here are the regs: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildliferegulations.hunting

You will note that the entire booklet runs to 144 pages … and there’s lots of fine print crammed in there.

 

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Very light bows #126369

Check the state/provincial regulations where you plan to hunt. Some states have no minimum draw weights, some will allow draw weights down to 30 or 35, but here in New Hampshire the minimum is 30 for turkeys, 40 for deer and bear and 50 for moose.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #126191

“Many campfire stories each night and a side trip to Cedar Mesa. Most of the conversation is unsuitable for posting here–well it did include some brown beverage.”

Now that would have been an occasion to have an audio recorder running! And I’m serious, as well as deeply envious.  🙂

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Club Pond Archers 3D Shoot in NH 6/25/2017 #126188

TTT

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #125719

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[Charles Ek]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #125718

May 3rd was opening day for spring turkey hunting in New Hampshire. I set up at the end of a monster hay field, 550 yards long, surrounded by mixed forest. Access is by foot only, and on this morning it required knee boots to get there, so I had 2500 acres all to myself. 🙂 Heard early gobbling at the far end. Eventually called him down the length of the far side of the field, but right when he would have crossed to me, a group of coyotes started choir practice a few hundred yards away. He was done moving in the open, and I didn’t have enough time free to try later in the morning. (Shooting ends at noon during the spring season.)

I went back last Friday and had the most fun possible without actually shooting a bird. Called in the same gobbler and a jake from the opposite corner of the field. The jake came into the midst of my decoys, at ten yards or so. Passed on him as I waited for the gobbler to commit.

Which he didn’t do, preferring to hang back about 12 yards from the decoys. The two of them hung around for the better part of an hour, but I never had a shot on the gobbler. He was gobbling but not thundering, almost continuously. I had two hen and three male decoys – might have been too much maleness for him. He had a very heavy breast but a moderate fan and beard. In other words, not Boss Gobbler.

I’m going to give him a few days off and try a less threatening decoy setup.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Replacement String for Martin Recurve #89071

Rolling your own gets way easier after the first one. I found this guy’s tutorial very helpful:

http://poorfolkbows.com/flemish1.htm

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Changes to Tradbow.com #89070

I have no idea why, but suddenly the new website appears here as it should. 🙂

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Changes to Tradbow.com #42768

I use this computer and this browser professionally on a daily basis to access websites all over the world. Sorry, not interested in Chrome.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Changes to Tradbow.com #27729

Webmother wrote: I was wrong, that is the new site. But maybe clearing the cache or refreshing the page will work.

No change after refreshing and then clearing the cache.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Changes to Tradbow.com #25807

Robin,

I’m using Safari on a Mac. Here’s what the new site looks like for me:

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Hunting 2016 #8365

The big brother version of rattling worked on a bigger cervid this fall … to a point.

My partner called in a moose for me with a moose scapula which I found years ago and held onto, waiting for a tag that came this year. When he scraped a bush with it a few dozen yards behind me, I nearly jumped up, it sounded so realistic. Less than thirty minutes later, the real thing showed up but winded us when it was about 60-70 yards from me.

Our deer and turkey seasons end tomorrow. I got out one last time yesterday. (My head is down to look at the deer track, not because I’m dejected!) Thought you Texans should get a chance to see it’s not all sunshine and open range. 🙂

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: "Harvest" #52016

Deer are killed. Potatoes are harvested. I’ve done both and I know the difference.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Things That Happen Out There #49296

Steve Graf wrote:

Somehow I ended up leaning back over the void looking into the wide eyes of one of my buds. Nothing between me and the rocks below but my heels on the ledge.

And somehow, against the laws of physics it seems, I leaned back into the rock and reattached myself to the wall.

Been there, done that. On a rock face outside Bergen, Norway, that I had no business being on. Alone. Without protection. Without a soul in the world knowing where I was, and an ocean plus half a continent between me and the next person who would have cared about the outcome. Thirty-nine years later, I’m still convinced that the only reason my hands came back into contact with the rock was that I tilted my head forward.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: 2 Good PA Bucks #35715

Nicely done!

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