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in reply to: Redwing Boots #20091

I currently own multiple pairs of redwing boots, one is my daily wear, one pair of irish setters, and one pair of vasque. The daily wear pair is used for anywhere from riding horses to atvs(I know a bad word on this forum) to the automotive shop I work at, usually not on my feet less than 12 hours a day. The irish setters fit the needs more like david was referring to with a more aggressive sole. and the vasque are a light weight hiker mostly used in the summer. My feet are comfortable in any of the above for all day no matter how long it may be, it is expensive upfront but the years of great service will be worth the money in the long run. It is also my experience that the redwing stores carry a different line of irish setters and vasque than the big box stores. The Irish setter elk tracker that I have is a little bit different than those available at bass pro. The red wing stores also have better after the sale service(like free leather treatment), or at least my local store is that way. All my boots are at least 5 years old and still going strong. Good luck shopping and be patient if they do not have your size in stock, it is worth the wait.

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in reply to: My first deer…..EVER!!! #58347

congrats on the deer and good shooting.

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in reply to: Congratulations Dave #45410

Congrats on the elk and good luck on the rest of the tags.

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in reply to: Public land hunting laws #45397

I would like to say thank you for your input. While the local office seems to keep hours that conflict with my work schedule I did send an email. The response was that elk are not a legal species of take in that area, the Customer service rep said that they would forward the info on to the local office.

Erik

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in reply to: How to ruin a hot spot #26534

Sorry to hear about the bad luck on the hunting spot. Depending on the location of the stand I would recommend contacting the local forest service office. Permenant damage to a tree is a ticketable offense. A friend of mine got a ticket for nailing a tarp to a tree that was being used as a rain shelter. Those appeared to be permnenant to from the pictures. Best of luck. Erik

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in reply to: Does this make you feel as bad as it does me? #20997

If I saw the background of the video correctly, I live about an hour from where it was taken. I have seen the reality of the tourist that they protrayed multiple times. The truly sad part of this that the elk in the video move throughout the multiple areas where elk hunting is not legal so they have no fear of humans. A double edged sword unscared tourist, and unscared elk. The other thing that I have watched happen is the vacation homes that are going up all over town taking away hunting spots that helped thing the herds, the ranch owners are selling to individual lots.

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in reply to: Camp Fire Trick #9913

I had to google “Djibouti” to was if it was even a real country. learn something new every day.

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in reply to: Thoughts from a Luddite #41722

While I dont alawys agree that a scientific studie can be considered traditional, or alawys agree that dr ashbys conclusions work best for my equipment or my shooting style. I do have to say that in an ever growing political arena anything that can help a bowhunter have a more efficient kill and less wounded losses the longer we will be able to hunt with a stick and string.

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in reply to: boots #41712

I purchased a pair of irish setters from the local redwing store and have enjoyed them since. The boots get used for both multiple day packpacking trips and elk hunting.

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in reply to: boots #41706

After a lot of differnet pairs I landed on a pair of irish setters bought from the local redwing store. They have worked great for backpacking on multiple day trips as well as stalking elk. Insulation is available in some of the designs.

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in reply to: hoyt buffalo bow #25322

shot one at the local archery shop and share the same view. Shoots nice, smooth draw, and I have a 29 inch draw. The price was the down side for me, the fact that it is a shelf bow is a huge advantage that I would greatly consider as the rest of my collection are shelf bows(except one). The one take down that I own is metal riser with all of the attachments of a compound and it does shoot a little different making it diffucult to change between the different styles.

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in reply to: Its over… #34935

The elk season in colorado was not sucesful for myself although a couple of friends at the archery range did manage to get a couple of cows. I will have to say that a lot of lessons learned from watching a herd of elk that were on private land and unable to shoot at.

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in reply to: New Bow Day – Never thought I'd like a 58" #32682

Beatiful bow, the mixture of the different woods is nicely put together.

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in reply to: help for Elk #52309

living in colorado I can say the the altitude is the biggest drawback of people that are not in great shape. Colorado offers a ranching for wildlife license that is on private land but is not usually guided(preference points and types of take vary so be careful). While researching where to hunt on over the couner tags I would look at the number of people in the unit, the charts are on line on the colorado dow website(does take some looking.) good luck and congrats. Erik

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in reply to: russian olive for a bow #27830

thank you for the input I do like the idea of a riser for a laminated bow, after looking at grainit seems to be the best option.

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