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in reply to: clay hayes #7953
You write words of great meaning and great wisdom Colmike. I am the Grasshopper and you the Master.
in reply to: Green and white fiberglass bows? #63268There was also one called “Paul Bunyan” they used to make them all the way up to 50 LBS.
in reply to: Spring fever #59341Welcome back Steve. I have found that a extended layoff has helped my shooting. The first 3 shot’s are perfect then with practice the bad habits reappeared.:P
in reply to: Time for another chuckle!! #55497I bet you’ll make one Fun Grandpa 😆
in reply to: Wolves and Rivers Video #54402Thanks Don, apparently my English teacher in high school was right “I need to pay more attention”. I also agree that “reason” is needed to make wise decisions. I just get very frustrated listening to the deer hunters in my state blame there lack of hunting success on wolves. I mean it surely could not be that ATV parked under there stand that gave them away.
in reply to: Wolves and Rivers Video #52176IMHO the big picture is “you can never go home again. I know I plagiarized that from someone “Melville?” Help Dave P. But you can surely do your best to right your wrongs. We “humans” have surely altered our world and not for the better in most cases. Do wolves kill elk? Yes. And so do humans so why do we (humans) despise the wolf? There are many reasons why Elk do not flourish? Why is it always the wolves fault? Yes WI.elk population has not exploded as hoped but is that really good habitat? WI. has 300-500 wolves. MN. has 2000-2500 wolves. The elk in MN live on the edge of the forest zone not in the middle. We had a population of 3000 wolves in 96-97 after some of the harshest winters on record our deer dropped to its lowest point in 50 years. Yet in 5 years we had record numbers of whitetail deer. We need to accept that nothing is perfect and we only can do so much. We also need to accept that there are limited resources on this rock and if we take them all for our selves others that we claim to love and respect will suffer. When we blame others for our poor judgment we only cheat our selves and our descendants. I can only imagine what it looked like to see 20,000,000 buffalo on the prairies or see the sun blocked out by the Carrier pigeon. Those things will never be again no matter what we do. We have a chance to make amends with the wolf if we choose, but it will take sacrifice and acceptance that we are only a spoke in the wheel and not the axle.
in reply to: Hunting As Humanizer: Then and Now #49930Dave what you do is by No means torture. You have a passion and a quest to find the inner truth, you have found the words the rest of us can not. Now break out the padded cuffs, key board and whip us up some more enlightened reading.:wink:
in reply to: Hunting As Humanizer: Then and Now #48891Great job Dave, I can see I am going to need another book case to hold all the interesting titles you site.
I think we have established when you get a nickname that can be used in public you should keep it. Mine was first given by a 12 year old student in one of my Bowhunter Ed. classes. I ran into him and his parents a year or so after the class. He introduced me to them as “The Fallguy” because that is the portion of the class that I am responsible for. I have been referred to by that name by many different people on many occasions over the years so it has stuck. How I became the resident expert on the topic is another story.:wink:
in reply to: Wolves and Rivers Video #45109Leopold was a avid hunter of grouse and deer. He was also a bowhunter and made his own self bows. His wife was a champion archer. One of the things he was most proud of was making the bow she used to win her archery medals. Hunting for food was a honorable pursuit in his view. Killing for the sake of killing was not. There always has been a uneasy balance between predators in nature because they are in pursuit of finite resources. But since we are not only the #1 predator we are the only ones that can see the error of our pass decisions. It is up to us to correct them and accept that we are not the masters of this rock. We are just one spoke in the wheel. When you destroy a spoke the wheel is out of balance if enough spokes are destroyed the wheel well collapse. All Hunter/Gather societies though out the world understood this concept. But because they had no written langue our ancestors deemed them ignorant and forced our beliefs on them. To our peril IMHO.
in reply to: Wolves and Rivers Video #43824[quote=Dfudala]Ok, someone help me out on this, I have a good memory, it’s just short! Was it Leopold or Muir who wrote about this same exact thing about 70 years ago???
It was Leopold in his SA “Thinking Like A Mountain” it is were he points out that nature with out predators to keep prey in check will eat themselves out of house and home, and the mountain well suffer. Unfortunately we still have not fully taken those words to heart. We blame the wolf for less elk in areas in the west. When in fact Humans are to blame, elk originally were animals of the plains but we plowed them up and the elk took refuge in the foot hills of mountains. Then we came to the foot hills and made cattle pastures out of them. The elk then were left with only the mountains for survival. We also eradicated the wolf from these areas for 90 years and the elk over populated their range and the mountains suffered. Then when the wolf was returned the elk numbers were reduced and dispersed and the mountains began to recover. But now we have business entities complaining that there profits are down because of the wolf and they want them eliminated again. We must some how get past the mind set that if there is no profit to be made from something it has no value.
in reply to: To sleep, perchance to … sleep? #40837Check out the Thermorest Z-lite. It is a closed cell foam pad that has the egg crate type design and it folds up accordion style. I have never slept on one but I have laid on one in the store they seemed way better than the standard foam ones. I sent a PM with a link to look at it on line.
in reply to: Signs of Spring? #38226eidsvolling wrote: Fallguy, I’m _sure_ if you drove over to Carlos Avery you’d see the aforementioned Sandhill Cranes right now. Or not. 😈
I was hearing them fly over last year at this time, I think this year they are still in southern Kansas.
in reply to: Signs of Spring? #37109Elk River MN. 3-2-14, 6:30 AM Low -14 2:30 PM High 4. Snow a**hole deep to a average bowhunter (28″). I do believe spring may come.:lol:
in reply to: Plains Indian arrows #32157How true Dave, but I prefer a broadhead to a Buick.
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