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in reply to: Too Noisey? #35230

Geeeee That looks like the spy plane that goes over every evening to check us out at our campfire (or are they checking what we are growing in the garden?).

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in reply to: Can You, or Cant You? #32335

truebowarcher wrote: I cant when I shoot for a couple different reasons.

Try shooting your bow from your knees and see if you can shoot it without canting your bow.

Your bow is too long. 😀

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #30064

dwcphoto wrote: Grumpy,

Last night after getting my kids and their friends set up to camp out in the back yard, I was walking down the overgrown path and saw the weeds move. I didn’t think I kicked a stone or anything so I shined the light on it just in time to see a skunk lift his fluffy white tail. I almost ran my wife down getting out of there and for some reason it didn’t spray. Who knows why, as I was only five or six feet from it. Dang glad to be lucky. dwc

Just had the same thing happen as we walked back from our back yard campfire. Audrey ran to the dumpster, and left me defenseless. Luckily the skunk knows us, and backed under the porch to let us in the house. Most excitement we have had in a long time.

Momma Skunk (who we have been seeing for years) had a litter of four, three have gone their own way, and one kid skunk stops by every night at 7:30 to see what he can find under the bird feeders… and to say hello. Don’t know what he was doing on the sidewalk to the porch.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #27408

Only wild animals that are friendly are skunks and porcupines.

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in reply to: GPS in trad bow. #25538

Keep in mind that batteries only die when it is too dark to change them (unless you have practiced}.

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in reply to: Strange Things/Near Misses #21187

And I thought Mike was the GOOD guy…

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #21179

Scouting/stumping yesterday. Was only 86* and 88 % humid, so not as bad as last week. Skeeters liked it (OUCH!! Audrey JUST MISSED A FLY AND GOT ME IN THE HEAD) as there was no wind. I did OK with them as I had a Mosquito head net and wearing the plastic wrist bracelets. Head net works as both protection and camo.

Was proud of myself as I located a cliff. Saw all the contour lines really close together on the map out in the middle of a WMA and found it using the compass and dead reckoning. Was about 60 feet high, and at the bottom a giant jumble of rocks in the car/house size. Went north along the ridge until it petered out, then came back south in the valley. That is where I saw it. I had seen scat along the ridge, and then some places that were dug up. I was wondering what would have dug this up, and also thinking “It rained last night. This is really, really fresh.” Then looked up to see a bear looking at me with his beady eyes over a rock about the size of a ’50s MG. He swayed his head from side to side, probably didn’t recognize me (the bug net covered my mustache). Then I believe my scent reached him and he disappeared. I just got glimpses of black crashing through the brush. Couldn’t have shot him, even if he was in season, wouldn’t have shot him as I could never drag him out over all the boulders.

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in reply to: Backcounty College – optics for close quarters hunting #17949

Great video Clay. 😀 Us old hippies liked your beard, you could lose the funny looking haircut.

Embarrassed to admit it, but I use the 8×21 binos I got with a Sports Afield subscription years ago… OK, decades ago. I have newer, better binos, but these just work better for me (think they are made for people with glasses). BTW 40′ is a long away in a lot of our woods.

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in reply to: Strange Things/Near Misses #14505

As we were growing up with bows, arrows, spears, and BB guns near misses were a daily occurrence.

What was scary was going hunting with Art Williams. The guy seldom walked 10 feet without falling. Thus he was always in the lead, and every once in a while we would all stand there wondering what he was shooting at till we realized he was on the ground again.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #12167

WHERE ARE THE TREES????

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in reply to: The fever…. #8850

Good, very Good. 😀

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in reply to: The weight of things #8847

What was Fred (the Bear, not the mouse) talking about when he said they were meant to be bent?

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in reply to: The weight of things #8841

Steve Graf wrote: hmmmm….

These days, I go for more interesting excuses than boring point weight to explain why I come home empty handed. Here’s one of my favorites I give my wife: “Well darlin, I had me a big old knock kneed buck right there in front o’me. Prit’neer could a reached out and grabbed him, I coudda. It wassa sure ting I tell ya! Just as I was gonna shoot, this half nekked wood nymph came runnin’ past beggin me to come wit’her. Dat o’buck run off and I tolt that old Nymph to get gone ’cause I had me the best wife in the world. See Darlin?

Don’t ever let the truth get n the way of a good story. 😀

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in reply to: Heading to the Mountains #60840

R2 wrote: [quote=grumpy]Don’t worry they may leave, but will be back when the car breaks down.

Yeah and they’ll be hungry too :D:D

If they are just hungry they want you to wire them money. When the car breaks down the tow truck shows up with the kid in the passenger seat and the car I back of it.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #60831

Good for you. 😀

Guess that is what old men are for. 😀

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