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in reply to: Signs of Spring #14338
Like I said: WE HAVE FOUND THE CANOE!!!
in reply to: Silencers (or the lack thereof) #13598Any time youse guys want to show up (after the snow melts) we can roast kielbasa and marshmallows over our campfire, and watch Mushroom Bill, and Winston get tipsy while we talk about archery, traditional knives, blah, blah, blah, blah While we listen to the spring peepers.
Actually Bill, and Winston getting tipsy are getting a little old…
in reply to: Silencers (or the lack thereof) #13591Patrick wrote: With all of the talk about silencers, I can’t help but wonder, am I the only one who doesn’t use them on their longbows?
Nope! You are not the only one!!! No silencers here, can’t hear a twang, and Audrey, and Arwen agree (so it isn’t my hearing). Have lots of fur and feathers (flytying) to use for silencers, but have no need. Audrey says it has nothing to do with femininity.
in reply to: Signs of Spring #13580WE HAVE FOUND THE CANOE!!! Rose up from the snow and some birds s**t on it. The snow bank that the front loader made out back is only half the size of R2’s camper. We have to wait for that to melt before we can have a back yard campfire. No geese, or peepers. The rivers have lost the ice, but saw people walking on a lake the other day. No flooding…yet. Gentle rain and 40’s now, and expecting more of the same tomorrow. Have 2 bows, straight bow (too short to call it long), and a recurve out of ash, and a dozen arrows that are varnished and drying. Tried a few arrows on the new recurve the other day (had to shovel out the target), the bow didn’t break, and it feels well over 50# at 22″ draw. Going out in the woods every weekend, but have found no sheds, although they may be under the snow. Loose the arrow every time I miss the stump.:x
in reply to: Note of appreciation #13568Thank you, thank you, thank you, each and every one. Just for being you. Wouldn’t be the same if any of you were not here.
in reply to: Winter Rove #13562When Audrey saw the hat pic, she jumped up and shouted “HE’S GOT YOUR HAT!!!”
“No, sweetheart, he’s in Idaho, my hat is right here.”
35 DEGREES:
Rove today with snowshoes. Walked the oak ridges, and saw no tracks, just a few places where squirrels dug something up. Was carrying the snowshoes on the ridges. Found old tracks and beds in the hemlock thickets, but no new tracks (not the same place as last week). Needed the snow shoes in the thickets, not enough crust in the thickets, and deeper snow. Around mid afternoon, I stopped to take off a layer of fleece. As I was SWEATING. Standing there to rest and cool off, with my coat unzipped. I thought about 35*. Seemed pretty warm at the time, as it was 35* above zero. Seems hot now, but I could remember how I sat shivering at 35* last fall sitting in a stand waiting for deer to show up, and I had more fleece, and I was zipped right up tp my mustache. Of course, last fall it wasn’t 35* above zero, it was 35* below 70*.
Bucks dribble after they pee, and make rubs, and scrapes. Does make a neat little hole, and use toilet paper.
in reply to: Arrow Weight for Hunting #10262Smithhammer wrote: letitgo –
Welcome to the forum! I think you’ll find a lot of good info here if you dig around, not to mention a pretty funny cast of characters…:D
The funny cast of characters is R2, right?
in reply to: Clay Video #10254Post a link, kinda shy about asking my granddaughter to find something on U tube for me…
in reply to: What ya got goin? #7803Thanks for the compliment, Mike
in reply to: Dirty Old Hats #7800Audrey says my dirty old hat doesn’t smell (and shouldn’t scare the deer). Can youse guys (Y’all in Dixie) say the same?
in reply to: Homemade handiwork #63202Nice butt cover Doc Nock
in reply to: What ya got goin? #63182You may have seen pictures of central/west mass, with rolling hills. That may be in places, but the Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are land that can’t be used for anything else. Swamps, and rugged glacier carvings. While I saw the deer on the opposite ridge at 100 yards, it was more like 150 yards down and up. As I followed the bouncing deer, my snowshoe was grabbed by a unseen branch, and with the steep slope, I tumbled. While the snow up on the ridge wasn’t that deep, and well crusted, the snow toward the bottom was powder, and I don’t know how deep. Of course I had to take the snowshoes off to get my feet under me, then put them back on, all the time sinking deeper into the snow. By the time I found everything I was looking out of a foxhole, yeah, my eyes were even with the snow. From there I had to climb out with the snowshoes. No, I didn’t loose my hat.
Up the other side I had to switchback, the deer went straight up.
I backtracked the deer to see where they had come from, and found a hemlock thicket. Counted 12 deer beds, and that doesn’t count what was back in there where I couldn’t get into. There were tracks out the other side, over half a dozen deer that I apparently flushed out. Followed the tracks half mile to a pine thicket and a truck that looked like the deuce and half my Dad drove on the Burma Road, and about the same age.
Now I know where they bed to hide, where they bed to get tanned, and the escape routes.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #62842WOW!!! Saw deer yesterday. Not one, lots!!
Stopped on a ridge to cool off, and catch my breath, looking west at another ridge about 100 yards away, I saw movement. I counted 6 deer, and suspect there were more, hopping through the snow, moving south. I froze, no stood still, thinking “I am a tree.” They turned crossed the valley and climbed to my ridge. Only 40 feet away. Then disappeared. Did they turn, and go back into the valley, were they over the crest where I couldn’t see? As I stood there acting like a tree, I could see occasional movement. Like a ear or tail moving. With the crusty snow, there was no way I could move without making a racket, so I just waited. Suddenly there was a loud snort, and 6 or 8 deer suddenly appeared, and bounded back they way they came. They really exploded, with snow flying everywhere and bounded back they way they came.
When they reached the other ridge they went straight over.
When I looked at where they has “disappeared” they were bedded down in the snow. They had beds they had apparently used before, that were several feet deep. They could bed down there with nothing but their ears showing above the snow. Protected from the wind (although there was none) and catch the heat from the sun.
When they left there were leaps 20 to 30 feet in the snow. Humbling that they could leap through the snow so fast and it took so long for me to tramp through the snow to follow.
To be continued….
in reply to: mushrooms and elk..i think.. #62828Maybe it was Mushroom Bill!!!:shock:
in reply to: question about stoves #62827I have a “Pocket Rocket” uses butane/propane mix. Doesn’t work in winter, but the rest of the time it is great. Don’t like liquid fuel, seen too many guys that had the fuel leak in their pack. Think about that… a sleeping bag that could turn into an inferno with just a spark.
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