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in reply to: lineman belts prussic knots and tethers #40224
Thanks Dave!
The rope I shown is only stiff because its new and not used yet. It actually loosens up pretty quick. But I actually like it a bit stiff as it let’s me swing the loop up the tree really easy as I climb and doesn’t snag on anything.
I agree prussic knots are a little tricky to adjust and you have to have all pressure off the tag ends to move it. They also require 2 hands to adjust. That’s the reason I came up with the ascender unit. That was about a 500 dollar trial and error experiment about 10 years ago that after trying many different things ended up as a simple ascender. The ropeman ascender is the best system I have ever found and I love it.
Prussics are the next best thing but there is quite a gap between the 2.
in reply to: Tis the season #39119T-roy wrote: I got lots of work to do still out in the woods. I typically hunt on public land all the way up until gun season starts then would call it quiets due to the gun slingers shooting at anything that makes a sound in the woods. Last year I was able to get permission to hunt on some private land which I am very excited about, just need to spend some hours scouting the land! Once gun season begins I will be able to hunt that land which is great since, gun season starts right when the rut is in full swing here in Minnesota. I plan on getting my butt out of bed early on Sunday to scout for a new location on the public land and setting up a couple ground blinds! So much fun! I enjoy the preseason prep just as much as I do spending time in the woods!
I hunt northern Michigan and deal with the same stuff. When the guns go off the woods turns into a pumpkin patch of orange and you have better luck parking at a jimmy buffet concert than you do on any logging road or two track.
One very useful tool I use during the gun season is to hunt behind the scenes. Most hunters won’t venture farther than 100 yards into the woods an hunt over bait piles. I use Google earth to find those funnels that are deep and thick far away from everyone. I arrive to my tree 2 hours before light, take a little knap waiting for first light, hunt all day, eat lunch on stand and don’t leave until after dark. No hunters know I’m there and they push deer to me from every direction all day long. Using the pressure as a tool.
I hate the gun season but sure do see some dandy deer that I don’t see any other time of the year. Like yours our gun season gets the rut as well.
in reply to: Tis the season #38960Same thing here but I have to wait until Oct 1st.
Been scouting like crazy…a hard thing to so in 5 foot tall ferns when I’m only 5’6″!
Got stands prepped, packs organized, arrows made, heads sharp, tethers for the kids stands made, cameras have been in rotation for over a month,bought and modified a new jet sled for deer dragging, and been shooting a lot.
I’m very excited for the season to start. Monday was a high of 57 here, felt like fall. I was up with the sun, scouted 8 new spots and walked back in the house at 9:45 pm wet, tired, sore and happy as a kid at Christmas. I came in changes my clothes and sat on the couch. My wife looked at my tired, but big smile and said “the fact that you look like you do and are smiling about it is proof that you have an addiction and need help”. I said ” your right. Can you make me a sandwich? I can’t move my legs!”
in reply to: Bright Fletching/Wraps and Hunting #30932I have always shot bright color fletching and wraps. I need to see my arrows in flight. Started with white for many years. Then for last 10 years its been fluorescent yellow (chartreuse) feathers and wraps. Dont think game ever saw or spooked from my arrows. But i know guys that dont like them for turkeys as they see color.
in reply to: Champion among us #30926Congrats Jason!! That is a huge win!
in reply to: Backcountry College – Water #30924Great video again!!! excellent job.
I always have iodine with me (i use the liquid as its multi functional for first aid), and I love the new sawyer mini you get for 20 bucks. the iodine is always with me and the sawyer comes with me on bigger trips.
I wish we had the springs and topography here like you guys do in the hills.
in reply to: We may be experiencing some turbulence… #28265great video.
I have seem the same results. Wind might wiggle the rear end a bit but the head goes where it wants to.
Im still using 3x 4inch feathers so i get a little more wind kick but the head pulls it right in every single time. I was hoping to experiment with smaller fletching but the summer has got away from me so i will be hunting with the 4inch feathers this season. But this video just makes me want to try smaller even more.
Thanks for sharing.
in reply to: Get a grip! #28255I did the same as above. I have a traditional straight grip but added a very slight notch as a locator just so i know my hand is in the right spot each time.
I have shot with many different grips or “holds” on the bow as well. In my early longbow days I shot with a death grip and heavy heal pressure. Then I went to a loose grip with high pressure on the webbing between finger and thumb with the pinky and ring finger loose. Now for the last year and a half I have been shooting with a firm grip with even pressure high and low.
I think the grip on the bow itself as well as the way you grip it makes little difference once you get used to it and it become natural. But I have been shooting a traditional straight grip with a slight locator so long I would probably order any other bows the same just to keep the consistency.
on all my bows I love a rubber grip. Started using them for bowfishing about 15 years ago to keep the grip dry. Love the feel, love the odor resistance, love the durability, love the stickyness of the grip. Also love that I can use a piece of stick as an arrow holder with a rubber grip. Still use and love a leather rest, but all my bows have a rubber grip now. The grip is actually bike tire innertube. It last about 10 years before it starts to break down. and 1 tube will make about 30 grips. not bad for 2 dollars! Even put the inner tube on my wife and kids recurves for winter so their gloves hold better than on the bare wood.
in reply to: countdown! #14421robbin68 wrote: 83 more days until archery season in MI!!:lol:
Yep! i live right around the corner from you. (houghton Lake) I’ve been out scouting new areas all week. Kind of a July ritual for me. Been sharpening heads, building more arrows, making strings, fixing stands, making changes to favorite stand sites, etc. This time of the year i get the “bug” to get out there and start making things happen for the upcoming season. August is usually too hot and september is small game, last chance bowfishing, and last minute preps. So July is a important month for me in the woods.
in reply to: Robertson 'Primal Styk' #13028That was my exact thinking. I have owned a ton of bows in my first 10-12 years and was getting to the point were all I shot was a longbow even though I had a bunch of bows hanging in the closet. I loved my 2 Reynolds longbows but wanted to try a Robertson since my 2 favorite recurves were Robertson. I ordered my first purist. When it arrived I shot it for a couple weeks and said “this is it…I found what I’m looking for and am done buying bows”. I hunted with it and killed 4 deer in one week with each being a perfect text book shot. I called dick and said pull up my order form and make another one just surprise me with a different riser wood so I can tell them apart. Each year I switch them up as my main bow and strictly shoot that bow for the whole year then the other one the next year. My bow buying days are done until I need to go lighter due to age or something. I have not bought a bow since those Robertsons and I’m gonna use them until I can’t draw them.
in reply to: Robertson 'Primal Styk' #12748I have 2 identical purists that i rotate each year for last 10 years or so. My absolute favorite bows. I cant say enough good about them and how they shoot for me.
That Juniper you have sure is beautiful!
in reply to: P&Y changes mind #35880Lots of great points being made here. Very good read and interesting.
My profession is all about people and how they act. To watch and document who they are and what they do. And all walks of statute, personality and status. I have to wear many different hats. In any 4 hour time frame I can be sitting with 20 year olds talking about rap music, crotch rocket motorcycles, and how getting “bombed this weekend” is the biggest thing they are looking forward to. Then an hour later I can be sitting in a 2 million dollar house talking about “trinkets” and “conversation pieces”. Then an hour later at a coffee shop with a couple where she is a 4’11” lawyer and he is a 6’7″ 350# harley obsessed guy filled with tats and works at pet smart.
What I have noticed is that the people of today have a huge sense of entitlement. Today people want what everyone else has but dont care how hard the other worked for it. They feel that if someone else can have they are entitled to it automatically. The people of the world today want it now, they want it fast, and they dont want to work for it. Everyone is “too busy” and not enough time in the day, to put in the work or time required for this or that. Yet the average person checks thier phone over 200 times a day and spends about 1.5 hours on social media.
The technology of the world feeds this and marketing and bad parenting have given people the sense of “you can have this, you can have this now, you deserve it, you should not have to work for it, this should be easy, we will make it easy for you!”
IMO, there is no coming back from this. The snowball of society is moving too fast to stop and its getting bigger as it rolls. In a less than 2 generations (40 years) we went from trad bows to compound bows to cross bows. Why? Read above!
people want easy. they want it now. they want it handed to them. and they dont want to, or feel they should have to work for it. They are too busy.
This is the problem, Any organization or club that is catering to hunters has to change with the hunters. then hunters are people and people are often like described above.
I as many of you feel that this is not who i am nor who i will ever be. The only things i get to take underground with me are my memories and my pride. If I upset a few people with my beliefs along the way, its ok, because im proud of those beliefs. I try to stand tall and be proud and firm on what matters to me. But i feel that my voice has become a little fish in a big pond.
I personally think the the day when compounds will be considered relics, cross bows will be allowed in P&Y, and the world we know will be gone is right around the corner. I fight this with everything i have, but i think the writing is on the wall. If there is ever an organization that could bring like minded people together to have a big enough say id be there in a second. But our fight is against society and the way the world is today we cant compete.
I do everything I can to raise my kids right, make them work for everything they have, teach them respect, etc yada yada yada. But how do we do that to a couple millions of people that are “entitled” to everything right now and easy!
I pray for the day that some how someone comes up with a solution to this. Otherwise I fear in the near future that snow ball running down hill is going to get bigger and bigger, faster and faster until nothing can stop it.
P&Y is a group of members. These members are proving they fit into the catagory that i dont want to be in. I do feel there is alot of good that they do. My disappointment is not with the P&Y. Its with the entitement attitude and give it to me now and easy attitude of the members that vote.
in reply to: bowfishing question #28468The ams safety slides are the best way to go IMO. I use them on every arrow. Back many years ago when i started bowfishing there were no safety slides. What I did to get good arrow flight and still keep the line out front was this and it might work for you if you dont want to use safety slides.
We bought leader wire for fishing. Stuff you use to make your own wire leaders. some metal crimps and a swivel. run the leader wire thru the front arrow hole and crimp it to its self. then feed a swivel over the leader and run the other end thru the back hole and crimp it to it self. This way you have a leader wire running the length of the arrow with a swivel on the leader. connect your string to the swivel and now the line can be out front but when you shoot the drag will pull the swivel to the back of the arrow. it worked just like the ams slides do now.
But again I think the ams slides are the best option now.
in reply to: Bowfishing string ?? #20102It depends on the reel you are going to use. If you are gonna use a drum reel than id use ams 200# line. Its the same stuff that comes with the retriever reel. If you are running a spinning reel like zebco, muzzy, etc buy the line from a bowfishing store like extreme bowfishing or backwoods bowfishing, etc. They will carry good 150-200# specta type line.
The reason for the heavy weight line is not for the fish but for the snags. When you miss and stick into roots and crap on the bottom it will hold the barbs and you really have to pull the line hard to get your arrow out. I have never broke ams 200# line and have had 2 guys pulling with everything we got to get an arrow free. The 50# stuff we used to use I would loose 5-7 arrows a year to snags piping the line.
in reply to: Kids Bowfishing At night #19261Steve Graf wrote: Looks like it was a blast!
But that generator sure was noisy… LED Floods and batteries are a whole lot nicer. You can hear the night noises and see more fish. Once you try ’em, you’ll never go back 😀
O’course, I don’t think you guys could have been shooting any faster as it was.
I have 2 seelite 50 watt LEDs on the back end of my deck. Great lights and about as bright as my halogens. But ony little boat running 10 8 pound lights would be way to muck weight in lights on the deck. My halos are only 1.5 pound each. If I ever do a 1872 sea ark (maybe in a couple years when the family out grows this boat) I will run 10 LEDs 110 volt and a supper small inverter Genny.
A plus side to the noisy Genny is the kids can’t hear the muskrats, beaver, geese, etc that bust out of the cattails 2 feet way and scare the crap out of them…lol
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