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in reply to: Block targets #150675

And I buy feed sacks at the (what else?) feed store and fill them with plastic bags, bubble wrap, plastic shipping envelopes etc.  Fill them tightly, then either staple or sew the end closed, mark an aiming point (I use black Duck Tape) or two and you’re good to go.  When it is shot to pieces it goes into the plastic bag recycling at Walmart and I fill the next one with all the plastic material I have been saving in the garage.

~Kees~

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in reply to: More on "how to carry a deer." #142902

No photos, but look at Don’s photo of how the rear leg comes through the front one.  Then, instead of holding on to the rear leg so it doesn’t slip out of the slit (in the front leg) run a short stick through the rear leg so if it does slip back the stick will keep it from coming out of the slit in the front leg.

Clear as mud?

~Kees~

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in reply to: Don Thomas Health Issues #142695

Ufta, that hurts!  A friend went through the same thing a number of years ago, but they didn’t find it until the tumor was the size of an orange.  It has NOT been easy for him since it had obviously been there for a long time so removing it did some major damage to his brain.  I am glad to see that you are going to have the surgery now, before Dr. Thomas’s tumor gets any bigger.  I’ll keep you in my prayers!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Longbow Selection #142126

I also shoot a Bear, the 50# Montana, and it does well for me.  I think it all depends on how much you are able to afford.

~Kees~

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in reply to: Hunting truck #142125

1989 Ford Ranger, extended cab, 2 wheel drive.  I’ve been debating getting a locking differential for it so it doesn’t get stuck in its own shadow!  On the plus side, I have hauled lots of firewood with it, and topsoil for the yard, plus gear for the kids’ camp our church puts on every year; it seems like it gets called to duty pretty often!

[Kees]

in reply to: How far is a 'score' ???? #137792

I am always amazed that they were shooting at a willow wand.  Read that recently also in “Witchery of Archery”, as also referenced in the poem in the opening post.  That would be hard to see at 300 yards….

[Kees]

in reply to: Book Suggestions #131582

I’m about two-thirds through TJ’s “Handbook” and am enjoying it thoroughly.  Learned a lot, and much of what I already knew was refreshed.  It’s a great reference covering every aspect of Traditional archery, even if you don’t get out to make meat.

-Kees-

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in reply to: Book Suggestions #131243

Hey Stephen, I just got one you may be interested in, which David Tetzlaff reviewed in the latest issue of TBM: The American Longbow. Sounds like something right up your alley!    :>)

-Kees-

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in reply to: My apologies #18233

Is that why I can’t find the Traditional Home Defense thread?

~WH~

[Kees]

in reply to: Deer Calls? Or Just Blowing Hot Air! #39347

Working in the Tongass N.F. I called in quite a few deer just stretching a piece of surveyor’s flagging between my thumbs & their bases and blowing across it. And remember the article on Ed Bilderback calling in a whitetail by blowing across a blade of grass held the same way. Haven’t tried it since moving to Ohio though.

The new people on my survey crews were always impressed, although it didn’t work every time.

There was a video in the Ketchikan Library years ago where a local made a deer call by splitting a small piece of wood, carving out matching hollows in the split sides and stretching a piece of flagging across one for a reed, then taping the halves back together. Cheaper than buying a commercial call!

~Kees~

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