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in reply to: "Harvest" #62768

I appreciate the light shone on my comment. It all rings true. Fact is I’m not really uptight about much in person, I guess our better selves should be reflected in our writings was maybe what I was trying to get at??

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in reply to: My First Traditional Harvest!!! #62687

Good deal! Enjoy that melt in your mouth tenderloin!

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in reply to: First Big Game with Trad Equipment #51909

Very meaningful time. Reflect and savor. Very happy you got rewarded for all your effort.

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in reply to: Things That Happen Out There #48301

Great story Steve! I knew that feeling. I never really liked heights. I got hyper extended once with an old climber – where you pulled yourself up by the seat and your toes were in the toe loop on the platform…well the platform slipped it’s grip and I got stretched out with the climbing seat I was grabbing with my finger tips way over my head and the platform dangling from my toes. Of course, back in those days you were lucky if you even had clothesline rope or any kind of fall protection.I did not. Thinking back I believe it did have a short tie line between the seat and platform but it hobbled going up more than helped I thought at the time (accident root cause if I’d broken my neck!) I couldn’t get a bit of leverage to move for a good while and thought I may just have to let go and take a fall. Somehow I wormed out of it but it was a funny feeling being locked up and unable to move 20′ up a tree.

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in reply to: 2 Good PA Bucks #28498

Love it how there are nice bucks out there like this every year. A great resource to enjoy and protect.

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in reply to: Thanks #28457

Yes, indeed. Pay it forward in every way.

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in reply to: Getting Up in the Morning #10794

Thanks all! No complaints here. Just a little older and better motivated when I’m in a camp setting.Hope everyone is having a great fall!

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in reply to: Not at all like- Deliverance #50768

I really enjoyed the story. Sure wish I had companions like your group. Too much solo is dull and harder to get up in the morning! Way to go you guys!

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #15539

Everything but a deer today. Big Tommy turkey at 30′, birds nearly landing on me, squirrels in my lap..quite the serenade by coyotes on the way out too…and I have a green/ black checked jacket too. I think it makes me look fat – lol. The wool is more quiet than my camos is the main thing. Nice October day off. Btw, the hammock seat recommended here I’m sitting in..I feel a little butt naked on the ground but I’ve had my day with treestanding. Happy Fall all.

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #60350

Good thread and I’m enjoying too. dwc, glad you connected! Meat is neat once in a while…and your miss…you are not alone…October 9, 2009 still haunts me..I had a gift shot on the biggest buck of my life and blew it..maybe we should have our DR’s give us scripts to put in our packs to deal with the trauma:) Ralph…that cactus is the vegetable equivalent of a porky pine! We have these little “stickers” here that are hard to see but stick to boot laces, pants, etc..and stab like a bee-otch when you don’t see them…aah, the joys of the outdoors..safe safaris’ to all. I’m adding to my total of 4 hours out so far this October tomorrow..take care and good to see the 2016 news from the field here.

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in reply to: Discouragement #48453

I have not had the need, but there are blood tracker dogs out there that might help. You might find someone in your area with these specialized dogs. A person in our area has some kind of little rug burners from Germany that know their business and routinely recover wounded deer.

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in reply to: The Hidden Life of Trees #13143

Well said Ralph. It always was, historically anyway, extractive “management” as you say. Too often we extract and tear apart the fabric of things only to be surprised and depressed we

are left with nothing…my experience anyway but having the luxury to bi$ch @ it is questionable sentiment I suppose.

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in reply to: The Hidden Life of Trees #55208

Steve – I have to clarify….what I meant was more the dryness of the scientific literature I remember reading. It sucked the life and beauty and appreciation for that right out…as for the method I can’t think of anything better.

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in reply to: The Hidden Life of Trees #47481

I’m a Forester by education and somewhat by profession. Traditional Forestry is a great idea dried out to lifelessness by the scientific method and industry. Useful I guess, but empty calories for the spirit. What do I know, really? Not much!

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in reply to: On The Wild Edge #46976

Hey Duncan – Just wanted to say I was a tobacco picker too in my youth. Dirty, rotten work under netting (shade tobacco) but it sure smelled good drying in the barns! Green Army like buses would pick us up at our houses and ship us to the fields. Fights between us locals and poor kids from Appalachia were legendary! Sorry if I’m off topic.just bonding with a site homie:)

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