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in reply to: 7 year spike #37086

Some pics of heaven there. Nicely done and enjoy the gift of the elk.

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in reply to: Elkheart radio interview #37067

Enjoyed and thanks for passing along! I think there is a Curt Gowdy-like (Red Sox and American Sportsman broadcaster, etc., back in the day) resonance in Daves’ voice too that makes for easy listening.

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in reply to: Rub-a-dub-dub #34476

obviously a big “Squatch working a selfbow on the stump. That is a sight!

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #30781

I did quite a bit of field work yesterday and must have walked at least a few miles of chest high, ragweed and bullthistle infested right of way. I think it really pissed off my immune system because only now has my nose stopped running. There was greenbriar mixed in and and at one point I said, out in the middle of nowhere “I hate the f’in outdoors”! I will poke my head out in my hunting area near home this weekend, but not today..

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in reply to: Thought I would Share….My first Longbow Elk #28886

You must be elk-static! Nice going.

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in reply to: Campfire Cooking #25567

I’m a simpleton I guess:wink: Dinty Moore beef stew or hotdogs or some Mt. House meal. That is, unless I’m with someone who knows how to cook and I can mooch! Go get them bears! I get FB posts from a Maine camp that has posted a # of pics of successful “sports”. Go get ’em Johnny! Don’t let us Yanks get the “bear-st” of ya:lol: All the best!

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in reply to: Coyote/Wolf hybrids #25562

I noticed a much larger animal in western New England back in the early 80’s. As large as a big German Shepherd and far more “wolfish” than the typical western coyote. There has to have been some doggystyle messing around in the gene pool.

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in reply to: Empathy for wildlife #25166

I’ve commented on this topic several times now and am not sure I represented myself well? To sum up, I don’t anthropomorphize, i.e. “here comes mom Sally with her two fawns Bambi and Skipper”. Good Lord I couldn’t even hunt if thought in those terms. Empathy to me implied identification with in a personal way. As animate life we all deserve the dignity in our effort to survive. Dave nailed it with the use of that word. Like most here, I have sat deep in the forest with a nothing but the wind and the emptied out eyes of the “kill” at my feet. I have to sit there a while before I can begin the necessary tasks. That is proper respect and I consider that a Holy time. I know soon enough in the grand scheme my eyes will glass over too and the world will end. I can only hope our Grim Reaper will hover with such love as the sun goes down.

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in reply to: Elk month #18887

Good luck! I hear if you find that brass bugle you’re in a killer spot. They like to keep it tucked in the brush near a wallow I hear…:lol:

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in reply to: 2014 Hunting #16742

Best of luck to you SH! take lots of pics.

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in reply to: Kodak Challenge #16728

Keep them coming! Here’s a 70’s era tree stand I built. I had to strike a pose you know, because my girlfriend at the time took the pic. Wish I was 18 again, but with a few more brains than I had then:lol:

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in reply to: Empathy for wildlife #16703

Duncan, that was excellent. You summed up so well what I’d gather most of us feel. I may well be afraid of too much empathy toward what I hunt.

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in reply to: Empathy for wildlife #14512

My wife says “are you off your soapbox yet”? when I get a good rant going:lol: Mostly I like the smell of damp fall leaves and a nice rub line deep in the woods to put the mind on a shelf.

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in reply to: Empathy for wildlife #13068

Ptaylor wrote: But Paleoman, How can you not get too deep into the sentience of an animal? Especially if you need to understand their behavior so intricately as to get within 20 yards of them, or set and ambush because you know they feed, bed, or walk by a particular spot? With all the time we get watching animals, how could you not develop strong feelings towards them?

I appreciate your responses, they get me to think.

I do have strong feelings for them but not on a personal level like between people. I know there’s probably a lot going on in those minds, but they took a seperate evolutionary path and to sound dumb… I like it that way. I got interested in Stephen Hawking at one point, until it dawned on me he’s torn the fabric of space and time apart and ends up with a big, depressing pile of nothing. But, I have my doubts he or anyone else has it all figured out. It may well be we are all looked upon as murderers of sentient life someday…but for now, I accept the world as it is. If I was to get too “into” it all I’d end up in a Monastery looking for answers or some peace with myself I understand may never be found. So, long story short, if I think too much about things, I just bog my brain down rather than living life. None of that may make any sense and applies only to me:D

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in reply to: Empathy for wildlife #12197

Empathy is not the right word for me. I could not let an arrow go if I got too deep into the sentience of the being I’m aiming at. I accept the predator/prey paradigm. Respect and reverence, with the home team advantage is fine with me.

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