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in reply to: Backcountry College – Navigation II #57957

colmike wrote: Check out “The Natural Navigator” Tristan Gooley. Some neat stuff from the old ones, a good read, and it even has pictures to illustrate, so Dave and Bruce should be able to follow along:D.

Telling time: your arm extended with index and little finger spread wide subtends an arc on the sky of 15 degrees. The distance of the sun’s apparent movement in one hour (hence our time zones). Using your fingers as dividers you can walk the sun down to sunrise or sunset and calculate the time to either event if you know time of sunrise/set. More useful you can estimate remaining daylight hours for construction of shelter. and gathering firewood. If horizon is behind mountains just guesstimate where it is.

Mike

I never knew that. Thanks!

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in reply to: On TeeVee hunting heroes #54846

Watch out for limbs and trees busting down on your top knot and downed lines. I’m in the elec utility industry and we are always screwed with a big ice storm. I think of the local Amish and figure they’re doing something right. Never that simple, but then again maybe it is!

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in reply to: How long before your first harvest? #54406

Not embarrassed (well, a little..)to say I’m still waiting on the bow. I had my successes with the old compound years ago and the graph would look like I went right off the edge of a steep cliff picking up trad gear. But, it also happened to coincide with my own “awakening” that success does not equal a carcass at my feet. I think that comes with age as I’m no one special. I just don’t work half as hard at it as I used to and it shows:)

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in reply to: Are The Young Hunters Out There? #54387

Doc Nock wrote: [quote=grumpy]Yes, I’m a young hunter.

Now, Grumpy… I think the poster meant are there hunters out there who are YOUNG! NOT young at heart! 😆

Yeah. You have to be surgery free for more than a year too:lol: This includes me. I’m in good shape for a guy my age, but yesterday a.m. bent over to pick up something I spotted on the floor and the bowstring in my back snapped. Holy Maria I couldn’t even get out of bed this a.m.! Up and moving now, but this s&%t never happened in my 20’s:? So, we are not the youth I refer to:)

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in reply to: Good news for hunting #52102

skinner biscuit wrote: Good article.Brings me back to the days when I was in my 20s in the working poor class.I bought a 303 British no4 for $50 with a cut forend held to the barrel with a pipe clamp.Went to a gun show and bought the metal forend piece and made a fit with a handsaw and chisel.Ejector spring and front sight protector were purchased as well(cheap).Made quite a handsome sporter.Old timer sharp finger(bi mart $12) and army surplus wool(goodwill).I brought home many of blacktails with that old gun, mainly does. Cut them up myself and used a hand crank meat grinder.Those were good days.

I did more or less the same thing. Picked one of those right out of a barrel as that was all I could afford. Thanks for bringing back a memory.

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in reply to: Rookie Mistakes #50437

That’s great Jim! I’ve never run after a billy goat with a knife but I have lost track of my gear once or twice in the thick stuff too. It is uniquely humbling!

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in reply to: Good news for hunting #50427

I enjoyed reading that. I think anyone on this site for 2 yrs or more ought to get an A.A. degree cuz you sure learn a lot and my head ain’t even sore from it:D

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in reply to: Nice Rub #49321

I will tell ya…I’m in it for a crabclaw now! 2 solid days in the woods and I’ve seen 1 deer. A couple more days and I have to head home. I can already taste skunk. But, I had a great Bologna sandwich high up on some sacred ground for me. If I dropped dead right there I’d have croaked happy.

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in reply to: Nice Rub #49302

Ha! Crabclaw. In all my yes of hunting I never heard that but I know exactly what you mean:D

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in reply to: On TeeVee hunting heroes #48239

colmike wrote: Dave

Are you sure he isn’t related:D. Great rant. Thankfully we don’t do TV but the few times I watched those things in motels while traveling–lasted about 2 minutes.

Warrior wannabe’s in my estimation–let them join up where the prey shoots back.

Semper Fi

Mike

I agree. Some of these “sports” are so damn brainwashed to go get an AR, paint up like they’re an “elite” warrior and all that nonsense. I swear it’s put out there on purpose so little Johnny gets his chance to get his/her arse shot off and think it’s so cool until they’re slipping on someone’s guts for real. I don’t much like blood and guts because I’ve seen it in the woods. Why the F glory in it. That’s sick. There’s a great place for guys like ColMike, Iraq, Afghan and all vets who’ve seen the real deal to help stifle this militarism of the outdoors.

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in reply to: Nice Rub #46512

Yeah. He hit it low. If you zoom in a bit you can see the bark shreds a little better. There was a scrape at the base too that doesn’t show. Don’t know if the same or several bucks rubbed this tree, but my gut tells me there’s a big boy out and about. The last 2 yrs I’ve seen thigh size stuff too.Here’s another of a few like it I found yesterday too.

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in reply to: HAPPY THANKSGIVING! #42443

There is/was a restaurant in Gaylord, Mi. (The Gobbler). with that phrase as its’ catch phrase. So, as usual, I’m ripping off others’ originality:)

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in reply to: Stream Crossing #41952

They’re calling more for heavy rain today where I’m heading. It’s the trip from Mi. Once you hit eastern Oh, Pa and upstate NY traveling conditions look horrible…heavy snow, ice. My hunting won’t start until Monday so it’s all good. Using my most modern tool…a traditional cap lock on this hunt though. Usually no one around but the wind and the ridges. It’s like the idea of America up there. Freedom!

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in reply to: Stream Crossing #41912

Thank you Jason! I’d have never thunked of that on my own. Always just got wet! Delayed a couple days now driving out due to the winter storm….ugh..I’m ready to hunt!

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in reply to: Blackbeard Bound! #41371

Aw man, have fun! This stuff is better than Christmas morning. Have a safe and fun hunt!

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