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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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in reply to: Update on Larry Fischer vs The Bastard #37299

All my best once again. And thank God for modern medicine. So many of us would have been screwed over even worse if we were born a couple hundred years ago. I hope that sounds positive!

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in reply to: Lamentations #33673

R2 wrote: Paleo, I too have a dislike, on the opposite end of the spectrum, and that’s when bucks are referred to as “shooters”. What happened to “that’s a good buck” or “nice deer” or “boy he’s a good’n” or even “I think I’ll take him”. Calling a buck a “shooter” just shows no respect for the animal to me. It only reflects the “trophy” aspect of hunting, not the “hunting” aspect of hunting. IMHO

I’m with you on that one too!

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in reply to: Lamentations #33623

I agree with what you say, but I think a lot, if not most web talk is cheap. I meet all kinds of people here on public land in S Mi. during bow season and I can’t think of one jerk I’ve met. Most seem like honest Johns no matter the tool they use. Almost to the man they light up when they see my bow and a few have even commented it’s refreshing to see traditional gear. One word I absolutely despise is calling small whitetail bucks “dinks”. God I hate the ignorance in that attitude. Too much marketing I agree has an effect upon an empty head, but still, most people I’ve met in the woods over the decades gave been great.

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in reply to: Deep Woods Hunt #30046

Me too. I would rather hunt 10 deer/sq mile in big woods than 50 in a little woodlot. And the hillier and more rugged the better. I need at least a few unpressured sq miles to be truly hunting.

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in reply to: Making Amends #28304

Having been there and having giving it my all, I just get right back to the basics, understand what went wrong and get back to it hopefully a little smarter. Sometimes it takes a bit. I guess a person has to be resilient and forgive themselves if all honest efforts were made. If not you’ll end up with a neurotic complex of distorted thinking.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #27974

Are the salt water crocs an issue where you are? I’ve seen the aerial views of those in the water and OMFG I wouldn’t want to be closer than I had to!

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in reply to: More international good press for bowhunting #24932

[quote=David Petersen]This morning National Public Radio’s morning news ran this story, or one just like it, with a deer running around people’s yards with an arrow through its head and different people expressing opinions. As usual the NPR presentation was intelligent and objective. The HSUS spoke-person was of course against suburban hunting but admitted to a big problem for which her proposed cures clearly are inadequate. A NWF spokesman defended the hunts as not the sole answer but a necessary component of control, but cautioned hunters re the need for extra caution, self-restraint, precision and empathy. In all, hunters came out perhaps looking better than we always deserve. In the big picture this mess is insignificant in comparison to all the bigger impossible situations we continue to create for ourselves and nature by our compulsion to overpopulate our own kind. Nothing will get better until we deal seriously with that, and it seems locked into our genes beyond repair. Such a world![/

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Don’t ask me why but your last lament about our genes…there was a Far Side cartoon of 2 T-Rex trying to pass the potatoes at dinner…one of them said “I’m trying to pass the potatoes”! Seems we just aren’t too well equipped for some things. The “species whos’ brain developed too fast” was another future epitaph I saw somewhere too. Thank God for humor and booze.

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in reply to: More international good press for bowhunting #22598

I’m not pure in the sense I’ve always made perfect shots, but at this stage I am so happy to come home empty handed than suffer a shot like that. I’d probably hang it up right there.

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in reply to: Hunting Pressure in All It's Forms. #22139

I think I sounded crabby up there:? Too many people visiting this weekend and crowding my space.. so I kinda am. Apologies!

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in reply to: Hunting Pressure in All It's Forms. #22090

Jason and fellow Michigander:D,

I do my best to enjoy the early bow season (all I have access to is State Land), but after about now, I throw in the towel with all the looming pressure from the upcoming gun season. I haven’t had any real problems with X-bow hunters yet, and given the EHD that hit our area, we’re all in the same boat anyway. I have to get out of here, plain and simple, to really enjoy what I consider a quality hunt. It’s either the UP, or for the last few years now, I head back to western New England and hunt the hills of home. Relatively low deer #’s keep the crowds down to next to nothing and most of the fat arses can’t get up the steep ridges anyway, never mind pull anything out. That’s what keeps me in the game, knowing I can leave here. So, to sum it up, I feel your pain!

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in reply to: barefoot #20343

Stumpkiller wrote: I sail barefoot all the time.

But when hunting – not a chance. Catclaw and hawthorn, miliflori-rose, locust. I have to patch the tires on my tractor regularly that have hawthorn thorn punctures – at my age I can’t get my foot to where I can see to be plucking out thorns all the time. Frostbite might not be too much fun, either. It was 24° one morning last week. Cold for bow season.

These bad boys are hardy enough I use them for flintlock vent picks and as pegs to hold the base plugs in powderhorns. They will puncture a tire. Anout twice a year. And they are all over my property. Even the little 12″ high thornapple saplings have 1″ thorns.

Not to confound this thread with one on boots, but yeah man, got a HawTHORN right thru a Bean boot sole. Right betwixt my toes! Evil things they are to the human hoof!

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in reply to: Portraits of Remote Tribes #20339

The character in many of those faces look so genuine. It says they’ve lived! May we all look like complete s&$t by today’s standards and be proud of it.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #19883

Went out all day yesterday and saw the big SKUNK again:) Ah well, it’s going to take my area near home a few more years to recover from EHD. I did see 5 coyotes moving single file past me at 25′(from the ground) and a big mink (and 3 bushels of squirrels – I know dang well if I took the .22 after them I’d see a deer). With the guns set to start banging away next Fri. I fear I’m done with the bow very soon if not now. I haven’t seen but 4 deer all season so far and those on the first time out. Looking forward to heading E for Thanksgiving and the following week of deer season there. Parents are still alive and well in the 2nd 1/2 of their 70’s and I can walk right out the door and have several sq miles and more all to my lonesome. Not many deer but every year rubs as big as my thigh keep me on my toes! Good luck, patience and persistence to all those still pounding the ground!

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in reply to: Longbow Doe #19866

Well done Sir!

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