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in reply to: Noteable Quotes! #43294
King Harold’s last words to his son ‘watch what you are doing with that thing you’ll have somebody’s eye out’
in reply to: Sacred Places #42245Just a thought on the loss of friends, family and places, I tell myself how lucky I was to have met them known them and been there.
Grief and sorrow is me feeling sorry for myself.
As for being young again I’d do it in a heartbeat.
Mark.
in reply to: Celebration #42226I have been known to follow the tradition of the last bite, break of a piece of this years growth from a tree, the end piece goes in the animals mouth as the last bite, the next piece covers the wound and the last piece gets dipped in the blood and tucked in the side of my hat or somewhere convenient for the rest of the day.
In my mind it gives pause for reflection on the hunt, the kill and process to come.
Mark.
Just recalled I first saw this hunting with a German gentleman and he said the tree must never be cut the leaves must be torn as they would be by a deer.
I have a short length of bow cord with an old stone bead on it, its only the size of a pea so how I saw it I don’t know, I’m told its prehistory but difficult to date, often wonder how it was used.
On the same cord is a small silver skull that was on the fringes of a friends leathers when he hit a fuel spill at well over 100 mph he walked away without a scratch so I hope there is some good luck attached to this.
Next to me I have a pebble from a canoe trip that I took with my daughter.
Memory stones work well for me just by looking at them they create a map in my mind.
I like to take sometime when hunting just to sit, meditate if you like and if I’m ‘really in the zone’ as the young folks might say, animals and birds just seem to accept me especially pheasants but then they are stupid so don’t know what that says about me, deer grazing within feet and quite aware of my presence, crows skipping about all appear to just accept me.
Always like to have a knife and a silver coin about me for fear of dying without one, have a silver Crown that my grandfather carried throughout WW1, he was a boy bugler at 14 or 15, 16 when it all kicked off.
Like others have said I don’t speak about the above and its weird to see it in print but feel I’m in good company.
Mark.
in reply to: Hunting canoe #42178Cant add much to the above but it is well worth getting some paddling instruction, proper technique saves a hole lot of wasted effort and makes canoe trips a lot more comfortable.
Have fun, Mark.
in reply to: Orion Rising!! #34873I’m no good when it comes to the heavens no end of folks have pointed out the constellations and still the only one I can readily see is the big dipper or the plough.
I rely on the google sky map app.
in reply to: Grizzly hunt! #12249Wildschwein, I look forward to seeing a picture of you wearing a Grizz wrap instead of the usual boar.
Mike, bail, you recon we’ll get bail more likely a referral for psychiatric evaluation.:?
Mark.
in reply to: Grizzly hunt! #11019Col. Mike, still at the curious stage, met some French guys that were using butcher knives on broom handles, most worrying was their disregard for their own safety.
Mike Lee, a night around the camp fire with your friend Bill Love would have been good.
Mark
in reply to: How does your Garden Grow? #10138Great thread nothing like feeding family and friends from the garden. My contribution is fetching, building, carrying, digging, watering and mowing anything else is strictly under the supervision of a responsible adult.
Mark.
in reply to: Grizzly hunt! #10126Hunting predators or potential predators by traditional means I guess might be considered combative, as in some cultures where hunting ‘dangerous game’ is a right of passage, I’m thinking Inuit and polar bear, Masai and lion that kind of scenario.
Mike, by not shooting a bear was that you saying that you had nothing to prove, if you had been using trad gear do you think you may have continued to hunt?
If ever the opportunity arose part of me thinks that I would want the bear to know I was there, that I had entered his world and hopefully, possibly, bested him, there again all those teeth and claws at 20 yards I don’t know if Ive got the bottle, might be me on the menu, then again perhaps that is the whole point of hunting something that might just eat you. Does this explain the fascination I have for hunting boar with a spear although that has not got past the curiosity stage.
Just my thoughts, Mark.
in reply to: "The Good Hunt" film trailer #60783Dave P, if you are considering a book to accompany the film may I request illustrations, illustrations appear to have gone out of vogue but I for one enjoy them and they can add so much to a story, bit like Tailfeathers canoe trip. And a hardback, please.
Mark.
in reply to: "The Good Hunt" film trailer #59802I’ve been following and looking forward to the finished article since I first read about it, I’m also equally interested in Clays project and hope that the two films will complement each other.
Mark.
in reply to: Archery References in Language #59559I believe the term ‘parting shot’ is from Mongol horsemen that would lean over the back of a horse to shoot as they rode away.
‘out of the blue’ from arrows dropping vertically onto lucky recipients that could not see them falling.
‘keep it under your hat’ an expression for keeping something secret but originally for keeping bowstrings dry.
I know I have a book at home with lots of these references but in line with the spirit of the thread will resist looking them up.
Mark.
in reply to: Into The Wild #55294I have three friends in education and my wife was a nurse and midwife for 32 years she was also involved in training on behalf of UNISEF, she left the profession at christmas so I have some appreciation of the pressures you may be under.
Leave aside teaching and nursing the pressures to meet targets, complete reports, attend training courses and remain ‘current’ amongst other things is draining people of the desire to be good educators and health professionals. The lose to these professions is incalculable.
As for justifying PE I would much rather children had a rounded education. Its very easy to teach kids how to pass exams rather than give them a broad-based education that will allow them to become well interrogated contributors to society.
For your own sanity and preservation try yoga, ‘very good for the nugget’ I’m told.
If I were to jump ship I would want it to be on my terms and in my own time. It may help if you can take a step back and determine what you want to do long term, and then create a strategy that will allow you to achieve it.
Good luck with whatever you chose, Mark.
PS. From my own experience whatever you decide to do I would make very sure I had sufficient cash funds to cover my first year of any new venture or lifestyle, running out of money will is the number one reason ‘lifestyle’ changes fail.
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