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in reply to: Getting in shape #52025
Schnapps NO, Innis and Gunn.
The joys of having a brother with a pub, Im off to ‘beer club’ its a little like an iron gym without the pain, sweat or weights.
Mark.
in reply to: My first "harvest"… #51992Good result, there are some good apps available Ive just looked and found Fungitron – mushroom guide for android.
Gives clear indication of what not to eat etc.
Happy hunting, Mark.
in reply to: What to know about Stalking #43919ColMic suggested a sand box, great idea nobody uses these now its all trail cams but the tracks will teach you more than pics, set them up all over, firm base about an inch of sand is all you need and you will learn so much.
I have a battered copy of ‘Collins Guide to Animal Tracks and Signs’ by Preben Bang its European based but there is a lot of common info that’s really good.
http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/nature/tracking.shtml these are interesting.
Mark.
in reply to: Noise, wheels and getting around. #42827I’d guess the weight of an equivalent electric vehicle is going to be greater than that of the gas powered machine, with less range and endurance making it less agile. The upside is that if it runs out of juice the rider is screwed, hows it getting out without being towed.
Battery life will be unpredictable due to terrain, temperature and natural deterioration in the life of the battery.
Electric vehicles may not be as noisy or pump out Co2 but the manufacture of the batteries, recycling and disposal of waste chemicals is a big issue. They are not green.
The one exception I see is Segways for disabled folks.
Cant help though when it comes a humane way of dealing with these things.
Mark.
in reply to: England big Cats #35205I hear that Liverpool has become the capital of Ireland and that we’ve applied to set up an embassy.
Little known pub quiz fact, Switzerland has an embassy in Geneva because guest workers outnumber residents.
BBA shoot, I’m undecided, competition brings out the worst in me! but I would like to support the cause, if you’re planning to come over where do you fly into.
Mark.
in reply to: England big Cats #26105Hi Mike, according to satnav (satanic navigator) 612 miles and an overnight ferry, I’m in Switzerland this week.
However next month you may be picking mushrooms. Damned fool idea duelling someone might get hurt.
Mark.
in reply to: England big Cats #25347Mike, ‘niebouring colony’ how very dare you sir, where’s my dueling pistol.
Mark.
in reply to: Stonehenge a giant blind? #21989No, docking station for visitors……I have evidence, many of them can be seen during the solstice.
There is no evidence it was a bowling alley for giants that’s just silly.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #21984Good to be out stretching the sinews and feeling the sun.
Mark.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #20846Been cleaning the truck off and on since Saturday youngest son has another passing out parade this Friday so the girls have all got new dresses and I got no money left!
Saturday too early driving to Switzerland 12 hours plus stops via France and Germany, factory tours and meetings all week, must be on best behavior.
Jim, my grandad was in Egypt during WWII and developed a deep hatred of camels that I knew nothing about until he took us to the zoo when I was a kid, he stood in front of the enclosure and described every kick, bite, spit and nasty bodily function he had ever encountered, took a while. If you bag one your going to need a bigger barbie.
Mark.
in reply to: pray for us #20649I hope you all got out safe, all my best to you, your family and neighbors. Hope the rain lets up soon.
Mark.
in reply to: longer distances #18744For fun I can get about 45 paces, I take a shot walk forward whilst nocking the next arrow and shoot again when its on the string I can generally get four arrows off between 45 and 5 paces from the target.
You might try different shooting positions to mix it up a bit, add a few obstacles, get some movement into the target but I cant see how you can make the distance any longer.
Dave, the EU discourage shooting pointy sticks at our cousins across the water we have to be content with THRASHING them on the rugby pitch.
Mark.
in reply to: English Longbow #15396For me this is a fascinating subject but there is little hard evidence regarding the archers, most were illiterate and the heralds only recorded the bare minimum.
The archers almost certainly would have engaged at extreme range with barbed broadheads to debilitate the horses and disrupt the line, dropping these onto the knights and their horses would have been the signal to charge, its said that they rode knee to knee making an even better target individually they were vulnerable and could not penetrate the line and would almost certainly be pulled down taken prisoner for ransom or killed.
The program only touched on the ‘forest of arrows’, imagine as a foot solider being crammed into the line and marched through a thicket of arrows standing 3′ tall pushed from behind, broken arrow tips sticking into feet arrows falling from above but if you raised a shield, assuming you had one, being shot in the legs and groin.
Then once on the floor having some snotty kid doing his best to finish you off with a rusty knife, dull axe or hammer, child soldiers are nothing new. And to add insult he’s going to strip you naked and steel everything, not much has changed.
Bit of a historic jump but last year I visited Omaha beach in Normandy, by luck the tide was out so I walked down to the tideline to look up the beach to where the emplacements would have been, jeez that is a long way with no cover its a miracle anybody survived, made me pause for thought.
Mark.
in reply to: Spalted Maple Bow #12790Cameron, that is a thing of rare beauty.
Mark.
in reply to: Worried About Myself #63648For me bowhunting slows everything down and then if I take time just to sit quite and listen to nature it accepts me and the forest comes back to life.
Its then that I see, hear and sense more I guess I am seeing the fine detail.
I feel the need to hunt and satisfaction when friends and family enjoy the meat served with vegetables that my wife has grown.
I probably enjoy the butchery more than the killing, there’s a weird closeness that we never experience with a wild animal in life.
Beginning to sound like a tree huger, must go shoot something.
Mark.
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