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in reply to: Aerial shooting video!? #53610
Hi man
The more you practice the luckier you get, nice shooting, I enjoyed watching that.
Mark.
in reply to: Interesting Bear Situation #52156Hi Dave T
Just looked at your pic in the gallery, nice bear, congratulations.
Good luck to your dad, Mark.
in reply to: BLOOD TRAILING BASICS #50908Hi Steve
Congratulations on an excellent post, I’ve been hunting for 30+ years and it never hurts to recap on the points that you have mentioned and for anyone starting out it’s a must read article.
Mark.
in reply to: Oh so close – yet so far! #50761Hi Clay
Just read your post it made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.
Next time buddy, Mark.in reply to: Crawling with a bow #50749Hi Sscoyote
Crawling on hands and knees, try slinging the bow diagonally across your front, use any old piece of cord with two generous loops either end as a sling across your back. This works well keeps your profile and amplified movement low, it allows you to unsling the bow without any movement above the bodyline.
Crawling prone takes a bit more practice but lay the bow across the back of your forearms with your thumb through the bow sting, its really awkward but the only way I’ve found to work.
Good luck and get some knee protectors from the hardware store.
Mark.
in reply to: Homemade Cresting Tool #49851Hi Steve
An elegant solution, I like it.
Mark.
in reply to: hunting shows part 2 #48903Hi Jonny………I’m home
Debate v Argument
You can’t compare commercial programming and public service TV.
Commercial programming is there to entertain us, you may occasionally be ‘informed’ but it aint goin to happen every day, it’s designed to appeal to a wide audience and generally the lowest common denominator.
Instructional videos are just that sit down pay attention pause rewind learn.
Personally I like a mixed diet.
Having been chastised for making a ‘comment’ about an earlier post I better leave things there.
Mark.
in reply to: Anniversary issue is out! #26530FIRED! the First Lady of Traditional Bowhunting, who said that!
in reply to: Anniversary issue is out! #25596Mine arrived yesterday, it’s been hidden so that I have something to read on vacation.
Any other time that would be grounds for divorce.
Pothunter.
in reply to: hunting shows part 2 #20855Hi Greatreearcher
There are some folks that will argue with the guy in the shaving mirror, don’t bite, his meds just need reviewing.
Mark.
in reply to: Defining "Traditional" Bowhunting #20844Teeth Grrrrrrrrr.
in reply to: Sharpening question for Standing bear or Ron #19685Completely off topic but that’s the way my brain is wired.
Dave used the term “full 9 yards” for those that might be interested, during WW1 Vickers machineguns were fed with belts 9 yards long and when things got a bit hairy the command was ‘give em the whole 9 yards’.
Sorry about the diversion but the whole subject of where terms such as this come from fascinates me.
Mark.
in reply to: NRA pros and cons #16689Hi All
Fascinating debate, I live in the UK where things are a little different, the majority of people have only ever seen guns on the TV so their idea of a hunting rifle is an M16 and they believe that a .223 round will blow up a car.
The majority of my friends hunt and fish to different degrees but those that don’t are always fascinated to find that I have a cupboard full of rifles and shotguns and treat them almost like pornography they really want to look and touch but aren’t sure if they should, always makes me laugh. Some will come clay pigeon shooting when the offer is made or to the range and very occasionally hunting.
Bowhunting has been banned for many years so we have to travel for everything, France is about 3-8 hours depending on the port or tunnel I leave from so it’s not so far and the tradition of taking a bow to France goes back to the middle ages (they don’t like to be reminded of that) but I have always found the French to be good companions and hosts. A bit off subject but what I was getting round to is the look on people’s faces when I tell them I’m going bow hunting for wildboar, that’s when all look at me as if I’m mad.
Back to your debate, you may consider how and why the current legislation came to be in place and the context that it was made in. How that legislation has been amended and why and what amendments to it are right and proper and will benefit those that inherit your legislative system in 50 and 100 years time.
Don’t get so caught up in the present that you lose site of the whole picture, just the observations of one who has been fighting this battle for 35 years.
Mark.
20/08/09
Last night I watched a documentary ‘Gun Nation’ I can’t see how you start to review any of the US firearms legislation. More confused than ever now. Mark.in reply to: Spot and stalk black bear? #16662Dave / Don
Thanks for the information and photographs, from looking again at your first picture I can see that she is not carrying any weight two cubs must take a lot out of her when they have to put on enough weight to take them through the winter.
In your area when do they den up and do they hibernate right through the winter. How much weight must she put on before the winter, and when does your hunting season start and end.
I had not considered colouration and altitude being related and thought that it might be either dietary or local variations such as you might see in deer.
Sorry about all the questions, just curious, best regards, Mark.
in reply to: String keeps breaking? #13388Greatreearcher
You won’t effect the tiller by cleaning up the groves in the nocks, try a leather lace coated in polish the kind used for polishing chrome on cars. Put the lace into the grove and use a sawing action, just a little at a time you don’t want to cut through the varnish.
Although speaking the manufacturer is a sensible thing to do especially if it’s still under warranty.
Mark.
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