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in reply to: Prelude #42040

Yep I am really enjoying this issue of TBM. I’ve been reading it slowly, 1 article/morning before work. Seems like every single feature represents the best of why we do it the way we do out there. Nice work TBM.

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in reply to: My new baby #51667

Congrats!

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in reply to: NEW BOW! #20921

Grumps, how old was your bear bow? Did you purchase it new from them? Or from a vendor? I’m just wondering to evaluate customer service. Sure sounds like they took good care of you.

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in reply to: On The Wild Edge #51740

We really enjoyed the film. I wonder, was it intentional to not show the kill or were they not able to film it? Either way it departed, again, from the usual hunting media. David is a great inspiration.

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in reply to: On The Wild Edge #45586

Just got my copy in the mail. Cooking dinner and we’ll watch it tonight.

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in reply to: Stumping and game cam check #57494

Nice pictures. IT’s always exciting checking game cameras.

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in reply to: broadhead practice #32955

Man, it’s interesting 2 of you guys have mentioned the stump. Unfortunately there’s too many gigantic stumps with flat tops to them around here. I would’ve loved to see these port-orford cedar woods before they were cut. Only 4% of the original old-growth redwoods remain, and man are they spectacular.

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in reply to: broadhead practice #27745

I left out 2 misses 😆 I’ve started using a gap-point aiming method and it has dramatically increased my accuracy and consistency. It took me a while to admit the “instinctive” thing might not be working so well. Instinctive shooting was just so romantic, but not the best for me.

The deer out here definitely have legs, and they use them!

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in reply to: Summer fun and early season #27709

I just realized, these are not the spliced fletchings. He had a few with him that had some color to them, he spliced red and white feathers together for each vane. It looked cool.

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in reply to: Summer fun and early season #27699

Bruce,

Here are Matt’s arrow fletchings. Like I said these are wood arrows he planed down himself.

Turnips are great. When I make stews I like to use the often “forgotten” roots like turnip, rutabaga, celery root, and parsnip. They add a great flavor.

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in reply to: Summer fun and early season #28443

Jackrabbit tasted excellent. Seriously. We roasted the legs on a stick over the coals. I’ve done this with squirrels and it seems to work well; the idea is the outside of the meat cooks dry and creates a seal, then the inside meat gets steamed. Came out tender. We ate the liver and heart too which were very good; cooked in tinfoil next to coals.

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in reply to: Summer fun and early season #18819

Bruce,

Those are wood arrows Matt planed down himself, and the feathers are a combo style. Where he spliced different colors into the same “vane” spot, if that makes sense. I can get a photo of them from him if you’re interested in seeing finer scale pics.

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in reply to: Sharpening Tool #9171

Good article Steve, thanks for sharing.

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in reply to: Best target #50506

These are all neat ideas.

I can’t use hay here cause it starts to grow in the rainy season and molds and falls apart. What I’ve figured out is to use the swamp below my house as a backstop. That way I can put anything out there as a target and if I miss the arrows goes into the mud, easy to find and no stones. So I’ll throw all kinds of targets down there. One of my favorites to use are washed up buoys I collect from the beach. And I like the pie tins cause they “tink” when hit.

I do have a yellow jacket field point target that is pretty durable. I like Ed’s idea of a sand pile for broadhead practice.

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in reply to: Toxophilus in Arcadia #50414

Opossums- Only recently have I seen WILD possums, in the woods, eating falling tan oak acorns, miles from any house or town. I’d thought that I’d eat one of those opossums, but not any near towns seeing what they eat.

DWC- I bought a few books by Richard Nelson this summer. I’ve had it on my list for a while after hearing so much about him, mainly from Dave P. I read The Island Within, and it was fantastic. Even better was Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America; I think that was one of the best books on deer I have read. And I also bought Make Prayers to the Raven but I have not started it yet.

Since we’re on the topic of books, this summer I also read The Old Way by Elizabeth Marshal Thomas. That book along with one of her others: The Harmless People, are a great look at the lifestyle of the original hunter gatherers.

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