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in reply to: Judging Distances #53413

In all seriousness Jim, I have a habit of trying to guesstimate yardages all the time when I’m out and about. I do not think yardages when shooting my bows but when I shot wheels years ago (I saw strange colors then too sometimes :P) I used sights and the habit developed. I can see where to those who point gap or to those who string walk that it’s imperative to know distance. If I ever try to consciously use the tip of my arrow as a reference point in relation to my intended target I’m really screwed so I have no need to know yardages (meterages to you 😕 ). Be interesting to see how others do it or why they don’t.

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in reply to: Judging Distances #53336

Hey Jim, maybe that’s why I never hit anything:D, I just look at it and shoot at it. How far????:?

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in reply to: What Has Messed With Us!! #52189

And laugh their little arses off while you’re in the ditch after dodging the little imps. 😀

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in reply to: What Has Messed With Us!! #51118

Probably better ways to grill turkey! :D:D

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in reply to: The 2013 Season Bulletin Board #49555

Way to go!!! Congrats!

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in reply to: Shot Placement #48802

My wife, darling she is, helps me out when I start shooting left (I be right handed)”Keep your hand to your face dummy” she offers. OK, it works. 😉

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in reply to: What Has Messed With Us!! #48759

Pre-cooked too! Perhaps a bit hard to chew on though.

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in reply to: The 2013 Season Bulletin Board #47777

Way to go:lol::lol:. My day, eight mule deer does, 3 mule deer bucks (far, far away, like in never, never land today) and some people might not think as I on this, hallelujah I got rained out. That hasn’t happened around here in a long time.

Purty start of day!!

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in reply to: Foiled by darkness! #47747

I hope y’all try to avoid that stuff as I do:D. I plucked the fruit to eat a few times. Survival input at best. Doesn’t taste bad, you gotta burn all the little fuzzy thorns off the fruit before you bite into it (lesson learned!) and the fruit is full of itty bitty seeds. I mashed the purple juice out of some fruits once, tried thinning it down to dye some white feathers. Was a mess but I got some kinda purpleish looking white feathers. I’ll try different if I ever get ambitious again.

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in reply to: Paleo Site #44337

That’ll be interesting to sort through while wind blowing 30-40 mph out today and tomorrow. I have this book but it’s pretty much geological like it’s title says. I oughta be hunting but in this open country and high winds all I ever do is kick things out of deep draws and they haul butt. I don’t do running shots, not because I can’t, but I can’t:D and won’t.

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in reply to: lessons learned #43841

Batteries, batteries! That “them things I wish I’d brung some of’em”?:D When I was in the corps we couldn’t interpret the signal from Sputnik. :D, so kindly persuasion from wanna be DI’s in ITR taught me the value of compass and map. Camp Horno at Camp Pendleton had way too many rattlers in the area to go roaming around in the dark without a return guide plus the ice cream and cookies given upon a proper and timely return to point “A” were an incentive:P. Maybe not those. Ever been “swimming in the sand”? Bet a few of you know about that. 😉 Don’t miss point “B” or “C”!

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in reply to: Paleo Site #43116

I’m having fun with this one too. I’ve been gathering stuff for a long, long time 😀 This a fossilized bone from something. About 8″ long and 4 1/2″ at widest point.

Interesting piece of petrified wood. Just smooth as glass. We think it might have been used in the animal hide working process. It’s about 5″x7″ and 1 3/4″ thick. I found both of these within 50 yds. of each other a couple of years ago. I have a big place to look for goodies whilst chasing stump shot arrows. When hunting too.

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in reply to: Paleo Site #42136

It’s just different angles of the same tool. I think maybe it was a hoe type tool myself but I’m not sure.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Paleo Site #42001

I like to find tools like this one. Not sure what it was used for. We have several similar.

It’s about 7″x4″.

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in reply to: Foiled by darkness! #41968

No poison ivy, just a variety of pokies 😀 Bear grass (kind of yucca) prickly pear cactus, barrel cactus ( they’re small and get you when you ain’t looking), mesquite trees have thorns anywhere from an inch to two inches long (hard on tires and thin soled boots too) just to name some of them. Then there’s this weed, know not what it is, that when the seed pod dries and you bump into it you think your being buddies with a rattler. I don’t like the dark out there much.

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