[Ralph]

in reply to: Hunting canoe #52913

Hey Jim, they make battleships out of iron and they float. Need iron canoe in croc country? Use aluminum outriggers to lighten it. 😕 Just thinkin which I shouldn’t do often methinks 😉

[Ralph]

in reply to: two good finds #52909

Hey grumps, umbrella may a bit of a problem around here but in forested areas like you have I bet it’d work if you can figure out to shoot over, under, around it. You need comfortable chair so you can take good naps and miss the neat stuff like me sometimes.

[Ralph]

in reply to: ARROWS #52812

Just taking it all in and thinkin on it!:D Straightening arrows with one hand be bout like the lady checker with her arm in a sling trying to keep up with the $10, $5 and 2, $1 bills at the checkout today with a fan as big as me blowing across the counter, only what you do be harder. Good you have some help making a peanut butter sandwhich. If she don’t eat with an ornery smile.

A fletcher is one who builds arrows. Fletching is installing feathers on an arrow. Fletches just comes natural with fletchering. An old archer’s invented word I bet. Sounds better than a feather’er feathering with feathers whilst he’s a fletching 😉 If using plastic vanes you be a vaner? In trouble with the locals, tarred and fletched? What’s worse, wet feathers or wet fletches:? 🙄

It’s hot out and I’m bored! Simple mindedness is what 95* weather does to one who has no arrows to straighten. Got some comin tho. Top o’line. Bet there ain’t a crooked one in the bunch. Ha! They (the shafts) crook in the box on their way to my house!

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #51729

Sorry, pics not that great, one of those deals when good camera needed it needed fresh batteries. Anyway at the archery range this AM, about 3 hens and 10-12 half grown poults.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Bow quivers #51715

I tried a bolt on w/removable quiver on my Samick and awkward it was to me. I have this one arrow quiver I got from Alaskan Bowhunter Supply and thought I’d experiment. Love it.!! I wear a G Fred type quiver when I’m hunting so I have enough arrows but when making a stalk I remove it and carry two arrows in hand. With this rig I can carry one arrow in hand and have the other handy :D.

It is hardly noticeable in weight and no unbalance of the bow.

I have modified the bottom part of the quiver to put my arrows further behind the bow.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Totems #50834

OK, you made this Texas Panhandle redneck look up “buckeye”

Nuts to you:lol::lol::lol:

Thanks, my curiosity always working.

[Ralph]

in reply to: 7 GPP #50421

Check out link “Making carbon arrows heavy”. Weed eater string rattles. 7 gpp scares me but I’m a 10-11 gpp guy!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Totems #50420

Hey Tombow. Me and a pine martin have a bit of an issue. Only one hungry one though. I’d hiked three miles into a series of lakes on the Grand Mesa, fishing, had my gear laying up on the bank a ways behind me and was tending to my fishing business when I heard some noise. That hungry pine martin was starring me right in the eye with both my sandwiches half eaten and the rest hanging out of his mouth. Dang. I had an issue with him for sure. You’d think after 40 yrs. though I’d have forgotten and forgiven. :D:D I have! Forgiven anyway. Hell, those guys gotta work harder for lunch than I. Didn’t consider that on that day though.

It is totally amazing to watch the agility of both squirrels and pine martins as the martin is trying to catch lunch. Feed a martin, save a squirrel. Kind of a “green” day. 😀

Was a good fishing day. Skeeters feasted well that day also.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Watch your fingers! #47221

I’ll be durned:D

[Ralph]

in reply to: Pushing the limits #46453

Mine’s pretty cool about most things but when it comes to cleaning critters or burning feathers it don’t happen in “her” house. 😀

[Ralph]

in reply to: Alaskan Adventure, Young, 1922/23 #46450

Thanks Jim. Always a great watch. Art and Captain Jack were tougher than nails. Fun to watch Art Young shoot. Tain’t no foolin’ around. Draw it back and shoot!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Noteable Quotes! #44742

“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” – The Shootist (1976)

“Well, son, since you haven’t learned to respect your elders, it’s time you learned to respect your betters.” – Big Jake (1971)

Can ya tell I been watchin’ John Wayne? 😆

He’s just pretty darn traditional I think.

“Sorry don’t get it done, Dude.” – Rio Bravo (1959)

[Ralph]

in reply to: Wild Shots #43927

Yea, yesterday at a 3D shoot!!! 10’d a walking bear at about 15 yds, 10’d a raccoon at about 6 yds. walked up to a javalina at about 10 yds. shot a foot over his back. Now that’s a DUH! Brain****s come natural at my age I guess:D Right David? 😉

[Ralph]

in reply to: Totems #41351

Very good Bruce, the wisdom of Poe!

`’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door –

Only this, and nothing more.’

I’ll add a little, only me tapping at nature’s door. There is a spirit within me that is of nature. She and it must unite and I’m lucky to be along for the ride.

I don’t know why but when I see coyotes it makes my day. I know when they’re moving about others are too. Or will be if the coyote’s having a good day 😀

[Ralph]

in reply to: Wild Voices #38616

I, like you, love the fall of the year. I have to wait for awhile for the coming of the cranes and geese but they come in the multitudes when it happens.

My wife and I were discussing yesterday eve over a cup of coffee how the air seems to calm and begins to take on a bit of a golden glow.

Gotta remember though, time to put a warm coat back in the truck!

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