[Ralph]

in reply to: What if …? #39873

Yeah, not much more fun than watching a yucca pod blow up and seeds scatter on any shot but at 40/50 yards, man that’s right on. But it (the pod) ain’t fixin to bogey for it’s life either, it’s just standing there looking like a cactus pod. Blow it up and you’re propagating the species.

I shot a buck in my younger days, can’t say dumber cause sometimes I can’t see any improvement there, at 47 paces. He was broadside, totally unaware of me. But some noise, movement :D7th sense:D told him to move. In that distance with a 54# bow he turned from broadside to facing away and the arrow penetrated to the feathers up his arse. Of course absolutely no blood trail with that kind of hit.

I did all of the proper follow up procedures, I saw where he disappeared in the scrub oak. The sandhill country I was in had a billion deer tracks and sometimes in that sand I can’t tell whether a track was made today, yesterday or tomorrow. In 3 days of searching I never found that deer. You know that was a fatal shot. It bugs me still. I fed the coyotes I’m sure but it broke my heart and broke me from long shots with any weapon. I’ve pretty much kept that to myself for 25 years but just to help somebody who thinks they be mighty mo with a bow, s… happens. We’re not using artillery and firing for effect, we’re using primitive type weaponry and trying to outsmart our game and not out shoot it.

Still there is fun in the flight of an arrow and the thrill of a long range hit, but at the proper target.

Good day, Ralph

[Ralph]

in reply to: Winter Range #38562

Amazing how we learn something sometimes. I was gonna find a humorous munchkin to stick in here and I actually had no idea there were munchkin cats.

Not implying anything about winter range, just happened.

My indoor range backstop got replaced by a new storm door and I also know about “the power of admiral type suggestions” 😀 like,”NO MORE HOLES IN DOOR”

[Ralph]

in reply to: What if …? #37602

You mean there’s still hope for me when I turn 68 in April if I don’t for…………:D Will I be an official old f..t then?

One thing about my memory, I haven’t forgotten what not to do loading a deer. My hand is way better but deep inside there’s a constant reminder.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What if …? #37523

I can’t remember anything anymore so it seems. Perhaps in a situation like that described above and my not being weighed down with the knowledge that I can’t remember, I can run just little bit fast enough. :lol::lol:

[Ralph]

in reply to: What if …? #36074

Hey WIcanner, take a big ol’bucket Jack D’s BBQ sauce for them ribs :P!! Ain’t even worried bout what’s in that. :lol::lol: Give me a roll of, I guess the way these discussions are going, a roll of recycled paper towels and let me go to town. Yum, yum!!

[Ralph]

in reply to: What if …? #34763

What if… I could get out and shoot before the 30-40 mph wind blows…

Ha!!

Waste of a perfectly good arrow though :~{

[Ralph]

in reply to: What if …? #34701

“To claim that hunting with a trad bow puts us in touch with nature and the real human soul”

Paleo:

I don’t understand that concept totally either, but each to their own. If that’s how one enjoys that’s their cool.

People are as they are but I don’t see where a trad bow becomes the “holy grail” necessary to be in tune with nature. Nature is there trad bow or not. It’s takes the human brain, senses and desire to appreciate and admire nature, not what we’re carrying in our hands. It’s what we carry in our soul.

Nature is and what we make of her is ours to enjoy or muck up. As long as my enjoyment and that of others leaves her as she be that’s cool with me.

Back to the “What if”… What if we don’t treat Mother Nature right, what have we got?

Blessed Sunday y’all:D:D Some probably would like for it to warm up whereas some others of us are going “What if it would rain????

[Ralph]

in reply to: What if …? #33896

When I go hunting deer I have every intention of putting meat in the freezer but if it doesn’t happen I’ve had a perfectly wonderful day, being alive, enjoying nature unless

something comes along that ain’t too cool.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Please post Kzoo pics here! #33879

Totem pole? Might’s well be whittling while stranded. 😀

Enjoy!!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Dumb Question… #32733

Warning, knowledge can be an expensive tool! 😆 The more I read, the more I had to play. Anymore the shipping costs will break the bank.

I did find a point (pun :?) within the methodology that made me happy.

It is in my humble opinion that 10-11 gr. per lb. will do want you need done unless you be going after “big” game. When you refer bullets vs arrows, you always gotta remember that you ain’t gonna hit a mule deer buck in the shoulder bone with any arrow and slam dunk him to the ground. You might have enough weight and momentum to penetrate the bone and hit a vital. That’s what EFOC can help do for you. There are many, many variables and quite often when I state my opinion, that gets pointed out to me. 😀 Good luck and have fun.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What if …? #30492

Joking aside from me too, it behooves us to use the proper equipment for what we pursue and have the ability and knowledge to properly use it. If not we need to go to the grocery store and buy our steaks.

Ethics seem to fall short with regularity any more and not always in the pursuit of “trophy”. “I got one” is out there too.

Use the right tool and know how to use it well.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Double Posts? #30207

😀

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[Ralph]

in reply to: What if …? #30191

Borrowing from the movie “Jaws” , kinda, “I think we need a bigger stick”.

Some critters better taken trapped in a pit or stampeded off a cliff.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Glove vs. tab #29538

I never liked stiff tabs. I like to feel the string. I make my own tabs but if I buy one I like Black Widow best. Actually I think a tab makes for a cleaner release with less poundage.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What if …? #29528

This might have had a bit to do with the migration of man out of Africa to less birdy places in Europe. Sorry too. 😕

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