[Ralph]

in reply to: Glove vs. tab #29445

One thing about a tab, it’s easy to roll it around to the back of your hand and operate things like zippers rather than taking your glove off to take care of business. Far as I’m goin’ with that. 😆 I’m talking about taking your coat off and such of course. :~))

[Ralph]

in reply to: Glove vs. tab #29270

Cool how things can change uh! I really did a number on the meaty part of my bow hand before Thanksgivings and have not been able to shoot with a low grip on my longbows. Matter of fact couldn’t shoot for awhile period. I’ve figured out a way to shoot with a high wrist but it feels uncomfortable with my tab for some reason. I, like you, learned to shoot with a glove, went to a tab for years, and now something feels funny and the glove feels great again:?::?::?: Probably temp though. I’ve always stayed familiar with a glove and a tab with the thinking that one or the other may be all I might have access to at some place or another sometime.

May be it’s partially due to my hands getting old and it’s easier to hang on to the string with the glove.Dunno. I let my third and middle finger slip off the string a couple of times last year using my tab and that kinda bothered me as to why.

Anyway, good luck and if it feels good, do it! At least with the tab vs. glove, some other things….well :lol::lol::lol::lol:

[Ralph]

in reply to: Any Boker Knife guys out there? #26929

I had a Boker “Tree Brand” that I carried for years. It disappeared from a motel room where I was once upon a time. I fought the battle but lost. I really liked that knife.

That’s cool what you have.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Had to take a second look #22779

A tailless coon tale! Cool :D:D Keep your camera handy cause them pesky raccoons have a bad habit of not going away.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Self made pack frame #20434

One could back up to a round bail, hook up and take off! 😀

That’s neat.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Ancient canyon #17127

Geological time is very difficult to imagine. In the words of Wes Phillips, “rocks are unimaginably old, and the same is true of rocks in the Texas Panhandle.” The current landscape of the Texas Panhandle began it’s development about 70,000,000 years ago with the uplift of the Rocky Mountains. Imagine a landscape structure 700,000 centuries of old!

The natural erosion created by the westerly weather patterns flowed down in elevation and to the east and the naturally agraded streams fanned out into alluvial formations. The calcium saturated water evaporated leaving thick layers of hard dolomite that eventually formed the Caprock. With a subsequent layer of loam clay forming on top, the flat surface of the Llano Estacado was formed.

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/villagers/index.html

Maybe this helps if it all works.

The Comanches are the most infamous here but they were the latest to occupy the area. You can research Quanah Parker for lots of interesting history.

There is a lot of limestone in some areas but the main rock is way hard. We have bunches of flint also. The Alibates flint Quarry is an interesting research also.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Ancient canyon #17005

Holes in the rock resulting from the grinding of corn with a mano.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Ancient canyon #15848

Thanks! I enjoyed that. I just absolutely love archaeology. If I had do overs that’s what I’d do methinks. I used to find a lot of stuff around the Grand Mesa area of Colo. I hope it’s still there. I wouldn’t tell anybody where it was, just enjoyed the find.

I found this metate up on the Canadian River north of Amarillo where I hunt. I know where several more are but my wife and I keep it to ourselves. Best shared by photos.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Facial Recognition #10602

At my mom and dad’s place they had in Co., they always had something for the deer in the evenings, apple or something. I don’t know if the deer knew the difference by sight, which I suspect, or smell or both, but they knew I wasn’t the right one to be toting out the apples. If I was there a week or two they would come to me when I brought an apple but I had to chunk it out to to them. They ate out of mom and dad’s hands. They’d quit when the bucks got feisty though.

Some of us might look better with a sack over our head too you reckon? :lol::lol:

[Ralph]

in reply to: New Member From Oregon #9125

Hello!!! Good to have you!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Less of Dave Petersen, please! #7823

You could always use an alias with the word “elk” in it and no one would even have a clue!:lol:

[Ralph]

in reply to: 1st Tradbow Harvest #62629

That is cool!! Way to go!!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Posting Pictures in the Forums #61476

😆 Seems everything is “little” somewhere from Amarillo. I used to work (for the power co.) in Carlsbad, Hobbs, Artesia area a lot. My wife is from Artesia as a matter of fact. Used to be long old drives Friday after work and Sunday evenings getting back down there to be there Monday morning. Used to hunt the Guadalupe’s when it cost $33 for non resident archery. Always bought non-res small game license so I could play with bow and not worry bout legality! Love NM.

My latest 😆

[Ralph]

in reply to: lower draw weight–cold weather #61438

Hey, I’m 68 yrs. old and have no problems at all with shooting bows in the +/-45# range, cold or not. I think what you’re thinking on is a great idea. A well placed shot with that gitup will do the trick.It takes a well placed shot with any gitup to do the trick.So go for it. Way better than being over bowed and stiff and cold and mucking things up.

Is it stiff and cold or stiff and old I be sometimes? :lol::lol::lol: Shhhh!!!

Be well!Ralph.

[Ralph]

in reply to: To Good Not to Share #61412

Way more in life than just a “fish story”. Thanks for sharing, life is good!

Ralph.

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