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  • Ralph
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      I was sitting here pondering some of the this’s and that’s of life, sweating, thinking of a cool day hunting when the tip about wearing biker shorts popped into mind.

      Ummmmmmm…………those things got a fly?????????

      Good be a troublesome thing if not when a pair be the bottom layer under longjohns, pants, a pair of bib overalls or a pair of coveralls. Especially in cold weather, wind blowing and perched in a tree..

      Just wondering?
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        Good luck on the doe permit David.

        Seems mockingbird fledglings around here have a tendency to hop out of the nest before they can fly much so they hop around on the ground making tempting targets for the dog and stray cats. The latter being good targets for my……… :-))cat trap.

        It’s a good thing doves are so prolific.  They sit in the road until the last minute, sometimes their last minute.

        Sometimes they sit where I gotta clean up after them. :-))

         

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          We had a fun shoot day down at Memphis, TX Wednesday.

          Set up 1/2 dz. 3D’s and had “follow the leader” rounds.

          Burgers and some delicious peach cobbler.  MMMM…

          Was only 106* when I got in my little car to come home. Dang.  Humid too. AC in my car was a wonder for the 85 mile drive home.

          Was way fun day, totally grateful for the freedom that we enjoy to have such days, and thanks to Repel to keep the ticks away!!!!!!!!!!

          We drylanders from up here on the caprock in the panhandle, Amarillo, can dang sure tell ya when the humidity is over 12-13%. We suffer. Don’t wanna even think about moving to a humid climate. Kudos to y’all that have acclimated to humid weather.

          It’s fun to watch momma nature at work 1st hand.

          Our spare bedroom is our puzzle room. We nearly always have a 1000 piece puzzle going in there.

          Eyeball high in our big rosebush, just outside a window, there’s a mockingbird nesting. We keep the blind cracked just a tad so to watch.  Hopefully with the nest in the rosebush the ****cats won’t get the babies.

          Be well folks and shoot safe and smart………..

          R2

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            in reply to: Tradbow App #132639

            Hey Scout, pulled pork on the hoof.

            Got an old boar running around on my hunting grounds who’s back is nearly as high as the top strand of 4 wire barbed wire fence.

            Think his not knowing where I’m at if I loose an arrow at him may be to my advantage……..

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              in reply to: Draw Weight #132488

              As I get older the bathroom scale keep on weighing heavier…not enough fiberglass in it I guess….

              The weight variation in older bows seems to be kind of a common thing even though your 6 lbs seems more so that what I’ve seen.

              I have an old Grizzly, I’ve been told by some more knowledgeable than I that it’s a ’67’ model, and it’s marked 45# on the limb and under the side plate. It actually weighs 49 lbs on two different scales.

              I have calibrated my hanging scale with a 50# set of weights so it might be(?) somewhat accurate. Never really know for sure like rgrist be saying.

              I do know my 54# has increased in weight over the past 10 years.  So logic goes out the window….

               

               

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                Homeward bound……………

                 

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                  I’m thinking it’s 3″ shorter than bow length for a longbow and 4″ shorter than bow length for a recurve.  :-))

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                    Ha, Grumpy :-))

                    Slow as I am anymore if’n it twas my sweat it’d be a puddle.

                    I did see one flash of lightning and heard a roll of thunder.

                    Guess you call that “a spit and a promise” eh!!

                     

                     

                     

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                      Ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It rained!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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                        Nothing like a wrong compass heading to make one’s day go downhill eh

                         

                         

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                          Rain?????????????????

                          It’s good that folks are getting rain as long as it’s not too plentiful.

                          We’re still drier than all get out and plenty warm.  Spring? Never happened here other than the calendar saying so.

                          We broke a high temperature day before yesterday, 108*.  That’ll shut down bow shooting.  Been nicer last couple of days, cool, like 90* :-))

                          I’ve been shooting one of my recurves some here lately. I’ve changed my grip a little and it’s not killing the arthritis in my thumb base. Totally anyway. I’m sticking to my 40#er for now. Not pushing my luck on the bow hand.

                          I think I’m going to shoot my 40 +/- # bows for the summer, longbows and recurves. I need to be working on the draw,ANCHOR, part of archery again. My 73 year old muscles and a ‘173 year old brain set’, it seems at times, don’t need to be fighting bigger #’s until the two of us get our s*** together again…

                          Enjoy your rain.  When one lives in an semi-arid region like I do and last year’s nearly 10″ behind in rainfall and over 5″ behind this year already, I can’t help but be a bit envious.

                           

                           

                           

                           

                          Ralph
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                            in reply to: HELP!!!! #132083

                            And there’s always focal assistant #1

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                              in reply to: HELP!!!! #132082

                              My arrows follow my focus: here, there, over here, over there, wherever in impossible places my mind is wandering at the time.  I often wonder what I was thinking that could be in the deepest, densest,  thorniest patch of brush somewhere in the vicinity of the original point of intense focus.

                              It seems the older I get my attention span lessons……….It’s amazing what can happen in the short period of time between the draw of the bow and the release of the string.

                              Actually, right now, I’m relearning the ANCHOR part of the bow shooting process.  It helps the focus, focus, focus part immensely if the Anchor, Anchor, Anchor part is not floating. 

                               

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                                By the way, I like Sno-Seal…

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                                  Maybe y’all find something…y’spose?

                                  Actually I did an internet search for unscented leather conditioners and found several listed.

                                  As to whether really unscented for real??????????????

                                  I don’t know if you can de-scent leather products totally or not anyway???? I kinda have my doubts…

                                  Good luck….R2

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