[Ralph]

in reply to: Amazing what can come about #50304

I wouldn’t be surprised that we’ve really had a big reduction of our birds in the panhandle. The drought has hurt everything. Quail are very scarce as are rabbits , etc. I haven’t been up to my hunting area much lately, too dang hot but I was up for a day a week or so ago and saw nothing but cows & horses. No doves or even just “fly around birds” as my daughter called them years ago. I imagine the pigs are doing fine though. I put a camera out to see what’s goin on. A friend traps pigs and he says they ain’t hurtin. He sent me pic of a big pig. It’s on my other machine so I’ll find it and post it later.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Amazing what can come about #50232

Was out stumping but they know what time of year it is. Them little bitty bird brains be more devious than we think. :))Teasers!!!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Camp Pendleton Rattlesnake Canyon Archery Range #45873

Neither do I recall a Camp Rattlesnake but I definitely recall night compass training at Camp Horno in early ’67’. I went to boot camp in Dec. of ’66’. I don’t remember the number of rattlers we came across that night but it was plenty enough to put the spook in a bunch of young Marines. The luminous dial on a compass is for sure a poor excuse for a flashlight!

Welcome!!!!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Bow Stringer #44653

I use the the push/pull method mostly for my longbows. If I get a hold of a high poundage one or a really long one I will use a stringer. Recurves, let me tell ya, they don’t taste good. Whupped myself with one once. Pride was hurt more than anything. Lucky I was. I always use a stringer for recurves now. One lesson was enuff!

Welcome to the new world. Lots of fun and to say the least, way much pride and sense of achievement as you progress.

[Ralph]

in reply to: How would we rate! #44409

I doubt very seriously that if it came to a true live or die situation that any person would let ethics or rules and regulations be a reason to stand by and watch as they and/or others starve to death. It’s called survival. Hopefully things will never come to such for us. In the Corps it was “Do what you gotta do to get back”!!! A general statement that if you read between the lines says a lot.

As far as surviving by bow only? Some places one probably could nowadays as game is pretty abundant, in some metropolitan areas as a matter of fact. Other places, well, people in the past and the present in some areas of the world eat some pretty strange things in order to survive (that key word again). When your hungry a “book buck” wouldn’t mean squat.

Anyway, good points to consider and think on.

The way life is now, I’m glad we have ethics and rules and regulations (up to a point on the rules and regs:D)as we need them for the future of what we have. For the sake of our next generations.

Just my thinkin’ Ralph.

[Ralph]

in reply to: how many arrows for hunting? #33573

It only takes one!!:D Ha! In my dreams!! Like others, I have 2-3 extra broadheads and a blunt or two. I’ve been known to have 2 shots and miss both. Duh!

[Ralph]

in reply to: What deer do all night #24609

Then there’s those who are trying to decide with whom the dancers go home!!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Going bananas… #23808

Be slick though!! 😆

[Ralph]

in reply to: What deer do all night #23799

Good one Dave!! :D:D

[Ralph]

in reply to: How Often Do You Practice? #17262

I shoot some nearly everyday because first, I can being retired and second, because I love to shoot. It may be a problem at times though because I get to playing with different bows, different types of arrow shafts, glove, tab, etc. But closer to hunting season I settle into two bows with hunting set up and stick with that.

The practice sometimes may consist of only 1,2,3 arrows though. A one shot group at an animal is what counts. 105 deg. here today so practice was short and sweet.

I do think one can hit a complacency zone and seemingly go backwards rather than forwards. Then I think it’s good to go somewhere besides your normal practice place if possible and dink around. Go stumping, or something. Environmental change can be helpful (not the glacier melting type).

Just for a difference I might spend a whole practice session shooting from my knees or sitting on a bucket or shooting from off top of my picnic table to break the monotony of same shot, same dot. Never give up!!! Throw a tennis ball out in the yard and tag it with blunts. Variety!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Cover scent! #16856

Thank goodness the skunk tested negative for rabies so all is well. The smell is gone and we are relieved from the possibility of our having to take the series of rabies shots. Thanks for the advice and support from everyone. Maybe Diamond is a wiser dog from this also but being a 10 yr. old pit…….Ralph

[Ralph]

in reply to: tournament question #14677

We only have a distinction between longbow and recurve classes and why that I guess is just so we can give two sets of awards. But at our jamboree last weekend the same guy won both classes so it’s the shooter and not the equipment. Like a guy told me the other day he wouldn’t shoot 30 yds. with a wooden arrow but would with a carbon arrow. ?????????????? I actually have a much easier time tuning woods than the carbons I’m playing with so I don’t mind being at a disadvantage :lol::lol:

[Ralph]

in reply to: Cover scent! #13316

This works really well!

1 qt. 3% hydrogen peroxide, 1/4 cup baking soda, 1 tsp. liguid dish wash soap, rubber gloves. Just keep it out out dog’s eyes and such. We also spayed porch. No stink at all now.

I still think this was a tip of the week once but I can’t find it. Sometimes as old as I am what I think was wasn’t.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Spectacles! #55555

What u say? :D:D I know what you’re saying but I don’t wear mine much when out in the canyons and so when I do I’m lucky if I don’t break my neck stepping on over or around the bifocal line. I know when the day comes that I have no choice I’ll have to deal with it then. I’m at the point where I can still spot something way off and know the difference between deer, elk and cow, and have learned the value of a good binocular to define from there. I also spend way more time using the binos and that is a good thing. Hearing, well, I don’t hear over noises well or high pitch sounds too well either but “woods sounds” still seem to be OK. The crack of a stick, the rolling of a stone, the meow of a doe or grunt of a buck, all that I hear fine. Years of pre-hearing protection in the Corps probably not at fault for hearing loss I’m sure.

My wife talking in the far end of the house and me not hearing……that’s another story. 😆

[Ralph]

in reply to: Spectacles! #55529

After a week or so of this “experiment” and not a necessity to wear glasses for distance sight I have come to the conclusion that I concur with Mr. G Fred!!!! I don’t have to wear these glasses to see where I be going or what I’m looking for unless it’s reading or whatnot up close. Granted all is better driving and such but not a must thing.

I spend all my time shooting with the glasses on trying to get it all together then when it is, bang, shoot. Not the results I was going for. So, until it becomes a necessity where I cannot take the glasses off to continue I will continue as is. I do know now that I can do it if need be. I’d rather pull arrows as to keep score anyway.

The old adage “Pick three hairs and shoot at one” well, pick 9 hairs and shoot at three will probably suffice for this old goat.

Thanks for all the info and support on this.

Ralph

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