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It was a bit of a busy time at the range here in Amarillo today but worth it. The Boy Scout group grew to 71 this year.. Wow:D:D:D
Three years ago there was around a dozen boys.
Now if we could get more of our club members interesting in giving my friend and I a hand, that would be a good deal too.
We set the shoot up, monitor it for safety mostly and let the scout leaders and parents handle the rest of the day.
Good to see some young people not having their noses buried in a tablet or a phone.
Off to Guymon, OK in the morning for a 3D tourney. Be a first so we’ll see what happens. Might be some interesting shooting with 25-35 mph north winds.
If you don’t want to shoot in the wind in this part of the world, you be not shooting or moving to another part of the country.
The wind is something that is a ‘just is’ around here
Pert’neer 😯
47 rattles on it too!:lol:
Sometimes Lady Luck smiles my way.
I bought 5 raffle tickets for $20 at a shoot in Wellington, Tx and walked away with this beautiful Deadwood Longbow. 😀 Info about those bows is on FB which I don’t do. Only know of them by totally favorable word of mouth.
She’s a 64″ bow. 42# @ 28″ and is amazingly fast.
I guess I’m lost on “Traditional Forestry” other than it’s been the tradition of mankind to cut down all they needed and all they wanted for profit (greed) and when that was gone move on to start chopping in another place or perish as it seems the people and culture did on Easter Island when they ran out of trees.
Granted in modern times in this country attempts at conserving and regrowing our forests have been and are being made. Which is a good deal but other parts of the world just flat don’t give a s***.
The wood cutters are trying to feed their families on their pittance of salary from the profit of a tree whilst the middle men and big wheels are getting rich.
Cutting the forests down is just a form of self apocalyptic behavior, among the others, we humans, the smart ones, seem so happy to endorse around the world.
This old elm went down at the archery range recently, I just discovered it today. It died from natural causes, drought, wind and age.
I wasn’t trying to be a smarta** on my earlier post either.
I don’t think a tree is communicating with me other than through the spirit of the forest which I hopefully can be attuned to, either consciously or subconsciously or both.
Plants and animals are all part of a great big ‘ONE’ with us. One big collective “Spirit”.
The spirit of the earth is always speaking but how often are we listening!!!!!!!!!? How often too feel the embrace?
My arrows hold the spirit of the forest as hopefully does the “myself” in this tale.
Just me rattling,
Ralph
I was out stumping and scouting today and I had big plans of a grand photo, a selfie of me and my gear in the foreground and the nice green country in the background.
I propped my phone in a mesquite tree, selfie mode with 10 second timer and…..
How in the world did this turn out as a black and white pic???
Cool though.
It is nice now after some much needed rain. And in color… Maybe my age is showing if do a selfie???
