[Ralph]

in reply to: Bottoms Up for more shooting! #58698

That’s a sober way to look at “bottom’s up”:D

Or maybe I’ll just butt out of this one……:wink:

Good thinking Cameron………

[Ralph]

in reply to: Oldest BowHunter #47999

My attic has occasionally been kinda dirty but that ain’t allowed here. 🙄 😉

[Ralph]

in reply to: Measuring Up #41890

And that relates how to whether I decide to shoot a small, medium or large or extra large? First, second or third deer that comes along?

If the opportunity comes along for a big buck, I’ll try for it in a heartbeat. And I’ll not worry about vindicating myself to anyone.

But I ain’t going home to an empty freezer cause it ain’t a big buck either. Nor am I so desperate to kill that I’ll take a not grown animal.

Disease in animals, not just deer, is a major problem in a lot of areas, much of it related to man’s doings. Game farms, grazing privately owned animals on public lands are two major sources. Some also due to overpopulation in some areas. Everything that overpopulates, except bugs it seems, begins to get into the starvation and disease mode.

When it comes to commercialization, what ain’t that’s popular and can be profitable to some one? When has it ever not been so?

Where do some of the resources come from that help provide the opportunity for hunters to hunt to spend their money doing so? Not only from licenses but also from tax revenue.

There’s something about all of it that some of us don’t like but the hunting opportunity is still there, more so than ever.,

[Ralph]

in reply to: Measuring Up #41680

I guess we’re not messing things up too bad;

In the early 1900’s there were an estimated 500,000 white-tailed in the United States.. Today there are over 20 million deer in the United States and numbers are rising.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #39628

Golly, I hope not beans. 🙂

[Ralph]

in reply to: Snake skins #38088

drew4fur wrote: [quote=Duncan]

Copperheads on the other hand, generally doing well. If you’re not trained in venomous snake handling/capture, I think the best way to acquire skins is to cruise black top

Other than one small region of West, TX, if you live west of the Pecos River, you’re out of luck, ain’t no copperheads out there. You’ll have to settle for any one of the dozen or so rattlesnake species.

Drew maybe I look too much for rattlers but I’ve not seen any copperheads up here. What say you?

[Ralph]

in reply to: Can You, or Cant You? #37137

In all actuality, being from Texas, I cain’t my bow. 😀

[Ralph]

in reply to: Can You, or Cant You? #36621

I’m thinking a gentleman oughtt to be respectful of another’s can and cant nots.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #35315

Reminiscent of the past:

I didn’t know the Herring ranch had this at least a hundred head of buffalo.

I go through this area 3-4 times a year and got lucky this time.

There were more up in the valley but I was beginning to worry if an oilfield tanker or two were going to make my acquaintance while I was parked on the shoulder of the highway so I quit the camera.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Lion Poacher? #33435

Hang the rules of fair chase when it comes to things trying to kill and eat me and mine.

People have just as much right to be out in the wild as the animals do and it shouldn’t become a new order of fair play for them to eat people.

I happen to have sympathy for the family of the feller the lion killed, not turn about being fair play.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Can You, or Cant You? #32101

My daddy always said “Can’t never could” but cant I must with longbow in hand. 😉

[Ralph]

in reply to: Green Fletch #31050

I’m refreshing, refletching 10 shafts (R2 dozen) and I’m using the flint tool I found at my hunting lease a couple of weeks ago to remove the feather and glue remnants.

It’s working like a charm, doesn’t get dull like a knife blade does during this scraping process.

Kinship with some ancient one..:wink:

[Ralph]

in reply to: Green Fletch #30098

Drew I use 4 fletch quite often. I seem to go to 3 fletch on wood and use 4 fletch mostly on carbon.

Why???????? Just me I guess….Whatever strikes me at the time.

Arrows either hit where I’m looking or they don’t and I cain’t say that the feathers are ever a problem added to that of the shooter. 😉

[Ralph]

in reply to: Green Fletch #30079

Lookin good..

Now we’ll have to go by colors instead of counting fletchings.. :D:D

[Ralph]

in reply to: Lion Poacher? #29562

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/safari-guide-killed-by-lion-in-zimbabwe/ar-BBm4XA1

Things ain’t so noisy when the shoe’s on the other foot. 😕

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