[Ralph]

in reply to: Wow #62250

Doc Nock wrote:

Good luck with that come hunting time!

What Doc said³ 😀

:)Still got it on paste David. 😉

[Ralph]

in reply to: Emergency Gear #61157

Grumpy, that was Hatchet Jack’s Hawkens.

When it comes to the having it together in a survival situation the story of Hugh Glass would be pretty hard to top.

He had no emergency gear except a burning will to live.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Emergency Gear #60786

Where I hunt you have to add water to your list. Matters not what filter or purification tabs you carry, they don’t work with dirt and rocks.

It’s good to have something though cause you might be lucky and find a windmill with a stock tank.

Doc, it was Josie that asked “Don’t s..:wink:.ever shut up?” wasn’t it.

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in reply to: Homemade handiwork #60782

Those are nice string keepers Bruce. Mine are just simple little string ties I make with buckskin.

😉

[Ralph]

in reply to: Emergency Gear #60699

Yup and yup and yup to all the discussions above.

There’s always going to be the “Why am I carrying all this *&@# and why didn’t I bring that *%#@”. Just how we are.

If your brain turns to mush though you can go down with or without a pocket full of tools.

So like it’s said, “To each man his own poison” when it comes to what you carry.

Hey Doc, those teepees probably a mite more warm you s’pose? Perhaps not as peaceful though.:wink:

[Ralph]

in reply to: Homemade handiwork #60587

Thanks for the tip Bruce, it has been a hassle at times:

[Ralph]

in reply to: Let me introduce myself #60441

Howdy, welcome aboard from Amarillo!!

I’ll send you a PM and give you a little info on some stuff around here.

Ralph

[Ralph]

in reply to: Happy Birthday, Mr. Bear #60021

He was a treasure and I’m glad he shared his knowledge and wisdom with us.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Two Tracks String Scallops #60017

Gotta add the toe jam.8)

I have a recurve I’ll have to try a pair of them on.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Turkey Arras #58812

Green grass??? We’re in an acute drought around here. 😀

Those are my “society garlic” plants, we call’em ‘social garlic’, that I bring in the garage every winter, I keep them in a wheel barrow, and try to keep them alive. They have a unique odor and they’re just some little guys that mean something to me.

In the summer they’re by my little barn and archery range. They have a natural bug repellant to them. They say8)8)?anyway.

By the way Grumpy, after tomorrow, 60’s, 70’s :wink::evil::D

[Ralph]

in reply to: Turkey Arras #58552

Turkey stopper:

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in reply to: Who shoots banana fletch for hunting? #58472

Good! I was worried about the landing of an old screaming turkey flying through the air. 🙄

Be like the ‘oh no’ birds of the Pacific Islands.

Feathers better at flyin anyway:D:D

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in reply to: Who shoots banana fletch for hunting? #58364

:roll:OH, the arrow screamed. I got ya!! :lol::lol:

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in reply to: Cross-Dominance and Instinctive #58356

Watching Jeff’s video got me to thinking and experimenting with my eyeglasses.

I’m right eye dominant and shoot right handed. When I put my glasses on and try to shoot everything goes to hell in a hand basket.

So I got to playing and when I look at what I’m shooting at with a drawn bow and no glasses I see what I’m shooting at with both eyes. When I put my glasses on and draw the bow back the target totally disappears from my right eye’s vision. It’s blocked by the frame and nose piece of the glasses.

Dang.

It’s like putting a patch over my right eye and trying to make my non dominant eye do what it’s not knowing how to do.

Perhaps folks who started out shooting and wearing glasses never knew there was a problem so none existed.

I suppose if I had to wear my glasses to shoot, which with I probably could see what I’m shooting at better, I would have to teach myself to twist my neck more so my face is facing the target more or figure out an anchor which moves the string away from my face more. That’s against what I know about form.

Sitting here messing around some more, if I anchor 3 under I have a sight picture with my glasses on so if worse comes to worse I can change to that. I can shoot 3 under but I prefer split. We’ll see what happens with time. I suspect at nearly 70 not much gonna change but added wrinkles and maybe 3 under:wink::wink:

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in reply to: Who shoots banana fletch for hunting? #58307

I have 5 1/2″ banana chopper and years ago I was into banana fletches just because I thought they were neat looking and at the time they were kind of a deal with people.

A 5 1/2″ nanner feather looks kinda like a mini flu flu.

I never noticed a noise problem until some wear and tear started appearing on the feathers. Then they’d make more noise and sometimes they’d make lots of noise.

I finally made the chopped feathers as short and as low as I could make the chopper cut them then I’d still trim some off the height.

After all that work I wondered what am I doing here, converting a nanner feather into a parabolic feather and I’ve not messed with them since.

I’m talking 25 yrs. here.

I ‘ve learned much since then and I don’t need as much big on the back to stabilize as I thought, and lot of people thought, back then.

Doc, seems feathers put on reverse would be a little bit testy on one’s hand as they passed by:D:D An arrow loosed but not forgotten soon.:?

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