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in reply to: Ragg bag filling #20481

I have have a feeling that there’s another word that commonly comes after bull that might be a bit more applicable for use in this conversation.:D

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #19928

Thanks David. Who’d a thunk it. :D:

I’ve really enjoyed the variety of thoughts, ideas, experiences and things that have passed through on this thread. Kinda fun just to have an outlet for whatevers:D.

A place to have a little fun.

Thanks all y’all 😆

Thanks Mom for letting us have a place to play.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Ragg bag filling #19459

I kinda figured Tweety had enough problems with Sylvester.

But with me shooting he’d more than likely be fine. 😀

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in reply to: Ragg bag filling #18964

I found one of the woven plastic tarp stuff that they put over the trailers of grain haulers one time. Huge, to cover the trailer on a tractor trailer. It was ripped so I guess they would rather leave it for someone else to pick up their trash for them.

I thought I had the cats meow there. Cut in pieces, layered some of it in a gunny sack (origin of a burlap bag being called a gunny sack or tow sack?), about 6-8″ thick, hung and then, darn. If an arrow stuck in it it just fell and hung in the way, most bounced off. You know how an arrow is just hanging out of a target, it’s your next subconscious target and it’s way easy to hit.:evil:

So that didn’t work for s***. Cleaned up the barrow ditch though and mostly filled the trash dumpster.

I use plastic, shrink rap (best I think) anything like that I can scrounge. Visqueen not good.

I get burlap bags sometime at the local mart (Amigos, imagine roasting chilies :-)) when they’re roasting chiles. They’re more than glad for me to get rid of they’re trash for them.

Sometimes I gotta go buy them at the local farm/ranch store but I get them for about a buck apiece.

Mine are outside always (you shoulda seen the dust fly out of them last year after some of those dust storms). I take’em down when the plastic starts pooching out, stomp on them to reshape, and put them another bag and sew it up. I use some wax string for that that followed me from work after I retired:)

I need to redo a couple of them now as a matter of fact.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #18892

After all that it seems like a good time for the orange sled when it warms up a bit.:D

Stay warm, safe and keep your head above water, er, snow.

Wish there was a way people could share all that water.

Some day we’re going to be:

Oil, oil everywhere

But ne’er a drop to drink.

🙂

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #18742

Hey John think you oughta just stay in the house.:D

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #18668

You mean like 75* here yesterday, 67* right now:?

Sorry:D

Actually that’s pretty unusual for us. Enjoying it cause winter coming back tonight.

I know ours is nothing like yours is up there though.

Hang in there!!!!!!!!!

That’s the way I get here in the spring when we’re having our hellish winds and dust storms.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Lars Andersen–a great Dane! #18424

Why do we so avidly seek wrong in what someone can do that we can’t?

How many pictures of “bad” groups end up in the photo album?

[Ralph]

in reply to: The Endless Loop #17854

I used to make endless loop strings, had a jig I made with uni-strut, but I don’t remember anything about performance. Been many moons.

I learned the Flemish twist and I guess I was so tickled that I figured that out I’ve not tried endless loop strings again.

I do know that when I got my Samick Sage a couple of years ago it came with an endless loop B50 string and that was no bueno. But I figure that was the material problem not the style of string. I built a fastflite Flemish string and it made a new bow. A fastflite, or such material, endless loop may be great too:?

I’ve long lost my jig so someone else will have to chip in. If I still had it I would play.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #17846

Man, I’m getting all fluffed up. 🙄 🙂

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #17814

Dunno! Sure do get happy sometimes :D:D Maybe why I don’t mind shoveling the stuff.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #17727

That was a great snow Bruce. Very rare around here that it falls straight down. Kind of snow to start breaking drought. Usually big drifts and worse mess on the roads.

This was few years back.

I actually got this pic put on the local TV stations:)

Last year with the drought one couldn’t buy a flake of snow.

2 yrs ago

6′ picket fence in my backyard.

Last year with the drought one couldn’t buy a flake of snow..

Looks like Grumpy getting a dose of weather.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #17605

Not as much snow as, is that youse’guys:?, get and we Texas boys make sure our arrows are all properly “over-inflated”. 🙄 😀

[Ralph]

in reply to: Deer Drag #16557

Looks like we’all 😀 sending y’all enough. Enjoy, maybe.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Rattlesnake skin camouflage… #16184

I don’t know how many of y’all are familiar with a fishing water wagon but a friend of mine years ago was on his, enjoying fishing on a beautiful day and felt a bump on his little boat. Imagine a 3 1/2′ rattlesnake climbing aboard with him.

He broke both of his fishing rods beating some sense into that snake before it decided on better places to be.

No where to run on one of those little rigs.

I found this pic of one. Whoever owned this one was having a good fishing day.

I got caught on mine in the middle of Rifle Gap Res., near Rifle, CO. when a t-storm with hail came upon me from over the hills. Don’t know that the rattler might not have been a better deal.

These were mostly propelled by flippers. As you can see, some put motors on them.

Just for grins once I tried shooting my old Bear Griz while sitting in mine. Wasn’t to productive. So it tried standing, which those little rigs ain’t made for. Good thing me and my bow float. Multitasking, trying to balance and concentrating on shooting, neither worked. 😀

Snakes skins are great camo. Friend spent an hour trying to find his bow he laid on the ground when he went chasing a turkey he’d shot. Found both.

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