[Ralph]

in reply to: Longbow shot while sitting #17459

http://www.naturalnews.com/034996_nopal_cactus_antioxidants_blood_glucose.html#

For those who might wanna know. Some knowledge that might come in handy in a sticky:D situation sometime.

Oh, shootin sitting. Not in the stickers

[Ralph]

in reply to: Longbow shot while sitting #17452

Doesn’t take long to figure out that it’s a smart thing to burn those little “hairs” off that fruit before you chomp down on one uh?

I tried mashing some of those once in an attempt to use the juice to dye some white feathers.

Apparently I did something wrong cause I had the biggest mess, my wife didn’t appreciate the purple stain everywhere and my feathers didn’t turn out to well.

I’ll leave that to the expert and do without purple fletchings.

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in reply to: Longbow shot while sitting #17428

Hey Mike, notice I compromised:D even if a push up is now a thing of choice instead of being a thing of on demand.:wink:

Umbrella? That’s a kind of “cover” right?

To keep archery in mind here, only trying to keep your feathers dry. Full bird ones, right.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Neck Knife #17425

I have a vest of many pockets that I always wear when hunting and I have several knives with about 3″ blades. I used to carry just one but I was always reaching in the wrong side pocket for my knife. So since they don’t weigh much I carry one on each side now.

Great for an absent minded person if you know any. 😀

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in reply to: Longbow shot while sitting #17412

wojo14 wrote: I better start the string practice.:wink:

How far you shooting the string at?

I can only get 5 yards in my house!:(

First I need to harvest my deer! 8)

I heard Mike was cutting sewing thread at 10 yds. 😀

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in reply to: Longbow shot while sitting #17410

Col, you wouldn’t believe how many times I got reminded that those were not britches they were trousers.

I wore britches all my life til the Corps. Finally I learned the difference after a couple thousand push ups. 😀

My cap was troublesome too but I learned about covers rather quickly. MCRD has this nasty thing called “Swimming in the sand”.

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in reply to: Longbow shot while sitting #17378

Definitely another time, another place.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Practice for Form #17369

Trying to shoot the stems out from under these yucca pods takes pretty darn good left and right concentration. Heck, the pods themselves ain’t easy.

goo

I actually shot two stems off today at about 25 yds. But like Byron Ferguson says, I ain’t gonna tell you how many shots it took. 🙂

I only carry 4 arrows though:wink: But I shot the 4 twice.:)

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #17248

Yep Jim. Like everywhere we have our yuck and more wind than most others but then like today, about 55*, hardly a breeze and beautiful. Enjoyed 3 hours of stumping with a couple of buddies.

My new bow is tuned well, finally was calm enough to see what it needed. Actually, I guessed right:wink: and all is well.

[Ralph]

in reply to: A cautionary tale (in pictures) #16877

It all started with the vows. Glad all is well!:D

[Ralph]

in reply to: A cautionary tale (in pictures) #16399

Ummm. I’m curious what words of wisdom mom had for dad in that deal. 😀

Glad your boy is OK.

Not a bow but I launched gumball sized steel ball straight up in the air from my wrist rocket and that %$#@*& thing left a hell of a knot on my noggin.

Like Doc say “neva again” 🙂

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #16376

I didn’t get to hunt today. I was going to chase turkeys with my longbow but a hunting buddy wounded a little muley buck late yesterday eve so I went to help him at first light and we spent the biggest part of the day searching. Sad to say we didn’t find the little guy. The blood trail quit and the terrain got way rocky and we lost his trail. So I started zigzagging around, dropping into draws filled with plumb thickets, which totally suck trying to get through, hoping to find him brushed up or dead. No luck. I hate that.

Anyway later I spotted these guys and decided to get my camera and see what I could do.

Hunting antelope in Texas is by permit only and our landowner has no permits. If he were to get some I imagine they’d be priced way above what this old guy could afford. Season is way over anyway.

I could have maybe gotten a bit closer, there was one more bush I might have slithered into but one of my legs was about to cramp up so I thought I’d best take pics while I could. It seems at times that my lacking just a few months of being 70 some things:) just don’t work as good as they used to. My legs either. 🙄

Unseen to the left and about 50 yds. farther out there’s about a dozen more head and they were working on figuring out who that was crawling around out there.

Was fun.

And as an afterthought, this country is full of cactus, sand burrs, mesquite thorns and rocks.

A picture is worth a thousand punctures I guess:). and I feel like I got a couple of flats.

Like I’ve said before, “It’s not always about the hunt”.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #16316

Can’t hunt’em but at least I can get sorta close and look at’em.

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in reply to: Practice for Form #16297

Steve, I was playing with the string deal and also a perpendicular line drawn on my target butt. Seemed helpful but it was hard to explain to the club about the 1″ wide, up and down black stripe that just appeared on all the 3D targets. 🙄 😀

My score didn’t go up but that mighta had something to do with the lumps on my head.

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in reply to: Neck Knife #15290

Mike, I think all the above describes me when I’m stumbling around.:) My old legs ain’t as good as they used to be sometimes.

Back in my old life I might have added some wallerin to the stumbling after a few too many of the hops.

Back then a neck knife might of upset my balance, made me top heavy. 🙄

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