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in reply to: Anyone use a "possibles bag"? #18917

Nice to see you here Jawge!

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in reply to: Anyone use a "possibles bag"? #18106

I like your reply David….it is exactly what I figured an elk/back country hunter might say. I am CERTAIN that if I were “out there” rather than the woodlots and forest of Michigan, I would have little use for a possibles bag. Your horse back scenario is probably pretty accurate.

As it is, in Michigan, it’s damned hard to get 2 miles from your truck. My haversack carries everything I need. Here, when you see a fellow hiking into his farmland hunting spot with a full sized back pack, it’s worth a chuckle.

I have a good friend who is a gadget nut. He brings EVERYTHING with him hunting. I took he and his young son out chasing rabbits last winter. He showed up with a HUGE Filson duffle bag full of gear. I had a longbow, 6 arrows, and a neck knife. At the end of the day he wanted to shoot a .22 pistol he had brought along. After 1 magazine he started rummaging through his bag for a box of shells. He had everything you can imagine….even spare boots and wool longjohns….but no more shells. 🙄

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in reply to: Mid Summer Feeling #17713

I always “can’t wait” for the seaon to start….but am kinda sad over the quck passing of time. So many things I want to do yet…..and time keeps passing!

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in reply to: Grunts, Snort Wheeze and Rattling #17711

In Michigan….I have good luck with a simple, quiet grunt during the rut. Never any luck with rattling, and the other stuff wheezing, etc. seems risky to me.

If I am just trying to put something in the freezer, a fawn bleat is amazing…I have had mature does SPRINT in to my stand site in a pissed off manner after a few squeaks. I have also had things like coyotes, fox, and racoons come into a fawn bleat.

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in reply to: I fish #16584

This is just a simple walleye, but I was kinda proud of it….I caught it on a lake not known for walleyes, in the middle of the afternoon, while wave runners and water skiers buzzed around. There is a very deep hole on this lake, about 72 feet….I had it in my head that the blips waaaaay down there on my fish finder were walleye, so I kept fishing way deeper than usual. My wife thought I was nuts. I had just said to her “I may not catch anything today, but if I do it will be a good one” when BAM my rod doubled over.

He ate well too….:D

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in reply to: Interesting Waste of Time #8782

Thanks for the breakdown of the catalog, by the way. I referenced this post on my blog this morning. Good work. You made some of us think.

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in reply to: Interesting Waste of Time #8687

I live pretty close to a cabelas here in Michigan. At first I loved it . As the years went by, thier traditional archery selection dwindled to nothing, and crossbows GREW. I too saw the archery catalog, it held my attention for about 15 seconds. What a shame.

I railed against crossbows here in Michigan for years. We lost. My biggest problem with it was the fact it was being shoved down our throats by big business. Nobody wanted a crossbow here until big business TOLD the idiots they needed one. It was such a bought and paid for debacle here.

I used to have that “live and let live” attitude like Trapper dave. Not anymore. I look at every extreme high tech-guy and crossbow “hunter” as a complete traitor to bowhunting.

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in reply to: Stalk in these? #8156

I have been thinking of getting a pair of those for the boat. Jumping in and out of the boat on sandbars is a sure way to cut my feet…..

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in reply to: New Shrew #62551

The Li’l Favorite is a …well, favorite of mine. We had the prototype in camp, and I fell in love with it. I think we killed 3 deer with that prototype. Anyway, I was on the list for something else, changed it to a LF, and hunted exclusively with that until this passed November (when I weasled the prototype Armstrong Ghost out of Ron and Greg).

The LF will always have a place on my bow rack. Great choice!!

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in reply to: Woodsmanship….. #62543

David Petersen wrote: For those here who haven’t seen Ron LaClair’s video of shooting half-dollars out of the air, whap, whap, whap, faster than I can breath, it’s an awe-inspiring and humbling event. Google him by name or go to the Shrew site, then follow tabs to videos. Fun to see no matter what bows you shoot. I could shoot a hundred arrows and not make a single hit. Geeze …:roll:

Tell me about it….I go long stretches thinking I’m a pretty good shooter, and then the Old Timer schools me.Ron is left handed, and he shoots my bows right handed as well as I do…

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in reply to: Woodsmanship….. #62014

trapperDave wrote: I hear trappers make the best woodsmen/women 8)

successful ones anyways 😀

I would agree. My friend Ron LaClair has taught me more about pure woodsmanship than anyone, and he relates it all to his avid trapping days. He would take a month off of “real” work and spend the entire time in the bckwoods after fox, coon, muskrats…I’m telling ya, a few bowseasons roaming the woods with Ron has been a real “schooling”.

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in reply to: Woodsmanship….. #60563

To me woodsmanship is the skill set that allows you to be comfortable in the backwoods without needing a bunch of battereies.

It”s kind of a quiet ability to make sense of your outdoor surroundings.

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in reply to: Woodsmanship….. #57314

There is an artesian well in Norway Michigan….I may have this wrong, but the water comes from 1800 feet down, I think. Regardless of the accuracy of that depth, the water i the most pure H20 we have ever tasted. We always stop and get 10 gallons in our jugs marked “for whiskey only” on our way into Shrew Haven. One year LaClair and I pulled up, and I blundered while opening the door, and dropped a grocery bag containing 2 bottles of bourbon and a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey. The bourbon broke, the Jameson was fine. Coincidence? I think not. 😆

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in reply to: Woodsmanship….. #56741

Nobody going to mention Basil Hayden? Best bourbon ever, and the official bourbon of Shrew Haven:D

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in reply to: Woodsmanship….. #56590

ReadyHawk wrote: Steve, I got a little Jim Beam to go with that woodsmanship.

Bourbon is a close peronal friend of Irish Whiskey:D

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