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in reply to: Geist vrs Lee Rue III on Bergmann's rule… #61117

My experiences of living in NC and Virginia is that yes in the spring there is a lot of varied flowers and grass for nutrition, however the numbers of deer are dense so they eat it quickly. As far as the temperate being a factor, I can’t find it now but didn’t Texas import once a few deer from the north area like either Wisconsin or Alberta to try and give there deer big bodies but I never saw the research results so hard to say what happened. If you look at humans and who as a group populated an area and where, you will notice in say Greece or Italy where it is warmer that people have a finer bone structure i.e. thin bones to support less weight. However if you then look at say the Slavic’s or more northern people you will find them to have a heavier bone structure to support more weight to live off of.

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in reply to: Geist vrs Lee Rue III on Bergmann's rule… #60367

I think a combination of both is correct if you keep low population density then the deer will get bigger, as far as thicker body’s, I always thought the northern deer were that way to hold onto to more fat reserves to get through long cold stretches of winter. You would think that if an area had high nutritional value and all other factors being equal the deer would overpopulate and compete for browse leading to smaller deer. That is just my opinion.

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in reply to: Hunting Help!?!?!?!? #57609

If you have not done much camping beside motels, you might want to start and try with camping at the local state park as a starting point. While I am no expert on elk hunting in CO like Dave you are more than welcome to pick my brain about what items are needed and possible locations to look for them. Note this year if you come the west has been exceptionally lacking in rainfall. So the big thing to research for is water, specifically water at a source where it comes out of the ground such as a spring, in an OTC. Hope this helps.:D

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in reply to: Nugent, redux #57606

The problem with the hunting celebs though is that they are then toted out in Teds cass at a camp for kids as being role models of who to be like. This is not a good thing since then the kids are given someone to hero worship that is a horrible role model and as a spokesman for archery he keeps giving it bad rap by breaking laws and ethics that others hold important. This ends up giving all of archery a black eye to the non-hunting public.

While a lot of us who have been hunting for awhile may not buy his crap novices and others who don’t know better pay attention and then hunting becomes worse for his involvement then. in my humble opinion

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in reply to: Nugent, redux #56399

Great article and while he is a confirmed wildlife violator. Yet plenty of places still host and encourage his kids camp, which I find very interesting.

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in reply to: Evening dog walk #55412

I found for myself that it seems to take almost a week after sheep have left an area before the elk come back in. That can change though if there is a lot of rain or other moisture to rejuvenate plant growth

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in reply to: Evening dog walk #52036

Hiram, while I am not Dave. In talking to the sheepherders and sheep ranchers, they say they never see elk around their herds. This is due to the sheep being to noisy for the elk to be comfortable around.

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in reply to: long bow and recurve blue prints #52035

I don’t know about free but some of the lamination sellers and kit sellers have blueprints available. I think you can try these guys but don’t have experience with hte results of the build myself.

http://swissbow.com/swissbow_eng/download_eng.html

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in reply to: Colorado Question #48660

I think there is bowfishing on certain lakes check for that and the season for coyote is open year round. I don’t know about others. But from looking at the regs it looks like mostly small game only that have a year round license like certain squirrels , prairie dogs or birds.

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in reply to: Evening dog walk #45437

I am not surprised with the horses and elk together. That is one of the way I find of smelling wallows in the wild is to recognize I smell a horse barn nearby. Might be hard without owning horses to pull off an idea like Clay has though.

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in reply to: ABOUT PBS #38619

Mr. Asbell, thanks for the history lesson of the origination it puts the name in a better perspective then. I will have to look more into joining then.

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in reply to: Wood and FOC #35809

I am thinking of trying the wood arrows with an older model byron ferguson made bow pulling 71# at 30″ so it may take awhile to find the right wood arrow combo for that. However will focus more on the heavier than 650gr arrow though.

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in reply to: Wood arrow specs #33227

There was a guy posting by the name of Derek or went by BountyHunter on here he created custom arrows that are works of art. He can help with some of the specs. Also have you tried the calculator by Stu Miller to help setup an arrow bow combo.

http://heilakka.com/stumiller/

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in reply to: More on Fletching #33226

I do similar to Steve in that I shoot my cock feather in on a 3 fletch. When i shot with it out I usually saw on my feathers the leading part of the feather would have a small amount of wear for about 0.5″. I heard from someone try the cock feather in and see what you get. I also like his idea of marking with baby powder or even a marker to see where the feather is striking. Also are you shooting field points or BH with these arrows, if BH does the bevel on it match the helical that might cause some problems.

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in reply to: where are the heavier bows at??? #31945

One way to develop those muscles is to try some of the exercises G. Fred Asbell has in his book “Advanced instinctive shooting for bowhunting” or develop a workout program to strengthen the muscles that are used in the back for heavier bows along with their opposite so the ones in the chest, remembering to work all muscles in the back not the ones on the draw side.

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