[Troy Warner]

in reply to: 1st time Colorado Elk hunting! #50575

Dave,

The area I spoke of before was one such place that you speak of.

I have been checking out wilderness areas and other places with limited access in Idaho, Colorado, and New Mexico, but as I said Colorado keeps pulling my heart back. The quite solitude is available as you pointed out, if a person is willing to work to find it and get to it.

I am thankful that BHA exists for the work they do on our behalf, and am proud to be a member.

Alex,

Moving to Alaska, and learning to become a bush pilot is on my bucket list. Unfortunately my wife said Alaska (for some reason she thinks its to cold, and we live in South Dakota now) is the one place she won’t follow me to, and since I still actually like to have her around, right now,:wink:I have to postpone that part of the list.

Oh well I’ll just keep pluggin away on the search for untainted land. (In the lower 48 ) 😀

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: 1st time Colorado Elk hunting! #50450

David Petersen wrote: Welcome to the tradbow.com family. Sadly, THE most important piece of advice these days is: Find out where ATVs are allowed to go, and go somewhere else, as the elk do.

Dave,

I very sadly agree. Illegal atv use has gotten out of hand where i grew up as a young man and where I normally return to, because I do know the area, for hunting elk, ( North of Dolores) making it difficult to to find the animals. I used to be able to hike in a mile into my favorite area and hunt for 2-3 days with out hearing or seeing another human, then people (read a-&$@:;s) have started riding their contraptions in on access trails that are for foot or horse use only to gain access to interior portions of the Nation Forest pushing the elk out and on to private land and or across the mountain.

I have in the last few years been looking into other areas and states to hunt elk in. But my heart keeps pulling me back to Colorado. So the search continues for untainted land.

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: 1st time Colorado Elk hunting! #50244

GET IN SHAPE!!! Aerobic exercise to get the heart pumping and the lungs sucking air would be my primary regiment, ie. run as long and as far as you can if you can’t run, cycling or any kind of walking that you can do to strengthen your legs heart and lungs. Weight training is good, but hunting in high altitudes will kick even the strongest persons behind if thier legs aren’t used to continuos motion and your lungs don’t work to full capacity. After you are in the best shape you can get into, when you arrive at your hunting destination take it slow and easy for the first couple of days. Don’t mope around camp, but don’t try speed climbing to the top of the mountain to beat the sun so you can be glassing at sunrise, leave earlier. A healthy inshape person should aclamate any where from 24-48 hours (depending on altitude and individual constitution)to the point you shouldn’t, (and I say shouldn’t because everyone is a little different) suffer any extreme symptoms of altitude sickness. It is from that point on that you will thank yourself for getting in the best shape possible, because no matter how good of shape your in you will be sucking wind for the first four days of your hunt. Being in shape just makes it not quite so painful.

Other than that practice with your equipment, walk or jog with your pack on, and make sure when your walking to wear the boots you are going to hunt in to break them in and to make sure your feet are used to wearing them.

Most important of all. HAVE FUN!!!:D

Good luck

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Humidity in new shop (new bow pics added) #47502

Troy Breeding wrote: Shops not really big enough for a wood heater of any sort. It’s just 12’x24′.

Troy,

I have a 12×16 shed/shop and put a mid sized camp stove in it to heat in the winter, on the rare occasions that it gets overly warm I just open the window and maybe crack the door a hair to regulate the temp. It has gotten easier for me to regulate the temps in the last 2 years since I put another shed the same size on the back of the original one with a door to close one off from the other.

But if your not really into burning wood for the mess there are some good gas heaters, like what they use in a fish shack, you just need to vent it out the wall. Plus a wall mounted heater would take up less room.

Good luck

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Macaulay Library #45176

That’s a cool site, thanks for posting that link.

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Bow Staves? #42978

Osage orange grows in Nebraska and along the Southern Border of South Dakota.

That is what the Lakota, Osage, and many other Native American tribes used to make their hunting and war bows.

Good luck

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Speed of FF vs Dacron #41810

You have it correct on both accounts.

The FF is a stronger string material and you can use fewer strands for the string and it is faster. I myself didn’t realize how much faster it could be on some bows until I asked the question above.

Follow your uncles warning. If the tips aren’t reinforced do not use FF string on the bow he gave you. I have an older bear grizzly that is 50@28 I use a Dacron string on it and it shoots any arrow I run thru it with no real noticeable speed difference than my long bow with the same draw weight using FF. of course I don’t have a chronograph and as I said before until I asked the original question in this thread I didn’t really realize how much speed difference string material can make on some bows. I don’t know if I actually helped or made it worse.:?

Good luck

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Self made pack frame #41795

R2 wrote: One could back up to a round bail, hook up and take off! 😀

That’s neat.

True but look at the picture he only got half the bail:D

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: A comment on crossbows #41787

Well put

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Winter Range #41288

Alex,

I showed my wife the pics of your winter range. Her reply was “only if I’m shooting and your the target”.

Hence my indoor range is in the shed/dog house.

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Washington/Idaho trad shoots #40196

Wolfkill,

That sounds like a great deal. I’ll PM you when I get my dates set up for travel and where ill be parking my house.:D

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Wood arrow questions #40185

A book I continually use for references in about everything for tuning and making my own arrows is “The Traditional Bowhunters Hand book” by TJ Conrad. It covers what you need to know including the basics of that boring physics jiberish. 😕

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Washington/Idaho trad shoots #40177

My wife wants to fish salt water, I want to fish river, so we are going to try to do both. But salt water will be a priority. 😉

First time in a long time I have looked forward to working out of state.

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Washington/Idaho trad shoots #39718

Wolfkill,

I’m not to familiar with the state yet, is the “blues” an area near Yakima?

I will be in the North East (republic-Ione), South Central (Yakima), South West (Vancouver), around Seattle, and around Port Townsend areas. We will have projects in ech of these areas so I will be able to move around from project to project and play in the whole state while I’m out there. 😀

I’m really looking forward to trying the Salmon fishing! Any recommendations?

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Washington/Idaho trad shoots #37952

Wolfkill,

Thanks, I will definatly contact the TBW

Smithhammer,

I am trying to get things set up so I’m working in the South East part of the state around the time of the BHA meeting.

We’ll see what happens.

Troy

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