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in reply to: Kanati by JK Traditions #15893
Smithhammer wrote: [quote=David Petersen]Bruce, and we own HOW many bows now?
Haha – a mere and reasonable 1/2 dozen at the moment. I’ve sold some to make room for others. There are worse addictions…but this just might the “The One!”
Isn’t each and every new one just possibly “THE ONE”?:D
in reply to: What ya got goin? #15877Ralph,
Do you do any hog hunting around where you are.
I’m working in Clovis, Fort Sumner area for a few months and am looking for something to extend my season.
Troy
in reply to: Grizzly Stiks #14768I’ve used a set for elk hunting a few years ago and they are nearly indestructible. My set up had 100grn muzzy insert 100 grn adaptor and 145 grn single bevel eclipse broad head. My arrows came out around 690-705 grns total weight. They flew great out of my 62# @ 28 bow, and the only ways I have broken one was hitting a rock wall behind a grouse at 9 yards, and hitting an arrow with another while practicing.
I did have to tune each arrow by itself so the tuning process was longer than usual.
The only reason I don’t shoot them any more is I dropped poundage in bows and the cost for just a half dozen is outrageous.
If you have the money they are in my opinion the strongest arrow available in carbons.
Good luck
Troy
On a large whitetail 100 lb. (averaged weight field-dressed hung and skinned) I normally net around 35-40 lbs of wrapped meat.(wrapping paper and saran wrap is included in the weight) 10-15 lbs. of that is burger and sausage. But I scrape as much meat as I can from the bones. That is not counting the bones I save to make stock with.
Troy
P.S.
Heart and lever counted separate.
in reply to: Guy's that take their bows in kayaks/canoes… #10425If it can tip over/capsize I will do it. I learned a few lessons duck hunting in a boat.
1 if it doesn’t float tie to something that does
2 if there’s a current or it’s a long transport-more than 10 minutes- tie every thing together so when you find it again it’s all together.
3 crazy friend and friends crazy untrained dog are not allowed in my boat with me any more.
4 Wear life jackets when transporting from dock to hunting site.
I just adjust the above to fit bow hunting and canoeing
Good luck Jim and stay as dry as possible.
in reply to: WOODSMANSHIP ON TV? #10382The only woodsman ship I see on tv is when I put in one of my DVDs or have the utube brought up on the Apple TV to watch professor clay teach us some collage courses.
Woodcraft is a dieing art that used to be passed down from father to son/daughter or uncle to nephew/niece. I my case I was lucky enough to learn from watching my father teach my older brothers and myself plus my best friend growing up also came from an outdoor oriented family and we would practice every thing we had been shown in our backyards(actual forests of north Idaho with the bears, black and grizly, mountain lions and yes a small pack of Canadian Wolves that migrated across the border illegally from time to time.) it was wonderfull. 😀
To bad I don’t see more of that these days. But with today’s tech world it was tough to get my son out and teach him what he was willing to absorb. It’s funny, but he is more interested in learning woodcraft today than he was when he was a kid.
Troy
Peanut butter works for me. I always remember when I make a PB or a PB&J what my brother said when I was around 8 or 9 “man cannot live on bread alone…. he must have peanut butter”.
Blueberry jelly is awesome as well as fresh honey. 😀
Enjoy
in reply to: Post EHD Hunts #24890Bejabbers, my new favorite word, thanks Doc!!:D
Yes a very ugly disease, I found several carcasses last year while scouting, seeing the pain that those animals had to have suffered to be so dilapidated prior to succumbing to the disease still brings a tear to my eyes.
in reply to: Post EHD Hunts #24745Doc,
It may very well have been a small black fly? I’m going of off information from conversations and articles from just over a year ago. My memory isn’t the steel trap it was when I was in my teens and twenty’s.
Troy
in reply to: Post EHD Hunts #23348Jan’s, your comment makes me wonder if the slight altitude and minor temperature differences from your area to the black hills could have a bearing on the lethality of EHD?
From what I’ve read and been told it is spread by insect bites, mostly deer fly’s, maybe the flys and other insects weren’t as bad in the hills versus the prairie.
Hmmm something to ponder in the blind this afternoon.
I’m glad your able to move to a better area, Good luck out there
Troy
in reply to: How many times per week do you hunt? #21509Dave, that’s very true and if it weren’t for medical benefits for my wife I could very easily return to being a “BUM” as my late father in-law always called me before I was offered this so called real job.
in reply to: How many times per week do you hunt? #20415Before I “got a hair cut and got a real job” 😯 I hunted 4-6 days a week.:D Now that I’m “respectable” with a real job and travel most of the year 🙁 I get out when I’m home. This year 3 days so far, and hoping to make it 4 or more days a week in the next 3 weeks, since I’m on vacation. 😀
in reply to: Post EHD Hunts #20385JP,
I talked to three wardens about what hit us in Eastern, SD and they said that all the animals they knew of being tested all test as EHD. Our population in Clark County is way down in the three days I’ve been able to get out I’ve only seen 1 deer and usually I see at least at a distance 3 to 4 a day during the rut. Last time I remember our population being down this far, about 12 years ago, it was 5 to 6 years recovering.
Good luck
Troy
in reply to: Some Game recipes… #13456The only liver I’ve eaten that I didn’t have to choke down or hide while feeding to my dog was in hunting camp a few years back.
After trimming the liver of all the connective tissue (arteries, fat, and any other part that doesn’t look like you want to eat it… No don’t throw the hole liver out.) soak in a saltwater solution over night. Don’t make the solution thick like a brine, just tell the water tastes salty but not make you pucker up. Slice the liver into thin slices and put in a pot with boiling water until the meat becomes a light brown all over the piece, remove from the pot roll in an egg and milk batter roll in seasoned flour and fry in a hot pan with 1/2″ of your favorite cooking oil.
The salt water soak draws the blood out and boiling it seems to remove excess blood and goo left inside after the soak.
For Heart I trim off all the fat and arteries soak in a salt water solution over night, like the liver, slice it to preferred thickness, dunk in same egg and milk batter roll in same seasoned flour mix and fry up in same pan and oil. Only sequence I skip from liver recipe is the boiling part.
I serve both with fried potatos and onions.
Good stuff when you come into camp tired and hungry from helping pack meat for a friend.
After eating either of these meals you should see your cardiologist for proper butt chewing for eating such an artery clogging meal, and not inviting him to go with you on your hunt.
Enjoy
Troy
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