[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Early Archery Memories #41320

Mine started when I was 9 or 10 with a friend and his dads bear take down. I worked at picking up sticks and making slash piles for 2 months to get enough money together for a small glass long bow and fiberglass arrows from the local hardware store. Shot it until I lost all the arrows, went to get more, but the hardware store couldn’t or “wouldn’t” order in arrows only at that time. 😥

Plus my dads opinion back then, (being the meat hunter he was) was that bows were not good enough to hunt with since you had to get so close. It was more important to feed 4 growing boys so he used an old ’06 for deer and elk, a 16 gauge Ithaca pump for ducks and geese, he did use a sling shot to take grouse though, to fill our freezer.

I sure missed that feeling when I was flinging arrows in the woods behind the house and didn’t know it until….

Archery interest was rekindled when my son decided he wanted to hunt with his bow he was shooting for 4H archery.:D

Trad “obsession” was rekindled one year after buying my compound and continued to feel something just wasn’t right, then I went to the ITBS rendezvous in Iowa, it was like I was 10 again!! I went ahead and bought my first real long bow and never looked back, that was 12 years ago, and more bows than my wife thinks I need, I just love shooting again! :D:D:twisted:

Wow what a revelation about the great feelings from my youth actually brought me back to the long bow:shock:

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Going Trad #31447

Please enter me in for a chance

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: of wolves and elk – no debate please #8393

Clay Hayes wrote: [quote=tradhunter1]Unfortunately I only have access to the net on my iPad this summer and can’t view adobe flash player videos. Being familiar with your videos, I know I’m missing out on something special. 🙁

Troy

Troy, I’ll eventually upload it to youtube as well.

I am most definitely looking forward to it.

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: of wolves and elk – no debate please #7873

Unfortunately I only have access to the net on my iPad this summer and can’t view adobe flash player videos. Being familiar with your videos, I know I’m missing out on something special. 🙁

Troy

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in reply to: Dividing the spoils #45926

If we hunt together, we pack together, we share camp chores together, we all eat evenly together.:D

If you don’t do camp chores, you don’t hunt hard and ethically(ethically is more important than hard), you are drunken slob, you don’t help pack out, you won’t eat my meat, and you don’t come back to my camp ever!:x

Don’t get me wrong about drinking, because a good toddy at the end of a hard hunt is a wonderful thing,:D but a mouthy pushy drunk is someone I want to avoid. So I choose my long hunts and long hunting partners carefully.

I have shared hunting camp with up to 10 people with only 2 elk down. 9 of those hunting went home with meat split evenly. One left camp with hurt feelings and a new understanding of what sharing the experience really means.

Good luck

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: I just bought my first longbow. #26506

Most of us work on form and accuracy before jumping into shooting with distraction. 😉 Good on ya for getting the distractions out of the way first. 😆

Luck

Troy

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: How far will you shoot? #24329

Tom Horn?

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in reply to: Shoot a bow for fun. #19043

I can remember when gas went from 75 cents to 85 cents a gallon. And boy was I upset!! It took money from my party/girl chasin fund.:lol:

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in reply to: Shoot a bow for fun. #18979

R2 wrote: Inflation here in the states probably has it up to $2. 😉

$2!! R2 what decade are you living in? And can I come and visit to pick up a few things to bring back to my decade? 😉 shipping for a button is more than that. 😆

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in reply to: How far will you shoot? #18972

I will practice/stump shoot out to 40+ yards but when hunting would never try on anything past 25 and that is only if the shot is 100% clear of obstacles and the animal is relaxed, and so far that perfect senerio has never opened up for me. All of my shots so far have been 20 and under, mostly under.

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK #10288

Love them decoy blinds!!

That’s a fine set up.

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in reply to: HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK #58611

David Petersen wrote: Arwen said: “I want goose feathers!!!”

How do you cook them? 😆

I roast them like a turkey. Need to pick em so the skin holds the fat in, then just roast them like a turkey, you do want to make sure you pull them out before they dry out. If they dry out they taste a lot like leathery liver.

You can smoke them also and I’ve had some that folks have made in a slow cooker with cream of onion soup on a bed of rice,.

I’ve had one cooked in the fryer in peanut oil and wow it was good.

And yes jerky is good also.

[Troy Warner]

in reply to: Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Rendezvous #46627

I and my wife were lucky enough to spend the weekend in Boise at the BHA rendezvous. I have to give kudos to the Idaho chapter for the great job they did. It was a very good and humbling experience to spend time with so many folks that are giving what they can to help protect our forests and wild places as well as our hunting and fishing experiences, and we are proud to be a part of such a great organization.

Thank you for the great time!

Troy

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in reply to: Floorless Shelters #46229

Smithhammer,

Did you order a nest also?

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in reply to: Moose (Not Chocolate)… #39635

Alex,

I don’t have any experience with Moose, but the more remote and wild the better!:D IMO.

Good luck and enjoy

Troy

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