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in reply to: New guy looking for advice #16727
Hey man. I just started shooting myself. I bought a Samick Sage back in January and have been shooting it everyday.
I’ve found the bow to be of good quality. I did find that it’s a little short for my 30.5″ draw length, so I’ve ordered some Samick Journey limbs, which will fit the Sage riser. Then it will be a 64″ bow instead of a 62″ bow, so my fingers should get pinched less and I should be able to work on my release a little more.
I started out with some inexpensive Arrow Dynamics Hi-plains Hunter arrows. So far I’ve broken 5 of the 6, either stump shooting, whanging them off rocks or hitting them with other arrows. I wont’ be buying those again.
I bought some Gold Tip traditional arrows off Amazon for less than a $100 for a dozen. They came fletched with feathers, but uncut, at 32″. Since I have a such a long draw length, I just glued the inserts into some of them. Yesterday I went to a store here in town and had some cut to 31″ for free. They’ve been much more durable.
I’m very much enjoying shooting a Trad bow. The Sage is kind of like the Ford Taurus of the bow world: inexpensive, not very sexy, but it gets the job done.
Once I settle on a draw weight, I’ll probably treat myself to a nice longbow, but I think the Sage is a great tool.
in reply to: mushrooms and elk..i think.. #12035Ptaylor wrote: [quote=OSQUINT]I think they eat the mushrooms that make them small so we can’t see them when hunting
OQUINT- You can’t see the elk because of the mushrooms you eat! Hahaha!
Hmmmm. I wonder if this figures into the 10% success rate for elk hunters in Washington state….
in reply to: mushrooms and elk..i think.. #12031David Petersen wrote: My experience and study with wild shrooms are largely limited to morels. I have read that they have no nutritional value in a couple of respected guide books. Perhaps I err, as so often, in generalizing. Turning your question around, I’d appreciate being pointed toward reliable edification re just what nutritional value, that is calories that will keep a body alive, which shrooms contain. In fact I lost a bit of my strong appetite for fungi after reading they are just bulk and filler. I’d like to get it back.
We may be getting hung up on “nutritional value.” The naturalist program that I’m in teaches that mushrooms aren’t valuable for meeting your short term needs in a survival/foraging situation because the nutritional inputs aren’t all that significant, particularly when weighed against the cost of possibly misidentifying one.
In the next breath, when we shift to a health and longevity standpoint, those same folks will tell you about all the benefits of incorporating properly identified mushrooms into your diet. Many of those benefits have some firm science backing them up. Some have a significant amount of “woo.”
in reply to: Note of appreciation #12016This is one of the best corners of the internet I’ve ever frequented. The signal to noise ratio and the level of civility are outstanding.
When you go to most internet fora devoted to a particular activity, most of the posts aren’t about the experience of doing the activity, they are about the GEAR. I get really sick of consumerism. There are certainly discussions about gear here, but the quality and tone of them are quite different. A good example of that would be the “Emergency Gear” thread that is running now.
I don’t have much time to surf the internet right now, but when I do, I check in here. I’ve learned a bunch about traditional archer and bow hunting in the short time I’ve been here, both by reading the active threads and mining the archives.
Thanks a bunch everybody. Maybe when the baby gets a little older, I can find a way to meet some of you in person.
David
in reply to: mushrooms and elk..i think.. #8075John,
I’ve watched Blacktail deer eat mushrooms down by Nestucca river, but I don’t yet know enough of mushrooms to identify waht kind.
Where are you in Oregon? I’m over in Yacolt WA myself. Here if we find anything eaten in the forest, we just figure ‘squatch did it.
in reply to: Signs of Spring #8074Man it’s changed quick here. We’ve been unseasonably warm here at the end of February.
The ornamental cherry tree popped this week, as have some Daffodils and the Magnolia. The daffs are in various stages, depending on where they are on the property. Since our land is very three dimensional, we’ve got plenty of micro-climates so there’s a whole days worth of learning in walking around figuring why one daffodil has popped and another hasn’t.
The deer are blowing their coats. I keep finding big clumps of deer hair all over, and the does I saw the other night looked awful pregnant. I’d really like some fawns to be born on my property this year. I’ve done a little judicious trimming here and there to create some better bedding areas, which have been getting used, as a little offering.
The Robins came back in force about 10 days ago, wearing cheap little sombreros and toting bottles of duty free tequila. They seem to run around in a little band right when they get back, then slowly disperse over the river valley.
Today I saw what I consider the real harbinger of spring, our Rufous Hummingbird. He buzzed me as I was planting fruit and nut trees and it made my spirits lift even more. In the two years I’ve lived here I’ve had some awesome hummingbird encounters. They seem genuinely curious and buzz me or hover nearby pretty regular. I have no idea if it is the same bird, but I like to believe it is. I’ve named him “Sikorsky.”
A little over two years ago I was living in a suburban apartment. Other than marrying my wife, buying this place was the best thing I ever did.
in reply to: question about stoves #63417I’ve really enjoyed using my Jetboil. It has been problem free for years now. It gets water boiling very quickly and is quite fuel efficient.
Like was already mentioned though, there’s very little nuance with it. It’s either “off” or “full tilt boogie.” So it mostly gets used for boiling water for coffee, tea and dehydrated meals. My wife likes to be a more adventurous on backpacks and actually COOK so we take a little MSR stove when she wants to do that.
in reply to: Fight the fat-cat land grabbers #57652Signed. For sure.
I’ve been keeping an eye on this stuff most of my adult life, and like the famous quote says, the victories are temporary and the defeats permanent, but up until recently the discussion has been framed around how public lands should be used, not whether they should be public at all.
About 5 years ago I was at a Sierra Club event and remember saying “If they really want to ‘f’ with us, they’ll just sell all the public land to Weyerhauser and Northern Pacific.”
I thought I was joking, at the time….
in reply to: Shooting the Sage #53045For all you Sage-ophiles that might not know, Samick now makes a bow called the “Journey.” It’s the same exact riser as the Sage, but it’s a 64″ bow, vs the Sage’s 62″, and they explicitly state you can put Journey limbs on a Sage riser.
It turns out I have a 30.5″ to 31″ draw length (76″ wingspan) so I’m thinking when I upgrade to 45# limbs I might get the longer limbs.
in reply to: Flying Geese Tips #49966Ontario wrote: I’d like to know where to get the “cheap Chinese knock-off broadheads” for small game. I don’t want to wreck my good broadheads on our Canadian Shield rock.
There is a bunch of cheap archery stuff from China on Amazon.
Ptaylor wrote: [quote=Etter1]I’ve not read much lately for some reason but it is time to get back in the shelf. I typically read “Illumination in the Flatwoods” before every turkey season and this year will be no different. If you haven’t read it, please do.
I’ll also soon re-read both of Ben Kilham’s books on black bears when the summer scouting season starts.
That’s funny Etter, I’m the same way. I read Kilham’s books and “Walking with bears” each spring before the bear rut, and an excellent book about black-tail deer by Boyd Iverson before every deer hunt I do.
Hey Ptaylor, have your read Terkla’s “Hunting Black Tailed Deer, An Oregon Perpective?” I think there is plenty in there that would translate to Northern California.
I learned quite a bit from that book. I really enjoyed Terkla’s take on hunting too. He had quite a bit of respect for deer, and cared not a whit about horn size.
Looks like it is still in print:
in reply to: Winter Rove #48474Smithhammer wrote: [quote=Wose]
I’m going to guess weasel. It’s hard to tell without a size reference.
Yup – that’s my guess as well. They were the right size for a weasel.
Saw tons of fox tracks as well, but didn’t get a good pic of them. I love heading out after a fresh snowfall and seeing the evidence of everything that’s been moving around.
We don’t get snow here all that often, but when we do, I love to go outside and track. I find all sorts of sign even when it isn’t snowing, but it’s after a snowfall that I realize how much wildlife traffic my land sees.
This winter I tracked a mouse right into a hole in the foundation of the house I didn’t even know was there. I sprayfoamed that as soon as it warmed up!
Great pictures. I enjoyed that.
in reply to: Winter Rove #48434Steve Graf wrote: Yes, great stuff! and Great Shooting! But what is the last set of tracks? Looks like something draggin tail.
I’m going to guess weasel. It’s hard to tell without a size reference.
in reply to: Yana Robertson – Hunting Vid #44035Nice. She seems like a cool person. Hopefully there are a bunch of tween and teenage girls out there that are finding her much cooler than Lyndsay Cyrus and etc…
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