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Topic: HUNTING PIGS THE OLD FASHIONED WAY |
Gigmaster
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:05 pm Subject: Re: HUNTING PIGS THE OLD FASHIONED WAY |
PETA=People Eating Tasty Animals
The Fair Chase thing is a political feel-good term. In the wild, nothing is fair.
Any method used by a human is infinity more humane than what happens to prey from ... |
Topic: HUNTING PIGS THE OLD FASHIONED WAY |
Gigmaster
Replies: 55
Views: 48181
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:21 pm Subject: Re: HUNTING PIGS THE OLD FASHIONED WAY |
I just completed making a new hog longbow.
Here is my new baby. I've tillered it to 83# at 28". It is 71" long. I made it from Red Oak, backed with linen, and a suede thong-wrapped grip. I finished ... |
Topic: Just made a new bow. |
Gigmaster
Replies: 2
Views: 3580
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:16 pm Subject: Just made a new bow. |
Here is my new baby. I've tillered it to 83# at 28". It is 71" long. I made it from Red Oak, backed with linen, and a suede thong-wrapped grip. I finished it with 5 coats of clear gloss Minwax.
It ... |
Topic: HUNTING PIGS THE OLD FASHIONED WAY |
Gigmaster
Replies: 55
Views: 48181
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:26 pm Subject: Re: HUNTING PIGS THE OLD FASHIONED WAY |
I've tried my hand a making a couple of rabbit sticks. They fly nice and straight. I haven't nailed a rabbit, yet, but when the season rolls around.....BEWARE BUGS!!!!!!! I'm gonna show you 'What's Up ... |
Topic: What kind of bow is this? |
Gigmaster
Replies: 76
Views: 49920
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:10 pm Subject: Re: What kind of bow is this? |
I have to ask.....how could a man look at that picture...., and actually CARE what kind of bow she's holding????????? :l ... |
Topic: The ultimate ML ? |
Gigmaster
Replies: 16
Views: 16658
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:59 pm Subject: Re: The ultimate ML ? |
I do! And I make them myself, as well as longbows and self recurves. I just finished an 86# Red Oak longbow, with a linen backing. It shoots like a dream. My next project is a bamboo-backed hickory lo ... |
Topic: Mechanical or cut on contact? WHY?? |
Gigmaster
Replies: 23
Views: 20117
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:49 pm Subject: Re: Mechanical or cut on contact? WHY?? |
I shoot broadheads. Everyone I talked to that used mechanicals said they had problems. |
Topic: Archery: Target panic |
Gigmaster
Replies: 8
Views: 11157
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:45 pm Subject: Re: Archery: Target panic |
I had a case of Target Panic a few weeks ago. I was hunting hogs on the mountain a little ways from the house. I was testing out a Red Oak Longbow that I had just made. I heard a hog and tracked a 400 ... |
Topic: Crossbows |
Gigmaster
Replies: 34
Views: 31095
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:31 pm Subject: Re: Crossbows |
You just hit the nail on the head. That's the fun part....finding the limitations. That's the whole point.
Sometimes I bowhunt, and sometimes I shoot archery. The difference....?
1. An archer at ... |
Topic: Crossbows |
Gigmaster
Replies: 34
Views: 31095
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:01 am Subject: Re: Crossbows |
[quote="Pumpkinslinger"]In the July 2008 (yep, that's what it says on the cover!) issue of Buckmasters magazine there are some reviews of "horizontal bows" as well as a number of ads for them. Some p ... |
Topic: Crossbows |
Gigmaster
Replies: 34
Views: 31095
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:58 am Subject: Re: Crossbows |
I specified a man-sized target, as opposed to a bear-sized target so no one would rant about unethical hunting. Oh, well......
As I stated, I was shooting at [i]targets[/i], not live game. I was a ... |
Topic: The Southern Woman |
Gigmaster
Replies: 14
Views: 7300
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Forum: Jokes & Humor Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:00 pm Subject: Re: The Southern Woman |
Starting in 2008, car manufacturers have started putting 'Black Boxes' in cars, much like the ones in airplanes, designed to record the final 10 seconds of a crash. It was hoped the information would ... |
Topic: Memorial Day |
Gigmaster
Replies: 20
Views: 14315
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Forum: General Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:25 pm Subject: Re: Memorial Day |
I have a hard time on Memorial Day, as a rule. I spent many years wondering (through an alcoholic haze) why I was spared while many of my comrades had to make the ultimate sacrifice. I fought the guil ... |
Topic: Crossbows |
Gigmaster
Replies: 34
Views: 31095
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:11 pm Subject: Re: Crossbows |
Well, all this talk got me curious again. I just went out and got a good deal on a 175 lb Horton Yukon SL. They have improved them greatly since my last one. This one is about 2/3 the weight of the ol ... |
Topic: Crossbows |
Gigmaster
Replies: 34
Views: 31095
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Forum: Primitive Weapons Hunting Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 8:55 pm Subject: Re: Crossbows |
[quote="whittling"]it stinks . in mass. they are ''dangerous weapons ''. can't use them[/quote]
Soooooo......what would constitute a NON-Dangerous weapon??????
And what good would a Non-Dangerou ... |
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