Outdoorsman Thread

[samb1955]

Really impressive bow, I'm from Indiana and never heard of Rising Sun. Where about is it?

[Dinadan]

Greg - I agree with the others: that is really beautiful work. Am I correct in thinking that you make the arrows as well? The arrow does not look like anything that Cabelas sells!

[WillyCamaro]

I second all the other fellers! Beautiful long bow sunknife
Archery is another passion of mine, especially traditional. Sadly I don't have the time, nor the energy, nor the strength, nor the $$$ to do it. I would absolutely love to take mine a huntin' for some Quail/Grouse. Maybe one day...never know...
Again beautiful piece of woodwork/bow making!

[RobesonsRme.com]

Beautiful work.

I was pretty good with a fiberglass recurved bow when I was a boy. I think I could easily get into that again.

What kind of lb pull are you getting out of your self-made bows? Obviously, if you are hunting deer with them, it must be significant.

I watched a video a few years ago of a Japanese maker creating a laminated bow in a traditional technique that turn out a bow of tremendous strength.

Charlie

[sunknife]

Really impressive bow, I'm from Indiana and never heard of Rising Sun. Where about is it?

Thank you samb1955, its a small town on the Ohio River, almost into Kentcky

Greg - I agree with the others: that is really beautiful work. Am I correct in thinking that you make the arrows as well? The arrow does not look like anything that Cabelas sells!
Thanks Mel. Yep I make the arrows as well, that one is from a bamboo tomato stake from the home improvement store. Heat straightened and fletched with wild turkey feathers. Carved in nock reinforced with deer sinew.

I second all the other fellers! Beautiful long bow sunknife
Archery is another passion of mine, especially traditional. Sadly I don't have the time, nor the energy, nor the strength, nor the $$$ to do it. I would absolutely love to take mine a huntin' for some Quail/Grouse. Maybe one day...never know...
Again beautiful piece of woodwork/bow making!

Thanks Willy. Hope your'e able to bow hunt someday. Make your own gear for practically nothing, all the knowledge can be found in books or you can get help online from primitive archer website. Not easy at first but if ya dive in people are generous with knowledge and you can get there after a bit of trial and error.

Thanks again to all for the gracious compliments.

[sunknife]

Beautiful work.

I was pretty good with a fiberglass recurved bow when I was a boy. I think I could easily get into that again.

What kind of lb pull are you getting out of your self-made bows? Obviously, if you are hunting deer with them, it must be significant.

I watched a video a few years ago of a Japanese maker creating a laminated bow in a traditional technique that turn out a bow of tremendous strength.

Charlie

Thank you Charlie. When making one for myself I shoot around 45-50# of draw weight. Plenty enough for deer sized game and I even managed to down a elk with 45# bow once 11 years ago.

[jerryd6818]

Really impressive bow, I'm from Indiana and never heard of Rising Sun. Where about is it?

Ten miles Southwest of Cincinnati (as the crow flies) on the Indiana side of the of the Ohio River.

[dlr110]

Two of my grand daughters at the Games of Texas in College Station. As you can see their sport is Archery. This year they walked away the the Silver and Bronze in their age group. Grandpa is very proud!!

[doglegg]

Congratulation dlr, archey seems to be on the up swing among youthful ladies here in Texas. I know a couple of young ladies who are in competition.

[jerryd6818]

Good on you David for supporting the Grand's with your attendance at their events. Talented and attractive young ladies.

[Quick Steel]

What Jerry said.

[bighomer]

What Jerry said ×3.

[sunknife]

Two of my grand daughters at the Games of Texas in College Station. As you can see their sport is Archery. This year they walked away the the Silver and Bronze in their age group. Grandpa is very proud!!

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That is fantastic David, those girls must every good. From the smiles on their faces I'd say they enjoy the sport and the satisfaction of doing well at it at such a high level. I imagine they worked hard for their success, congrats to both. Good grandkids are such a treat.

[dlr110]

Thanks for all the responses guys. At first I thought this would just be one of those passing interests for both of them. They have been doing it for two years and their coach has commented he has never seen such naturals in the sport and to see it in sisters makes it even more amazing. Love them both.

[Unk]

A couple of pages back, you guys were talking about ant lions. When I was a kid we used to play with them in North Texas by dropping bugs into their traps, or stirring it with a twig.

We didn't call ant lions doodlebugs though. We called roly-polys doodle bugs.

Here's a funny video about them. I don't remember them being quite as dramatic as portrayed in this video.

[Quick Steel]

Back in the 50's there were many films of giant insects due to radiation of course. "Them" was the classic, about giant ants. Don't understand why
no movie was made of the ant lion. It would have made for a fine sci-fi horror film. By the way, THEM is worth seeing if you have never seen it.
In black and white, it holds up well with a good cast: James Arness and James Whitmore. Joan Weldon produced appropriate screams. And Fess Parker had a minor role.

[Mumbleypeg]

When I was a kid my buddies and I would spend hours playing with ant lions. Usually there would be several of them in a small area. We would catch small bugs, like ants, drop them into the ant lion holes and watch them meet their fate. Like Unk described we would also take blades of grass, drag them very lightly across the ant lion holes and watch the dirt fly.

Eventually we’d dig one or more of the ant lions out if their holes just to see what they look like. Then release them and watch them did a new funnel. A lot more interesting than any video game IMHO. We had many ways to pass the time growing up!

Some interesting facts:

ant lions are the larvae of a species of lacewing, a flying insect which also captures and feeds on other insects.

And apparently the ant lion was inspiration for one of the scary alien predators in the Sci-fi movie “Enemy Mine”.

Ken

[Paladin]

A couple of pages back, you guys were talking about ant lions. When I was a kid we used to play with them in North Texas by dropping bugs into their traps, or stirring it with a twig.

We didn't call ant lions doodlebugs though. We called roly-polys doodle bugs.

Here's a funny video about them. I don't remember them being quite as dramatic as portrayed in this video.

Very interesting video and educational, even!

Ray

[doglegg]

Great video Unk. I've never seen one throw out the remains.

[RobesonsRme.com]

They look a lot like the critter Kahn dropped into the ears of Chekov and another crew member in an episode of Star Trek.

Charlie Noyes

[dlr110]

UPDATE: Okay I know you guys are tired of my brother's trip, so I'll make these the last ones til I go up in two weeks. This lodge is solely owned by a family that has been a long time friend of my brother's when he was the minister of their church. There is room for several families to be there at the same time, but my brother and his wife have the run of it for the next 14 to 18 months for finishing a series of books they have been working on. So here's the Drewery Lodge, Soldotna, Alaska.

The Drewery Lodge

Driving up

The Front View

The Garden Area

Where I will be having my coffee.

Where hopefully I will catch a few fish

[FRJ]

--I never knew they existed. Pretty cool.

Sorry: EDIT: The bugs that is.

Beautiful Lodge.

[Doc B]

David, that's gonna be heaven...especially escaping the Texas heat!

[TripleF]

UPDATE: Okay I know you guys are tired of my brother's trip, so I'll make these the last ones til I go up in two weeks. This lodge is solely owned by a family that has been a long time friend of my brother's when he was the minister of their church. There is room for several families to be there at the same time, but my brother and his wife have the run of it for the next 14 to 18 months for finishing a series of books they have been working on. So here's the Drewery Lodge, Soldotna, Alaska.

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WOW....so awesome!!

[TripleF]

Saw an Imperial Moth yesterday while looking for Chanterelle mushrooms