When I was a lad....

[Whitey]

Wholley,
I didn't feel insulted, I thought I'd somehow unintentionally insulted you by my hunting practices. I'm so lazy I probably won't even go out this year. I've come down with a case of the "Slows".

You ever get that way? I sat on the couch one saturday all day, didn't move. Damnest thing I ever experienced. My wife says my body has finally put me in check. I was in tri-athelete shape from 17-28, the last year, I've been tired as hell. I look at the gym and think "Donuts, coffee and history channel, pillow and sleep."

Maybe I'll let my buddies toss me their left over elk.

BTW It could be having a 2 year old that makes me so tired.

[Wholley]

Whitey,
When I Hunt,I Hunt,
No problems.
It's the best time of my year.
If I kill nothing and the crows don't see me,Iv'e had a good morning,means my camo's good.That evening I will probably kill.If not I will try again.From my point of view,Just being out there is the point.I just love being away from all the noise.Just silence!No trucks,cars,women,etc.
Just waiting for that thud,thud of a 5 pointer,that you aim carefuly at and it ducks skilfully as it knows you are there.So you hunker down for the night with your Adult Beverage of choice and start all
over in the early hours.
Wholley.

[harry hackedoff]

Nice little segway there, boys. My congratulations Whitey and Wholley you boys are learning One minute we were talking about the state of today’s yoof, the next we’re out hunting. Cool
Hunting with a bow is a definite skill. Olde stylee "simple" bows( a la Longbow) require particularly good upper body strength to shoot properly. Modern "compound" bows have a system of pulleys which gives considerable mechanical advantage and therefore require much less strenght. The lower draw weight of a compound bow, means a flatter trajectory and significantly less movement after the arrow is shot. Less draw weight, less movement and flatter flight path enable them to be fitted with sights both simple and telescopic. They have taken over as the preferred type of bow for hunting. Where we lived in the Cotswolds there were many deer in the woods and I enjoyed stalking much more than hunting. Stalking goes on for as long as you want (or at least till the beast sniffs you) Hunting is over once you’ve dropped one (Pardon )
I dive. I`m not interested in wrecks. My interest is observing and sometimes, interacting with the fishes. The way I was taught to dive instilled a respect for them and to me, it’s sacrosanct. Not down here, though. 97% of Aussies live within ten miles of the ocean because they are all on a seafood diet. If it lives in the sea, it`s part of their diet. Pre-dive checks consist of me doing it proper( er no, not that "doing it proper") and comments like "Where’s ya spear gun mate?" from the Aussies. Every conceivable device known to man for killing any sea creature adorns Aussie divers. How they larf, as I duck for cover when they cock six foot long spear guns on board the dive boat I have a grudging respect though; objects appear 25% larger underwater and slightly higher than they really are. The thing that worries me, is that they all have "keep-bags" hung from their belts. Is it a good idea to hang wounded fish from your little pink body in Mr White’s waters, I wonder
Poached venison, anyone,

[Wholley]

Harry,
Do you dive with a buddy?
Hear one,Hear two,etc?
My yoof was spent hunting something or other so I figured I wasn't hi-jacking the thread.
Used to watch a bow hunting show on TV here.Loved the womens compound bow competition.As you say,upper body strength,good for the pec's,very uplifting.
To digress once again,do you dive at night?
I used to dive a lot in the Carribean but folk lore forbid us to night dive.
Some thing about sand sharks not having very good eyesight,so they would take a nip just to hear what you were.OWGODAMMITSOMETHING BITMEF*CKINGANKLE would generaly send them on their way into deeper water.BTW"dropping one" can easily end the hunt if your upwind
Wholley.

[lew]

I’m not a fan of hunting; we in this country at least don’t have enough wild life left...

Always been a fan of the bow though, there’s a elegance in it that cant be found in the rifle, or shot gun, plus with the right person shooting the bow I bet it could be just as deadly...


lew

[mattt_h]

im not a fan of hunting either but i used to shoot air rifles as a kid used to staple newspaper onto a wooden frame as a target still do it now but use them free aol cds.

[zero megahertz]

Most of the people posting here seem to be of the opinion that inner city areas are no fun to grow up in. I live in the inner city, and abandoned factories are possibly the most fun places I have ever experienced. Also, building sites are great. The only problem nowadays is that if you hang around these places too long, you get involved with the cops. A lot. I speak from experience, wheras in the old days it was more of a slap on the wrist and a "move along son" from the local bobby, now its a bring-you-home-in-a-van and a "catch you in here again and youll be on probation"

Perhaps thats why inner-city children these days dont get up to much.

[Wholley]

Lew And Matt,
There is certainly art and grace in the correct use of a rifle.
Lew there is no way a bow can be as accurate as a rifle over 50 or so yards.
Shotguns have a grace of their own.I used to shoot Woodie's and Clays.
Try it with a Baikal and then with something a little more expensive.
Or just try it.
Before you expound.
Wholley.

[Wholley]

Sticks,
Are you suggesting I fill my freezer with camera film?
Hardly digestable I would think.I don't hunt for a trophy.I hunt for food.
Wholley.

[jlitt]

yeah I can see what you mean recently at a family BBQ Itook my younger couins out to play run-outs in the fields. Ended up with one of them falling a couple of feet from a tree and going home, I was most upset shamed by the fact that I was supposed to look after them. The comment I got from my my uncle "wot, climn tree's e daght do that stuff"
13 years old an can't climb trees whats this country comin to?( I still do it now to show off to my friends on the way back from the pub- here read diminished resposibility) MY gen 1980-1987ish were probably the last to do this kinda stuff in general. Alougth I'm sure that the tradition is kept alive by some.

[Wholley]

Jlitt.
Can you run that by me again?
Maybe in a Language I can understand.
English would be good.
You could try a spell check or something.
Alto,Ce pasa hablo espaniola.
Or sum such.
Wholley.

[lew]

There is certainly art and grace in the correct use of a rifle. Lew there is no way a bow can be as accurate as a rifle over 50 or so yards.

wholley this may well be the case, but in my opinion the bow is still more elegant, it makes next to no noise and has a beauty all of its own, (long bow) in particular


lew

[Gary_amsterdam]

I was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in '85. As a kid I was always up to no good, throwing waterbombs of bridges into the canal tourboats, hit and run on the parking-weel clampers with rotting egs, shoplifting out of shops. Sort of fighting a guirilla war in the urban jungle. I never got caught though (TANKGOD). Then I discoverd weed was legal in Holland and I did that for a year or two (have been clean ever since I wanted to join). I still have to get my adrenaline kicks from somewhere though, but I 'only' do stuff like hang on to the back of trains, sneak into high security buildings and complexes.

I think the faster I get into the army the better lol.

[Min]

You were born in Amsterdam & that's ALL you got up2 A very well behaved kid then !!!!