Thoughts from a geezer

[Bugar In. USA]

Years back i did lotta deer huntin, was successful, used longbow, wooden arrows, always got my deer, (got 13 point rack hangin on my wall now), but never could make myself go to one o those hunts where the deer all fenced in and you gotta pay for a guaranteed kill, i just still feel thata way when it comes to relic hunting, sure i could get some goodies=BUT= oh well, been to quite a few paid coinhunts too, seemed the organizers allus got most o the goodies, not always,= BUT= anyway==different strokes for different folks i guess, I enjoy my way, and they enjoy their way, shucks we all beepin=

 

[jdstawker]

Understand entirely,

I make an annual pheasant hunt to South Dakota to ranch. No released birds. Sometimes the year is lean and sometime it is not. But is the not knowing that makes it exciting. That trip has been going since 1964. Not me of course I wasn't born until 1965 and those first couple of years of crawling in my diaper with the shotgun made it rough.
Other thing is your picture showing knee pads. Now that is an idea I will definitely steal. Hope you don't mind

 

[Bugar In. USA]

Been usin em for long time, i got braces on both knees i gotta wear too, knees been around since 1937, they gittin stiff n wore down

 

[Nemo]

Could not agree with you more on program hunts AND knee pads! From what I've see of program hunts I don't want to be around them. Recently here in Missouri we had a hunt on a known Civil War site with "prize" relics being spread and buried all over the site. This, of course. ruined the site in the future as any relics found from now on are suspect. The organizers never thought this through. It must have been like an easter egg hunt with some of the eggs left to rot. Why didn't they rent a piece of land that was NOT A CIVIL WAR SITE.

Some hunts are on Civil War sites with no organizer's "droppings". However, I recently watched a sequence of "Preserving History" (very funny name for what is going on) to see the host of that sequence show the brick chimney of a hut being hunted and relics being found and in the background of the view men and boys were wildly digging of the earth and shoveling it here and there. It was a perfect advertisement for what relic hunting is all about that could be shown to state legislatures who make laws against metal detecting.

Who benefits from such events? Certainly not the hobby!

nuf said.
Nemo

 

[SimplicityAltered]

n/t

 

[SimplicityAltered]

You my sir have gotten me to register to this here forum. I remember back years ago well maybe about 10 years ago I had a chance to metal detect a place very secluded but so over grown no one has venture that way for those in Illinois north and mid central let me know and I will et you know where I did find a Lil ole penny on the path but didn't venter further in.

 

[Bugar In. USA]

Well= OK ?

 

[rmptr]

Bugar, I've instructed my MDs to find palm trees, just like the one in your 2nd picture...

Next time they find one, I'll set right up against it with a grin just like yourself, in the first picture!

Can't say I've ever brought down a buck with a bow n' arrow, but my wife's side was pretty fair with a bow...

Her mother once spent quite a bit of time with Jennings at the Malibu archers course, and her father recently place high in a Las Vegas seniors tournament. It's a good sport, also...

HH

 

[Bugar In. USA]

I shot competition all over the US for a few years anyway, using a 1956 Fred Bear Recurve, won the gold medal for instinctive archery USA, and the same year was 4 th in world standings, sure was a bunch o travel and work doin it that way, then i just decided to do nothin but huntin with a Howard Hill longbow, was a lot more fun, i don't like to get too serious over nothin, shucks life's too short.