Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: WhistlingBadger on December 29, 2019, 10:00:53 am
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1. Don't treat the fletched area of your shafts with boiled linseed oil. It dissolves adhesives, and soaks so far into the wood that, even after repeated scrubbings with rubbing alcohol and fine-grit sand paper, nothing will stick to it.
2. Don't decide to boil the alcohol out of your home-made arrow varnish on the kitchen stove when it's -20F outside and the family is trying to get ready for church.
This is why I like trying new things: It keeps me humble.
T
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3. Especially don't do the above when you have a big 3d shoot coming up in a week, and you haven't been able to practice at all because you ruined all your good arrows and are not trying to just get a few put together that will fly more-or-less straight.
Yep, Mr. Murphy has taken up residence in my quiver...
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Don't steam watter buffalo horn in the house while you wife is around...or may be home within several hours.
Don't try to teach your wife's cat a lesson by lacing something he/she keeps chewing on with 4 million Scoville unit hot sauce...the panting and foaming at rhe mouth will teach the cat the intended lesson but your wife's ire knows no bounds.
And if you ever try to shoot with a thumb ring make sure it fits properly...a thumb ring hitting your bow hand from full draw really hurts.
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Don't cook brains for tanning on the kitchen stove, especially in cold weather!
Also, remember - Murphy's Law is governed by Mc Connell's Theorum: Murphy is an optimist! >:D
Hawkdancer
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Ah, you guys are making me feel better about myself. Other than feeling a bit dull from inhalation of alcohol fumes, no harm done.
Jerry, ever heard Murphy's Law of Plate Tectonics? Everything east of the San Andreas Fault is eventually going to slide into the Atlantic Ocean.
T
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Anything I can do to cheer a guy up ;D
When melting scrap copper don't use a scrap steel gas bottle protection cap, use a real crucible. A couple of pounds of molten copper burning through the bottom of the steel becomes a real mess in your forge.
Oh, and one of my most brilliant moments in earning a badge of stupidity involved trying to turn an empty beer bottle in to a drinking glass (yes I was sober and did not drink the beer)...wear safety goggles...when the bottle broke along the scoring line a sliver of glass shot out and speared my cornea and I had to make an emergency trip to the eye doctor...wear saftey glasses...I'll say it again, wear safetly glasses.
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Don't confuse Gold Bond cream with Preparation H... :o
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Don't confuse Gold Bond cream with Preparation H... :o
owwwwwwww :o
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Don't burn feathers in the house with your Young feather burner.
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Ah, you guys are making me feel better about myself. Other than feeling a bit dull from inhalation of alcohol fumes, no harm done.
Jerry, ever heard Murphy's Law of Plate Tectonics? Everything east of the San Andreas Fault is eventually going to slide into the Atlantic Ocean.
T
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Don't confuse Gold Bond cream with Preparation H... :o
Or confuse Prep H with your tooth paste
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OK, since this conversation keeps going toward stupid things we do to our spouses, I will put this here for your consideration. I won't tell you how many of these I've done...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpFD-kgQxnI
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GREAT presentation there! Had a good laugh with this one.
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Don't use the feather burner in the house without a very strong exhaust fan!!!
G-Monee >:D
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Don't use the feather burner in the house without a very strong exhaust fan!!!
G-Monee >:D
That seems to be a recurring theme, here...
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Plate tectonics? Is that the one that says the lid will blow off the Yellowstine caldera taking no out everything for 500 miles around? -C- >:D (lol)!
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Don't use the feather burner in the house without a very strong exhaust fan!!!
G-Monee >:D
That seems to be a recurring theme, here...
Yep, and don't use a good pot to boil the end of your powder horn project either... ::)
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You guys are missing some golden opportunities to explain why you really need a man cave. If you keep bringing enough stinky stuff in the house eventually your wife will see why it's a absolute necessity. Either that or she'll kick you out of the house. Fortunately for me I got the man cave.
Bjrogg
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Oh and if you keep bringing enough stinky stuff in your man cave you won't have your wife trying to claim it either
Bjrogg
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You guys are missing some golden opportunities to explain why you really need a man cave. If you keep bringing enough stinky stuff in the house eventually your wife will see why it's a absolute necessity. Either that or she'll kick you out of the house. Fortunately for me I got the man cave.
Bjrogg
I'm working that angle pretty well. Already my wife questions very little and tries to pretend to see less. It has to be done in slow increments, very patiently, like boiling a frog. Too much, too soon and she'll throw all the aninal parts out in the yard. She's fully committed to me building my man cave as a shed next to the house once we replace these old drafty single pane windows on the house.
That being said, there are lines drawn and apparently bringing a freah skunk hide in to the house is off limits ;D
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Methinks the fresh skunk hide is off limits -period! >:D. Even in the man cave (lol)!
Hawkdancer
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Yeah, Mrs. Badger is getting tired of weird smells and wood shavings on the floor of the guest room, as well as listening to me practice (I play the penny whistle, among other things, and sometimes certain members of my family hint that the house might not be big enough for that), so a garage/work shed/music studio is being discussed.
But here's the real question, for BJ or any of our other resident marriage experts: How does one go about convincing one's wife that hunting along in grizzly country is not only a perfectly reasonable idea, but completely necessary for one's mental health?
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You guys are missing some golden opportunities to explain why you really need a man cave. If you keep bringing enough stinky stuff in the house eventually your wife will see why it's a absolute necessity. Either that or she'll kick you out of the house. Fortunately for me I got the man cave.
Bjrogg
I'm working that angle pretty well. Already my wife questions very little and tries to pretend to see less. It has to be done in slow increments, very patiently, like boiling a frog. Too much, too soon and she'll throw all the aninal parts out in the yard. She's fully committed to me building my man cave as a shed next to the house once we replace these old drafty single pane windows on the house.
That being said, there are lines drawn and apparently bringing a freah skunk hide in to the house is off limits ;D
Now your going where I'm going. That's exactly the slow encrimental method I used. Be careful though. Soon you might find she actually likes some of your dead animal parts and decides she wants to keep them for her space. Once that happens you'll never get them back. Best not to argue and just to get some more.
Bjrogg
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[quote author=WhistlingBadger link=topic=67061.msg942160#msg942160 date=1577810639
But here's the real question, for BJ or any of our other resident marriage experts: How does one go about convincing one's wife that hunting along in grizzly country is not only a perfectly reasonable idea, but completely necessary for one's mental health?
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Well fortunately or unfortunately whichever way you want to look at it. I don't have anything around here that wants to eat me except mosquitoes.
Hard to say. I think at times she would probably encourage me to go out and hunt with the grizzlies.
Bjrogg
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Don't use the kitchen stove to boil a deer skull for a European mount or the oven for heat treating rock.
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Don't use the kitchen stove to boil a deer skull for a European mount or the oven for heat treating rock.
What's wrong with these two? I've not done either so I may need to know the cons before attempting.
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What's wrong with these two? I've not done either so I may need to know the cons before attempting.
I don't know about heating rock, but with deer head, it's the smell. Cooking deer heads smell pretty funky, and in the several hours required to get all the flesh off, it permeates the entire house. I don't mind the smell too much, but after a while it even gets to be too much for me. I do mine outside on the coleman stove.
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WB, assure your wife your life insurance is up to date. She'll probably help you pack. ;D
When it comes to free advise, take all you can get. :OK
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WB, assure your wife your life insurance is up to date. She'll probably help you pack. ;D
When it comes to free advise, take all you can get. :OK
It's usually worth at least what you paid for it.
Bjrogg
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No buyer's remorse, and no need to send it back if it proves defective~
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Usually the one giving it has already paid for it
Bjrogg
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The wood shaving, brain cooking, bullet making, etc. all occur in the garage! Only spot with enough room for the harp is in the bedroom, not enough finger dexterity to play the penny whistle. Little Fiddle Woman has her teaching/practice/recording studio, and art room in the lower level/basement. I get a gun/reloading/Exercycle room! (lol) Luckily, I don't hunt bears, though; I follow the Apache line of thought. Like Pat said, make sure your insurance is paid up! As a Hunter Ed Instructor, we teach never hunt alone, and leave map grid locations of the hunt area. Good luck!
Hawkdancer
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I don't hunt bears either, but that wouldn't stop them from hunting me. The vast majority are way too smart to mess with people, but once in a while you get that one in a thousand. I know hunting alone isn't the safest way to do it, but IMO it's the best. Sometimes there are bigger factors than safety. I do carry a SPOT that let's me send "I'm OK" messages, so that has cut down on the marital strife a bit. It also tracks my location, which should make finding me a little less inconvenient when I do cash in my chips..
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I do alot of solo hunting as well.
For bears I CCW a 10mm pistol with full power loads. If 17 rounds of Buffalo Bore don't stop him then I'm not sure what will. I also installed a ported barrel, you definately feel the recoil but the muzzle flip is nill alowing for faster follow up shots. I know, not very primative, but neither is the cell phone I use to send peridoc smoke signal updates to the wife.
Now if the bear jumps me from behind unawares, well, it's a much better way to go than drowning, burning, skidding off a cliff, or cancer. All of which top my list of ways I don't want to go to the next life.
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Yeah, I'm with you there, Meso. I used to have a t-shirt that said, "You could fall off a cliff and die. You could get mauled by a bear and die.
You could run out of food and die. Or you could stay home and have a heart attack on the couch and die." Words to live by. I tend to believe that, while God does allow nature to take its course and reward uncommon stupidity, panic, or carelessness with the logical consequences thereof, most of the time people die when their time comes. Might as well live your life at peace with that.
Still, ordinary caution is always a good idea. I always tell a couple people where I am and when I'll be returning. I always carry my SPOT, a first-aid kit, multiple fire-starters, an emergency bivy, and a few GUs for a burst of energy if I get cold, hurt, or otherwise in trouble. All that stuff only adds up to about a pound and a half, and any one of them could be a life-saver, so it's all worth carrying.
I also carry two bear sprays, both on my belt and easy to get at. They say sometimes the initial charge knocks one out of your hand, so a spare is good insurance. We don't have a lot of griz down here in the Southern Winds yet, but up around Dubois they're a real problem, so it's just a matter of time.
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Yep! Life is far too serious to be taken that way, but it helps to keep the odds in your favor as much as possible! And know how to use all your gear! Old age is a privilege that a lot of people don't get!
Hawkdancer
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Back when I was in high school, before dirt was invented, I had a teacher who smoked a lot and wasn't apologetic about it (the quit-smoking movements were just becoming a big thing back then). Whenever someone would give him a hard time about it, he's say, "I want to be sick when I die."
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That's why those things were called "cancer sticks" or "coffin nails"!
Hawkdancer
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WhistlingBadger, got a pic of that kit you carry hunting with you? I'm hoping to get back in the woods this year, but all my kit is gone. Like to see what I need to start working toward.
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Always double check the date for your colonoscopy. Make sure you start your prep one day before, not two.lol yah I already paid for that advice
Bjrogg
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Bob, you ever read Dave Barry's article on a colonoscopy? No? Here you go. You're welcome. ;D
ttps://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1928847.html
(put an h on the beginning)
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Don't burn feathers in the house with your Young feather burner.
Or in the garage with a homemade feather burner!
Patrick
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I just had yet another situation to add to this growing list.
When you live at high elevation, never trust sealed containers. Just opened a can of shellac in the kitchen. When I pried the lid it popped off explosively and flew across the kitchen...even my face got splattered. Hope I got all the shellac dropplets cleaned off the floor tiles and counter tops...wife will in fact find every droplet I missed even if they're the size of a pin head.
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Yeah, Meso, I've had that happen with water bottles. Open them slooooowly!
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OK, here's a good one: When you have just saved the life of your wife's annoying cat, that is a GREAT time to mention that you are planning on building a bow. Come to think of it, it's probably a great time to mention a few other things as well. Hmmmm, I wonder how much I can milk this...
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Time to get the kitty a king sized catnip ball! And hang it away from the shop! Btw, I always ask about feral cats when seeking hunting permission! Also what do the home cats look like (lol). A rescue like that is worth a lot of bows, maybe even an "I need a new truck, Honey"! >:D (lol)
Hawkdancer
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This one is probably more geared toward the younger crowd, as most older guys figure it out at some point.
If you're knocking back a few cold ones, and using an empty bottle to spit your tobacco juice in to...find a way to clearely mark it or otherwise identify it. Cause if your lady grabs the wrong bottle or container, and takes a swig...it will forever change the nature of your relationship...they never forget...even after decades.
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ewwwwwwww!!! (lol) (lol)
thanks for the advise but I think Ill just skip the drinks and chew entirely though. ;D
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If you're knocking back a few cold ones, and using an empty bottle to spit your tobacco juice in to...find a way to clearely mark it or otherwise identify it. Cause if your lady grabs the wrong bottle or container, and takes a swig...it will forever change the nature of your relationship...they never forget...even after decades.
That is without a doubt the most disgusting mental image I've had all week. (lol) (And mind you, it's flu season/stomach bug season, and I work in two elementary schools) Your wife must REALLY love you.
thanks for the advise but I think Ill just skip the drinks and chew entirely though. ;D
That's probably the best advice on this thread. Stick with that commitment at least until you're done with college. By then you'll probably be wise an experienced enough to recognize the truly addictive stuff, and handle the rest in moderation.
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That is without a doubt the most disgusting mental image I've had all week. (lol) (And mind you, it's flu season/stomach bug season, and I work in two elementary schools) Your wife must REALLY love you.
I've got a couple worse stories, but they will be left unshared for both of our sakes.
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Don't (jokingly) tell your significant other that their cat would make a good quiver. He's a BIG cat. I never would, just a joke and she did not like it!!!
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I've learned alot of things the hard way...you might even say that most things I've learned, I've learned the hardway.
You guys heard of this General Mattis guy? Well back when he was Colonel Mattis he was my regimental CO. I don't know if there's a statute of limitations so I won't say too much more on the internet, but hypothetically speaking don't mess with your regimental CO, and if he's a firecracker like Mattis that goes 1000x's.
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Reminds me of the story of the young preacher, in his first job, nervous as can be. As first order of business, he goes to visit one of the elderly saints. She invites him in, and they start chatting. The young man is so nervous his mouth is dry, so when he notices a bowl of peanuts beside his chair, he helps himself. About five minutes later, he notices to his great chagrin that he has completely emptied the bowl.
"Ma'am, I am so sorry; I was so nervous that I ate your entire bowl of peanuts!"
"Oh, that's OK, sonny. At my age all I can do is suck the chocolate off 'em anyway."
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Don't (jokingly) tell your significant other that their cat would make a good quiver. He's a BIG cat. I never would, just a joke and she did not like it!!!
Mrs. Badger's cat looks startlingly like a Scottish wildcat. I've been threatening for years to make a sporran out of her. Mrs. Badger, fortunately, has a great sense of humor. That's one of the reasons we're still together. ;D
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Maybe Mrs Badger needs another similar kitty! However, you probably should forego the sporran idea!
Unless you can get one out of Scotland - try the Celtic Croft online, I will pm their website. Also, the Celtic Craft Centre(?), but I don't have their website. I think they updated it a while back.
Hawkdancer
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Thanks, Jerry. I have purchased from Celtic Croft before, but I'm partial to USA kilt. Anyway, I've got a couple sporrans, but I finally repurposed the first one I made from muskrat fur, and I doubt I'll have a fur one again: It's awkward when kids come up and want to pet it. :-\