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skywalker
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Bino's are well worth the $$ spent for a good pair.
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John Barsness
Optics Optimist Joined: January/27/2009 Status: Offline Points: 785 |
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One nice thing about the current market is that less has to be spent to get good binoculars!
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spf2
Optics Apprentice Joined: February/02/2007 Status: Offline Points: 169 |
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hopefully, this will translate into an increase of hunting population for the next decade. |
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John Barsness
Optics Optimist Joined: January/27/2009 Status: Offline Points: 785 |
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It certainly might help--and it certainly would help the people who start hunting both be more successful AND enjoy being outside more.
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jonoMT
Optics Master Extraordinaire Joined: November/13/2008 Location: Montana Status: Offline Points: 4853 |
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That's good advice that I've sometimes ignored...and I only have had walking slowly through the woods pay off once with elk. Usually, especially with snow, I'd become aware that the animal I was tracking was aware of me and staying safely ahead. A friend of mine, for a while, rented a place next to a sizeable ranch and always noticed how the elk ignored the ranch trucks dropping bales for the cattle. So on opening day, he and a buddy "just did a little ranching" and got right up within a hundred yards. Not my style, but when your main goal is simply putting some healthy meat on the table, why not? |
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Reaction time is a factor...
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Ed Connelly
Optics Retard God of no Chihuahua Joined: December/16/2007 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 24225 |
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Many years ago my wife and I were hunting up in the Laramie Range not far from the Medicine Bow Forest and we spotted an entire hillside full of muleys on the first day of hunting season. We were driving the pickup down the dirt road and when I took my foot off the accelerator they all immediately went on alert and got jumpy! I stepped back on the gas and they immediately all settled down pretty much....so we kept going until we finally got out of sight. Then I turned around and came back and simply drove past them this time until we were behind a hill. Then we got out and sneaked up behind them on foot.
As long as we were moving we were just a "TRUCK". Edited by Ed Connelly - July/14/2009 at 20:10 |
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John Barsness
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Any wild animal is much more comfortable with things that seem harmless. My first job out of high school was as a ranch-hand in southeastern Montana. The ranch was co-owned by a father and son, and the father was a far-gone goose hunter. He developed a plywood horse for stalking up on geese feeding in fields. The horse didn;'t have any legs. They were provided by the old cowboy and his hunting partner, who would mosey up on a feeding flock, then drop the horse and shoot. Similarly, another friend made up a plywood Angus cow, lying down, that he and his hunting partner could sit behind while calling geese. The black Labbrador in front of the "cow" looks just like an Angus calf--at least to the geese.
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Kickboxer
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Sorry, perhaps an insight into my personality, but your last post and the topic gives me this mental image of a couple of guys out in a field, disguised as a cow, throwing binoculars at incoming geese... with the dog sitting there wondering what the heck they are doing.
Just the thought that ran through my mind.
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Opinion,untempered by fact,is ignorance.
There are some who do not fear death... for they are more afraid of not really living |
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jonoMT
Optics Master Extraordinaire Joined: November/13/2008 Location: Montana Status: Offline Points: 4853 |
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I noticed while on a bike trip in the Palouse Hills of eastern Washington that we would spook ducks and pheasants while trucks and farm machinery didn't, despite being much bigger and noisier. Not too many people come through like we did. Late one afternoon, ready for the day to end, I was eyeing a cock pheasant that was looping around a wheat field and thinking how hard he'd be to hit as tired as I was. The bird was so busy watching us though that he slammed into a telephone pole and fell in a cloud of feathers to the ground just as I completed that thought.
My biking partner said, "Did you see that?" I was already off the bike, headed down the hill. The pheasant was laying there with a broken neck and she came down and picked it up, then asked what we were going to do with it. "Eat it, of course." "I don't know about that, " replied my vegetarian friend, but in the end she tried some and it was really good. There was no shot to pick out either. |
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Reaction time is a factor...
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leica man
Optics GrassHopper Joined: August/12/2008 Location: Kansas City Status: Offline Points: 13 |
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good article, I really liked it
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I flat out catch trout
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nova88
Optics GrassHopper Joined: August/17/2009 Location: Utah Status: Offline Points: 13 |
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thanks for the post some helpful info for sure
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