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#91
Big Game / Re: Early flintlock doe pa
Last post by bigben - November 04, 2024, 08:39:34 AMwell the book is cheaper then the course. Shot IQ is the course. amazon had the book last time I looked. its only really 30 couple pages. but its pretty simple. just the mind makes it an issue
#92
Big Game / Re: Got my personal best Black...
Last post by Okanagan - November 04, 2024, 07:57:02 AMThanks for the good words all.
HuntnCarve, wish we could hit Shady Maple for lunch today and catch up on life. What is that math genius son of yours up to these days?
This buck came strutting in to my call across an open pasture like he was boss man, which he was in that area. He was looking for me, stopping to crane his neck and look. He turned straight toward me and started up through the strip of patchy waist high brush where I was hunkered. But he kept working his way to my right also, which would put him into thick brushy timber and downwind. I shot him before he got into the cover.
HuntnCarve, wish we could hit Shady Maple for lunch today and catch up on life. What is that math genius son of yours up to these days?
This buck came strutting in to my call across an open pasture like he was boss man, which he was in that area. He was looking for me, stopping to crane his neck and look. He turned straight toward me and started up through the strip of patchy waist high brush where I was hunkered. But he kept working his way to my right also, which would put him into thick brushy timber and downwind. I shot him before he got into the cover.
#93
The Tailgate / Re: Mountain Men
Last post by bigben - November 04, 2024, 07:41:39 AMI used to watch it until I realized alot it was scripted bs. marty mariato that left that trapped using the plane they made look like an idiot all the time. kinda like swamp people they blow everything out of proportion.
I thought meateater had the hound guy on the podcast before.
honestly the only show I watch on tv anymore is or was alone. its kinda turning to scripted bs now because people have learned how to buck the system by drinking raw EVO or some other fattening deal for months before leaving so they have fat to waste on the show. Same thing with the guy that dyed his hair for tying flys. the basis of the show is being dropped at your normal weight and living off the land.
I thought meateater had the hound guy on the podcast before.
honestly the only show I watch on tv anymore is or was alone. its kinda turning to scripted bs now because people have learned how to buck the system by drinking raw EVO or some other fattening deal for months before leaving so they have fat to waste on the show. Same thing with the guy that dyed his hair for tying flys. the basis of the show is being dropped at your normal weight and living off the land.
#94
Big Game / Re: Got my personal best Black...
Last post by bigben - November 04, 2024, 07:36:30 AMI dont really know blacktails other then what you see on tv but looks big. Congrats
#95
Big Game / Re: Early flintlock doe pa
Last post by Hawks Feather - November 04, 2024, 07:35:59 AMWith practice there are probably many things that can be overcome. For me, it was just easier to go percussion. But it is good to know about the Turner system in case I can help someone else.
#96
Big Game / Re: Early flintlock doe pa
Last post by bigben - November 04, 2024, 06:07:08 AMQuote from: Hawks Feather on October 31, 2024, 08:15:53 AMBack in the day, I loved shooting black powder and going to the national muzzleloading shoots in Friendship. (Not to shoot, but to have a good time.) I could never get over my flinch when I tried shooting a flintlock. My story is that my reactions were too quick 🙄 and when I saw the flash in the pan I reacted. So I have always limited myself to percussion.
Theres a fella by the name of joel turner that has a whole system to get over it. I have to deal with it for shooting a bow. Mostly known as target panic. but he calls it preignition movements. The basic jist of it is your body will brace for any explosion to save it from potential danger. Shooting a gun or shooting a bow falls into that category. The whole premise on his course is to trick your mind into showing it that it will be ok and not dangerous to your health.
its funny you see slomo video and pictures of people shooting flintlocks and pretty much every time they have their eyes closed before the pan even goes off. its just something you need to train yourself not to do.
#97
Big Game / Re: Got my personal best Black...
Last post by nastygunz - November 03, 2024, 10:31:15 PMThere is a puddle of water within 3 miles they will always manage to fall into it 
#98
The Tailgate / Today in history 11-3
Last post by remrogers - November 03, 2024, 09:54:06 AM2014
Nov 3
One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City, on the site of the Twin Towers
One World Trade Center officially opens in Manhattan on November 3, 2014. The new tower, along with the rest of the World Trade Center complex, replaced the Twin Towers and surrounding complex, which were destroyed by terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
As the city and the nation reeled from the attacks, which set into motion the series of U.S-led military operations dubbed the War on Terror, it was decided that the Twin Towers should be replaced by new office buildings, parks, a museum, and a memorial to those who died. In 2002, after cleanup and recovery efforts had concluded, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced a competition to find the chief architect of the new structure. Daniel Libeskind, a Polish-American architect then in charge of a studio in Berlin, won and became the site's master planner. In reality, however, a number of people and entities, including then-Governor George Pataki, leaseholder Larry Silverstein, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, wrestled over what would happen to the space commonly referred to as "Ground Zero."
The initial plans for the site were steeped in post-9/11 patriotic sentiment. Libeskind designed an asymmetrical tower that evoked the Statue of Liberty and stood at the same height as the original World Trade Center, topped with a spire rising to 1,776 feet. Pataki dubbed it the "Freedom Tower," a name which became commonplace but had largely faded from use by the time One World Trade Center opened.
In 2004, Silverstein's preferred architect, David Childs, officially took over, with Libeskind staying on as the planner of the site. Childs' "final" design, a symmetrical and more traditional tower that tapers into an octagon at its midway point and then back into a rectangular prism, was unveiled in 2005. The New York Police Department requested further alterations, most notably a windowless, solid concrete base. Meant to protect against truck bombs and other potential attacks, the base has was criticized as "a grotesque attempt to hide [the building's] underlying paranoia" by New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ourousoff.
Though its cornerstone was laid in 2004, construction on One World Trade did not begin until the summer of 2006. The slow pace of construction—the tower "topped off" in August 2012 and the spire was not installed until May 2013—was a frequent source of consternation for the building's developers and the city. At the same time, it allowed space for the tower to become more than a reminder of what had been lost. As architecture critic Kurt Andersen put it, "The fact that it's taken more than a decade to finish, I think —the gradualism—makes that sense of emblematic rebirth more acute and irresistible."
Prior to the opening, media conglomerate Condé Nast announced that it would move its New York headquarters from Times Square to One World Trade Center, occupying floors 20 through 44. Its location and the legacy of the original World Trade Center made the tower a natural choice for many financial institutions, but the building's developers made an effort to bring in a diverse group of tenants, including media and tech companies. Known for its floor-to-ceiling, 360 degree views of Manhattan, Long Island, New Jersey and New York Harbor, One World Trade is now one of the most notable features of the Manhattan skyline, a tribute to the buildings that preceded it but a 21st century New York phenomenon in its own right.
Nov 3
One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City, on the site of the Twin Towers
One World Trade Center officially opens in Manhattan on November 3, 2014. The new tower, along with the rest of the World Trade Center complex, replaced the Twin Towers and surrounding complex, which were destroyed by terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
As the city and the nation reeled from the attacks, which set into motion the series of U.S-led military operations dubbed the War on Terror, it was decided that the Twin Towers should be replaced by new office buildings, parks, a museum, and a memorial to those who died. In 2002, after cleanup and recovery efforts had concluded, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced a competition to find the chief architect of the new structure. Daniel Libeskind, a Polish-American architect then in charge of a studio in Berlin, won and became the site's master planner. In reality, however, a number of people and entities, including then-Governor George Pataki, leaseholder Larry Silverstein, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, wrestled over what would happen to the space commonly referred to as "Ground Zero."
The initial plans for the site were steeped in post-9/11 patriotic sentiment. Libeskind designed an asymmetrical tower that evoked the Statue of Liberty and stood at the same height as the original World Trade Center, topped with a spire rising to 1,776 feet. Pataki dubbed it the "Freedom Tower," a name which became commonplace but had largely faded from use by the time One World Trade Center opened.
In 2004, Silverstein's preferred architect, David Childs, officially took over, with Libeskind staying on as the planner of the site. Childs' "final" design, a symmetrical and more traditional tower that tapers into an octagon at its midway point and then back into a rectangular prism, was unveiled in 2005. The New York Police Department requested further alterations, most notably a windowless, solid concrete base. Meant to protect against truck bombs and other potential attacks, the base has was criticized as "a grotesque attempt to hide [the building's] underlying paranoia" by New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ourousoff.
Though its cornerstone was laid in 2004, construction on One World Trade did not begin until the summer of 2006. The slow pace of construction—the tower "topped off" in August 2012 and the spire was not installed until May 2013—was a frequent source of consternation for the building's developers and the city. At the same time, it allowed space for the tower to become more than a reminder of what had been lost. As architecture critic Kurt Andersen put it, "The fact that it's taken more than a decade to finish, I think —the gradualism—makes that sense of emblematic rebirth more acute and irresistible."
Prior to the opening, media conglomerate Condé Nast announced that it would move its New York headquarters from Times Square to One World Trade Center, occupying floors 20 through 44. Its location and the legacy of the original World Trade Center made the tower a natural choice for many financial institutions, but the building's developers made an effort to bring in a diverse group of tenants, including media and tech companies. Known for its floor-to-ceiling, 360 degree views of Manhattan, Long Island, New Jersey and New York Harbor, One World Trade is now one of the most notable features of the Manhattan skyline, a tribute to the buildings that preceded it but a 21st century New York phenomenon in its own right.
#99
Big Game / Re: Got my personal best Black...
Last post by pitw - November 03, 2024, 08:42:44 AMAtta boy Rem. 
#100
Big Game / Re: Cougar chasing deer, track...
Last post by Okanagan - November 02, 2024, 12:49:32 PMHere is more to my part of the story for any predator callers. I was unsuccessful but it follows what I was thinking that morning and what I did.
It was just getting light as I walked an old road to a deer calling stand and saw the tracks of the cougar chasing the deer. A glance at the tracks looked like a dog after the deer so I kept going and didn't examine any detail.
After one deer calling stand I was heading back to my vehicle and looked at the tracks in more detail. Oops, I had misread the tracks earlier. It was a lion chasing the deer, not a dog.
About that time a bunch of ravens started sqawking 300 yards below the road. Hmmm... the cat had not caught the deer on the road but maybe he had moved down the ridge and killed a deer down below, which the ravens were announcing.
I set up an ambush for him and called from a bush above the road, where I could watch 200 yards of road. Problem was, by then the wind had come up and gotten really strong. Poor calling conditions. I saw nothing come to my hand call, a jack rabbit sound I have around my neck ALWAYS. It will probably go in my casket!
FWIW, no deer, no cougar, but a good morning, with the view of Mt. Ranier, below.
It was just getting light as I walked an old road to a deer calling stand and saw the tracks of the cougar chasing the deer. A glance at the tracks looked like a dog after the deer so I kept going and didn't examine any detail.
After one deer calling stand I was heading back to my vehicle and looked at the tracks in more detail. Oops, I had misread the tracks earlier. It was a lion chasing the deer, not a dog.
About that time a bunch of ravens started sqawking 300 yards below the road. Hmmm... the cat had not caught the deer on the road but maybe he had moved down the ridge and killed a deer down below, which the ravens were announcing.
I set up an ambush for him and called from a bush above the road, where I could watch 200 yards of road. Problem was, by then the wind had come up and gotten really strong. Poor calling conditions. I saw nothing come to my hand call, a jack rabbit sound I have around my neck ALWAYS. It will probably go in my casket!
FWIW, no deer, no cougar, but a good morning, with the view of Mt. Ranier, below.