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Title: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: BenBow on March 18, 2016, 10:00:00 PM
Finally healthy enough to get out with my metal monster bow. Dang dry out that was for sure. I had hoped to set up my game cam over a water hole but it and a spring at another site were dry. So I took on targets of opportunity.
Here are a couple of pictures of the area.
  (http://i.imgur.com/Xv3EFG2.jpg)
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40 paces the bow tip is the point of aim on these
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35 paces
  (http://i.imgur.com/3rbGdSQ.jpg?1)
17 paces
    (http://i.imgur.com/NzfucF6.jpg)
A real stump at 21 paces
  (http://i.imgur.com/lBbtbxc.jpg?1)
  (http://i.imgur.com/DhKDuWh.jpg?1)
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: BenBow on March 18, 2016, 10:01:00 PM
Here's a cowboy cabin way back in. Made with stone.
  (http://i.imgur.com/G7IRyRJ.jpg)
  (http://i.imgur.com/6OYreIz.jpg?1)
The old stove buried in the rubble
  (http://i.imgur.com/XLnRbck.jpg?1)
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: CoachBGriff on March 18, 2016, 10:22:00 PM
Very cool!  I love that country... lots of open spaces!


Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: DXH on March 19, 2016, 12:51:00 AM
Nice pictures
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: Elk whisperer on March 19, 2016, 04:50:00 AM
is that out by Cabazon ,must be tough arrows shootin those old juniper stumps
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: BenBow on March 19, 2016, 09:04:00 AM
Yeah out by Cabazon and very dry. Looks like they missed all the moisture this year. Going to be tough on livestock and game. The stumps are tough so I shoot at cow turds most of the time LOL
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: Hummer3T on March 19, 2016, 11:05:00 AM
thanks for sharing beautiful country
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: monterey on March 19, 2016, 11:22:00 AM
Wow, what shafting do you use for shooting into those rocks and gravel. Are those plastic vanes?  I'll have to take a closer look at your arrow rest in your bench topic.
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: highlow on March 19, 2016, 11:34:00 AM
You mean to say that you actually try to hit rocks? I don't try but find them anyway.   :banghead:
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: BenBow on March 19, 2016, 11:38:00 AM
highlow theres lots of hard dry clay that looks like rock but there are plenty of rocks to watch out for. I thought the cowboy camp was made of adobe to I took a 70 yard shot at it for giggles and grins. Found out those rock walls don't like arrows     :knothead:
Monterey I'm using a nap flipper rest that screws into the side of the bow and yes the arrows have vanes.
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: ron w on March 19, 2016, 11:50:00 AM
Wide open spaces........pretty cool.
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: Trux Turning on March 19, 2016, 12:11:00 PM
Nice!
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: Roy from Pa on March 19, 2016, 12:16:00 PM
Ben, I'm surprised ya hit it...    :)
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: maineac on March 19, 2016, 12:31:00 PM
Looks like a great walk!
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: DennyK on March 19, 2016, 12:49:00 PM
Looks like you had a great time Galen, glad you are up and about and thanks for sharing the pictures!  God Bless!

Denny
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: BenBow on March 19, 2016, 01:20:00 PM
Wish I hadn't Roy now I have a takedown arrow    :archer:    :dunno:
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: Roy from Pa on March 19, 2016, 01:23:00 PM
I'd have shot it from the side, in one window and out the other... LOL
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: monterey on March 19, 2016, 01:26:00 PM
Easy to do with a five Yard shot with a 15# bow.   :laughing:
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: Roy from Pa on March 19, 2016, 01:30:00 PM
Ya know sompen boy, I just might have to make me a road trip out there and thump ya ah good one.. LOL
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: BenBow on March 19, 2016, 01:59:00 PM
Monterey I wouldn't worry none about that whoopin Roys only got one good hand now and at his age its slower than molasses in a PA winter.   :laughing:
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on March 19, 2016, 05:35:00 PM
Nice pics Galen. Glad you are well enough to get out and enjoy!
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: monterey on March 19, 2016, 05:50:00 PM
Roy don't skeer me.  If he does come out here, the real reason would be the Coors brewery.   :biglaugh:
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: BenBow on March 19, 2016, 06:49:00 PM
:thumbsup:     :laughing:
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: Roy from Pa on March 19, 2016, 07:26:00 PM
Guess I'll just swing on down to New Mexico after I'm done in Colorado...  :)
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: BenBow on March 19, 2016, 07:58:00 PM
Be glad to have you, I'd even buy some coors
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: Doc Nock on March 19, 2016, 08:04:00 PM
Great to see you out and about...I'd be skert of that sorta country...I learned living those years in MT, country got its ways and ya don't cheat em none if you don't know their ways, it'll git ya!

Dry like that would make me carry pebbles in my mouth!  :(
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: jess stuart on March 19, 2016, 09:53:00 PM
Good looking pictures looks like a nice day hopefully the wind wasn't awful.  I think I know what influenced you to build that bow.  Have you ever been to the UFO Museum in Roswell? Then taken advantage of some the alien technology.  Just kidding, well a little.
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: BenBow on March 19, 2016, 09:54:00 PM
I wished I'd taken more water as the air was so dry I felt like I had a mouth full of sand
Jess I seriously thought of painting it green LOL. I did have some interesting cross wind to deal with.
Title: Re: New Mexico high desert stumpin (pic heavy)
Post by: FlintNSteel on March 19, 2016, 10:54:00 PM
Nice pictures...and it sure does look dry.

Whenever I come across something of old, like that stove, I try to think back to what the first owner might have thought about his/her new treasure!  How it was used, the hard work that happened, or whatever.  I bet many a cowboy was glad to get a fire going and warm up by that after a cold day on the range!