Trad Gang
Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Bowwild on November 27, 2010, 03:59:00 PM
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Another thread caused me to come up with this.
I like to keep learning to slow my rate of falling behind.
In 2011 I'm going to promise myself to learn to use my GPS unit to get out and back with confidence in new territory.
How about you? What thing do you want to learn or get better at?
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Sorry, another thought. Wouldn't it be cool if there was a Trad Gang get together where experts at various "skills" could share with others.
We'd call it the TRAD GANG Skill Fair.
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I took a GPS class at REI but that was just basics.............so I am interested in more. My son and I are scheduled to do a Bowhunter safety class this spring. Learning lots of new skills and perfecting existing ones got tons more to learn all the time.
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I want to spend more time with topographic maps. Compare them with ariel views and hone in on some overlooked areas.
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my new skill is going to be making arrows starting from boards. Just starting to work on it and nothing shootable yet, but I'll get there. My club has a special category for folks who are using all equipment they made themselves and I have everything covered but the arrows. (And no, making from bought shafts doesn't count.) Oh, and maybe shooting well enough to qualify once I've made the shafts! 8^)
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Land Navigation with topo map and compass. I had a very basic course years ago with my Bowhunter Education Course, but most of that has slipped away from me. Bought a book on it this morning! Mike
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I like to hone a different skill each year myself. One year i learned to build bows, another to flint knap, another some leather working, etc. This year I'm going to restore/customize a motorcycle.
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Along the orientation lines I want to refresh my night navigation skills. Our Search&Rescue Unit puts on a great class during which you must navigate point to point by the stars and a topo map. It is a perishable skill that you need to practice to stay competant.
Looking to improve my confidence in going deep into the wilderness for extended stays with minimal supplies. A map and compass will not be one of the things I take off the must have list though.
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Wilderness navigation w/ map & compass :readit:
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Bowwild, is this like a New Year's resolution or are you going to hold me to it? :) Anyway, I'd like to take some time to learn my trees and plants better, especially the ones on the whitetail & turkey menus. This is important because agricultural crops aren't readily available in some of my hunting areas. For example, I have a habit of identifying the various white & black oak species only by the shape of the leaf. I don't pay enough attention to the acorns or to the trees themselves when the leaves are off. Clint
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Making a selfbow is number 1 and a little knapping might be next.
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Learning to shoot the bow left-handed.
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I've always wanted to learn to foot arrows. I have a bunch of nice exotic wood from off the edges of boards. Zebrawood, purpleheart, some ebony. tigerwood, Ipe that ought to work real good for some heavy , hard foots. feet, whatever multiples of a footed arrow are. Grin
God bless you all , Steve
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I want to learn more about tanning hides. I always feel bad that I can't do more with my deer hides.
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Learning to set different snares. Get into trapping. Start a fire using the bow method....Phil
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I'm going to get into some more primitive living skills and learn how to break some rock and knapp some knives and heads.
Stiks
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Yes, after I posted this topic I thought, I'm probably a month and a few days early for "resolutions". I realized there are some things I've been saying, "I'm not good at that" and I ought to set about fixing it. Some good ones above. Like I learned in a moonlighting job 20 years ago, when you find out you have a hole in your pocket, fix it.
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I picked up a Osage stave this summer at Mo-Jam,so I am going to start learning to chase a ring this winter.
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I have way too many things that need done and/or fixed, but I’m reading The Traditional Bowyer’s Bible – Vol. 1. I think making a selfbow would be cool and I am slowly headed in that direction.
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Hopefully learning to enjoy full retirement.
Then trying to remember things I have forgot over the years.
Couple good things already mentioned I may even look into.
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Learning how to be a father to 3 children instead of 2!
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I would like to gain more confidence in talking to land owners. I talk to customers all day long with all the confidence in the world, (my company sells good stuff, so its easy). When it comes to having the guts to get shot down 90% of the time, I struggle. I desperately need hunting ground and I cant get myself to knock on doors. Dad has always came through with the old farmers he knew, they are passing rapidly and so are my privelages. Thats my goal!
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Manitoba...way to go!!! You already have all the skills you need, it is just a matter of fine tuning your priorities. Hang on loosely. Don`t let your wife see any fear, or she will eat you.
Congrats! :thumbsup:
The new skill I want to learn is how to consistently trap coyotes.
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It will definately be learning how to knap!! then move on to the self bow.
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I am going to learn how to make wood arrows everything from tapered to footed, I am going to start make my own arm guards and quivers, maybe work on the GPS.
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PATIENCE! At least that what I think I should be working on.
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ND Chickenman,
I think my wife fears I'll someday be a master napper! LOL
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I'd love to develop some patience...lol
God bless, Mudd
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walking with no knee pain.
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After doing this pastime for many years, after this season I should hone the skills to kill a deer......
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Making real pretty quality knives.
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I would really like to hone my skills with topo map and compass. There are alot of big woods around here and it would be a confidence booster to know you could get in and out without trouble. So land navigation would be on the top of my list. Jason
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My goal is to keep improving with my Atlatl throwing! Hope to kill a deer with it someday!!!
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Originally posted by fireman_3311:
My goal is to keep improving with my Atlatl throwing! Hope to kill a deer with it someday!!!
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There are way too many things that I want to learn. For this coming year however I think I will keep it to metal working in general with knife making a specific focus.
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gps/map skills. Plant/tree i.d. taxidermy
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ive already started before 2011 , im trying to learn how to sharpen my own broadheads and knives instead of having someone else do it for me. this is a skill that has escaped me most of my adult life so far. i should have learned to do this a long time ago. ruddy
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I'm going to buy a whip & learn how to crack it. So whip cracking will be my new skill for 2011.
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i just want to learn to be a better hunter.i am not very good but want to be.
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i want to get my first whitetail Deer or hog but that means i have to come over there to Do it. BUT I HATE FLYING :biglaugh:
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I want to learn the art of invisibility...lol
God bless,Mudd
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To become a better photographer.
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i get to learn how to be a dad weather i want to or not. luckly for me,i want to.
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I want to master the art of shooting my Howard Hill bows. I am hunting with nothing but Hills next year (except spring turkey, and that will be with my new Maddog) and want to be a lethal form behind the bow. Look out elk and deer! :D
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I have to learn how to sit still, I'm way to fidgety on the stand. Oh, and maybe it would be good to learn how to hit what I'm aiming at!
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Originally posted by Mudd:
I'd love to develop some patience...lol
God bless, Mudd
Mudd, I feel your pain mate, it's a cross we have to bare :)
Cheers
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Congratulations eman614 !!
You'll never have a more important job.
There's also a lot of potential for it to be rewarding as well.
God bless,Mudd
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I'd really like to be able to increase my range....Now don't get down on my guys. I like getting close, just like everyone else, but I do not think a 30 yard shot is out of line...with perfect conditions. I'm good to 20 now...a few years ago I was good to 25. This last year...I simply did not get to shoot as much as normal. I would like to get to the point where if a deer comes within 30 yards...I can say "gotcha!" If I am not able to achieve this...well...at least I will have alot of fun trying!
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Hunting with trad equipment.
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perfecting my shooting, in particular with longbows.
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This year will be dedicated to my son Tucker who has been shooting since he was around 6 yo, and in February he turns 10(In Jersey you have to be 10 to get a hunting license). I want to spend the year working with him so he may be able to harvest something larger than a squirrel. I want to teach him everything from land nav to getten the ok from mom to go. He is all in and excited (me to). :campfire:
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I'd like to become better at field-dressing game and cooking it.
And, I'd like to do some back-pack hunting overnight (I got the gear from Whip, now I just have to use it!).
And, I'd like to burn more ammunition through my .416 Rigby, practicing quick and accurate repeated shooting at close range.
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I have a few of them planned.
1. To fully learn my GPS capabilities.
2. To learn how to tie 5 basic knots.
3. Using a turkey diaphram call.
4. Learning video editing software.
5. Convincing at least 3 more people in my archery club to use lifelines for hunting out of the treestand.
6 And finally to keep my mouth shut when I havea good thing going when my wife complains about something I am not doing. LOL
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Mint, let use know how that last one works out. :goldtooth:
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I would like to boost my morale. I easily lose confidence and tend to be pessimistic by nature. I would like to improve my attitude in life and in bowhunting.
Caleb
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Mint,
That turkey calling goal. Way back in the 70's I taught myself to at least sound like the recorded sounds (45 record - boy that dates me) of turkeys. I would listen to the record and then try to mimic the sound and RECORD myself. Then I'd play back the recording and compare. I found when I hear the sounds I make directly it sounds different than if I listen to an indirect recording. Sort of like video-taping yourself shooting is more revealing than just imagining how you are doing it.
These days with CDs and I-Phones this would be a much more simple process.
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I think I'm going to build and offer 3-bundle strings...maybe!
Also looking into an endless jig...maybe!
Maybe!
Josh
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In terms of learning:
1. Continually improve my shooting skills.
2. How to paint/finish an arrow with anything resembling a satisfactory job.
3. How to get within bow range of a turkey
In terms of feats:
1. Build a respectable looking set of arrows.
2. First trad kill(s)(unless I do this in 2010).
3. Get out hunting more with my wife/kids.
4. Get the family to at least one 3D shoot.
5. Re-finish at least one of my Bear bows myself.
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I'd like to learn to trust myself to MAKE THE SHOT. I know I can do it but when the time comes I start second guessing my abilities.
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Learn how to tan a deer hide, should be fun. :D
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I'm going to turn my bow making up a notch this year.
With 3 Osage longbows under my belt, and a 4th Osage take down in progress.......I'm going to try my hand at a laminated riser with glass limbs/wood core this year. I'm also going to try and do it by gathering the materials and making all the necessary tools, jigs, and other necessities myself......no kits!
IdahoCurt has some beautiful tiger myrtle lams that I've been eyeballing, and I saw some Dymond wood laminate blanks on a website that I just gotta have a riser made from!
I already sent them an email about a blank and the lady said, yes definitely they can cut me a bow blank.
So sometime after the first of the year, but before spring turkey season.....it's on! :saywhat:
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Does shooting 3 under and shooting accurately at live game count? :banghead:
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I have several bow blanks I would like to finish then make a self bow.
I also would like to learn how to knap arrowheads.
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Get confident enough to hunt shooting left handed.
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Learn where and how to get one of those big whitetail bucks on my trailcams to be under my stands with me in it during daylight hours.
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Map & compass
Here's some good info Kifaru (http://www.kifaru.net/plot_blust.htm)
I wanna do an adventure race in 2011. I've done an Ironman but the AR requires land nav skills.