For Those of us NOT at KZOO this weekend...

[ckanous]

Sitting in the stand right now waiting for some bacon to come out and present a shot. I have been here in Georgia pog hunting all weekend with no luck, but have had great weather and loads of fun!
 

[mcgroundstalker]

No Trad Show For Me... Not even 3D this morning... Still working on the home renovations. Seems like it will take forever. I Know! It Will! Maybe I'll do some shooting in the back yard, maybe.   :(  Just maybe.....

... mike ...     ...

[59Alaskan]

I skipped this year.  Hope to replace it with comptons or Denton this year.  A friend is bringing back a bow that will be new to me from Kzoo though

[Big Ed]

That Brack looks like my first traditional bow.Man I wish I had it back.

[LoweBow]

Cut a 16' Tandem trailer of fire wood yesterday.  Had a giant dead Hickory down below the house that was looking like a widow maker.  Had to fall it which was a trick as the split was 5' off the ground.  I split the whole trailer w/ a maul and didn't do my P90x yesterday.....I just called it even.
Outdoor woodfurnace is eating that hickory already this morning and house is a nice 71 deg.

[tadpole]

Out of the house at daylight this morning shoooting my Hill and drinking hot coffee.

[Bowwild]

Chronographed another couple bow/limb combinations. Figured out a simple way to "rate" my bows. Shooting on the basement range.

Fighiting off a sinus infection so I can make a 1-day meeting in the Denver, CO airport on Tuesday -- Killer day but I prefer 1-day trips that don't require hotel stays when I can swing it. I'll travel 20 hours for a 3.5 hour meeting.

[GMASIUK]

Hi david, I'm in western MA, just north of Springfield. I've had a bunch of hunting stuff stolen over the years so much so that I am really going to reevaluate my hunting methods before next season. I may not even deer hunt. Might just hunt turkeys and small game this year, we will see?

[Bladepeek]

Kildeer, I read a post on the K'zoo thread. Someone was watching you shoot a 64#'er. I bought (paid for and picked up) a nice 47# Centaur that was in the classifieds. But that was on my way to the Expo. I was looking at a 54" Super Shrew. Came back to take another look at it and someone had it out shooting. I picked up the 65# duplicate and, just for grins and chuckles, tried to draw it. Got it about 27 1/2" toward my 29.5 and it would not come back any farther. Got home Sat. night and strung up my Centaur. I was really anxious to shoot it. Drew it about 3 - 4 " and it felt like I ripped my whole shoulder apart. Serves me right for trying to play Macho Man, but my hat's sure off to you!

[RRock]

David Yukon, They're a bunch of fun to make. Hardest thing is getting the Northern White Cedar for planks and ribs. Ya know the old saying, "If I can do it, anybody can". I'm looking forward to this year, the canoe I finished this summer and the BBO bow I'm trying to build are gonna be taking a float hunt someplace. Might only be for tree rats but that's good too.

[Mark Baker]

Matt...cool that your working on a canoe.   Thats a project on my "bucket list".   You Cannucks dealing with the snow this year....thanks a bunch for keeping it north.  We're enjoying a tropical time here in MT...just fine for me after last winter!

Glad to see not too many whiners.....someday I'll make it to one of the big Michigan events.  In the meantime, we just had a great Trad Bowhunter of MT banquet at Chico Hot Springs and I'll tell not all of the big name folks were east.   Don and Lori Thomas, the Robertson clan, Stan Rauch, Wayne and Carol Capp, Bob Savage, Jerry Karsky, Walt Francis... and many of my old friends and buddies from MT had a great time up here catching up.   Rich Wormington brought up a display of his bows, like he always does, along with the Robertsons, for those who were "looking", but our event is really more about friends and wild tales, and less about the vendors.    

Having said that, Tim Roberts brought up a bunch of his new Absorkee Quivers, and sold them all, and took orders too!  

In the meantime, while attending this on Friday and Saturday (it's held just a few miles from home...another plus for me) I got a couple great osage staves in the mail from a tradganger friend "out of the blue"....I am always blown away by the friends we have from this site.   One of the staves is nearly a century old...old fencpost from OK and Jay Massey's old hometown.  Some neat history and will make a good build-along perhaps here in the future.  I also got a couple "new to me" dozen arrows....one fletched and another a set of hickory shafts, purchased here from another tradganger.    Shot the bow a few times......

All in all, an absolute great weekend here in MT!

Glad I did'nt miss it for Kazoo....

[YORNOC]

Sounds like a great time, now I wish I were out there too!

[stringstretcher]

Nothing better to do and waiting on some picture to surface, I debarked three osage billets and chased the ring on them.  Now have three sets ready to work up.  Only 6 more logs to split and do....phew.

[Craig]

Just sitting here reading everyones post. Thinking that I might be retiring next year and will be able to go to any Traditional gathering that I want to go to. Maybe K'Zoo will be one of them.

[Paul/KS]

Was reading this thread this morning.
A few of us here in Kansas went bunny hunting on Saturday. That was a lot of fun...  

[Blackhawk]

On Saturday, my wife and I headed out to the base of Mount Rainier and went on a 3 hour snowshoe walk.  Weather was cloudy and 30, so the mountain was mostly covered.  More than once, I told my wife this would only have been better if I had my bow along with me.

[J. Holden]

Worked a 48 hour shift at the firehouse Fri. and Sat.  Tried a new church on Sunday, rested in the afternoon and went to work my part time job Sun. night.  Ugh, I do not like being a slave to the lender...  Just finished up mt taxes and I need to see about some squirells or rabits this afternoon.  Need (gasp) fresh (gasp) air (gasp)!

-Jeremy