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Author Topic: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???  (Read 666 times)

Offline chanumpa

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #40 on: February 13, 2013, 01:29:00 AM »
Really Neat thread.Thanks for sharing.Ed has a great hat too!

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #41 on: February 13, 2013, 09:03:00 AM »
stcif, welcome.......Ed is a great guy to talk and shoot with. That same shoot in Rockwood is coming again in April I think. It's on the event page, you should see if you can make it over......it's a great time!
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few...So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind...This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.  Shunryu Suzuki

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #42 on: February 13, 2013, 09:07:00 AM »
Yep, Robert Carter.
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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #43 on: February 13, 2013, 09:18:00 AM »
Welcome Scott.  Thanks for bringing this thread back up.    I'll second what Ron said about the Rockwood Forest stump shoot.  It's a blast!
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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #44 on: February 13, 2013, 10:04:00 AM »
Ed is truly one of the good guys.

I have had the pleasure to hunt with him, and stump shoot with him.

Ed and I were shooting together at the Muzzy one year, when he tripped and fell on a jagged rock.
As he was going down, his natural reaction was to break his fall with his hands, bow included.

Ed came up no worse for wear, but his string broke on one of those rocks. With no extra string on his person, it looked like he was done for that leg.

I offered to share my bow for the rest of the leg, and he not only quickly adapted, but shot it quite well.

Just plain a good and knowledgeable guy to be around.
Ken Thornhill

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #45 on: February 13, 2013, 10:38:00 AM »
Great read, Ed sounds like a heck of person.  I feel blessed to know some ol'timers & some not so ol'timers that have helped me along in my traditional journey.

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #46 on: February 13, 2013, 10:49:00 AM »
I like the innovation he shows by making most of his own archery stuff. I had the pleasure of shooting with him a couple of times, and love his blunts.
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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #47 on: February 13, 2013, 11:16:00 AM »
I have been lucky enough to meet or shoot with a couple that made me stand back in awe...


-first was Owen Jeffery at his bow shop in Columbia SC on Pepper Street when I went to buy my first traditional bow in 1990-1992...cant remember.  Wealth of information, very humble and down to earth...hell of a shot and loves to hunt some hogs.  I did not realize half of his accomplishments and clout he carried until much later....just made him that much more of a living founder of modern archery.

-next was meeting Roger Rothhaar in bear camp near Carrot River Sask...spent a week up there talking, shooting, hunting, laughing with him and his oldest son (Ron) and just listening to his stories and seeing him shoot was an honor.  Very cut to the chase guy....
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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #48 on: February 13, 2013, 07:11:00 PM »
I'll try to make the Rockwood shoot.  It sounds like a blast.  Thanks guys.

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #49 on: February 13, 2013, 09:38:00 PM »
I really enjoyed reading this post.  Thanks.

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #50 on: February 13, 2013, 10:34:00 PM »
Welcome to TG.  Ed is a Great Guy, I look forward to shooting with him again sometime soon.

Stacy and Dan are top notch also!
Relax,

You'll live longer!

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #51 on: February 14, 2013, 04:12:00 PM »
That great!!!  Never know who your talking with...gotta love the old timers.  Joe
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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #52 on: April 29, 2013, 11:49:00 AM »
I truly enjoyed reading this post. Ed sounds like an amazing man full of knowledge and wisdom. From what I have read, he reminds me of a man to whom I met in the mountains of central Pennsylvania a long time ago when I was heading into the woods. He carried an old Bear Kodiak and explained to me how he didn't have the hands nor feel for a compound. He stated that compounds lacked a "soul" to him. On my way out of woods that evening I was fortunate enough to come across the gentleman again and had the privilege to help him drag out a nice 6 pointer!! A trad hunter was born that very moment!! Thanks again for sharing everybody!!

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #53 on: April 29, 2013, 08:03:00 PM »
What an honor it must have been to meet someone who has been hunting with a traditional bow for that long!
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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #54 on: April 30, 2013, 08:04:00 AM »
Awesome post and topic. I would love to meet Ed.

I think about this subject often. While working in a booth at Compton this year, and old timer came by, and after some conversation, he shared some pictures of some truly WHOPPER whitetail bucks he had killed recently. I just shut up and listened, and the wealth of hunting and traditional archery knowledge that poured out of this man was amazing.

After he left, we began discussing just how many guys like that are out there....and we concluded that there are a TON....guys who have skill and knowledge way beyond the famous folks we all think of.....but they choose to remain humble and anonymous. Pretty awesome!
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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #55 on: April 30, 2013, 08:57:00 AM »
Let's hope that corporate folks don't get their hooks into the likes of all the "Ed's" out there.
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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #56 on: April 30, 2013, 09:24:00 AM »
I only know RC through this site but if ever a hunter "wowed" me it's him.

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #57 on: April 30, 2013, 09:26:00 AM »
I had few friends that was like that, now it appears that I am evolving into that guy from what my nephew's and there young friends say.

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #58 on: April 30, 2013, 09:28:00 AM »
thanks for sharing....
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Offline Bear Heart

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Re: ever meet a hunter where ya just say WOW and are amazed???
« Reply #59 on: April 30, 2013, 12:45:00 PM »
I sometimes wonder if we have so domesticated ourselves that when we are old men there will be nothing to tell around the campfire.
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