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Kokopelli
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posted April 09, 2018 07:09 PM
Competition is an interesting subject.
Fishing tournaments............goes against every reason that I fish.
Guy stands in the front of a boat that cost more than my first house looking like he's in a hurry to get somewhere.
Casts the water into a froth & rips the lips off of a one pound bass when it strikes.
Slams it into the live-well with one hand and is casting again with the other.
No interest. Zip. Zero. Nadda.
Archery tournaments, however, I enjoy competing in.
I entered one last Sunday that I had no chance of winning. (It was a three shoot aggregate event & I missed the first shoot.) Still had a good time with some good people. Set some goals for myself and met them rather nicely. Good preparation for the shoot in May in Calif. and good practice for hunting season.
Guess it all depends on one's priorities.
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Paul Melching
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posted April 10, 2018 03:48 AM
Good luck in May KoKo!
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Kokopelli
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posted April 10, 2018 06:50 AM
Thanx, Paul.
It's a really good event that I look forward to every year. Rather than just have you stand in front of yet another target for two days, they put a lot of thought (and work) into setting it up.
Skipping an arrow off of a piece of plywood into a turkey target not challenging enough for you ?? They have another that you bank off of TWO pieces of plywood into the target.
Nine deer targets, shoot as many as you can between the stopwatch beeps ?? Yeah, that one's a hoot to watch people shoot. Couple of moving targets and a giant pigeon thrower, too.
Shots like that scattered all thru the course.
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Moe
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posted April 10, 2018 04:30 PM
To me fishing is out of bounds for competition. I fished purely for enjoyment. I've taken guys fishing that gloat over catching the biggest or most fish for a day and it always annoyed me.
Same with hunting pheasants or any birds or game like deer, etc.
I guess coyotes are a different matter because I did compete heavily back in the good old days and I won a lot of trophies that are buried in the Juneau dump because my former wife took them there during the divorce. Pins were important, too. It actually was contest hunting that ruined calling for me and got me to stop for a long period of time. I was calling for all the wrong reasons. When a coyote got away I saw a trophy walking off and I was killing them just for a piece of hardware that was going to collect dust and be forgotten.
I'm not trashing people that like competition but I enjoy the hunting for what it is. Many times I've had great days and never shared it with anyone.
When you live in SE Alaska you find that everyone catches fish so no one really talks about it or brags.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted April 15, 2018 05:44 PM
LB, yep, 1 location, 100 coyotes in 5 or six seasons total. The District Biologist hunts down there for deer and he even told us to go down there because of the "alarming number of coyotes" in that area. The first time we hunted it, I had ten different coyotes that I knew about moving in and around the dead sunflowers in front of us. early in the year, we will usually see as many as 5-8 there each time we start calling. Some we've killed "not coming" to us, as once they wise up, they tend to take the same escape routes out of there as soon as they hear a call. We actually started setting up with gunners on those escape routes so I could go to my usual hide, start calling, and wait for the gun shots to sound.
Had a guy that archery hunted across the road and the owner told us he was tired of us running all those goddamned coyotes through his hunting area by calling in the section next door. He got the bright idea of parking his truck to block the two-track in for us, so we wouldn't be able to get to where we set up as easily.
There's a huge wetland area a mile further west that is a decent producer so one afternoon when that asshat was parked in our drive, we went to the swamp. Nothing came in to distress, even though I know that they were there. They usually bedded down in a low timber about a half-mile northwest of us. I launched the caller into a beautiful group yip howl and almost immediately, 4 or 5 coyotes answered back from that low timber. Moments later, two more packs answered from behind us, one of which was right there by that asshat's treestand.
Our pack never showed, so we walked out. I asked Kevin what he learned when they answered back, and he told me that he now knows where they claim as defended territory. I said, "Yep". and started laughing. He asked me why I was laughing and I pointed east.
Told him I'd bet him a beer that we circle the section and that bow hunter is gone. Told him that I'd bet that every damned deer in that section beat feet the hell outta Dodge when that pack lit up, and most bow hunters hereabouts have no idea what that yip howl means and it generally scares the shit out of them too. The best part of it was that I triggered that with an mp3 of real coyotes, so he had no idea that we blew his hunt up. All he heard was four separate packs of coyotes sound off. Didn't see him back there again, and it was leased for deer hunting this season. We slapped the shit out of coyotes there early on this season, taking a dozen or more, then only got a few. The guy that leased it tried to guide some boys from Iowa in there in late Jan for coyotes and called us asking where they all went. "We killed 'em." They didn't call anything. Early bird....
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