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Gone but not forgotten
Mullein is the "Charmin" of natural materials.
A handful of nettle and you check it with a stalk of mullein.
Mullein is the "Charmin" of natural materials.
A handful of nettle and you check it with a stalk of mullein.
No, you use the mullein stalk for hand drill fire. It and yucca are two of the best materials for fire starting in my area. For both hand drill and bow drill.
Mullein is the "Charmin" of natural materials.
I'm with you. I don't understand why people think you have to kill a deer in appalachia with a stone spear you carved yourself, or you are a "real hunter." I wonder if these same people have jobs tarring roofs, hand digging ditches, hand picking cotton, or working for minimum wage at a restaurant, rather that working at other more highly skilled jobs that pay well, because the money just comes too easy for them in those other "new school" jobs.
I work a highly skilled job that pays an obscene salary. I've killed a lot of deer over the years too. I'm 66 years old and I still hump it in and hump it out on foot. Maybe that's enough to qualify me as "old school"? If it doesn't I don't care. I won't be thinking about this thread this weekend when I head into the woods to close out the season.
And yet he feels the need to list every gun he owns in his signature. Old people and computers kill me!
Me either while I`m camping pre-1840 style.
The OP made mention that he was accustomed to hunting northern New England. Now he may be a troll, or he may have innocently set himself up for the thrashing and ridicule that he got from south east hunters who have a whole different hunting style.
He's new old school. You're actual old school.
If I ever get to hunt in Maine I'll hunt the way they do it and I won't tell them their way is for pikers and the way we do it down here is the real old school way. As far as manly, menly, manly man hunting goes our mountain hunters down here are just as rugged as their guys are. Maybe more so. They got nothing on us, plaid shirts and blue jeans and 5 mile dead deer drags be hanged.
Haha, that was my point.
The OP made mention that he was accustomed to hunting northern New England. Now he may be a troll, or he may have innocently set himself up for the thrashing and ridicule that he got from south east hunters who have a whole different hunting style. But understanding how new England hunters are all about early 20th century deer hunting tradition, I get where he was coming from, but I think he didn't realize he was too far south for folks to understand what he meant. It is not unusual to track a buck in northern Maine from daylight until late afternoon before you catch up to it for a shot, a 5 mile drag is not unheard of. They don't like to pack them out, reason being, you have one buck tag, and part of the traditional bragging rights up there are the dressed weight of your buck. If you quarter it up and pack it out, you can't prove that you have a 200 pound buck, also, I'm not even sure if it's legal. I do know that if you haul a dead deer in a vehicle up there it has to be visible, pickup bed, tailgate has to be down, if your in an SUV or car, it has to be on top.
And yet he feels the need to list every gun he owns in his signature. Old people and computers kill me!
IF the good Lord lets you live long enough, you will be one of those OLD people one day, your perspective will change immensely, I promise..
I used to like to watch the Benoit Brothers hunting show.
and part of the traditional bragging rights up there are the dressed weight of your buck. If you quarter it up and pack it out, you can't prove that you have a 200 pound buck, also, I'm not even sure if it's legal. I do know that if you haul a dead deer in a vehicle up there it has to be visible, pickup bed, tailgate has to be down, if your in an SUV or car, it has to be on top.