Hunting Headlines
| December 31, 2007 |
| 2007 Superlatives |
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It's time for best of/worst of reminiscences. Usually being more concerned with the gestalts of things I like rather than neat point by point comparisons, I've never really been keen on keeping lists of top fives or tens. I can think of, say, a book I liked especially well, maybe more than anything else I read in a given year, but then I have a hard time ranking all the less satisfying ones--I liked or disliked them for different reasons, and my preference for one over the other could shift according to my mood, whatever I've read in the meantime, or whatever is happening in my life at a given point. I may decide that one of my "second best" titles was in fact the best--then change my min...
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| December 30, 2007 |
| Improving Arrow Penetration |
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To improve arrow penetration, reduce wind drag and make your arrows easier to remove from the target during practice, apply a thin coating of either a gloss tire gel or a quality auto wax. Personally, I use Klasse sealant which is a high tech auto glaze. It last longer, is essentially odor free and is the slickest product I have found.
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| December 30, 2007 |
| Unsteady Aim? |
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While my central ambition in life is to move back to the UP Michigan, my wife sometimes expresses ambivalence about moving north. She's in pretty good company, as I discern from my occasional readings of Wife in the North , a blog by an Englishwoman uprooted grudgingly to hyperboreal precincts of the UK. According to her Blogger profile: Moving to Northumberland from London was not my idea. My husband was in fact the only one terribly keen on the move. When I asked my younger son what he thought, he confided: ?Bears might eat me?. "There are no bears," I told him as I looked into the darkness and the growling started. Her exile makes for interesting prose, at any rate. I enjoyed her accou...
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| December 29, 2007 |
| Saturday Quote, 12/29/07 |
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[T]ime is never present; only we are. We are time wearing space as a mask, and with each breath we become smaller and smaller until finally nothing is left of us. --Alta Ifland, "Elegy for a Fabulous World" Some years back, reflecting on the disappearance of grayling from northern Michigan waters, it occurred to me that the trout which displaced them are like shimmering, animate tombstones, marking the spots where grayling once held. Reading Ifland's quote, I wondered if it would be more correct to say that grayling and trout (or simply the trout of different generations)that have lived in a given place are different instants of time that slipped on the same aqueous masks.
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| December 28, 2007 |
| Remington Arms To Acquire Marlin Firearms |
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Wow, this just blew me away when I saw it on Remington’s website. I hope that Remington won’t change too many things with the Marlin line. Remington and Marlin are two of my favorite gunmakers and they’re both still making them here in the U.S.A. (yeah, I know about the Spartan line of O/U’s, rotating block muzzleloaders made [...]
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| December 28, 2007 |
| Misinformed People |
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I know that all vegetarians aren’t automatically against hunting or for PETA type animal rights, but a large majority are. How often do you go to a site dedicated to their lifestyle and find a link to ‘animal rights’ or ‘PETA’? A lot, as is the case with Living Without Meat. Advertisement: Cheap [...]
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| December 28, 2007 |
| No Ski for Me |
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Kristine and I had been planning a cross country ski trip over the New Year's holiday weekend. Earlier this week though, we squashed those plans due to a lack of snow at our intended destination. We could head to western Michigan, where snow has been returning, but I have too much work on my plate now to spare 3 days away, so this is just as well. Still the paucity of snow in most of lower Michigan the last few years is disappointing. Sometimes, we haven't had enough snow in the UP for New Year's ski trip there--that's seriously screwed up. Winter doesn't feel like winter without snow on the ground from the end of December to the beginning of March or so. It doesn't feel like a protracted...
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