Thread: What is your favorite handle?

I like your philosophy on hunting and would like to get into it but I'd only hunt animals I can eat and find uses for non-edible parts if possible (like antlers for scales).

Over here in Holland it is forbidden to hunt with anything but a rifle. There are a few hunters who get their permit to hunt actually and that only for a few months (i believe from october through januari). We anly have small game here. The deer are protected and may be shot by only a small group selected people (the royalties are part of them). Then we have wild boars, hares, rabbits, pheasants and wild ducks.

The way they hunt is: a group of people go into the woods making a lot of noise so the animals are scared out of the woods. The "hunters" are standing at the treeline and every animal that comes in sight is shot.
For me, there is no hunting in that. It gives me more pleasure to shoot at the carnival...

Bowhunting is absolutely forbidden here. That would be the only way I would hunt. I would track down the pray, and only shoot when I know I have a clean shot and could kill the animal with just one arrow.
Well that challenge we have with our 3d-shooting. The only thing is, we don't have to track down the animals and if we miss, they are not hurt. The targets are set on varying distances, from 10 to 60 meters. I have shot a standing bear at 60 meters with the first arrow.

Yes, the foam animals are a american invention. They were originally made for practising the real hunt. But as many more archers saw the fun in just shooting for points, 3d-rounds were organized. There are many americans who also shoot these rounds. The World Champion is an American...
Check out:http://www.rinehart3-d.com/

There is one situtation where I would hunt for meat. If I am stranded on a deserted island, the first thing I would build is a shelter and sitting in that shelter I would make my bow and arrows. Then I would hunt, just to stay alive.

I was a flyfisherman for about 25 years, I gave that up for archery and I must say, I get the same satisfaction from shooting!
On topic: too bad you can't make scales out of fish-scales

First of all what they do in those "hunting" videos is really not the hunting it is the killing.

Hunting season in my area is really just the time the good hunters are allowed to kill the game they have hunted throughout the year. They spent ten months hunting and getting to know the habits of their prey, then they go out during the allowed killing season and harvest it. To stalk prey track it and then kill it is a good way to go home hungry unless you are very very good at it and game is very plentiful. The biggest difference between Europe and the US as far a hunting goes is that we still have plentiful indeed often overabundant game to hunt while Europe is by comparison barren ground.

Used to shoot a foam bambi off the roof of the haus to simulate a tree stand.

Oh BTW, we call that a "drive" here Pinda.
Where I come from we use people, here in Florida they use dogs, where i come from we shoot dogs for chasing deer.
I've found they can be very challenging shooting even with a rifle or shotgun if the only "edge" is a dirt road.
BTW you might be interested to know that my favorite rifle is a 6.5x55 swede!
Not a normal caliber over here by any means, and even less mainstream as it is a sporterized 96 Mauser that came out of Carl Gustav in 1900. It still shoots grate!
Of course if you don't shoot rifle this may mean nothing to you.

Ever tried carbon fiber arrows? I shot some the other day and was fairly impressed. They weren't mine though, and I didn't see the price tag or I might not have been as keen on them.

LOOK A MOOSE!!!! AND HE'S SMILING AT YA! SHOOT DA DIRTY BUGGER!!

Though I don't own any, I would love to have
a razor with wood scales. Curly maple that is......


Terry

Originally Posted by Jimbo

...Only thing I can say for certain is that I prefer natural materials, probably woods...

Jimbo, I did not take you for someone who prefers wood scales, I am surprised! There are a lot of nice wood scales out there though - do you prefer the stabilized varieties?

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Jimbo, I did not take you for someone who prefers wood scales, I am surprised! There are a lot of nice wood scales out there though - do you prefer the stabilized varieties?

Ahh, so young and so naive. Well, I have finally worked out that I dislike wood, stable or unstable, for scales. But I do prefer endangered natural materials - ivory or bone etc. The more endangered the species, the better.

James.

wood here also, but i have been thinking of carbon fiber also.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Ahh, so young and so naive. Well, I have finally worked out that I dislike wood, stable or unstable, for scales. But I do prefer endangered natural materials - ivory or bone etc. The more endangered the species, the better.

James.

How about extinct? does it rank highly or not at all?