Saturday, July 20, 2013
Hoorag-A Different Kind of Bandana!
Monday, July 15, 2013
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
Duck Wife
the waterfowler’s wife
8 December 2012: By Kate Vandemore
First things first: I absolutely adore my life, my husband and the hunting industry. It’s been a wonderful duck season and it’s hard to believe there are only 2 weeks remaining. But regardless of my involvement in this sport, there are still things I’ll never understand as a hunter’s wife and as a woman…. Maybe you (or your lady) can relate?
First of all, you stink. Can you not smell that? It’s not B.O.; it’s more like a blend of wet dog, swamp mud, musty waders and stale-outside-sweat stink.
We’re way too young to have an 8:15 PM bedtime.
I wonder if the happiness of any other marriages is determined by duck and goose migration patterns?
When you talk about hatches, it reminds me that I need to put eggs on the grocery list. We’re out.
No, I’m not going to eat that duck. I just watched it die. My suburban palate prefers anonymous food.
When you say, “watch out for the shot”, right before I take a bite…well, now I’m DEFINITELY not going to eat that duck.
Don’t be mad at me, but I think I lost the Benelli 20-gauge you got for my birthday. I’ve been looking for it since September… Have you seen it?
When I see our dog soaking wet out here in the freezing blind, my maternal instinct wants to wrap him in a blanket. One more time, are you SURE he’s okay?
If there’s a guy at weather stations who is solely responsible for the daily ”wind” report, he can thank you all for his job security… Because you’re the only ones who actually care about wind speed and direction. Well, you and highrise window washers.
If you always get new Rangers…can’t I just get one Range ROVER?
I’m glad you don’t mind loading my shotgun for me. This French manicure ain’t cheap.
Some of this wild game has been in our freezer for 2 years. PLEASE let me throw it away.
Watching you manually finish off a cripple with your bare hands is, in fact, quite the intimidation tactic. (…Sir.)
When I express that our smelly dogs need a bath, your argument that they take “daily baths” in flooded corn and timber doesn’t count.
Whenever you mention Saskatchewan, I think you’re talking about the mystical Sasquatch.
Thank God you aren’t trying to do the Robertson beard thing, but your lack of shaving during season says otherwise.
Do you HAVE to tune your calls EVERY night?!
I love it when you caress my face like that, but your fingers are caked with dried blood and feather wisps. Just throwin’ that out there.
You got another leak in your waders? Really?
When you give me directions to a blind or random country location in yards and north/south/east/west…I’m always going to make you break it down to mile fractions and right/left/landmarks. I’m a city girl, you need to understand how we do directions.
The Weather Channel online didn’t change its major weather forecast in the past 5 (or 3) minutes. Breathe.
If “decoys for men are like shoes for women”…then baby, I’ve got A LOT of catching up to do. And my shoe collection isn’t exactly small, either.
I secretly get annoyed when you talk about your beautiful “Blondes”… Why can’t the Redhead Duck be cooler? Psh.
The butter compartment in the refrigerator would seem empty without your turkey calls stacked there.
I frequently wake up during season between 2 – 3 AM in a panic that you’ve overslept.
During snow goose season, my friends get confused when I casually mention, “Yeah, my husband likes ‘em young and dumb.”
If we bear a child, no, we cannot name him Drake Hunter Vandemore.
I don’t mind the camo, but I do reserve the right to control your wardrobe every non-hunting day of the year. I believe we covered that in our wedding vows.
You are almost completely deaf. Will you ever wear ear protection around shotguns, or should we just start learning sign language now?
No, I wasn’t scouting for you today while out on my errands.
Around week 3 of snow goose season, you lose the ability to complete sentences and frequently forget my name. As well as yours.
Thank you for letting me enjoy the finer things in life while you’re hunting everyday. The manicures, pedicures, shopping and dinners out are fabulous. When you get the credit card bill, please remember that I have to endure EVERY holiday season and 6 months a year without you…it requires retail and massage therapy at times to cope.
I love our deep morning talks when you leave for work each day: “Bye babe, I’m gonna go make a pile Michael Jordan can’t jump over.”
I think it’s hilarious that your bands are hidden and locked away. As if an extensive collection of bird bands is on your average robber’s list of things to steal. And as if a robber would get very far past a man who shoots a gun for a living.
It’s always a blast to hunt with you…but your incessant monitoring of every movement I make with a shotgun in my hands makes me feel like I’m 5. Maybe 6.
YES, THE SAFETY’S ON.
Thank you for not constantly watching outdoor television, even when you’re on it.
A field of millet will never bring me the joy it brings you. Let’s say I’m excited on the inside?
Yes, I will wear make-up to the field. Yes, I want waders that are more figure-flattering. And yes, I will only wear Under Armour camo, even though I don’t deer hunt, simply because it is the only fitted women’s hunting clothing on the market.
You have over 50 blinds and always “need” more each year… yet when you hunt, you always prefer to sit against a tree. Don’t give me trouble anymore about not “needing” all of the clothes in my closet.
When you want my attention and command, “Here!”… You’ve been around your gundogs a little too long.
I can’t believe you just broke thick sheets of ice with your bare hands to help the ice eaters. What ARE you?!
I’ll never remember all of the topics we need to discuss when we finally have time to have a real conversation after season…so let’s just call it a wash and start over with normal life then?
And last but not least… HOW ARE YOU NOT FRIGGIN’ FREEZING OUT HERE???????!!!!!!!!!
PS: Thank you for giving me all of the other off-season months where you aren’t allowed to shoot things that fly. I love my hunter!!!
Love, The Little Waterfowl Wifey
Why Hevi-Shot?
THE TRUTH ABOUT HEVISHOT AND SPEED BALL
Published by Joe Balog | March 25, 2013
Over the past several weeks, we’ve explored the benefits and weaknesses of a number of different shotshells (Black Cloud, Blind Side, Fasteel,HyperSonic). This week, in our final installment, we explore the load that may have the greatest cult-like following of them all: HeviShot. In addition, we’ll look into SpeedBall, the new load offered by HeviShot’s parent company, Environ-Metal, Inc.
My investigation began with a candid conversation with HeviShot’s VP of sales and marketing, Kelly Sorensen. This lady knows a lot about ammunition. I asked her questions until she seemed annoyed, which is usually the case with my investigative press work, then reviewed a plethora of informative articles that she sent my way. Not being an avid user of HeviShot or the new products, primarily because I don’t like spending money, I had a lot to learn. And learn I did.
According to Sorensen, HeviShot was the first non-steel commercial waterfowl load on the market, at least that had positive results. In 2000, when HeviShot was introduced, your choices as a duck hunter were round steel or round steel, all of which had slow velocities by today’s standards. Performance on ducks was less than stellar, especially in the eyes of those who remembered the effectiveness of lead. So Environ-Metal looked into alternative metals that would pass government standards of non-toxic, but perform like lead. What they found was tungsten.
Now, if any of you are bass fishermen, you’ll remember this as being the time that the tungsten sinker craze hit the market as well. HeviShot was created out of a patented tungsten / nickel / iron product, with the goal of producing a pellet that held its energy to longer ranges, and therefore increased knock-down power. And that’s exactly what they did. HeviShot continues to be advertised as retaining its energy and knockdown power to well beyond 50 yards. Steel loses its effectiveness around 35 (based on the test loads).
The fact remains: send a denser pellet out there, and it will hold its energy longer, increasing range and knockdown power. HeviShot pellets are denser than lead, and much more dense than steel. A No. 5 HeviShot pellet weighs the same as a No. 2 steel pellet. And of course, many more of them will fit in the same shotshell, making a load of HeviShot ballistically superior to steel in every way. Win-win-win. There’s only one potential wrench in the plan: tungsten comes from China, and that has the potential to be an “epic fail.”
China is the top producer, and consumer, of tungsten. We have tungsten here in the US, but do not mine or produce it due, primarily, to environmental reasons. Therefore, the market drives costs, and the product is imported from a source that can be a volatile partner, to say the least. Sorenson claimed Environ-Metal had “a good relationship with the people at the mine”, and assured me they were “first to the market, and will be the last in the market.”
HeviShot was never cheap, and didn’t claim to be. It claims to produce results. It’s no wonder this load has such a stringent fan base. But tungsten prices have dramatically increased twice since 2000, and continue to rise. The main question becomes: is it worth the money? I guess that’s the call of each individual hunter. I mean, we can justify $1500 shotguns, decoys that surpass $300 a dozen, and pouring four-dollar gas in our trucks. When it comes down to it, is shell choice the most important consideration of all? I’m not sure…
To help combat some of the cost, and to offer consumers a product that satisfies their never-ending quest for muzzle velocity, Environ-Metal introduced Speed Ball. Speed Ball is a shotshell loaded with both HeviShot tungsten and copper-coated steel, producing a cartridge that patterns more effectively than pure steel, with increased downrange knockdown power. The load clips along at 1625 FPS, due, in part, to the incorporation of the “Speed Ball”, which is actually a small cork ball (coined the “pellet accelerator”) within the load that helps absorb breach pressure. Loads designed to push pellets this fast undergo tremendous pressure within the gun, and manufacturers are finding ways to eliminate or absorb this in order to keep cartridges fast, but safe. The Speed Ball is a new way to do this, also dampening the recoil somewhat, but blazing the pellets out the other end of the gun. Once again, don’t ask me who in the world thought of this.
Speed Ball is taking HeviShot to the next level, producing blazing velocities that require less lead and send a bunch of pellets downrange that are heavier than steel and can kill to a greater distance. I’m sold. But, to be fair, I must comment on the fact that, although they’ve incorporated some less costly pellets in the load, price still averages over $3.25 per shell. Original HeivShot comes in around $4.70 per round. An economy popular steel load shell can be purchased for about ninety cents.
Early Teal Limits Set to Increase in 2013?
Here is some good information about Teal season for duck hunters. Published by Joe Balog's "The Duck Blog" at www.realtree.com/hunting/realtree-hunting-blogs/the-duck-blog.
EARLY TEAL LIMITS SET TO INCREASE IN 2013?
Thursday, July 11, 2013
"Capture Your Hunt" of a Lifetime
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
SHO me trophy fish!
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
History of Independance Day
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. What Jefferson did was to summarize this philosophy in "self-evident truths" and set forth a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country. We invite you to read a transcription of the complete text of the Declaration.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
GOD BLESS THE USA, and a SPECIAL THANKS to all our service men and women who are out on the front line daily fighting for our FREEDOM!
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
MUCK BOOTS introduces a NEW RELEASE
- New XpressCool™ lining material keeps your feet cool in warm weather
- 4mm CR flex-foam bootie with four-way stretch nylon, 100% waterproof, light-weight and flexible
- Additional achilles reinforcements for added protection.
- Molded rubber Speed-Tracker outsole with molded EVA midsole
- Reinforced toe
- Added toe protection with a wrap-up bumper
- etc® sockliner to reduce friction and heat build up
- Full Mossy Oak Obsession camo coverage
Last week I gathered my fishing supplies to go out for a Father, Son, Grandpa outing at some local farm ponds near the house. The last thing that crossed my mind upon walking out of the garage was the pair of tennis shoes I had on wasn't going to cut it. I grabbbed my BRAND NEW pair of Woody Sport Cool with Xpress Cool lining and boy was I glad I did. I will never have anything else on my feet while going into the GREAT OUTDOORS!
SHO APPROVED!