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Post by nfalls116 on Aug 4, 2015 19:49:08 GMT -5
Regarding sweating, it is all about what you wear, as everyone already knows. If you step up and buy some good hunting clothing that wick the sweat from your body. You are safe. We walked 5 miles into Hoosier National last season. Air temp was in the 20's. I was sweating heavily because of the climbs. When we got to our destination my outer layer of four layers was damp. My inner base layers were fine. I was, and stayed warm. Use the technology that is now available. It has scent control and excellent wicking. My clothing were a combination of UA base layers and Onyx Artic Shield outerwear. Not cheap but hypothermia kills. # 1 cause of hunter deaths. I would sweat just STEPPING UP to buy something. LOL I layer up when I get to my destination usually
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Aug 4, 2015 20:34:25 GMT -5
I would sweat just STEPPING UP to buy something. LOL I layer up when I get to my destination usually When hunting, I usually don't sweat sitting in my Tahoe.
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Post by ms660 on Aug 5, 2015 10:42:40 GMT -5
So you huff and puff a little? Part of hunting is getting some healthy outdoor exercise. Allow yourself a little more time to get to your stand. Try elk hunting at 9,000 feet if you want to understand what true huffing and puffing is all about Yes,,, I do huff and puff now days. Getting older and my fondness for Marlboro Lights I had for 30 years and the tons of welding rods I have burnt has hurt me bad. I don't know if you have been in areas that have spoil banks or not, but what they consist of is back before coal mines were forced to put the land back to govennment regulations mines never leveled out what they dug up. Spoil banks are rows of mounded up dirt, rocks, boulders that over time has grown cover and timber that are piled back to back. Some are as small as 20 feet tall up to I'm guessing 200 feet tall with little valley between them. Some you can actually walk up, some you have to crawl depending on how steep they are. Many of these rows go for over a mile. Many of the old spoils are being dug back up. Back when they were made mines could only go so deep and a lot of coal was left. Peabody will go back and get that coal today. I hope they leave a few even if I can't play in them like I used to. Wildlife thrives in them and they grow some of the best mushrooms in the world. Elk hunting at 9000 feet,, are you kidding, driving up Pikes Peak in a truck had me weezing and gasping LOL.
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Post by hornzilla on Aug 6, 2015 13:24:56 GMT -5
So you huff and puff a little? Part of hunting is getting some healthy outdoor exercise. Allow yourself a little more time to get to your stand. Try elk hunting at 9,000 feet if you want to understand what true huffing and puffing is all about Yes,,, I do huff and puff now days. Getting older and my fondness for Marlboro Lights I had for 30 years and the tons of welding rods I have burnt has hurt me bad. I don't know if you have been in areas that have spoil banks or not, but what they consist of is back before coal mines were forced to put the land back to govennment regulations mines never leveled out what they dug up. Spoil banks are rows of mounded up dirt, rocks, boulders that over time has grown cover and timber that are piled back to back. Some are as small as 20 feet tall up to I'm guessing 200 feet tall with little valley between them. Some you can actually walk up, some you have to crawl depending on how steep they are. Many of these rows go for over a mile. Many of the old spoils are being dug back up. Back when they were made mines could only go so deep and a lot of coal was left. Peabody will go back and get that coal today. I hope they leave a few even if I can't play in them like I used to. Wildlife thrives in them and they grow some of the best mushrooms in the world. Elk hunting at 9000 feet,, are you kidding, driving up Pikes Peak in a truck had me weezing and gasping LOL. I still love the old spoil banks. I grew up in them when I was a kid, hunting, fishing, riding horses and even the old death machines we call 3 wheelers.
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Post by steiny on Aug 6, 2015 14:40:01 GMT -5
Know all about those spoil banks, had a cabin and some ground on a stripper pit near Dugger in Sullivan county for many years, did lots of kicking around in that stuff. Local boys called them "stripper knobs".
The "Greenies" all condemn the coal mine operations from an environmental point of view, but truth is those old abandoned coal mines have left us with some of the finest hunting, fishing and wildlife areas in the state. That area around Linton, Sullivan and Dugger is a real jewel if you like outdoor activities.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2015 14:54:51 GMT -5
Know all about those spoil banks, had a cabin and some ground on a stripper pit near Dugger in Sullivan county for many years, did lots of kicking around in that stuff. Local boys called them "stripper knobs". The "Greenies" all condemn the coal mine operations from an environmental point of view, but truth is those old abandoned coal mines have left us with some of the finest hunting, fishing and wildlife areas in the state. That area around Linton, Sullivan and Dugger is a real jewel if you like outdoor activities. I may have knocked around on some stripper knobs a time or two myself in my mis-spent youth.
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Post by hornzilla on Aug 6, 2015 15:52:50 GMT -5
Know all about those spoil banks, had a cabin and some ground on a stripper pit near Dugger in Sullivan county for many years, did lots of kicking around in that stuff. Local boys called them "stripper knobs". The "Greenies" all condemn the coal mine operations from an environmental point of view, but truth is those old abandoned coal mines have left us with some of the finest hunting, fishing and wildlife areas in the state. That area around Linton, Sullivan and Dugger is a real jewel if you like outdoor activities. I still ride horses in that area as much as I can. I'm luck, it's only 20 minutes from the house.
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Post by johnc911 on Aug 7, 2015 0:45:21 GMT -5
Some of the largest bucks I have ever seen up close was in the seat of a John Deere 9600 shelling corn, but then again I have had does stomp and blow and flee from my parked three wheeler 200 yards away while in my stand. And its amazing most of the time they stay in the corn until you shell the last round !!
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Post by beermaker on Aug 7, 2015 4:31:41 GMT -5
Exercise? Just like I don't play golf at the gym, I don't hunt there either. I exercise daily and with even more intensity for about a month before hunting season starts.
Give me a cart to play golf and the easiest way to get a deer back to camp so that I can get back to the stand.
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Post by ms660 on Aug 7, 2015 5:03:32 GMT -5
Yes,,, I do huff and puff now days. Getting older and my fondness for Marlboro Lights I had for 30 years and the tons of welding rods I have burnt has hurt me bad. I don't know if you have been in areas that have spoil banks or not, but what they consist of is back before coal mines were forced to put the land back to govennment regulations mines never leveled out what they dug up. Spoil banks are rows of mounded up dirt, rocks, boulders that over time has grown cover and timber that are piled back to back. Some are as small as 20 feet tall up to I'm guessing 200 feet tall with little valley between them. Some you can actually walk up, some you have to crawl depending on how steep they are. Many of these rows go for over a mile. Many of the old spoils are being dug back up. Back when they were made mines could only go so deep and a lot of coal was left. Peabody will go back and get that coal today. I hope they leave a few even if I can't play in them like I used to. Wildlife thrives in them and they grow some of the best mushrooms in the world. Elk hunting at 9000 feet,, are you kidding, driving up Pikes Peak in a truck had me weezing and gasping LOL. I still love the old spoil banks. I grew up in them when I was a kid, hunting, fishing, riding horses and even the old death machines we call 3 wheelers. I still run around in them on my Honda 250 ES Big Red three wheeler
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Post by hornzilla on Aug 7, 2015 7:09:48 GMT -5
I still love the old spoil banks. I grew up in them when I was a kid, hunting, fishing, riding horses and even the old death machines we call 3 wheelers. I still run around in them on my Honda 250 ES Big Red three wheeler There not many of those old beast left running.
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Post by ms660 on Aug 8, 2015 7:07:44 GMT -5
Know all about those spoil banks, had a cabin and some ground on a stripper pit near Dugger in Sullivan county for many years, did lots of kicking around in that stuff. Local boys called them "stripper knobs". The "Greenies" all condemn the coal mine operations from an environmental point of view, but truth is those old abandoned coal mines have left us with some of the finest hunting, fishing and wildlife areas in the state. That area around Linton, Sullivan and Dugger is a real jewel if you like outdoor activities. I still ride horses in that area as much as I can. I'm luck, it's only 20 minutes from the house. I have been doing a lot of work up in your area for Peabody. Was up there yesterday working on some Core streams on some of The IU ground tearing out beaver dams not far from the Sullivan lake. I also spend a lot of hours at Farmersburg and Bear Run maintaining the Core streams that were put in there.
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Post by ms660 on Aug 8, 2015 7:16:52 GMT -5
I still run around in them on my Honda 250 ES Big Red three wheeler There not many of those old beast left running. Here's my old Honda Big Red. It still runs and works as good as the day it was made. Wouldn't trade it for any 4 wheeler out there.
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