coolest tricks?

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

using a percussion revolver to keep with the forum...when you are practicing with a handgun at the range: instead of focusing your aim dead center of the target, imagine you are tossing your bullets down a pipe towards center mass, this will relax you sufficiently and tighten up your groups

cut out a block of styrofoam the size of the inside of an altoids tin, insert it into the tin, push your primers into the styrofoam; this will keep them from rattling in the woods and still give you easy access to them

you can make your own scent blockers by understanding the vegetation in the area you plan on hunting; if there is a particularly pungent plant such as pine in the area you are hunting, you can boil it down into a spray, knowing what plants to eat can also help you...for example consuming tea berries that are in the area will mask your breath, etc these will be more than enough as long as you didn't eat a breakfast burrito and spill gas on yourself on the way in...

It is cheaper to find your hellgrammites in the river than at the store

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I like the foliage tip. I have in the past taken leaves from the area I intend to hunt, about two weeks prior to hunting, and put them in a bag with my hunting shirt and trousers, and let them sit until the night before the hunt. Can't say if it helped, but I know it didn't hurt.

LD

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

yes, that is good idea you have. the two big ones are walking into the wind and movement discipline, every other trick just adds tiny benefits that hopefully add up in the end

 

[Billnpatti]

I learned a neat trick from an old timer about how to keep the "wee critters", such as ticks, etc., off you in the woods. About a day before you go hunting, eat some (about a large teaspoonful to a tablespoonful) of plain old powdered sulfur. It is easiest to get down if you mix it with something like molasses, honey, or such. It is not very tasty no matter how you do it but it will work. If your hunt lasts more than one day, continue taking that daily amount all the time you are hunting. Your body will not metabolize elemental sulfur and minute amounts of it comes out in your sweat. It does you absolutely no harm but the wee critters do not like it and you will not be bothered by them.

I used to find tablets made of sulfur and another thing (I think it was cream of tartar) in the drug store. I would take a couple of them and chew them up every day starting the day before the hunt. I haven't seen them here recently but you might find them in your local drug store.

The sulfur will continue to come out of your pores for a couple days after you quit taking the stuff and it makes you and your clothes smell like sulfur. You may stink like sulfur for a couple of days but you will have no bug problems in the woods. It sure doesn't mix well with aftershave or cologne.

You could achieve the same results by putting the flowers of sulfur (powdered elemental sulfur) ,that is the name it is sold under in many drug stores, in a cloth bag and patting it all over yourself like using a powder puff. Unless you are careful about applying it in this manner, you won't get the complete coverage that you will by eating the stuff.

 

[Jim C]

using a percussion revolver to keep with the forum...when you are practicing with a handgun at the range: instead of focusing your aim dead center of the target, imagine you are tossing your bullets down a pipe towards center mass, this will relax you sufficiently and tighten up your groups

cut out a block of styrofoam the size of the inside of an altoids tin, insert it into the tin, push your primers into the styrofoam; this will keep them from rattling in the woods and still give you easy access to them

you can make your own scent blockers by understanding the vegetation in the area you plan on hunting; if there is a particularly pungent plant such as pine in the area you are hunting, you can boil it down into a spray, knowing what plants to eat can also help you...for example consuming tea berries that are in the area will mask your breath, etc these will be more than enough as long as you didn't eat a breakfast burrito and spill gas on yourself on the way in...

It is cheaper to find your hellgrammites in the river than at the store

Now that certainly brings back a lot of fond boyhood memories! Thanks for mentioning it.....Jim.

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

no problem :hatsoff:

I camp and fish off the Juniata every year for two weeks in the summer and this last year there was a problem that us and other people were having with some puke going around and stealing the hellgrammites out of peoples' bait buckets until it stopped for good all of sudden; I don't know what happened, but I do know that most of the people that live there are very down to Earth and you can only pull a stunt off like that for so long before somebody gives you some bad news.

 

[fishmusic]

Bill, are you sure that's sulfur we're smelling? :rotf:

 

[M. De Land]

A tool that works even better and will take less of your flint away as it makes a new edge is a pointed piece of copper grounding wire set into a bone , antler or wood handle.
In practice the edge of the tool is placed over the edge of the flint point on and pressure is applied downward. The copper will indent by the hard flint a bit, just enough to grip the edge and will knapp off a tiny flake.
This is precisely the same principle used in knapping flint points and tools with antler or copper tools.
One can make a very sharp and uniform edge across the front edge of the flint without eating up anymore than necessary.

The tool with the antler handle is the one I'm referring to.

 

[M. De Land]

I use a polycarbinate ball on the end of my range rod to hook over a bumper, roof Pearline or crotch of a tree. I than give it some slack and use a quick jerk in the opposite direction.
When the retainer ( bumper, pearline or tree crotch) hits the ball on the end of the range rod the shock usually breaks the patch grip and then the ball can be retrieved.
The problem with shooting balls or stuck patches out is when they have a jag or broken rod tip still attached they can damage the bore.
Shooting them out can damage the rifling and one will almost certainly loose the tip.

 

[M. De Land]

That is generally true Richard but I also have listened to some old timers that were plain BS'ers and others were genuinely sincere but sincerely wrong is what they were saying.
The reason was because they were bull headed, set in there ways and refused to even consider a better mouse trap.
The typical response is something like " Sonny, I've been doing it that way for fifty years".
My thought and sometime reply is " Yup , and you've been doing it wrong for the same length of time when you could have been doing it a better way".
A good lesson for us all is to keep and open mind and latch on to a good idea like a gold nugget in a stream bed no matter who advances it.

 

[19 16 6]

My neatest & coolest trick so far is to actually hit what I am aiming at. :grin:
O.

 

[Cowboy]

My neatest & coolest trick so far is to actually hit what I am aiming at. :grin:
O.

Im withya brother! :rotf: :rotf: Respectfully, Cowboy :thumbsup:

 

[KingofDerby]

A tool that works even better and will take less of your flint away as it makes a new edge is a pointed piece of copper grounding wire set into a bone , antler or wood handle.

I've got a few cheap copper clouts left from when I was fixing my boots...I'm going to try this!

 

[Rokon]

Clyde--How do you seal the plastic tube to the inside lid of the 35mm can?

 

[M. De Land]

File the copper round to a point and just hook the point over the edge of the flint and apply pressure downward.
I remove the flint from the cock and lay it on a piece of leather on a flat surface to get a really good long lasting edge.
If the flint edge is to dull or rounded off it may need to be ground a bit sharper for the copper to work well.
I do this on a eight inch green wheel for sharpening carbide tools on my bench grinder.
Be sure and wear a mask and eye protection.
The serrated edge made by the copper flaking tool is what your after as it is both stronger and sharper than a ground edge.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Clyde--How do you seal the plastic tube to the inside lid of the 35mm can?

I don't ....I use rigid tubing in a tightly fitting slightly undersized hole...The lid is pliable enough to make a tight seal. It has never come undone yet.
You need an air escape hole in the lid also to keep the pressure from blowing the lid off.

IIRC the tubing is polyethylene (possibly PEX) not vinyl tubing. My flush kit came with latex tubing years ago when I bought it....I don't think Pex was invented yet.

 

[dwr]

Mark Twain said a man who has had a bull by the tail knows two or three more things than a man who hasn't....

 

[Billnpatti]

Well.....okay...maybe it isn't all sulfur. :haha:

 

[mooman76]

I was cleaning my 54 today and not paying as close of attention as I should have. Anyway the brush came off because it came unthreaded. I tried to screw the rod back on but couldn't keep it centered so I took a centerfire brass casing that best fir the bore, (in this case it was a 45) and drilled the center out to fit the cleaning rod. Then I taped it on and ran it down the bore and could then screw the cleaning rod back on and pull it out.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Interesting coincidence....A friend of mine called me today and had a similar problem......He was not nearly as smart or as lucky...But 14 hours later he prevailed.....I told him it would have taken me 2 minutes to fix his problem..... :haha: