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Other than hunting and fishing, what hobbies do you participate in?

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I like riding atv’s, doing light machining on the lathes, welding and recently got into metal detecting and lapidary work.
While in Arizona over the winter I built stone handles for 6 steak knives and a chef’s knife from rocks. The blanks were bought at Woodcrafters.
Here is how it starts. Slabs are cut from raw rock. The pattern traced and cut to rough shape with a tile saw and glued to the knife.
Then on to the polishing wheels that go from coarse 30 grit for stock removal to the final polish with 50,000 grit


Art paint Paint Material property Violet Font


the finished product:

Wood Garden tool Gas Kitchen utensil Tints and shades

Wood Rectangle Line Metal Hardwood


Started into metal detecting recently as well.
First serious hunt was in the back yard yesterday. Found what most would expect around a home. Screws, coins, nails, etc.
Can’t wait to prospect around some old homesteads.

Font Art Wood Office supplies Tool


What’s yours?
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I train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and am deep in the craft/home brew beer scene. I also like to wrench on the Jeep and work around the house
My son is heavily into the Brazilian Ju Jitsu.
He won second in his weight class at the world championships held in California last year.

Shorts World Sports uniform Field house Championship
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That’s awesome. My competing is probably over and my training way down these days but I still try to make it in at least once a week.

Where does your son live?
He lives in Lewisville Tx.
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Every lake has their dangerous places. Kaw, Grand, Tenkiller and so on. Back in the day when I took a year off and fished the Redman Bass Tournaments in Eastern Ok and Arkansas, It was to one's advantage to get there a day or so earlier and visit the boat repair shops for a few hours to see which part of the lake took the toll of lower units the most.
Buddy and I were ripping down Tenkiller at around 70mph in my bass boat one early morning going from 70' to 2' in open water. Never let off, just put the boat into a hard turn to keep the lower unit higher and rode it out to deeper water.
It was back in the 80's. Think it was diamond back island nearby?
Kaw has an unmarked reef near the swim beach that has had many boats with the nose pointing to the sky when running aground. Its only 10" under the surface at normal levels, and the stories keep going.
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Well may get me shunned from the group but here goes, you asked and I keep no secrets as I am only judged by one. Besides hunting I like to hunt Indian and prehistoric artifacts, brew beer and grow and breed cannabis. Let the criticism begin!
I do participate in finding artifacts at least. LOL.
We live 1/2 mile from the Arkansas River and have a buddy with an air boat. It's pretty fun to boat down to a sandbar and walk around looking for points and bones. We find a lot of bison teeth and the occasional arrowhead. Grew up with dad making home brew.
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We have found thousands of points, many bison skulls, prehistoric horse and Mammoth teeth and an 8 foot Mammoth tusk that came out of the bank of Cooper creek along with some petrified tortoise shell some of which is nearly 2 inches thick.
Thats quite the haul!
I've got a total of two points and a lot of bison teeth. We did find some bison skulls years ago when Kaw Lake got really high. Buddy and I used my square stern canoe to motor upstream on Beaver Creek into Ks. It finally got so narrow we had to get out and turn the canoe around by lifting it up to turn but in the process we found two bison skulls and several of the horns imbedded in the sand on a corner.
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Awesome find on that skull Wishbone! An artifact thread may be an interesting one to put up. I'll look into it and put a sticky on it or something in the off-topic Tavern forum.
We find entire bison teeth pretty regularly. Back in the day there is a cliff called Colemans bluff on upper Kaw Lake where Native Americans chased the bison over the cliff where they would die or be injured enough to easily dispatch. So, over the centuries, the bones and teeth were washed downstream in the Arkansas river to finally be covered up by sand.
We have found several pieces of what we thought was petrified wood but it was thin like a shaving. I sent pics of it to a guy that's on another forum who is curator of a Native American museum in the Tulsa area. He said it was the enamal off the front of a bison tooth. He's also identified the two points I've found. One was dated 5000 B.C.. That suckers old!
There is a pretty big air boat community around Ponca that run up and down the Arkansas River. Someone is always out walking the sand bars. It's getting harder to find the artifacts.
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Besides hunting & fishing I'm a Trapper.

Between seasons my wife and I travel to Washington Ok to visit our daughter SIL and grandkids for a few weeks.

I'm also a Hunter Trapper Education Instructor here in Pa for the past 26 years.

I also work on Conservation Issues at the capital in Harrisburgh, Pa.
Welcome to Oklahoma Hunter!
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Besides hunting & fishing I'm a Trapper.
Several trappers on this forum too. What specie do you target?
Around here I mainly go for the Racoons and possums. After the first of the year, buddy and I will try for some bobcats when the hides get prime.
Fur prices around here suck, but we trap to help the ground nesting birds like quail, turkey and pheasant. The racoons decimate the ground nesting bird nests and are creating issues with the overall population since nobody traps for them since there is no money in it.
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As low as Kaw is now it would be a good time to go explore and mark some new shallow areas.

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You just drove me to look at the Kaw Lake levels on their website. It appears it's actually 1.5' above normal level which is 1010'. Inflow has been really high from some Ks rains maybe, but the outflow is almost zero which is hard to believe. I'd think they would be dumping the lake getting ready for the spring rains and running the hydro. There is nothing but a trickle of water running below the dam which got me on the atv to go looking for holes to catch sandbass. In the last month, there has only been one day of generation.
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It's not bad.

Just sit by the bogs or the beechnut ridges and sooner or later a dandy buck will come along.
Just about the same way we do it here, but different trees.
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