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

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dennishoddy

Discussion Starter · 3 mo ago

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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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TheDoubleD

· #41 · 2 mo ago

I mentioned I like cannons.

Once a year in the spring The GBO Outdoors Cannon does a "Ring in the spring". This is promote our hobby of Cannon shooting.

A week or so before, I post a warning on the HOA Face book page announcing ring in the spring time an date. Say something to the effect the Ring in the Spring is necessary to break up the ice jamb on the pond, and to knock icicle and snow of their roofs. Usually get a pretty good crowd.

I usually do it on Sunday afternoon and set up a bunch of cannons. I recruit the neighbor kids as my cannon crew.

This week because of travel plans, I did the shoot on Wednesday.

Water Cloud Sky Wheel Wheelbarrow

https://youtube.com/shorts/dx0JUO7TlYc

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murphranch

· #42 · 2 mo ago

dennishoddy said:
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.

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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dennishoddy

Discussion Starter · #43 · 2 mo ago

murphranch said:
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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murphranch

· #44 · 2 mo ago

Smith676 said:
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!

It was voted on and legal. Man's got to feed his family.

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Bullbuster

· #45 · 2 mo ago (Edited)

That’s one reason my daughter never moved with us as it’s not legal here. As a LEO I have to have my professional reservations about it. To each his own and family comes first.

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Bear Sits In The Woods

· #46 · 2 mo ago

May take on it is who cares. Cannabis has been here since before the constitution, doesn’t mean I like seeing it on every billboard but hey there are a lot of things I don’t like and nobody cares ha

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DRC458

· #47 · 2 mo ago

TheDoubleD said:
I mentioned I like cannons.

Once a year in the spring The GBO Outdoors Cannon does a "Ring in the spring". This is promote our hobby of Cannon shooting.

A week or so before, I post a warning on the HOA Face book page announcing ring in the spring time an date. Say something to the effect the Ring in the Spring is necessary to break up the ice jamb on the pond, and to knock icicle and snow of their roofs. Usually get a pretty good crowd.

I usually do it on Sunday afternoon and set up a bunch of cannons. I recruit the neighbor kids as my cannon crew.

This week because of travel plans, I did the shoot on Wednesday.

Man, I wish I had known that! I might have made the trip just to watch! Sounds like fun!

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TheDoubleD

· #48 · 2 mo ago

Pretty lame this year. One big gun and two little. I have shoot a bunch more in the past. Check out my channels on Youtube. Ddgofer https://www.youtube.com/@DDgofer/videos and Ddgofer-II https://www.youtube.com/@ddgofer-ii1564 . Select videos to see them all. You know what they say on YouTube, click on like and subscribe, "thanks for watching!"

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TheDoubleD

· #49 · 2 mo ago

NORML promotes the health advantages, AMA says little to nothing and the CDC is a bit vague but does speculate on health benefits. CDC does say smoking is bad for you however and they include Mota in that smoking warning.

Casey

· #50 · 2 mo ago

dennishoddy said:
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.

I go after yotes starting about Thanksgiving.

Mid December I'm hammering beavers till the end of March and February I go after an otter we're only allowed one.

Around December 17 I pursue Bobcats and we're only allowed one of them.
Just after Xmas we have a cable restraint season so I go after the yotes with them.

And about December 17 we have a fisher season.

The second and third week of November I deer hunt in Maine and do some trapping to.

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Bear Sits In The Woods

· #51 · 2 mo ago

Pretty good deer hunting there?

Casey said:
I go after yotes starting about Thanksgiving.

Mid December I'm hammering beavers till the end of March and February I go after an otter we're only allowed one.

Around December 17 I pursue Bobcats and we're only allowed one of them.
Just after Xmas we have a cable restraint season so I go after the yotes with them.

And about December 17 we have a fisher season.

The second and third week of November I deer hunt in Maine and do some trapping to.

Casey

· #52 · 2 mo ago

It's not bad.

Just sit by the bogs or the beechnut ridges and sooner or later a dandy buck will come along.

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dennishoddy

Discussion Starter · #53 · 2 mo ago

Casey said:
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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Bear Sits In The Woods

· #54 · 2 mo ago

Blackjack and hickory down here.

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