Outdoor Recreation - July 2007

Outside your family , who would take bullet for.

2007-07-27 00:43:52 · 17 answers · asked by Market Magician 3 in Hunting

Does anyone know any sites where I can buy a pair of size 8 oxblood combat boots? Thanks

2007-07-27 00:34:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Outdoor Recreation

Did you ever think that maybe the sugar goes out of your urine and mouth because it is trying to force you to loose weight and that it is your bodies natural process?

I am not one to agree with the 'natural' form of things and I don't believe in medications. Though being diabetic forces me to be on them (some of them).

I know having a high blood sugar harms you but so does storing fat.

(this is an honest question, yes i am taking my medication please do not tell me to go to the doctor i've already been there.)

2007-07-27 00:20:13 · 12 answers · asked by FawneMine 3 in Hunting

My family thought it would be fun to go crab fishing during the summer. Does anyone know where to go? We live in Southern California. My parents are mostly wanting to go to reservoirs that have crabs of course. But beaches would be great too. We're planning on using chicken as bait. This will the first time we'll go fishing for crabs. Any advice would also be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

2007-07-26 20:33:20 · 2 answers · asked by yummie_kiwi 1 in Fishing

does anybody know what i'm talking about?
where the person is hitch hiking and they have
a sort of knap sack that's polka dotted
and they're carrying it by a stick??

does anyone have a pic? please??

2007-07-26 18:26:38 · 2 answers · asked by JoshR 2 in Other - Outdoor Recreation

Is there any advantage to using yellow tinted glasses opposed to the typical clear ones?

2007-07-26 18:21:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hunting

12 rounds for $40, pretty pricey. Anyone have any suggestions for getting better prices? No re-loading suggestions please.

2007-07-26 18:05:51 · 11 answers · asked by evo741hpr3 6 in Hunting

2007-07-26 17:57:27 · 2 answers · asked by shredskdie 1 in Fishing

2007-07-26 17:30:03 · 2 answers · asked by mpj_213 2 in Other - Outdoor Recreation

I am 14, and today I went with my dad to our local firearms dealer. When I was there, I bought a Yugo SKS, and I was just wondering that when I completely dissasemble it, what are some of the best ways to get all of the cosmoline off? Thanks.

2007-07-26 17:26:52 · 7 answers · asked by T.Long 4 in Hunting

I have a fishing kayak and I fish freshwater. I keep the fish I catch on a stringer, but it doesn't keep them alive as well as I'd like. Does anyone have a better way of keeping their fish alive and swimming?

2007-07-26 17:21:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Fishing

I am not sure how to get the picture of this fish onto this question so that it can be viewed...I can't think of any natural predators that could whup this thing...It looks like it could chew/rip/devour its' way out from any kind of bigger fish..It looks about two feet long and might weigh about 25-35 pounds. Good grief ... whatta set of choppers. I will E-Mail this thing to anyone, I would really like to know if it is a hoax or what..

2007-07-26 17:09:55 · 13 answers · asked by tent trailer jack 2 in Fishing

What do you perfer and why

2007-07-26 16:50:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hunting

Are there any objects or handy weapons (other than guns and knives) that can protect you and do damge to the attacker? can you buy tazer or things like that?

2007-07-26 15:31:40 · 22 answers · asked by mark k 1 in Hunting

Kind of a dumb question ... but u never know. A bullet it a fragment of metal propelled by gunpowder and an arrow is a sharpened point with lots of force behind it when shot.

2007-07-26 15:22:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hunting

2007-07-26 15:21:07 · 13 answers · asked by BASSMASTER 4 in Fishing

i own a 30-06 and i cant afford buying ammo at retail stores and i realy dont want to buy ammo off the internet so i need to know what would i need to buy to reload my old brass casings

2007-07-26 15:19:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hunting

usually 2 hours every time

2007-07-26 14:35:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Outdoor Recreation

2007-07-26 14:31:54 · 12 answers · asked by V. 3 in Camping

Is 250$ too cheap for a whole hog? What questions should I ask before purchacing? I don't know any thing about this, and it sounded like a good deal.

2007-07-26 13:57:47 · 10 answers · asked by meowger 2 in Hunting

I have this Shilen Select Match Stainless barrel that I have put 81 rounds through. I used 60 round to break in the barrel. I have meticulously cleaned the rifle basically after every fired shot. I use a cyclone type rolled style brush for cleaning the bore and Butch's Bore Shine for the solvent. After shooting 8 rounds lst Saturday, I started cleaning the bore. I have been cleaning the bore for over an hour now. I'll run two saturated patches down the bore, then I'll run the saturated brush down the bore with at least 20 strokes. After that, I'll run two more saturated patches down the bore. Every time, the first patch comes out a medium black color, no hint of blue or green, just a medium black. This is either powder fouling or carbon fouling. I have used 3 moly coated bullets in this barrel, the rest have been copper plated. Do you guys have any suggestions for me? Any credible information would be helpful.

2007-07-26 13:48:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hunting

what did you serve with it?

Thank you!
Lakshmi

2007-07-26 12:48:43 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Fishing

I want the one that you really don't need set the hook but it just gets itself set/hooked in the fishes mouth as you reel in the slack with little effort. Also, do they come in sizes such as 10-1?

2007-07-26 11:58:39 · 5 answers · asked by tk 2 in Fishing

I live in MA and have just been catching dog fish does anyone know a good rig or bait or good place to go to help catch some cod besides dog fish everytime? Tips or tricks?

2007-07-26 10:59:36 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Fishing

Tell me how you did.

I went yesterday, (Wed) , with my kids & wife. (They swam & played in the lake while I fished from shore.) I caught 4 dink Bass, and two 2LBer's. Also, caught some "Sunny's" & my teenage daughter caught a nice 3 LB Bass on a little bitty 1/16 oz black maribou "crappie" Jig! (Another example of a "tiny" bait catching decent fish!)

It was a nice "family" day. I waded around the lake and got a leech on me! Yuck! (lol) My 4 yr old was fascinated,(Does it hurt Daddy? Is it a bug Daddy? Will it fly on me Daddy?) lol The leech was "the hit of the day" in her mind!

2007-07-26 10:46:54 · 11 answers · asked by Swamp Zombie 7 in Fishing

Bassmaster993,

If you are out there, Pheasant Tail asked me to add this to my answer of your question about which line to use for bass fishing.

I was away from my computer fly fishing for Coho salmon at Tofino, British Columbia. Your question closed so I couldn’t add it to my answer.

I thought if you are reviewing these questions you may run into this one.

Hope you have a great bass fishing trip.

Larry

How to set up a fly rod--------------

Can you go to a person who knows what they are doing to get help? If so, I would strongly recommend it. Otherwise, give this a try. You need to learn it anyway.

Did you buy a package deal, that gave you a rod, reel, backing, line, leader and flies?

Or, did you buy separate pieces.

If you bought the package deal, then everything should match up, however I have seen some all-in-one outfits that were not fit to be called fly rods.

If you bought separate pieces, then I hope someone guided you through the purchases. Like is the fly rod the size (as in the weight of the rod, not the actual weight (yes, here is where you start scratching your head trying to figure out what I am saying) but the indicated weight of the rod. Like is it a 5 weight or a 6 weight, or did you buy a specialty rod, like a 2 or 3 weight or a 8 or 9 weight?

What kind of fish you are going for, is the determining factor in what size rod to buy.

Then your reel has to match up fairly close to the rod. Reels are sold with designators indicating that they are for a 5 or 6 weight or a 7 to 8 weight or a 2 to 3 weight rod. This is important. You can not use a 2/3 weight reel on a 6 weight rod. The line will totally fill the reel and there will be no room for backing or anything else. Also, the reel helps balance the rod while you are casting. So, if you have an ultra light reel on a heavy rod, the balance of the reel is going to be way up the rod somewhere, not down at the cork handle you are holding on to. That means you will have a hard time casting and wear yourself out faster than you should.

So, let's hope the reel matches the rod.

Eric is right, use the Arbor knot to tie on the backing to the center spool of your reel. But first, do you want to reel this in with your right hand, thus holding the rod with your left hand, or do you want to reel it in with your left hand holding the rod with your right hand? I am going to assume you are right handed, if not the question simply needs to be reversed.

With small fish you can get away with casting with your strong hand and then switching the rod over to your other hand to reel in the line when you have a fish on. However, if you are going after big fish, then it is best to hold the rod with your strong hand and reel with your other hand, since it is your strong hand that has to hold the rod during the fight. Your muscles and mind-hand coordination are better with your strong hand.

Stop right here: You want to have at least one guide to put your backing through before you tie you it to the reel, so make sure you thread the backing and later the line through a guide. Some rods require you to put two pieces together to get a guide to use.

The line has to come off the bottom of the reel. Let's say you are right handed and decided to reel in with your left hand (best choice). Tie the backing on so the line comes onto the reel from the bottom front and wraps up behind the reel then back out the top front, tie your arbor knot.

Reel in all of your backing if it is a complete outfit, otherwise you will have to play around with finding the right amount of backing. The papers that came with your reel should tell you how much backing in 20 pound Dacron or 30 pound Dacron your reel will take, but how are you to know how much you have reeled on? (I usually take my reel to my local fly shop and have them load it for me).

The backing serves two purposes. First, it helps fill the reel with line so your fly line does not have to be wound up in such small circles (that really causes a problem with the line). Also, if you hook into a big one or hook a tree or rock then you have some extra line to play with to get to shore or back up to where you snagged up the line. Fly lines are expensive and you do not want to be loosing those.

Eric is right, the nail knot is an excellent knot to use to tie the backing onto the fly line. In fact, once you learn to tie the knots, then you can tie two nail knots in a row onto your fly line. If the first nail knot should fail, the second one should hold.

Below are some websites you can go to in order to learn to tie the knots you need to learn. Practice with some string, two different colored ones if you can, and learn how to tie the knots we mention.

You now have the backing tied onto your line. Usually there is a little tag that mentions which end should be tied to the backing. If not, then if you are using a weight forward line, the backing gets tied to the end that has the really long and slender line. The other end has a very short slender line then very quickly thickens up, then slowly thins back down. That is the end you tie your leader onto.

So, tie your backing onto your fly line and now you need to reel it in. I prefer to take a small long box and punch a pencil or small 1/4 inch dowel through one side, push on your lines plastic holder then push the pencil out the other side. Now your line will come off the spool nice and straight and not twist on you.

Once you have reeled in all the line, now you will find out if you used too much backing because your line will not fit smoothly onto the reel. Best bet, strip your line out, and then take off some backing, cut it and tie the line back onto the backing and reel it in again.

Now you come to your leader. It has a loop on it you said. That makes it handy, but then you have to have a loop on the line or you can not use it. Some lines being made now have loops built into them. If you do not have one of those, then the best thing you can do is tie a short piece of mono onto your fly line then tie in a loop at the other end.

For now, use the nail knot to tie the mono to your line. The thicker the leader, the fewer the wraps you need to form a nail knot, but the rule of thumb is 4 or 5 turns. You can buy a nail knot tool, I would strongly recommend it, and it makes tying nail knots super easy with just a little practice. The key to any nail knot is to pull the tag end of the leader quickly and smoothly. If you go slow you end up with a horrible looking knot. If you practice ahead of time, you will tie a good looking nail knot.

For a short piece of mono I have often just cut off a foot of my leader, the thick end, and tied it to my line, then tied in a small loop using a Perfection Loop knot. If the leader came with a loop, then you have a built in loop, but you will then have to tie a Perfection Knot loop back into your leader.

It is important that this short, 4 to 5 inch piece of leader be just about as thick as the line, you can not use a real limp and small size piece of mono. If you do you will not be able to transfer the power of the cast into your leader.

If you are going to tie on a tippet to the other end of the leader I suggest learning the Blood Knot or the Improved Surgeon's Knot. The blood knot may be the best one to use.

When putting the rod together, line up the guides and push the pieces together with an equal amount of pressure from both hands. The guides have to line up for proper casting. After an hour or so of casting, make sure you test the sections to keep them from slowly coming apart.

Now tie on a small piece of yarn and learn how to cast.

Here are three sites you can go to and learn about knot tying for fly fishing. I really love the Animated Knots by Grog site, the first one listed.

Good luck.

Larry

http://www.animatedknots.com/indexfishing.php?LogoImage=LogoGrog.jpg&Website=www.animatedknots.com

http://globalflyfisher.com/fishbetter/knots/table.php

http://www.flyfisherman.com/skills/lkknots/index.html

2007-07-26 10:15:39 · 4 answers · asked by Sagefisher 4 in Fishing

ok i plan to go shark hunting.What do i do if it bites me?

2007-07-26 10:07:46 · 9 answers · asked by kyle 2 in Fishing

2007-07-26 09:22:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hunting

if i bring a sleeping bag so i can sleep, and 20 water bottles, 30 bucks for snacks, and a bike pump. is it possible, and what risks do i face? im 16 and wanna get out my house and away from my parents, how long do you think it would take me to get there?

2007-07-26 08:59:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Outdoor Recreation

Can anyone tell me anything about anthrax in the whitetail deer population in North Central and West Texas? I read a newspaper artical about it yesterday, but it didn't really give much info.

We eat a lot of deer meat in my house and I am concerned about eating anything killed this next season because of what I've read. Any info on the subject would be appreciated.

2007-07-26 08:54:41 · 7 answers · asked by EvilWoman0913 7 in Hunting