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Archery Advantage Part 2

On December 3, 2011 By

Newbie Orientation -continued

Here are some helpful hints of things you can do for yourself and questions to ask the pro-shop:
1. Do some personal research. Ask friends, read magazine arti-

cles, and check the Internet (websites like www.bowcast.com and www.archerytalk.com) for information and shops in your area that will be most helpful. Look [...]

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Archery Advantage PART 1

On December 1, 2011 By

Newbie Orientation Part !

The chirp of the door goes off and all heads turn as an unfa- miliar face walks through the door. The guy (we’ll call him Mike) asks for Big G. Big G speaks up and instantly identifies himself by sayinghisusualline,“Yep,that’sme,thelegend.”AsIwatchanall too familiar scene, I sit patiently on my Hoyt stool and [...]

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Adak day 3

On October 14, 2011 By

Trying to keep this up and found out they will all post about the same day. Ran out of bandwidth on sat phone for Internet service. It’s all good I am going to compile all into one. Also the footage can and will be seen on bonecollectors in late January 2012. We have some mini [...]

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Adak

On October 14, 2011 By

Day 2
As far as the airports are concerned we are done travels went pretty good no lost baggage. When Anthony, Michael, Steve an I arrived on Adak we quickly realized that the wind really does begin here!
After making a few more contacts and calls we got our transportation to get us [...]

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AK day one

On October 2, 2011 By

DAY 1
Working through the packing process and combining our gear, meaning making sure we don’t double down on the items we take. I started off the day with a phone call from Steve from the Bone Collectors. Just tying up loose ends before we leave. All seems good he just needs a bed [...]

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Did he say BONK!

On May 28, 2011 By

Bonking Out!
-Shawn Monsen 

Wow!  Bonking-out is a phrase that almost every one in the backpacking world has experienced.  Besides being an expression that is just fun to say, it’s something I take seriously.
With tags being drawn and hunters scrambling to get time off to go on future hunts, we should start [...]

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