Thread: Dip Seal Tool Protection?

If you're serious about hunting, bacon fat can save you a whole lot of quality field/hunting/shooting time.
We have mountain sheep & goats, black & grizzly bears, wolves, coyotes, elk, moose & cariboo,
whitetail and mule deer, cougars, lynx & bobcats. All within 20 minutes of my house.
Some nights, the dang deer are standing on my front door step, 90cm from my nose!

I shoot with Kettle River Guides and Outfitters.

Originally Posted by Robson Valley

If you're serious about hunting, bacon fat can save you a whole lot of quality field/hunting/shooting time.
We have mountain sheep & goats, black & grizzly bears, wolves, coyotes, elk, moose & cariboo,
whitetail and mule deer, cougars, lynx & bobcats. All within 20 minutes of my house.
Some nights, the dang deer are standing on my front door step, 90cm from my nose!

I shoot with Kettle River Guides and Outfitters.

How do u protect ur broadheads while enroute to ur hunting ground?

...from the sounds of it, Robson doesn't travel, he just opens his front door and

Originally Posted by wolften

...from the sounds of it, Robson doesn't travel, he just opens his front door and

Wow!! What a (dangerous) place to live!!!! We have only got Black Snakes, Brown Snakes, Red Back Spiders, Wasps, Kangaroos, Flying Foxes ( carrying horrible germs and disease) Wild Pigs and yes....Deer! A mate closer in to the village and right on the New England Highway had about 8 Red Deer come onto his place and eat his Apricots off the the tree 5 metres from his bedroom!! The rest of the critters are a little harder to find (thankfully). Its been very dry for a long time around here and that's what bought the Deer to come out into "suburbia". Apparently there was a Red Deer farm on the coast that went broke. The owner must have owed a lot of money because he just up and went, leaving the Deer in the paddocks. A bloke from up the road went over and "liberated" 2 loads of them into the bush, behind his place. That was over 25 years ago. Now, it is common to see at least 3 separate mobs of them. They are very skittish, but quite a few of them have been turned into Sunday roasts. And yep...they are good eating.

Four years of Biology field trips out of LaTrobe Uni gave me a good look at Australian wildlife.
Here, the critters are big enough that you can see them coming. If you're stupid enough to try
to torment a porcupine, you asked for it. The small OZ beasts are down-right nasty.

The broadheads. I think I can get home for a couple of days in a week or so.
I will ask my next door neighbor what he does.
Besides hunting the local stuff, he has done some very productive safaris in Africa.

I don't hunt big game any more (Rem700BDL in .30-'06.) Long walks on logging roads for upland birds
such as Grouse (3 species, depending on altitude). I hunt bison with my cheque book
on the ranch, the other side of the village. At least one side of a 2yr old for the past
12 years.

wolften: how I wish. The deer wiped out $300 in Rhododendrons one winter night.
Kicked off the wire mesh covers and browsed them right to the dirt.
Then they crapped in my front yard.

Mate, can't say I have any experience with that plastic dip stuff, but hunting with a bow, the smells you carry around with you have a huge impact. If it's meant for tools, I bet it's going to give off a smell the pigs and deer will pick up on a mile away. We may not be able to smell it but they will.
I honestly didn't bother about trying to hide my scent or that which was on my clothes and gear when I first started out. As my gear aged and and I started to smoke taint my clothes before I went out I noticed a difference. Your much further away with a long arm (I'm not that quiet when I walk around and smell like a kebab at the best of times!) Bow hunters have to take it to the next extreme. Why not make something quiet that he can slip on and off the broad heads?

I've been thinking the same. I started this thread in behalf of a hunting friend. He's interested but hasn't used it personally.

I'm thinking of making him a leather sheath of sorts to slip the broadheads into. How hard can that be? ...famous last words!

Leather is nice a quiet. I was thinking PVC but it could be noisy. He must be going over some pretty rough terrain to warrant it. Broad heads are pretty robust and the steel in them is not super hard so they don't fragment when they hit a rock. The ones I have seen come back with dents rather than chips out of the steel. But it's his call on that one.
I took me a long time to work out less gear = more fun!