<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks for all the info. After =
sanding down=20
and wiping the inside of the stock with Tung Oil, I have decided to use=20
it. It darkend the stock perfectly and brings the grain right =
out. I=20
am surprised as I have used tung oil on bows int he past and did not =
like=20
it. Ten coats should do it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks again for all your =
help,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Frank V. =
Rago</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:35:08 -0500
From: hikingonthru@cs.com
Subject: MtMan-List: Top 3 Mtn Man skills.
>I would like to do a little opinion poll of those on the list as to what< >each of you feel were the top three skills a mountaineer could have to< >enable him to survive in the Rockies year round between 1810-1840.<
That is a very well-put question. I would imagine that it was more of the top three "tasks" he had to accomplish...these would be:
1)Finding water
2)Putting food in his belly
3)Sheltering himself from elements as needed
Same as anyone who goes in the wilderness today needs to accomplish. These are the basic human needs.
All while keeping his hair attached to his head and the air moving in and out his lungs. So many skills had to be emplyed simultaneously: observing nature, observing for man sign, keeping gear dry and in working order, paying attention to what his body was telling him, caring for his animals, making fire, marksmanship, watching the lay of the land...and on and on.
And that is just to keep himself ALIVE so he could be about the business of pulling beaver out of streams.
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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:59:07 -0800
From: "larry pendleton" <yrrw@airmail.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Egyptian cotton
Magpie wrote ;
Right around 4 pounds...mebbe a bit less
Thanks for the info.
Pendleton
" Youth, is wasted on the young ! "
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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:00:47 EST
From: SWcushing@aol.com
Subject: MtMan-List: =?UTF-8?Q?toboggans?=
Klahowya boys,
I just finished making some bindings for me snow shoes, and fixen to go out=20
and git frost bit. It's sometimes easier to pull a sled loaded with gear=20
rather than in a back pack, so I'm looking for a wooden toboggan. Anyone got=
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of ash, around 4' long that looks like it may work... Also see a wooden sled=
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snow...=20
Ymos,
Magpie=20
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 04:40:39 +0000
From: "don secondine" <dmdhsecondine@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: toboggans
Dadburn Magpie,
You have enuff snow for snowshoes? Where you live? We haven't had snow worth
a plug this year in N. W. Ohio. I enjoy huntin' in it.
