Starting to seriously wonder if we are even going to get Summer in Alberta this year. It snowed yesterday, tried again today, and we are expecting a low of -16 degrees Celsius tonight. This is unreal—we are 20 degrees below our average temp for this time of year. Anyways, I was finally able to get into the garage and do a staining and cresting run. You know just testing colours, the paint brushes, and rigged up a super hick cresting machine that works decent enough. The stain I got is more on the greyer side than I was hoping but it will do. The wine red colour I got is a little off, but after adding a bit of black I was able to achieve the proper tone. I’m interested to check them in the morning to see final colours. I forgot to take a picture to share—not that it’s picture worthy in the slightest 🤣 I’m glad I did the test because I had to trouble shoot a bit—the paint was bleeding into the grain. Learned/remembered that I should use a thin layer of my polycrylic before cresting. If anyone has any tips, anything at all, put them below. I’m all ears at this point. Oh, I did film how I “poor man” splice my feathers. I’ll get that up hopefully soon.

So I somehow won a monthly giveaway here a few months ago, if you guys remember the prize was a handmade quiver built by Mr. Richardson. My favorite game animal is bears, and this quiver funnily enough is bear themed with a matching armgaurd. If you saw the pictures back then you know its beautiful but I promise you the pictures dont quite capture it. Especially the fit. It fits me like a glove, I couldnt be happier with it. My biggest issue with back quivers in the past has been how much my 32 inch arrows stick out 🙄 trees tend to pull them out for me. But not this one, I tried. It's much deeper than my bear archery back quiver. Any way enjoy the pictures from the range! Don't mind the carbons in the bow quiver, just there for the weight.

I feel like we all can agree and relate to this one 🤣

Any youth or youngster pics you folks have with some bow hunting shots of any kind of throw them up these are our 2 daughters a long long time ago shooting their bows together!