Beyond Know How

It seems if you read the popular outdoor magazines, you keep getting the same tips for deer hunting. Well, here’s one you probably won’t read about. When there is a full moon during the night, hunt during the middle of the day. Deer will feed during the light of a full moon, assuming there is no cloud cover, and rest at first light and last light. But they don’t bed down all day. Between 11 and 3 they will get up, stretch and grab a couple mouthfuls and lay back down. They won’t move far, but they will move around a little bit. You’ll miss your chance if your asleep back at camp! If you can sit all day, this would be even better. But if you’ll hunt during the midday times, you’ll start seeing more and more deer.

Chronograph watches have been a particularly useful addition to the regular timepiece. Us humans are obsessed with calculating, measuring and managing things and chronograph technology has enabled us to do that with much more ease and precision than before.

There are two areas of life that have benefited greatly from the invention of chronograph watches: Sports and Military. As you can imagine the human need for competition runs deep and expresses itself through sports. With the chronograph watch you can measure and compare the speeds of runners, swimmers and so forth and create a very competitive spirit of improvement among participants. You could say that the invention of the chronograph has done powerful things for the improvement of athletes who compete against times now, rather than people.

Military has also benefited a lot from chronograph watches as they can now hold their members to set standards and sift out low performing men and women. Making sure that members of the military meet a certain high standard of fitness has and will continue to save lives in the field of duty.

Obviously the people who will value chronograph watches the most are anyone who wants to measure and time an event. The more data you can collect about something of importance the easier it will be to identify places to improve upon and that’s what the chronograph watch does, spurs improvement.

photo credit: bionicteaching

This driver had it’s fair share of ups and downs. While looking for single golf clubs I first picked up this driver when I first started to play golf, I hit it fairly well with that hacking swing and thought this was the club. But then a good drive every now and then was like magic to my eyes, but now since I have improved down to about a 5 handicap, this driver just doesn’t cut it. Very inconsistant. I installed a Proforce65 gold shaft with stiff flex. It helped keep the ball in the ballpark but if I tried to muscle it, it would result in the weirdest hook I have ever seen, very embarassing. Also, you can’t feel the head of the club on the backswing or downswing, so it’s very difficult to get the feel for the club. When I hit this driver good, I hit it about 275, that’s about as far as I can nail it. But only about 3 times a round that would happen. I don’t know where these guys who shoot in the 100’s get saying they hit the ball 300+ yards. They must have horrible short games.