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in reply to: Single Bevel, Left or Right??? #62357
The feather fleching is straight, there is no curve to them, they are the “fake ones”… so would it make a difference with single bevel ‘heads??? and what way do they spin now??? if at all???
I,ve always went with straight fletching, dont now why but there it is hehehe… They fly great//
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in reply to: Thank You tradbow.com #61247hehehe I had an British GF and I still use her words sometimes, some are better descriptions then our ‘english”, but most I use can’t be used in polite company…
in reply to: Thank You tradbow.com #61116Coolio!!! I have some killer recipes for game. It was just kinda a joke about recipes/flyfishing, this site is great because of it’s ONLY being about traditional bow topics(witness “other” sites where just about anything goes, and it’s a kerfuddle)…
Thanks again Mom (and remember, I’m the good son hehehe)…
in reply to: cold weather shooting gloves #59591None that I have tried worked for me shooting, but the ones used by race car pit crews fit tight and have great grip.
in reply to: Bare Fingers #59573Lovellj wrote: I too shoot bare finger if it’s not too cold here in CO. Or with a work glove. What ever is available. Never know what you’ll have to work with.
I have tried every glove made, not archery gloves but ones to help keep my hands warm, feel is such an important dealy for me to shoot good, and even a thin glove on my bow hand throws me off. I’ll use those little hand warmers in my sleaves so I can stick my fingers in there to keep warm… I buy them by the case hehehe… Yes, it does get coooold here in Az.
in reply to: How many times per week do you hunt? #58405Never been married, no kids… I spend around 175-200days a year hunting/scouting, about 60days of that with my recurve in hand.
I will hunt multi stands mixed with still hunting in NY, only getting two weeks there this year, last week of bow, first of r&*^e, bummer, but I’m helping an outfitter with some Wounded Warrior hunts in AZ so it’s all good.
I’ll be hunting the entire month of January2014 for Coues for myself, and WW also.
My ‘success” anymore is not based on a critter on the ground, but the total joy of the hunt, with it’s ups and downs, weight loss, lack of sleep, and sore body. Did I say this before??? Man I LOVE this time of year…
in reply to: Judging Distances #56707Mike- Rabbits with split pieces of oak from the woodpile, we would whittle them down to rounder edges and walk the field edges trying to find them sunning themselves right after milking time… Ahhh the joys of boyhood, Yaknow my friends would give me the “He has finaly lost it, wackadoo look ” if I left the bow in the truck and tried this today…. Hehehe might just take a morning off bowhunting and do it…
in reply to: Furthest shot on game? #56694[quote=”colmike IMHO if you are not getting within the sensory range of your prey and ensuring the shot is going to make a clean ethical kill then your not hunting–your sniping and murdering. No offense just my opinion.8)
Mike
With trad gear I 100% agree…
in reply to: Our Own Worst Enemy #56319I can feel your pain PTaylor, poachers are in every state and all you can do is report it to your game wardens and hope for the best.
Where I hunt in NY there’s A LOT of “road hunters”, and I report them every year, local PD runs them off, but they just return.
Here in AZ it’s more of the guys hunting in the closed areas of where I hunt, 1/4mile from the road is closed to hunting, but I find blinds/stands set-up not far from the road, one call with GPS numbers to G&F and they take care of it. Although I have had them stop me, I like having them around…
in reply to: Judging Distances #55148colmike wrote: Jim- I use the rock method–If I can throw a rock (with no parabolic loop involved) it must be in range.
hehehe ColMike, My mother used to say to me ” You get so excited about hunting, I’d bet if there was a rock throwing season you boys would be out practicing”…
Sad thing is, she wasn’t wrong…
in reply to: Furthest shot on game? #54937There is an area on our lease in NY that is a nasty, wet, deep, thick swamp, part of which was on our farm. I don’t remember how old I was,maybe early teens. I would just climb a tree, no stand, I do remember the bow, a Ben person long bow that drew like a crowbar with a string attached.
I was standing on alimb from a white oak and a little spike was eating leaves from the brush, and I made a bad shot, 1/4 toward me, almost straight down. The poor deer ran off toward the fields, and I jumped down right away and was in chase mode when the deer turned around in the middle of the field and full-bore ran right for the nasty swamp.
I drew back with the arrow pointing up like a mortor tube and let it fly, You know when you shoot a basketball and you just know it’s a swish before the ball is halfway to the hoop??? That was what I felt, and the arrow drilled into the neck hitting the spine, sending the deer into a pile.
So much wrong with the entire deal, dumb first shot selection, trying to run the deer down, sending another arrow at a running deer in some way thinking I could keep it out of the swamp…
When I walk through that area today I can still “see’ that episode and it was a turning point in my life as a hunter. I haven’t taken a shot since then on deer that I wasn’t 100% sure of it being a ‘killing’ shot ie- 1/4 away, best angle, etc…
Shot number two was more then 100yards, less then 150yards..
in reply to: Getting Twitchy #54173The land can ONLY be used for building a lake for local water use, after they bought the land(1972?)the price of $5million was deemed to high, est. Cost now is over $300million… So this slice of Heaven is going to be around for a long time…
in reply to: Getting Twitchy #54121Pine Bush in Orange County, we have around 700??acres(of a 1200ac piece) leased from the Co., land we farmed/grew-up on. Streams,swamps,hardwoods,cedar groves, a couple of corn/hay fields we give to a farmer, win-win for everybody…
in reply to: Getting Twitchy #54034heheh Doc… With the GF being a non-hunter she doesn’t understand my obsession, but she doesn’t deny me the time,expense of this addiction either… Good woman to put-up with me all these years…
getting to NY the first week of November…
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