[richard roop]

in reply to: Outgrown Bow or Wasted Time? #146525

Right now I have the brace height on the Mag 48 at 8 & 1/8th. It’s not ‘quite’ as fast as my Super Diablo, but it’s close.  Fun bow ………….. glad I got it !!!

[richard roop]

in reply to: Outgrown Bow or Wasted Time? #146518

Laura, and All;

I picked up a book on eBay, “Shooting The Stickbow” by Anthony Camera. Have not had the chance to read it page by page but have thumbed thru it a couple of times and am very impressed.  Seems to be a very well written reference manual that covers just about everything stickbow.

A fine book, well worth the coin. !!!!  I recommend  it highly.

[richard roop]

in reply to: Outgrown Bow or Wasted Time? #146516

Just to be clear, the 10 & 1/2 inch brace height was the string that came with the bow. The 3 Rivers guy suggested 7 & 1/2 to 8 & 1/2.  It’s shooting well at 8 & 1/8 but I still want to try somewhere about 7 & 3/4 just to see what happens.

[richard roop]

in reply to: Outgrown Bow or Wasted Time? #146505

Ralph;

I can’t wait to try that. !!!!  I tend to do that ‘target acquired, shoot’ thing back around my point on distance and beyond.  Thanx !!!

Not too sure about that chart.  I just had a Bear Mag. 48″ arrive. According to the chart I should be drawing about 15 inches ???

FWIW; I’ve only shot the Bear 48 a bit after making a call to the expert dude at 3 Rivers to find out what the brace height should be and making a new string. (The 10 1/2 ” brace height seemed to be a wee bit excessive.) .  Still getting to know my Lil’ Buddy but I gotta say ………….. the thing’s flat out fun to shoot.

 

[richard roop]

in reply to: Limb Glass problems with "new" bows #146385

Martin;

I think that you may be right. I brought out my back-up Super Diablo as my now #1 bow and am keeping the tired one for my new back-up.

[richard roop]

in reply to: Shooting tips on sloped terrain #146382

Jerry;

A club in So. Cal. that I used to belong to (Valley West Archers) had several targets such as you describe.

Rule of thumb was ‘Cant into the hillside’.   Doesn’t take too much & might help.

[richard roop]

in reply to: Outgrown Bow or Wasted Time? #146381

For what it’s worth;

You might keep an eye out on EBay under ‘recurve bow’.  Just might run across a Wasp in the weight range you’re interested in.  If not, ………… there are a LOT of recurves on EBay and one of them might call out to you.  A bows gotta have ‘the look’ before you can shoot it well and beauty, eye of the beholder, all of that. …………

Then …………………… once you get your new (to you) shooter, practice with it and once you’re warmed up, try a few shots with the 50#er, remembering form. Always form !! Then finish up with the lighter bow.

Good luck & keep us posted on how it goes.

[richard roop]

in reply to: Straight Fletch Article #146183

Ray;

Have you done any testing with broadheads, straight / helical fletch yet ???  I’m totally sold on straight fletch for field points but still a wee bit leery when it comes to the more important hunting heads.

[richard roop]

in reply to: Straight Fletch Article #146164

Blast from the past !!

Ran across an old Bow & Arrow magazine, March / April 1965 with a Tackle Tips column by Tom Jennings. He did some testing using a ‘Trajectrocaster’ (gotta love the names he came up with for the testing gizmos he built) shooting straight & helical fletch for distance.  He was shooting about 180 fps with his set-up and getting about 180 yards distance for both types of fletch.

“In summation …………………. There is so little difference between the performance of these two types of fletching that there is no man alive who could shoot well enough to tell the difference. “

[richard roop]

in reply to: Getting use to bow quiver. #146159

Back about in the late 70s or early 80s there was a bow-quiver called the Sidewinder.  Held about 8 arrows and was mounted out in front of the bow vertically.  Guys would fill the arrows half up with sand and …………viola !! …… instant stabilizer.

Worked well when it was calm…………. Not so much in the wind.

[richard roop]

in reply to: Quarantine Archery Tournament #146092

Ray;

I’ve got another paper plate routine where I shoot one arrow from 5 yards. If I hit the plate I move back to 10. Every time I hit the plate, I move back 5 yards. When I miss, that’s where I shoot from for a while.

One thing that I’ve learned  ………………. aiming at the whole  plate is a good way to miss the whole plate regardless of the distance.

Amazing what idle minds can come up with !!!!!

[richard roop]

in reply to: Quarantine Archery Tournament #146050

Got out this morning before the wind came up here.

Shot the round as outlined above, then added a bit to it.

For the second leg, I dropped the bonus shot, scoring the same as the first leg but moved back to 15-20 & 25 yards.

For the third leg, no bonus shot, still using the same scoring  but moved back to 20-25 & 30 yards.

Perfect score would be 955 total……………………. I was pretty happy with a 505 for the three round total.  Kind of neat to be able to have a bit of added pressure of shooting ‘for score’.  It’s paper but can only help my 3D shoots.

[richard roop]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #145953

If you think that coyotes are a problem, wait ’til you get wolves shoved down your throat like we’ve gotten here in Az. up on the Rim.

[richard roop]

in reply to: Quarantine Archery Tournament #145940

Okey Dokey;

60# Damon Howatt Super Diablo, shooting 2213s split finger.  Took three warm up shots at 20 yards.

(1)  30

(2)  45

(3)  60

(4)  40

(5)  0

(6)  0

(7)  10 ………… I took a 10 point bonus snake shot @ a half card / 1 yard.

Total 185

A fun little round !!!!!

[richard roop]

in reply to: Quarantine Archery Tournament #145908

One more suggestion, if I may;

When posting scores, note ‘curve, long or self bow, poundage, arrow material and split or 3 finger under.

This is gonna be fun !!!

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