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in reply to: Smoking arrows ??? #140074
Seems like if it was white phosphorus that made the smoke, six of ’em in the hat would have ignited the hat.
We take ourselves too seriously these days. Those old timers shot for the pure joy of shooting.
in reply to: TBM Article on hunting deer with lightweight bows #139293Mayhap you’re thinking of an article in the Aug. / Sept. 2018 issue, “The Ground Game” by Jeff Stonehouse . ???
Antelope rather than deer but with a 37# Bear Temujin.
Interesting read.
in reply to: Understanding aluminum arrows help! #139271I can say without fear of contradiction; ……………….. Depends.
I am a huge fan of the 2213. I’m also running 60# @28″ w/a 27″ draw so our set-ups are not too much different. The question for you is “How are they flying for you” ?? I had to go to a heavier point and add three of those 5 grain washers to get perfect arrow flight, paper tune & bare shaft. I can get a wee bit anal about tuning to the point that I added glue lines to the back of my bare test shaft to make up for the lost weight of the fletching.
As far as a hunting shaft, again, ……………….. depends.
If you’re hunting out of a tree stand , shooting close range downward, yes a heavier arrow such as a 2117 or even a 2219 might be better. Otherwise, not a thing wrong with a 2213 for hunting if you have it flying straight.
in reply to: Smoking arrows ??? #138841The video was ‘Meet The Champs: The Wilhelm Brothers’
Well worth the watch !!! Apparently, Walt Wilhelm had a shoulder injury in the past and drew the arrow to his chest. They were both awesome shots.
in reply to: String question; #138801Ok ………………. I think that I want to learn how to do this.
One thing I need to check on, though is the equipment rules at shoots; would the cool looking two color string be considered ‘string markings’ and get me disqualified ????
in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #138769Cool video. …… The really neat thing, though is that that video could have been filmed on any range I’ve ever been on with a Trad crowd.
in reply to: Math Question; #138683Yeah, if it hadn’t been for my slide rule I never would have survived High School New Math.
in reply to: Math Question; #138681Cool !!!
Thanx.
in reply to: Math Question; #138622Way more math than I can wrap my mind around.
What I was implying was that, for example, my Super Kodiak, 60# @ 28″ shoots a 500 grain arrow 182 feet per second. VxVxWT in grains divided by that 450,240 number gives me 36.78 foot pounds. Divided by 60 pounds of draw weight ……….. the bow is 61% efficient.
On the other hand, my 60# Pearson Mercury Hunter shooting the same 500 grain arrow at 174 feet per second comes out at 33.6 foot pounds of energy and is 56% efficient.
No ??
in reply to: Bear Super Kodiak ???? #138594HEY !!!!! …………………….. Now we know who posed for that statue ‘The Thinker’. BwaaaaaHaaaaaHaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!
When I get some more free time, I’ll have to drag out the Decibel Meter and compare speed to noise. I swear, my work is never done.
in reply to: Bear Super Kodiak ???? #138579Numbers !!!!
Long as I had to drag the crono out, might as well blow the dust off of a few sticks.
Shooting (with one exception) 2213s w/160 grn points & 40 grn inserts. All bows (with one exception) are 60 ” & 60 lbs @ 28. My draw length is just under 27″. I am a wee bit anal about ‘tuning’. Wadda ya mean I can’t shoot bullet holes bare shaft paper tuning ??
Black Widow GreyBark one piece ………………………… 185 fps.
Bear Super Kodiak …………………………………………….. 182 fps.
Damon Howatt Super Diablo ……………………………… 180 fps.
Ben Pearson Mercury Hunter ……………………………… 174 fps.
Damon Howatt Hunter 62″ – 70# & 2213 w/ 165 grns total up front…………..195 fps. (For the dozen or so shots that I can manage with this one, the arrows positively scream downrange.
Interesting note; Wyatt Earp once said “Fast in fine…….Accurate is final”. My ‘go – to’ bow for this past tournament season has been the slowest of the bunch, the Pearson Mercury Hunter. Still a classic.
in reply to: Bear Super Kodiak ???? #138577THAT’S IT ??????
For no more than that Calif. Bowman Hunters runs separate divisions for ‘shelf’ and ‘elevated rest’ ????
And I’ve been told that the animals I’ve taken with my ‘curve didn’t count because ‘rests ain’t traditional’ ????
What strange creatures we be !!!!
I’m going to give the shelf about a week trial run then decide which way to go. So far I can’t fault the shelf, it just still don’t ‘look’ right.
Need to run a few shafts thru a cronograph, too. Bow seems to have a bit of snap to it !!!!
in reply to: Bear Super Kodiak ???? #138573????? I thought that the Mamba was of the Damon Howatt flavor.
Ok ………………………. Been doing some shooting with my latest orphan from the eBay Adoption Agency for Wayward Bows. Quite happy with the bow. Shooting off of the shelf, …… less so. It just doesn’t ‘look’ right at anchor. I’ve always been a rest guy w/split fingers and usually hold my own at tournaments.
So ……………………. What is the advantage of shooting off of the shelf over shooting off of a rest ?????
Thanx !!!!
in reply to: Ahhh.one of those days #138296We had a somewhat similar event at Apache Bowhunters in Globe Az. last Sunday.
It started out with a refrigerator magnet of a Scorpion. Did the shadow-graph thing with a flashlight and made a couple of templates out of cardboard, one large & one smaller. Put the template on fresh cardboard and hit the edges with a black rattle can. Viola ………. quick scorpion target. The fun part is the scoring; a large circle in the ‘kill’ for 15 points, smaller circles in the claws for 25 points and a really small circle in the tail stinger for 50 points. Anywhere in the body scored 5 points. Scoring circles were marked with small ‘dots’ . Distances were 5 to about 15 yards for the smaller targets and 15 or so yards out to 30ish yards for the larger ones. Twenty targets, two arrows per each.
Now for the fun stuff; a handful of us old farts headed out wading thru the B.S. all the way. At the shooting positions one had to decide, go for the larger / lower score circles or the smaller / higher score circles. There were a lot of ‘no score’ areas around the high score circles. More than once I shot a couple of really good arrows that were not quite good enough for a zero / zero. The guys were brutal, too. “Hey, that would have been a good shot if you hadn’t missed.”
All in all, we had a GREAT time and are looking forward to doing it again.
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