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in reply to: Can you consistently hit a paper plate? #137004
I would like to toss one more thing out for consideration.
Let’s say that you can constantly nail a paper plate 9 out of 10 at 30 yards or 8 out of 10 at 35 yards. That’s great!! But ….. there’s a profound difference between the skill level at the range on a fine sunny day and what happens out in the field with cold shooting muscles, wind, sun in your eyes, unknown yardage, and a critter that’s ready to bolt before you’re ready to shoot. I carry a 10 arrow bowquiver. (I can hear the eyebrows going up) Six hunting broadheads, two small game arrows and two expendable roving arrows. Shots taken with those roving stumpers can make a big difference when the shot’s ‘for real’.
The Kwikee quiver that I’m familiar with mounted using rubber clamps around the limbs. Your’s mayhap is a different design ??
The MAJOR problem with the original Kwikee quivers was that the broadheads were exposed and could cut person / place or thing. They came out with a hood of sorts that clipped onto one of the arrow shafts and was an improvement of sorts. When I went full retro on my Pearson Mercury Hunter I went to ‘arrow quiver’ on EBay, my favorite place to spend money I don’t have on stuff I don’t need & found a Ben Pearson spring arm type (hooded) bow quiver.
Ben Pearson made some fine bows. Truely a shame that the company died when he passed away.
If you do go with inserts & screws, lay everything out on the workbench and it will pretty much tell you where the placement should be.
in reply to: Can you consistently hit a paper plate? #136943Games ???
Well, as long as it’s getting warm outside …………….. This is more of a ‘Re-entry’ thing for a club, but if you & your shooting partner have the room & the inclination, go for it;
You’ll need something like a couple of swingset frames without the swings. Place one on the shooting line and one out about 30 or 40 yards. Hang a couple of water-balloons for targets with fishline to a couple of more balloons from the frame over the shooting line with something like a sharp wire under the balloons. The fishline should cross so that if the balloon on the left side is shot, the balloon on the right drops, and vice-versa. Now, you and your buddy stand next to each other and on the count, start shooting. Break your balloon first and your buddy gets wet. Be slow or inaccurate and you get wet. Adds a bit more challenge to shoot-offs, too.
I take my shooting very seriously but hey, if you can’t have a bit of fun now & then ……………….
in reply to: Need Help Identifying Arrows #136800Pretty sure that they’re Bear Archery’s house brand from the late 60s or early 70s.
They had an unusual printed crest.
in reply to: Need lots of help!!!!!!!! #136689The part that is of concern is the ‘ripping my lips apart’ comment.
Something ain’t right…………. that is not supposed to happen.
in reply to: Zachery Larson #136646“Earth calling Zack………Earth calling Zack…….. Come in Zack”.
Two shoots in Globe this week-end at the Apache Bowhunters Range. C’mon by & say ‘Hi’.
in reply to: Need lots of help!!!!!!!! #136637Glove or tab ?????
in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #136612Charles;
When I first saw the picture that you posted, my first thought was “I don’t remember shooting that shot”.
I’m running 2213 golds out of a zebra-wood Damon Howatt Super Diablo. Same white cap & yellow or white fletch.
It’s tournament time around here. A few more shoots in Globe and then the Trad Challenge in Southern Calif. at Conejo. Bowfishing should take off toward the end of March here in Arizona.
Shot rather well at the Calif. State Traditional Championship. Took 1st in men’s senior recurve even though the posted score is way wrong, I still got a buckle.
in reply to: Questions About Arrows #136433One other thing that you could try;
When you’re thru shooting, pick up the heavy bow and draw, hold & let down without shooting. Do that for a few ‘reps’, rest and repeat. Then drop down to the lighter bow and do the same drill. Builds strength without causing your form to go poo-poo.
in reply to: Shooting Glove #136326The visual of what could go wrong filing a nock-set is not a pretty one. I’m using a fingernail file to do mine. So far … so good.
in reply to: Shooting Glove #136324My favorite glove was one made by King & had individual adjustments for each finger. Haven’t seen them around for quite a while.
Currently shooting a Neet glove that I cut the fingers off and sewed to Velcro and a Velcro backing for the desired finger adjustments. Not yet perfect but it’s a work in progress.
One thing that I did find ……………. The brass nocking point was wearing a hole in the leather on the index finger. Building up above the nocking point with unwaxed dental floss solved that problem. (I nock the arrow below the nocking point).
in reply to: Can you consistently hit a paper plate? #136322I take a simpler approach.
Paper plate on the bales. One arrow at 5 yards. Hit the plate …… go to 10 yards. Hit the plate……. go to 15. Keep moving back 5 yards at a time until I miss one. Farthest I’ve ever gotten back was the 70 yard line. Usually miss one before that though.
Makes a good exercise to alternate with form drills.
When I was shooting wood I used to buy the shafts in lots of 100. Would go thru them and straighten, weigh and group them #1, #2 or #3. The #1s were the good stuff. The #3s…….. lets just say that just because the ground squirrel was sitting on a rock didn’t mean that he was safe.
When I used .38 casings for blunts, I used to put a couple of .22 lead pellets on the vice and flatten them with a hammer, then drop them into the case with a spot of glue to bring the weight up the same as field points. They shot surprisingly accurate for throw-aways.
#6 lead shot & a spot of glue works well, also.
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