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in reply to: Keep string from brace height change #55086

Clip the ends together, paper clip, binder clip, or tiny little spring clamp. Always remeasure upon reassembly with a bow square to make sure though. You’re checking brace and nock height. Wouldn’t want to put the string on upside down and not notice it.

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in reply to: Practice #27630

Get yourself out to a shoot with some friends.

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in reply to: Dose this happen to any one else? #41985

I first noticed that effect when I was shooting compound. Now that I shoot stickbow it does happen, but a lot less often. It has to be a REALLY good day for me.

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in reply to: Kinetic Pulse #10001

Notice that the article first came out in 2000, yet, there is nothing else out there concerning this idea. There is a reason why this idea never went anywhere. Its basic premise that you can arbitrarily multiply momentum and KE and thereby derive a relevant relationship is fatally flawed,
Look at the first example where the author “derives” a bullet applying a force of 15984.6 pounds to a target. Personally I’m going to stick with standard Newtonian physics where for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. What do you think would happen if your rifle applied a force of 15984.6 lbs. to your shoulder every time you fired?
Sure, its all very logical, and the math sure is impressive. Too bad its all based on a false premise.
Yes its applications would be severely limitted…..To an alternate Universe!:lol:

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in reply to: How do you find your arrows? #57774

I tried to train my dog to find my lost arrows. He was really good at finding them. And even better at chewing them up into little pieces.

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in reply to: Arrow tuning #57017

Did you ever try the second nock set? One above and one below the arrow nock?
As you cut 1/4″ at a time, how much total have you wound up cutting off?
When everything went totally pear shaped and you stsrted getting the crazy nock high, did everything also get real noisy with a rather obnoxious sound like a click, clank, clunk, or whack type sound?
If so you have accidentally gone too stiff, the tail of the arrow is striking the riser making that sound, and although that situation will in general give a false weak reading, it none the less totally destroys arrow flight in all sorts of interesting (and confusing and misleading) ways.

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in reply to: Arrow tuning #52813

Paper tuning while shooting with a finger release can sometimes be problematic. I would reccomend try 2 things. In this order, 1), add a second nock set. Check the results of that and if still no go then, 2) try bare shaft tuning as outlined here:http://www.bowmaker.net/index2.htm

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in reply to: screw-in adapters for woodies #35406

Foot your woody with a sleeve made of an aluminum arrow shaft and use the appropriate size shaft insert to accept whatever it is that you want to screw on to it. You’d have to double check but I think a 2314 will slide over a 11/32 woody shaft.

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in reply to: How do you find your arrows? #30684

I made an arrow rake out of an old 2219 shaft with a rod jammed down into it and with a hook bent into the rod. I use it to help look for my friends arrows.
Funny story one year we were shooting the State Field and the Ladies were in the group ahead of us. On one of the long shots we noticed they were all behind the target hacking through the weeds looking for arrows. We’re all friends so naturally we had to start razzin’ them. “Hey! Whatcha doin’? Hoeing the garden? Is that a weed whacker you got there? Etc. etc.” So when we step up to shoot the same target one of points out, “I don’t care what you do or how you shoot, but you realize that from now on, if anybody misses, we don’t even THINK about stepping behind the target for ANY reason. If you lose an arrow, too friggin’ bad! You just gotta leave it!” I think I might have lost an arrow or two that day.

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in reply to: 3D deer recommendations #30364

Rinehart targets
http://www.rinehart3d.com/

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in reply to: How do you find your arrows? #30353

I find my arrows stuck in the target. That’s usually the easiest way.

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in reply to: bow strings #56776

Steve Graf there actually has the way of it. Endless, Flemish, whatever, just get it together to make your own stuff like strings. Never have to worry again about waiting weeks on end only to get something that’s going to be wrong anyway. Kind of a pain and an expense to get stsrted but it will pay off pretty quick.

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in reply to: 10+#s off really? #28867

Well yeah. Best would be to try and avoid that, but that happens too. If you begin to suspect that that is going on, then do something to confirm how your own scale is reading. And if it’s off across its scale, correct accordingly. Use several different known weights to see what’s happening. Who knows? Maybe the bowyer’s scale was off? Just confirm your own reality.

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in reply to: 10+#s off really? #27261

I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. Just that if the bow seems off of its spec, then try duplicating the AMO method as best as possible. If that doesn’t at least get you a number that is close to how the bow is marked, then the manufacturer screwed up somehow. Either they didn’t chose to use the AMO method, or just a plain ol’ brain fart. If its off then its off, and the bow is what it is. And given that there is no fixed “wall” to draw against like a compound, any stickbow can be drawn to most any “reasonable” length, like 24″ to 30″ and that is why it is always best to confirm what the bow is doing when YOU are the one shooting it.

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in reply to: 10+#s off really? #26757

You’re more than welcome. Oh, and flattery will get you everywhere with me! 😀
You know, actually that whole AMO draw weight and draw length thing seems to only cause problems, like what you saw. Did the bowyer use it? Did the shooter use it when measuring the bow? If it was used was it done correctly? Etc. etc. That is why when discussing tuning and arrow selection I always try to stress that the shooter really should figure out what the bow is pulling at THEIR draw. Don’t trip how the bow is specced. What the shooter needs to know is reality. Eventually we all seem to pick up a few bows here and there. The money spent now on a hand held spring bow scale will save you a bundle later on money NOT spent on buying the wrong arrows.

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