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in reply to: Hickory Bow #61221

Tailfeather made a really beautiful hickory bow two summers ago and backed it with eastern diamondbacks. Might be it?

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in reply to: Who shoots banana fletch for hunting? #60047

I think Ill just stick with parabolics. Probably like those in your avatar. Might try out four fletch.

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in reply to: Two Tracks String Scallops #59726

I put an order in. I’ll let you know how they do on recurves and carbon hybrids. I’m like you. I can’t imagine they could be as good as a puff but we will see. The reviews are great but I did see where several people had to use all four when they were using only two of other type silencers.

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in reply to: Two Tracks String Scallops #58498

I’m a VERY strong believer in wool puffs but I have heard nothing but great things about these and they’re easier to move around for tuning purposes as well. I’ll give em a try the next time I put a new string together. My widow is due for a new one anyway.

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in reply to: Turkey Arras #57266

Tailfeather did a lot of research on this and spoke with some trad archers who had killed A LOT of turkeys. One of them said that he had never gotten a pass through on a turkey. Their feathers are much tougher to penetrate than you might imagine and their light weight bodies apparently “give” with the arrow which also reduces penetration.

My recommendation would only be to shoot big broad heads and learn where their vitals are from every angle. I plan to give it a try this year as well.

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in reply to: Fight the fat-cat land grabbers #56169

signed!

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in reply to: Southwest DIY Javelina Hunts? #55667

Smithhammer wrote: [quote=Etter1]I can’t speak for Bruce and Kevin but it was one of the coolest trips I’ve ever been on. I really only wanted to experience the desert mountains and I sure succeeded in that.

X 2!!

That country has a way of getting under your skin, doesn’t it?

If I were retired, I would spend all of January out there….every year.

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in reply to: Finicky tuners? #55662

It could be Bruce. It could also be that I battle target panic on nearly every shot so my form is not totally consistent, even though my POI somehow is. I have changed that bow a lot since you shot it and today I got it dialed in and I’m not changing a thing. I went back to 29″ arrows and moved the nock up by 1/8″. Whether I short draw now or hold at full anchor for multiple seconds the arrows fly like lasers.

I’ve gotten the carbon quieted down to near silence and I’m shooting it as well as my recurves. I just hope I can collect some turkey feathers in the next few months because I want to make my own fletchings for this bow.

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in reply to: Finicky tuners? #55415

DK wrote: I think certain bows just have certain things that don’t work for them. My elkheart is very forgving but if I put a plastic tip protector on the lower limb it shoots low. It makes it quieter but I swear it shoots low. Weird.

Gotta have a limb protector. How else can you use it as a hiking stick?

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in reply to: Got bow, arrows and running shoes? Check. Got pronghorn? Nope. #55414

It’s pretty interesting from an anthropological perspective. I know this was common practice in Africa way back when.

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in reply to: Winter Rove #55410

dwcphoto wrote: I’m fortunate that I can use a heavy adapter to get my judos up to the 300 gr of my broadheads. I tried the hammer blunts a few years ago and I think they’d be great for small game. I did not care for them for stumping as I think they just stop so suddenly that the energy comes back into the arrow. The judos sink in or penetrate in a way that seems a little gentler on the arrow. I might have been using aluminum shafts at the time and it was winter, but I destroyed two shafts the first time out with them. Good point on the deflection, though. The hammers were stopped pretty much all the time even in a shot where a judo might glance and the judos will skip off sometimes. Dc

I think the blunts would be good for smaller birds but for squirrels, rabbits, groundhogs, etc etc, I think you have to go with broad heads. I have hit a pile of squirrels with them only to have them limp away or make it up a tree.

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in reply to: Winter Rove #55324

Great pics Bruce! I actually got to do the same thing twice this week. North GA got a few inches and i went out to stump and follow some tracks. I did lose one arrow completely in the snow. It just disappeared on me.

Do you always use hammer blunts and are they better than a judo? I always have but snow is quite the rarity for me.

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in reply to: Killing Elk… #54494

dwcphoto wrote: Obsession with antlers is pretty crazy. I think a large antler spread on a deer is really a beautiful thing too, but what lengths folk go to is unreal. When I was a kid just learning to hunt, an 8 point was a super trophy and getting a 6 point was nothing to sneeze at. Along with the safety traing were the words of advice, “don’t let anybody buy a deer from you. ” That was not at all unheard of. Paying for bragging rights was crazy to me even as a kid.

I am also troubled by the food plot business. While I support habitat improvement, I struggle with planting a patch to hang a stand over. One guy I know put in a 25 x 25 foot patch of soybeans that was Round-up ready, so he could spray it and not have to pull weeds. So, you’re gonna feed that burger to your family? Yikes!

That’s what most of the foods in the supermarket are.

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in reply to: Killing Elk… #53974

Are people selling these antlers or just collectors? I imagine that if I had elk nearby, I would shed hunt all the time. I do plenty of it now for whitetails but she actual shed hunting is usually just a reason to go hiking and I stumble upon most of my finds during turkey season.

The obsession with antlers still blows my mind.

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in reply to: Southwest DIY Javelina Hunts? #53968

Arid zone A wrote: So how did you guys Do?

I am still stuck in Colorado,,,but just got the grand baby boy Yesterday the 25 Feb. Been here for 37 days, I want to go home,,,,,but I just had to renew my subscription to get back on here. Had my mail stopped. So maybe all is right with the world.

Next Year I will Hunt with you guys and the New crew.

Ernest.

If your successes are determined by bloody arrows and close encounters, we did horrible. Luckily I don’t think any of us judged the trip that way. We never laid eyes on a javelina the entire time. We did a ton of climbing and glassing and saw deer all day and every day. We covered a ton of different elevations and habitat types but could only ever find older sign. I hunted one day near Elephant Head and was in so much sign I couldn’t believe it, but it was about 2 weeks old. I don’t think they were moving much for some reason. I can’t speak for Bruce and Kevin but it was one of the coolest trips I’ve ever been on. I really only wanted to experience the desert mountains and I sure succeeded in that.

I doubt I’ll have a chance to get out there again in the next few years but this is a trip that I will repeat. I am sort of obsessed with the little boogers now and got wrapped up in the country deep.

We didn’t have any issues with any illegals but there was a LOT of sign of them. Lesson learned on the deer too. Have a deer tag in your pocket if you’re hunting out there!!!

And I’ll bring a shotgun next time too. Quail were everywhere.

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