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in reply to: shrewbow #45517

For those still young enough not have already have their lives set in stone, that’s solid advice. We can’t have everything, so choices must be made. I too choose hunting. 😀

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in reply to: A few more photos. #45515

Thanks, George. I’ll try not to be jealous.

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in reply to: selfbow #45512

I agree with all three above. Back only if necessary, or yhouwant it for decorative purposes, like a snake skin.

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in reply to: A Day in the Woods… #39596

Ahh, seldom-seen Patrick! Last time you showed up for a few posts after a long absence, as I recall, several of us welcomed you back. Then you disappeared again. So I won’t welcome you back this time in case I have bad internet breath, but seriously do hope that whatever has kept you away is a positive distraction, and if not, is done with. Ho-ho-homer.

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in reply to: How much is too much EFOC? #38542

Crystalshrimp — I’m no expert but I do read most everything here and in the magazine about FOC, and have worked up arrows to 25% using carbon shafts, but can’t yet hit 20% with wood. Seems the standard advice before going to stiffer shafts is to incrementally add point weight and see how far you can get that way without losing perfect flight. If you have 2″ of shaft out front right now, you have room to cut back around an inch, which could allow more weight up front without overspining. But then, shorter shafts are harder to get EFOC with. I don’t know about you, but if you have perfect flight and 21% FOC I think I’d be content right there, unless the overall arrow weight is light and you’re looking to chase moose or elk or such. I’ve found no way to determine these things without expending some shafts in experimentation. You might get more and better answers to this if posted in the Ashby forum, not sure. H

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in reply to: Fence rows, camoflauge trees and creeks. #38534

Gorgeous, George! (You should be old enough to get the pun. If not, wrestle with it for a while.) That country looks to have turkey and whitetail writ all over it. Enough depth to the creek for fish? PA paradise, thank you. Homer

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in reply to: Montana or Wyoming #31910

Ireland — Until recently at least, the Salmon area hadn’t succumbed to the inflated land prices of similarly great western places, and it’s amid some excellent hunting and fishing country. The politics are extremely right, but that the way with most of the rural West these days. I agree that WY, with its market-hunter energy development mentality, would not be on my personal list. My family has even been forced to give up annual camping vacations there. Entire towns, like Pinedale (previously a hidden gem imho) are taken over by transient work forces and all the social disruption that sort of invasion brings. Western MT gets colder with more snow, while eastern MT has unvelievable winds. Another thing about small MT towns that may put some folks off is the near-constant sound of trains and their whistles, since most of those towns were built alongside train tracks and the trains still run. They all have great sporting ops, though as Dave says the abundance of designated wilderness in norther ID puts it ahead of the pack in my books. You would be doing yourself a great disfavor to buy a place for the rest of your life without first taking a good long “blue highways” tour of the entire area. I trust that further confuses you. 😛

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in reply to: Hunting & Spirituality #27980

Erik — Which side of Glacier, east or west? For many years the North Fork Valley was like a second home to me. The road in there is still unpaved and no electricity. Huckleberries and morels always, and the “gamiest” place this side of Alaska. Them’s my kind of folks, the North Forkers, living in peace with the bears and wolves, and I do mean with them. Sure miss that place and envy you growing up there, either side (although Baggs is an acquired taste that few folks ever acquire). And of course there is south: Whitefish, Kalispell, Columbia Falls. Geeze, I have to quit thinking about it …Homer

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in reply to: Colorado BHA rendezvous #26887

Josh, if you had a good time last year, when I hear it rained almost nonstop, it should be twice as good this year with fair weather (fingers crossed) which will also bring out more fair-weather folks like me. 😆

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in reply to: Flint #26886

Jim — I’ll take bets, based on past performance, that our beloved Webmother, Robin, will be along soon with just the info you need. Meanwhile, welcome to the tradbow house, a fun and enlightening place to hang out. Homer

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in reply to: Neck knife conversion… #25846

Not trying to rain on this picnic, but just wondering if in some uptite urban places a neck knife worn inside a shirt might be considered a concealed weapon? But then, I guess few guys wear them all the time, like I do the Swiss Army knife in a sheath on my belt. Cute little things, for sure, but since the days of dogtags I can’t stand to have anything hanging around my neck. So I carry my small extra knife in a sheath sewn to my armguard. Lots of ways to skin a deer, I reckon.

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in reply to: Practice #25842

Yep, roving is the next best thing to hunting, and a relatively painless way to take long walks. You can also spice up your backyard practice sessions and eliminate all those wasted back-and-forth steps by setting up two targets at opposite ends of the shooting area and ping-ponging between the two.

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in reply to: Help identifying bow #22233

Interesting white — what, inlays? And cool stitching on the handle grip. If it doesn’t have any writing on it, it could well be the product of a skilled shade tree bowyer. Good luck unraveling the mystery. One avenue would be to try and backtrack to the dead person the bow belonged to and talk to his descendants if you can locate any. Maybe they will have memories.

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in reply to: My Latest Project #14534

Steve — Whatever you do (so far as I know :P) is good by me. I too just made up a dozen Surewoods (got mine from Dave Doran, Archery Past, very straight, super service and good price). Not being a big fan of painted shafts I really like the way you’ve set these off with dark stain behind the minimal cresting. I “footed” mine with 2.5″ sections of aluminum shaft to convert them to screw-ins, which makes them ugly and me be perceived as “unartistic.” And fair enough. But I now have EFOC you’ll never get otherwise with woods, and a broader array of points to choose from. Would be even better if someone marketed alum external footings with a realistic wood-grain pattern (2413 fits 11/32 perfectly) and brass inserts for strength and added weight. But I apologize and don’t mean to pirate your thread … the Surewoods just got me going, which I consider a great improvement over P.O. cedar, for their lightness and strength. May you slay many Bambis with these simple yet handsome arrows. Ho-ho-Homer

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in reply to: waterproofing #9955

Jembo — you’ll get used to ol’ Dave. His sense of humor is, well, different. 😛 And don’t all X-Okies talk that way?:lol:

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