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Patrick wrote: [quote=LimbLover]For some reason, I couldn’t find the blue course. 😯
The blue course was on the other side of the road from all the other courses. It was BY FAR the muddiest. Well…I didn’t shoot the orange one, so I don’t know that for certain. The orange and green courses were the tough ones for me to find. I should’ve broght a GPS 😆
I really liked the orange course. Very cool. Laid out almost like miniature golf. The green course was always too jammed up due to the nature of the targets – the elevated stands and what not.My newbie buddy was having a hard time on the red course. He broke 3 arrows on that one alone by hitting trees. Lost another in the mud behind that damn Baboon. 😆
Fortunately one of the vendors had an arrow bin full of hodge=podge fletched arrows and I found a few 2117s that got him through the day.
For some reason, I couldn’t find the blue course. 😯
That’s a bummer. I wish I would have because we did a whole lot of waiting in line and not enough shooting. That was the only downer of the whole event. Too many people shooting 2-3 arrows per target with people waiting in line.
in reply to: Moving from a 2 to a 3 blade? #20908My system is as follows:
1) I run the head backwards down a large 16″ file evenly, rotating after 10 strokes with light/medium pressure. I do this to reshape the edge to the angle I want for easier touching up later. I think Snuffer’s are originally at 60 degrees?
2) When there are no longer any dents or anything on the edge and it is sliding fairly smooth I switch to a wide 2-sided sharpening stone and lubricate with a sharpening compound. I run on the coarse side first then switch to the fine. I repeat until the head slides with ease on the fine side.
3) I finish with a Montec diamond stone which also has two sides of varying grit. I use the finer side until the head is shaving sharp.
I’m in the market for a hunk of leather for a strop right now. It seems tedius but all of this combined takes me about 10 minutes a head and I only hunt with 3.
FYI..my Snuffers are 100g but I use a 75g steel adapter and may add a 50g brass insert.
in reply to: Moving from a 2 to a 3 blade? #20775BRUC wrote: Is it possible to get a three blade broadhead as sharp as a two blade?
I sharpen a 3-blade easier than a 2 after about 2 weeks of dedicated practice. I finally have a system to get a snuffer hair-shaving sharp.
FYI..I’m not ever going to be hunting dangerous game or anything larger than a Michigan Whitetail so I think I’m going to be just fine! lol
in reply to: Moving from a 2 to a 3 blade? #20220Dave, what heads on the market today have a Rockwell hardness of 50 and how do you know?
in reply to: Moving from a 2 to a 3 blade? #19044Thanks Butch!
Well someone finally sat me down and showed me how to get a 2-blade nice and sharp as well. I’m really torn between using the Snuffer and the Zwickey Delta 2-blade.
in reply to: Gonna mozy over to the Libary #18625Its all about marketing folks. They are now one big infomercial with a kill shot because that is all most people want to see.
Byron Ferguson wrote “Become the Arrow” Jon. You may have a hard time finding it under Byron Jones.
That is a good book. I just finished it – very thin, very fast read. I highly suggest reading “Hunting Stories” by Fred Bear if you are looking in the library. Good luck, I haven’t found much.
in reply to: Got another one addicted to tradbows! #17765Just as an update.
I took my buddy Brent to Wilderness Dreams in Sand Lake, MI and we shot bows and the “shit” all morning lol.
He didn’t know it but I was there at the behest of his wife as she is looking to get him a bow for Father’s Day and his birthday on the 26th.
We got his draw all figured out and he is really happy with an older Grayling made Bear Tigercat – 56″, 50#. Its in near mint condition. A beautiful bow.
I’m not a recurve guy but he is shooting great. I had them hold it for him until his wife buys it but I think he is going to be really really happy. Now I just need to get him some 2016 arrows.
in reply to: Simmons Land Shark or Interceptor broadheads #15159Cottonwood has. I just got 3 of the Landsharks off him in a trade and I’m SERIOUSLY thinking of hunting with them this year. My only concern is that they are a 125g screw in so I have some 50g brass adapters coming in to add some weight.
The concave edge is wicked sharp and easy to touch up.
Byron Ferguson uses the Interceptors. I would go with them due to the 3-1 ratio length to width.
in reply to: New Bow Day – Bama Royal #13026Thanks Man! She is an Angel – only slightly stinkier lol.
Same experience here. Nate wanted to replace my first Hunter because he mixed the finish too hard and it started flaking a bit. I simply had him refinish it and its perfect. He wanted to replace my 2nd Hunter because I wanted horn on the tips and the caramel horn he chose turned black when sanded and he wanted to replace THAT bow. I declined and he still says I can send it back whenever to have it replaced with phenolic!
Its amazing how far he has come since December 2009. Since buying my first bow I’ve seen him add at least 8 other woods to his options, horn/phenolic limb tip options, a takedown option, veneers, the Royal, etc. Hell I’ve even got the first Hunter with the extreme cut-to-center riser! lol
That is incredible growth in a short period of time. There is a lot of Bama buzz too. I was the only one talking about his work forever. Its nice to have friends! lol He needs to put an ad in Tradbow.
in reply to: Bowyers: Brace Height Question #13014Good Ol’ Pat…pushing the envelope. lol
It should at least be on the bowyers website. I see no reason to clutter up the limbs with more writing especially with something that is “recommended”.
I only want to know the maximum recommended brace height to avoid hurting the bow but: Max BH 7″ is a little more than I want on my limb in addition to everything else that is on there.
in reply to: Eclipse Broadheads #10815Dave that was a great article!
A friend of mine took a deer with an Eclipse 2-blade model last year. He said it worked great!
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