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in reply to: Is some pickin' okay here? #62618
Oh yeah..many times. I can’t afford anything in there though. I bought a few electrics in my time there.
in reply to: Is some pickin' okay here? #61014Very cool George. I’m a picker too. Blues, folk. I just picked up the mandolin and love it too.
in reply to: Kalamazoo Traditional Bowhunters Expo #49900I should be there too. However…my first born is due on May 3rd. She’ll only be a month old and I don’t know how crazy the wife is going to be about me staying at Compton for a few days.
I may be able to come down on that Saturday with a friend and drive back or maybe I could get my Dad to come down with me and my Mom can make the trip and spend some time with her Granddaughter at home.
in reply to: Kalamazoo Traditional Bowhunters Expo #38406You wouldn’t have believed it. I was there from 9-3:00 and I couldn’t stop at a booth without getting claustrophobic. There were at least 10 people in line every time I wanted to try a bow.
in reply to: Kalamazoo Traditional Bowhunters Expo #38267My Dad and I had a great time. My one regret is that it was my little brother’s birthday and he goes to WMU. We only could stay until 3:00. Honestly I would have made some financial blunders if I would have stayed their longer.
Robin, it was so packed I didn’t even have a chance to say hello. I kept feeling like I was getting in the way at every booth. I already have a subscription and one of the new TBM hats so I was pretty much set! Awesome stuff!
Bummed I didn’t get to meet you Pat. I should have figured out a place to meet up with you. I didn’t think it was going to be that big!!!
I ended up coming home with a nice GFA wool pullover, one of those new Eclipse Posi Grips for my longbow, and 100 RW shield cut feathers. There was sooooo much stuff.
It was a trip to see the bows you hear so much about in person.
I have another Bama Longbow coming and was not in the market for a bow but it was fun none-the-less.
in reply to: Arrow Selection #41569Hiram wrote: Your 2219s will work if they are 31 long and a 175 grain point. This is with FF string. Dacron they should be 32 long.Way too stiff otherwise! You will shoot to the left and bump off your riser. Seriuos about your Longbow? Correctly spined arrows are a must!
I take back my statement about the 2216 and 2219 as well. I should have read more carefully and paid more attention to the OPs bow…I apologize!!!
I’ve got a 60# longbow now and I’m still shooting my 31″ Easton 2117 with 145g tips. A little fast but they shoot fine. I shoot the same setup out of my 45# recurve. My longbow is not a reflex deflex.
in reply to: what bow for long draw length #41565Wow I thought I was big: 6’4″ with a 30-31″ draw.
A 62″ recurve has worked great for ME but I just bought a 65″ longbow and I’ll probably never look back. I actually jumped up 10# in pull from my recurve and I can hardly feel the difference – pulls like butter.
I’ll keep my recurve but my longbow (not even an expensive model) feels better than any recurve I have shot.
in reply to: Arrow Selection #36495Danny Klee wrote: MedFlyPos,
I have a Martin ML-14 too. It’s 70# at 28″. I love that bow. I have tried wood, aluminum, and carbon. My favorites are the Carbon Express Terminators 4560’s. They fly straight and very flat. I’m not much of a fan of aluminum but that’s only personal preferance. I love wood but because I have about 4 dozen spined for the bow, they are quite big in diameter so they don’t fly quite s flat as the carbons at anything further than 15 yards. But…nothing is as beautiful as some crowned, crested and well made wood arrows. In fact I am thinking about making some nice wood arrows and next year practicing with only them to use for hunting next year. I would love to harvest a white tail using my own hand-made wood arrows. By the way, making your own wood arrows can be very addictive!!
Dan
I really want to start making my own wood arrows too. BTW, the Terminator 4560 is an AMAZING shaft and is stiff enough to cover a lot of different #. I had six of them and they were rock solid. Expensive as hell though.
in reply to: Arrow Selection #33052Greatreearcher wrote: I absoluetly hate aluminum. For several reasons. First it bends, I hate that, after it bends it is useless. Third it clinks, if you bump them with something else metal, zippers, backpacks buttons. The do fletch easier than carbon. But seriously carbon is like my go to. I have shot everything modern, basically. Shot 2216’s, and xx75’s. That was before realizing this was a waste of money. Then I went to Easton axis, great shafts, but too light. Then beeman ICS bowhunter, then to Beeman MFX classics, and the classics are by far the best shaft I have ever shot(never shot grizzly sticks) but now I am shooting Beeman ICS bowhunters again. They are better than aluminum, and wood together and are cheaper. They are 53 buck a dozen bare. And they are effective. Carbon is the only shaft, I repeat the ONLY shaft I have ever shot that hold up to actual hunting. Coming from a guy that spent every single day of rabbit season(minus like a week all together) chasing them with my recurve. Lets just say I tested them vigorusly. I suppose it depends mainly on where you hunt. I know that if you miss and hit was looks like dirt, there is definaly rocks. So while missing at least a rabbit a day for the entire four month season. I went through aluminum arrows by the dozens. I totally understand why you would not want to spen 114 for a dozen MFX classics, that is why I dont shoot them anymore, althought they were tought as nails. I have missed wabbits, and hit pure concrete blocks before, and the arrow came away clean. Try doing that with aluminum or wood. I know that wood likes to break when you hit a piece of hard wood! And aluminum shatters when you hit rock. Just speaking from experience.
To each his own. You obviously have your experiences. Here are mine.
I started out with Carbons. Gold Tips, ICS Hunters, Carbon Express Terminators, and my Dad shoots Easton Axis.
I am an aluminum guy. I’ve been stumping and squirrel hunting with the same 3 XX75 2117 Eastons since October. I have yet to bend or shatter one out of a 50# bow and I’ve put them into petrified birch trees with a judo.
I’ve bent one aluminum shaft and shattered one on a piece of granite in a riverbed at a 3D shoot. I’ve shattered 3 Carbons.
I will agree that aluminums make more noise…I just don’t carry them anywhere but my rest. If you have a bowquiver than there is no problem. A waste of money? Definitely not. You pay $5.29 for a XX75 shaft most places. You pay $8.00 a shaft for most Carbons. I can get 12 Eastons for the price of 6 Carbons and I personally haven’t busted enough arrows to justify paying the extra money. However…that is just me.
I DO like the fact that carbons are either perfectly straight or they SHATTER rather than bend. BUT..broke is broke to me. Don’t make it sound like they bend like a piece of licorice though. That isn’t the case. Give Easton more credit than that 🙂
I do agree with you that the Beman ICS are the best Carbon for the money. A SOLID shaft and cheaper than the CE. That was the last shaft I shot and I put one THROUGH a sapling tree and was able to retrieve it without any damage.
in reply to: Arrow Selection #31769Patrick wrote: [quote=LimbLover]If you are going aluminum: I would suggest a 31″ XX75 2216 or a 2219 with a 145g point.
I would buy one of each, fletch it up and see which shoot better.
-LL
I’ve gotta say that I think you’d be setting yourself up for some frustration using only 1 arrow of each. I would not recommend doing that.
Well I would recommend buying 3 of each and shooting them in groups to look at how they group but I wanted to save you some money.in reply to: PAYING FOR PERFORMANCE OR NAME? #31036Snuffy wrote: Limblover — Boy is this good news! Those Maddog bows are really priced right and I love the idea — admitting openly –of making a commercial custom bow “from scraps of other bows.” Way cool! 8) It seems almost weekly someone comes on here and says he’d like to take up traditional but doesn’t have $1200 for a bow and what’s the most he can get for the least money? I’ve always pointed to the excellent and reliable Great Northern Field Bow, dirt cheap for the quality but tops out at 45#. Now here’s one in that price range that goes to #55! All we need now to become Maddog fans is a couple of honest bow-performance and customer-service reports from experienced shooters — folks like you who have shot lots of bows and thus know good from bad from mediocre. Having built a bunch of bows myself I don’t understand how anyone can build and sell a bow that cheap and still make a profit. Must be love,not money! 😀 More power! snuffs
LOL, well I’ll do the best I can. I have only been shooting since May but I’ve seen, tried, and talked bows with a little of people. I’m hoping to get a lot of trials at that Kalamazoo show here in January.
Pickings are slim locally unless someone already owns one.
From what I have heard from Tradgang and Leatherwall, Mike (from Maddog) is a great guy and has incredible customer service. I’ve heard nothing but good things about his youth bows but I haven’t heard anything about the Mutt yet. Price is right though. If I can unload a guitar – I’m ordering one asap.
in reply to: Arrow Selection #30734If you are going aluminum: I would suggest a 31″ XX75 2216 or a 2219 with a 145g point.
I would buy one of each, fletch it up and see which shoot better.
-LL
in reply to: PAYING FOR PERFORMANCE OR NAME? #30730I’m literally surrounded by Black Widows where I live. 5 of my friends shoot widow longbows or recurves.
I think it is more of a pride thing. I will admit that the Widows seem to be faster and have more kinetic energy than most bows I’ve seen and shot.
I would personally never pay more than $350 for a bow.
Honestly, I think the Check Mate’s are damn nice bows. I don’t think you are going to be moving “Up” in quality by any means.
My next bow is going to be a Mad Dog Mutt from http://www.maddogarchery.com
in reply to: Cold Hands #30726As a fellow Michigan hunter…I hear you!
My Dad and I were having the same problem. On Black Friday we found a set of Mossy Oak gloves – the flip top fleece ones. The mitten part flips open to expose half-finger gloves and uses magnets to keep the mitten out of your way when folded down.
The thumb tips also flip in this manner. They were $14.00 and you can fit a glove through them if you shoot with a glove.
I shot for 3 days with these gloves and they are the best solution I have found. Super soft on your face.
If you don’t like that, I would buy a muff.
in reply to: Target Panic #19948This is going to sound kind of corny…but have you ever seen that movie “For the Love of the Game” with Kevin Costner?
Its a baseball movie about a Tigers pitcher so I assume you probably have seen it Patrick. lol
For those who haven’t, Costner is a veteran pitcher who is pitching a no hitter and reflects on his career and relationship up to that point as he does it.
As he is pitching the no-hitter he always says “Clear the Mechanism” and everything: noise, thoughts, etc fades away when he says it and he focuses on the mitt.
I say that in my head before I draw and it works every time. As a newbie I had a real hard time with target panic and hitting my anchor. This absolutely helps me.
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