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in reply to: carbon vs aluminum #10919
I’ve been shooting aluminum shafts since I started shooting, I started with 2018’s with 125 gr. tips, and have since gone to 2117’s with 145’s. I do plan to switch to carbons eventually, but I need to run out of aluminum shafts first, or my wife will lynch me. I think aluminums are easier to tune than carbons, but that’s just my opinion. I don’t have much experience with carbons yet, either, though.
Michael
in reply to: Ok Guys & Gals Fess Up! Let's hear them! #63410A few years ago, my uncle and I were hunting an area that we were pretty sure was a the end of the road. I had done a sweep of a little bowl, and found an old, apparently little-travelled logging road. No biggie, it was up above about 1/2 mile. He went up parallel to me and then hooked out onto the ridge to the south. As I was completing my loop (I could see the truck across a little creek), I dropped a short bugle to let him know I was almost back. From down below, a bugle answered, but it wasn’t my uncle’s bugle. I dropped my pack where I stood, and started sneaking down the hill to investigate the answer. I could tell that the bull was coming up the hill, so I cow called a couple times to coax him closer. As I stood hiding behind a small tree, I saw something brown coming through the little christmas trees on the next bench below. I got ready, nocked an arrow and cow called. Next thing I know, about 35 yards from me, on the edge of the bunch of christmas trees, out walks another bowhunter!! I thought to myself…well, at least I can call SOMETHING in, even if it isn’t an elk. I stepped out from behind my tree, waved, put my arrow back in my quiver, and headed back up the hill to retrieve my pack. My uncle listened to the whole thing from the tailgate of the truck. When I got back, he asked me if I got a shot. I said, “Naw, the guy stopped just out of range.” It was a good day for hunting. Since then, I’ve called in a couple other hunters, too, but that was my first.
Michael.
in reply to: Multitool Suggestions #63402Look into the Gerber tools, too. I used to have one, but it broke or I lost it or loaned it to somebody, and it is no more. Never had any problems with it that I can remember, and I used it daily for a few years.
Michael.
in reply to: Screw-in Abowyer Brown Bear #62837I’ll have to look into these heads. When I looked at them, they looked really nice.
in reply to: Arrow Spine #56342You’re welcome, Dennis. Also, one thing that I was told at one point on arrow weight, is that the bare minimum you should shoot out of a recurve/longbow is 10 grains per pound of bow weight minus 10%. In other words, for your 60# bow, 600 grains minus 60 grains. I don’t remember who told me this, but if you follow that rule, you should be safe down to about 540 grains with your bow. Just something to ponder on, and something for somebody with more experience and know-how to chime in on. Good shooting and good hunting.
Michael.
in reply to: Can you twist a flemish string too many times? #49508According to the guys at the bow shop I frequent, your string should (technically) be 4″ shorter than your bow’s AMO length…for example, my 58″ Grizzly takes a 54″ string, and my 52″ Kodiak Magnum takes a 48″ string. Anyway, just something to consider.
Michael.
in reply to: Super Duper Extreme FoC (SDEFoC) #49496This’s gonna be good.
in reply to: IS EVERYONE READY FOR TURKEY HUNTING? #47394I’ve taken two turkeys in the past, both with shotguns. One was a hen that fell to a load of #6 shot one fall when I was in high school, and a tom about 4 or 5 years ago that fell to a buckshot load (was all I had for shotgun ammo, left over from deer season the year before…didn’t pull the trigger on a single deer with the shotgun) he had like a 7″ beard, and was all by his lonesome which I found odd, because it was spring. This year, I want to try for one with my bow. I have a friend that said I could use his decoy if I wanted, and I have access to a few different private properties that I may be able to work. One piece of property is within earshot (and almost eyesight) of my living room window. Our spring season starts on April 16, and I’m not sure when it ends, offhand.
Michael.
in reply to: good old mushroom #47383Clay,
I tried puffballs for the first time last summer. They weren’t too bad. Kinda had a little different taste than most of the mushrooms I’ve had, but they were still pretty good. I don’t remember exactly how my wife cooked them. The ones I brought home were like 6-8″ in diameter. Found them in a pasture near where we were working one day.
Michael
in reply to: Dr. Ashby's Status? #46297I would also like to send him a card, if possible.
Michael
in reply to: Teaching the Principals of FoC (to my son) #45824Anybody ever try to make an atlatl? I did, once, when I was in high school. It worked pretty good for random arrow flinging, but I never gained much accuracy with it.
Michael
P.S. Sorry, not trying to hijack, just remembered my “long distance yard darts” out of my atlatl.
in reply to: Traditonal Archery Store?? #44765There’s a good reason I don’t ski or snow board. I’ve found that I’m allergic to anything that hurts, and pain hurts.
Michael
in reply to: Slight limb twist #44753Steve,
The bow seems to shoot just fine, and a friend of mine that shoots olympic style archery mentioned that a prior owner may have intentionally given it a slight twist because they felt it may help the bow shoot better. He said he’d heard of people doing that and coming out with a better bow in the end. When you rest one tip of the bow on the ground and look down the back side of the bow, you can see that one limb or the other is slightly off square from the other, but I’m not entirely certain which limb it is. Anyway, it seems to shoot just fine, so I’ll most likely leave it how it is. The string seems to come back to the groove just fine on its own.
Michael
in reply to: Slight limb twist #42826Thanks guys. I will see if I have that one. If not, my uncle will have it. Actually shot the bow today, and it shoots pretty well, even with the little bit of twist.
Michael
in reply to: My "Lazyboy" Buck #42079Mudd, you had me convinced it was real. I never saw the supper call coming at the end. Haha. Very well written, almost like I was there watching. Congrats on a well-dreamed hunt. Hope the dream comes true for you.
Michael.
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