[MontanaFord]

in reply to: String questions #17807

Dan,

I don’t have a lot of experience with different strings, but I’ll try and shed what little light I have on the issue at hand. B-50, I believe, is the material used to make a Dacron string that can be used on older bows. It has more stretch than Fast Flight. Fast Flight is a newer material, and while I don’t know exactly what it will do to the older bows, I know it’s not good for them.

You mentioned flemish. My understanding is that it’s just a style, or way, of building the string. It’s actually a flemish twist. The other style of string that I know of is the endless loop, but I don’t know anything about that, really.

Hope this helps a little bit. Even a pen light in the dark of night can give you an idea where you’re headed. LOL. Anybody else out there that knows more, feel free to chime in.

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: Advantage of a longer draw…. #17804

Looper wrote: Can anyone help me figure out a problem? Let’s say that my brother wants to shoot the same weight arrow as I do at the same speed as mine out of the same type bow, but he has a 2.5 inch shorter draw. What pound bow will he need? My bow is 48# @ 30.5″ (Hill longbow).

I assume your brother doesn’t have a bow yet, since you asked what poundage he would need. He would probably want something a little heavier, because his draw weight on your bow would probably be a touch under 45# at his length. I would say, and this is just guessing, that he would want something between 50 and 55# at his length. From there, you can most likely tune the bow to the arrows by playing with brace height and nock point.

The other option, and better in my opinion, is for him to buy the bow that is best suited to him, and set up his own arrows for his bow.

Even if you have two bows that are supposed to be identical, they will most likely tune differently and require slight differences in the arrows used. It’s much like two drag racing cars that are built exactly identical. One will most likely perform differently than the other. Just how it goes. No matter how close of tolerances we use, there is always something different. Different piece of wood, different density of arrows from one to the other, etc, etc.

Good luck.

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: HOW SHARP IS SHARP ENOUGH? #16646

Ron,

Thanks for dropping in and giving us some food for thought.

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: The Silent Arrow #16246

Richie,

When you wrap your arrow, how many wraps around the shaft do you take with your material? How much of a raised spot does a person want? The thickness of a few sheets of paper? Or??

Thanks for the pictures, too.

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: 2 Blade double bevel and 3 blade vs single bevel #16077

Ron,

I agree with you on all of the above. 2 blades definitely break through easier. I got lucky on the last deer I shot with a Wensel. She took a couple hops and stood on the edge of the trees looking around like “What just happened?” and then just walked away. I found her about 20 yards back in the sticks on an old grown up logging road. She could have bailed for the other side of the ridge, and I’da had a hard time finding her, because I hit her about mid-way up the body, and she basically bled out inside her chest cavity. Almost no blood on the ground. A few specks here and there, and I was looking for her in the dark with a flashlight.

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: The Silent Arrow #16071

Ok, this all sound good and fun, but I’m more of a visual person. Could somebody PLEASE!!!!????? post a picture of a turbulator so I can see what in the name of quiet arrows ya’ll are talking about???? LOL

I’d REALLY REALLY appreciate it!!!

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: whats everyone favorite BOW ? #15094

I have two, right now. My first bow is a 55# Bear Grizzly, and I’ve had it for just over 8 years, thanks to my uncle, who got me into traditional archery. The other is a early/mid-70’s Kodiak Magnum marked as 55x#, which I’m told the “x” means +/- a pound or so. Both bows shoot really nice, and I can go back and forth between them with the same arrows. I really just like shooting any bow that’s traditional.

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: Bear blade and weapons discussion… #15092

That is a beautiful knife. How long is the blade and what’s the overall length? The sheath looks really sweet too. We’re fortunate to have the option to carry a pistol here in Montana, but if I had to, a knife like that would be a top choice. Very well crafted.

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: Let's build a selfbow #11511

What are some other good self-bow woods besides osage? What would I find up here in NW Montana, anyway? Yew, I know is good…but hard to come by in any kind of size…what else??

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: 2 Blade double bevel and 3 blade vs single bevel #11495

Well, now that’s a bummer. I know there’s something about matching the feathers to the shooter’s dominant side somewhere. I remember it. I just don’t remember who wrote it or what issue it was in. LOL. Chalk one up to “old timer’s disease.”

Michael.

But I WILL find it.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: Muck Boots? #10561

ralphs,

I can’t help you on the Muck Boots, but I know that the Danner hunting boots I have had were extremely comfortable for any kind of hiking no matter the distance or time spent on my feet, and I even didn’t mind sitting in cold weather for extended periods of time. I had some problems with the cheaper (Made in China) versions, but at the end of the day, when I took them off, my feet were asking “HEY!!! Where’d the comfies go??” I now have a pair of the Super Rain Forest by Danner, and have had them for a year, and love’em for overall daily wear. They are my work/hiking/hunting/wander around town boots. I just flat like’em. The first two pair I had were insulated with 200 gram Thinsulate, the pair I have now are uninsulated, and all of them have/had the GoreTex waterproof lining. Definitely will buy another pair of Danner boots next time, too.

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: 2 Blade double bevel and 3 blade vs single bevel #10009

Richie,

My understanding is that because turkey feathers are used for the majority of our feathers for arrows, it comes down to the turkey farmers clipping the primary feathers on the right wing of the bird. They did this to keep their turkeys from “flying the coop” so to speak. Anybody that has seen turkeys a fair bit knows that they are pretty strong fliers and can get outta Dodge in a hurry on the wing. For whatever reason, they primarily chose to clip the feathers on the right wings of the birds. Thus the right wing feathers were ruined, leaving the left wing feathers to sell to archery suppliers. Or at least, that is my understanding of why so many people shoot left-wing feathers on their arrows.

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: i got a Q. #9994

1/2t, you can get the brass washers through 3 Rivers Archery. I haven’t seen very many archery shops that carry a whole lot of the smaller, more specialized items used in traditional archery. Most of them cater to the compound world, and only carry the bare minimum that they can get away with for traditional archers. Thankfully, we have access to such online providers as 3Rivers and Kustom King. They have a lot of the things that we might otherwise not be able to get or even know about if we were isolated. Good luck.

Michael.

P.S. There are no stupid questions, so fire away!!

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: Drawn for Moose!!! #9333

I heard tell of a couple guys that called in a cow moose while elk hunting several years ago…to get her to go away, they thought they would just thunk her with a couple blunts…well, by the time all was said and done, they wasted over two hours trying to recover half a dozen arrows with blunts on them, because she refused to leave. Makes a guy wonder what a moose is made of, huh? Blunting the cow probably isn’t going to do you any good. The good part of the story, one of the guys was my dad…LOL!!!!!! He never did go back and get his blunts.

Michael.

[MontanaFord]

in reply to: 2 Blade double bevel and 3 blade vs single bevel #9328

Some time ago, in a past issue of Traditional Bowhunter, I believe there was an article on a similar topic. The topic question was more or less “Does a right wing feather matched to a right-handed shooter make them more accurate than a left wing for a right handed shooter” and I believe the information in the article pointed to a strong “YES”.

Perhaps Robin could find this article for us at some point, should she get a break from running the magazine and keeping TJ in line. LOL.

One thing to keep in mind, if you choose to shoot left wing feathers with a right bevel broadhead, is that the left-direction spin of the arrow actually has to stop in order for the broadhead to begin spinning ITS direction into the target, which will reduce penetration, possibly to a large degree on, say, a bone hit. If the arrow is already spinning the direction the broadhead will spin, it should actually help increase penetration, because then the arrow doesn’t have to stop its rotation in order to reverse itself.

Michael.

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