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in reply to: Let's build a St. Charles Quiver #40048

Excellent! Thanks for that!

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in reply to: New Bama Expedition Royal Osage Takedown! #40044

Mate! Ya gotta love that! Wicked bow, really nice indeed.

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in reply to: Cheap targets #40042

anointedarcher wrote: another great target that are cheap and fun to shoot at our your kids rap CD’s:P

I’ll second that!

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in reply to: G'Day! #28990

I wish I could find the little laughing guy smiley! Nice pigs Ben. Was that recent? I was out there a couple of weeks ago and we didn’t see anything this time, not even any recent sign. They’ll be back, though, you could see the well worn pads where they had been cleaning up the fruit of the cacti (Prickly Pear?). Just good being there, had great company and enjoyed the chance to relax away from the city.

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in reply to: My first deer…..EVER!!! #27227

Congatulations, mate, well done!

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in reply to: Ferals? #26378

Just had a look at that link, Duncan, thanks mate and WOW! Wicked squealers you blokes have over there! They more than match any boars I’ve seen out Western Queensland, that’s for sure! Bloody amazing!

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in reply to: Ferals? #26353

Thanks fellas. “Exotics” is a much better way of approaching it I think, wish we’d thought of it! That way we would manage them as “game” instead of going to war with them as ferals! Most station (kind of Aussie for “Ranch”) owners are only too happy for you to kill feral pigs, rabbits, cats (don’t laugh, if one gets his claws on ya they can hurt ya bad, mate!) and sometimes feral goats (but for the last 5 years or so they have been getting mustered and sold to the Middle Eastern countries) they do incredible damage to the land and displace natives. We don’t have much in the way of native game, just emus,’roos and wallabies (which you can’t shoot with a bow, it’s illegal) but you can kill wild dogs/dingoes as there is very few pure bloods left, except for a couple of coastal island populations, which are pure-breds, and they are really bad on stock once they have bred with domestic dogs gone wild. From a bowhunters perspective, it’s a bloody good thing we have millions of ferals! I’m told we have the only fully wild population of camels left in the world , too. Many blokes in the Northern Teriitory hunt them with the bow. Donkeys, too.

Yeah, people out West are fine with hunting, it’s just accepted it’s what men do, but in the cities it’s very different. In the last 30 years city Aust has become very politically correct and over regulated…almost a Nanny State…unless your rich and powerful of course, then you do whatever you want, whenever you want and bugger the regulations!
I’m very proud to be a bowhunter and am never ashamed of it, but if you are having a night out at dinner or a party and you just want to relax and enjoy yourself it’s best not to bring it up or you’ll just spend the night having the same old arguement with the same kind of people. A lot of folk in the capital city I live near, Brisbane, seem to have been informed on nature by Disney movies, you know what I mean?

As for Trad gear, Strait Aero, nah mate, it’s pretty easy to get ahold of. We have a few Trad suppliers, and many enthusiastic bowyers. I shoot a ‘Gringa” longbow made by a mate of mine in a town called Bundaberg, about 5 hours from where I live, and would love one of Mark Kimbers ‘Huntsman” recurves. http://huntsmanbows.com.au/ He’s another local bloke, only a couple of hours from my place.

BTW, What on Earth is a “Ditch Panther“??

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in reply to: erratic wooden arrow flight #24782

I was once given a tip that may help the next time you buy wood shafts. Take an aluminium arrow that works well for you, check it on a spine gauge, then order your shafts at whatever that came out at. As for you problems now, apart from playing around with length of shaft and point weight I can’t really add any more than has already been suggested. I have found that if your nocks are too tight on the string they ted to “grab” the string on release and that affects flight badly to my experience. I usually use Classic nocks, sometimes Snap-ons too, and apply a layer of dental floss to the string an inch above and below nock point as they can be a bit loose, but if I apply too much and make the string too thick I get the bad flight I mentioned before. The only other thing I can think of is lots and lots of practice as woods tend to need almost perfect release, and we all know how hard that can be to apply consistently once you’ve been out in the field for hours and are beginning to tire.
Good luck to you, matey. Woods can be very frustrating if your used to carbons and aluminiums but it’s very satisfying once you get ’em right.

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in reply to: G'Day! #21107

Wow, what a fine welcome, thanks fellas. Good to hear from you, Ben, glad another Ozbow member comes here too. I’m just sorting out some of the pics of that last Cunnamulla trip to post up matey, and a few of our Texas trip ( a tiny country town here in Qld) I reckon it might be a bit of a novelty for these blokes. One of the places we hunt on this property is 30 KMs from the homestead and still on the same property! Not a bad spread of land to wander with the longbow.

When are you gunna get y’self up here for a hunt, mate? There must be a pig with your name on it running around up here somewhere!

It’s the opposite to your part of the world here, fellas, the further North you go, the more it’s like the South in the U.S., and sometimes Southerners get the impression the heat can send us a bit feral, hey Ben? Like I imagine it would be coming fro the South in your country, fellas, when you go outside Queensland, having grown up here, people can pick where your from straight away by your accent! According to Southerners,apparently it’s some kind of Aussie version of Dixie mixed with Hillbilly ! LOL!

I look forward to making association with the folk here, you seem like most trad bowhunters I meet, bloody good blokes!

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