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in reply to: When and why do you replace your glove? #45857

I prefer gloves with finger tip reinforcements, nylong or whatever. When that reinforcement gets holes and/or loose threads, I no longer use it for serious hunting or shooting but it’s still fine for practice, stumping, etc. I absolutely can’t hunt with a tab, though I grew up using one. Just one more thing to think about, lose, not have on at the right moment. Tabs are great for shooting but I’ll stick with a good glove for hunting. Considering all we spend on this hobby, the price of a new glove every few years is insignificant. This is very much a personal matter from shooter to shooter with no real best, right or wrong. But worn tips in shooting gloves, or stretched tips in unreinforced gloves, can definitely “snag” the string. Snuffy (no relation)

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in reply to: Wood Arrows, single bevels and EFOC #36080

Great to have you back, Doc! You really liven things up for us and keep us from shutting down our minds, thanks. While it’s been discussed in previous threads, right now the “easiest” way to get more weight up front on woodies is with WoodyWeights. I recall some having reported that test shots at an angle into hard surfaces, like a tree, lead to a higher than normal shaft breakage just behind the head (or in this case the WW). Apparently that is a consequence of the extra length the WW’s add ahead of the shaft, thus increasing lever-arm? In any event, if anyone out there is using WW’s with broadheads for hunting, we’d sure appreciate hearing the details of your results. For many of us died-in-the-woody shooters, it’s heartbreaking to see all the advantages available via carbon shafts but so far unattainable with woods. It would seem that a 250-grain glue-on head would have significant advantages over, say, a 125 head and 125 WW, due to being so much shorter. Sure wish STOS, Grizzly and the others would get some on the market in single-bevel! Snuffy

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in reply to: 4 wheelers, Dave Peterson #36066

Hey! Other websites could learn a thing or three from how you guys are handling this potentially divisive topic! Mutual respect, tolerance of other views and experiences, focus on topic not insulting one another. I love this place! J — where do you hunt? A lot of us would like to join you there to get away from the motorized crowds. You are a lucky chap! Snuffy

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in reply to: Hello everybody & Bear question #36058

Yes, Dave got the names confused. The Field Bow is the economy model. All I know is I’ve heard a lot of complaints about newer Bears, both performance (limbs breaking, etc.) and service. Yet there are lots of folks who swear by them. But the often-heard Bear advice is to buy an older one, made before the company moved to FL. Meanwhile I’ve shot the Great Northern Field Bow at K-zoo and found it sweet as can be, and the owners really great people, Ma and Pa, who will always be there if you need them, which you likely won’t. Like Dave said, the only limitation is this bow tops out, I believe, at 45#. Perhaps someone else will know of another such great deal on a new custom bow and inform us here. Otherwise, for the money you have to invest I would recommend a GN or a good used “custom” rather than a new cheaper factory bow. Snuffy

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in reply to: What do you like best about Bowhunting? #30620

Well Steve, I’ll have to think on this a while …. you said “like the most” so that means “the one best thing.” That’s the problem! I reckon it’s being alone in a quiet, undisturbed wild place where nothing knows it’s being hunted, or at least doesn’t know I”m there. I feel no pressure, no hurry, no nothing but “being here now.” This is the only time in life, or one of the best at least, when I feel I’m completely sane and “OK.” I guess I would say: I like the feeling of “This is it! This is what a natural man is meant to do. This is life at its purest and cleanest. Sorry to sound gushy, but traditional bowhunting is a very deep deal for me.:oops: snoops

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in reply to: Whitetail for Ashby study #23967

Hey Patrick! Brother don’t worry about offending us. Takes a lot more than that and it’s our jokes in return that seem not to come through always. OFENCE (offence? o-fence? offense???)is easy to spot … just check the other hunting sites! One way I do know how to spell it is Rude! 😛 A sense of humor (not the ability to walk upright or makes tools, as “science” has always defined it) is what makes us human! We got it! You got it! We is you is us, etc.! Your joke was well taken by all. It’s maybe our jokes back that fall short. But man 8) you gotta explain that hat! Chicago? Blues Brothers? 😉 Snuffs

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in reply to: bow quiver #23962

Hiram – Might should start another thread for this switch in topic — but I’d like to hear from you and others about experiences shooting with vanes. I mean, once you cave in to the advantages of carbon, going with vanes is an easy next step. I’ve bought carbons that come with vanes, and before stripping them off to replace with feathers I’ve test shot off the shelf and they shoot fine! So in my very limited experience, perhaps a lot of well-tuned traditional shelf-shooters could be shooting vanes. Disadvantage is obvious — it’s plastic. Advantages, aside from being waterproof, might surprisingly take us back to Ashby’s studies which show (and I’ve proven to my own satisfaction) that the more FOC we got, the less we need in the way of fletching for good accuracy. But then, we can do the same with smaller feathers! I personally am totally convinced on everything Ashby’s studies recommend, but even so my goal now is to find ways to transfer all the advantages of carbon shafts somehow to wood shafts, which for all their “natural shortcomings” seems just more fun to shoot! For me anyhow. 😕 But still I want to keep an open (?) mind (?) and learn from others what works and don’t for folks. Thanks and sorry for the big left turn. Snuffster

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in reply to: October Mountain Products #18032

Sorry, not familiar with that name or product. Most of today’s custom stickbows are excellent, some better than others, some steal deals and others overpriced. You are wise to look for references before buying. Service counts as much as quality in the long haul. There are SO many great bows to choose from, never a need to buy a pig in a poke. Good luck, S.

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in reply to: Ashby forum reborn — please read! #15845

Hey Patrick — Love your Jefferson quote!!! Snuffy

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in reply to: A happy camper? NOT! Dumb move! #15842

Steve Sr. — I really appreciate your soul-searching honesty in these posts … as you examine yourself and your motives openly and honestly you grow in character … and you help us grow along with you. On a technical note, remember that a prime ingredient in Ashby’s arrow-setup recommendations is a long, slender broadhead profile, preferably 3:1. A wide head works against good penetration in three ways: 1. the width inhibits penetration due to the wider amount of tissues it must cut through especially on impact, 2. a wide head is much more likely to impact a rib, and 3. a narrow head is easier for the single-bevel to twist through tissues doing max damage, while I wider head will be far more resistant to twising in tissue, especially bone. On the other hand, Ashby’s research is based on really big tough animals like elk, so you can obviously get away with more. For instance, with a really serious Ashby setup on his arrows, and a medium-heavy bow (60# I believe), Kingwouldbe has been able to shoot virtually end to end through big buck deer. Do we want to champion such shots just because, if we’re lucky they will work? I don’t think so. However, “shots happen” and this brings us back around to Steve Sr.’s original story. To paraphrase Ashby, an ethical hunter can’t be overprepared. We can’t have an arrow that’s “more than needed” because you never know when Murphy will step into the picture. He’s especially bothersome at the moment of release!
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in reply to: elk #40814

I’m with you, King! Elephants have been killed with a .22, but that doesn’t condone the .22 as a good (lethal, ethical, high odds) choice for elephants! We are limited by physical ability as to the weight bow we can draw … but we are not limited as to the weight arrows we can shoot, and as Doc Ashby notes, in the bow/arrow duality, the arrow is by far the most important for penetration and lethality. Jesse, you owe it to yourself as an open-minded intelligent man to at least read the basics of Ashby’s research, which has been ongoing 10 years longer than you’ve been ongoing, before making flat pronouncements to the contrary. Do a search in the back issues for the two-part overviews of Ashby and his work, put together by Petersen a few years ago. There’s also a basic overview by Don Thomas in the current Bowhunter Big Game issue I hear. King, I’m curious why you stick with aluminum shafts when it’s so much easier to get EFoC, etc. with carbon? Sure do enjoy your posts and photos! Snuffy

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in reply to: Defining "Traditional" Bowhunting #40781

I like Centaur’s take on it. Naming aside, traditional, primitive, modern etc., what I’m after in the hunt is doing more with less: using more personal skill and determination, and less gear, technology, etc. For me, the less technology involved, the truer the hunt and the greater the satisfaction, because low technology demands high skill and determination, and vice versa. This is not a moral judgment of others’ choices, but the way it feels best to me, the only way I’ve ever done it, and the only way I have any interest in doing it. snuffs

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in reply to: Huntmore 360 stool – A Review #24474

Darren — thanks for this honest review. It seems that more and more manufacturers of hunting gear never go hunting beyond a manufactured blind and build stuff for others of the same persuasion. Too much comfort is counterproductive to good hunting. Heavy bulky gear is coungterproductive to hunting. Spending lots of money on stuff we’re better off without is counterproductive to hunting. I’m with you on the brush blinds and ability to move about lightly and unemcumbered with gear. I do just find sitting on rocks or down tree trunks and the only “seat” I’ve ever needed is a piece of 1″ thick foam pad big enough to fit my skinny rear. If we bought everything everyone wants to sell us we’d all need 1-ton trucks to haul it and half a dozen porters to lug it all around for us. Hunt light, hunt happy! snuffy

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in reply to: Howdy #24461

Hi Woolly — those big terrestrials are fishing good right now! It’s an ongoing frustration that the best fly fishing in the West is often in Sept., when I devogte 100 percent of my available time to bowhunting. If I were running the universe, every other month would be Sept., and the others all Aprils (turkey). Welcome and have fun here. 🙂 snuffy

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in reply to: New Grizzly coming soon! #15614

Thanks for these cutting-edge insights, Ron. 😉 And I join you in your pleasure at seeing Kingwoodbee back again. It would seem from his posts and pictures that he had all this figured out a long time ago. What a tremendously successful hunter! S

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