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in reply to: Off the shelf question; #172595

I hope your shoulder fix will be good.  My cousin had rotor cuff surgery a couple of years ago and it was about 6 weeks of rehab but he’s back to normal.

I just had surgery for a torn bicep tendon and 6 weeks of therapy.  Hardest part for a while was putting on socks and tieing my shoes.  I’m slowly working my was back to shooting.  First was shooting a slingshot and then my lightweight bows.

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in reply to: Off the shelf question; #172570

I don’t know Richard.  I’d just have to try it to find out.

My bows are all just a leather rest with a toothpick under the center of it and the back plate.

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in reply to: Flemish Twist String #172460

I’ve only used B50 and never have padded the loops or had a failure there.  I take special care to make smooth nock grooves on the bows that I make and also make sure the factory bows I have all have smooth nock grooves.  Also, all the strings I have made are three color, 12 strand.

Some of the guys I know use the low stretch string and pad the loops on those.

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in reply to: Flemish Twist String #172415

I started making them about 20 years ago.  My first few were nothing to brag about at all.  Now all of my bows have flemish twist strings and I haven’t bought a string for many years.  FWIW red GB-50 will turn your fingers and everything it touches red.

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in reply to: Byron Ferguson has Died #172177

Thanks for posting the Obit Stephan.  I hadn’t seen it anywhere else.

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in reply to: 2025 is Here. Whatcha Got Going? #172157

Short update on my arm.  I finished therapy last Thursday and still have a follow-up appointment with the nurse practitioner on the 26th.  I’ve been doing my yard work and gradually getting back to using my arm more.

The only pain I have had is in my wrist when I twist my hand.  The therapist said that she had never had anyone have that symptom.  Now I have a 2″ scar to remind me about the event but as the saying goes “scars are like tattoos but have more meaning”.

Good luck to everyone one your hunting.

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in reply to: 2025 is Here. Whatcha Got Going? #171986

This is typical of the trail to Spruce Flats Falls.  There’s nothing flat about it and it is rated as moderate difficulty.

This is Spruce Flats Falls.  It’s a popular destination despite the rugged trail.

This was my fourth trip to the Smoky Mtns and I’m planning on going back next year.  They close the Cades Cove road (It’s an 11 mile one way loop through the valley) to vehicle traffic on Wednesdays and it’s only open for bicycles and foot traffic.  I’m wanting to ride the loop on my bike.

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in reply to: 2025 is Here. Whatcha Got Going? #171981

This happened on the trail to Spruce Flats Falls, one of many beautiful waterfalls in the Smoky Mtns.  I’ve hiked over 25 miles of trails in the Smokies over the last two years and I hiked this trail last year.  It is the roughest trail I have hiked out there and I named it the goat trail.  It’s around 2.5 miles round trip and the only trail I’ve seen bears on.

This was the first trip to the Smokies for my daughter, granddaughter, and S-I-L and I was playing guide.  At one point you go down a turn just before getting to the falls and you step, step, step down and curve left around the ridge.  It had rained the night before and the trail was slick in spots.  My daughter went to the left side and I stepped down to the right.  My left heel caught a root and when I stepped on down the next step was slick and threw me forward.  I jammed my walking pole down to catch my balance and it sank in the soft dirt at the trail edge and I started falling toward the trail edge.  I grabbed a Spruce tree with my left arm to catch myself but my backpack weight flipped me on over the edge.  I was about a 45 degree slope and I lit on my back.  My pole was stuck in the ground and that stopped me from sliding on down the hill.  I had barely stopped when my S-I-L landed next to me to stop me from going on down the hill.

We got back on the trail and I was cleaning the dirt off and trying to figure out why my ankle was burning when my granddaughter pointed at my arm and said “that doesn’t look right”.  And it didn’t look anywhere near right.  She then asked if we needed to go back and I told her no because the falls were just around the corner about 200 yards away.  I’ll post some pictures of the trail and the falls soon.

When we got back to the car we went to an urgent care and they referred me to an orthopedic urgent care unit where they took an x-ray and made an appointment for an MRI at the hospital in Knoxville.  They burned the image to a disk to bring home and put me in a sling.  We still had three days to explore and I didn’t want to cut the trip short for my kids.  On the rest of the hikes I heard a couple of comments of ‘must be pretty a tough guy to hike these trail with your arm in a sling’.  But like I said before, my arm never really hurt.  I was just careful not to damage it further.

All in all it was a fun trip with my family.  I was just wishing my youngest daughter and her husband had been along but the are currently living in Montana.

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in reply to: 2025 is Here. Whatcha Got Going? #171975

That picture is on July 21, the day it happened.  The weird thing is it never did hurt.  I had a scrape on my right ankle that burned like fury.

Even after the surgery it has never really hurt and the muscles around my wrist are what hurts when I twist my hand but that is getting better.

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in reply to: 2025 is Here. Whatcha Got Going? #171967

 

Bow season starts the 15th here in Kansas but my hunting will be with a camera this year.  I tore my bicep tendon while hiking in the Smoky Mtns.

Surgery was on the 30th of July and it’s been 6 weeks now with weekly therapy sessions.  I’m healing but not up to pulling a bow yet.

Good luck to everyone this season.

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in reply to: Battle Clout #171426

I doubt very much I would have been able to even shoot 200 yards much less land in the target zone.

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in reply to: 2025 is Here. Whatcha Got Going? #171315

One of my security cameras went off several times early yesterday morning.  Usually it’s the neighbor’s cat and it sets the camera off only once.

I looked it up on my phone and the local ‘moochers’ were checking out my apple trees.

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in reply to: Nem member to the bow rack #171313

 

Is this the bow?

Glas-Lite takedown recurve (1969)
“Bushwacker”
Mfg by Plas/Steel Products
aluminum riser with glass limbs

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in reply to: 2025 is Here. Whatcha Got Going? #170692

Wow, somebody left the north door open.  it’s -3* here right now in SE Ks.  The weather channel says it’s 18* where my daughter is in Dillon, Mt.

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in reply to: 2025 is Here. Whatcha Got Going? #170561

I’ve bought mine at flea markets and farm auctions.

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