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in reply to: Full length taper? #46439

Go with Rivercane or Bamboo. They are naturally tapered.:D

Dennis

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in reply to: Most Trouble Free Wood Shaft #46434

If you haven’t had much experience at straightening shafts go with the PO Cedar first. They are the easiest.

I shoot Poplar and Hickory. Poplar is tougher than PO Cedar IMO and just as easy to straighten. Plus, I don’t break as many of them as I do with cedar.

I have no trouble straightening Hickory by hand and I used to curl a Hickory shaft into a coil at my booth when I set up at the 3D shoots. Most people were amazed I could do that with no heat source. They were more amazed when I would straighten it back out.:shock:

I have yet to break a Hickory shaft.

Dennis

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in reply to: Arrow Wood Characteristics #46425

I used Black Walnut hulls to stain traps when I ran a trapline every winter.

That wood description looks kind of familiar(see my website):wink:

Dennis

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in reply to: Texas Hog Hunt Journal #46412

Scott’s camp is just north of Aspermont. That was the first trip I had made there and plan on returning many more times. It is a harsh land that is ruggedly beautiful and the pictures don’t do it justice.

My cousin calls this 200 acres of scrub heaven on earth. If heaven is this hot in the summer I don’t want to see hell.

Dennis

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in reply to: Moving target plans #42909

I have been thinking of setting up a moving target with this system.

http://www.minionsweb.com/axworthy.htm

Dennis

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in reply to: snakeskin backing #26502

http://www.pinehollowlongbows.com/

Contact Mike Yancey. He sells skins and is a fine fellow to deal with.

Dennis

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in reply to: Fred Bear Grizzly #24301

I’ve got a Grizzly that I shoot and like it very much. A friend asked me to see if I could fix a slight twist on one limb. I straightened it, made a new string, and test fired it. When I handed it back to him he said ‘no, it’s yours now’. I was speechless and could barely say thanks.:shock:

Dennis

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in reply to: test #18799

Ya ain’t trickin’ me, it’s a math test. Those are numbers.

Dennis

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in reply to: Wintercamp / Pics #18795

Beautiful scenery. Thanks for sharing your camp with us.

Dennis

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in reply to: New Mexico Mulies #49810

Good luck on your hunt. I was fortunate to hunt there with my cousin years ago north of Silver City. Beautiful country.

The bad part was we hunted the Gila National Forest and just a three day season. There were dozens of hunters out and it looked like an army of red ants swarming the canyon walls.:shock:

Dennis

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in reply to: Man I missed you guys(and galls)! #49449

Same to ya, Bud.

Merry Christmas

Dennis

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in reply to: arrow fletching #45146

Through my years of shooting I have found that it doesn’t matter if I use straight, offset, left, or right. Like Hiram said, matching the arrow to the bow is the most important thing for good flight.

I grind my own feathers and use them all.

Dennis

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in reply to: Arrow Selection #44128

I also have a small supply of Ipe shafts. If the broadhead doesn’t do the job the sheer weight of the shaft will knock out whatever it hits.

Dennis

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in reply to: Arrow Selection #43247

Greatreearcher wrote: They are better than aluminum, and wood together and are cheaper. They are 53 buck a dozen bare. I have missed wabbits, and hit pure concrete blocks before, and the arrow came away clean. Try doing that with aluminum or wood. I know that wood likes to break when you hit a piece of hard wood! Just speaking from experience.

Wow. I was selling hardwood shafts waaaayyy to cheap. I don’t know what kind of wood shafts you were shooting but I have never broken a Hickory shaft.

Dennis

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in reply to: Happy holidays to all #43232

Even though it isn’t politically correct I still say

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

and if anybody is offended by that, too bad.

Dennis

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