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in reply to: First Buck with a Bow #165597

Congrats Dave.  Nice buck for sure.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #165566

My cousin, same age as me, was in the coast guard.  He has disc problems and his Dr. said surgery was needed.  If he had gone with back surgery he would have been discharged, something that Lt Cmdr did not want to do.  He bought an inversion table and it helped his back to where he finished his career and retired several years later.

I’ll disagree with your dragging a deer out as the best back therapy Stephen.  When you have Stenosis and Spondylosis that is not the best therapy.  The last deer I shot was a two year old doe two years ago.  I was having so much shoulder and back pain I could barely draw a bow so I decided to hunt with my .40 cal flintlock I had recently finished building.  Luckily she turned and ran back toward the road and fell less than 100 yards from the truck.

I went to the truck and got my sled, loaded her, and began an hour long ordeal dragging her back to the road.  My back and neck hurt to the point I wanted to cry and I still had to load her into the truck.  I finally recovered enough that I took the tailgate off and used it as a ramp to drag her up int the bed and haul her to the locker.  Excruciating pain mildly describes the feeling after that drag.  Thankfully the neck fusion surgery has relieved 85-90% of the problems but I don’t plan on another deer drag.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #165550

I hear ya Kees.  A couple of months ago I was checking emails one morning and the lights flickered and I heard a muffled crash.  I thought maybe somebody had hit the power line on the road.  When I looked out at the driveway one of my Elm trees had broke about 10′ up and it landed right between my Wrangler and Grand Cherokee close enough to them I couldn’t walk between the tree and the car.  Didn’t touch either one.

I set about clearing the top limbs to clear the driveway and then started sawing the main trunk which was around 30″ in diameter.  I overdid it and wound up with a kink in my back like you described.  Several chiropractor sessions later I was somewhat back to normal but the biggest relief I get is hanging upside down on my inversion table every morning.

I need to catch up on my fix-it projects.  Been busy this summer and fall.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #165124

Sounds like a good day Richard.  As far as camo goes look up MFK game calls on youtube.  These Arkansas boys sit in street clothes and call up yotes into their laps.

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in reply to: Bok report; The American Longbow #164361

I’ve made a bunch of bows and it’s really not that hard, just time consuming.  I’ve got one I need to do an oops report on one of these days.

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in reply to: Grass carp / White Amur ??? #164360

As with any gov. agency you will probably get a third opinion on the regs and be even more confused.  Don’t give them any ideas about big game tags, especially here in Kansas.

Here in Kansas if you have nuisance issues with sparrows or starlings on your property you have to have a hunting license to kill them.  As money hungry as they are I’m really surprised they didn’t put mice and rats on the list too.

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in reply to: Very Short Draw Length and Form??? #164207

I’m about the same height and my draw in around 25-26″.

Some pictures of your shooting form would tell a lot.

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in reply to: Hot new way to hurt myself #163968

I had a similar occurrence happen once.  I always clean the inside of my field points with acetone before gluing them on the shafts.  I use a Q-tip to do this and didn’t notice part of the cotton tip had stayed in the point one time.  I put hot melt glue on the shaft, put the point on, and heat it over the stove flame.  A loud pop from the trapped acetone igniting sent the point sailing across the kitchen.  Took me a minute to figure out what happened.

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in reply to: ? Crazy string #163884

We’re headed to Texas tomorrow for a family reunion/fishing trip(me and two cousins).  When I get back I’ll see if I can find some of the wild string pictures I have and post them.  I’ve also got a learn from your mistake bow (almost) build I’ll post later.

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in reply to: ? Crazy string #163815

The picture must have faded out.

I don’t think the string picture is a camera limitation.  The ones I took were with a Nikon D7200 that I have used to take thousands of BMX pictures (Bicycle Motocross) and other shots.  I’ll have to look through the files and see if I can locate a couple.

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in reply to: ? Crazy string #163563

I have taken several pictures like that at OJAM.  It makes you wonder how the string stays on the bow.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163552

I hung some 12 and 16 ounce soda bottles from tree limbs in my yard and shoot at them with flu-flus.  Any little breeze has the moving around and makes for a lot of challenging shots.

My granddaughter likes to shoot her bow and after a few shots at the 2D turkey she always wants to shoot the bottles.  Her first shot usually hits the string.  That shows me she is concentrating on a smaller spot instead of looking at the whole turkey.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163542

I did get some rain last night.  Heard some thunder about 1am and then heard rain falling for about 30 seconds.  That was all.

At least the wind slowed down a little bit this morning.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163531

Windy here too.  20-30 south winds with higher gusts.  And we need some rain.

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in reply to: More Hobbies–A Bow of a Different Kind #163332

It’s done Ray.  The last pictures in the original post was re-hairing the bow.  That was the last part of the project I did right after putting the new strings on the bow.

I’m working on another project now and will have a set of pictures of learning from a mistake on yet another project.

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