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First coat of Helmsman Urethane Spar Satin. Not perfect but it is a 49 year old bow. It looks way better without that gray crap that was on it. Now I have one more limb to finish.
Been working on the Backpacker bow when I get some free time. I’ve got the riser to the almost ready to spray point.
I’m afraid to sand too much around the specs or the decal areas.
Been pretty busy and had to set the Browning aside for a little bit. I spent 12 days in Texas from the 11th to the 21st in the hottest weather I’ve been in for a long time. Six days in South Texas helping on border watch operations in 95 to 101* temperatures and then in West Texas to hunt varmints. Daytime there was 102-109* and all we hunted was shade.
I did get back to the bow and got a coat of finish one limb. It took two tries on spraying the finish. My first attempt was with Rustoleum polyurethane. Big mistake there and had to sand it down again. I had one fisheye spot that is a result of some of the Rustoleum not getting completely removed that I’ll have to touch up.
Initial finish doesn’t look too bad.
And the fisheye. That’s not a crack, it’s a small scratch I didn’t get sanded out.
More work to be done. With all the rain we had there won’t be any finish being sprayed for a while.
I spent 12 days in Texas This month. Six days, plus one day travel, in the Falfurrias area on border watch OPS then five days at my cousin’s place in east Texas to hunt pigs. Temperatures were 95* on up to 109*. About all we did at my cousin’s place was hunt shade.
I did take a hike through the canyon one morning when the temp dropped down to the low 90’s. This is a deer and pig trail, mostly pig tracks. Jumped two pigs about 100 yards from here and gave one a serious headache from about 20 feet.
I got the gray paint? off of the riser last night and now have to work on the limbs. Then comes the sanding all the little nicks and scratches off of all of it.
I decided to do some work on the leather case today. First was a good scrubbing with saddle soap to get all the dirt and mold removed and then an application of mink oil followed by a good rubdown. Looks pretty good.
This thingamajigger was inside the side pouch. I decided years ago that if I was going to pull a trigger it would be on a gun.
I was busy a couple of days. It felt good to be out and about.
My daughter’s boyfriend had car trouble. We figured the starter might be acting up so I did the mallet test on it. One rap and it sounded like the starter was full of gravel. It took us a while to find the starter on the engine and I wasn’t going to try to wrestle it out of the nook it was hidden in. Towed it to a garage Tuesday for repair.
Wednesday was a very nice day in the 80’s so I went out and hung five bee swarm traps. My method to hanging them is to fasten a large sinker to some paracord and use a slingshot to launch the sinker over a limb. It’s similar to shooting a bow anyway. I did more in those two days than I had in the last two months.
It was windy, rainy, and 40* yesterday so I just took it easy. My back and neck was a little sore from the activity. Today will be in the 60’s and fairly calm winds so I’m headed back out to hang a few more traps. Then maybe do a longbow glue-up I’ve had in the works for a while.
