[James Harvey]

in reply to: New books #43082

Bruce, give us a little review of the Barebow! books when you’ve read them please. I’ve seen them on Amazon for a while, but always been put off, if you can believe it, by the exclamation point. That struck me as a book that was going to try and force some excitement.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Best Natural Cover Scents #43079

adirondackman wrote:

I think that there may actually be some scientific data to support it. Think about this: Most animals will become alert and possibly enter Flee mode upon smelling a Man, Wolf, Coyote, Bear and other Predators for the first time without ever scenting them before. They will also smell Birds, Squirrels, Turkeys and other plant eating animals for the first time and not become alarmed. How do they know that certain scents are dangerous and others are not if they have never sensed them before in thier life? Maybe There are certain chemical smells that are consistent with Predators.

It’s certainly true that what you eat has an effect on your odour. You only have to sit next to an indian (sub-continental type) on a train to know that. Australian soldiers operating in S/E Asian jungles report the distinctive odour of the enemy who tend to have a spicier diet than we do (in the jungle even humans often smell things before they see them).

My understanding is that there are two types of sweat glands in our bodies, eccrine and apocrine. Eccrine glands are the ones that try to cool your body down when you’re over heating and also remove salt wastes. Apocrine glands are the ones that kick in at puberty and dump fat and protein wastes. What makes the apocrine waste stink isn’t the fats and proteins, but the waste produced by the micro flora on your skin that eat them. That’s about as far as my understanding goes, but it stands to reason that a vegetarian is going to produce probably a lot less and perhaps different kinds of fat and protein waste. At the very least you’d expect a vegetarian to smell less.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Killed one #43050

Nice work Etter 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #42522

Out for a little afternoon stroll. I’ve been so impressed with this little bow. First shot of the walk was at a sapling about an inch in diameter at 30 yards. I wish I could say I split that sapling… but I only nicked it.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: 2014 Hunting #42488

Bruce, it looks magnificent as usual. The last photo is gorgeous!

[James Harvey]

in reply to: The Trad Knife Thread #41904

That’s a beauty Patrick. Love the maple handle.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: bow quivers and tuffheads #41898

Skinner, I have an eagles flight Jumbo (the size down from the Chief that Smithhammer mentioned). Mine leaves about a 1/2 inch of the base of the tuffhead exposed. It’s so little it looks safe to me, but you could nick yourself on it. It’s only about 5 bucks more for the chief 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: I think I have found my bow/arrow combo #41389

Clad, I think it depends what kind of range you have to shoot at. If it’s your property and visibility is good and you know it’s safe if you miss or get a pass through, hay is fine. I like to go somewhere with excellent visibility, like a field or paddock and shoot broadheads there. I know fellas that go down to empty, secluded beaches and shoot them on the sand. Other guys may have more convenient ideas 😉

I certainly think it’s critical to test fire any arrow you’re going to hunt with. Just remember to sharpen it again afterwards 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: I think I have found my bow/arrow combo #41294

Cladinator, I remember putting a FF string on my Sage made a HUGE difference to noise and performance. That factory string is like a wet blanket. Good move!

I wouldn’t stress about a difference of 5 grains between heads. Although the Tusker Javelin is a very reasonably priced 145 grain head… Aussie made of course 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Practicing the "Cold Shot" #40056

I tried something different for no good reason today. Mostly because I was about to have a martini (sans vermouth) at 3 in the afternoon and really wanted to shoot my two favourite bows before that happened. So I did a cold shot with my 45#, 48″ recurve, shooting a 30″ carbon arrow, followed immediately by a cold shot (almost) with my 70#, 64″ long bow, shooting a 31″ Sitka Spruce arrow… both about 18 yards…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_BzjKx0Das&feature=youtu.be

(sorry for some reason I can’t get the embed link from youtube…)

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Practicing the "Cold Shot" #39998

Bruce, the more I see your dayglo fletching the more tempted I am to follow suit. Do you buy them precut from somewhere or are you buying bigger and cutting down?

DWC, I know you’ve mentioned the bow elsewhere, but what is that you’re shooting? It’s got lovely lines.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: What's your back-up bow? #39883

Smithhammer wrote: One is #52 @ 28″ and the other is #55 @28″ but otherwise they are exactly the same.

Exactly the same? I think if you look closely you’ll find that one of the two is slightly superfluous 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Unintended predator call? #39659

That’s it Preston. We get some monsters up on the range near here. The one real road that runs through the area is a main truck route between western mines and the port here, so there is an endless supply of roo, pig and deer roadkill, which I imagine must contribute to the size of them. Some look about as big as a pelican… which is pretty darned huge for an eagle!

Bruce, that seems like a fair reason not to use a predator call 😉

Brennan, I saw recently a tally of Howard Hill’s game taken in N.A. and he had shot something like 5 owls… I wondered how he did that and maybe you’ve answered my question 😀

Grumpy… I feel there’s a tale to be told there!

[James Harvey]

in reply to: How Forgewood shafts were made #39466

Thanks for posting that Timbow, a really interesting video.

Steve, I did a little internet searching. At the end of the video is an advertisement for Wilderness Sound Productions. They were a manufacturer of elk calls that started up around 1983. I suppose that ad could have been added well after the video was actually recorded, but it’d have to be somewhere around there.

Plus, I’ve found people with our shared interest aren’t really that fashion focussed. You could find folks wearing those clothes and sporting the Farrah Fawcet hair styles today 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Arrows #38916

T,

I wouldn’t get too fussed about carbon shooting faster, that’s just a matter of weight. And as far as shooting straighter goes, I for one don’t shoot straight or consistently enough to notice that.

I would just use whatever you prefer, based on money and time constraints and whatever weight you happen to put on the aesthetic value of wood. I love wood too but am always torn for a number of reasons. If time and money were no issue I would never shoot carbon again.

Like fellas have said above, don’t worry about there being a right answer, find the answer that is right for you 😉

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