[James Harvey]

in reply to: MA-2 heads #49204

MoSportsman wrote:

I have been playing with 250gr heads with a PSE Coyote of the same weight as the Martin will be and have a variety of old arrows I have tested and have not really found the spine weight that satisfies me before I order a dozen shafts. Of course I will be starting over with the new bow and the 200gr heads.

I’m sure I’ve read the Doc mention that high FOC arrows can be a bit of a pain to tune on centre cut or cut past centre bows. You may find it a bit easier to settle on a shaft with the new bow 😉

Oh and I think you may be in the wrong crowd to sell that PSE 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: FASHION SHOW #48077

Dave, funnily enough our band uniform has a bit of real leopard skin in it. Alas our regular uniform is a bit more mundane 😉

Mike, the honour is mine to claim such a tenuous link to all those first brave men in the airborne fraternity. I was terrified every jump through para school but I could always tell myself men had been doing it for decades before me. They had no such history, just guts.

Fella’s, I love all this wool plaid. There is a posting down south (that means cold here) in my near future. Maybe some wool plaid as well 😀

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: FASHION SHOW #47569

Dave, you’ve obviously been going to the same trad shoots as this guy 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: What's in your daypack? #45676

I was reading some choice chapters from Liedenberg’s Art of Tracking over my afternoon coffee and came across a passage that I thought may be of interest to readers of this thread 😀

A Kalahari hunter carries a leather hunting bag over his left shoulder. His bow may be run through the slits in the straps of the bag, while loops and a small sheath attached to the bag hold the spear. His poison arrows are carried in the bark quiver sewn into the bag. In the bag he carries a knife, club, snares, a carrying net and a small quiver containing a repair kit of spare parts of arrows, lengths of prepared sinew for repairing bowstrings or bindings, gum for fixing bindings and a small supply of poison cocoons. He may also carry with him a spring-hare probe.

I’ve also heard Liedenberg say in a lecture that a man would traditionally carry a single ostrich egg that has been tapped on the top, emptied and filled with water, although these have been lately replaced by readily available discarded plastic bottles.

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Side quivers with arrow grippers #45551

Archer,

That’s just the style I’ve been looking at only I like it higher up under my elbow.

A funny thing happened though, my wife saw me looking at some bow quivers and went ahead and ordered one for me for my birthday! Which was very sweet so I feel I will now endeavour to realign my Chi or Zen or whatever with a quiver on my longbow 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: a new chapter #44465

Welcome aboard Stickman 😀

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Brace Height #44102

My Sage is braced at about 8 1/4″. It gets noisy if it’s much lower. I use a process for silencer placement where you measure the nock – nock length of the string on the bow, then place one silencer a 1/4 of the length from one nock and a 1/3 of the length from the other. Between that silencer placement and that brace height my Sage is pretty quiet with 10grain per pound arrows.

Let us know how you go 😉

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Wolves and Rivers Video #44045

Sinawalli,

Thanks for posting the interview with Geist. Geeze, reading the comments at the bottom of that page I can see why folks are grateful for the considered and civilized conversation on the subject here.

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: German storks, African arrows #43022

Dave, you may well be right about it in fact being a spear. I read a German article that referred to a ‘Speer’ (spear) that had been carried by the first ‘pfeilstorch’ (arrow stork).

Yeah, it looks like the result of a speculative shot at best doesn’t it? I shot a duck with archery tackle and when I was eating it found a quite a lot of metal shot inside her. No one would have ever known that she had been wounded by a shotgun. If my arrow had speared her and she’d gotten away, photos of her would no doubt be used as evidence of the unnecessary cruelty of bowhunting. A bowhunter’s shame is out there for all to see.

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: How do you draw? #42479

Smithhammer wrote: • Do you ‘swing’ draw, starting with the bow at a lowered position and bring it up while drawing?

• Do you start with your bow already pointing straight at the target, and drawing straight back?

I do a kind of swing draw when I shoot instinctively and shoot ‘normally’ when I gap.

Smithhammer wrote: • Do you find that your draw style is related to other aspects of your shooting and/or style, such as whether you shoot split, 3-under, gap, instinctive, etc?

It is related directly to how I’m aiming.

Smithhammer wrote: • When was the last time you purposely tried drawing your bow differently than you normally do? Did it affect your accuracy? Did you notice anything by doing it differently?

Over the last 12 months or so I’ve been really trying to give instinctive shooting a fair go. I really dig it and have a lot of confidence out to perhaps 20m with it. The truth is though I shoot tighter groups standing straight up, holding the bow straight out, drawing straight back and gapping. I’ve shot a comp where I’ve done day 1 entirely instinctively without JD’s shooting a C grade score, then day 2 taken care with my JD’s, gapped and shot an A grade score. All courtesy of my failures with instinctive at longer ranges as the comp had targets of unknown distance anywhere from 7-48m.

I did a very interesting test though. I set a CD sized target up at 10m (that exapands to about dinner plate at 20m) and shot 30 arrows at it. All I counted was hits and misses. Over a few days I did this a number of times gapping and shooting instinctively and I always got pretty much the same scores, between I think 25 and 28. It was never the ‘group’ that let me down, it was notable technique failures as I fatigued, like a plucking string hand, swinging bow arm or collapsing core leading to ‘wild’ arrows. Besides illustrating my lack of archery endurance, the vast majority of all those misses occurred after the first 10 arrows which illustrates that while I may group better gapping, I shoot well enough instinctively.

Smithhammer wrote: * Do you cant your bow?

I do when I’m shooting instinctively.

Smithhammer wrote: * What is your overall body position when shooting? Standing straight up? Crouching? Foot placement?

If I am gap shooting I try to emulate an olympic archer. If I’m shooting instincively I try to emulate Asbell.

It must be your turn Bruce 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: To sleep, perchance to … sleep? #41105

Sorry Dave, I’m about the worst person to ask. I sleep on a disgraceful excuse for a sleeping pad that’s been cut down to the length of my torso and isnt even as wide as my shoulders. It’s thinner than a copy of TBM and probably less comfy but it does add a layer of insulation from the dirt.

Those thermarests are very popular, even the cheap knock off’s with a puncture in them are orders of magnitude comfier than mine.

My wife and I have a ridiculous self inflating double mattress for tent camping. Picture a thermarest that’s been cornfed and injected with steroids then double it. It rolls up to the size of a medium sized cannon and is packable by a team of ox. It’s as good as a real bed though 😉

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Field Tips #39764

Welcome aboard Mike 😀

As already mentioned, 3rivers is a great place to start, they have TJ’s book that Dave mentioned, a bunch of helpful videos and a great range of products. TJ’s book lives in my workshop and is covered in dirty fingerprints, it is a great resource to have at hand when fiddling with arrows or anything else trad archery related.

I’m genuinely happy for you mate, I put down my compound some years ago and I tell you what, I’m not nearly as good a shot, but when that string slips past my fingers and that shaft sails through the air to find it’s mark, it makes my heart sing. You won’t be disappoointed with your decision 😉

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Out of Place Critters #38543

Here’s a photo of the first wild deer I’d ever seen in Australia:

Chital deer are quite common up here in north Queensland, but I didn’t know that when I moved up here so seeing these guys gave me quite a shock. Given these were also the first deer my son ever saw he thought they were called the first thing he heard me say when we saw them. That’s why when I flick through my TBM’s now he is constantly saying ‘Oh sh!t’ 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Practice of the Wild #38524

Clay, you deja vu’d me with the paintings integrating natural formations into art, using them as inspiration perhaps for the work that would complete the painting. But I didn’t read it, I saw it on a documentary recently.

colmike wrote: why do you need a canteen cup stove?

Mike, my suggestion that I needed another one because the new one would have an arrow head embossed on it was not well received. My argument that it would match the new cup with the arrow head embossed on it did not strengthen my case. A case of one bird killing two stones 😕

Good luck with your Household Actual 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Check out the two Voodoo Kustom elk longbows #38178

That’s a cool looking bow. What’s that riser made out of? I really like the arrow head design on the belly there.

Jim

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