[James Harvey]

in reply to: ARROWS #52776

grumpy wrote: Is anybody reading this?

Every word mate 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Hunting canoe #52073

I have a two car garage and only one car. I think space will be adequate. I thought I may have to buy some new power tools but have discovered I can sign tools out of the workshop at work so that’s a bonus.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Hunting canoe #51834

grumpy wrote: Did I tell you that Mike (who ownes Newfound) is my brother?

You did Grumps 😉 I also heard from another unrelated source that he builds some of the best cedar strip canoes in America. At this stage, ordering some plans from him is at the top of my list, I’m just trying to do some general components pricing here before I spend any money. I’ve watched some videos of guys building them and it looks reasonably straight forward.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Memorable Wildlife #48724

Duncan wrote: I witnessed a gang of crows after a juvie Coopers Hawk with its parents calling from nearby.

I was sitting at a suburban train station once and saw a big crow dive down on pigeon that was on the tracks. The crow had his feet out like a diving hawk, nailed the pigeon on the back, then standing on the pigeon proceeded to peck it’s head off and carry the head away. I looked around and no one else at the station had seen it, they were all looking at phones or books or what ever. It was incredible.

The next day I walked along the tracks near there and found another couple of headless pigeon corpses. I loved the idea that there was a crow somewhere nearby who had a nest surrounded by pigeon skulls. That’s a badass crow!

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Watch your fingers! #48647

I try, really try to avoid killing snakes. They have a hard enough time here with cane toads without me adding to the death toll. I have killed a few all the same. The last one I killed was a few years ago, on Christmas eve.

I stumbled, drunk as a skunk, into my bedroom and even through my drunken glaze had the wherewithal to mutter “I didn’t leave a belt on the floor”. A quick flick (read manic sawing) of my pen knife later and there was now a wriggling body and lonely head on the floor, waiting for a more sober me to clean it up on Christmas day.

If I’d seen this video first I probably would not have left the head sitting on the floor 😯

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Bow quivers #48440

Handi, I use a screw in quiver on my recurve which is just a cheap plastic bohning one I used to have on my compound. It has a little mounting bracket that screws into the riser then the quiver locks onto that. Mine is a 3 arrow but it’s also very old, all of the ones I see now like it are 4 or 6 arrow. They’re light and cost about 30 bucks. I suppose a downside is that the hood is plastic so can be noisy if you scrape it against branches etcetera. Also it’s useless for my rubber blunts.

I might be misunderstanding but I thought from your original post that you don’t want one that straps to your limbs right?

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: making carbons heavy #46696

jasonsamko wrote: you would need to find a 300 grain glue on head. not an option that I know of.

Jason, I have exactly 740 grains in my new setup and 440 of that is in the head 😉 Check out the Tuffheads: http://www.tuffhead.com/broadheads/tuffhead%20main.html

Like I said earlier, I dropped from an 11.2 gpi 340 shaft to a 9.5 gpi 300 shaft to use the Tuffheads because the old ones were too heavy/weak spined. If you’re interested in Ashby stuff, have a look in the Friends of FOC forum, lots of info in there 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: made a clean shot #46588

Congratulations! Sounds like a friendship that is going places 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: making carbons heavy #46207

Jason that looks like a really clever and elegant idea. I’ve made the leap from 11.5 gpi shafts to 9.5 in search of FOC but if ever I find myself going the other way I’ll be using that. Thanks for sharing.

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: bear hunt with great footage #43882

Hey, I’ve got a question and please know I’m not having a go at you, I’m just from another world where treestands are kind of unheard of, so I don’t really know anything about them. If you’re getting footage like you did from the ground blind why do you hunt from a tree stand? Is it for the shot angle or something?

Pardon my ignorance, this video just kind of sparked that question in my head. There is some good footage in there by the way.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: 2013 hunting rigs #42923

I had a suspicion we’d see more than one curvy girl from your harem on this thread Bruce 😉

I’m loving the diversity of gear in this thread. How much mojo is in Dave P’s rig?

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Carbon arrow saw #42902

I reckon the file is great for tuning. I take my file, jig and notepad and put them on top of my target, shoot an arrow a few times, take notes and cut it right there and then, repeat till tuned.

Etter I really like you use of electrical tape as a cutting guide. I’m going to give that a go next time.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: attaching glue on broadheads #42890

Jason Wesbrock did a good ‘how to’ on this in the Apr/May 2011 TBM. As soon as the head is on, throw it on a spin tester and hold a ruler vertical up to the tip of the head. Spin the arrow and if the tip points at the same place on the ruler the whole time you know it’s good. If the tip moves up and down you it’s out of alignment. You can generally do a little adjustment while the glue is still hot.

If you don’t have a spin tester, Wesbrock also showed his elegantly simple home made jig which I copied and can post pics of. It’s a bit of 2×4 (or similar sized scrap you may have) with 4 nails in it. It couldn’t be easier.

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Hunting canoe #41774

Sorry I haven’t been responding guys, I’ve read and re-read every bit of advice, been reading and watching links etc. So much to consider! I like the look of the cedar strip Otter design at Newfound, short, light but with a decent load capacity. I found out the army has some canoes up here on my base so am going to see if I can sign one out for a few weekends to play around with.

I’ll be pretty confident with the crocs here if I’m in a canoe. I’ve read about crocs knocking guys out of their tinnies but those are big 18 foot males being territorial of their ponds. Down here I’ve only heard of smaller salties that are desperate enough to come this far south. They still scare the poop out of me though 😉 On the up side of cowardice the only ‘bears’ we have are vegetarian tree huggers that are stoned out on eucalyptus.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #39554

That looks like a serious head handi! I also came up with a 300 grain blunt, that’s perhaps a little less elegant 😉

I couldn’t find anyone who sold 180-200grain glue on blunts, which is what would be required for the rubber blunt solution I had above. So I took a hack saw to a 190grain brass field point I had:

I nipped the tip off with the saw then filed briefly for a weight match. Added a 125 grain steel insert and 120 grain rubber blunt to complete the set.. all these heads weigh the same:

I’m not certain on pricing but it would be somewhere between 3-5 bucks and 5-10 minutes for the 300grain rubber blunt (which is 100% untested for structural integrity…).

EDIT: I thought untested was pretty useless so went and fired a dozen shots into my backyard target (~9 yards) and a few shots drilling into the dirt within 5 yards. That rubber blunt is doing fine.

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