[James Harvey]

in reply to: How does your Garden Grow? #62778

Steve, that’s a super garden mate! Good to see you’ve employed some American labour there as well 😉 I’m the kind of guy that doesn’t water his cactus enough 😳

Dave, you have it real bad with ugly pests like that. Lucky guys like me have majestic rats and elegant cane toads pesting our neighbourhood 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Where to experiment? #61758

Cheers Smithy 😀

So I guess in principle, I want as high a FOC as I can get with commercially available bits and still tune for my longbow. I know that sounds like a pay-off answer but that’s my goal 🙂

So just from a numbers perspective, my 340’s are 11.2 gpi. Uncut that shaft is 360 grains. With a nock and 75 grain insert/adaptor it’s 447. If at that point I use a 225 head I’ve only just slipped over the 650 grain threshold with just the fletching to add. I’m fairly certain I’ll be cutting an inch or two off the shaft, which is going to drop me down to ~660 or 650 plus fletching. Which is really only ‘just’ there in terms of total weight.

If the 340’s are underspined (I’m confident they will be, they’re pretty spot on now with a 190 grain head) and I get some 300 shafts, the new shafts are only 9.5 gpi which will drop total weight again by about 50 grains. So in the 600-620 range with 225 grain head.

With a 300 head, even my lightest scenario is still over 650 and with the lightest shaft I foresee using, I could still get very close to 800 grain total using heavier adaptors and footers.

I guess a 300 seems to cover all my bases?

My bow is a centrecut, 70# longbow that I draw to 29.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Resealing shafts? #61605

There are gecko’s in my garage that change shade to suit their background. My garage is where I repair my arrows. It’s all connected 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Where to experiment? #61594

Perhaps I could ask this another way 😳 Is there a good reason to use a head less than the heaviest one (300grain) available?

I figure the worst case is if I use the lightest adaptors I can get, shortened my shafts to the limit and they’re still underspined. However I can build out my sight window as Troy Breeding has mentioned if that occurs.

Perhaps it is simply time to get amongst it and start experimenting 😉

Cheers,

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Resealing shafts? #61179

Ralph, spray poly sounds like the ultimate lazy man’s solution. I’ll be getting some 😉

Haha, I like that the shark isn’t even a ‘lazy’ ambush predator like a viper or a croc, its just plodding along looking for someone asleep to bite. What a jerk 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Solo River Trip #60011

Looks beautiful mate! I like the canned dinner with a bottle of wine 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: "The Good Hunt" film trailer #60005

Looks beautiful Dave. For plebs like me, it is just a lucky time to be alive, with such thoughtful folks investing so much of themselves for the benefit of others.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Archery References in Language #59993

R2 wrote: I am also resisting temptation to go prowling for info. Obviously!

😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Little things that make us happy! #59105

Glad to hear you’re on the mend Ralph 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Archery References in Language #59036

Paleo, I’ve heard that the phrase “Rule of thumb” originates from the old brace height standard of sticking the base of your fist on the handle of the bow and sticking your thumb out. But that is a completely unconfirmed internet rumor that I can’t support with any reliable evidence 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Hi #58092

Hah, my wife took me to an intersection in rural KY that on the same sign post had pointing one way “Big Bone” and the other “Beaver Lick”. Hahaha. I love Kentucky 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Into The Wild #58085

Haha, I have a friend who’s a little nuts like that. He’s done some wild and dangerous things on a whim. He decided to do a river kayak that was a couple thousand km’s long with no prep at all. When he was buying his kayak he was telling the guy what he was planning to do, he was asked how much experience he had kayaking. He said ‘About a hundred metres’. 😀

Then he begged a single 24 hour ration pack and some hexi bricks off me. It turned out that was the only food he planned to bring. He said ‘There are plenty of campsites along the way, people will throw a friendly stranger a sausage’.

My concern peaked about 3 days after he set off when the river system had it’s biggest flooding event in living memory, becoming kilometres wide, engulfing farms, people getting winched from choppers etc etc. Luckily for him on day 2 he went over a waterfall and broke his kayak, which proceeded to sink, taking his meager supply of food and mobile phone with it. About 48 hours after that he turned up hungry and tired at a rangers station.

He was wildly underprepared but I always admire his adventurous spirit 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Hi #57908

dwc,

It’s one of the silliest place names I’ve ever heard. The founder of the town was a fellow named Robert Towns, who named it after himself in spite of the comic value 😉

Jim

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Memorial Day #57705

I second that. Thank you to all my American brothers in arms. Lest we forget.

Jim.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Hi #57703

Gday Dan! Where are you from mate? I’m up in Townsville.

Jim.

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