[James Harvey]

in reply to: What broadheads do you like? #40441

J.Wesbrock wrote: Ausjim,

Aren’t Ribteks still being made in Australia? I’ve heard nothing but great things from friends who’ve used them.

They’re next on my list. Should have made them first on my list with the luck I’ve been having 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: How many bows do you have? #39615

One T/D recurve with 60 and 45 pound limbs

One old compound bow with a handful of aluminum arrows that lives under my bed with a hatchet (can’t have firearms for self defence in my neck of the woods).

My wife has a recurve too.

And the garage has a couple of PVC kids bows I’ve been making in anticipation of my kids wanting to be like daddy (we’ll see how that pans out).

[James Harvey]

in reply to: What broadheads do you like? #39609

I’ve used one version or another of these guys broad heads since I picked up my first bow (sigh, it was a compound) about 10 years ago.

http://outbackbroadheads.com.au/outback-supreme-125-grain

I really like them, plus they’re a local manufacturer for me. Unfortunately they only make screw ins so I’ve been forced to look elsewhere for my wood shafts. So far not had much luck with Aussie manufacturers :/

[James Harvey]

in reply to: What are your favorite trad pictures? #38506

I had trepidations wading out into this creek to take this shot, as I am pretty new in crocodile country and this seemed like decent croc habitat! But hey, the water was clear, I figured I’d see em coming and have time to scream like a coward before I was eaten 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Favorite Traditional Web Searches #37910

http://traditionalknowhow.blogspot.com/ is another worth checking out.

Smithhammer, that RMSgear site has beautiful photography on it.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Had the day off #35650

Huzzah, great way to spend the day! My grand dad used to shoot and eat pigeons quite often when my dad was a kid, but I don’t know how he cooked them. I’d be interested how you do it too 🙂

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Nothing is wasted … #31292

I just finished reading ‘The Tiger’. I was not disappointed. It was excellent. I want to move to Russia and hunt pigs in the cold. I bought the dvd direct from Sasha Snow. Dersu is next on my ‘to buy’ list.

It was wildly tragic as well, from both the human and tiger perspective. What a great book.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Target Panic #31268

I had a similar issue with my draw and hit up my local instructor. He took one look at my draw and said “you’re drawing with your arm, not your back”. So then I spent a little while concentrating on flexing my shoulder blades together as I approach my anchor, and boom, there I was, anchored nicely. Those are short moving, torquey muscles too, so they take that load quite easily.

Obviously my problem/solution was mechanical, whereas you’re describing something with a psych component. Maybe you’ve just got to the end of my post and thought “well reading that was a waste of time”. Haha, sorry 😉

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Our X-gun friends and bowhunting's public image #28557

That’s incredible Ralph. I’ve heard about poachers doing that here with those big caged pig traps our animal control uses. The poachers do the rounds of the known traps and if a pig is inside they set their dogs on them. That is incredible that your government agents are doing that.

Makes me sick.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Wonderful News! #27891

Congratulations mate! The only drawbacks I’ve found to parenthood are the complete loss of time, freedom, hopes and dreams. Besides that it’s all great! 😀

[James Harvey]

in reply to: what quivers do you prefer? #27876

I have always used a cheap plastic bohning bow quiver (3 arrows). I just bought a leather back quiver the other day and haven’t hunted with it yet. I suspect it will need a little wearing in before it will hold my arrows nice and snug. I’m not yet convinced but I like the idea of being able to carry a few blunts with my broad heads (always stumbling across rabbits here). I also want to be using the same gear in target practice as I hunt with.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Staining a pattern #27071

Good luck! Sounds like a fun project 🙂

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Abell's instinctive shooting books – a question #26845

Mhay, that’s a great story 🙂

Thank you all for your responses. I just saw 3rivers has an Asbell ‘master pack’, with all 3 shooting books, his hunting book and a DVD of his. Man I wish I hadn’t seen that :/

I think I may buy number 1 and go from there. Every tip of his I’ve tried from the mags has been a winner, so I’m eager to read some more in depth instruction from him.

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Howdy and a Question #25482

Ashford wrote: I can be found scaring fish with a fly rod, startling elk with my clumsy hunting; or walking past pheasants with shotgun in hand.

Hahahaha! Great line 😆

I’m about on par with you I think, so I’ll let others with more experience reply. A good piece of guidance I have read somewhere is that when beginning you should select a weight you can pull 10 times without fatiguing, so you give yourself the opportunity to practice without tiring quickly.

I’m sure you’ll get some great advice here 🙂

[James Harvey]

in reply to: Our X-gun friends and bowhunting's public image #24530

Alex, from reading lots of old posts (which I do a lot of), I think you and I are often on the same page. I agree with the principle that you and Etter and probably others have put forward, that a tool is just that. It is the person wielding it that makes a good or bad choice. And I agree with your premise that if this had been a beautiful hand crafted primitive arrow shot out of a lovingly worked self bow, it would have been no better. But it wasn’t. It was a xbow bolt.

I think there is more to this kind of debate than a tool is a tool. The first time I ever went into a big, commercial outdoors store in the US (I won’t name names, but it starts with a b and rhymes with asspro) I will never forget walking into the archery section and seeing a xbow on display. This thing was all black, covered in picatinny rails, had a scope, laser sight and tactical foregrip mounted. It looked a lot like any modern assault rifle. At the time I thought “what kind of person needs all that to kill something”. Obviously, the answer to that is no one, it is not a matter of need, it is a matter of want. So the question ought to be “what kind of person wants to have all that”.

I think the answer to that question is a group of people from within which you will find the subgroup of people that would shoot a puppy in the hip, or a deer in the head with a crap target point (not always maliciously either, ignorance and negligence are probably a more prevalent cause). Further to that I suspect the more militarized or hyped etc a weapon is, the higher percentage that subgroup will make up of the total. I am sure that there are jerks in the traditional scene as well, but I suspect they are of a much smaller proportion of our group. For the group of microwave owners, it’s probably an even smaller proportion again.

I’m not sure exactly what that all means, but I think it warrants more thought and can not be simply swept away by “a weapon is just a tool”. I’m not ready to jump all in with Dave and hate xbows either. But my slow, ponderous, near-sighted brain tells me there is something to this.

Anyway, that’s all just one idiots opinion 🙂 Peace out, I have some broadheads to sharpen 🙂

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