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in reply to: Arrow length as substitute for more FOC #40341
Never really thought about it. My DL is 28″+ so conventional wisdom says my arrows should be 29 or 29.5. That, however isn’t so. My arrows are 31″ from bop to nock throat. at that length with 5.5″ feathers and 125gr. medieval field points there is no fish tailing or purposing this is from a 53# 66″ LB.
in reply to: Rabbits, Hares, and Squirrels- Oh My! #39082I truly enjoy grits and eggs most any time. But grits & gravy just doesn’t cut it for me. 😯 Not bad, just not my favorite grits dish. Now rice & gravy that’s a whole nother ball game!
in reply to: Rabbits, Hares, and Squirrels- Oh My! #32523“youtes” either got all the rabbits in the vicinity or chased them to a safer area. In any event squirrel stew is yummy also. 1st kill the squirrel then skin it, disembowel. cook in salted water or chicken stock [w/ no salt] with pepper or tony cherie’s carrots, onion, celery , parsley cumin,(for gravy) serve over rice No I don’t use potatoes, thus the cumin Just got “fed- up” with potatoes while in the Navy, so I refuse to use them in my recipes.
in reply to: Yote Robertson #20668Smithhammer wrote: [quote=CareyE]
it won’t be long before some channel decides to take it to the next level, a la “Hunger Games”…
Yes and then The coliseum and Sparticus!
in reply to: Bulbed locater grip #12674Thanks fellas I really appreciate the pictures… It loos to me that there really isn’t that much of a diffrence between the dished, the pistol and the blubed risers but we will see. Hopefully I’ll be receiving the bow either this weekend or by the beginning of the month if not somewhere in between.
in reply to: Bulbed locater grip #53371two4hooking wrote: [quote=cyrille]I recently ordered a HH LB from [who else?] Howard Hill Archery, it is going to be 66″ 53# @28″ with two lams each of yew[on the back] then two lams of bamboo then yew again [on the belly] I ordered a bulbed locater grip as the riser. Because up until now I have never shot a LB only recurves and Mr. Ekin says that grip is the colosest to a recurve grip.
I do not doubt Mr. Ekin’s statement but I really have no idea what a blubed locator grip is. Any information on this type of grip [riser] would be greatly appreciated.
Craig is correct that the bulbed locator grip is most like the recurve (has a dip near the webbing of your thumb / pointer and not as sharp a wedge down the handle), however if you do not learn to shoot these bows with a heel down grip and a bent elbow you will not like the perceived “handshock”. You must shoot them differently to get the most benefit from the design. They are a differnt animal from recurves.
Thank you for your input twoforhooking, I truely had no idea what to expect as to the riser shape I appreciate your taking the time to answer my question.
in reply to: Arrows???? #43158Goraidh wrote: This is probably a silly question, but are you drawing right handed with a right dominant eye?
to whom is this question addressed?
in reply to: First Arrow Purchase Suggestions #57067I agree with skifrk you need to say which type arrows you want to use.
personally, I use wooden arows. Right now I’m working on getting one and 1/2 dozen Douglas fir in the 60-65# spine weight stained and fletched.
I shoot a 47# recurve. According to the information you gave you should be shooting about the same spine weight. But be warned each bow is an indiviual and it may not shoot the same as another bow of the same draw weight with the same spined arrow. It took me a looong time to finally discover which spine weight is the one my bow likes best.
in reply to: Sites on a recurve? #14990I shoot “bare bow”, always have and probabaly always will.
I had a shooting buddy a few years back who shot bare bow also but he had a “yardage chart” taped to the belly of his bow and he could come close to centre up to around 40 yds.
Never could get him to reveal how he figgured out the diffrent degrees of elevation for the specfic yardage, but he was darn good shooting bare bow.Wood shafts may be cool, but if you have the time, patience, correct spine and grain weight they will fly as good or better than any arrow fashtioned from man-made matreial.
I have read Byron’s “Become the Arrow” and liked it muchly,
however if I have my “druthers” I’ll shoot wood over aluminium, carbon or graphite all day, every day, if I have my druthers.:wink:in reply to: who was your mentor? #53203My mentor, the person that introduced me to hunting and instilled a love for nature and the natural beauty of the forests was my Uncle L.B. I had no “archery” mentor per si except possibly Errol Flynn or Howard Hill. My first bow was a “Ben Pearson Colt” @ 40#. My “last” bow will be a Black Widow TD @ 47#
in reply to: Have you ever considered a longbow ?? #25352Yes, I’ve considered them for a spell, but decided to stick with the recurve critters, The Longbows I’ve used were not very good and string follow was a serious problem. With a recurve I am a much better archer.
in reply to: One piece or Takedown whats your favorite? #25348I perfer a one-piece, but I have used a take-down, onlyest thing is I had a take-down come apart on me and raise a real nice hickey on my forehead where the top limb collided with it. For some reason— ever since then I’ve been a bit shy of take-downs. If that hadn’t happened my prefference for one-piece bows would be purely cosmedic.
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