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in reply to: Arrow combination-elk #39949
Not too much weight at all. You can tune to accurately shoot most any weight and have to determine for yourself when the arc of trajectory becomes too high for consistent accuracy at your max personal range. I would personally start with a lighter shaft and add more weight to the front. So long as you’re over 650, increasing FoC gains more penetration and has less affect on arrow flight than increasing overall weight. The Eclipse is a good head. I would go with single-bevel. In any event you’re in good shape where you are now. The real trick is finding a willing elk to stand broadside at under 20 yards! Good luck, dp
in reply to: Oklahoma Pronghorns #38643Congrats on your goat, Jason! And thanks for posting these pictures. That little rocky canyon looks huntable, but the rest … oooh! That last photo of the buck — he’s a dandy! What county is this? Can’t beat that prongy doe meat. dave
in reply to: Catch a dream foundation request #37874Jim — it would help if you could list details — like make, model, year, etc., with a good photo. We have folks who visit this site who collect and are expert on many types of bows … George Stout for one. Sorry to hear about Make a Wish xing hunting wishes. Ed Ashby used to donate his TBM pay for articles to Make A Wish, then switched to individual trad bowhunters on bad financial times. Now I know why. And remember, aside from “street value,” a bow can bring a lot more at auction for a good cause. BEst luck, dave p
in reply to: Help on cedar arrows #37871Hey Jordan — that’s too big a question to respond to here. What you need is a good book on basic wood arrow set-up and tuning, of which several exist, and lots of articles as well. I’ll leave it to others here to make suggestions. My one hint is that if you’re mostly interested in elk, don’t restrict yourself to cedar only, as many other woods exist that are heavier and strong and thus far better for big tough crits like elk. Best luck, dave p
in reply to: Arrow shaft making equipment #37868Handirifle — I’m thinking you should bop this post over to the bowyer and arrowsmith forum, where you may encounter far more specific expertise … in particular, Fletcher. If it were me I’d make fine furniture from it and buy my shafts already turned. Best luck, dave p
in reply to: Washing Clothes: Baking Soda? #37862I have used it, and while it seems to get rid of odors it doesn’t “clean” like detergent does. But no problem — at season’s end just was with regular detergent. I have also showered with baking soda and the same can be said. Now that you’ve reminded me, I think I’ll go back to that traditional alternative. dp
in reply to: Oh WOW, Never Had A Day Like This #37368😆 I wondered when you got javalinas in MT! And fallow deer smacks of a TX “exotics” ranch. By going there in your mind, you saved a lot of money and a long boring drive! Good luck with your real hunt. I’m stuck waiting now for Dec. and AZ, though I’d love to visit KS or NE where you can hunt birds and kill almost limitless numbers of whitetail does for give-away nonresident tag prices. And though I blush to admit it, young whitetail can be as good if not better than elk. Alas, all that hunting seems to be private land leased to outfitters. dp
in reply to: Need help with Brace height #37361Gee Todd it’s a bit of a guess. I can say that most recurves, old and new, brace 7″ or higher. If you have other bows with shorter strings, try one of those. You know the basics of brace height: lower is better but when you get wrist slap and/or a noisy string you’re probably too low. Any trad bow shop worth its salt should be able to fit a string and set the height for you. Of course, most of us don’t have a local trad bow shop. Dave
in reply to: Wensel woodsman for elk #36130Ashby’s tests show that single-bevel two blades leave superior exit wounds and rich blood trails. But broadhead design is secondary to penetration and shot placement. An arrow that stays in of course won’t allow blood to escape like a two-hole pass-through without the cork removed. And low in the chest cavity provdes great blood while high often won’t bleed externally at all. And finally, if a shaft stays in, with elk at least the muscles, after a very few minutes, will contract and seal tight around the “cork” so that you often have some blood at first, then it totally stops. I have some big Woodsmen someone gave me that I use for turkey hunting and can testify that while they are easy to sharpen and absolutely wicked looking, the tips will blunt or bend on contact with a hard surface, like an elk shoulder blade.
If you’re hunting only whitetails and smaller pigs, you can get away with almost any good head so long as it’s sharp. For bigger, tougher game I recommend a single-bevel two-blade, long and narrow rather than wide, with a Rockwell hardness of at least 50. There are now a great many such heads to choose from and some, like the Tusker Concord, are no more exensive than soft-steel heads. My experience, mystory and sticking to it. dave p
in reply to: Sharp out of the package… #36120Who makes Phantoms? Please describe the head and if possible, provide a link to a site that shows them. My instinct is to predict that a factory-sharp head is not real hard steel. As one broadhead manufacturer explained to me, the extra labor and time involved in doing a final sharpen on a head above 50 Rockwell or so would make them prohibitively expensive. But then, at $40 for 3, maybe that’s what you’ve found. dp
in reply to: The Silent Arrow #34836Ed — speaking of “step up and step down,” have you had the knee job done yet? Either way, how are you faring? Dave p
in reply to: thank you all guys #34831Stefan — We thank you as well. Everyone here has something to teach, and something to learn, and we know how to share. What we are most proud of with this site is the quality of mutual respect among participants as evidenced in the way we converse and even argue. The human race needs more of that, more easy-going humor, more open minds to opposing ideas, and less petty snarky pissy grandstanding by folks hiding behind fictional names. It’s all fun, dave p
in reply to: Oklahoma Pronghorns #32554Red — Please do post photos of that landscape as it looks today, thanks. I’d return there in a minute to bowhunt prongy if I had a place to hunt and could draw a tag. Fat chance of either! And good luck to you. dave
in reply to: Newbe-wanabe #32548You’re welcome here, Red. We’re always happy to help folks graduate from training wheels. 😛 dave
in reply to: Oklahoma Pronghorns #29629I would think with o/c tags there would be hunters thick as ants out there! No public land either, I guess. My father was born and raised in the Dust Bowl near Rankin, now Reydon, north of Cheyenne, near the site of the Black Kettle massacre (Custer’s final cowardly slaughter of innocents before his karma caught up with him at the Little Big Horn. Sure would be a hoot to hunt that area for something other than jackrabbits, which are what I started on there as a kid and nothing else left. Made a couple of pheasant hunts out there as a kid also, but like elsewhere they ran in the corn stubble and nenver got up, as I had no dog. If they’re not already it’s just a matter of time before blood-sucking leach outfitters lease the best lands to sell to the highest and most inept bidders, leaving the rest of us as usual, locked out. All high praise to public lands! dp
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