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in reply to: Holmegaard #37263
Holten — there’s quite a bit on the internet about these bows, mostly posted from Denmark etc., including some pretty darn good photos of the originals. I have a file and will see if I can figure a way to get some of it on here. But a bit of googling should be worthwhile. That’s definitely my next selfbow project. What attracts me to the design of this bow is the unique flat-vertical limb design. I can’t imagine it’s as efficient as a standard longbow, but sure is a good looker and would be a challenge and fun to build as a selfbow. dave
in reply to: Teaching the Principals of FoC (to my son) #37258You’re a good man, Mr. P.
in reply to: New to archery #37256jmed — it appears that the answer to your question — deduced from all the above — is something like: “We don’t really know about that specific bow, but we feel you’d be much happier with a custom rather than factory bow to start with.” I agree. We now know how much you can spend, but we still don’t know what poundage you’re looking at, recurve or longbow preferences, etc. If you’re looking for a lighter bow, up to 45# (plenty adequate for deer with the right arrow), I would add to the suggestions above that you check out the Great Plains Field Bow, lovely simply longbow for under $300 new. I would go for a used custom small-shop boy anytime over a new factory bow.
Bert — hang in, you’re getting sweeter every day! 😉
Patrick — I like your new avatar photo! Like my wife often tells me and myself, “The farther away you are, the better you look!” :P:lol: xo all, dave
in reply to: Texas Hog hunt #37243Clay — That’s an entirely reasonable moral position! If we had local “eater” hogs here (feral pigs) I might easily be persuaded to scatter a little corn in exchange for lots of good pork. But am I interested in driving two days south, at significant monetary expense, to kill anything over bait? Nope. I love to hunt too much and will invest my scarce traveling funds in other directions. And you? dave
in reply to: How do I make a heavy carbon arrow? #35882Rudy — let’s hope Dr. Ashby soon recovers from his latest med setback and is able to help you with this. Meanwhile, I believe he would reiterate that while overall arrow weight is very important to penetration, EFoC (extreme forwward-of-center) weight distribution is even more important. To use and example close to your own, I shoot 54# Shrew Classic Hunters, drawing 28″. In my experiments a 650-grain arrow with 25+ percent EFoC out-penetrates a 750-grain arrow with 19 percent FoC. I too have had nocks pop out on hard impacts, more so with GrizzlyStiks than with CE shafts, and it has nothing to do with internal footings bouncing around as I don’t use them. As the ABS folks explained it to me, it’s the shock of hard impact being transferred to the back of the shaft. You can glue them in place, or put up with it. To adjust FoC with carbon shafts without using internal footings, you have a good start with that heavy head, and can add pretty darn heavy steel broadhead adapters (I use 125s) and brass inserts (I use 100s). Since you’re shooting a fairly light bow on heavy African game, you’d do well to get overall weight really high as well as EFoC, but Ashby’s research says that of the two, EFoC is primary. Good luck. dave
in reply to: Texas Hog hunt #35873Bill — By DIY, do you mean no baiting?
Nasty sundburn you have there, Landon! :D:lol::wink: Steve pretty well covers it all. When I switched from recurve to a longbow years ago, two things gave me problems, so maybe worth mentioning. Most recurves are shorter than most longbows, and depending on the kind of hunting you do that could be an issue. Happily, we are seeing more and more shorter r/d longbows. I happen to shoot a 54″ Shrew but can’t recommend Shrew to you as the waiting list to have one built is now well beyond a year! Another problem I hit was going from the formed handgrip of a recurve to the straight grip of a longbow (my first was a plain stick, not a r/d hybrid like most today). I adapted nicely but some shooters don’t. But here again, today’s hybrid longbows often have a semi-formed handgrip. It’s worth a pilgrimage to your nearest good trad shop to shoot several. Great bargains available on used bows and that’s where I’d start until I got it figured out. Good luck with the sunburn! dave
in reply to: Eclipse Broadheads #32713Oops! Sorry Patrick, Robin, et al. As my wife regularly reminds me, what do I know? 😳 anon
in reply to: Michigan "Meatout Day" #32709George! Didn’t know you had this level of humor … but glad you still do! :lol::lol:
in reply to: Eclipse Broadheads #32373$20 Patrick and you can have instant gratification reading all TBM backissues online, even out-of-print editions. Once I figured out how to flip the pages it’s surprisingly easy and clear. But I know you’re saving for that Shrew bow! Chad is the genuine article, a serious primitive bowyer and hunter and old-style woodsman, never an ethical of techno-shortcut in his huntingpack, and I’m glad to see him posting here and writing regularly for the magazine these days. Dave
in reply to: Michigan "Meatout Day" #31711Been wondering where you’ve been the past few days, P. I’d hoped you were hauling meatout!:lol::P:twisted:
in reply to: Traditonal Archery Store?? #31709Sorry, Cody, I’m on the other side of the Divide from there. Watch out for the trees!:roll:
in reply to: Caribou Hunts #27991Based on 5 trips up there: If you hunt AK I would recommend a float trip vs. a drop camp. There are so many hunters up there now, and so many bush planes to service them, that you could easily get dropped on a small lake with another camp in sight right across from you, as I once did. Too many flight service companies will promise you what we all ask for — a remote camp all to ourselves amidst great hunting — then just drop you “by the numbers” for their own convenience. That’s the norm in my experience. With a float, you can move as often as you like or stay put and explore more deeply into the surrounding country. Not long ago Don Thomas — who lived there and had his own plane — wrote an article for TBM about this very topic. You’d do well hunt chase it down. Good luck, dave
in reply to: Backpack Hunting Questions #25076Right on, Bert! In fact they were both field-dressed, but even so weighed in at 340lbs!!! 😯 Mike — star of the best hunting video ever made (my op): Primal Dreams, and author of One with the Wilderness — Mike readily admits it was done as a joke and he didn’t carry those two honkers “much farther than what it took for my brother to get the picture.” Still, he DID pick ’em both up and cart ’em a ways. He’s the guy you want on your side in a pending bar fight — not only because he could throw the bad guys through the wall two at a time, but because he’s so mellow that he’d diffuse the need to do that. When I saw him recently at UPI banquet and commented that he appeared to have been lifting weights a lot lately, looking good, he came back “Naw, that’s just winter fat. As soon as antler-shed season gets here I’ll be walking 15 miles a day to burn it off.” :?:lol:8):P:lol:
I am not too proud to admit that a couple of years ago I tried a longbow sight. Can’t remember the name, but it’s a loop with no pin. You position the target in the center. Advertised to help center the eye on “the spot” and maybe does. But I found it as functionally useless as the pins back in the old days and fed it to the garbage can. Would I have kept it and used it, had it worked great? While tempting, I don’t think so. To me, trad archery is all about doing less with technology and pulling more from myself. That is not a slam on what very few tradsters use sights, but just my take on the universe. On a pragmatic level, one of the few practical advantages of shooting instinctively over using sights, is that it frees you from having to precisely calculate range.
None of which is meant to hijack or dampen your original question, which is entirely valid. Variety is the spice of life. 😀
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