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in reply to: shaft sleeve fit problem with Tuffheads #53386
Joe, put on your magnifying glasses. 😆 The sleeve is touching the back of the broadhead, snug together. There is a bit of brown camo on the sleeve that could appear as wood.
Yep, I reckon the solution is to sleeve the hunting and target arrows separately so that all have a good fit. These are just 2″ sleeves and Ed recommends at least 4″ to best prevent breakage. I tried that and just didn’t like the way it looked or felt when the back of the sleeves “bumps” over the shelf pad when drawing. For some reason these shorter ones don’t bother me at all. And the shaft that broke last year was only about an inch behind the head. Meanwhile, while I’m convinced that a good tight sinew wrap with Titebond3 makes a great protective splint, it tends to go on too thick and unevenly (because you have to splice together so many short pieces of sinew) with sharp little ththread ends sticking out. I will use that for the arrows for the selfbow and the aluminum shafting for the Elkheart arrows. Of course I could simply pull out my carbons and be done with it, but then I’d miss all the fun of pre-season messing around with gear.
in reply to: Oil rub arrow finish? #52759Ralph, if the rocks down there in TX are as hard as the average Texan’s head … no wonder? :P:lol:
in reply to: REAL primitive bowhunting! #52756Paleo– There’s a photo of it here somewhere and I’m sure another member of the group with better memory than me can guide you to it. It’s the front half of a knife blade (it may have broken off at the handle hilt) in absolutely pristine condition, not even dirty like most other quartzite blades I’ve found. It’s milky white on one side and pinkish on the other, exquisitely worked and with a nearly rectangular white “flaw” inside that you can see from both sides. It’s really special to me as I’ve been a lifelong zippo for finding stone tools, and too, it was on a trail leading right to where I’ve hunted forever, a trail I’ve walked a few thousand times then suddenly … it’s lying there right on top the dirt. I showed it to a world-class archaeologist and all he could say is that he wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a lot older than I think, which is Ute, circa 1400 when they got here to maybe 1600 after which they’d be using steel tools traded or stolen from the Spanish. Of course for me the older the better, as I’m firmly stuck in the Pleistocene.
in reply to: Oil rub arrow finish? #52699Thanks, Kevin; I’ll look into it. Your arrows have a warm soft luster to them, but they are hardwood rather than spruce. Still, that’s what got me interested in oil as an arrow finish, and Teak is far cheaper than Tung! As I recall, those shafts were oiled with no other finish on top? I hope to be done with poly and lacquer, as both tend to run and eventually crack. Another fun experiment to undertake.
in reply to: Low Poundage FOC #52612Well, Jim, if the layout is right you could open the back door and shoot through the house, considerably lengthening your distance. 😛
in reply to: SE Idaho Shoot! #52608Wahoo — Yes, and if you checked, his name is likely all over the local police and FBI reports as well! 😛 Seriously, I wish I could attend this one, the confluence of two good causes. The West is just too damn big sometimes.
in reply to: REAL primitive bowhunting! #52606Yeah, Ralph, and I’ll sneaking right behind her! 😯
in reply to: Low Poundage FOC #52263Jim, that IS impressive and dramatically confirms Ashby’s experiments, and reports, that arrow mass and EFOC make even more difference in penetration with lighter bows than with heavy (the percentage of gain is much higher). Are you saying you haven’t shot it from 20 yards yet to check trajectory. That could well be the downside. Let us know.
in reply to: REAL primitive bowhunting! #52257Steve — You are ever the hawk-eyed critic. 😛 And obviously there was at least one cameraman there all the time, and maybe a small crew. And most nights she goes home for a shower, etc. And in one scene in one of the films she has a bit of eye makeup on. Yet … she was raised part-time with the local Bushmen who live on or use the family ranch and speaks their difficult language well, she does schmooze with lions, which she hand raised, and wild cheetahs (though I didn’t see the point or sense in that scene) and she is an aggressive killer of game. But she’s also an attractive female who knows it and wants to look her best for the camera. Watch all the relative vids, as T and I have, and you’ll get a better picture of the scene. I don’t see any attempt to fake anything, but just to document. There is another, similar vid of a younger girl, 18 or so, who likewise grew up on a bush ranch and in this case raised a cheetah and runs around with it encountering various adventures. And yet another of three kids, two bows maybe 10 and 8 and a younger girl, who regulary go out and play with the rhinos, elephants and Cape buff. Aside from having a camera right there in the background and perhaps a backup rifle, these scenes can’t really be faked.
in reply to: Behman ICS 300's #51129Doug — now you’re cooking!
in reply to: REAL primitive bowhunting! #51128There are a series of the videos, several in Russian. Sorry about the box ads that pop up after the video–that’s a price of using youtube and nothing to be done about it. Rather like watching a good hunting video then having a dozen links for horn porn showing up. I figure we’re mature enough to handle it. 8)
What I found interesting is the Bushmen’s “bowhunting style,” which seems to involve launching dozens of arrows from great distances. I wonder if that tells us anything about how the first bowhunters operated. I’m guessing poison arrows have been around from the beginning. Yesterday I spent the day visiting with a professor who oversees an archaeological dig in Ethiopia where they are finding dozens of what are clearly arrow heads … from 40,000 years ago! This gentleman is a trad bowhunting and feels that eventually they will be able to prove that people had bows and arrows that far back. I don’t know why I hope its true, but I do. After examining several of the points there’s no way they can be anything else as they’re way too small for spear or even atlatl points and there is no evidence that any early Africans ever had atlatls. After finding that stone knife blade last week I’m keenly interested in this stuff.
in reply to: Oil rub arrow finish? #50048Thanks for the voice of experience, guys. I love it that after a long lifetime involved in trad archery there are seemingly always new things to learn, and learning is always fun. The shafts are in, so we’ll soon find out.
Jans, at the local hardware store I paid $16 for a pint!
in reply to: Heat gun glue for arrows? #50046Thanks, guys, I’ll give it a try. And welcome aboard, John.
in reply to: Heat gun glue for arrows? #49463Thanks, Jim. That’s a promising start. The taper tool arrived (with the order where I forgot the glue) and I’ll let you know … if I hadn’t shot the latest broken wood arrow into space recently I could experiment on that. Maybe my dogs will find it somewhere up the mountain, as has happened before.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #49412Bruce– Have you had the chance to field dress a big animal with that blade? Say, WalMartian size or bigger? 😛 I absolutely love the way it looks, but am also aware that looks don’t always equal utility (yes, that can be taken as a wide-ranging metaphor). The handle being longer than the blade is my first requirement for a go-to skinner, and perhaps because the handle is slender it makes the blade look “fat.” But too, it seems possible that the blade in fact is a bit too wide for max maneuverability when working on and in an animal? And what is the steel quality? Now, if Helle would just design a knife that looks that great and performs like a Helle, they could rule the world! I’m yet to find any knife that holds an edge anywhere near like a three-layer Helle blade, but for the most part they are plain if not downright ugly, IMO. If my pal Doc Dave Sigurslid was still frequenting this site I’d make an appropriately rude Norsky joke at this juncture, but poor guy has gone to the dark side and retired from hunting.
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