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I’ve had some remarkable experiences with ravens over the years, with them both warning me when game is approaching, and also where elk were bedded. And the first thing I recall after regaining consciousness after falling from a tree in AZ last year, was two ravens circling low overhead calling excitedly. I don’t think they were offering wishes for a speedy recovery. 😛 Had I never awakened, I likely would have wound up like the elk remains in the pic below.
Jans – Your wrapping is prettier than mine, but I’ve not yet had problems with it “wearing” or fraying through shooting. This is fake sinew. I also tried serving string, much like yours, but prefer the sinew as it’s wider and flatter and wraps on tighter. I started by using steel wool to prep the arrow paint then applied a coating of TiteBond III and wrapped the sinew on wet. After drying a few days I sprayed with spar urethane, which may wear off after a while but is easy to reapply. I wrapped back 4″ according to Ed Ashby’s advice. So far I’ve noted no difference in how they shoot and the only one I’ve been able to break was wrapped with serving string and broke well behind the wrap when it glanced off the side of a tree. I’m using old stumping POC shafts for these tests, as I try hard to destroy them. But no luck yet breaking one under the wrap. These are 300 grain Tuffies. I do plan to wrap my Sitka spruce elk arrows this way, as one broke an inch behind the head last year on impact (it may have been nicked and I didn’t notice it). I do need to find a weay to prevent the lump of know at the back of the wrap. For now I’m situating it to face away from the bow to eleminate any bumping over the shelf. It’s all fun.
Hi Bill. It’s a Range Tent, by David Ellis Canvas Products in Durango, CO. His website is http://www.cowboycamp.net. It can be put up using two external poles, as I did, or a single internal pole, or if you can find a tree to match, hung from a heavy limb. It has a sewn-in waterproof bathtub floor and a port for a woodstove. Totally delux product with a price to match. That one (now owned by Thomas Downing) was 12×12 with a 9′ peak. While a wall tent provides more standup room due to the higher side walls, this design is the next best thing and had gobs or room for a stove, table, two cots, two chairs and packs, etc. It was by far also the best tent in a strong wind I’ve ever ridden out a storm in. It’s heavy and bulky but I had no problem putting it up by myself. But I rarely used it and, like “extra” bows, found myself in a financial tight spot and sold it. Thomas and his dad and son have used it in their elk camp a month at a time for a few years now and he could tell you more. While you can find cheaper tents, it soon becomes evident why–they lack the floor, or are cheaper thinner canvas (Ellis uses top garde sail canvas), don’t have sun block or fire retardant coatings, etc. If you can afford it you can’t beat it. He has dozens of designs and will do custom work. We are not friends so I’m not glossing him, but he just makes a really good product. If that picture has an entrance fly, I bought that separately from another source. I painted on the bear paws myself, to match a tatoo I have on my leg.
