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in reply to: More archers paradox #49537
Well you get a gold star for this one, Troy! Man, how amazing; almost unbelievable. Even my wife will enjoy and be astounded by this one, and she’s not an archer.
Things I noted through the various shots: How the feathers flopped like dishrags, how in at least one shot the arrow continued turning after impact and well into the target (appears to be lots of helical at work there), the extreme wave-like flexibility of the shaft in paradox (I had thought the cartoonist who drew the Disney cartoon paradox (featured in another thread here) had way overdone it, but obviously not), and how the first few arrows demonstrated not just a single bend to the right, but several bends-and-recoveries timed in cycle with shaft rotation. Bottom line, I don’t have a clue what I can take away from all of this to make me a better archer, but it’s always tremendously interesting to see the “invisible reality” at work within the laws of physics. Even the music was fun. 😀 Thanks for sharing, Dave
in reply to: NEW TO TRADITIONAL #49167Hi Stick, and welcome here. I always advise new trad shooters and hunters to pick up a copy of T.J. Conrads’ Traditional Bowhunter’s Handbook, an excellent general primer. Enjoy your new bow, Dave
in reply to: Shooting to left, consistently… #48414We need more info. It could be spine, release, or how much you cant your bow, plus your experience level shooting trad. From 10 yards it seems more likely an aiming problem. The old trad wisdom is that it doesn’t matter so much where your arrows group on the target, so long as you have a group. If you do, just try readjusting your sight picture.
With luck, others will chime in but more detail would be helpful.
in reply to: Adding to a bow curious of problems #48145Welcome, Swamp Rat. I can’t help with your question, but others here will be able to. That’s a big move to OZ! Best luck, Dave
in reply to: who carrys a backup gun #47411Smithy — Sometimes what we don’t kill sticks with us better than what we do because, in various ways, it’s a more profound thus memorable moment.
I have been between black bear sows and cubs so many times, I long ago quit worrying about it. A bear bio friend said he’s plucked cubs off trees and ear-tagged them while the sow sat nearby making unpleasant noises, but was never ever charged in 20 years of intense bear handling, including entering occupied dens.
On the other hand, I hear that black bears in AK “are a whole ‘nuther species” from what we have down here,accounting for more injuries and deaths to people than grizzlies do. Brown bears are said to be far more mellow than grizz, since they have a far richer food source and don’t need to be so competitive among themselves, and bears treat us like they treat other bears.
And finally, a few summers ago I shot a young black bear square in the chest from 2′ away, with a 12-bore sawed-off and rubber “bear pellets” after he took a swipe at me through the bedroom screen window (glass was open). But then, as my bear bio friend noted, I was shining a bright light in his eyes and yelling in his face. “I’d have taken a swipe at you too.” The bear lived and my wife later saw it near here, but it never again came around the shack.
Bears, like people, are far too individual, intelligent, and unpredictable ever to put into the same can together. And I’m damn glad they’re out there. IMHO
in reply to: Noteable Quotes! #47185Ed — Now that is a great quote! Sad but true. 😕
Here’s one, anon: “Measure twice, cut once.”
in reply to: Mother Earth News #47004Good point, Charlie. I’ll pass it along. But to be clear, my recent pro-hunting articles both in the magazine and on their website, have netted a lot of support as well, from open-minded nonhunters as well as hunters. It’s just that when people are pleased with something they read, we most often just think “nice,” and forget about it. Once in a while we will write the author, which is how I know I have support. But it’s human nature to write in protest when we see something we don’t like. So editors of all magazines get a “hate mail” out of proportion to support mail. Thus, it’s a standard of the industry that one support letter is worth 10 hate letters. Still, it would be nice if folks who approve of a controversial message let the editors know, else there’s a tendency to censor that message and/or writer in the future. The politics of words. 😯
in reply to: who carrys a backup gun #46997Winter’s a long time going, up this high.
My best second-hand pepper spray story. A friend of a friend, doing some placer mining near Chicken, AK, and who was accustomed to running off frequent grizz visitors to his cabin (must have kept a sloppy operation with garbage, etc.) with pepper spray, once had a big bull moose in rut show up on his small porch and … just stand there. Very strange, but there it was — a bull moose parked on your porch and keeping you from going out. (No bush cabin I’ve ever seen up there has a back door, and the windows are usually quite small to keep bears from crawling in.) So finally the guy cracks open the door and sprays the bull square in the face with “bear” spray. The moose went insane and turned into a rodeo bronk, knocking down one of the porch support posts, then destroying the outhouse and meat shed, and still it wouldn’t leave. Guy finally had to shoot it but I don’t know if the spray flavored the meat. 😀 True story.
If you’re seriously concerned about grizz, you need both a gun and spray. We are free to make our own decisions but as noted in an earlier post here, statistically you are way ahead with spray. When it’s worse than worthless is when a wind is blowing from you to the bear, and in a tent. I keep a “bear gun” sawed-off shotgun in my tent, as previously noted, but in daylight hike and explore freely with only the spray. In daylight I fear NO animal except man and crocodile, and the latter is purdy scarce in the mountains.
in reply to: Feather???? What Feathers!!!! #45098R2 — ditto our local “bow” shop. Top weight field points and broadheads they sell are 125, down to 75, and the staff seem honestly amazed to hear they come heavier. 😛
On the other front — why wheelies can shoot accurately with tiny vanes when they have minus-FOC points — stability via centershot bows and trigger releases makes sense. Thank thee kindly.
Which brings up yet another money-wrench question, probably aimed mostly at Ed who clearly has done serious research in the historical arena: Has any “primitive” group of archers, anywhere in the world and anytime in history, ever used a string release? If so I’d assume it’s static rather than mechanical (that is, no moving parts or trigger action)??? Again, just curious. Sure is cool to hang out with folks who know all this interesting, and so often highly useful, “trivia.”
So far as the girlie pics, to be fair to our beloved Webmother and other “lurker” ladies (they read but don’t often post), next time a need for such arises, you should use a male model. Sexual equality, you know. Just please PM me first with a warning so I can go read a book instead. 😆
in reply to: King Kong is Coming #45044PT — If you’re shooting woods and hot for EFOC … good luck. FYI the heaviest glue-on heads I know of are Tuffhead 300s, available both as superb broadheads and “artillery shell” brass field points. Best I’ve been able to do with woods so far, even with these weighty heads and relatively light single-tapered wood shafts (Sitka spruce) is just shy of EFOC. I personally don’t trust the WoodyWeights, but the problems I had with them separating in extreme-impact tests (angled shots into trees) from glue-in points could well be a “personal problem” with gluing technique, because others have used them to good success. 300-grain heads with WoodyWeights should get a guy at least into the low 20% FOC. It’s all good fun, and the EFOC and other Ashby-research magic DOES work.
But a few words of caution: Watch out for the likes Dr. Ed, King, Todd, Elkfart and that sort of heretic … I hear from afar that they are not only entirely insane, they are downright evil. As moderator here, I’d delete every post they make, but they bribe me not to. 😛
in reply to: Feather???? What Feathers!!!! #45029You guys … no need to stoop to posting photos of my first wife! 😛
R2 — I suggest you don’t stop at 145. Field points are cheap and as simple to change as a few twists off and on. Keep adding weight until you find the max FOC your alums will allow … it might be a lot higher than you think if you were overspined to begin. And maybe you have even half an inch of extra length to cut … well, if your inserts are not heat-glued in you might have to cut back 3/4″ or so … then you have even more spine to work with.
So here’s a question in the shape of a monkey wrench: The wheelie boys have been shooting little plastic vanes forever. The plastic/feather difference aside, what is it, what force or law of physics allows tiny flethching with 75- and 100-grain points? Is it speed? The lightness of the overall arrows? This question has nothing to do with penetration or other serious hunting concerns, but is mere curiosity about what allows this seeming anomaly, while we trad folks need EFOC in order to reduce fletching size. ???
in reply to: Who Hunts Alone Most of the Time? #44937Hi Mike —
Good to see you back over here on the sunny side of the hill. 😀 See ya in Portland next month, eh. I forget whose turn it is to buy drinks, but I’m pretty sure it’s yours. 😛 Dave
in reply to: 100 Year Anniversary Main Hunting Shoe #44565Todd — I believe the website recommends a half size large, which I always get anyhow so’s to have room fcr heavier wool socks if it’s cold.
Schnee makes an excellent boot, but nothing as light and quiet as the Bean unlined MHS. My “heavy winter boots” are a pair of, I believe, Outfitter Schnees. They have a Thinsulate liner and, like the Beans, gum soles with adequate but not aggressive tread.
in reply to: FOC arrows of differnet tribes #43708How many hundreds of tribes were there, scattered across the continent, when Columbus invaded the Americas? That’s how many different arrow styles we might expect to have existed. Museum specimens and historical paintings, some of which show not great penetration of arrows dangling from running bison–suggest that horse-mounted Plains Indians used fairly short arrows with small “bird” points, which suggests low FOC, thus perhaps the larger fletchings. Nor would arrows have been nearly so straight and uniform in spine and weight as today, also necessitating more rear-end steerage. Their technique when running bison and other large animals was, apparently, for an individual rider/hunter to pick a victim and stick it repeatedly with arrows, like a pincushion, until it bled out and went down. I’ve never seen a picture or reference to N. American Indians using the extremely long arrows so common in S. America and elsewhwere. Obsidian isn’t all that heavy, nor were trade points. But all of this is speculation based on a small sampling of evidence. I would be more interested in knowing how woodland Indians of the East set up their arrows, since they were largely hunting deer and hunting often alone, which better parallels how we hunt today, our concern for good blood trails, etc.
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