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in reply to: Hammock Seat Hedonism, Episode 1 #53205

I love the footage of the on coming shot, it’s stealthy and scary! I’ve rewatched that part 5 times now

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in reply to: Traditional Bow shops, Columbia/Jeff city MO? #50821

Hey Critch

I did my undergrad at MU, and lived there off and on from 2002 to 2009. There was a sporting goods store called the powder horn, they had a thin selection of trad stuff but that was about it.

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in reply to: Traditional Bow shops, Columbia/Jeff city MO? #50820

Hey Critch

I did my undergrad at MU, and lived there off and on from 2002 to 2009. There was a sporting goods store called the powder horn, they had a thin selection of trad stuff but that was about it.

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in reply to: Let's See Your Fletching #33194

I still need to check this movie out, just have not had the time yet.

ausjim wrote: I noticed the two fletch in that War of the Arrows movie as well.. I’m not across my Asian archery at all, but it struck me as trying to be accurate to the period.. anyone know if this is actually what Chinese and Koreans got up to?

I’m no mathemagician but my calculations suggest that 2 fletch should roughly cut your fletching time and resources by a 3rd… if it works.. why not eh?

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in reply to: Boots #33186

I’ve got an extremely narrow foot, depending on the make and model of the boot, I wear a “B” or even an “A” width. The best thing that’s happened to me is the digital foot measuring “tablet” that is at many shoe/boot stores now; measures the foot with high precision and then selects a boot that will fit my feet. So far Redwings have been the best match.

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in reply to: Killing the future of hunting. #31546

Steve Graf wrote: It’s not a new problem. I guess I am getting numb to it as I don’t get worked up about it anymore. Each new instance just pecks at the joy of life a little bit.

Not only do I often parrot what Graf has said, Aldo Leopold recognized it decades ago

“Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoors man with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk, and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage.”

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac

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in reply to: Let's See Your Fletching #27278

These 2 fletch shafts are as accurate as any other profile I’ve tried. They do waggle a bit if the release is poor, but with a good release they fly as true as I could ever want. This was at roughly 12 yards, 12-14 yards is about the maximum distance I can safely do in my backyard.

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in reply to: Let's See Your Fletching #26305

Steve Graf wrote: I’ve seen those pictures before somewhere… But looking at them again I notice something on the bows in the first two pictures.

If you look at the lower limbs of the bows, there is something wrapped around the limb which looks like what we would do for a grip.

I wonder what it is?

I noticed that as well. The video of Zo’e tribe posted on another forum shows them clapping their arrows on their bows to make noise to stir up the monkeys in the tree tops. I wonder if the bows in the linked images have this wrapped on them to make some sort of noise with?

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in reply to: Greetings and Hello #26302

Hey Kris

I’m relatively new to this forum, joined early this year. I’ve been a trad bow guy for awhile and was a moderate contributer/lurker on some of the other Trad Bow forums. I hope you like it here, this is by far the best trad bow forum I’ve come across.

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in reply to: Let's See Your Fletching #25035

Here’s a few links to some images of Amazonian/South American hunters employing 2 fletch arrows. I say Amazonian/South American because some these groups may very well reside in the Orinoco drainage, which is technically different from the Amazon forests.

In anycase, this kind of archery/arrow set up has always fascinated me. The long often well decorated arrows, the large bi-symmetrical fletching, and the relative simple bow to drive it all home. I’m still a recurve user for now, but should I venture into bowmaking, a simple bow like one of these would be what I would strive for.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/15/article-1356933-0D30E4D4000005DC-588_634x635.jpg

http://assets.survivalinternational.org/pictures/285/awahunting_article_column.jpg

http://globorural.globo.com/edic/270/indios_03.jpg

http://www.matses.info/photos/Matses-025-Bows-Arrows-esp.jpg

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in reply to: Let's See Your Fletching #24399

As I mentioned in a different post a couple months back, I’ve become interested in 2 fletch. Today I whipped out these 2 fletch shafts, 5.75 inches of banana cut (on a burner). I put them on my right wing helical Bitzenburger with as much off set as I could get and still get good feather attachment to the shaft. Today I shot them against some 4 inch, 4-fletch shield profiles and I couldn’t tell any difference.

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in reply to: Going Cuckoo #22741

It was also locally known as the Rain Crow where I grew up in Missouri. I heard them for years before I figured out how to spot one, the often call from the densest part of the tree.

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in reply to: Amazonian tribe's archery #22037

I really liked the bowfishing part, it’s just goes to show that proficiency at both using and building a tool, means that that tool can simply be re-scaled to suit a slightly different purpose!

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in reply to: Backcountry College – Survival Snares #17771

Well done Clay, good job emphasizing that non-targets, and especially larger non-targets can readily be captured via snares, and for mentioning to check state regs.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #17585

I’m certain he’ll run circles around me, I just happened to have my Trees and Wildflowers of the southern great plains field guide next to me when you posted about the silverleaf nightshade. And as far as Maclura pomifera, I took dendrology years ago, but can only remember the scientific name of the best tree for making bows.

I’m shooting almost daily since I’ve returned to the USA, but I’m certain when I get up there no one will believe that I shoot that often.

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