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in reply to: Footed Arrows #17815
The only footing I have done is the simple double bevel. I have not tried to do the 4-way bevel. My footing practice has been more out of neccesity than for any other reason. I have used dogwood, ashe, hickory, walnut, and used port orford cedar from broken shafts to repair arrows that broke near the tip. It’s a good way to repair shafts and good practice for when I decide to use some fancy woods.
As a side note, use caution and a respirator when using exotic woods. Some of them have bad health risks if the dust is inhaled. Some indigenous woods can have harmful effects too. Theres too many to list here but it would be wise to google your wood type to see if it has any side effects.
in reply to: New to the Trad Scene #17806Welcome to the forum. Getting new arrows for Christmas is always a good thing. The guys on here are just full of good info and Dr Ashby’s Arrow Lethality study posted here is a very good resource too. In fact there are some current threads posted about broadheads and small game heads that you could look through. The main thing is, just have fun with it!
in reply to: Christmas Present #17802I bought a couple of the Bear CD’s from Kustom King back around Thanksgiving. It was a blast from the past and so different from todays videos. Made me long for simpler times and it still got me fired up to go hunting too.
in reply to: Ground Hunting #17798I stay mostly on the ground but I have some ladder stands that I feel comfortable in and 2 climbers which, if I use them, they stay locked to a tree during the season. I guess I could say I enjoy both but making a ground blind is alot easier than moving or installing treestands. You just lose some of your ability to get your scent above the deer so as others have mentioned you have to match your blind to the weather conditions or just hunt the wind and don’t worry about what is down wind.
The inserts 3 Rivers offers now have some expandable grippers that sink into the drill hole wall as you insert the screw for the first time. I bought some but I am still going to apply a dab of epoxy as I have with other inserts.
Just follow the directions and use the suggested drill bit size. And be sure to cover the area to be drilled with masking tape to prevent cracking the finish. To control the depth of your drill wrap some electrical tape around the drill bit at the specified measurement as a stop.in reply to: Bowfishing for Gar #16545Searched again. It’s the Roanoke River Partners.
http://www.roanokeriverpartners.org/
Does not appear to be as active politically as the NRF. Their list of partners will offer a clue. It’s purpose seems more focused on maintaining the paddling community’s use of the river and the local economic benefit of that.in reply to: Bowfishing for Gar #16518Steve Graf wrote: The river keeper… now that has a nice sound to it. Is that a state organization, or a volunteer group?
Plymouth, you are right. The river is beautiful, and prehistoric in feel.
River Keeper groups generally are grassroots advocacy groups that actively lobby for better conditions on the river they advocate for. I was wondering if there was such a thing for thr Roanoke. A Google search turned up nothing like the Neuse River Foundation. Maybe that sort of thing has not taken hold in the NE part of the state. The NRF has done much to clean up the Neuse and press for the removal of dams that are no longer used. We now have sea run stripers coming up the Neuse again.
in reply to: Bowfishing for Gar #15462Yes, not very comforting. I cut back my intake of wild fish once they began posting those warnings. I don’t fish as much either. I guess it took some of the usefulness out of it.
I agree that long lived fish like gar and grinnel would have more time to become polluted. Both at the top of the food chain and feeding on plankton eaters who pick up the dissolved heavy metal absorbed by plankton. Disappointing information indeed.Sounds like you were in Plymouth where the Weyerhauser plant can be seen from the water front. I visited there for the first time this fall with my wife. We were enroute to the Scuppernong River Festival in Columbia and then on to the Outer Banks.
I immediately wanted to come back and try the fishing. Besides bowfishing, there is the shad and striper run in the spring.BTW, while in Columbia I observed blue crabs climbing out of the water onto anything they could get onto and bluegill and small bass gulping air at the surface. There were alot of dead ones around too. Obviously oxygen depletion. But what caused it I wonder. Recent turnover of the river water? Or too many nutrients in the water? I’ve thought I might contact the river keeper to see what they say.
in reply to: The firclub moss is on my person? #13476Strait-Aero wrote: I’m a Davidson on my mother side, Duncan…..Have a Merry Christmas! Wayne:D
Aye! A Blythe Yule an a Guid Hogmanay to you as well!:D
in reply to: December 24th, 1958 #13474I was 27 days away from being 1 year old! Merry Christmas Doc!
in reply to: Bowfishing for Gar #13185Wow! 1000 times the other fish tested! It is unfortunate that all of our predator fish fall in this category of having the highest levels. Fish that feed mainly on weeds or insects tend to have the lowest levels.
Steve, was there any indication of where the gar comes from having any impact on toxicity levels? Was the Roanoke more polluted than say, the Trent River?
The WRC usually posts recommendations on consumption but last time I looked at it I did not notice if gar was on the list. Sounds like it needs to be.in reply to: Happy Holidays! #12619Merry Christmas to all!
in reply to: The firclub moss is on my person? #12604Tom,
I am kin to those of the Clan MacRae through my grandmother on my father’s side. She was a MacRae.
The firclub moss is a plant that grows in the highlands and the MacRaes wore a sprig of it into battle for luck and as an identifier along with their tartan. The firclub moss is the MacRae badge. Most Clans have a badge usually a plant that was worn as a badge on their battle dress.Some examples:
Apparently there are numerous species and it exists on more than one continent.
Duncan
in reply to: River Cane arrows #12008rayborbon wrote: Is River Cane the same thing as Tonkin Cane? Rudder Bows has Tonkin Cane.
River Cane grows wild and is generally the species that are native to America. I’m certain there are more than one species. It is everywhere in eastern NC where there is a river or creek. Also locally known as “reeds”. It may also grow in other parts or our country but is definitely associated with wetlands or river bottoms.
Tonkin Cane is a type of bamboo not native to America but is a great source of shafting.
in reply to: Snake skins on my recurve limbs #7857Thanks Guys!
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