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in reply to: Let's see your fall hunting set up! #41793
Leon Stewart Slammer Special, 62 inch 46#.
Beman Bowhunter 400
Grizzly 135 RHSB
100 grain adapter
50 grain insert
560 grain total arrow weight.
25% FOC
This is for whitetails.
I have to say that all your posts about FOC, single bevels and tuning have had quite an influence on my set-up. I hope to see how it works. Thanks, dwcin reply to: Working out to get in shape. #39214I got a sore shoulder trying to steer a toboggan with the kids on it. My chiropractor told me to exercise it. I bought a bowfit and it works really well. I try to get some push-ups in and do what the chart on the bowfit says. I’ll do while I watch the news in the morning and it’s done. The rest of my fitness is just walking the hills. Always was a better hiker than a runner and where I live the roads aren’t safe to bike.
in reply to: A swing and a miss… #38958I’ll be hunting mostly out of tree stands, although I’m fairly inspired to spend more time on the ground this year. One thing I’ve been doing, which has been a help in my target practice, is shooting in the dark. The pup gets me up when the sun is still down, so I walk him, take a judo and shoot into a pile of wood chips. The pile is just a shape in the dark at this point, but I think it helps. As the light grows, I can pick faint spots to shoot at and get better and better… dwc
in reply to: Barta on techno-BS #38930Dynamite statement. Thanks for posting it. dwc
in reply to: Congratulations Dave #38900That’s terrific! My big game, whitetails, is still a week and a half away. Cheers to you with a good glass of the best cheap red wine. dwc
in reply to: Hunting Rig Sightings #34944When I see a rig like that I think I’d like to have the money for one, in the bank, and still take the tent…
in reply to: Bareshafting pics #34848Trimmed just a hair and it actually tightened them up a bit. My bare shaft is not flying perfectly, but it’s sticking into the block as straight as the fletched arrow. Most shot for comparison were within three inches and a couple were practically in the same hole.
I’ll shoot these for a while now before I make any more changes. Thanks! dwcin reply to: Bareshafting pics #34703Ditto! I think I’ll stick to buying the blocks at the end of the season on sale, but that sure is a nice back stop. Hope to tune in a bit more today.
in reply to: poor groups #34174Great videos. They show what you could never see just watching. thanks, d
in reply to: Bareshafting pics #34157Hi Troy,
Nice photos of some straight arrows. For clarification, in the untrimmed shaft photos, you were shooting at the paper squares. In the timmed shaft photos you we shooting into the foam, but I don’t see a target or a vertical line, so you must be shooting only to show how straight they fly, correct?
I trimmed mine until it flew to the center line and would regularly shoot along side of the fletched arrow, but usually the bare shaft does not fly that straight at all. I notice a bit of corkscrew from my fletched arrow when I back up, but just a bit.
Back to the bare shaft tomorrow, I hope. thanks, dwc
ps. what is your backstop made out of?in reply to: GG Report – Vintage Archer's Bow Sling #34123That’s a very nice website. I just put in a small order for something I didn’t find elsewhere. Very nice.
in reply to: Sharpening Zwickey Broadheads #30831A friend referred me to this YouTube video. He used this method to sharpen his Zwickeys and pretty much everything else in the house.
I used it with a couple of folding hunters and it worked great. I tried it with a Bud Nealy knife, which is much harder steel, and a Grizzly broadhead, which is also harder steel, and had little success. I think it would work with them, too, if they already had a sharper edge to start with.
Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQCkKPGSOtA&feature=relatedYep. At least they seem to fly pretty much the same. When I first got my longbow I shot the arrows I already used with my recurve and they flew really well. For fun, I put on a 75 gr steel insert to see what would happen and the flew even better, although the first one had been hitting the mark quite well. Leon Stewart, the bowyer, said it’s due to correct tillering of the bow that I could get away with a wide range of point weights. Someone else remarked, maybe you, Troy, that the length of the shaft is more critical than the point weight once you get it tuned. Odd, but perhaps true.
For fun, I mounted a judo onto one of the 75 gr steel adapters today and they flew quite well into my pile of wood chips. I went back in and weighed the judos and found that they weighed 147 gr instead of 135.
Both field points, 200 and 225 are going straight into the foam block, with no noticeable tilt on way or other. Penetration is about a foot from about 12 yards.
I’m staying fairly close, especially with the bare shaft, as my accuracy get inconsistent when I go longer.Please allow me to jump in here on tuning. I finally had a chance to shoot again after a busy weekend. I trimmed a little more and was getting the bare shaft and the arrow to come into center fairly well. I decided to fletch the second arrow and see what they would do together. Not too bad. They seem to go a little high regularly, but not always.
Funny thing, one more of those duh moments. I thought I was tuning with 205 grains (200 grain head, plus a brass ring), since that’s what my broadheads would weigh in at. I weighed one of the heads and to my surprise it said 230! I had opened the 225 grain bag of heads by mistake. I just hate wearing reading glasses….
So after I got done kicking myself, I put on a 205 grainer and shot a few. So darn little difference, I’m going to make up a bare shaft for one of those to see how it flies.
I’d leave it all alone, but 100 grain steel inserts are all on back order and my broadheads will only be 205s.in reply to: Today discouraged at first, encouraged later #26916Hi Troy,
The funny thing is the bare shaft usually shoot more center than the fletched arrow. I’ll try tomorrow with your suggestion to shoot straight up with the bare and canted with the fletched. I’ll also double check the length and weight of both before I get started.
One thing I did do was to open the nocks, which were very tight. Now they slip on the string and hang on their own weight, but not much more.
Off to photograph a jazz festival in Delaware Water Gap. Should be a fine day.
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