[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Hello everyone. #40665

Webmother wrote:

The article was called The Senior Citizen Years by Gene Wensel and it was in the Feb/Mar 2009 issues. Unfortunately, the paper copy of that magazine is sold out, but Premium Members can view it here.

I just took a look at that issue; I have it here in both print and digital versions. It is one of the finest among many good ones. If you don’t have it and you don’t spend the $10 for a Premium subscription for access to more than two dozen back issues of TBM, you’re nuttier than an oak forest. (I can get away with being crotchety, because like Gene Wensel, I’m old enough not to care all that much what people think of me. 😀 )

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: 9" Rinehart target ball #40319

Cameron wrote: [quote=eidsvolling] What has been your experience with arrows skipping off, if any?

I read about that being a problem…the solution is just don’t miss lol 😀

Actually I have had a number of deflections off the ball…I shoot it mostly with a backdrop or hay bale etc. I like to hang it from my hay bale by the rope handle. I have taken the ball out for a hike in the foothills and the deflection shots don’t go far, but if you are in tall grass it can be hard to find the arrow. I have not had a deflection shot off the top of the ball- I suppose that might result in a launched arrow.

Thanks. The woods are a wee bit thicker here in NH than out there, so I will stick to stumping.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: 9" Rinehart target ball #33899

I have the 18-sided target and love it. But I held off on the ball because of reports of arrows skipping off. The sole reason I wanted one was to take it into the woods. What has been your experience with arrows skipping off, if any?

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: The Best Buck I Never Killed #14662

Kudos to the author and the publisher.

Mom, you and “Pop” are doing something right and have been for a long time now. Hope you know how much we all appreciate it, beyond our sending the occasional payment.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Your most memorable misses…. #48486

From 2012 – “ALWAYS bring two” https://www.tradbow.com/members/cfmbb/messages.cfm?messageid=6B02BA63-1422-1DE9-EDF91F106A638097#6B02BA63-1422-1DE9-EDF91F106A638097

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Tuning stiffer spines than expected #30683

Just for kicks – has the draw weight on the bow been measured by an accurate means at your draw length?

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: light pound bow dilemma #13861

There is a possible beneficial aspect of that long arrow length. There’s some support for the notion it might allow use of shafts that would appear to be mismatched in spine. I have seen this myself and this article supports it as well: http://www.alaskabowhunting.com/Matching-Arrows-W16.aspx

I know nothing about building non-wooden arrows, so you’ll know better what shaft options are available to you. But I think it’s worth experimenting while ignoring the charts or spine calculator.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Recurve Bow Upgrade #53137

I resisted owning a Kodiak Magnum for years because I was leery of the 52 inch length. But a couple years back I succumbed and bought a used 1966 model in 52# on eBay, and I will never be without one again.

This is an enormously handy bow and it shoots well. They are not the quietest bows out of the block sometimes, but that can be tamed by the judicious application of your favorite silencer arrangement.

I took a friend who was getting out of compound bows to look at recurves this past summer. He didn’t like the grip on the new ones, and I agreed with him. But when he held a 70s era version, you couldn’t pry it out of his hands.

There are all kinds of the Grayling-era K-Mags available in very good condition almost every day on eBay for under $250, and frequently for under $200. You can almost have your pick of hunting weights if you’re patient.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Christmas gift in the mail! Arrived in time! #14679

If I weren’t already happily married, I’d find a way to marry into that family. Beautiful piece of bowmaking exceeded only by the generosity behind it.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: I draw the line way, way before helicopters #14616

Okay, I’m going to cite a cartoon distributed by one of my favorite law school professors. Two men, apparently members of the French Foreign Legion, are standing in the desert. One is dragging a sword point through the sand and says to the other as he passes: “You have to draw the line somewhere.” The arbitrariness is the whole point (no pun intended.)

A helicopter is a very noisy intrusion on the top of a mountain that facilitates easier access to game than that provided by riding a horse, walking, skiing, snowshoeing, and yes, even riding a seat on a bush plane. It’s too easy and too intrusive for my taste.

YTMV, and there’s little or nothing that anyone can cite that will make it anything other than a matter of personal choice, other than the potential adverse effects on animals.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #41173

Dang El Niño is messing with our winter. The tenant back in my archery range is none too happy with his snowless situation.

<img src="[img]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5702/23412281549_38aa8d2cd0_z.jpg” alt=”” />SNOWLESS HARE by googletops, on Flickr[/img]

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Seats vs The Ground #17870

Patrick wrote: Not the greatest photo quality, but here’s a pic from tonight’s setup…a bit unorthodox, but it worked well.

In addition to the usual arrangement, I’ve done this as well. It can be a great way to exploit the concealment available at old slash piles. And it has the advantage of not constructing anything obviously new to the neighborhood.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Where the Bucks Go!? #17861

And now for something completely different.

I’ve heard tales over the last few years of “monstah” bucks hanging out in dense cover at trailheads and parking lots during the firearms hunting season here in NH. They watch and know the patterns in the woods as well as any creature, and they’ve devised a strategy to hunker down and snicker as the orange army files past for distant destinations.

So I put this theory to the test on a couple of recent forays. Sure enough, Foray # 1 brought me to a scape within rock-chucking distance of a semi-busy road, tucked just behind a hill from where the orange army disembarks its various vehicles. As I stood there staring a bit too long at the scrape, I heard not a snicker but an ego-deflating snort from just inside a nearby woods line. Sigh.

Foray # 2 saw me fifty yards from the road at sunrise, heading down a snowless snowmobile trail. Up ahead of me, a scant hundred yards from the road, something with an inconvenient amount of headgear for dense woods leaped down from its trailside perch and dropped into a nearby cedar swamp, making a racket as it went. He didn’t go far, so we played cat and mouse for the next ninety minutes, while he watched me from various elevated vantage points, no doubt snickering each time he slid off to the next one.

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Only sissies like Don Thomas use two ski poles when hunting #14005

donthomas wrote: That’s eastern Norwegian. I only speak the North Dakota dialect. Don

1. My Norwegian relatives are in fact in the eastern part of the country.

2. When I watched the movie “Fargo”, I turned to my equally Minnesotan wife and denounced the dialect as far in excess of anything I ever heard before. Then I went back home a few years later for my sister’s birthday, and a guy showed up who could have been a dialect coach for the cast. I had to leave the room to stop staring at him. He was from somewhere near Detroit Lakes.

3. Webmom, I’m reading up on ancient Danish bows to get ready to make a replica this winter, and my Danish ability is derived from my Norwegian, so yes, this all does relate to trad bows. 😉

[Charles Ek]

in reply to: Only sissies like Don Thomas use two ski poles when hunting #56743

donthomas wrote: Now the title of this thread certainly caught my eye! Little known fact: in addition to some Spanish and French, I speak fluent Norwegian. The main text begins: “I am learning to ski with one pole so that someday I can use two, like Montana bowhunter Don Thomas.”

Hei du! Bra at du snakker norsk så godt. Google Translate bare driter på slike oppdrag, vet du. 😉

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