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in reply to: Question: wipe on poly #130476
I’m a dipper. Use a plastic pipe with a bit of nylon panty hose over top of pipe (petite). Cut poly SPAR varnish by 25% to keep the drips and sage down. UV rays from the sun breaks down the interior varnish. double sided tape for fletching, that way I don’t have to worry about gluing the fletches to the table. If you use the super glue make sure it says waterproof on the label.
I’ve lost arrows in the snow, and found them in the spring in fine shape.
Grumpy
in reply to: Stump Shooting #130300Most lost arrows here are the ones that slide under the grass/leaves. You can prevent this by putting a couple zip ties (the plastic ties used to hold wires together) on your field points. Not a perfect solution, not going to help much if you shoot the arrow into a pile of rocks, or off a cliff… But you wouldn’t do that anyway.
As someone has already said…. Never lost an arrow that hit the stump.
Grumpy
in reply to: Book Suggestions #129533Got a kindle, lots of books cheap, these are the best:
REAL WORLD WHITETAIL BEHAVIOR Jim Roy
New author with lots of experience and knowledge. Well written, and actually helpful. Some new info tactics I had not seen before.
INSTINCITIVE ARCHERY INSIGHTS Jay Kidwell
Kidwell teaches psychology and gives insights that have helped me teach instinctive archery to beginners with remarkable results. Much faster than the bumbling around I did.
TRIDITIONAL BOWYERS BIBLE
Best book for the money on building bows. If you read it enough times.
Pope and Hill books are also excellent.
THE STILL HUNTER T. S. Van Dyke.
Too many hunters, and too few deer for his still hunting to work now, but interesting reading. Good read just to enjoy his writing style.
LONGBOW (saga of Roland Inness) Good book for a teen. Wayne Grant.
THE GRAIL QUEST SERIES Archers Tale/Vagabond/Heretic Bernard Cornwell
Historical fiction about a English longbow archer. Well researched, and well written, no gory details omitted.
in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #129532Too tall David…
in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #129526On her way to bed Arwen (she’s 13 now) told us she was going to wake us with coffee in bed. We waited for what seemed like days, then finally went down and on my second cup of coffee Arwen dragged herself down the stairs. Not sure what I did at 13, but seem to remember waking being sent back to bed at least 3 times before sunrise.
Not going to bore you with all my gifts (yours are better anyway) except to say I got a new hat. Arwen did say it was the best Christmas ever, THAT is the important part.
Broke a bow and slammed my head into the tillering post Friday. Bow is wasted, biggest hurt to me was pride. Girls were real quiet for a few hours. I was back working on another Sat AM. I’ve become much better at making bows (thanks to TBMB). I made 5 out of a hickory I harvested last spring. Traded one for a 10″ pig nut hickory which gave me 20 staves. They are dry and ready. Have 3 kid bows to make, and 3 adult bows to make, kids are free, adults are for $ and more hickory trees. I’m building an inventory and expect that by next year I’ll be making bows and tying flies, and s full time.
I’m working (in my head) on a post about tools, some conventional, and some I have come up with. Hunting is now primitive firearms. I can hunt but have to wear the clown vest. That will end next week, and I’ll spend more time building bows, tying flies, and posting on forums. Didn’t get a deer, closest was the miss I tole you about. Saw lots of deer, and have several new areas to hunt. One is over 1,000 acres (that’s a lot here in Mass).
Going out now to shovel 2″ of snow off the driveway.
Wishing all of you a Merry, and a Happy. Hope you have as much to be grateful as us.
in reply to: Books for Traditional Bowhunters #128764Become The Arrow, Byron Ferguson
Yahi Archery Saxon Pope
Hunting the Hard Way, Howard Hill
Instinctive Archery Insights, Jay Kidwell. Kidwell is a psychology/neurology professor who tells us how instinctive works, and how to learn faster (by decades).
in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #128257When I got home I put 4 broadheads in a 4″ circle, Nothing wrong with the bow or arrows. I own it.
in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #128248OK, spent the morning on Farmer Jim’s north forty. Its flat, a managed wood lot, so lots of saplings, can’t see 10 feet in the summer, but now that the leaves are down it is not bad.
Sat in my new tripod swivel seat (birthday present) so I could relive the boredom by spinning around….ADD.
When I go out I put dew pee on a rag that is dragged by my foot. OK, so I smell like a doe, and do all of the other stuff so I don’t smell like me.
Two hours into the sit, I looked up from my Cliff Bar and there was a deer right in front of me!! My mind automatically said it was a doe, and it was right. Actually four of them wandered by. Three meandered on down, the fourth stopped to check me out. Since I smelled like doe pee I’m thinking she thought I was Aunt Martha. She went through the stamp the foot thing (actually it splashed), then the head bob. Never saw either before, just read about them, but they really do that. That was at about 15 feet in front of me. Yup sitting there for an eternity eye to eye with a doe, so close I could see her eye lashes. after she wondered off I resumed breathing and was thinking that was the excitement for the day, when half an hour later the BUCK showed up. He was almost in the footprints of the does, and wondered around in front of me for another eternity. When he presented me with a broadside shot while looking the other way….
You would think it was the first time I ever shot a bow. Had to think out every move, and the arrow went over his back. (Took somebody 10 seconds to get off another shot.) he only moved a few feet, bit I was sitting there thinking “Oh, yeah bow quiver??” Never got off a second shot. Not that he raced away, just wondered off.
What is major tho is that they didn’t see, smell, or hear me. All those little details are finally coming together.
Grumpy
in reply to: Hey Grumpy: What did you say about CA winters? #128243About to go to Farmer Jim’s North Forty. Expecting a high in the 50s (68 yest). Hope I don’t sweat too much. Four years ago we had 2 feet of snow for Halloween – no work/school for a week.
Grumpy
in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #127701We use those red noses for a bulls eye.
in reply to: Good Compass #127618When I lost the plastic liquid filled compass that I bought for less than $10 and has been guiding me for almost 50 years I looked at the less than $10 compasses in the local dept store and found all I could get was a plastic ball with a safety pin on it. It works.
Like r2, I hunt a patch of woods thats flat, and covered with brush just over my head. Its nice to have the pin-on available for constant reference. I also explored an alder swamp last August. Couldn’t see more than 10 ft, but the compass kept me in the same direction. There is a lot to say about constant reference. No, can’t get really lost here, follow a stream for 3 miles and you will find a road, but its kinda nice to come out somewhere near your truck instead of somebody’s backyard barbecue.
in reply to: Making Bows #126954I have made trades of bows for hickory trees. They get the bow, and I get more staves. Nice deal. As one guy said “I have 70 acres, lots of hickory, not gonna miss it.”
Starting to make a bow for someone who doesn’t have a woodlot, and didn’t ask me to make a bow (was thinking about giving it to him as a wedding present). Making for him because of the way his eyes light up every time the subject comes up. Besides I have no idea what to charge for a bow.
Thinking of upping my price to 2 trees per bow. Still have room under my bed to store more staves.
After all, I will leave a lifetime supply of fly tying/fishing stuff for my granddaughter, why not a lifetime of archery stuff.
Pete
in reply to: Fine Tuning #126953Loss is up ti 15 lbs, but who is looking
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