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in reply to: mount and align broadheads: a how to vid #62510
CLAY how many times have you hit your head on that brush you have hanging over the workbench?
I just spin between my palms, and look for head wiggle. and if there IS a wiggle in the head it will be magnified in the butt.
in reply to: Tip on straightening wood shafts #62501Olive Oil bottle works too. The round one not the square one. Not about to try the VW door… Ohh that was sharpening knives, never mind.
in reply to: Surewood Shafts #61429Steve Graf wrote: [quote=R2]Hey Steve, green might be a better color around here as of late. 😀
All depends on local, uh!
Electric Lime green for sure! My 15 year old daughter’s favorite color. She talked her mother into letting her paint a wall in her room that color. Now when I walk in there, my ears start to buzz 🙄
That would match Arwen’s new finger nail polish.
in reply to: Field vs Broadhead Weights #61415One quarter German, the rest is Brit.
in reply to: Field vs Broadhead Weights #61407When I got the BEAR (the bow, not talking about a pet here), I was thinking about all I had to do to tune it. Reread a couple books, posts here, etc. I was sure my arrows would not work.. wrong spine, fletches, etc. But first I shot the bow. The arrows grouped 6″ to the left, and 2″ low. Consistently!!! I wondered what would happen if I changed nothing. I know this may seem strange, and the Web Mother may delete the post for blasphemy. But the honest truth is that the group has moved over 6″, and up 2″. I have changed nothing on the bow, or the arrows. Do you think that my bows were tuned EXACTLY the same as the BEAR? Do you think that Fred (not the mouse) used popular arrows from the Home Depot, with a red cock feather?
Keep in mind that I shoot bare bow, INTUITIVELY (NOT INSTINCTIVELY instinct is what you knew when your born – didn’t know how to shoot a bow till my big brother taught me). Intuition is what is in the back of your brain that you are only vaguely aware of. Most of the time you are driving you are doing it intuitively. You don’t think about turn signals, clutch, shift, etc in detail, or AIM the vehicle (veHICle in Dixie) that is taken care of by the intuition in the back of your brain. Pretty dam accurate since I haven’t hit any trees that didn’t leap out in front of me.
For the record I bought a gram scale. Directions said I needed something EXACTLY 5 lbs to calibrate it. I looked around for a while, found nothing, and threw it out. I was just told (amid a lot of laughter) that I could have ordered 5 lbs of hamburger from the butcher. DUH
For checking spine, I put 2 wood screws into the porch railing, and hang a pipe wrench from the middle of the arrow. If it pulls the arrow below the bottom of the railing it is a bad arrow. If it doesn’t pull it down to the bottom of the rail, it is a bad arrow. Simple.
As I am writing all of this, someone is sitting beside me saying “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THE TWANG?” Every time I shoot the bow, it sounds like the top string on a base guitar (the really thick one). I’ll do something about it when I am damn good and ready to. 😡
I also checked how the arrows actually worked. I was going to number them, take notes, etc Even thought about a program to keep track, and tabulate the results, do statistical analysis on each arrow… blah blah blah Then decided to make a sharpie dot on the fletching of arrows when I pulled them out of the bulls eye. I was shooting about 20 arrows, a while later some had a dozen dots while some had none. Put broad heads on the 6 with the most dots.
What more do you really need to know??
in reply to: Signs of Spring #61349As my little brothers grew bigger than I, My Mom kept saying “Big things come in small packages.” Maybe she meant C4
in reply to: Signs of Spring #60923Not this weekend (birthday party for Audrey’s grandson), will be up on Mother’s day, got to coordinate with brothers (all 3 of them). Need to let them know when I’m coming so they can have time to formulate short jokes.
in reply to: I think I have a record here… #60916Dissenting evidence here:
When Arwen was 3 or 4, she got a tic (rolling down a hill on the lawn). The tic was on her less than 2 hours, and she got lime disease. Cured with antibiotics, as it was caught early.
I’m planning on myself getting checked for Lime disease next week, it is a simple blood test, nurse takes blood at the Dr office. Better safe than sorry. Insurance is happy to pay for it.
in reply to: What Ya NOT Got Goin'? #60897stchunter48 wrote: Not watching NASCAR. Rain delay.
HERE THEY COME!!!
THERE THEY GO!!!
in reply to: I think I have a record here… #56764I Am not a dog!!!!!!
in reply to: Signs of Spring #54633Rear fender. 😛
in reply to: I think I have a record here… #54630Dog Handler’s Lament
Tick tock, tick tock.
Is that a tick crawling up my leg?
Tick tock, tick tock.
Flick the light.
Grab the tick.
Drown the tick.
Back to bed.
Tick tock, tick tock.
Is that a tick crawling up my leg?
That is EXACTLY what I was feeling all night last night. Now all those bites are itching, and I keep checking to see if I have a new one.
I was at Wolf Swamp WMA, yesterday. My first time there, didn’t see as much deer sign as I see in other WMSs I
go to. Maybe the ticks got all of the deer? Thinking I’m not going back….
(By the way, during that same outing, I had a deer run straight across my chest, striking my arm once, as the dog approached my location …)
in reply to: New Dwyer Endeavor #53491When Fred Bear was designing my SUPER MAGNUM 48 they said it couldn’t be done, and that was in ’66 ( I was 16, I remember). Despite the naysayers, some of those bows made in 1966 are still working.
btw, SmithHammer, Audrey likes your quote.
in reply to: Signs of Spring #52465Snow is gone, well, out of our yard at least. Some patches on north slopes in the woods.
There are other signs as well:
As I sit here in the kitchen I can hear the spring peepers in the marsh out back. Audrey has been doing the spring peeper dance for a couple days now.
She pulled a tick out of my left cheek the other night, now she wants to check for ticks every time I come inside.
Now that the snow is gone the allergies/asthma are here. Thus I’m sneezing, sniffling, coughing, wheezing… Have meds that I snort, inhale, and the pills on a regular basis, plus the emergency snorter and inhaler. Gee isn’t spring just wonderful.
Waiting now for the black flies, mosquito, no-see-ems , and sunburn..
And R2 thought all I had to complain about was snow. 😀
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