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in reply to: Bow quivers #48311

I have no use for a back quiver. I will look into the Black Widow ones.

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in reply to: Carbon arrow saw #47180

I would be careful filing the cut edges of carbon shafts. Hitting the edge the wrong way willl cause them to splinter.

Cross cutting with the file is less likely to cause that.

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in reply to: Is 10 GPP enough for elk? #43653

They sound intriguing. Personally, I feel that if ole Fred Bear were still running his company, he’d embraced this new technology. He always did. He wanted more than all lemonwood bows or all glass bows (talk about hand shock) and although its questionable who made the first laminated bows, he was surely the Henry Ford of laminated bows.

I will have to give those a real close look when it comes time for another bow. Sounds like I am a couple decades behind the curve:D

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in reply to: Is 10 GPP enough for elk? #41792

OK interesting. I was just buying a small bow for my granddaughter, and saw one from a big mane company, and it was foam core. I thought that was something cheap. Little did I know.

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in reply to: Is 10 GPP enough for elk? #41505

Stix wrote: My setup is ~8gpi and the elk I have taken had complete pass thru’s. I didn’t have a problem with it but the elk were very concerned.

Not for long I bet:D

Whats the deal with foam cores? Never heard of them.

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in reply to: Making my own strings, and question #40892

Well I re-read the article, and I see my answer. I also figured out what caused my errors. As I said it was a great article.

I need to pick up some steel tomorrow, and build a good jig.

I am posting this from my phone, so tomorrow I will post the authors name and give him the credit he deserves.

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in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #40314

Clay

start with a 3/4″ long piece of 1/2″ dia rod. I forget what drill bit, and am not home to look.

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in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #40249

David Petersen wrote: Thanks, fellers, and especially Handirifle … but please don’t go to the trouble. I’m OK to keep needling about the market need for them, and wait for Joe at Tuffhead to come out with them. 😛 It’s a necessary next step if he wishes to see the popularity of his 300s continue to grow. (How’s that for a hint, Joe?)

Oh I get it David, you’re one of those pretty face guys, thats ok, I get it. 😆 😆

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in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #39483

How about this, would that work. It’s not 300gr, it’s actually 306.8 if I remember correctly. 😆

That’s a 125gr glue on field point standing next to it for comparison. There is one just like it pressed into the steel shank. If you look real close at the hole in the center of the blunt, the bottom inside edge, you see a slight dimple. That is actually the tip of the pressed in field point. No glue to work loose, and no worries about it loosening when you glue it to the shaft.

You can easily see how much of the point is pressed into the blunt. If ya want to give me a few days I can make up some trial ones for ya. This was from a bolt I cut down, but blank steel will work better. I used what I had on hand.

The 225gr Hex heads are sure prettier though.

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in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #39337

Hey, now you have my mind going (slow to start, slow to stop, what can I say) but I was thinking long and narrow with a flat end, sort of like a field point, but are you thinking wider front, like 1/2″ or 5/8″ dia. That might be easier, but really the easiest would be over a blunt shaft instead of tapered, at least for me.

Also wondering about a head that you glued OVER a glue on field point. Now that might work. I will set one up tonight and use like JB Weld to glue the two points together with. Or would it be better to hot melt them separately? With a blunt at 300gr using a 5/8″ start, it would not be very long, but would pack a whallop. Kinda like using a 45-70 to hunt squirrels. 😀

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in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #39283

Then again, I might be able to adapt something to a field point. What dia shafts are you using?

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in reply to: 300 gr. blunts? #39271

Dave

Do they need to be tapered inside? If there was a way of getting a hold of a tapered drill bit (I think that’s a 7 deg taper, correct?) I could turn out a few for ya on my lathe. I made my own screw in 300gr field points, so these ought to be easier, since I don’t need to make the threaded section or the point.

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in reply to: Cougar tips? #39198

I think what every “study” I have read on the cats here, fails to properly address, in depredation, is the cats that have come to “favor” certain foods, in my opinion, got that way because they are pushed from the areas that have abundant game they would normally be after.

We had several cats spotted inside city limits in the high desert area, inside of about 18 months, that were obviously underfed, yet there was plenty of game in the surrounding areas. I can hardly remember a deer hunt anywhere in the Angeles National Forest, where there were not lion tracks. This in addition to the black bears.

These cats would rather be anywhere than in city limits, and only go there to eat. The folks you mentioned with the goats have their opinion, I do not want them eliminated by any means. We see lions on occasion where I live now, but they cause zero livestock issues that I have heard, and we talk pretty regular. I know one cattle rancher that runs 24,000 acres and he has no problem with lions. They leave cattle alone as long as there is ample deer. If the cats are overpopulating, the deer herd suffers and the cats look elsewhere for food. Thus the need for control, in my opinion.

Like I said, I really think they prefer to be nowhere near us.

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in reply to: Cougar tips? #36956

Ptaylor wrote: Firstly I’d like to say that I am not against ALL predator hunting. I support fair chase hunting of species whose population is high enough to support the loss and the scientific-based management of those species. I don’t want this to turn into a shootout, we’re all on the same team.

I don’t think its as simple as just allowing a hunting season for cougars. That alone will not solve the problem. For example, take Alberta, they have a very liberal cougar season, as well as still trapping, shooting, and poisoning wolves. Yet, there is still a huge livestock depredation loss to predators there. Clearly hunting alone is not doing anything to deter predators from eating cows.

Again I’m not saying we shouldn’t hunt cougars, that is a different topic, but whether or not we hunt cougars is not the real issue. The issue is how we operate when sharing the land with predators. For example, when I worked in Alberta, a private ranching operation annually dumped a thousand head of yearling cattle in a valley where a wolf pack was known to den. Instead of simply grazing the yearlings in a different area during the spring denning season, they would get the provincial government to come in and shoot all the wolves. Then the wolves would come back. A cycle. But no change in behavior.

Hunting of predators can be beneficial, like Handirifle said, when a cougar specialized in killing desert bighorn sheep, that one cougar was removed and so was the localized problem.

But as I stated in an earlier post, often the problem is the person and not the animal.

Again, I don’t want to start a shootout. I like discussing this because its a difficult problem and we don’t have all the answers. I enjoy reading your posts (Etter1, Handirifle, etc…) because it makes me think think about my presumptions and ideas and construct better ones.

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No war intended Preston, you have valid points.

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in reply to: Hunting canoe #36579

Having used a canoe quite a bit, I can tell you I would not want to use one in big croc country. Too tippy. If you must use one I’d suggest the flat sterned models

Like this. A little more stable and you CAN add a motor if desired. Not quite as easy to paddle solo though.

+1 on Glen L if you want to build.

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