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in reply to: Pushing the limits #48480
My wife and teenage daughter are my two favorite hunting partners. Christine went two-for-two on whitetails last year, both double-lung pass-throughs with short blood trails. Rachel has yet to draw on a deer, but I’m hopeful she’ll fill her first tag this year.
in reply to: Is 10 GPP enough for elk? #41556Handirifle,
Foam limb cores have been standard in FITA recurve archery (think Olympic-style) for 10-20 years or so. The first time I remember hearing about them was in the late 90s. The idea only took hold on the traditional archery side of things within the last few years. Basically what you’re dealing with is a synthetic material that’s lighter than wood and impervious to environmental issues like temperature and humidity. To me, the advantage is their stability, but due to their lighter mass weight, they can also have a performance edge over standard wood core limbs.
in reply to: Is 10 GPP enough for elk? #40533Foam cores sure are nice. It sounds like you’re ready to put some serious meat in the freezer. Best of luck. I look forward to seeing your photos.
in reply to: cover your fletchings? #40493I use a fletching cover primarily to keep my fletching from making brushing against things an making noise. There is an added bonus for turkey hunting in that it covers my bright cap, crest, and fletching. But birds aside, I’ve never noticed animals being bothered by the sight of my arrows.
in reply to: Is 10 GPP enough for elk? #40486coastalbendbows wrote: First going elk hunting. I usually hunt white tails hogs and Muleys. I shoot the CX heritage 250’s 29.5 inches with a reg insert and a 175 vpa terminator. 55 pound bow drawn to 28.5 and getting 191 fps.
Obviously if I hit the right spot it will work but I’m concerned about the total arrow weight and lack of Efoc.
Thoughts and opinions please.
By your title and post, you’re asking if a 550-grain arrow going 191 fps is enough for elk? All day long. That’s more Ke, momentum (enter your ratio of choice) than I put completely through my elk and bull moose (twice for the moose). I would hunt elk and moose again with that setup with absolutely no reservations.
Furthermore, Fred Eichler hunts with 485-grain arrows going around 195 fps. He’s taken all 29 North American big game species, including dozens of elk and over a half dozen moose.
Whatever you do, just remember the three most important things. Get it sharp, get it flying straight, get it where it belongs. The rest takes care of itself. Good luck.
in reply to: Sacred Places #35428Paleoman,
My wife and I almost bought the land and cabin where I first took up bowhunting. Unfortunately, both are trashed now and only worth a small fraction of what their current owner wants. I don’t mourn the loss, but I do think their present condition is very unfortunate.
in reply to: What happens to your string at release #35424In layman’s terms, a digital image is not really one image. It is a stitched together mosaic of individual images (pixels) captured at different exact points in time. Better, faster cameras can capture the pixels of a frame very quickly. Slower cameras, like those found on phones, are significantly slower. That’s why the string appears so distorted.
Look at the first photo. His string would have to stretch to almost twice it’s length to look like that for real. Perhaps not the best angles, but here are a couple videos showing exactly what happens to a bow string during the shot.
in reply to: What happens to your string at release #35280That’s because of how a digital camera’s sensor captures a frame. In reality, a bow string does not look like that during the shot.
in reply to: Bare shaft tuning question #30614handirifle,
I used to have occasional nock high issues when I shot off the shelf. No amount of tuning could eliminate it until I started shooting with a second nock locator under my arrow. Once I stopped the occasional arrow slide down the serving upon release, and subsequent bouncing off the shelf, my nock high issues disappeared.
If you don’t already have a second nock locator on your string, give it a try. You may be surprised.
in reply to: From Master #26522Doug,
A guy sent me a homemade one a few years back. It will definitely tell you if you’re collapsing or shooting dead. It’ll also help you isolate your back muscles and learn exactly what a “proper,” for lack of a better term, draw feels like. It’s a nice tool, and in my opinion, well worth the effort to use one.
in reply to: 3D Shoots: The Good & The Bad #24969I’ve spent a lot of time helping set up 3D shoots at my former club (can’t do it at the new club due to my work hours). Unfortunately, target distances are one of those things where you just can’t please everyone. If I set the traditional stakes at what most would consider normal hunting distances (20 yards and under) folks would complain the course was too easy and boring. If I set them further, a totally different group of people would complain they were too far away.
The easy solution was to mix them between short, medium, and long, and tell everyone if they wanted to shoot competitively to shoot from the trad stakes. If they just wanted to shoot for fun, they were free to shoot from any point along the line of shooting stakes to the target they desired (stay in line for safety). If a person isn’t shooting for competition, I don’t care if they shoot every target from five yards. When my daughter first started shooting that’s exactly what I did with her, void her score card and let her get closer.
Shooting through trees and with rock walls behind targets is another matter entirely. A person can set a challenging course without making it and arrow-breaker. I often wonder if the people who set up such shots actually shoot their own courses. It’s really not in a club’s best interest to purposely irritate shooters, but sometimes you have to wonder if they understand that fact.
in reply to: 2013 hunting rigs #24296Nice! I especially like the photos of your self bow.
in reply to: 2013 hunting rigs #24230This will be my 6th season with the same bow, and 13th with the same arrow setup. If it’s not broke… 🙂
TradTech Titan riser with Winex limbs pulling 56# @ 32″.
Great Northern Quick Detach quiver.
Beman ICS Camo Hunter arrows tipped with 125-grain Ace Standards.
in reply to: What is Traditional Archery? #24077rayb wrote: I hate to see two people with the same desire (archery) argue. Training wheels or bent stick, we need to stick together. I’m sure there will be a loud gasp when I type this but there are people out there that want to stop all hunting :shock::D
No gasp from me. There are a lot of ways I separate the people with whom I’ll hunt from those I avoid, but whether or not they have wheels on the limbs doesn’t make the list. I’ve been to several dozen large traditional archery shoots over the years, and almost without fail the guys who can’t seem to go an hour without telling you how much they hate compounds seem to spend a lot of time scratching around in the weeds looking for their lost arrows. These same guys also never seem to have a shortage of “I missed him by this much” stories from their last hunting season. Thankfully, these folks are in the minority of traditional archers.
in reply to: SpineDeflection, Wood vs. Carbons #21907South Texas wrote: and here i thought it would all be standardized.
Actually, arrow spine is very standardized. There is a very specific method by which static spine is determined. For aluminum and carbon shafts, it is the deflection created by hanging a 1.9# weight on the shaft while it’s being supported by two points 28” apart. For wood shafts it’s a 2# weight and supports 26” apart. When a wood shaft is said to spine at 52#, all that means it is has a deflection of .500” (26 divided by .500 equals 52).
The part where things can get confusing is the model designations used by manufacturers. Some like Beman, Easton, and Victory occasionally use the spine deflection as the model number. Beman ICS 340s have a deflection of .340. Victory VAP 600s have a deflection of .600. Others use numbers that may or may not have any real relevance, like Gold Tip 5575s or Carbon Express 150s. Thankfully, I have yet to find a manufacturer that doesn’t have their shaft specs online, so finding their actual spine deflection is simply a matter of a few clicks of the mouse. You can also compare Easton aluminums to carbons the same way. It’s not confusing, but it does occasionally require a little research.
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