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in reply to: arrow tuning…point weight to shaft spine #45116
Every 35 grains of difference in tip weight (or 1″ of difference in shaft length) equals 5# of dynamic spine. Long and short of it: for every 10# in spine, you should be able to add 70 grains.
As always, tuning will let you know for sure.
in reply to: Wensel woodsman for elk #36604Red Beard wrote: Ive been doing alot of reading about broadheads, and it looks like two blade single bevel and so on is best. I come from a compound background and have always shot 4 blades because the blood tril is easy to follow. I have no experience with traditional equipment and figure 4 blade will probably kill penatration. Has any one consistantly killed elk with the Woodsman? Or had any problem with two blade holes sealing, or is that a hoax.
It’s difficult to look at Ryan Rothhaar’s trophy room and consider stickbows and 3-blade cut-on-impact heads anything but effective. He shoots the original Snuffers, by the way, which are over 1.5″ wide. They make Woodsmans look like a small game head.
A couple years ago he put one (possibly two, I don’t recall exactly) through his bull moose. Brett Cagle ran one through another bull moose on that same trip. A few weeks ago Ryan put another through a very nice bull elk. There’s a thread about it on TradGang.
In reference to the specific head you’re considering, I used them for two seasons (2001 & 2002), and stopped after seeing too many of them go through whitetails and end up with bent blades. Personally, if you want to shoot a head of that type, I’d look for something stronger. From everything I’ve read, the VPA Terminators seem very well made.
With respect to blood trails, I’ve killed game with 2-, 3-, and 4-blade heads. Honestly, I haven’t seen much of any difference in blood trails with any of them. Maybe the large 3-blades will leave more blood on the ground than a narrow 2-blade, but any of them should leave more than sufficient sign, provided the hunter does his/her job correctly.
in reply to: Opening day #17413Congrats on getting that close to a pair of does. Like WIcanner, I hunt in a CWD zone. My daughter and I saw no deer this weekend, but I managed to fill a turkey tag yesterday morning.
in reply to: Which state for whitetail tags? #8330Illinois is rediculous for NRs if you want a buck tag. But doe tags are unlimited, over the counter, and I believe $15 each for NRs.
WI is $165 for a NR archery tag, which allows you one buck (subject to earn-a-buck restrictions in some areas) and one state-wide doe tag. Additional doe tags are $20 each in some zones, $2 in others, or free in CWD zones.
Both IL and WI have no daily limits — shoot as many as you have legal tags for.
in reply to: What type of bow and arrow will you use this year #55739I’ll be using the same basic setup I’ve shot for the past several years — a mid-50s weight recurve shooting 500-grain carbon arrows tipped with 125-grain Ace Standards.
in reply to: GOT A GROUSE!!! #54971Wildschwein,
Congrats on the grouse. They’re one of my favorite small game to hunt, on the rare occasion that I am able to do so.
With respect to Ace Hex Heads, they are outstanding on smaller grouse species (ruffed and spruce). I shot over a dozen ruffed and spruce with them a few years ago in Ontario, and killed every one I hit. Most of them just flipped over dead.
in reply to: Draw Weight for Deer? #52604Forty-four pounds in more than enough for deer. It wasn’t all that long ago when such poundage was normal for deer hunters (and this was before fast-flight strings and carbon arrows). To be honest, the best deer hunter I ever knew shot 42# @ 26″ and had no problem shooting through deer after deer, year after year.
in reply to: Ashby Maasai bh #42627Bone,
I’ve never handled the Maasai heads, so I can’t speak to them in particular. But with respect to convex blades; some of the most time tested broadheads around have/had this feature — Zwickey Eskimos, Ace Standards, and of course, the Razorheads invented by Fred Bear just to name three. I’ve used two of those particular heads (Zwickey and Ace) for over a decade. They sharpen easily and have performed flawlessly.
And they won’t set you back $30 a head either. 😉
in reply to: Where do you get your tradional supplies from #34965I generally buy from Kustom King.
in reply to: A Question of Draw Weight #30394Bloodless wrote: Bowyers comment on how in the last decade or so, draw weights ordered by shooters have been falling, on average from low 60s to mid or low 50s.
These things go in cycles. A few years ago when I did the Kustom King interview for TBM, the topic of draw weight came up. Tim and Gabby said that many years ago they had a hard time selling 45# bows. Now, they don’t stock anything 60# or over (special order only).
30 years ago, 40-50# was pretty much average for whitetail hunters. As a matter of fact, the best deer hunter I ever had the pleasure of walking a trail with shot 42# @ 26” and had no problem blowing through Midwestern whitetails year after year. Of course, he was very accurate and understood proper shot placement.in reply to: Does any one use true traditional Equipment #30379T Downing wrote: “As for using stone heads I know of no state that outlaws them.”
Colorado for one…Wisconsin for two.
in reply to: Hunting Hats for 2010 #58401I’ll probably wear the same thing I wore last year: a blue Chicago Cubs baseball cap or a wool stocking cap, depending on the weather.
in reply to: HEAVIER HEADS….? #46741I’ve been shooting 125-grain heads for pretty much all of my bowhunting. I’ve put them through some incredibly tough bone (exit side, as it should be), and the model of head I’ve been using for the past 7 years has never came out with even the slightest damage.
It’s not a weight issue. It may have to do with the broadhead model itself. I shot those into some targets for a couple months one year and had the same experience.
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