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in reply to: Longbow string question? #168390

What Scout said.  Good thinking to get a longer string.  If it’s too long you can always wind it up, but you can only untwist so much!

~Kees~

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in reply to: 80 joule with recurve bow?! #168389

I am SO glad I didn’t get “the jab!”

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168388

Thank you Robin for the work you do keeping the site going instead of retiring!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168366

I’ve been MIA for a while. Got a new Grayvn longbow, 43 pounds @ 28″ on my fishing scale.  I put an arrow rest on it; I’ve had feathers stuck in my hand before and prefer not to have that happen anymore.  Anyway, I am impressed with how well it shoots.  A very slender hickory self bow, very light in the hand with no hand shock.  I’m not the greatest archer in the world, but I’m doing tolerably well with it.

Otherwise we are just going day to day here in SE Ohio.  I’m late getting the garden done, got the beds hoed and raked yesterday with plans to get seeds in this afternoon after it cools off a little.  And hey, it’s Friday – PIZZA NIGHT!  I’d best get it in the oven….

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167817

Saturday was raining, & became a baking day. First a loaf of sourdough bread, then 40 cornbread mini-muffins then banana bread.  The mini-muffins were a request from the church for the fellowship meal on Sunday which had a chili theme.  Sunday was a;so rainy so I spent the afternoon reading.  Today was lovely weather, and I wasted it sitting at the confuser…. it’s an addiction I tell you!  I have great plans for tomorrow though.  There is a stack of wood I need to split and get into the shed.  As long as I stay away from this infernal machine I’ll be okay.

Went out back today and flung arrows using the recurve,  I was pleasantly surprised at how well I did, for me at any rate.

The grass is greening up nicely with numerous tussocks popping up.  I’ll need to mow if this keeps up.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167609

The Native people were screwed over all along.  They were considered vermin to be pushed out of the way or exterminated, and then people got upset that the First People fought back, with much the same barbarity the Europeans used.  I have cheered the Alaska Natives for going through the courts to hold up the pipeline until their lands claims were settled.  They were successful because they weren’t conquered; the Indians in the Lower 48 had been and so lost their rights, apparently.  I don’t remember the exact wording but that is the way I understand it.

Otherwise things here are uneventful.  I get out in the back yard and fling arrows every so often, when it’s not too cold.  I feed the wood stove when it is.  I made up some arrows with Larch shafts a while back and am very pleased with them.  They seem to be tough and fly as straight as I can shoot them, which isn’t saying much.  I can get 25 yards in the back yard, 30 if I go out into the alley.  Unfortunately my shooting falls off past 15 yards….

I’m going back to bed.  Take care, everyone!

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167557

I just put a hold on Killers of the Flower Moon at our local library.  It must be popular, I was #4 on the list!

I’m surprised they had it in print; more and more when I do a search there it comes up with lots of electronic media but NO print.  Then I make a suggestion to buy and after several months an email appears that the book is in at the local branch, and I get a brand new one in my hands!  I have canceled, or not renewed several magazines which dropped print, hold in your hands media.  I realize that the cost of paper and publishing has gone up and probably for a small, special interest publication online only may be the only way to keep going but it’s not for me.

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in reply to: Silver City ??? #167556

So, how was it?  We need all the gory details!

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167353

You’d think they would warn patients that this could happen; after all, 1/3 of them getting this problem makes for a pretty strong possibility it will happen to the new patient also.  It would have saved us a bunch of worrying if we had known!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167340

Just got back from getting Carol’s right eye zapped.  She had cataract surgery last year, then a month or so ago her vision suddenly got very blurred.  It turned out to be the membrane behind the new lens had clouded over with scar tissue.  This happens to 1/3 of cataract surgery patients so why they don’t warn people that it could happen is beyond me.  Anyway, they did a quick laser surgery to cut an opening through the membrane so light can get through, a 2 minute procedure.  That was on her right eye, the left will get done in a couple of weeks.  It really worked; she can read the wall clock from bed again so is a happy camper.  Amazing what can be done these days!

I feel a nap coming on after the cat kept waking us up last night,  The rain has stopped (it was 60* yesterday) so I may get out later and fling some arrows for “upper body conditioning”.

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167273

A bit chilly here also, 10* on the front porch this morning.  Had snow starting Thursday night and all day yesterday.  I have the wood stove fired up to add a little heat to the upstairs.  took the upstairs bathroom sink drain apart because it wasn’t doing what it is supposed to do, but couldn’t find any problem.  I dumped a bunch of Draino down, we’ll see if that makes any difference.  We had a “bad smell” problem for a couple of days here.  Carol was ready to have cats put down if they are spraying in the house.  I figured it out yesterday when I was bringing in fire wood; a cat had sprayed on everything in the wood shed.  The wood box sits right next to one of the cold air returns for the furnace so the odor was being pumped throughout the house.  I’ll just bring in enough wood to go directly into the fire and not load up the box in the evening like I used to.

Okay, I have banana bread to bake and a house to clean.  Later!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #166501

Just ordered some new sights for a couple of flintlock rifles, and working on a cup of joe.  I think I’ll get out and fling some arrows in a little while, after I fill the bird feeders and bring in wood to get a fire going.  Took down the tree and decorations this morning.  Have to get busy on a pumpkin pie also.

Have a HAPPY, everyone!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Happy New Year !!! #166499

Ohio has gone to licenses expiring on birthdays, plus offering 3 year licenses so I’m good for a while.  Hope your new year’s celebrations went well, and I wish everyone all the best in 2024!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Over the top cool #166498

The brain is going on 80, asking who wrote the article or even which magazine it was (Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, Archery?) is out of the question!  Wish it was different, but such is life as my dad used to say.

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in reply to: Over the top cool #166389

Long time ago, it would have been 1968 because I was on the island of Shemya at the time, I read an article in a magazine advocating shooting a bow in the 30# to 35# range for practice, then moving up to the heavy bow 2 weeks or so before you were going to be hunting.  It made a certain amount of sense.

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