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in reply to: Arrow weight specs ???? #162350

Wow, that’s quite a project!  I have sold all of the violins we had, one of which was my father’s and the other my grandfather’s.  None of the kids had any desire to have or to play them.  I hope the buyers are getting good use out of them.

~Kees~

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in reply to: Welcome #162347

Hello George!  Glad to have you on board.  A good bunch here, with lots of experience to share!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Thinking of getting into trad….again. #162063

Welcome to the forum from SE Ohio!  If your state allows 40 lb. bows for hunting your plan is right on.  I’m shooting a 45 lb. Indian recurve I bought new in 1966.  Not saying I’m very good with it but it works well if I do my part.  I also have a 50 lb. Bear Montana which I actually did better with, but lately it has become a bit too much for my shoulder.  As Scout said, let us know how you progress!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Real Tree or Artificial #162062

At the price for either, we have an artificial which we use over and over.  I grew up in Hawaii and there was no going out in the forest to get one so my folks bought one from Montgomery-Ward; they still had it 15 years later.  And I remember at a preschool age in Indonesia, my Mom making one from newspapers ( after WW-2).

~Kees~

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in reply to: PA Season #161599

I almost sprayed tea all over the keyboard when I read that!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Enjoy This Season #161597

I feel for you!  I’m in the same boat, except that it’s my wife with pain issues which keep her from doing much around the house, although she does what she can.  That makes me the chief cook and bottle washer….

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in reply to: Question ; How straight is ‘straight’ ?? #161596

I ran into this last Summer.  All of my arrows are wood, fletched and all by me.  I have 6 arrow groups of various spines and wood species.  They aren’t fancy, but I have printed on them, with Magic Marker, the draw weight and what type of wood they are.  I also number each of the 6 so I can tell them apart.  Fletching is straight, so there is no twist as the arrow flies.

Having set the scene, I was shooting my Surewood arrows, spined at 40-45 pounds, at varying distances from 5 to 25 yards, in 5 yard increments.  One arrow invariably flew high and right, depending on the distance up to 1 1/2 foot off the paper plate target.  It was always the same arrow (#2), to the point that if I held off the paper plate at 7 o’clock it would land on target.  It had a bit of a bend and I rolled it straight after which it shot well.  Unfortunately, it took that same bend again after a while, with the same results.

Otherwise, I fully agree with Steve above.  Other arrows I have shoot just fine, despite being curved.  My feeling is that the shaft of that one arrow had a denser wood on one side which caused it to take a set and probably added to it going off at a tangent.  With the straight fletching it would always fly at the same angle, right and high.

I no longer have this problem as I hit the arrow #2 with another from 5 yards, but it was an interesting phenomenon!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatch Got Going 2022 #161217

My first bow was a Ben Pearson archery set my folks gave me for my 16th birthday. Looking at a 1960 catalog copy I found on-line, it was probably the 349 Strato Jet Hunting Set. Solid fiberglass, 45 lb. pull and came with finger tab, arm guard, string, three target arrows and three broadhead arrows. I spent many hours in the back yard shooting that thing.  Probably why I can’t get a decent group now that i am older.  Kind of wish I still had the bow; I don’t remember what happened to it.

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in reply to: Target “Shed” #161216

Good suggestions! Next time I’m at Wally World I’ll see what I can get for ratchet tie-downs.

~Kees~

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in reply to: Target “Shed” #161085

An update on this.  The arrows were sticking in the plywood back, even after being slowed down by the hay.  I went to Tractor Supply and bought one of their recycled rubber stall mats and cut it to fit behind the hay bales. That works like a champ!  The arrows still hit with authority but don’t stick.

I have hit the strings on the hay bales numerous times now and they just let the arrows slide through without cutting them. I suppose broadheads would be a different story!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatch Got Going 2022 #161075

We will need a full report on that Tesla after you have wrung it out for a couple of road trips!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Allegheny Mountain bows #161026

There’s an ad on the Leatherwall for one.

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in reply to: New bow ……………………… #161025

Wait, you can buy bows on Ebay?  Now why didn’t I think of that?  :>)

~Kees~

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in reply to: New bow for a new traditional archer #161024

Just call us “The Enablers”!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Why I Didn't Like Shooting Gloves & Why I'm Using One #161021

My first bow I got for my 16th birthday, a fiberglass Ben Pearson set with everything you needed to get started in archery, came with a tab.  Since then I’ve tried various tabs and gloves but always seem to com back to a tab.  Just like I have returned to my old Indian Archery bow I bought in 1966, just prior to going to Alaska for college.  It’s one of the few things I have kept since that time.

~Kees~

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