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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163366

I wish I could say the weather is getting better!  We had high winds and rain a while back, then a couple of days of respite and two days ago the stormy weather returned.  A bunch of the metal flashing (the contractor who put it up 12+ years ago called it “metal wrap”) has blown loose and is flapping in the breeze.  At 78 years old I don’t want to be climbing on the extension ladder to tack it back down, but finding a contractor to come look at it is impossible.  I leave messages and no one wants to return the call, even to just say that they are booked solid or don’t want to do that work.  A strange way to do business I have noticed years ago when we first moved to SE Ohio.

Otherwise we are good.  I got out to fling some arrows a couple of times between bouts of rain.  I’m working on my consistency, concentrating on my form and getting to my anchor point.

Hope everyone is okay.  I see another storm is moving in on Wyoming, you all stay safe out there!

~Kees~

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by Kees.

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in reply to: More Hobbies–A Bow of a Different Kind #163291

Well done! Impressive, to say the least.

What did you do to repair the split down the back, glue it and pull it together with clamps? I think the original finger board was probably ebony wood; I just searched on line for that and the prices are pretty spendy; I can see why you would use white oak!

Thanks for sharing that with us.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163188

Sounds like a good day, anyway.  I’ve never tried bow-fishing.  I did a lot with rod & reel in Alaska.  After we transferred to the Wayne N.F. in Ohio I buy my fishing license every year but have never again wet a line.  We’ve been here almost 17 years now.  Haven’t gone out hunting much either since retiring.  I do a good bit of hiking, and fling arrows in the back yard but having become my wife’s care giver I don’t have a whole lot of time for myself anymore.  Not complaining, she has taken care of me enough times that I’m glad to be able to return the favor.

Tried using the Bear Montana again, but my shoulder started complaining so I’m back to the old Indian recurve.  Thinking of putting the Bear up for sale, or trade for a lighter one.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163161

Well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY young man, and here’s wishing you many more!

The 50# Bear Montana is more than enough bow for me; you’re a bigger man than me for using a 70 pounder.

~Kees~

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Kees.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163001

Our condolences to you for the loss of your brother, and to his family!  We will most certainly keep you all in our prayers.

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #162796

That’s great news!  Hope it continues that way.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #162783

Nothing exciting here.  Made a half dozen arrows a while back.  Dropped back to my old 45 lb. Indian recurve after my right shoulder started giving me trouble when shooting the 50lb. Bear Montana.  I’m doing surprisingly well (for me).  I bought the recurve in 1966 when I was going up to Alaska for college.  It’s one of the few things I still have from those days.  I never was very good with it so my improvement now makes me happy.  I try the Montana every so often and, while I had gotten fairly proficient with it before, I am all over the hay bales now.

~Kees~

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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….

~Kees~

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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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