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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!

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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”!

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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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in reply to: Totally new here… #161020

Welcome to the fire!  I look at some of the targets others shoot and ask myself “how do they do that?” Then I dig out my Traditional Bowhunter’s Handbook (available here: https://tradbow.com/product-category/books/) and realize I’m still doing the same stuff I was many years ago. But it’s all fun….

~Kees~

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in reply to: We Hear #161019

Well, that explains why I couldn’t find any posts about Zaaz!

Anyway, welcome Tony!  Hope you’re not shy.  Lots of good folks here although some don’t post as often as they could. I don’t consider myself in the “good folks” category, but I am certainly guilty of not being on here as much as I should be.

~Kees~

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in reply to: Hello! #161018

Hello Pat, and greeting from SE Ohio.  I haven’t been on here for a while and am trying to read all the posts I’ve missed so you may have answered this question elsewhere, but what bow did you end up going with?

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatch Got Going 2022 #161017

My little Ford Ranger has had rust issues since I bought it 12+ years ago.  Most of those on the body I have repaired, but the frame has had rust-through behind the cab.  I took the bed off and brought it to a welding shop where  they patched it up.  I spent the most of last week chipping, scraping and sanding rust.  Then a couple of coats of Rustoleum rusty metal primer followed by another couple of top coats of black and it looks pretty good.  If it lasts another 20 years I’ll be happy, since by then I probably won’t be driving anymore.  Since the bed is off I’ve prepped it and the back of the cab to put another coat of paint on.  It’s about time; the last time I painted the truck was 10 years ago.  I need to repair the rust under the bottoms of the doors  and sand the whole thing down again, then roll another layer or two of fresh paint on.

Hope all of you folks with physical problems (Raymond and  Aeronut come to mind) are doing better.  I wish you well!

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in reply to: Roving and stumping #160100

I’ve enjoyed stump shooting for many years, and continued doing it when we came to Ohio in 2006.  The rules here are that you can’t target shoot on public land except for at designated ranges and I assumed that was for firearms.  I found out a while back that it covers ANY shooting, guns, bows, slingshots….

~Kees~

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in reply to: Target “Shed” #159990

There is a part of the plywood sheet I made everything from, screwed on for a back.  Then there is an old sheet of plywood set up behind that to protect the siding on the house. I used to shoot away from the house, but there is an alley behind us and if/when I missed, the arrows ended up in the neighbors’ yard.  I haven’t had any words with them but decided it was better for peaceful relations to not possibly provoke them.

The side of the bales does better (for me, at least) at stopping arrows compared to shooting the edge.  I started doing this when i took an archery course while going to Portland Community College in Oregon.  The targets there were paper plates tucked under the wires of three hay bales set on edge.  I have yet to cut the string, and the arrows just slide over baling wire.  I use hay bales rather than straw as they are denser and stop arrows better.

~Kees~

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