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in reply to: For those who love Footed Arrows #48314

Wow! footed self nock 😀 Me like

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in reply to: Bow Tuning #44669

David Petersen wrote: , use an Xacto knife to carefully slice out maybe 1/8″ of padding from bottom and back to provide better feather clearance. 😆

Dave I use to think the same thing, the truth is the fleatching comes over the outside edge of the riser, that’s why you can shoot cock feather in and your feather will never touch the riser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO102jz8sFM

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #44632

Ed, That just made me sick, I know how much my pic’s mean to me 😥

I was vary thank full that early on I would take some pic’s but no where near as many as I should of.

I am sorry for being so off topic, but it’s all about bowhunting

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #43047

Dr. Ed Ashby wrote: I know there are no words, David. Daily I grieve the passing of the Africa I knew.

Ed

Ed, I would love to see some pic’s of your time in old Africa, and any where ells for that matter.

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #43043

Mark, I had hair then 😀 the cool thing about the Islands was they where game rich, so you went from stock to stock.

Don’t get me wrong though, you had to work hard.

My hunting buddy watched me put the stock on this one

This one was shot at 5 yards in it’s bed.

Sharp delta 2 blade = blood every where.

This is the worst I have ever shot, I missed my first 2 shot over it’s back, it heard the shot but did not know what it was, he was working on a bulb in the grown he would run a little way and come right back to eat the bulb, he never knew I was there until the 3rd shot hit the mark.

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #42601

Tom-Wisconsin wrote: I am really enjoying this thread. I have learned a lot just listening to every one. I wanted to know what kind of sheep were in those beautiful pictures.

Thanks in advance

Tom

Tom that is what it’s about.

Well I think there a moreno sheep that the Spaniards dropped off 3 or 4 hundred years ago along with the pigs, they where there along time before the nature conservatory slaughtered them all.

Can you see my broadhead in the horn?

I think I shot this one after he was eating the dead sheep.

This one we called the shaggy dog.

I glassed this boar from the ridge in the back ground, put a big stock on him.

I shot this boar while I was blood trailing another hog.

A true Traditional Bowhunters paradise

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #42576

Doc. That poem is so true, and it does make my heart hurt, I was able to get my son over there at the vary end, he shot a nice hog as I watched the whole thing across canyon.

Doc. if you don’t mind I would like to post some Island pic’s

I saw this boar on the edge of some oak trees from about a mile away, I thought it was a pony, first shot was quartering in, he did not want to go down so I had to hit him again, he had a block head with nice cutters,60lb widow.

As I left the hog above I came out of the oak trees to see this guy out feeding.

This is the best shot I have ever made, he was running from my hunting buddy and was coming towards me, I had to run up the ridge to where I thought he would come by, as he came by at full speed I had to swing with him then go way out in front of him to lead him and also pick a window to shot him through, hitting them like Howard comes to mind.

Can you say cutters

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #41929

You know whats funny, all I did was tune the arrow to the bow and hunt, I did not even own a grain scale or know what my arrow weight was or anything, I made a lot of mistake along the way.

I did put a sharp edge on all of my broadheads, I could of said why better my equipment as it’s always killed just fine.

The truth is there is the best arrow, then theirs the next best arrow, and so forth…

I am at a place now that I want the best arrow I can possible make, it only increases my effective killing.

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #41909

Thanks Patrick.

The Islands we’re really a special place, you can watch old footage of Howard hill shooting pigs and goats in some of his old moves.

Who would of known that the world would of turned so crazy that they would kill 27,000 head of sheep and let them lie and rot ( the pigs did clean them up as best they could ) then they killed all of the pigs, this was done by the nature conservatory.

I wish I would of took more picks ( was to busy hunting )

This is a huge chocolate ram, most got killed before they could grow big because every one wanted one.

This is my first trip to Santa Cruz Island, mean lean hunting machine

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #41490

Str8arrow wrote:

Maybe this is the sticky area that is bugging me. I can draw a 70 lb trad bow, no doubt. I shoot a lot and my muscles are in fairly good shape. However, I can not shoot it anywhere near as well as a 55 lb bow. There is a trade off for most people. Draw weight vs accuracy.

I understand what your saying Str8arrow, however let’s also not confuse Bowhunting with target archery.

Jumping up 15lb will effect most peoples accuracy, it is much better to slowly work up to that weight over the next year

With Bowhunting you will take vary few shots and they will usually be at close ranges.

I use to hunt the Islands off of California, and yes I would sometimes have several shots a day ( wish it was still there ) because you could get ten years of Bowhunting experiences in one, that is so; not the norm.

I had to bring extra arrows, it was that good.

70lb longbow, I shot this one at 3 yards on the ground

Then about an hour later shot this one

right after that one shot another one and it ante even noon yet.

On most Bow hunts you will be lucky to get one shot let alone several.

This bow arrow set up was before I ever changed my set up to maximize arrow penetration, I did shoot mostly Zuwickys, because I wanted all the penetration I could get.

One of the reasons I stumbled on the grizzly is I liked the 3-1 ratio, I noticed an immediate increase in penetration completely ignorant of the dynamics of the single bevel.

I am stuck right now with my arrow @ 810 grains with a 28% efoc I can not loud it up any more so my next goal is to get some new shafts and work up a 30%-35% or maybe even a 40% UEFOC arrow.

The fun never stops

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #38956

OK, maybe I exaggerated a little 😕 however a baseball is around 2,200 grains and can be thrown at around 132 feet per second by high school kids.

With a good arm you might be able to through the arrow faster than a 35lb bow.:shock:

OK, I am way off track now lol

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #38133

As you already know, you’ll get a lot of nay say’ers with a 70lb compound and a 380grain arrow 😈

I understand what your saying, ( I think ) I don’t think anyone will shoot a 650 grain arrow out of 35lb bow 😯 they would truly only have a 5 yard shooting capability.

I am so glad that there is a venue for us all to discus this vary touchy subjects with respect for one another.

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #37287

Up next’s is a bunch of bull

That right there is a bunch of bull……… and would you really shoot at him with a 35lb “D” shaped longbow? 😥 Lord help us.

You can see that this bull has his front leg covering his whole heart and a vary large part of his lungs( so you say; wait for him to take a step and move his leg ) well of course I would, however what happens if at the shot he assumes this position with his muscles flexed and there as hard as steel ( flex your bicep, feel how hard it is when you flex it, well I don’t care how hard it is, it’s like pudding compared to a bulls flexed shoulder muscles )

Perfectly broadside and at eye level, what I hope and pray for.


Shoulder shot, slight down hill and slight quartering away around 28 yards, took 2 bounds then all four feet went in the air, rolled farther that he ran

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in reply to: Shoulder Shots 2 #36362

Back off at a right angle to this steel rod ‘picket fence’ and shoot away with different broadheads. You won’t get any multiblade broadheads through without destroying the broadhead. You will be surprised at how many of the single blade heads ‘right themselves’ to pass between the rods.

How do you think of this stuff? oh! that’s right, your an old bush bum. 😳 lol

Just incredible the stuff you have tried, I have to agree with the bone being….. well…., what you said about them, they do deflect and redirect any thing that try’s to breach them.

Also the bones move on impact absorbing a lot of the energy, dissipating and redirecting it away, making it even harder to penetrate.

This hog was above me at around 18 yards in it’s bed slightly quartering at me ( I thought it was perfectly broadside, it wasn’t, this can happen more than you think, with the animals body in a different position and angle than it appears ) it was leaning on it’s left side, the arrow went through the near side rib cutting it in two, angling up and slammed into the spine, a vary unique shot angle

The spine is a geometrical miracle, it has thousands of angles and shock absorbers at each junction, designed to absorb, deflect and redirect any impacts.

As you can see from the pic above it did not just stick into the spine, but started to separate it.

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in reply to: Performance Differance between the 160 Grizzly and the 160 STOS #36226

Doc, that’s to funny, besides you shoot to many.lol

Mark there is a feel that needs to be learned just like mastering anything, however with practice it can be mastered.

That is a good point the Doc. made to get your broadhead as close as you can, then go to the KME and put the final polished finish on it, I might try that my self.

You know you don’t want your broadhead to sharp 😯 as if there was a thing as to sharp.

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