[Marc Britten]

in reply to: Bow length vs noise #57011

Nice job on that.

[Marc Britten]

in reply to: a little sad today. #49141

grumpy wrote: We are all waiting for your next post, don’t be shy.

Unfortunately outside of some form work and a little 20y shooting that’s all I’ve been able to do for a little while. I’ll be back into it a little later this week.

[Marc Britten]

in reply to: Bow length vs noise #35239

I say contact because I’m used to thinking in terms of recurve, however its back to brace.

[Marc Britten]

in reply to: Bow length vs noise #35004

handirifle wrote: Yea an ILF would make tuning the tiller pretty easy. Any idea if the length “of a properly tillered bow” would make a difference in sound?

Length may change the pitch but it should still be a clean hum vs a loud thwack if you get my meaning.

[Marc Britten]

in reply to: Bow length vs noise #34514

My experience is with ilf mostly. However when running ilf bows I’ve taken to using noise to tune tiller.

A lot of hum indicates that the limbs are out of time, so the string is hitting them at different times during the fire sequence.

[Marc Britten]

in reply to: a little sad today. #28519

donthomas wrote: Don’t get sad. Get hunting. Don

Love it Don.

[Marc Britten]

in reply to: a little sad today. #24464

Great story Steve.

[Marc Britten]

in reply to: a little sad today. #14151

Been thinking on it more and trying to envision the shot. It was just high of center (I was thinking that at the time of the shot when I saw the arrow in the deer).

I’ve been looking at deer skeleton pictures and I’m betting I did catch the shoulder blade. Between the high of center and everything else I bet I was just left of ideal as well (they look a little different in real life vs the pictures your trying to use to learn shot placement).

The blood was probably from it just bleeding down the arrow instead of actual penetration.

Thanks for all the help and kind words.

[Marc Britten]

in reply to: a little sad today. #10653

Maybe this picture will give some useful info on guessing shoot placement. With no experience my interpretation may be way off.

[Marc Britten]

in reply to: a little sad today. #9684

I did not get pass through, though based on the blood on the arrow I believe that I got around 12 inches or more of penetration. There’s hair on it up to 13 inches from the tip on one side and slightly less on the other.

The blood was bright red.

At one point we found what we believe was a clot, and the blood trail picked up quite a bit after that for 50y or so until it vanished.

I can shoot a between 22 and 24 on a five spot target at 20, and could maintain a hand sized group out to 40 last month before the elk trip.

I’m using magnus stinger 2 blade, though may be switching based on this.

The arrow was just over 500grain. Full length black eagle vintage 400. Brass insert 125 grain broadhead.

Edit: sorry rushed the response while leaving for work. Thanks for the response, I’ve repaired the shot so many times that I’m sure my belief had over wrote what happened. Just trying to make sense of it.

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