[Ralph]

in reply to: Rotator Cuff Stuff #168492

I’ve got some snap, crackle and pops going on in both my shoulders these days. Some of it comes from 3 hour weed eater sessions and three hour mowing sessions I’m sure. I have spent hours and hours shooting in the backyard but I’ve decided to back off on that and shoot shorter sessions and less arrows. One cannot improve a problem by shooting to much and making muscles and other parts tired and sore.

I got in a pickle on my 4 wheeler in early May and wrenched my shoulders. Not help full. At my age it’s smart to back off and take it easy.

My 79 year old self has no desire to go under the knife.

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in reply to: First Buck with a Bow #165573

Very nice buck. Good to see you doing well.

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in reply to: First Buck with a Bow #165572

Way to go!!!!!!

 

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in reply to: ? Crazy string #163811

There was a pic there. You tell me what happened and where stuff about people shooting skeet came from. Hacked????

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in reply to: ? Crazy string #163627

Been awhile since I posted it but it’s still interesting to look at. Some new members since then.

How you been????

 

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163529

Wind! In Amarillo? Nah!!!!  :-))

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #163071

Our condolences. Prayers to all and God Bless…

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #162753

Still watching our part of of the world dry up around us. Maybe we’ll get some good moisture someday.

Totally grateful at my age that I can still shoot and get around to 3D shoots that are soon to begin around.

40-41-up to 45 lb bows working great for my old butt..

 

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in reply to: PA Season #161486

Was that deer snickering as it walked by?

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in reply to: Question ; How straight is ‘straight’ ?? #161458

IMHO straight is best but maybe we can get away with some crooked and such at close distances as long as the front of the arrow is in line with the back of the arrow. But if either end is pointing in a different direction than the other end things ain’t gonna get along with each other.  If the nock end is misaligned it’s not getting pushed true. If the tip end is misaligned it’s not leading true.

I think that 15 yards and less with big feathers and shooting at the paper plate sized (roughly) killing area on a deer there’s not much problem.

Get them as straight as you can and then shoot’em to see which are true.

Just my two bits…………………

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: Totally new here… #161000

I happen to be one of the “repeat” mistakes folk. Sometimes I don’t realize it was a mistake, at times won’t admit it and others it’s whose to say I’m the one making the mistake.

Then there’s the “I can fix this” syndrome.. If I do it wrong long enough it’ll right itself.

Anyway, even after 60+ years of shooting bows there are a lot of times (too many) that the arrow doesn’t arrive in the place that I had intended for it to.

Hang in there. Even a bad day doesn’t ruin my life.

This is a good place to learn and visit and no one dishes out bull or admonishes anyone.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2021 #160999

I know the working for power company deal. If only I’d had a phone with camera or such back in the day. It’s hard to to describe what I can see in my mind of the beauty and power and destructive power of storms.

I was once hunting bow season in NM and a storm suddenly came over the mountain I was near. Lightning to beat all get out. Here I am with a quiver on my back and a bow quiver both filled with aluminum arrows.

It didn’t take me long to have those lightning rods in one place and me hunkered down in another.

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in reply to: Public Land Pressures #160693

Since I lost my hunting place here in the panhandle I have no choice left but the Lake Meredith Rec area, fed land. It gets very crowded. I have avoided it because of that and because of an experience years ago during rifle season no way in hell will I go there during that time of year (long story kinda but I still get shivers).

I have decided to give it a go for the opening weekend of archery this year with a couple of good friends. Maybe if I find somewhere to sit and mind my own biz one of the many may cause a buck to come sneaking by me.

 

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in reply to: Western Colorado Deer #160692

My mom and dad had a place west of Mesa a ways. I used to have access to the nat’l forest from it. After they passed the land was sold for various reasons (sad). I’m talking 25+ years ago. Recently I got on google earth to just see what things are like these days. Good grief!!!! It looked like a totally different world from what I knew. Every access I used to have is blocked by private land now.

One access I had was supposedly only available during rifle season but I actually won a debate that I should have as much right to use it during bow season as rifle hunters did during that season. So I got to use it.  Unfortunately, the next year the right of way was closed to everyone (money, politics, both).

 

So I hope you and your wife can find an area to have a good hunt.

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in reply to: Hello! #160211

Hello back.. Welcome.

You’re for sure doing the right thing with bow draw weight. Your are fortunate that you have a shop nearby that seems knowledgeable about traditional archery.

To much draw weight is the cause of so many problems in shooting trad equipment. Plus often burnout because things ain’t working.

Draw weight you build up to and there’s no sense in going through the “male macho” thing.

I’ve noticed here lately on various trad websites that people more and more are selling or trying to sell 55# up to 65#-70# bows more and more often. I even saw one 95#’er. Wow!

There’s good reason for that methinks.

Good luck, have fun and don’t expect instant miracles.  I’m 77 and have been shooting since I was 15 or so and I dang sure ain’t the best in the world by far. But I love it. And I’m perfectly content to shoot in the 40#-45# range.

Ralph

 

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