[Ralph]

in reply to: Questions About Arrows #136058

Welcome and have fun.

I agree whole wholeheartedly with Robin (our web mom) about keeping it simple and don’t overthink it..

One thing to make things really simple sometimes……………….a little bit of something under the rest or behind the side plate can be a world saver…  :-))

Maybe not the world but a pocket full of pennies saved instead of buying a dozen new arrows.

R2

[Ralph]

in reply to: Straight Fletch Article #135960

I wonder if one needs to be on “the straight and arrow :=)) path” for them to work for them?

Just wandering…:-)))))

 

R2 had a good day and now he’s being ornery.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Numb fingers #135933

I agree with Stephan….get a thicker one……👌

[Ralph]

in reply to: Switching to tab effecting arrow flight? #135891

As far as diff in glove and tab, I shoot both, when changing from one to the other it takes my brain awhile (probably longer than normal) to adapt.

There is a different thickness between the two and the contact on the anchor point is somewhat different between the two.

I personally have a tendency to short draw with a tab. Short drawing a bow changes the spine/weight factor/relationship of arrow spine and draw/bow draw weight.

 

 

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: Switching to tab effecting arrow flight? #135890

I’m of a long time understanding, I shoot right handed, that if my arrows are grouping left that indicates my arrows are to stiff.

So I’m thinking (maybe backwards knowing me) that if a lefty is grouping to the right that would indicate to stiff a spine.

??????

This is from Grizzly Stik

Too stiff or too weak?
There are many popular tuning methods. This isn’t intended to be a tuning primer but for quick reference…. How does one tell if one has the right spine for the setup he/she is shooting? A right-handed archer shooting in the style most of us use grasps the bow in his left hand and draws the arrow with the right. The arrow passes along the left side of the bow. If the arrow is too stiff it will fail to flex around the bow sufficiently and may hit left of the spot it was aimed at. If it is too weak if will flex around the bow too much and tend to hit right of the target. If one is using paper tuning or tail watching methods an overly stiff arrow flies nock right. A weak arrow flies nock left.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Looking for advice on switching to trad #135799

There’s way more gratification when an arrow hits where the brain was pointed rather than where the sight pin was.

Good advice given above and a good article by G. Fred in the new TBM mag about bow draw weights.

I was/still am a victim of the “macho draw weight” 40 years ago and I still suffer from not always having a firm anchor point.

 

I wonder why it’s so much easier for the brain to grab hold of the wrong than the right of things?   Maybe it’s cause what’s easiest ain’t necessarily the bestest  :-)))))   ???????????

Don’t overthink…….have fun….

 

 

 

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: Keeping Trim during the Holidays… #135750

I guess we can think thin and see how well the power of positive thinking works. 

 

But……………if the power of positive thinking worked that well, I’d never have another arrow in the dirt or stuck in a tree or running around loose in the bush………………………..

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #135325

Merry Christmas everyone and a great new year ahead.

Ralph and Shirley

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: Arm Slap #135176

Shaun,

I found this that may be of help

Why The Bow String Hits Your Arm

Ralph

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #135045

I was doing some ‘selfies’ the other day while I was working on form, drawing back at the 5 second point of the countdown timer, holding til I heard the shutter then releasing. Trying to better develop my back stretch into the shot.

My phone always does a burst of photos when I’m using the timer. Normal?? Don’t care but I do get some interesting pics out of the deal sometimes.

1st one of these pics you can see the arrow still on or fixin to not be on the string. Another you can see the arrow in paradox. That one looks like the arrow is porpoising but the bow is canted so ??????

The last is just me……………;-)) I followed thru>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

By the way, the holding for 5 seconds is just waiting on camera thing. I don’t hold long, I try to hit anchor, stretch back muscle into draw and shoot. I need only to make sure my bow arm is where it’s supposed to be.

I’m one of those “You study long you study wrong” people. If I take time to think things over, uh duh, not…………

 

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: Cracked limbs #135001

Is the wise old owl old because he is wise or wise because he is old?–R2

Some of my thinking :-))

The fact is he’s still around and like Steve and  Scout, I’d replace or retire.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #134926

Yup, Canadian,  and NE of Borger, Tx.

That’s a place where I sit and eat lunch quite often. I like the view.

Just that day there was a couple of young muley bucks and 4-5 does bedded in that plumb thicket. They have a habit of that and when they do they become a non existent creature if’n you know what I mean.

I used to like chasing those fool’s hens myself.

I looked up the area on Google Earth around Mesa, Co. where my folks, my aunt and uncle lived and I still have a cousin living there. …My old stomping grounds. I spent a lot of time up there.

I haven’t been up there in many years so I was curious.

Good grief…it has changed so much.  Houses everywhere, gas (I guess, not oil) well locations all over the place. It has changed so much my old landmarks are gone.

Where I used to leave the folks and go to hunt or just roam, I’d probably get nailed for trespassing nowadays.

Mom and dad used to be ditch riders, all that country uses water from the Grand Mesa, and as they got older, the title and income was theirs but the work, well, it was worth it to get to get into places where most don’t.

The critters got used to us so we did see a lot of nature in it’s natural self.

If they’d heard the language coming from that old, I mean old, Toyota Land Cruiser, the critters would’ve of changed counties though. That thing used to beat the crap outta me trying to get it through the country. Bless the folks who finally invented power steering>>>>>>>>>>.

Was some good fishing holes back in there though.

I’m just glad I got to see a lot of this country as it was, prime and uncrowded, in my lifetime.

Don’t even wanna talk about the times the chickens got out, roosted in the juniper trees and at midnight, with mom in full panic mode about coyotes eating chickens, we’re out there at midnight fetching chickens…..bet it was really comical but damned if I thought so.

 

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #134919

Steve, I don’t much care for turkeys either, it’s just the challenge in this country for me to try with my longbow.  It’s not like sitting with one’s back to a tree and calling birds in.. Different country. The Rio Grande turkeys run around in herds like schools of fish going here there and yonder.  And they get in the plumb thickets which are absolutely impregnable to human beings.  If one goes through those they come out leaving a blood trail.

I could shotgun, .22 rifle, whatever almost always but that’s not my goal.

It gives me something to do besides get old. :-))

 

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #134906

Here I sit this morning, looking out the kitchen window. Watching  the tree limbs bend in the wind and the fallen leaves scurrying across the winter brown Bermuda grass.

Coffee cup in hand I ponder the wit and wile of the Rio Grande turkey, the bird that can disappear behind a blade of grass and outrun a Ferrari.

I’m thinking I could make another 150 mile round trip, I could grab another weapon besides my longbow, then as I recall the weather forecast, maybe 50 mph gust of wind I’m second thinking, not today.

If’n I ever take another wild turkey, it’ll be with my longbow. I have taken one with a traditional bow years ago (a running shot with a recurve) but I attribute that mostly to blind luck. For one thing turkey was not my plan for the day, another, running turkey, recurve bow? Well, even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then.

When I think logic and expense and all that, taking the personnel challenge out of the deal, I like spiral cut ham way better than turkey. I could buy a couple of them for the price of a round trips worth of diesel fuel.

Just another excuse though, like those excuses of wind affected misses. Like if wind blowing from left to right and I shoot to the left. Wind right? :-)) Like awww, that turkey didn’t have a big enough rack :))))  (Like that was ever a concern of mine any with deer either. Racks probably don’t have much flavor and they’re hard on the teeth I’m sure.)

But I still, no matter, will continue my quest for the feathery, sharp eyed, fleet of foot, *#*@#* wild turkey.

 

Just not today.

 

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #134887

I went to the ranch where I hunt today, with longbow and wood arrows and big plans.

I’d decided I was gonna try to spot and stalk turkeys, to see if any that I spotted were good enough to get away from me ( 🙂 yeah, really) )…..

Turns out the the only turkey I saw was the one that kept looking at me in the rear view mirror.

Had a good day though, killed a few cow pies, some bushes here and there and got out before the weather goes south here in the Panhandle.

 

 

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