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in reply to: Shoot a bow for fun. #18990
For 23¢ a gallon for regular gas, won’t cost ya much to get here!! :lol::lol: Tellin’ my age uh? When I first moved to Amarillo in 1963 gas @ Whiting Bros. Stations was quite often 16¢ a gal. Ha. Bow wood? Dunno. Had a Sears and Roebuck all fiberglass bow then, 40#, and a rabbit slayer. Took it bear hunting once with an old neighbor gentleman. My pop told me how lucky I probably was by not finding hide nor hair of a bear.
in reply to: Shoot a bow for fun. #18534Inflation here in the states probably has it up to $2. 😉
Ahh, Scout the wisdom of the all knowing. We have tons of sandhill cranes here in the panhandle that we’d love to trade for a couple hundred head of elk. Glad we have tanks. Ponds would be dry too methinks.
Like the island off the coast of Ca., Santa Rosa Is. Get rid of deer and elk to get back to nature. Let’s see how many years before some friends of a Senator begin subsidizing the island and putting the most offensive, destructive life form on it. Grumpy, I borrow some grump from ya. 😀
in reply to: What ya got goin? #17948Well, the best laid plans of mice and men….. Forgot about senior prom and senior papa be official picture taker.. Some things way more important than turkey hunting.
Did do 3D today but, I thought I gave away range cap’n but I get called to set up targets.. Dang. Was planning on helping but not setting them all up by myself. Set 10, shot 3x’s different stakes, easier on me than 15 shot twice.Glad for help taking down. Old guy does get tired once in awhile.
Found out my wounded hand ain’t fit for duty with my 50# boo/osage wood bow. Ouch, swelled up now. Better stick w/45# recurve and longbow. Better for me, better with them. Anyway, alive and well and happy and blessed. What more??? Wish same to y’all.
Let’s see. 2011= 7″, 2012= 13″, 2013= 3+( about .5″ above normal) and that was mostly because of our 19″ blizzard that put the biggest part of the snow in piles. So we are still under the gun. Our area is semi-arid I think, but we normally get around 19″-20″ a year and usually when it counts for growing we get half or so of that. So every drop counts around here.
Getting green in the bar ditches and on fence rows where the snow piled up.
Haven’t heard a single quail this spring, deer OK as they water at stock tanks ( I think part of the world calls them ?ponds? 😀 ). Windmills, like a century ago, are the life blood of range land.
Take a gander of this part of the world on Google Earth and it’s amazing at the crop circle (pivot) irrigation. No wonder the ground water is going away.
Lake Meredith, once 105′ is now 28.5′. Sad.
Maybe get better. :D:D
in reply to: English Longbow #15430Times there are to be better lucky than good it seems to me.
in reply to: sloppy release…help me… #14543Yep on release problems. I have been into using a tab for a long time and realized a couple of weeks ago that has been not right for me actually. I learned with a glove (not going into glove/tab deal here, bear me out)and shot one forever then went to “cleaner release” tab. Well, seems I got to worrying about releasing so much that all else was going to pot. I lost my confidence. Back to my glove and I never think release. I’m happy now and back in the game. Little thoughts at the wrong time can make big problems.
I’ve never been to London but I’ve been to Morocco, Spain, France and Switzerland. They all have + and – as does my home here in Amarillo but I like my own little + and -‘s just fine. 😆
I’ve seen the deep heart of Morocco, 3 yrs. worth, and one thing I learned there about life is that it exists differently everywhere and what’s right and wrong ain’t the same everywhere. I may not agree with local customs and such sometimes but their life is theirs and mine is mine. It’s most of the time foolish to clash but it does happen and may someday it cease.
Sorry bout philosophizing but I needed a bit of “release”. 🙂
in reply to: sloppy release…help me… #14071So I suspect I’ll be seein’ Neil and Scout in London soon :lol::lol: Fat chance of me being there.
My release worsens the more I worry about it. Just relax (pun intended) and shoot and things will happen for the best methinks. Practice, practice, practice… can be over done though till your brain ingrains what your tired body is doing wrong rather than what your fresh body is doing right. Good luck!!!
in reply to: I just bought my first longbow. #12334Well………………:? 😆 Jim……….:?:lol:
in reply to: English Longbow #12332Cool to watch Neil. Did they let Irishmen use them? 😆
in reply to: Martin Archery #8971I’ve kicked my tail many a time for seeing stars years ago and trading my Martin Mamba off. I bought the bow for $50 and now it would cost me $500 to get another.
I too have an X200 (#45) and it is nice shooting, I just have a problem with the big old fat riser it has. I prefer a smaller grip.
It was a gift from my wife many years ago so it stays and gets shot occasionally. Someday one of the grandsons is gonna figure out that life is not just a series of one game controller after another and come back to archery. Hopefully.
in reply to: I just bought my first longbow. #7692Jim, you sure you didn’t use UPS? 😆 Start tracking something shipped and it’s amazing how many A to B’s there are in a “direct route” from A to me ::lol: .Like my 18 yr. old grandson fixing to graduate would say, “It’s even more better you gots it”. Ha! Enjoy.
How’s the knee doin?
in reply to: I just bought my first longbow. #63984Ha! Sweet. Have fun my friend. I’m tellin’ ya, you’ll get hooked.. Attaboys to those who got it there in one piece. G. Fred has some really good info Inst. Arch 2 about shooting the longbow and the differences between the longbow shooting and that of the recurve.
in reply to: Matter of Balance #62073And I have trouble keeping a glass of water upright on the kitchen table. Regardless of the ending and motivation that guy has a well practiced skill and a way lot of patience. His concentration is something we archers could do well with having methinks. Especially me at times.
in reply to: Shaping feathers #61672Great deal only at my house that be done in the barn cause it still stinks :lol::lol:. I will give it a go. I have a burner that I inherited from someone but I use choppers. I’ll try your thing as it looks much simpler than trying to get the perfect shape in the wire of burner. Thx.. Ralph
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