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in reply to: Does anybody really pay this much? #53636
Yep, know what ya mean about retirement funds and new goodies. I would dearly love to have an all carbon bow to add to my collection but I have like 18 bows, all but two are longbows and those two others be older recurves.
I also have in my household a monetary adviser that will quite readily point out to me how many bows that I own, that they all shoot just fine and I do not need another bow, no matter if it’s all carbon, wood, plastic, don’t matter. She speaks, so an occasional dozen wood shafts, some feathers(and etc. for them), and (heh, heh, heh) a new bow quiver from ABS (working on broadheads too) makes me happy or at least, keeps the peace! 😆
I have Grizzlies, Ribtek’s and some old Ace broadheads but my love knows not the difference so Ha!in reply to: Does anybody really pay this much? #53470What one pays for one’s equipment is between the supplier and one’s self. No problem with what one spends or doesn’t spend on an item or items (Except it gets regrettable in a heartbeat when one’s boots or other clothing breaks down. Money is well spent there. Sorry!)
I’m perfectly happy with what I use, it works great and the meat tastes just as good. No matter what you pay for a bow or arrows or broadheads, etc. you cannot purchase the practice time and skills involved in their use. A hit is a hit and a miss is a miss. $ no mass!
ABS folk are really nice people to deal with. I had a faulty item, I sent them a picture from my phone by email, they responded very quickly, said they were unaware of such a problem, passed the pic and info to the manufacturer and sent me a replacement at no charge whatsoever. Now that is a big plus to begin with for a company. Ralph!in reply to: Right helical vs. Left helical #48165I’m right handed and I shoot left wing, cock feather away, mainly because 30+ yrs. ago when I started this habit, I mean hobby, there was an old axiom “Right handed-left wing, left handed-right wing”. I’m sure there was a reasoning for this, perhaps going back to the days of shooting off of one’s hand with self-bows. Dunno.I don’t over complicate simplicity. I do know that right wing fletched arrows will sometimes leave a reminder on my finger that that was a right wing fletched arrow you just shot! Without going into all the math and quantum physics I simply turn the cock feather in with right wing shafts and all problems solved.
I be one of those guys that can show you the scars on my finger from buried pieces of feather quill and tell you that if you do this, this won’t happen. Scientific enough for these old bones.:wink:in reply to: Tarantula hawk #41053Yea, tried to get her out to shoot today but you know……………………..:D:D
in reply to: Tarantula hawk #40010The tarantula is paralyzed and taken to the wasps burrow. One egg is laid on the tarantula then it is carefully buried. The egg hatches and the larvae drills a hole and eats the spider from inside out avoiding internal organs until the last in order to keep it alive longer. Ha! Researched this! That’s plenty reason to leave that stuff to the bugs!
in reply to: The Aesthetics of Archery #22562The beauty was slipping away until I figured out that a miss was only a “whoops” and not the end of the world. I was letting “perfection” take away the enjoyment. The fun was going downhill. I had 30 yrs. of fun but the last 3 yrs. not so much. Fun with my friends that I shoot with but not so much with my performance.
An old friend that has passed quoted to me once ” It’s simple but nobody said it was easy and the problem is usually the injun”. I figure I was getting the simple and not easy and the injun parts all backasswards and forgot that simple is fun and fun is easy to come by if you quit worrying about things.
So I have adopted my new thought “There’s beauty in the flight of every arrow cast and it’s up to me to see it”. R²
So now the beauty, the mental aesthetics, the joy of my hobby have returned. “Whoops” is good!
You guys speak good. Thanks, Ralph.in reply to: How do you find your arrows? #16885Last one I lost I found in the target. Last place I’d look!:lol:
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OK, this is better!!!!!!!!!!!!!in reply to: Silly bird #16125Season has been closed for a couple of months but I still enjoy trying to get close, just to prove how impossible it mostly is I guess :lol:. Sometimes right place at right time and a turkey more interested in looking for food in these extreme drought conditions we be having here in Texas. I don’t know why the picture looks icky as it’s beautiful on my computer as a background. I’ll work on that tomorrow some time perhaps.
in reply to: Silly bird #15992Darn. Sorry bout that
in reply to: Our Predecessors: 1946 Bows and Hunting, Etc. #9128April, 1945. Ummm! That makes me a pre-baby boomer! :)) Nice old articles!
in reply to: Interesting Waste of Time #62984‘Pick up at store’ option good for many I suppose but for many more an option it is not. It’s a “purty fer piece” from Amarillo to a Cabela’s store so postage we pay if upon rare occasion something is purchased. I’ve backed out twice from ordering something I wanted when $80 turns into a tad over $100 before I’d get it. I can make do for $20.
in reply to: Toxophile or Toxophilite? #62428OK, I’m happy! I’m a Toxoamericana non-sinister trad bow shooting addict and happy about it. All Toxo folk are fine with me (As long as they’re on my side :D:)).
in reply to: Who names their bows? #62408Attaching the names to my bow that I was doing awhile ago was not even right. T’was not the bow that couldn’t hit my arse with both hands but me with had my head buried up there. My bow is only the medium that I was using to perform my acts of ineptness so an apology is due to “Old Gofer” and I will bear the shame of the names I was throwing around. Sorry buddy and I’ll do ya right tomorrow!
Sometimes it becomes one to put it down,admit his failings, have a talk with himself and his Maker and come back another day.in reply to: Interesting Waste of Time #62184It’s to deaf ears at Cabela’s it seems, when I send mail to the company that I can access any product that they offer through the internet and I see no sense on wasting so much paper with a plethora of catalogs.How much could prices be reduced (Haha) if so much paper and ink was saved.
Also, why does the post office advertise $5 shipping deals when Cabela’s charges way more than that for nearly weightless products? Just curious on the latter. Maybe some fine print that I haven’t learned to read yet in 66 yrs. -
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