[Ralph]

in reply to: Fletching application order #146990

I have my cock feathers 90* but neither of my jigs fletch that way. They’re a bit out of whack. Maybe some shoot aligned as such but that’s not my choice. So I never glue my nocks on permanent to start with, I use just a touch of glue to keep them in place during the fletching process.

When I’m, thru I pop the nocks off and then glue them to the alignment I prefer.

As far as first goes, I see no reason as to which, I just always start with the cock feather so I don’t get confused when fletching different colors of feathers.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Picking an aluminum arrow ? #146826

I’d look into the Easton Aluminum Arrow Selection chart. It’s worked well for years.

A 2016 might be good. Works really well in my 47# and 50# longbows.

For years it seemed if you weren’t shooting a 2117 you were out of the pack. 🙂

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #146795

That’s the creek bed that runs thru our archery range. Huntable? No by club rules. There are mulies, whitetails and turkeys that roam the area. Quail normally abundant but quail populations are down now. I’m really surprised I haven’t seen pigs.

That creek bed is prone to flash flooding when big rains hit the area. That’s been problematic now and then over the years.

That area is way familiar to me since I’ve been roaming it since the mid 70’s.  Not many accessible places like that around her.

Oh yeah, a rattlesnake now and then too.

That doesn’t mean that an occasionally rabbit doesn’t end up in the skillet.

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #146786

I’ve been shooting my 40# bow so “when” I miss I don’t worry about high speed friction starting a grass fire…..

This is actually a creek bed…………..

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #146781

He’s just old and stiff like me. The dogs won’t let him in their pool.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #146776

 

 

 

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Gettin kinda dry around here………………………….

[Ralph]

in reply to: Bear Super Kodiak ???? #146691

Go for it and have fun…

[Ralph]

in reply to: Bear Super Kodiak ???? #146685

You certainly can shoot it of the shelf. You might want to put a tad bit of height underneath the rest, say the thickness of a Popsicle stick.  There are a lot of bows shooting that way.

That’s one of my pet peeves with the trad groups I’ve been involved with, not allowing elevated rests. There is a whole era of classic bows, and current models, that are drilled and tapped for plungers to use with elevated rests.  Shoot, even a Bear Weather Rest is considered an elevated rest.

I figure somebody with pull must of been getting their tail whipped by someone with an elevated rest and outlawed them.

If nothing else, put those bows in the open class with carbon and aluminum arrows.

Elevated rests have been around longer than carbon arrows so if modernization is a problem?????

Just me saying..

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #146672

Finally, a group of us got together at the range, set 10 3D’s and had a fun gathering.  No competition, just fun.  Was good to break out for awhile.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #146617

My 55# Shakespeare Hunter shoots but it’s a hoss for this old guy to shoot..

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #146547

Glad you’re back among us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just getting older here and trying to shoot better cause it’s getting harder and harder to bend down and pick arrows off the ground. 🙂

Been missing the shoots that I usually attend. The one in Memphis, TX especially. I spend 3-4 days down there every year with 3-4 friends setting up the shoot. And a lot of friends show for the weekend. Was hard for David to make the cancel call….

30 targets for TBOT, 25 for the (Championship) selfbow/wood laminate bows and 12-15 for what we call the card shoot (fun round but cards go into the prize drawings. It’s pretty much my baby to design and set the Championship and card rounds.  Never an ornery moment crosses my mind when doing so either.. :-))

There’s some neat, interesting country down there and I love to roam and set targets and just plain disappear for a bit and visit with The MAN…

Anyway, glad your back.. Be expecting to hear more..

Ralph…..

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: Outgrown Bow or Wasted Time? #146512

I don’t understand what that chart has to do with the price of China in Peru………..A bow is designed to shoot with a given +/- brace height.

Shorter draw, longer draw??? Like you Bear Mag, info I found is an 8″ brace height.  Now that’s a plus or minus some to tune to you…You start messing with shorter, longer strings you mess with the dynamics of the bow.  If you shoot a shorter than 28″ draw, the bow still needs the correct string length for the bow to function properly.  You have to make the arrows match your draw length and the corresponding bow weight that ensues.

Just my thinking.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Outgrown Bow or Wasted Time? #146501

A friend of mine and his wife, an elderly couple, shoot the long range competition, 60 yd, 90 meter? stuff. He’s good enough that he was once Florida state champ.

He has helped me with some advice,….. draw bow to anchor, hold for the count of 5, close one eye and let down… it is amazing how your brain wants to shoot when you close the eye, more than likely your non dominant one, and you’re looking down the arrow to a dead on sight picture. Shoot instead of let down. Nope, let down..   It’s a good mind control thing….Also a good muscle tone builder…

It’s helping me to resist the “target acquired, shoot” thing that I have.

 

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #146043

Amazing though what kinda trouble them pretty gals can cause…………..:-)

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin'? 2 #145917

Things are getting desperate when is spotting and stalking dandelions.

Little suckers are hard to hit when they run off too..

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