[Ralph]

in reply to: Noisy Bow #62367

Tried some moleskin in those riser/limb connections? ❓

[Ralph]

in reply to: Noisy Bow #61628

Dang recurves

Assume you’ve tried a heavier arrow? Wood different from carbon? Maybe move side plate out a tad? A little bit might help a bunch and a little bit shouldn’t mess with spine much if at all. Mine actually shoot better with a little piece of something behind the side plate. Sometimes a little bit under the rest helps too. Might have to raise your nock set a bit but that’s easy enough.

Just wonderin’ 🙂

Good luck…

[Ralph]

in reply to: Tuning issues #52513

I’m no expert or top notch shooter for sure, I’ve just been shooting for a loooooong time.

Good days, bad days, days I could hit a dime at 20 yards, days a washtub would be iffy.

Days I put the bow up and say I ain’t never shootin that SOB again, then days when I can’t wait til it get light enough to see or hating for the dark to come ( guarantee I’ve been shooting in my headlights before cause I couldn’t stand to quit),days so cold and windy it showed my ?????? pure duh…

Over the years I’ve learned one important thing about me and about me and archery, besides being addicted to traditional archery, being a given, is that the more I worry about my form, what another’s is or might be or what I read in books mine oughta be, my form is my form and if my arrow goes where I planned for it to go I did right. If I’m worrying about whether it’s going to get there or not, it probably ain’t.

Sure there are basics that need to be adhered too, and they’ve been covered here well, but the trick is consistency and do what YOU do well.

I’ve been shooting trad equipment for many years (lets see, 70-12 =, whoa, long time. 12 being when I got my first bow.). Admittedly a spell of wheels cause I was around when they were invented and you know how we humans are about ‘the latest and greatest”. Not always what it seems….:wink:

You’d think after all that time I could hit what I wanted when I wanted but that’s also a long time to develop the ability to miss. 😀

Best thing I have to offer, I’ve seen many good shooters as well as bad, seen good shooters with their string hand flying all over the place but……..never throwing their bow hand around.. Keep that thing still, your front sight, and your string hand to your face.

I can’t consciously look at my arrow tip, can’t pull back and hold an anchor for a period or any of that style.

I just look at what I wanna hit, draw back, touch and go.. If I let my body do it, I do it. If I put a conscious brain wave in the process it amounts to a brain fart and that don’t work.

Enjoy your bow and relax and quit worrying, let’er flow.

Like I read this morning:

“Be still like a mountain and flow like a big river”..Lao Tze

Ralph:D:D

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #49951

Steve right handed??? Alex a south paw??? Ummm… Are there left handed/right handed hats???

One thing about a dirty old hat….neva,eva look at the inside. 😀

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #49134

Do I smell a trade going on here???

Who’s paying the shipping???:D

[Ralph]

in reply to: Workin on yer problems #62274

Ha!!! Fixed me.. Much better humor I be in now…

Was drawing back to my old wheel anchor (always have shot fingers) then dropping my hand to my normal anchor and shooting as soon as I got there not mattering where I was pointing my arrows… Duh….

Good to catch yourself…

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #61764

Got an oxymoron goin on here: a bit of summer in the middle of winter…

79* here yesterday broke a 105 year old record..

Needless to say the remnants of the blizzard are history and were already having range fires…

So what happened El Nino??????

[Ralph]

in reply to: Workin on yer problems #53909

Then with all the work done there’s days like mine was today.

You coulda shut me in my little barn with a quiver full of arrows and I never woulda hit a wall. Duh………..:cry:cry:

One of those times to put her down cause the harder I try the worse it gets…

[Ralph]

in reply to: This may be a dumb question but.. #43676

So much for the silence of the woods……..

I’ll leave the fetching of some of this hair to try to some of you younger guys…

[Ralph]

in reply to: This may be a dumb question but.. #43053

What about beaver balls?? 😀

Anybody use them??

Did once, they work fine but my homemade cheapies are just as good.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Rudders long bow #31450

Here’s my Rudder bow. She lets you know when you’re shooting it but it gets the job done. I was shooting at about 15 yds, She’s about 48#’s.

I put a grip on to help tame her a little. Not the purtiest sewing job but I ain’t the purtiest thing around either.. 😀

[Ralph]

in reply to: Two arrow bow quiver #7851

I took parts and pieces and built both of mine. 3 different brands, I think, improvised to make two, two arrow quivers. I’ve used them for several years.

The stuffing in the broadhead end is a yoga block cut to fit.

The red wrapped around the bases is Velcro strapping. Sometimes that bit or red is all I need to spot my bow where I laid it down.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #31368

We finally had a break in freezing stuff for a few days and I got to go stumpin”

Wish y’all the best of luck with the mess y’all got goin back east.

I’m sure will have another go at it before long.

If you’ve noticed an increase in dairy product prices it’s cause the blizzard a couple of weeks ago killed like 40,000 dairy cows. No telling how many more in feed lots. I heard maybe 70,000 total.

[Ralph]

in reply to: This may be a dumb question but.. #19204

The one on the left is synthetic, real wool on the right…….

Works for me………

[Ralph]

in reply to: This may be a dumb question but.. #15151

Yup on the wool silencers. I use both wool yarn and synthetic wool yarn and I’ll be darned if I can tell any difference. Some say they can but for me, not me.

I never have trouble with noise in my longbows. I come down two spans of middle finger to tip of thumb with hand stretched from the tips of limbs, about 17″, put some wool and go for it. I might have to move them a tad depending on a shorter or longer bow but it works for me. My wool silencers (yarn) are no bigger around than a quarter when I’m through.

I try my best not to get me nor my silencer wet but if I do so, a little pluck on the string sprays the water out of my wool puffs, probably an advantage for synthetic material, but plucking don’t seem to help me any…

Recurves, that’s a bit different. I have to work with them more. Sometimes I’ll put a real small silencer about 8″ down from the limb tips then split the difference between nock set & those little guys with my normal silencer.

Not scientific, just lots of years of trial and error.

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