[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.

[Ralph]

in reply to: New to the sport #9061

Like an old mentor told me one time years ago “It’s simple and nobody said it was easy but damn ain’t it fun”…….

Welcome and enjoy…….Lots to learn………..Lots of fun ahead…..I’ve never found a bunch of more enjoyable people to be around in all my travels as a bunch of trad shooters.

Ralph

[Ralph]

in reply to: This may be a dumb question but.. #9011

Ain’t it fun when it start working for ya. 😀

[Ralph]

in reply to: RIP my trusty Shrew Classic Hunter #7931

That’s a shame Alex. Glad you didn’t get hurt more. T’was a pretty bow…

I know the feeling of “wearing” a bow when it fails. Makes ya think twice for awhile when you’re drawing another.:(

Kinda like getting bucked down off a horse though, gotta get back at it and go on.

Good luck on your choice of new bow.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #53219

Nice picture.. That’s one fine looking animal.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Website Upgrade #27332

Steve, she’s testing your reflexes.

Let me rephrase below a tad, “When I think I’ve seen it all, I just click quick”.. :D:D

[Ralph]

in reply to: This may be a dumb question but.. #52288

Not tryin to get your business, just a problem I found once and thought it might be helpful.

We’re to get snow again tonight, no blizzard though thank goodness. Falling snow one thing, 60 mph blowing snow another.

Gettin any snow your way yet Grumpy?

Ralph…

[Ralph]

in reply to: This may be a dumb question but.. #49736

Just a thought Grumpy but I had a funky little noise and a feel on a recurve once at the tip ends.

It was sporadic. I finally figured out it happened basically in cool weather. I use to keep quite a bit of string wax in the tip grooves and on the string loops thinking it would help with wear and tear in that area.

I had so much wax that in cool/cold weather the wax was stiff and causing the problem.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #36814

Ha, Alex! I’d probably be so busy looking at all those trees in one place that I’d not see the deer for forest.. 🙄

Bet walking around in that sounds about like walking in a bowl of cornflakes uh?

Speaking of noise, I was watching a Nature program last night and they were showing how burrowing owls make sounds like rattlesnakes as a defense method. That I knew and had heard them do so but last night on the TV I could not hear the rattlesnake buzzing and my wife said she could.

Think maybe I need to pursue that………

That could be troublesome in my world.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Workin on yer problems #18401

When you get old as me you forget what you were up to by the time you go pull and arrow and reload. So better work on my problem whilst I’m standing there.:roll:

I know this is a bow hunting site but there is more to archery than a one arrow end. It’s also a learning place. If you shoot one arrow, walk 10/20 yds, whatever, one way then walk back the learning curve may be a slow process..

Ya gotta learn to shoot well, then you go hunt….

I feel that if you can hit the same spot several times in a row your concentration is getting as much or more work out than just doing one shot. First shot is important but so is every other shot you make.

Besides, I pick another spot near to where I made the first. I’ve torn up way too many arrows trying to hit the exact same spot cause there’s times when I do.

I can hit the wrong spot consistently sometime too though 🙁

And, grouping arrows is fun…………..:D

[Ralph]

in reply to: Workin on yer problems #17989

Whoops………

[Ralph]

in reply to: Tuning stiffer spines than expected #49682

Grumpy, I don’t mess with carbon shafts a whole bunch but do you cut them a tad long at first since from what I read length and weight up front are big factors in carbon shafts?? Wood shafts also but not near as touchy.

Just wonderin…..

[Ralph]

in reply to: let me show you my home made wool jacket #15030

Welcome!!!

Way good job.

I’m 70 and I still ain’t learned to sew like that. :):)

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #40764

It’s not always about the bow

Just had to share this.

A good friend of mine has some land here in the Panhandle with some mighty fine deer on it (I don’t get to hunt it darn it).

He brought this young man to his place, very terminally ill, and let him take this buck yesterday. Last hour buck!!!

There is still goodness and kindness in this troubled world……

[Ralph]

in reply to: Open stance or conventional ? #37103

arthurw wrote:

I went in last week and made sure I had clear shooting lanes so I can ambush my buck I’ve been hunting from a different spot. I make sure there’s nothing in my way for drawing my bow, .

That’s great. Often overlooked is clearance for the recoil of the bow.

Nothing like the whack of a bow limb smacking a tree limb. Not only does the animal turn inside out trying to leave the country there’s a definite possibility of damage to the bow.

Good luck!!!! 🙂

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