[Ralph]

in reply to: Emergency Gear #39418

Doc Nock wrote: You gents are SERIOUS back country types. KUDOS!

Just cause you can get IN there doesn’t mean you will make it out…without some forethought and preparations!

Neat Stuff!

Yeah Doc, I found this in another publication and I think it relates:

“Untroubled days, to paraphrase Leo Tolstoy’s famous description of all happy families, are similar in their sameness. Each disastrous day is unique in it’s dreadful detail.”

So we we have to be prepared for the disastrous times and you guys have some good stuff lain out for us.

Thanks.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #38165

You folks all snowy and we had a grass fire just west of Amarillo. 2nd one so far.

Thx.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Wind and Arrow Flight? #38113

I don’t mess with windy days either. The deer bury up in the canyons and are unapproachable even if you find them. They lay where they can see in all directions except behind them and the wind is coming from that way.

Good for me to lay low til the wind starts laying then deer seem to start popping out all over.

I imagine our interpretations of breezy/windy are considerable different.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #38102

But one needs to practice for a Texas heart shot.. 🙄

[Ralph]

in reply to: Wind and Arrow Flight? #38067

Sorry, should of mentioned the guy I’ve told you of that I shoot with that never shuts up. Not you my friend.

To bad that site won’t work. It went along with your lines about some FOC, skinny arrows and smaller fletchings to help with wind issues. To which I agree.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Wind and Arrow Flight? #37975

This has some pretty good generic info.

Also one fine elk pic.

http://www.eastonhunting.com/blog/build-a-hunting-arrow-to-cut-through-th

Tomorrow we’ll be shooting in 25 +/- north winds and I’m going to shoot some carbons with 245 gr. up front and four 2.5″ feathers.

I’ll wear a watch cap to keep my ears from flapping. Perhaps I won’t hear lips flapping ya reckon Doc? 😀

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in reply to: Wind and Arrow Flight? #37916

I guess y’all know that we’re jacking with the #1 excuse for a bad shot in the world of archery don’t ya!!!!!!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Wind and Arrow Flight? #37843

What y’all talkin about? Cain’t hear ya.

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in reply to: What ya got goin? #37832

These are legal in Texas.

Ol’droopy has a new look. 😉

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #37591

Wose wrote: Well,

I’m three and a half weeks into this whole becoming an archer odyssey. The Big Brown Truck of Happiness should labor up my drive way come Monday, not a moment too soon. As I’m almost out of arrows and my rug rest is coming unglued and the Elmers isn’t fixing it anymore.

I started with 6 arrows, now I’m down to 2. First there was an accidental Robin Hood, then I shot one over my target and into a rock. Then just today I busted one stump shooting, and then a second by once again missing the target and hitting a rock. Shoulda quit before that last one, as I was tired and my form wasn’t good.

I’m still a mite frustrated, mostly because I’m finding I’m shooting pretty good when I can empty my mind and focus, but it’s been 8 months since we had the baby and probably 10 months since I’ve had 8 hours of unbroken sleep, so my head has ping pong balls in it. I need to start meditating on a regular basis again….

This sure is fun though.

Glad you’re having fun.

I’ve spent over 4 decades trying to learn how not to miss and I’m still having fun.:D

[Ralph]

in reply to: Wind and Arrow Flight? #37088

AH Doc. Figured you’d put 2 and 2 together and get the tale of two windies.

Etter, you oughta try holding a bow in place with a quiver full of arrows when the wind doth blow hard.

I normally hunt with a bow that has a two arrow quiver but I take two bows to my lease and when the wind gets up I use the one sans quiver.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Wind and Arrow Flight? #37027

I was talkin’ Chicago, not politics :shock

Chicago has a windy reputation right? 😀

[Ralph]

in reply to: Wind and Arrow Flight? #36993

Doc Nock wrote: R2/D2.

You’ve been kind enough to share pics of your world with me. The thick trees and shrubs seems to be lacking at least in the 20′ tall variety…

Hey Doc, I ain’t no virgin, I’ve stuck a few trees.

Might not have been 20 footers though.:roll:

P.S. You live closer to the “big windy” than I do. 😉

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in reply to: Wind and Arrow Flight? #36936

Hey Doc, the wind ain’t blowing today, can ya believe, and the dozen arrows I just shot didn’t know what to think. They actually flew straight and to where I planned on them gettin’ to. Golly:D

Some days around here those arrows are in never ending paradox:roll:

Etter, I was gonna mention that a tail wind can have a ‘what the hey’ effect on arrows.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Wind and Arrow Flight? #36907

I live in the Texas panhandle, you sayin’ wind bothers arrows? 😀

You oughta see what it does to my attitude sometimes.:evil:

With little winds I think less fletch and heavy points be helpful but in our winds not thinking about it is the best one can do. Don’t peek, shoot the shot.

I believe for us, we that shoot in the wind so much, that the left/right thing becomes like the up/down thing does in instinctive shooting. Our brain does the auto thing.

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