[Ralph]

in reply to: Just for the fun of it #29390

All I could not see from where I stood were three of my arrows I loosed in the woods. :?:)

Borrowed some there from Edna St. Vincent Millay.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #28844

That was an oops!:D Good I can edit me. 🙄

Nice group. You weren’t having the problems that were biting me today.

My arrow set up experiment flopped, kinda figured it would, I was just playing for my info.

I smacked two carbon arrows, got my neck sunburned, shot too many arrows trying to fix me (throwing my bow arm) and only making me worse.

I know better, a tired shooter mends no faults, only amplifies them.

So, good group.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #28784

Golly Grumpy. How deep is it now?

We set a new record warm here in Amarillo today. 82*

Be nice if we could trade some of your snow melt water for some of our unusual warmth.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Howdy #26690

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Expect to go snowshoeing this weekend, if you don’t hear from me I did something stupid, got lost, and froze.

Be sure and take your bow and three arrows just in case..:D

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in reply to: Howdy #25416

Well hello and welcome. Have fun, enjoy and glad to have you aboard.

Sounds like a good deal you have going on your land.

Yep, Sage be trad:D:D

Trad is also a way of being, not just the tools.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Our Arizona Javi Hunt #22951

Public is public. Troublesome as it may seem sometimes I’m grateful that it exists.

Having grown up in areas and in an era where I could pretty much freely roam and now living in a different time and where there’s not much public area available and what is available is a Federal Rec area that is so restrictive that I’m afraid to eats beans the night before, I hope you guys that have access to public land do make the best of it.

Heck, if there were such as traditional only public lands, how would we control the boundaries anyway. 😕 Just sayin!:)

And maybe a thought on what I think is that public is public, it belongs to all of us and not all to one of us.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Bearpaw windblocker glove #22936

Glad you like it Alex. I tried one, liked it so much I bought another for a backup/spare.

I like the ‘Black’ glove also.

I too like the fit. My old hands, a large is not big enough and an x-large is too big has been my experience with gloves. I have to modify usually. A large in these gloves turned into being a perfect fit after short time with me doing nada but shooting with them.

You might find that wind stopper glove to be a bit warm in warm weather though. But it shoots good!!!! 😀

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #22930

Yup! My dumbbells and workout bench be getting used whilst the north wind doth blow!!:)

Dang it.

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #21715

grumpy wrote: Later dudes, gotta go chase the deer out of the canoe.

You take your camera? Be cool to see how well they paddle. 🙄

[Ralph]

in reply to: Bison and bunnies #21581

OSQUINT wrote: It would be interesting to see how folks reacted if all states shut down grazing rights on public land for one month each year and opened that time for hunting beef. Government would benefit from tag sales and families could be fed with freshly harvested beef. Cattle industry would be required to move their animals to private land or lose them to a legal hunt overseen by the professional game management organizations our taxes and hunt fees pay for. HMMM-maybe beef would begin to taste good again!!!

When I lived in Idaho there was plenty of mutton running around the hills that could share the table also.

They don’t leave much grass behind.

[Ralph]

in reply to: The Endless Loop #21063

Many years ago I bought this old book and by reading, looking at not so good of black and white pics and trial and error I learned a lot of what I know now.

It has a section on strings, pictures and instructions kinda, for building an endless loop string jig and the string itself.

So I built a jig, as I’ve mentioned, and built a string.

I was just learning how to serve strings at the time so that was a big if in this process.

Being young and brave and bullet proof I jumped in, made a string (looked pretty good) put it on my 55# recurve then…….do I want to pull this?

I pulled a little, let down. Pulled a little further then let down. Repeated a few more times til I got it all the way back. Again then…………I gotta put an arrow on this. What happens when I loose it?

Well, I’m still here, it worked. I made strings for me and others with my jig after that for awhile before I learned the Flemish twist (The first one of those I made was another ‘do I wanna pull this’ thing 🙂 ).

This old book was written at the time when wheel bows were just getting started so it has info on them also.

The trad bow info is still quite good for the most part, Dacron was the string material with a mention of Kevlar? string which I’ve never seen. The wheel stuff, that’s kind of like having a manual for a model A Ford trying to fix an F150.

[Ralph]

in reply to: The Endless Loop #20899

With me on a good day, instead of wiggle, wobble, shoot, it’s wiggle, shoot, wobble. 😀

Back to endless loop strings………:?

[Ralph]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #20858

If this works there are some very interesting and good pictures in it.

There’s a bunch of them.

http://www.rivermenrodandgunclub.com/cool-and-different-pictures.html

[Ralph]

in reply to: The Endless Loop #20810

dwcphoto wrote:

I look forward to the test results. One question I have is adjusting the brace height with an endless loop. Do you still add in a few twists as needed? Thanks, dwc

Finding the bullseye!!!:?

Hey Dave, like me, you’ll just miss 10-20 fps faster or slower. 🙄

[Ralph]

in reply to: Bison and bunnies #20483

Steve Graf wrote: 325 Bison vs 4200 cows. That pretty much sums up the ratio of common sense to greed.

Well spoken!!!!

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