[Ralph]

in reply to: Assumptions and Biases #38282

I received a yearbook catalog from a major outdoor company awhile back.

2 pages of trad related equipment, 6 pages of compound bow related equipment and 13 pages of crossbow related equipment.

That’s saying something. :cry::cry:

[Ralph]

in reply to: Arrows #38273

Such quandaries we get into when we get curious. I took my 47# longbow with an assorted array of broadheaded arrows. Wood, which up til this years has always been my choice, aluminum which I have used before and carbon, some Gold Tip 35-55’s and some Carbon Express 150’s.

This was going to be a day of decision.:D

So, at 25 yards, all my arrows shot repeatedly the same baseball cap sized group. At 40 yards they all grouped in the same basketball sized group. Hell of a quandary:D:D

Since I’m comfortable with wood and my equipment (bow quivers) are designed to grip wood shafts, I’ll probably go with them. But I think I’m going to put some carbons that have some FOC in my GF type quiver. We see what happens.

So shoot what you’re comfortable with but it’s fun to play. 😆

By the way Bruce the Carbon Express with the Zwickeys you provided are sweet!!!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Assumptions and Biases #37193

Hey, a compounded mind

[Ralph]

in reply to: Assumptions and Biases #37166

It’s not the wheels on your bow that make me your not friend, it’s the wheels spinning between your ears that make that call.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Finally getting a leg up on target panic! #37022

Yep, I think I got it going my way then it bites me on the butt. At least it’s not a 24/7 thing.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Campfire Cooking #35384

“Dinty Moore stew” with a can of pork and beans!!!!!:P And a pb&j sandwich for desert. Ha!!!

[Ralph]

in reply to: Assumptions and Biases #35278

Hey Mike, I can tell you a not, :D, not by the string. I was carrying one by the string many, many years ago and like all timely events in the world that happen on time, it was time for a cable to break. All I can say is that for awhile, nearly forever perhaps, I had a living mess of s**t in my hands. 😀

No more for moi!

Ralph

[Ralph]

in reply to: Assumptions and Biases #35269

We are a group of or a family of archers and hunters who choose to use traditional equipment as our choice of weapon.

This places us not on a pedestal higher than nor lower than any other group of people using a different choice of weapons. It merely is a fact that traditional equipment is our choice at the moment.

“But yes, it’s the intent and character of the person that counts, not just the weapon they carry.”

This is the the point to be made to my thinking.

My choice of a longbow as a hunting tool does not restrict me to that weapon only nor does it require me to change my standing if I choose to use other weapons. If it does so in the eyes of others then this is what this thread is about.

Like the thought quoted above, it is myself that is the tool, the weapon and it is I that makes it stand proud and just.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Grizzly b'heads giveaway #34443

You could send them my way:), me like’m Grizzlies. But I bet there’s others that need them more than I. So thanks and I hope someone has good luck with them.

Thanks Alex.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Practicing the "Cold Shot" #28507

Bruce, I took the liberty of taking 2 cold shots this morning, one at 13 paces the other at 17 and from a bit different position.

Mine’s easier to hit than yours though cause mine has a bigger hole in the middle to concentrate on (or to hit and look gooder:).

I need to get some yoga block and patch that target up, it’s shooting through.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Thought I would Share….My first Longbow Elk #27849

Way to go. Nice. Next time though, try to smile:D.

I believe you’re a happy guy.

Once again, congrats.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Let's See Your Fletching #26822

Yep, all the bad shot out of it. 😀

[Ralph]

in reply to: Where do you stand? #26680

The arrows I’ve seen in museums didn’t have large flint points attached, most were small to medium size. Atlatl points are the larger ones.

I did some weighing of flint napped points and even the medium sized heads might make 100 gr. Most were 70-80 some 90 gr..

Even if a reed shaft with an insert, which in the Plains country, enough water to grow reeds???, it would seem to be difficult to me to get EFOC much less UEFOC.

Everything I’ve read and research leads to the use of the smaller points being used.

It don’t matter how much EFOC one has, if it doesn’t have enough force behind it, it ain’t gonna penetrate.

[Ralph]

in reply to: Binos in Forested Areas #25656

They can sure unravel a lot of life’s little mysteries that are going on in the bush.:)

[Ralph]

in reply to: Quiver ? #25362

Here’s a couple I use for hunting:

I use this in the backyard and out stumping sometimes.

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