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in reply to: Nuther Chuck down… (Now with Pic) #15758

Man that’s awesome! You’re on roll for record setting this year!

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in reply to: Scouting and 'Shed' Hunting 8/11/12 #14811

Ben, thanks for the tree find! There are some of these near a Honey Locust that I’ll likely do some sitting around this year, but I don’t think the sumac will bear fruit too late into the fall, but that’s okay.

Wildschwein, I’ve only ever eaten rattlesnakes and they were awesome! However, I’m kind of leary about eating a lot of things and would probably be hesitant about a water snake. I’m sure there’s probably nothing wrong with it, but I don’t know. As it stood at the moment of the shot, it was more of a threat than a desire to skin out! I’ve always felt a dead snake is better than a live one near me, even though I was in his territory.

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in reply to: Scouting and 'Shed' Hunting 8/11/12 #14120

The hedgeapples make nice targets, both sitting and rolling down the riverbed (rabbit practice), until you actually pin one of them- then they’re just plain sticky!! I had to scrub three of my arrows more than once with hot soapy water!

Thanks on the “nice shot-nice shooting” . As much as I hate to take anything away from it, I think there was a least a little luck involved:wink:. I’ve only been trad shooting since January of this year.

I thought the snake was an Eastern Glossy, but that could very well be wrong. He had no fangs or pits, i.e. non-venomous. Maybe some kind of bull or rat snake. In any event, the only snake around me that’s as big as he was, is a dead one.

Update: I now believe this is the Northern Water Snake. It’s dull grey/brown colors must be due to its currently dry environment.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/NorthernWaterSnake23.jpg

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in reply to: Camo, Thermals, Depends… #57583

I’d first like to apologize to you for the laughter you’ve provided me. Second it’s hard to read this without waking everyone in my house this early! I too have had the thought of what to do to break up the fluid cycle in the whitetail woods here, but now realize that it will be wise to stick to digging a small hole in the ground wherever I hunt. Thanks for sharing…. Really!

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in reply to: mistakes #54855

😕 I apologize for my ignorance, but is it that ambush hunting is illegal in CA?

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in reply to: Tip for newbies, old hat for experienced archers #43032

Yeah buddy! This can make or break an archers confidence in a heartbeat. I started building flemish strings this week and building the perfect string only to have it stretch like crazy is super frustrating. I got one string to settle into my preferred 8″ brace height and while the arrows fly true, I would like more twist in the string, so I continue the quest. When my brace height is out of tune, I can give it up…

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in reply to: Going bananas… #24722

I would check 3 Rivers Archery or Kustom King Archery. You can get into a 1/2 dozen at 3 Rivers for around $50 + shipping and I’ve yet to hear any complaints about their shafts.

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in reply to: The bug has me so I started a new bow (finally finished) #23819

jmsmithy Wrote “How do the rest of us get one”

Yeah Buddy. Troy, if you start rolling these out I’d definitely like to know about it. Very nice work sir!

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in reply to: Going bananas… #23814

… And /Or quiet fletching…. any views? I too like the look of banana cut feathers, but have stuck to parabolic for the full figure look. And no- no pun intended… although… maybe some other time:oops:

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in reply to: Colorado Burning #19867

I hope you stay that way Mr. Peterson. A few of us flatlanders have been planning a September motorcycle /fly fishing tour through CO, beginning in Poudre Canyon, but now with what’s going on, I recently wondered about the San Juan wilderness and the Conejos River. I can’t help feeling for the entire state during this season…

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in reply to: Second Kill #19858

lyagooshka wrote: Great job (yet again). Don’t kid yourself about the number of shots you took. I’ve show well over 4 arrows at rabbits and have yet to get a single one. Keep the updates coming. Great job!

Alex

🙂

+1 on that. I had a day that I took over a dozen shots on running rabbits and three on sitters and have yet to kill one.

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in reply to: Is camo necessary? #9422

Very nice addition JTop! that’s a really good read and rather enlightening as well.

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in reply to: Indian Mohawk 55# bow #56207

I picked up a couple of Beeman Classic Carbon shafts cut to 29″ from the archery shop over the weekend. These are nice as they come with the 75 grain HIT inserts in them. I bought 500 spined after shooting some of one of the employees’ personal arrows.

I do have a question though. It seems as though the 500 spine should be better suited for my 45# PSE with a 145 grain point, but these shoot well out of the 55# bow with a 125 grain point. In order to shoot 145 grain points on the 55#, would a 400 spine be better? I tried the 145 grain on the new shafts and point of impact was negatively impacted, but they shot well from the 45# bow. Is there anywhere online that I can buy 1/2 dozen of these shafts? If I have the archery shop here order them, I have to commit to the whole dozen as it would be special order, and I wouldn’t want to bust for a whole dozen in case they turn out to be no good or too stiff for me.

Sorry to drag on, but this is the ‘dragon’ for me right now.

P.S. This bow could also use a little ‘polishing’. Any recommendations on what to use? I believe the belly and back are overlaid with glass..?? I don’t think carbon fiber was available for bow building in the 1970’s, but am open to being corrected.

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in reply to: My first kill with a bow #52844

wildschwein wrote: Congrats on the Bunny. And while it may not be big, one can always make the shot big. For example you probably “took the Rabbit in the heart at a steep quatering away angle at about 40 yards on the run, all while on your belly holding the bow at a 90 degree angle due to the log you were crawling under at the time”. At least thats what I tell my wife :wink:.

Just don’t go hunting with any witnesses and it works every time:D.

All of the above if I ever hit anything alive with my bow.

Nice Rabbit! I’ve been meaning to ride my motorcycle up to check out the Nocking Point in Winchester. Gonna have to make a point of that this year.

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in reply to: More on Fletching #48095

This happens on new feathers and ‘old’ feathers alike. This ‘damage’ can best be defined as friction born wear on the fibers, making the clean, uniform feather edges appear ratty and ragged. I am shooting Easton 2016 Aluminum from a 45# PSE recurve and have never bare shaft tested them. I shoot split fingered- index above and two under. Arrow flight is clean and straight, however if I am unfocussed and ‘lazy’, I will notice erratic flights due to poor releases and typically break for an hour or more before going back.

I have a knife tapered toothpick under the bear rug on my shelf and have noticed significant wear on the rug where the arrow shafts pass over the toothpick. Today while shooting, I knocked an arrow and looked at the fletching and saw that the lower feather showed no wear after about a month of shooting. After inspecting closely and comparing to other shafts, it seemed as though the nock orientation relative to the cock feather was a bit different than the rest of my arrows, so I adjusted all others to match the clean featherd shaft and steamed the fletching on all of them. I guess time will tell me if I have found yet another possible culprit of my ratty feathers.

Thanks for offering so many helpful thoughts and diagnostic solutions. I am learning to tinker and tune more and more until I get it right. At least now nothing is in season here, so I’ve got time to get everything tuned up efficiently.

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