[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: FOC, Tieing the threads together #59646

dwcphoto wrote:

May the EFOC be with you…

Ha! 😀

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: shooting hours per week #59570

dwcphoto wrote:

Ain’t it just amazing when it all feels right and the arrows just happens to pin the point your fixed on? It’s a beautiful thing.

Absolutely. It’s hard thing to describe to someone who’s never done it, but it never gets old.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: It's getting CLOSE! #59543

Still 5 weeks away here, but it’s already starting to preoccupy my thoughts…

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: what do your arrows cost? #59398

Bright Cap Wraps have definitely helped me find more than a few arrows. They have paid for themselves many times over.

But ultimately, they’re projectiles, not boomerangs, and that means some of them aren’t going to come back to you. Such is the nature of it.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: FOC, Tieing the threads together #59391

Whoa – all this radical, subversive information in one place?!?

Remember, remember, the 5th of November…

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: Noteable Quotes! #59055

“Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.”

– G. K. Chesterton

“Nation, those of us who don’t believe in science are under attack by forces we don’t understand.”

– Steven Colbert

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: shooting hours per week #58396

I shoot at least 6-8 hours a week through the winter. Mostly in a buddy’s basement, which is 10 yards long, sometimes outside when it’s warm enough and the snow isn’t too deep.

Worrying about other shooters detracts from your focus, which tends to make you shoot poorly, which leads to worrying more about what others around you are thinking, and can just be a downward spiral of declining confidence. If you can, find a place – basement, garage, barn, whatever, where you can rid your mind of external concerns and just focus on shooting form, even if it means you’re only 5 yards away from your target.

I’d go crazy if I couldn’t shoot year ’round, one way or another.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: FOC arrows of differnet tribes #57165

Shafts were made out of a shrub wood called calafate (Berberis microphylla).

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: A&A Fletching #57160

DWC – are you using 3 feathers, or 4, with your 3″ fletch?

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: FOC arrows of differnet tribes #57038

The article said that pre-European contact, they used stone (unspecified, but many of those pictured appear to be obsidian), and that post-contact they started using glass instead, which is what we’re seeing in that pic. Hard to imagine getting much FOC out of a glass point, but I wish they gone into in a little more detail, and measurements, on that.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: FOC arrows of differnet tribes #56822

Primitive Archer mag (hope it’s ok to reference that here) has an article in their current issue about the Selk’nam tribe of Patagonia. Their arrows used fletching cut to a length of 5 centimeters (1.9″). Average overall arrow length was 60- 80 centimeters (23″ – 31″).

It’s interesting that they chose to use such short fletching, given that they used the feathers of a large native goose, which could have offered longer fletching options if needed.

Unfortunately, the article does not go into any FOC specifics of Selk’nam arrows, but it would seem that they must have used a decent amount of FOC in conjunction with such minimal fletching, particularly since the article states that they could accurately hit targets up to 200 meters with this set-up.

Another example of un-traditional thinking that doesn’t work? 🙄

(Selk’nam fletching and points:)

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: Bowhunting Area 51 #55894

Kingwouldbe wrote:

The worst part is, the skeptics wont even try and reproduce what he is telling us…

Which never ceases to amaze me, but it does seem to the norm. Oh well, opinions are apparently more important than experience…at least when it comes to internet chat boards. I can’t say I know many people who have actually experimented with these set-ups and not been seriously impressed with the results.

Kingwouldbe wrote:

If people would stop and think for a second, his goal is to help every bowhunter tweak his bowhunting tackle to be more efficient and deadlier, and that’s what it’s about.

Why else would he devote so much time to experimenting and amassing the amount of data that he has? He’s always made it clear that he doesn’t benefit commercially from this. I don’t understand why anyone would think there is any other sort of “agenda” here.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: How many bows do you have? #52762

Logically, I know that it’s probably better to own one “perfect” bow and shoot it well, but I definitely suffer from the wandering eye. The current line-up:

58″ Robertson Fatal Styk #57

56″ Kanati #53

62″ Martin/Howatt Savannah #55

52″ Bear Super Kodiak #50

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: Mother Earth News #51846

Excellent response from Mr. Barrett. Sums up my thoughts on the subject as well.

And kudos to MEN for running your piece, Dave. I’m going to have to track down a copy of it.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

in reply to: Native Finds #49386

There’s an area we hunt in Nevada that is littered with points and worked stone, mostly obsidian and chert, everywhere you walk. Sometimes I forget that I’m hunting, I’m so focused on looking at the ground.

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