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in reply to: Byron Ferguson has Died #172274
I don’t know what happened to him. And your advice to visit your doctor regularly is good. That said, since I turned 50, all doctors want to do is stick things up my butt. I think that the answers to life, the universe, and everything must be up there somewhere (rolling eyes emoji)
in reply to: Practice with a purpose. #171181If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again…
I have made a habit of copying a post before submitting it so that if something does go south, I can just paste the post back.
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I don’t know why they aren’t more popular, but I always have to pitch the hammock seat for ground hunting adventures. Nothing is smaller, easier, faster, or more comfortable for a sit in the woods.
That said, nothing is perfect. For them with thicker thighs, they can squeeze around the legs and be uncomfortable. But we traditional hunters are resourceful folk. I made a “tee” fitting on my 3d printer that fits the end of the extension rod and relieves the problem. And now the seat IS perfect. Those without a 3d printer could use a 3/4″ PVC T.
I think Fanatic Outdoors came up with the idea, and that’s who I got mine from. But they now have a new and improved version that has 2 telescoping legs. I haven’t tried it. But there are knock-off products on Amazon that (I hate to say it) are better and cheaper.
I killed 2 deer and a coyote from mine this year. I seem to spend less time standing and more time sitting these days 🙁
Happy New Year everyone!
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #169600Nice Comet!
How long a satellite takes to orbit the earth depends on its altitude. Low altitude satellites like space stations take about 80 minutes to orbit. High altitude Geo-stationary satellites take 24 hours to orbit. Something even higher like the moon takes a little over 27 days to orbit.
It takes a year for the earth to orbit the sun. It takes 250 million years for our solar system to orbit the center of the milky-way galaxy. Our milky-way galaxy is a member of a local group of galaxy’s including Andromeda. And you guessed it, they orbit each other. Their orbit takes billions of years.
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168945I thought it was: “Providence favors children and fools” 🙂
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168775I have to disagree Richard.
We shoot bows that are glued together without any concern. And what about footed shafts? How do you think those footings got there?
It depends on the break. If the break is along a run-out grain and clean, the arrow can be successfully glued back together. If it’s just straight across the arrow and the glue joint would be end grain, well that might not do so well. A break with missing wood, or a split that continues into the shaft would make a bad glue joint too.
I’ve glued a number of broken arrows back together and shot them for a long time. A glue joint is stronger than wood. That is if the right kind of glue is used (no super glue for example), and the glue has not been abused (like freezing).
I just did a little class on repairing broken arrows using the jig I came up with some years ago. I wrote an article about it for TBM a few years back. One of the biggest problems folks have with wood arrows is how often they break. But when they find out how fast and easy it is to fix one, their tune can change.
Once you learn to fix wood arrows you turn it’s weakness into it’s superpower. Carbon arrows don’t break as easily as wood that’s true, but when they do that’s it. Wood can be glued many many times. I have some shafts that show 10 repair rings and shoot just fine (I draw a ring around the shaft in front of the feathers every time I make a glue repair to the shaft.
Fixing arrows is a fun winter or rainy day chore. Speaking of, I hear thunder now! Come on rain…
in reply to: Chestnut Hill longbow #168580No worries. We worked it out.
in reply to: Ground Hunting #168579As with all good things, they don’t make the hammock seat anymore. The new version is called the low down seat. I have not tried it as my hammock seat works fine for me. But here’s a link to their humble website:
If you try it, let us know how it works!
in reply to: Chestnut Hill longbow #168519It looks like this forum doesn’t have a PM feature anymore. So maybe our webmom can give you my email so you can contact me that way.
in reply to: 80 joule with recurve bow?! #168398Hey guys, sorry for the late reply. Been super busy on the farm.
So Joules is a measure of energy. The question is, is this a requirement of the arrow in flight, or the energy stored in the bow at full draw?
I will assume the requirement is for energy stored in a bow. To measure the energy stored in the bow, you can graph the draw curve. The area under the draw curve is the energy stored in the bow. This means that the energy stored is a function of both draw length, and draw weight. Not only that, it depends on the shape of the curve. If the bow gets to draw weight in the first few inches and stays there, then you have compound bow level energies. If it is wilty and increases slowly only to stack up at the end, there will be little area under the curve and the bow will be a dog.
Here is an interesting article that explains it with pictures: https://aharchery.com/?page_id=21273. Their example is for a bow with a 30 inch draw length and a draw weight of 60 lbs. The energy stored was around 51ftlbs. 80 Joules is equivalent to about 59ftlbs. This means you would need a bow over 60lbs to meet that requirement.
You can’t know the energy stored without knowing the draw length or the shape of the draw curve.
Using common sense, this is a stupid requirement for small game. Anyone with a lick of common sense knows you don’t need a 60lb bow to kill a rabbit or deer. Maybe the folks in charge need some education on bow hunting?
In my experience, there is another way to solve the problem. Just write the required energy on the side of the bow. If its written, it must be so. Right? Hmm…..
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167215We will bottom out about 10 deg here. That’s enough of a tropical heat wave for me. My little shop heater runs 24/7 to keep my glues, paints, lacquer, etc from freezing. I wouldn’t mind a bit of snow though…
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #166603I like a whole back quiver full of arrows. Judo’s tend to get tangled up and when I pull one arrow out , 2 or 3 more end up on the ground. That and our squirrels are too tough for them. Most of the squirrels I’ve hit with them just keep on going. I’m sure they died, but not where I could get them. So far, no squirrel has been too tough for a broadhead. It’s good practice for deer hunting too, for me anyway.
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #166593That’s a good way to start the year Richard!
I’ve been squirrel hunting a few times this year with only 1 shot. The arrow must have shaved that fellow as he jumped 6 feet straight up and spun out when he landed. I nearly fell down laughing, but then I spent the next 20 minutes digging my arrow out of a tree, which took the edge off my laughing 😉
Maybe today…
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #166513I think you have the pace just about right Kees!
A friend is bringing a doe over this morning that he killed last night. Wants to hang it in my cooler for a couple weeks. So I will put on some extra coffee myself.
Happy New Year to all!
in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2023? #165596Yes, I was kidding about dragging deer as a good back exercise. It’s more of an excuse to be used something like this: Gee darlin’, my back really hurts. I don’t think I can go to choir practice tonight. All that singin’ and praisin’ really hurts my back. I need to drag a deer out o the woods. They say draggin’ deer is the best thing for it. Honest!
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