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in reply to: All these new bows,, guess I better show mine #41593
Very nice Troy! Are the limb cores black locust too? Black Locust is supposed to make a good self bow. But I thought it might be a tad heavy for a recurve limb.
You’ve made a mess-a-bows this year. I thought you were retired…
Have fun shooting it!
in reply to: On The Wild Edge #37787I read On the Wild Edge to the kids. It reads even better out loud than just to yourself.
We deny the little poopers (teenagers now…) the plug-in-drug as well as all the wireless-drugs. We’ll see what happens as they get older, but for now they don’t seem to miss them much.
in reply to: Kidney Stones #36537Thankfully I cannot feel your pain.
I know people who suffer from them though. From my dad who almost died from his, to a fellow I stump with all the time who treats his repeated stones like just another headache.
I know there are geographical, food, sex, and genetic correlations. Can’t do much about the last two, but maybe changing something about the first two might help?
Good luck, and drink lots of water!
in reply to: Target backstop #30647I googled “celotex” and got a superfund cleanup site, a brownfield cleanup site, a mesothelioma lawsuit and an asbestus warning.
What the heck kind of insulation is it?
Incidentally, I tried the backstop cloth that kustom king sells and it didn’t even slow down my arrows. I sent it back.
Not knowing what you define as the kill zone, I have to just go by what I think of as a kill zone, which is about a 3 inch circle. Keeping 9 out of 10 arrows in a 3 inch circle at 30 yds is quite a feat. Salute!
We also have to guess at how you are aiming. If you are using some sort of split vision or gap shooting method, then the 15/30 yd correlation is not surprising as for most setups, your arrow will be in the same place at those distances. At 15 yds it’s going up, at 30 yds it’s coming down…
in reply to: English Longbow #15154I was waiting for some more information on the difference between the straight limbed and recurved longbows. He made a big deal about having that special one built, and then we never heard just how much better it was. maybe it wasn’t.
in reply to: Spalted Maple Bow #12912Nice group too! 8 bows in a few months is a lot of bows…
in reply to: unstringing necessary? #10694I thought you were a rifle man. Glad to see you’re getting more serious about your bow. TR would be proud. Welcome.
in reply to: Bowmaking tools – the bare minimum #9540What? What? The story stopped just as he was getting going. He called his work a bow, but I think he was making a form. Where’s the rest of the story?
That Japanese rasp looks interesting. I’ll have to check that out.
in reply to: Fastest production recurve?? #8356What J Said. He beat me to it. If you read Blacky’s reports, you will notice that a lot of the bows that claim to be the fastest, are really quite average.
And for me, it’s not the speed number that’s so important as the efficiency number. This number tells you what percentage of the energy you put into the bow, actually comes out.
In my experience, the more efficient the bow, the quieter, more forgiving and better shooting a bow is.
Although I’ve never owned one, bob lee’s come up a lot as efficient fast bows.
in reply to: Matter of Balance #63713The balance took care of itself (as evidenced by the fact that he could walk away from it…). What was really amazing to me was the strength and firmness of grip. Any tremors would have toppled the thing.
How did they keep the air on the stage from moving with all the lights?
That dude’s handshake could probably pinch your arm off.
I forgot my custom made armguard in Hawaii this year. Not worth shipping it back, so it now rides on the arm of a local.
I too have left the house without my bow. It’s happened twice and is a recent development. And I hunted the entire week in CO this year without my knife or game bags. Not that I ended up needing them. They spent the week warm and dry in the tent.
I’m not a big fan of arm guards for all the reasons mentioned above. But I recently purchased the buffalo leather arm guard from 3Rivers.
It has 3 loops and 3 hooks to affix it to your arm. I like to have the smallest arm guard I can get away with. So I cut it down so that now I have 2 arm guards. 1 has a single loop and is only about 2 inches wide. The other has 2 loops and is 4 inches wide. I use the 4 inch one, but may switch to the 2 inch one, knowing exactly where the string from my low brace height long bow tends to bite me.
Anyway, the buffalo leather is very supple, but not flimsily. And it seems to have a good coefficient of friction to keep it where I put it. This summer we’ll see how hot it is…
Dave – put that extra knife in your backpack and forget about it man!
in reply to: Ohio making a big mistake,possibly… #43549If it’s anything like NC, you don’t stand much of a chance. The insurance companies want the deer dead. Fewer deer means fewer insurance claims, which means more profit.
They converted the last week of bow season here to black powder, which made the black powder season 2 weeks long in the prime of the rut.
They are passing rules now that anyone who owns 1 acre or more can kill deer without permit for depredation all year long.
The chairman of our Wildlife Commission said in an open meeting that he wished every elk and deer was dead.
Last year the changed the budget process so that hunting license sales go into the general fund instead of directly into the Wildlife Resource fund. Now the WRC budget can get cut every year, and the remaining funds can go to help subsidize fracking and sludge spreading over wild lands.
So don’t worry Ohio, no matter how bad you get, you will never catch up to NC!
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