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in reply to: Padded loop, HELP #44404
Here’s how I do it, and I haven’t had any problem. The appearance will be different from a standard string in that the neck of the loop will be thicker than normal and appear to have a steeper taper because of the extra material. But here goes:
I use fast flight material to make my string. If I make a 2 bundle string, I cut 3 pieces of fast flight for each end of each bundle. I make the pieces the same length as the “loop length” that I use to start making the ends of the string – about 8 inches.
After I wax the bundle, I then lay the 3 pieces against end. I measure the end of the bundle to find the starting point for twisting. I lay the 3 pieces such that about 1/3 of the length of 3 pieces behind the starting point. I also lay the pieces so the ends don’t all line up, just like the ends of the bundle don’t all line up.
I then twist up the last 8 inches on my knee(from the starting point out). Do the same for the other end, and the other bundle.
This results in a string that has 6 extra pieces of fast flight incorporated into the end loop.
in reply to: A comment on crossbows #42122Good luck keeping them out.
We had a big old fight about it here in NC a couple years ago. There are no grounds upon which to allow the Xgun into archery season. Yet we now have it.
in reply to: What if …? #38380David Petersen wrote: Alex — Yeah, my bucket is empty also. 😀 Man, do I get longwinded on morning coffee! 😛
A banner on the cover of the current issue of the biggest bowhunting magazine proclaims: “50 yard shots every time? 7 tips to make it happen.” Nuff said …
R2 — You don’t know how good it makes me feel to hear folks younger than me say they couldn’t remember poop if they were standing in it. Names are the hardest. A few years ago, when I discovered I couldn’t even remember a pretty lady’s name after being introduced–in one ear, through the vacuum briefly, then out the other–I knew I was in really big trouble. So long as I can remember opening day of hunting seasons I guess I can justify hanging around and using up oxygen. 😉
You guys are a hoot!
in reply to: New Blackwidow PSR III. Tunning problems #37105You might look at raising the nocking point on the string. Can’t tell from the pictures, but if it is hitting the shelf and your hand, it is probably too low.
in reply to: What if …? #35812“ausjim”)
…[quote=Steve Graf wrote: Industrial “food” is canned cancer.
I challenge you to support such a bold claim with evidence. In anticipation of your reply, here is my rebuttal:
http://sandwalk.blogspot.com.au/2007/06/natural-foods-contain-lots-of.html
It is well known that american food has high concentrations of pesticides and less nutritive value than it should. Some good books to read to get a “taste” of how america’s food has changed is the series by Michael Pollan.
The connections between high fructose corn syrup and poor health is also pretty well documented, though not “proven”
The problem with your challenge is that it is hard to prove something like this without a study which includes people not exposed to the food. Which is impossible. The argument you make is the same argument that the sludge dumpers make: “Prove that putting sludge on fields is bad” and the climate change deniers make “prove the CO2 causes global warming”
But here’s a quote from your rebuttal : “we are far more likely to get cancer from eating “healthy” foods than from eating at a fast food restaurant” So I challenge you. Eat only at a fast food restaurant for a year and see how you feel (if you are still alive).
And if you feel great, then good for you!
in reply to: What if …? #34607lyagooshka wrote: …I guess people need to re-think what a “hunter” is. At any given moment, I can, within 15 minutes, walk to any of 3 supermarkets which are open 24/7. I don’t NEED to hunt. I CHOOSE to.
Hmmm. I usually don’t add to a thread when it goes the way this thread has because I usually come off sounding self-righteous… But how ever are we going to truly share our experiences with others (read non trad hunters) if we see ourselves as soooo much better?
And for me, I am the opposite of Lyagooshka. It’s not that I want to hunt. I need to hunt. I have no choice in the matter (not picking on you L. Just saying how I am). And for myself, grocery stores are not an option. Industrial “food” is canned cancer. Living the traditional life doesn’t end with a walk in the woods with a bow. It starts there.
If you want snobby self righteous, here goes : If I don’t catch it, kill it, or grow it, my family doesn’t eat it. Now there’s a commitment to traditional hunting.
And again L, not picking on you, just using you for a sound board… because I hear this all too often from my trad friends. To claim that hunting with a trad bow puts us in touch with nature and the real human soul, while at the same time buying industrial “meat” and “veggies” is being oblivious to the truths we claim, so self-righteously, to know.
God, I hope I don’t get my arse handed to me for this one 😳
in reply to: Dumb Question… #33379Well Put R2!
in reply to: Adding tube weight to AD Trad Lites? #33378Then considering your bow weight, it sounds to me like what Dave said is spot on. If that arrow is flying true for you, you probably can’t do better.
in reply to: Speed of FF vs Dacron #32284If it was me, I’d look somewhere else. Sounds like he’s trying to sell you the floor mats after you buy the car. There are probably better bows elsewhere.
in reply to: Couch Quiver #32280Very Nice! And a good use for leather that has been sedentary for too long…
in reply to: Juniper Self Bow #26798I have no personal experience making a self bow from eastern red cedar, but a neighbor has one he made many years ago. I’ve seen him shoot it many times, and it performs as well as any self bow.
He allowed me to shoot it, and that’s where juniper excels. It is so light that the bows shoot with much less back talk (thump).
The bow developed a crack about 2 years ago, after being shot for 12 seasons.
On the unfortunate twist – not that this will help you now, but when selecting a piece of wood to make a bow from, it is good to notice the bark. Usually a twisted tree has twisted bark. If the bark runs straight up the tree, it will be twist free.
One remedy for your current situation may be to find two pieces in the log that are 40 inches long and straight. Then you could splice those together to get your full length. Not ideal, but at least you still get to make a bow.
Don’t give up on it. If you don’t see the solution, stew over it a while. Put it away and come back to it later. Bow’s are like women, they have their own time table and all you can do is wait.
in reply to: Antler Hunting #24655Duncan,
I know the rodents eat them… But I can’t believe they are so hungry for calcium that they eat ’em all 😯
I like finding a bone or a shed up in a tree. Those squirrels like to take them up and chew where they have a view.
This last season I was walking through the woods and noticed a leg bone up in a tree at head height. Then a few days later I saw the same bone in another tree. Then a few days later I saw it in yet another tree. Was it the same squirrel moving it around? A squirrel fight? Just the funny soap opera of life in the woods I guess. I should have sat there and watched the days of our lives play out…
I use the silencers as a final tuning step for my arrows.
Keep the silencers close to the tips (where they don’t affect arrow speed so much). Then bareshaft tune an arrow. Move the silencers up (to weaken the shaft) and down (to stiffen the staff) to achieve perfect arrow flight.
Grasshopper say: “Perfect arrow flight is perfect efficiency”
in reply to: Antler Hunting #23561Well since nobody who knows anything is going to chime in here, I guess I’ll chime in since I don’t know anything much about it…
Down here in NC you don’t find too many sheds. I don’t know why that is, except that maybe most of the antlered bucks are shot out each year since the seasons are so long and there is little deer management.
Out west is another story. Almost every time I have walked around I have found a shed or two. So that I don’t even bother to pick some of them up.
Down here the deer start losing their antlers about now. I usually start looking for them the 1st week in Feb. We’ve lived on our place for 7 seasons now, and I have found but 1 6 pt shed.
Good luck!
in reply to: And It Starts Again #23556Nice words all…
And this is my favorite time of the year to just walk around in the woods. No agenda (scouting), just enjoying the woods, and shooting some practice arrows, and maybe catching a squirrel unawares.
And lucky for us, it may snow tonight. What used to be commonplace weather has become a novelty over the last decade. Can’t wait to see the woods all dressed up!
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