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in reply to: Surprise Tree stand dangers! #13590
I don’t know what happened, but I do have some small experience with those buggers. Growing up, we had 400 bee hives. And that not being enough for the old man, we collected wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, etc. and shipped them off to be made into antivenin.
My guess would be that the first time you saw the insects, they had a queen in the middle. If they were ground dwelling yellow jackets, their nest may have been destroyed. And they were looking for a new place.
The second clump may have been due to the remaining pheromones that the queen left. Studies have shown that the chemicals can last and attract groups of insects for months.
The good news is that usually when this happens, the workers get very docile, and don’t sting. If you have ever seen people with bee beards, this is how it was done. You hang a queen from the shirt, and wait for the workers to land and grow the beard. Then when the fun is over, someone removes the queen, and the bees (mostly) leave. But you better go take a shower and wash that shirt several times, or you will end up with bees in your bonnet for weeks 😯
in reply to: Tuning struggles #12382It sounds to me like you are on the right track. If the tail is till kicking left, the shaft is still weak. As you surmised, you can move the plunger out to match a weak shaft and get it shooting straight, but you can only go out so far before the arrow falls off the shelf…
Keep cutting, the arrow will eventually straighten out.
No advice for you on the quiver gripper.
in reply to: CA Removes Fish and Game President #11733Smithhammer,
You are right, my Morocco example is extreme. Using your example of gambling, maybe the scenario is something like this:
A politician works hard to get elected by saying that gambling is bad and he will make it illegal in his state. Which he does upon getting elected. Then he takes a vacation to Vegas and gambles on somebody else’s dime. From what I read, this seems closer to a reasonable analogy.
Conservation and game management should be done first for the benefit of the land (as Leopold would define it), whatever tortures politicians want to inflict upon themselves and others of their irk matters not to me.
Despite all the chatter, I don’t think there is a “growing” population of people opposed to ethical hunting for sport and management. In fact our wildlife commission did a study 2 years ago which showed that over 90% of the population of NC supported hunting as a tool of conservation.
I would go further and say that I can’t remember ever meeting anyone ever that was totally opposed to hunting. I have met people opposed to hunting deer with dogs. Or shooting deer at night with lights, or killing deer to protect crops, etc. I know there are a few folks out there that are adamantly opposed to killing anything for any reason. but they are few and far between in my experience.
in reply to: Atom broadhead #11726I’ve had them in my hand. I don’t know what they are good for, but they are not good for traditional archery.
in reply to: My new bow for this year (added chrono numbers) #11273I think the black glass looks fine!
Nice Job!
I have seen pictures of many bows made as you have done with the limb bolts coming in from the riser side. But I never figured out how that works. Do you glue the nut into the limb under the overlay?
in reply to: CA Removes Fish and Game President #11267I wonder what the argument being made here is…
Is it that since killing cougars is legal in Idaho, then he shouldn’t be penalized? That’s a fair argument. But if that is the standard, then how about this scenario?
He took his wife on vacation to Morocco, and on a whim beat her to within an inch of her life. Which is legal in Morocco as long as the marks don’t last longer than 6 months. And indeed her injuries were fully healed within 6 months.
Or should the standard be that he/we should act within the paradigm of our accepted and legal behavior, whether or not we are currently within the jurisdiction of our immediate societal group? Especially as a leader of that group?
Just thought I’d stir the pot 😯
in reply to: Which wing? #9009Ashby proved that you should match the wing of the broadhead to the wing of the fletching to maximize penetration.
Why? So they are causing things to turn in the same direction all the time. If your arrow is spinning clockwise till it gets to the critter, and then is forced to spin counter clockwise upon impact, that’s just wasting energy and momentum.
in reply to: Bare shaft tuning #7856Most of the time when bare shaft tuning, you will end up with a nock high arrow flight. This is ok.
Sometimes you can minimize it by adding a nock set under the arrow nock. Leave about 1/16 inch between arrow nock and lower nock set.
I like a lower nock set because it helps keep the arrow on the string, even if it doesn’t happen to help the tune…
in reply to: Mystery Solved #7843Your welcome! I am surprised that someone hasn’t come out with the issue/article I was wondering about…
Maybe I’ll have to dig in my old issues.
in reply to: steel inserts #63237Pretty Work! What kind of lathe do you have?
in reply to: "Elevated" rest.. #63230I have found that if my arrow is not spined correctly, it can cause excessive wear on the rest.
You may want to shoot a few bare shafts to see if you are getting good arrow flight.
in reply to: Camo, Thermals, Depends… #57574Now you know how the astronauts felt after 3 days on the moon in their nasa version of depends… 😳
I’ll be heading to the big island around Xmas and New Years and I hope to get some hunting in. I hear this isn’t a great time to try to hunt. But the relatives are already planning the pig roast…
Any suggestions for finding a tasty goat, sheep, or pig?
in reply to: Can't help myself (I'm building again) #54275I made a few Hill style longbows a few years ago where I used 2 forms. the first form was used to put some pre stress into the core. The second form was used to bond glass to the pre stressed core, and make the bow straight.
I used urac for the wood-wood bonds in the core. I used smooth on to bond the wood to glass. The bows have held up well. Urac will NOT bond to glass.
I have also used urac to bond bamboo/osage bows, with no hot box. It works fine. Dean Torges uses urac to make his bows. So I am sure that it works fine. His “hunting the bamboo backed bow” is a very good video. And his “hunting the osage bow” is a very good book.
Since starting to make bows with Urac, I have used it in the few pieces of furniture, and many walking sticks I have made. It has always performed well-at a fraction of the cost of smooth on- and probably close to the cost of regular wood glue’s like titebond.
in reply to: Blind Olympian sets new archery record #53119I have a friend with tunnel vision. So bad, if he looses the curser on the screen, he has to ask someone to find it for him.
But don’t play mini-golf with the guy. It rarely takes more than 1 putt to get the ball in the hole, no matter what.
And the master say, focus till you see only what you will hit.
Maybe all that extra vision gets in the way!
in reply to: Judo lessons #50985I like penetration and impact to seal the deal. With rabbits, I would think the judo would go through it anyway, seeing how thin skinned they are.
Never the less, I just put a washer behind a field point. I find that will take down any critter. And it’s a lot cheaper than some of those expensive stumping heads.
and I have not lost one yet.
They work as well as the judo at keeping the arrow from digging under. A hundred count box of 1/4-20 washers will last a lifetime. Line the rounded punch edge of the washer up with the bevel on the back of the fieldpoint for self-centering, and you are good to go.
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