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in reply to: Poundage/Stacking Relationship #31351
I know if I had a 65# bow like that, it would stack….
It would be stacked on top of all the other gear I don’t use. 😆
I don’t enjoy shooting any bow over 55#. I can do it, but I don’t like it.
It seems for me that there is some optimum bow weight. If it is less than 50 lbs, I don’t shoot as well and it just doesn’t feel right. If it’s over 55 lbs, I can’t shoot it as well out of a tree and I don’t practice with it as much.
I think the real question here is, how many new bows does that make this year, Patrick? You lucky dog….
in reply to: Ladies, welcome to the campfire. #29073I have hunted bear in Quebec with and without the thermacell. It definitely makes sitting in a stand easier.
But don’t forget the head net and gloves. Tape your pants to your boots. Tape your gloves to your sleeves.
I use a net I bought in Quebec. You can’t get it in the states. It has the shirt and head net built together. Costs about 25 dollars and is available in all the sporting good stores up there.
You can’t bring the fuel canisters with you on the airplane. You will need to buy them in canada. Go to Canadian Tire and look in the hair curler section. The same butane cartridges used for cordless hair curlers works for the thermacell, and is a lot cheaper.
Good luck!
in reply to: Trapezoidal Limbs #29060It has to do with the cross section of the limb.
If the sides are perpendicular to the back and belly, then you would call it a rectangular cross section. This is the usual cross section.
If the back of the bow is more narrow than the belly, then the sides of the limb are not parallel to each other. The cross section is now a trapezoid.
Here’s a picture : __
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in reply to: feather orientation #28104Hmmmm….. Everyone seems so in tune with themselves, I hate to throw another choice out there…
But 4 fletch works well too. I use a 60 deg 120 deg orientation. I set my nocks so the string splits the 60 deg angle.
I feel I get better arrow flight with 4 fletch. Not sure how much better. But what I like is not having to orient my arrow when I put it on the string. I just stick it on and it’s the same either way. No orientation required. 8)
The other advantage, is that the feathers share wear. Since the arrow is going on the string with the feathers oriented against the bow or away from the bow 50% of the time.
in reply to: Martin Serengeti #25884If the tips have overlays on them, then you should be good to go with fast flight string.
An overlay is made up of extra layers of material at the tip that thicken it and protect the back of the bow from the string.
If there are no overlays on the tips, you could add them if you wanted to. There was an article in TB Magazine maybe a year ago about redoing overlays on bows. It would give you some idea of the effort involved.
Or… Ask your friend what string is on the bow. Maybe it already has a fast flight string on it.
in reply to: The "Process" of Shooting #24837I agree with the too much tweaking problem.
But I tend to do what Patrick says and just not worry about my form. I just shoot! This works good for long periods of time, but then it comes back to bite me.
When I don’t give my form much thought, I slip into bad habits that are hard to break. And since I haven’t been paying attention to what I do, I don’t know what to fix.
So here is my middle of the road solution… Every once in a while I go out and shoot at the targets and concentrate on my form. Just to see where I am. Of course my shooting goes bad while I am doing this. But it gives me a benchmark to come back to when things go south…
I have been shooting traditional for 4 years now(after 20 years of compounds). I find that my bad days are farther apart, and my good stretches are longer. But I still have bad days. I expect the best answer is just keep practicing. By the time I’m too old to shoot anymore, I’ll be really good!
in reply to: Bow Season vs. Crossbows #24823Patrick wrote: [quote=Steve Graf]Last year North Carolina tried to eliminate archery season all together. When that plan received too much criticism, they changed it to allow cross guns and shortening the season by a week. Nibble, nibble.
😯 I had no clue! Who was the primary force behind the plan?
2 forces:1 – a crossbow company opened a “manufacturing facility” in the state. More taxes, more smiles.
2 – Insurance companies tired of paying for deer/car crashes started lobbying the wildlife commissioners. Apparently the wildlife commissioners couldn’t hear what the insurance companies were saying, so the insurance lobby took the commissioners down to the Caribbean where it was nice and quiet. Then all of a sudden the commissioners understood what a nuisance archery season and deer are.It’s amazing how understanding folks will be if you put them under a tropical umbrella with a good drink and maybe a nice girl in a grass skirt… (this last part is rumor. But it makes for a good story.)
Fact is, the commissioners went against the recommendations of the wildlife biologists and the general public. Why? More money, less deer.
in reply to: Bow Season vs. Crossbows #23710Bloodless is spot on.
I would add that because cross guns are so much more effective than bows, more deer will be taken. This will result in shorter archery seasons, more regulation, and / or a less healthy heard due to an out of balance buck/doe ratio.
Last year North Carolina tried to eliminate archery season all together. When that plan received too much criticism, they changed it to allow cross guns and shortening the season by a week. Nibble, nibble.
The root problem, in my humble opinion, is that our society has moved too far away from nature. It values insurance company profit margins and petunias more than the native flora and fauna of our country.
OK, everybody read “a Sand County Almanac” one more time!
in reply to: Adding weight to arrows #22441The most important thing I can tell you is to look at the Ashby forum and library. In these area’s you will find a large collection of information on arrow weight, and weight distribution in the arrow.
In short, whatever you do, make em nose heavy.
in reply to: Lam sander project #19223Nice!
What is the blue part made from? Can’t tell if it is painted wood or metal.
How long did it take to make the sander?
in reply to: Bow Season vs. Crossbows #11307darkinstine wrote: I understand the dislike for crossbows but to think that they are somehow not bows is silly.
The big difference is this : A bow must be drawn and held in the presence of game. A crossbow is cocked and fired with the pull of a trigger, like a gun.
The design and operation of a crossbow is more like an airgun than a bow.
If you don’t believe that it is important to draw and hold your bow in the presence of a deer, then this difference is mute. This is the first step in losing the archery seasons that were fought for so hard by folks like Fred Bear, Glen St. Charles, Ben Pearson, and others.
darkinstine wrote: I will eventually have to either use a crossbow or go to a rifle due to nerve damage in my left arm
I wish you well. Even though I oppose allowing crossbows for general use in archery season, I support their use by people who can no longer draw and hold a bow.
in reply to: Fred Bear DVD Collection #10745I’ve watched those video’s a gazillion times. I imagine I will watch them a gazillion more.
What’s neat is to read Freds Field notes. Fred wrote these notes while on the hunts that the video’s were made from. The book gives you more perspective on what you see, and makes it even more fun to watch!
Fred is my hero. I’ve read all the books by him or about him. I had the pleasure of sitting at his desk in Florida a few years back… Man it felt like he was there.
I bought his Archers Bible back when I was a kid and thought about how great it would be to get into archery. A few years ago I sold my company to Bear Archery. Sort of closed a circle of life for me.
in reply to: Bow Season vs. Crossbows #10715PSE has a crossbow that mounts to an AR-15.
Then there is this one:
in reply to: different Carbon arrows #9089No, I am talking about the old Carbon Impact shafts. I know bemans had trouble with breaking and splintering. But they were not pultruded carbon shafts.
Beman gets a lot of credit for inventing carbon shafts, but that’s because Easton payed their advertising. Carbon Impact was the original carbon arrow company. And their arrows were a lot better. Maybe still are?in reply to: Bow Season vs. Crossbows #9073We are fighting crossbows in North Carolina as well. In fact, if it wasn’t for the efforts of the NCBA, North Carolina wouldn’t have an archery season at all this year. The commissioners voted to open the entire hunting season to guns last year. Only after much public pressure did they back off.
We are again fighting the wildlife commission this year to keep crossbows out of archery season. There is a NC statute that says the wildlife commission must provide handicapped hunters with the advantage of crossbows during archery season. Now they are spitting in the face of the over 17000 wounded veterans and others that have special crossbow permits for archery.
Why? Money. A crossbow manufacturer came to NC and set up a factory. All of a sudden crossbows are great. Nothing like a little extra tax base for a bankrupt state. The second reason is money. Insurance companies have lobbied the commissioners to kill the deer herd so they don’t have to pay claims on deer/car accidents.
I personally don’t have anything against crossbows being used during the gun season. Or ideally, I’d like to see crossbows get their own season, just like black powder.
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