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in reply to: EFOC arrow trajectory #13939
What weight bow are you shooting?
What is your draw length?
What is your arrow length?
What type of bow are you shooting?
There are lots of things that affect how a bow/arrow/archer machine works besides just the weight of the arrow. Tells us the details, maybe someone will have an idea 🙂
in reply to: Bow Building #58748They are easy to make. You take the stock woods you want to work with and glue them together in the pattern you want. Then slice them to the thickness desired for your lamination blanks and sand to thickness as required.
There is a build-along on the Poor Folks Bows website somewhere….
in reply to: Beautiful Scout #47592Pretty spot! Why is the lake dry? Water control dam?
in reply to: Fletching Glue Quandry #58280I’ve gotten lazy and just use the bohning tape to glue the fletching down. It works on anything. Then just a drop of fletchtite on the ends of the feathers.
It won’t hold up to 108 deg weather though 😳 But neither will I. It would be a race between me and the fletch tape, which would melt to the floor first 🙄
in reply to: Turbulator #28968The turbulator is intended to induce turbulent flow as the air crosses the fletching. Turbulent flow has a lower drag coefficient and allows the fletching to more easily steer the arrow. It also quiets the arrow down.
You should bare shaft tune your carbon arrows to correct their flight. If the arrow is weak, you can reduce weight up front, or cut the arrow shorter to stiffen it. You could also add some material to the side plate and see if that helps.
When I was using turbulators, I just cut thin strips of duct tape and wrapped that around the arrow. It worked fine.
Bottom line is that they will do nothing to help you achieve good arrow flight.
in reply to: Share buttons #47206R2 wrote: It’s not exactly drums in the jungle or smoke signals on the plains, the method in which we are communicating now so what’s the difference in which buttons we push and where they’re at?
Copy and paste something on the site then email it or or select the email button and email it??
I don’t do any of the social sites but obviously I communicate through email.
So where are we more advanced in our “communication world” than we are in our “trad world” with synthetic material in our bows, carbon arrows, synthetic string material, etc?
Selective tech???????????? Selective trad???????Each has a choice.
Something to think on I guess after I saddle up and head to work.
Don’t forget my smart phone….
I don’t understand the philosophy of sitting at the computer, typing and complaining about technology.
As usual, you are right R2. The only defense I have for my words is that my criticisms aren’t “selective” they are about too much. There is nothing inherently, or morally wrong with any of it. It’s just that it seems to me people spend way too much time staring at screens.
What’s too much? Who knows. And who has a right to say? Not me. But when I see people walking down the street staring at their phone instead of looking at the sky or saying hello to a passerby, I say to myself, that’s too much.
in reply to: Share buttons #35137I think I’ve heard of most of that stuff except the sumo wrestler one at the bottom with the crowny looking button thingy.
There’s a good documentary by Noam Chomsky on Netflix where he mulls over some of the long trends in society. All this hoo-ha fits right into the plan:
“The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.”
Never used it, never will. Sad to see it on this site.
in reply to: Bent Limb Tip #12102I think there was an article in TBM not too far back about fixing a twisted limb. I think it involved running hot water over the limb and then twisting it in the other direction or something.
I’ve tried to fix twisted limbs before like this, but never had any lasting success. They always tended to take the twist again. The only way I’ve found to really get the limb to go straight was to sand down the stronger side of the limb.
This is not advice, I’m just telling you what I have done. If you string the bow and see which side of the limb follows the string less, then mark that edge. That is the strong side of the limb.
Then play with it a little. Apply pressure to the strong side of the limb, forcing it toward the string until the limb is straight. See where along the edge the least pressure is required to straighten the limb.
This is where I mark them to sand. Unstring the bow, sand the edge a bit, restring, retest, repeat until limb is straight.
Another option is to sand the string nock a little deeper on the weak side of the limb. Just 2 strokes at a time, test, repeat.
Then you are left with the task of refinishing. A can of poly usually does the trick.
in reply to: More moose mojo, please #46172I killed a bull moose in Quebec ten years ago. I studied and practiced moose calls all summer. As it turned out, the moose only responded to the female call that sounds like a descending whine.
Our group of six hunters took three moose. The most we were allowed. All three were bulls and all three came in to the cow call. Every year is different, but if you are hunting during the rut, I would suggest trying different calls. Don’t get stuck on the same vocalization if it isn’t working.
Get a tape or CD or Video or something to help you learn the calls. I used a tape in the jeep when I was driving. A real birch bark moose call has better acoustics than the plastic crap they sell these days, imo.
They’ll come a running from a mile away when they are interested.
in reply to: String Silencers #56899Interesting graph, but when I see something like this I have to ask, How did they get the data for the deer?
For the human, you can put some headphones on a person, send a beep into their ears, and ask the person if she/he heard the sound.
I don’t think they make headphones for deer 😀 And even if they did, how do you ask a deer if he/she heard the beep? 😯
And then there’s the age factor. When I was a kid, I could hear a pin drop on the other side of the county. Now I don’t really even hear it when my wife hits me on the head with her frying pan. 🙄 Another good reason to hunt “mature” deer? Easier to sneak up on?
in reply to: String Silencers #39254It’s interesting that deer have a preferential hearing range that includes higher frequency sounds. I would have expected the opposite to be true because there has been a lot of research done on how cows, elephants, and others communicate over long ranges with low frequency sounds.
Never the less, what you say seems to add up. In my experience deer have responded to shots from deflex/reflex and recurve bows similarly to how they responded to compounds. Over the last 5 or 6 years of hunting just with the ASL, I have had the chance to take multiple shots at deer without spooking them.
In fact last year I was screwing around and I shot a squirrel, just to have a doe come walking by not 10 seconds later completely unawares.
Something hunters don’t like to admit to, but which I think accounts for most misses where the deer ducks, is that the deer sees the archer/bow move when he shoots.
in reply to: Beach Bows #27935I’m not old enough to know about Mexican cuties I’m sure 🙄 Besides, my wife said something about “out of my league” or something. Not sure what she meant by that 😳
in reply to: Beach Bows #22679Why Ralph, that there would be a margarita snake 😀
in reply to: Beach Bows #11801The inspiration for said bow came by watching video’s from the Backyard Bowyer on youtube.
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