[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: primative lonebow #19242

If the first blood spilt on account of your new bow ain’t your own, seems a little unfair to ask it of another beast 😯

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: What ya got goin? #19215

That is very cool!

I’ve a friend that just pulled a permit. He lives in AK and says the hard part is getting to the area where the Musk-Ox live, once you get there, it’s near 100% success.

I guess they ain’t too wily 😳

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: primative lonebow #14262

Dang Grumpy, you always gotta get right to the point don’t you? Give the man some slack 🙄

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: Open stance or conventional ? #59774

J.Wesbrock wrote: …There are two major line of tension an archer has at full draw. One travels from the back shoulder through the front shoulder and to the bow hand. The other travels from the string-side elbow through the string hand to the bow hand…

Small Correction – The forces in the bow arm are more correctly referred to as compression. As wise Isaac Newton observed: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The tension forces created by drawing the string are opposed by the compressive forces created in the bow arm. Thus static equilibrium is reached, for a moment anyway.

I would again mention the book Archery Anatomy by Ray Axford. It gives about the best description of target form I have read.

Then I would mention that there are two camps when it comes to shooting. Those that pursue the static form of target shooting, and those that pursue the dynamic form of the swing draw.

Which you choose is mostly dependent on your personality I think, but they both deserve honest consideration.

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: RIP my trusty Shrew Classic Hunter #16543

I’ve glued a few back together for the purpose of hanging on the wall. I’ve even glued a few back together and had them be shootable. But they are never the same.

One even reminded me that it really preferred to be broken 🙄 Stupid is as stupid does I guess.

Best just to let it go I think. Hang something else on the wall…

Nice pictures!

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: This may be a dumb question but.. #15312

R2 wrote: Yup on the wool silencers. I use both wool yarn and synthetic wool yarn and I’ll be darned if I can tell any difference. Some say they can but for me, not me….

I’m too deaf to be an authority on what works best to silence the sound, but I can tell a difference in how they behave.

When I use real wool, the yarn frizzes into nice puff balls. When I have used acrylic yarn, it never frizzes up.

I didn’t experiment much with different acrylic yarns, just stayed away from it after I saw that. Maybe other synthetic yarns frizz up.

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: Re-Thinking old Thoughts on Woodies #48454

To continue the straight fletch thoughts some more….

Since I’ve gone to the straight clamp, I can now start to use the seven or eight shoe boxes full of right wing feathers I’ve got laying around. I figured I would trade those feathers to someone for something, but it never happened.

Now I have two lifetimes of feathers to use 😀

And another thought, since I am feather rich, is that I am going to try some six inch fletching 😯 to help stabilize the arrow faster as it comes off the bow. Since the fletching is straight, there’s not going to be a big loss in speed from doing this I anticipate.

A longer fletch bucks the trend these days, but the trend is based on carbon arrows which have no need of stabilization. Being somewhat unstable myself 8) I can appreciate the need for a little help 🙄

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: Website Upgrade #25206

Thanks!

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: Website Upgrade #62714

I hate to be a whiner but….

I use an apple laptop to play on the internet, so I don’t know if that has something to do with it but….

When my mouse goes over the menu’s, they go crazy and open and close 3, 4, 5, 6 times before stopping. I have to be real careful when trying to get my mouse to the specific menu I want to avoid opening the others and having to wait for them to finish their yo-yo routine…

Any way to fix that?

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: Temptations #62622

Yep, I thought so.

As I read it I recalled how many times I have told my boy that the only shot you are guaranteed not to regret is the one you didn’t take…. And how that worked out this year.

We sat in the two man stand a bunch this year together (for dad’s sentimental benefit). He let several tasty bucks and does walk by without shooting. In my opinion he had several good opportunities, but passed saying the deer just didn’t give him the perfect shot.

I was getting a bit frustrated seeing the season wind down to just a few days with the need for one more deer in the freezer. But just a couple days before he went back to school he shot a nice doe.

It’s his fourth deer, and he’s made perfect shots on them all.

He’s already a way better hunter than his old man.

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: Jerry Hill #62559

I see you are new to this forum. Welcome!

I would guess that if Jerry Hill wanted to write for TBM, that would be between TBM and Jerry.

For myself, I’m a fan of the ASL and shoot nothing else, so I’m always interested in talking about shooting them, making them, and anything related….

That said, ASL’s seem to go through popularity spurts that don’t last too long. It’s a pretty small niche inside a pretty small niche.

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: light pound bow dilemma #24604

This might be what you are talking about:

http://www.twotracksbow.com/store/index.php?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=181

That seems steep to me for something you can make yourself, if you have the materials.

I have no trouble (well ok, maybe every now and then they snag a bit) with plain old wool yarn silencers.

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: Workin on yer problems #18195

When it comes to good shooting, you’ll get no suggestions from me. Well, ok, maybe one…

I like to practice with just one arrow. I end up spending a lot more time walking than shooting, but I think it helps keep me shooting better. If I have more than one arrow to shoot, I get in the habit of going for that next arrow too fast.

That, and arrows mess up the target when trying to focus on the spot.

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: light pound bow dilemma #13142

DK wrote: … The only tuning I get to do is with string material, brace height and point weight.

Thanks DK

You can add silencers to your list of tuning tools. Moving the silencers around has a significant affect on bare shaft tuning carbon arrows. If the bare shaft arrow shows:

weak – Move silencers towards nock set.

Stiff – Move silencers towards limb tips.

[Stephen Graf]

in reply to: Tuning stiffer spines than expected #58420

You can send some of that snow down here if you want to 😀

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