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They are cool, aren’t they? There are number of folks that are building and selling them these days.
There’s one fellow in particular that seems to have really put a lot of creativity into them and gotten others to do the same. He has a youtube channel that shows a lot of his work. search on “backyard bowyer”
I’ve made a couple myself following his designs. It wouldn’t take long to get good at it I think.
in reply to: Untamed by Clay Hayes to be released Aug. 17 #12813As far as I know, the film hasn’t been released yet. Here is a link to the website about it. But there hasn’t been an update since last year:
http://www.thegoodhunt.net/index.html
I’ve seen Dave’s move and Clay’s movie. Both worth watching. The trick is to get the right people to watch them.
Strap-down chair and toothpicks?
in reply to: The Oldest Bowhunter #12801Buried the neighbors son yesterday. It was a beautiful day here. More than anything, I felt bad that he missed such a day, and all the days like it to come.
Enjoy every season like it is your last, for you never know…
in reply to: Animas River Toxic Release #12104Idabow wrote: To those of you who live on, near or will somehow be affected by this, I hope it can be stabilized and one day brought back to its pristine condition…
I googled Animas River Toxic Release and read an article in the Durango paper about it. It said the river has very little fish in it because of contamination, over many years, from the mines. So it doesn’t appear to be a pristine river.
That said, what a bummer. And I am sure yet another opportunity to learn a lesson will be lost here. Hopefully the EPA will get their act together and get the old mines cleaned up once and for all.
That’s Dave Petersens back yard I expect. Maybe he’ll elaborate sometime.
in reply to: The Oldest Bowhunter #10857R2 – Where’d that tag line come from? Hopefully something I haven’t read yet…
in reply to: The weight of things #8734Now that’s sweet! I bet that will make a good skinning knife, let us know…
in reply to: Heading to the Mountains #8729Yea, it was a bitter sweet trip for me, as I figure it will be the last. But who knows. The boys still acted like boys, getting muddy from top to bottom.
They found a cave behind one of the waterfalls in the creek near the cabin. Came back for a flash light and lit out again without a word. After they didn’t show up for a half hour after dark, we packed a couple beers and went out looking for them.
Figured they’d be on the creek somewhere, so we followed that till we found cloths. No kids. Stood there wondering what was up when Miles heard something (I can’t hear s%^t as I’m deaf as a doornail). Wait, was that a kid? Sounds like it’s coming from underground. What?
A few loud Mad Dad shouts later, the boys appear through the sheet of water with big grins and a water logged flashlight.
Tall tails were told on the way back to the cabin about what they thought they saw in the cave. A few terse words were spoken in reply about tell’n us where they were off too. Growing up and all that…
All was forgiven a few beers and s’mores later.
in reply to: Heading to the Mountains #63802Here’s a few of the hiking pictures. No stumping pictures. Did some hiking in Grason Highlands State Park, and around the local hills too.
Shot a bunch around the cabin, but didn’t take the bows on any hikes. Beautiful Weather!
in reply to: Lion Poacher? #55853I heard another story on this incident that was a bit less inflammatory. In that version of the story, the lion didn’t have a collar, but had a tag. Not sure either one would be visible through all that mane.
In the NPR story they had a quote from the Dentist in which he apologized for the mistake and wanted to make amends. That statement was left out of this story.
This story quotes the guide as saying he had all the correct permits to hunt the area. If this is true, then it was bad luck for the lion and nothing more.
The dentist also said he relied on his guide to have all the correct permits, etc. Which is understandable.
On the whole, I don’t understand why people feel the need to travel around the globe and kill predators, rhino’s, elephants, etc.
And I didn’t know how much $ a dentist could pull down. That’s some crazy cash that guy is spending. Must be some real bad teeth in his home town.
If he had the correct permit, this is a non-story. If he did kill that lion without the correct permit, it’s nothing more than a poaching story.
The one thing I did get from this story is that the timing of the season is bad. The season should be timed so that if a male lion is shot, the cubs in his pride would be grown enough to defend themselves when the pride is taken over by another male.
The moral of this story is that the whole world is covered up by stupid.
in reply to: CAMO OR NOT who is the fool ? #55188Good one R2! It’s always nice to make someone’s day, especially when it doesn’t cost you anything to do it.
in reply to: The weight of things #52459hmmmm….
15, 20, even 30 grains difference in arrow weight doesn’t seem to bother me. ‘Course nobody ever gives me any knifes for hitting their dots like they do R2.
I wouldn’t let a little thing like that 20 grains of weight keep me from shooting a broadhead, long as it’s edge was keen.
I might go so far as to say that I can feel the weight of the arrows as I shoot and compensate for it. Which reminds me of an old Howard Hill video where he is shooting in front of a group of people who all have their bows and arrows.
Of course the arrows are all different weights, lengths and spines, but Howard takes arrows from different people and puts them all in the bulls eye.
These days, I go for more interesting excuses than boring point weight to explain why I come home empty handed. Here’s one of my favorites I give my wife: “Well darlin, I had me a big old knock kneed buck right there in front o’me. Prit’neer could a reached out and grabbed him, I coudda. It wassa sure ting I tell ya! Just as I was gonna shoot, this half nekked wood nymph came runnin’ past beggin me to come wit’her. Dat o’buck run off and I tolt that old Nymph to get gone ’cause I had me the best wife in the world. See Darlin?
We men of action 🙄 need to do better than blame our trusty steel.
in reply to: Need help with setup #51348What 2Blade said has always worked for me.
But be CAREFUL as the insert and drill bit come zipping out fast enough to break a window, jar, glass, or dent the floor, or cause someone to slap you when it hits their leg. At least that’s what I’ve heard. I’m waaay too smart to have actually experienced any of these things myself 🙄
And while the insert always comes out, sometimes the carbon fibers of the arrow come out in a spiral too. When this happens, the arrow must be cut shorter, or discarded.
And that’s why I switched to using bohnings blue insert hot glue for carbons. I’ve never had an insert fail with this hot glue, and they are super easy to get out.
Course, that’s before I switched to woodies this past winter. We’ll see if I keep the woodies after this hunting season.
in reply to: Bare Shaft & Nock Point #51343Yes that’s true. I usually shoot a bare shaft at 18 or 20 yards to see how it’s flying. At that distance, the arc of the trajectory is pretty flat. You wouldn’t notice the nock being high.
Sometimes I step back to 30 yards, when I get thing working well, and shoot a bare shaft. At that distance, you will see the arrow nock high in the target from the arc of trajectory, as you predicted.
Some people say not to pay attention to the orientation of the arrow in the target. The only important factor is the orientation of the arrow with respect to the intended point of impact:
Left of dot = stiff
Right of dot = weak
Above dot = low nock
Below dot = high nock
I am not in this camp. I like to watch my bare shaft fly (sounds like a good title for a sexy song 😳 ) The observed flight, confirmed by the orientation of the arrow in the target, tell me what’s going on.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #49154Good to hear! Living with drought sucks. We’ve gone several years now without a drought. I thought we were in for one this year, but so far so good.
In fact, it’s raining now 😀
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