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in reply to: Traveling Case #14052
Human’s spend way more time “working” for their living than most other critters. Cats come to mind. Less than an hour a day I believe is the average time wild cats spend in the pursuit of food.
Does make you wonder who has it figured out, and who doesn’t…
One of the nice things about self bows (and this bow case) is that large blocks of time are not needed to make one. Whittle on it whenever you have time, for however long you have. Good for the spirit.
Good luck with the self bow, don’t forget to post a picture!
in reply to: board bow build question #14040Torges does have an fun style to read. He seems to have tapered off on his writing over the last few years though, our loss.
His video on building a bamboo backed bow is good too.
in reply to: Losing my concentration #10242Still waiting for my copy of the magazine. I think we must be on the end of the line. It’s usually two weeks after y’all start talking about it that I get my copy.
Looking forward to this article. I know I have had some trouble with concentration. And like R2, I wonder if I am just getting board with the whole thing.
It’s an odd juxtaposition. There are only two things I think about every seventeen seconds, archery being one of them 🙄 . Even though it take sup so much of my thought, when it comes right down to the act, I just can’t concentrate on it.
If only I could get these two things straight… When I am in the act of archery, think only about the spot. When I’m doing the other thing, that’s when to think about baseball 😳
in reply to: Keeping it Cool #10237colmike wrote: Steve
That is one great piece of work, and what a project to share with the youngun. Well done. I like the idea of the hot tub out back you can soak and dream about the aged venison:D
It’s nice to sit in on a cold winter night and watch the stars, especially when there are meteor showers. We used to sit in it commando style almost every night after the kids went to bed (6 or 7 pm) Now if we wait to go commando style, it will be 11 or 12 pm before the kids are in bed. I’m getting too old for that.
in reply to: Keeping it Cool #10231Good luck with the permit. And if you get it and want some help rounding up a moose, I’ll be there for you.
I do a mean cow call, totally irresistible. I’m too sexy for my self 😀
in reply to: Traveling Case #9074Thanks!
in reply to: board bow build question #8456That’s perty!
in reply to: board bow build question #7875ThomasJ2352 wrote: .think I may try rawhide for the backing after recommendations from other builders….
There was some research done in the ’30’s that showed backing a bow with rawhide reduced it’s ability to cast an arrow by 4 or 5 fps. It will help protect the bow, but that’s about it.
If you back the bow with silk, or sinew, you can protect the bow, and add speed.
in reply to: board bow build question #63278If you are going to put fiberglass on the back, you better plan on putting it on the belly too. Otherwise, your bow will be short lived.
I’m a fan of fiberglass. Some claim it isn’t traditional. I don’t care. But for the sake of arguement, Egyptians were using glass five thousand years ago. So if a traditional thing must be qualified by someone else having already done a thing, then I point to our desert ancestors along the nile. Admittedly they weren’t putting it on bows, except as ornamentation maybe. But hay, nobody’s perfect 🙄
The only real advice I can give you on the matter is to evaluate why you are making the bow. And commit to either an organic bow (all carbon based materials) or a classic bow (carbon and silicon).
There are good reasons for going in either direction. But mushing the two together usually results in disappointment.
A good read full of wisdom and technique is Dean Torges book, Hunting the Osage Bow. His website is worth a read too: http://www.bowyersedge.com
Have Fun!
in reply to: Inuit Movies #61131no “I” anything for me. We do have netflix so I’ll see if these are available on that.
Thanks for the list!
in reply to: Who has been saved by a clicker? #60249The best answer I can give is that I hope you never figure it out.
The most realistic answer I can give is that you will just have to wait and see.
New shooters rarely ever suffer from target panic. As you build your experience and become more aware, both consciously and unconsciously, of what makes a good shot you start to get out of sink with yourself.
Shooting a bow is like dancing with a woman. It’s all about timing based on your intuition of what your partner wants. And just like dancing with a woman, if you do it right, you’ll be rewarded 8)
Problem is, once you’ve been rewarded a time or two, you start anticipating the reward before it’s due. And you know what happens to you if you go for the reward from your woman before you’ve earned it 😯
Then the trouble starts, target panic. If only I could get a clicker for my wife 😳
in reply to: What ya got goin? #59955colmike wrote: …this is our last event with them so should be fun.
Does that mean you found a boat?
in reply to: Canoe paddling – Backcountry College #59950I always thought of my canoe paddling as instinctive 😀 I look where I want to go, and I go there….
Now that I know that there are names for strokes and specific techniques to be used, I think I might develop a case of paddle panic 😯
in reply to: Ground Game #59942TMS wrote: … Then he digs a little hole in the ground between his knees and lights a tiny wood fire. Then he wraps himself and the fire with the blanket…
Hmmmm. I think that sounds better in theory than it would actually be in practice. Reminds me of the famous last words of a red-neck: “Hay ya’ll watch this!”
in reply to: 2015 mast and fruit crop outlook #59935eidsvolling wrote: [quote=john dilts]UPDATE: STILL NO TREES IN THE ARCTIC LOL
Coming soon to a neighbo(u)rhood near you:
Right back at ya:
http://phys.org/news/2015-04-dna-inherited-biological-traits.html
This article talks about histones which are newly discovered molecules that hitch a ride on dna and affect how characteristics are passed down. In effect, it explains how rapid chance can occur from one generation to the next.
There was a study done on Africans recently that showed traits related to surviving starvation are passed down immediately to the next generation. It took the discovery of these histones to explain it.
Maybe the Oaks have more histones than other trees…
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