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in reply to: Re-Thinking old Thoughts on Woodies #21019
Had my first “robin hood” of sorts with wood arrows yesterday. Not a boast or a brag. As we all know, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then…
But more of a caution I guess. I figured you couldn’t really bust up a wood arrow like that. Maybe bust off the nock, but no big deal to glue another on.
But yesterday I managed to send one arrow right down the middle of another arrow. Pealed that arrow like a banana 😳
in reply to: Re-Thinking old Thoughts on Woodies #21015grumpy wrote: … what matters is not the length of the fletches, but the surface area. Thus, short fat fletches will work the same as long skinny. … you can get 3, 3″ fletches out of a feather, but only 2, 4″.
No doubt about it, surface area is the driving factor to how well fletching stabilizes an arrow. And I have often been drawn to the economy of getting more fletches from each feather.
If you ever try wild turkey feathers, you can actually get three 4 inch feathers from some of the primary feathers. But never more than two 5 inch feathers.
Yes, the list of native trees that have died or are dying out is maybe longer than the list of trees that are left at this time.
And yet people go on about their business like it doesn’t matter to them. Humans have become more shrew like than the shrew.
But on the bright side, a group at the State University of New York has found a way to graft a wheat gene into the DNA of the American Chestnut to make it totally immune to the Chestnut Blight.
Normally, I am opposed to genetically modifying plants/animals as the work usually involves mixing genes from different kingdoms, i.e. plant and animal. This is messing with things we just aren’t educated or wise enough to mess with imo.
But in the case of the Chestnut, it is taking a gene from one plant and splicing it into another. Here the benefits outweigh the risks, again imo.
I donated to the cause, and those of us following the progress hope to see these trees planted in the wild soon. FDA and EPA approval are currently pending…
in reply to: Re-Thinking old Thoughts on Woodies #18891R2 wrote: …I refuse to complicate simplicity… use a slight left helical (there are many years of experience for the adage, right hand, left helical, left hand, right helical, … with 3-3 1/2″ feathers. Sometimes four 3″… “That’s what feathers are for”.
I seem to be back at 3 five inch feathers on woodies. They work, and they look so much better. I get all itchy and scratchy looking at a long arrow with little bitty nubby feathers on the back of it. Ain’t right.
I did once fletch some arrows with right wing feathers using a left wing jig. Dern if it weren’t hard to get them feathers into that clamp and onto the arrow. Sumpin’s wrong… But when in doubt, plunge ahead with conviction I always say 🙄 Got them on, and they flew fine. Still have a few of them hidden somewhere. I pull them out when no one is looking 😳
in reply to: New Broadhead #15520Paleo – Maybe it would take someone from Colorado, Oregon, Washington… to come up with such a contraption. Good wit! Wish I had thought of that one.
I just can’t figure what would motivate someone to buy such a thing. It’s like going to disney and thinking you are getting outdoors.
Stone point screwed into carbon arrow. It’s like hitching your Lamborghini to a horse and pulling it though town. It’s like dressing your supermodel wife in a feed sack.
It’s a smidge conflicted if you ask me. Before buying this, a person should sit down with their inner yoda and have a pow wow.
in reply to: Re-Thinking old Thoughts on Woodies #14378I used offset fletching back in my compound days, but switched to helical when I moved on to traditional.
Now that I seem to be moving back in that direction I am hoping to get better fletching life. I figure fletching on an offset as opposed to helical will put less stress on the feather so the barbs won’t separate or fall out as much.
I wear feathers out before I lose or break shafts, usually.
in reply to: New to traditional bowhunting #14360Your a good man Mike!
in reply to: What ya got goin? #14355R2 wrote: I came across this neat little cactus and just had to share the picture.
It looks alive:D
Your intuition is spot-on R2. After much time and money spent researching the issue, I can now conclusively state that: Cactus plants are alive 🙄
Does look like a bunny though…
in reply to: New to traditional bowhunting #13357Your draw length with a traditional bow will likely be much less than with a compound.
Your draw weight will also need to come down.
The best single piece of advice I can give you is to find a traditional archery shop and go try out bows and get set up with some arrows.
The type of bow you get is relevant only to your sense of beauty and fun. What ever floats your boat is fine. Go cheap on your first bow though…
What is important is that you get a bow that doesn’t stress your bod too much, and that has matched arrows.
Good luck, and have fun with it!
in reply to: Let's See Your Fletching #13339I’m guessing this picture was taken before your “Walk of arrow Death” mentioned in R2’s never-ending thread…
As I said, my douglas fir shafts are holding up pretty well, and for $40 dollars I got enough douglas fir to last a lifetime…
Even so, I thought I’d try running some Birch through the arrow doweler to see how they do. Pope and Young swore by birch as the best arrow wood. I think the laminated birch being sold gives birch a bad name. The laminated stuff weighs a ton. Plain old doweled birch would be much lighter I think…
in reply to: What ya got goin? #13319Bruce,
I’ve been shooting douglas fir and had but one break on me in six months. I don’t shoot many stumps though, mostly leaves, twigs, etc. Our stumps would break carbons too.
I agree with Dave about the blunts causing some of the trouble. Great for rabbits, not so great for stumps. Judo’s better. But weight may be an issue.
If judo’s too light, add lead shot before glueing on.
Bruce, shooting ASL’s and woodies is like going to the Hotel California… Sorry dude. 😀
Alex – Nice pictures!! Glad to see you taking your bow on your travels. Good idea.
in reply to: Comparing takedown to one piece #11380I think you figured it out in your last paragraph. Someone else could just as easily shoot better with the PSE bow.
That’s assuming it’s a fair test in that the arrows you are shooting are correctly tuned to each bow. If the arrows are not tuned correctly to a bow, it will not shoot at it’s best. If you were shooting the same arrows out of both bows for your testing, it might indicate that the arrows were better tuned to the bear bow.
So the best thing to do is to see if you can figure out why you shoot the bear bow better. Is it the grip? Limb length? Tiller?
I don’t think there is anything innately better about a take down or a one piece bow. It’s just what you prefer.
in reply to: Hunting Kauai? #11108I hunted the big island a couple years ago. Shot a pig.
Don’s advice about putting in for your license early is key to being able to hunt. You may also want to get a 4-wheel drive vehicle. The roads on the public lands on the big island can’t be accessed without it. I expect that’s the same on the other islands.
The lava fields tear up boots bad.
The Natural Resources folks are getting real serious about eradicating all the non native species on the islands. So you may have a hard time finding something to shoot at, aside from pigs.
Have fun!!!! Chasing goats is a blast.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #11094Went tilapia fishing again last night in the pouring rain. Shot another 20 😀
Now I gotta go clean ’em…
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