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in reply to: Hunting Kauai? #11108
I 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…
in reply to: martin ml-10 #8739Great Northern as some nicely priced bows too. May want to give them a gander.
The Martin bow does deliver quite the hand shock in my opinion. More than is necessary.
There’s a cool grouse hunting video where the guy is using a martin longbow:
I’ve gone back to the 8 dollar no-pinch tab (the smooth version, not the calf hair version). Used it for 20 years before spending 8 years exploring gloves.
Shot 9 tilapia in a row with it the other day 😀 A couple days before that I shot 2 tilapia with one arrow 😀 😀
in reply to: Mitten's article in the current TBM #62379R2 wrote: … Way I see it if you ain’t havin’ fun with yourself and those around ya what in the hell are you doin it for…
Spot on R2!
I see where you are coming from Bruce. I think it’s part of the American Psyche. We started out as puritans, and have had a hard time shaking that limited perspective. Americans always think there’s a right way, and a wrong way, and nothing much in between.
That said, I hate the word Trophy as applied to hunting. And to me trophy hunting is just one of the stages some folks go through on their way to to becoming a fully aware and actualized hunter.
I thought Don Thomas’s editorial about the land grab being perpetrated by the repub’s and their corporate overlords is really important.
He mentioned in the article the song “this land belongs to you and me” which reminded me of the version we sang in the 3rd grade:
This Land is my Land,
It isn’t your Land.
You better get off,
I’ll blow your head off.
I have a shot gun,
You don’t have one.
This Land is Private Property!!
Sung to the same tune. Amazing that 3rd graders could outline the North American Conservation Model as seen through the eyes of conservatives.
in reply to: Tip on straightening wood shafts #61944R2 wrote: …At that point does one care? 🙄
Ahhhh, so grasshopper, when the archer and the arrow wobble the same, only then will they find harmony. Only then will the arrow find its mark. 🙄
Moral of the story – If you want another beer, just bend your arrow a little more 😀
in reply to: What ya got goin? #61930Bruce,
I had the same problem with the hammer heads. The Ace heads are much stronger, and a bit cheaper too…
in reply to: Tip on straightening wood shafts #60801Smithhammer wrote: I’ve been using this tip quite a bit lately, and it works like a charm. And since I find arrow-building to go hand-in-hand with enjoy a nice malty beverage, it’s a match made in heaven. Thanks for the tip, Clay. 😉
It appears that relationship might be inverse… The straighter the arrows gets, the more wobbly the archer becomes 8)
in reply to: Tendonitis? #59661I had the same thing in my elbows from shooting and doing pull ups. It took a couple years for the pain to go away. Still can’t do pull ups without new pain.
Two weeks, two months, isn’t enough for tendons to heal. More like two or three years. Pain means injury, so every time you “test” your tendons by lifting weights, you are setting yourself back.
I got these “braces” down at the drug store for tennis elbow. It’s a strap you wrap around your arm just below the elbow. It helps support the tendons. It has an air bag that presses into the pocket on the outside of your elbow.
Tennis elbow – pain on outside of elbow Golfers elbow – pain on inside of elbow. Brace helped with both.
I wore that brace every time I did work: chainsaw, shovel, shoot bow, chop wood, etc. Really helped.
in reply to: Surewood Shafts #58394Smithhammer wrote: Yeah, I just picked up some Fiebing’s dye in a couple different colors for the next batch. While I can really admire the beauty of intricately crested arrows, I tend to prefer just a simple, visible color on the rear 8″ or so.
Me too. But I’ve been dying the whole arrow. This probably wouldn’t be worth the trouble for a guy that shoots as well as you do, but for a lunk head like me that spends an embarrassing amount of time looking for his arrows, sometimes it’s the front of the arrow that shows up when I’m kicking the duff looking for it…
in reply to: Surewood Shafts #58392R2 wrote: Hey Steve, green might be a better color around here as of late. 😀
All depends on local, uh!
Electric Lime green for sure! My 15 year old daughter’s favorite color. She talked her mother into letting her paint a wall in her room that color. Now when I walk in there, my ears start to buzz 🙄
in reply to: Surewood Shafts #57317I bought some canary yellow aniline dye that I put on my arrows. Can’t say how many times that has saved an arrow from being lost. Many, Many times.
in reply to: Toelke "Super D" #56297sure is perty! Fast? How fast? Numbers please…
D bows and wood arrows… that’s about as good as it gets!
in reply to: Surewood Shafts #56290That’s what I used to get started down the path of making my own arrows. Bought their test pack so I could figure out what spine seemed to work best.
They sure make some nice shafts!
I haven’t tried the parallel shafts. I just started right off with the tapered shafts. How you like the parallel shafts?
in reply to: Whoa! Troublesome. #49644The picture is not true to life, as they say. It’s a digital camera phantom. Something about the way the photo sensor, or eye or whatever you want to call it records the image. If it’s a really fast thing, it doesn’t record it correctly.
Think how long that string would have to be to take that shape.
Really cool that it took the picture though. Go buy a lottery ticket, quick!
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