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in reply to: Traditional Snowshoes for Hunting #25228
Nice stroll in some pretty woods Bruce! Though I always feel bad when you wander way off and I know you have to come back for the camera 😳
We’re gonna get a hard freeze this weekend. Was planning on putting the broccoli in the garden, but will have to wait till Monday I guess.
Never get tired of your videos 8)
in reply to: Bare shaft tuning #24183A high nock can be caused by several things…
– Nock Set on string too high – self explanatory;
– Nock Set on String too low – back of arrow is bouncing off shelf at release
– Lower limb faster than upper limb – not easily fixable
A right nock is usually the result of an over spined shaft…
– Add more weight to the point
– Move string silencers towards tips 2 inches or so
– increase brace height 1/4 inch or so
In the end, a high tear won’t cause you much trouble. A stiff arrow will be noisier to shoot than a correctly spined arrow.
in reply to: Schulz longbow values #23043Smithhammer, I know what you are up to! You can’t hide behind your PM’s. We all know your game…
Bad Bad Smithhammer!
I sure would like to shoot that brown glass bow… Never shot a shultz bow. Hope someday I can.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #23032colmike wrote: …Steve
I hesitate to ask–why isn’t the son chopping while you supervise?8)…
Mike
Usually I get the kids to do the fetching and the stacking while I run the splitter… But after my boy asked if my elbow was sore from all that lever pulling I had to do (his sarcastic way of saying his end of the job was more work than my end) I pronounced that he would run the splitter and I would fetch.
So Sunday he ran the splitter and I fetched. It ended up being half a cord, not the expected quarter cord. Anyway, he did a good job and didn’t mash any fingers.
I then complemented him on how he seemed to always have a piece of wood ready to split and never had to look around for where his next one was coming from. And how he split the wood so well it just naturally stacked itself neatly in the trailer instead of in a sloppy pile (I think he got my sarcasm, but being a teenager he didn’t let on)
And then I topped it off by saying that next year, he and his sister could take care of all the splitting now, and I could take care of other important dad stuff, like finishing my coffee and posting on tradbow 8)
Maybe I’ll get one or two more seasons of work out of the little wonders. Just when the kids get really useful, they grow up and leave. That’s gratitude for you 🙄
in reply to: What ya got goin? #21864Smithhammer wrote: …- it’s been a good Saturday…
That does sound might fine! For me, I split / stacked three quarters of a cord of wood in the morning, goofed in the shop in the afternoon, took the boy out for supper and a run to the hardware store, and finished up with a few hours of bow fishing. Got home about 2am.
Staring at the last quarter cord of wood that needs to get worked this morning 🙁
My ars is dragging.
in reply to: Winter Rove #19651The more things change, the more they stay the same… Fond farewell to the winter rove, happy hello to the springtime rove 😀
Thanks for taking us along!
in reply to: Homemade handiwork #16746Duncan wrote: Steve, that looks great and the leather trim is a really nice touch. Looks professional. Are those the arrows you posted about that you made from 3/8″ stock? They look good in the quiver.
Duncan
Thanks. And yes, I made those arrows from some douglas fir boards I picked up at the hardwood store in Gibsonville.
in reply to: Tip on straightening wood shafts #14433That was sweet.
Having more cents than sense, I bought one of the ace roller straighteners. It works great too. But I sure wish I had seen this before buying it 🙄
in reply to: Homemade handiwork #14347I posted this quiver on another thread, but I thought I’d add it to this one since I modified it…
Been a lot of rainy days with nothing to do, so I added leather trim to it since the last time I posted it.
in reply to: Signs of Spring #13013dwcphoto wrote: … I really look forward to the peeper this year. Two definite sounds of spring are the peepers getting ready for summer and the saw getting ready for winter…
Now that has a Leopold-ian ring to it… nice 8)
in reply to: Silencers (or the lack thereof) #13001Good Thread Patrick! But I have to say that Silencers are to bows, like potato’s are to steaks. I don’t care how good your steak is, it’s always better with a ‘tater 😀
Smithhammer wrote: … I never put silencers on a new string until I’ve gotten it as quite as possible through tuning first.
I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t let this one float past me without biting 😳 So let me just go ahead and say what I’ve been biting my tongue over ever since I saw it come up on this forum…
Heterodyning, or whatever you call it, is crapola. CRAPOLA I say!
(Mom – Sometimes you just have to let them roll on the floor screaming, they’ll get over it right?)
Why you ask? For the simple reason that string silencers have a big impact on bow tuning. If you don’t believe it, try it yourself. Get a bare shaft shooting perfectly. Then move your silencers an inch or two up or down the string and see what happens.
If you don’t use silencers, your biggest tuning knob is brace height and shaft length/point weight. Once you add silencers, you give yourself a bigger control margin, and finer control of it.
To take advantage of silencers:
-Put them on your bowstring equal distance from the tips, say 10 inches.
-Get your bare shaft mostly tuned up by reducing length / changing point weight as best you can.
-If you are getting a nock high tare you can’t get rid of, move the lower silencer up.
-If your shaft is a bit weak, Move both silencers toward center.
-If your shaft is a bit stiff, move both silencers towards limbs.
Once your arrows are tuned to the bow, it will be as quiet as it’s gonna get.
Another advantage of string silencers is that by using them, you can adjust the bow to shoot the arrow. Thus if you have two bows that are close in weight, by using the string silencers to fine tune the bow you can use the same arrows with both.
OK, I’m done stompin’, cursin’, and spittin’ ‘backy on the stove now 🙄
As you were.
in reply to: Signs of Spring #12976We let the fire die in the stove about a week ago (been a couple cold nights since). Looks like we won’t need to crank it back up for the next 5 or 6 days, so maybe we’re done with it.
Got an early start on wood and have a cord split with another cord on the ground in rounds. Was going to start splitting it today, but it’s supposed to rain.
Only one sunny day forecast in the next 10 days. Getting sick of the rain.
The sheep are on the last bale of hay 😯 . The grass is starting to green up, so hopefully by the time they’ve finished it, the pasture will support them.
Daffadils are up, redbuds are swelling. Birds are singing spring songs on nice days, but still cleaning the bird feeder off twice a day. Spring peepers are going nuts.
in reply to: Two Tracks String Scallops #11773R2 wrote: So Steve you be using “wooly buggers”? 😀 Good for fly fishing too. 8)
Too hot and polluted in these parts for trout… Used to have em here 60 years ago, but no more.
I fly fish for blue gill now. It’s actually kind of fun. Never did get into tying flies. Don’t really have much knowledge of or skill with the fly rod.
If you want some wool for making flies let me know. It’s courser than wool used for cloth.
As for the man, I am reading a biography about him now. At this point in the story he’s just become VP. Lots of names of other powerful conservationists in the book that I need to learn about too. Bitter Sweet to see how little our politics have changed except for the lack of big personalities now. Lots of jackals feeding on life, few warriors to beat them back.
As for the organization, all I can say is that after I recently signed their petition I am getting blasted with emails from them. I hate that.
in reply to: Two Tracks String Scallops #10756Well said Mr. Hammer…
When our sheep shed in the spring, I get a new lifetime supply every year… So I guess I won’t be buying any silencers. Nice to know, though, that there is still room for innovation.
Who’d-a-thunk?
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