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in reply to: Winter Rove #8883
dwcphoto wrote: …Steve, what am I missing?? I’ve seen guys say this is a buck and this is a doe, but could never see the difference. Actually, I think there’s a joke in there I’m missing, too…
dwc
Joke it was… Just observing that when a doe pees, it sprays. When a buck pees, it drills down straight to the ground 🙄
in reply to: damage on the side of limb #8431Let your woman keep her nail polish. I am sure it will look better on her than on your bow 😀
Take some liquid super glue and put it on the scratch. It will soak into the fibers. Let it dry over night. If necessary, add some more the next day.
After it is filled in well, sand lightly with 400 grit (or so) sand paper to smooth out.
Finish with polyurethane.
This is about what any “professional” bowyer will do, and it will cost you less than shipping one way.
in reply to: Two Tracks String Scallops #8426Smithhammer wrote: [quote=Steve Graf]
No mention of performance in the video…
Well, if two of them weigh the same as one cat whisker, I can’t imagine they affect performance much at all. But I’ll find out soon…
I was talking about the performance of the silencer (ability to kill sound), not the performance of the bow 🙄
But I think Patrick Answered it anyway…
in reply to: Two arrow bow quiver #8419Eagles Flight has a 2 arrow quiver. They don’t really advertise it but if you give them a call you can find out about it.
It looks pretty good to me.
in reply to: spruce shafts #8417You have discovered the one thing “wrong” with spruce. You have to sand the tapers on.
There is an expensive taper sander that runs about $170 but is the top-o-the-line answer to it. Or there is the $10 answer that requires some work on your part. Both are available from 3Rivers.
The $10 answer is a board that has a groove cut in for both the nock and point taper angles. You use it in conjunction with a sander.
I bought one and rigged it up to use with my belt sander. My sander table is hard to clamp things to so it didn’t work really well for me. After I committed to wood arrows I just bought the expensive taper sander.
But if you have some time it wouldn’t be that hard to build a jig to make the $10 option work either.
in reply to: Winter Rove #8412It’s easy to tell the bucks from the doe’s in the snow 😀
in reply to: Happy Birthday, Mr. Bear #8411Doc Nock wrote: Thanks, Bruce…makes me want to go re-read “Bows of the Little Delta” again…
You could also try the several biographies about Fred and Fred’s famous Field Notes. All good Reads.
in reply to: Two Tracks String Scallops #59501Smithhammer wrote: Good to hear, and that seems to echo what just about everybody else says. While I’ve found wool puffs most effective, I don’t particularly like the bulk or the way they collect burrs. This seems like a great and simple solution.
I’ve tried different things, but wool puffs seem to be the easiest/cheapest/best solution I’ve found. a scane of real wool costs $20 to $40 bucks, depending. And makes enough puffs for probably 20 strings. So the cost is comparable. Although puffs usually can’t be reused…
After I shoot a while, I trim the puffs down quite a bit which reduces their bulk substantially. Look cooler too.
Never had a problem with burrs, and we have plenty of ’em.
That said, I like to move my silencers around when tuning up a bow. Puffs usually move pretty well, but sometimes the fibers can get tangled up in the string fibers and make a mess.
So I see an advantage there. And they would be pretty easy to make from any old thick felted wool I would guess.
I wonder how they compare as far as killing the twang. Hard to believe it could be better than a puff.
No mention of performance in the video…
in reply to: Cross-Dominance and Instinctive #59276R2 wrote: …So I got to playing and when I look at what I’m shooting at with a drawn bow and no glasses I see what I’m shooting at with both eyes. When I put my glasses on and draw the bow back the target totally disappears from my right eye’s vision. It’s blocked by the frame and nose piece of the glasses…
That’s why I started that thread on glasses a while back… I found a pair of glasses without frames. Kind of expensive but it seemed to work for me.
in reply to: Turkey Arras #57094dwcphoto wrote: Steve, i would have figured you for head shots on chickens… Dc
😆 😆
If practice was all it took to be a good shot, I’d be the best 😳
But alas, I think there is some secret sauce I have not found yet 🙄
I can say our egg production went way up after the aforementioned events. So I guess the rest of the girls got the message 😀
in reply to: Turkey Arras #56474These thoughts are purely for entertainment purposes’…
I read a forum thread somewhere where a guy was saying that he preferred blunts for killing turkeys. I thought this was a bit out there, but or some reason remembered it.
Flash forward to a few weeks ago. We have some big Yellow Buff hens that are about 10lbs and about 6 years old. They are no longer paying rent, I mean laying eggs, and so it is time that they meet Mr. Freezer.
As it was time to make a stew I figured I go ahead and skip the freezer for one of them. I went out with the longbow and a blunt to just see what might happen.
At 15 yds I took a shot and hit the hen broadside about in the middle of the bird. It tipped over and never made another move. Stone cold dead right then and there. The arrow bounced off the bird.
I figured this was a fluke. So a week later I went out after the other old hen. Same story, same result.
These old birds are not as tough as a wild turkey I am sure. But still they are pretty darn tuff critters.
When I got them plucked and ready for the stew pot I took note of their internal condition. Couldn’t really say there was any internal evidence to explain what happened. But they died so fast they didn’t have time to bruise. So who knows.
I was using the ace blunts.
in reply to: Fight the fat-cat land grabbers #56467We have a story here in NC similar to Bruce’s story. It involves a 150,000 acre forest that was granted to the state university. Now after nearly 100 years of good stewardship they want to sell it to a pig farmer and a corn farmer. Doesn’t take a lot to see what will happen next. By “farmer” I mean industrial conglomerate.
I was a bit disappointed in the video (and the comments so far in this thread) in that the only issues addressed are our hunting and fishing privileges. To me, the greatest concern is the loss of even more of the remaining wild lands that support our biosphere by their very existence and biotic processes.
We are cutting our own throats for a dollar.
in reply to: Killing Elk… #54882speaking of antlers…
You can buy antlers in the pet stores now. They sell them for dog chews. I wonder where they come from?
When I saw it, I thought knife handles and bow tip overlays. As my hand reached for the newfound mother load of easy-to-be-had antlers ready to scoop up big handfuls in a new found antler bliss I realized – buying these will support deer farming, or commercial shed collection or something… My hand drooped. My back sagged.
My discomfort with pet stores returned and and I scolded my daughter to get her damn hamster food and lets get the hell out of here.
Well that was a little disappointing…
I have seen a documentary about the persistence hunters in Africa. When they get their animal, they walk up to it and simply dispatch it with a knife.
Why would the fellows in this article need a bow and arrow? Maybe if they left the bows and arrows behind, they could have run faster and tired out the animal.
The way it works, as I understand it, is that they don’t necessarily fatigue the animal, they cause it to over heat. In the documentary I watched, they ran the animal for over 24 hours straight before catching it. When they did “catch” it, it was just standing there. Could’t take another step as it was totally over heated. Can’t see how that would be good for the meat.
15 miles? I could have told them they wouldn’t catch it if they were only willing to go 15 miles.
Sorry. I’m feeling like a curmudgeon this morning.
in reply to: The Intricate Process Of Making Arrows From Bamboo #54292Here’s the build along for making bamboo arrows from home depot plant stake bamboo…
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