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Fun thread all!
Who’d a thunk shoe talk could be fun. But while y’all talk high falooten and fancy foot wear, I’ve gone the other way and just use my $24 Service Rubber Boots I get at the farm store. They are very comfortable and quiet for me. And since it doesn’t really get that cold here, I just throw on some wool socks when it gets below 30.
My fancy foot wear stays in the closet so as not to get worn out.
in reply to: prescription glasses.? #9737Well hummmmmm. Sounds like a few of us had a little bozo sprinkled on our eggs this morning 🙄 I’ll take a stab here and actually address the question.
I have had issues with glasses too. The two problems I had is that the string will sometimes hit the bottom of the frame as I draw, and the frame of the glasses will sometimes block my dominant eye’s view of the target.
I have always like the traditional look of round glasses. A few years ago, the optometrist I went to quit carrying them. Notice I say “went”… I found a new place with better attitude and service. They also talked me out of my old round glasses and into some of these new-fangled rectangular ones without frames.
I have to say they are the best glasses I have owned in terms of their lack of involvement in my shot. Because they are narrower, my string does not hit the bottom of the lense, and because there is no frames, they don’t interfere with my view of the target.
A wee bit expensive though…
My wife teaches yoga. I have done the sun salutation and a few other routines with her. But I haven’t gotten deep into the ritual of yoga.
That said, it depends what you mean by “does it work”. If you are looking for stretching exercises to strengthen your muscles, increase your flexibility, and improve your health, then I would say yes it does.
There are many levels to yoga, as there are to any deep mind/body exercise. Sound like any other “sport” you know?
If I was smart, I would take advantage of my wife’s experience to develop a yoga routine that would help with my archery. Maybe you can do that and write an article for TBM 8)
Bottom line, no pink leotards necessary.
in reply to: Bow Quivers #62869I went through a similar process and came up with a good solution. There is a picture of it somewhere on the forum when I posted a picture of a pig I shot in Hawaii this past january. Do a search on my name and “first piggy”. It’s not a great picture, but it will give you the idea.
It wraps on to the upper limb, and screws into the bottom quiver screw hole in the riser. It’s a custom thing I put together from parts from Eagles Flight Archery. I tried several combinations, but found this to be the best.
I know you said there were no holes other than the stabilizer hole. But I wasn’t able to do a simple limb to limb clamp on without getting into the fletching. I believe you can use the stabilizer hole as the bottom clamping hole if you use an angle bracket to get from the front to the side. You may have to make that part yourself…
But check with Don at Eagles Flight and tell him what you have and remind him of the quiver he made for me and he should be able to help you out.
in reply to: Single Bevel #59469I think it has to do with the broadhead inserts I have. They came from 3Rivers and fit very deep into the broadhead. If they didn’t go so far into the broadhead (wider at the wide end) then there wouldn’t be a problem. The 125 grain ones seem ok, but the 100 grain ones go too deep.
in reply to: Single Bevel #58391The only problem I’ve had with the tough heads I have has to do with the design feature that allows the broadhead to extend over the arrow shaft.
The intent is to help protect the shaft. But the problem I had is that I added an aluminum sleeve over the end of my gold tip 55-75 traditional shafts and it is too big to allow the broad head to go over it. Thus the arrow will not tighten down onto the back of the broadhead insert. This means that the arrow is pushing against just a thin part of the broad head, not the whole insert face.
The fix was to get rid of the aluminum sleeves. Which I didn’t like to do as they really make the shafts stronger.
But the warning is that if your arrow is too big, it won’t work. My aluminum sleeves were made from some old aluminum arrows. If I had tried to use those arrows, I wouldn’t even be able to screw the broad head onto the arrow, as the threads wouldn’t reach.
in reply to: How many times per week do you hunt? #58382Like you, my family relies on the venison I bring home. If we don’t catch it, kill it, or grow it, we generally don’t eat it.
When I was a working man, I did about what you do. Now that I have more time, I hunt more. That said, I don’t think my “success rate” is any higher than when I had limited time.
I expect that the reason has to do with the fact that while I have more time to hunt, I don’t have more places to hunt. So I end up stinking my hunting spots up more than normal.
Common wisdom, and I believe it to be true, is that you should not hunt the same places over and over. Once or twice a week should be the limit. Otherwise, the deer get wise.
So I’d say don’t worry about it. If you get lucky enough to come up with some extra places to hunt, then consider increasing your time in the woods. But keep in mind what they say about too much of a good thing…
in reply to: Our Own Worst Enemy #56443In the short term, you most definitely need to tell your wildlife law enforcement officers. Even in lowly NC, ours will try to catch poachers if there seems to be a pattern.
2 dead bears seems like good odds to catch the guy…
in reply to: Limb Twist #54997I never had any luck keeping pads like that in place on any recurve. They all seem to shift, and gum up the limbs to boot.
A better solution is to serve some wool yarn over the ends of the string where they contact the limb. It stays put and does about the same job, imo.
in reply to: Material for arrow rest? #54991I have a book somewhere that tells how to make one. It involves an old .22 shell and brush fibers. I’ll dig it if you want to make one. It also involves drilling a hole in the side plate above the arrow shelf…
in reply to: Furthest shot on game? #54983Good Story! You should have bought a lottery ticket that day. Luck of the young…
in reply to: troubled grizzly #53861I use a grinding wheel. If you have one (or get one at lowes, they are cheap these days) the following kit will let you sharpen a broadhead in a couple minutes:
in reply to: Shot Placement #48591Another thumbs up for Arne.
consistently hitting the wrong place doesn’t mean you have good form.
Consistently hitting the right place does…
In my case, hitting left is usually the bow arm being lazy. But plucking the string don’t help either 😕
in reply to: Dominant Eye #48580I am lucky in that my eye and hand match up. So I can’t give you any advice stemming from personal experience…
My daughter is RH but LE dominant. When she switched to a left handed bow, her shooting improved a lot.
The common wisdom is that you should shoot the bow that matches your eye. But everyone is different and there are a lot of folks that do what they need to to shoot the opposite hand.
The one thing I would say is don’t be afraid to shoot a lefty bow. It feels cumbersome for a few days, then it gets to feeling natural. I have shot left handed enough to figure that much out.
in reply to: Thin diameter shafts #41428Since you are left eye dominate, I assume you are shooting left handed as well?
I would think that the most likely cause for the difference in trajectory of the two arrows is spine. More likely the Aluminum Arrow’s with their points are spined correctly for you bow weight.
If you are shooting left handed, and the carbon arrows are going left, you could increase the point weight and see what happens. It should straighten them out.
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