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in reply to: Bowstring Questions #18282

Start at 1/8th of the AMO length and adjust for noise and arrow flight. Lower is faster (to point) from increased power stroke but noisier.

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in reply to: Small game points? #16043

These are my small game arsenal.

My favorite squirrel head is the Gamenabber (made now by PDP). It is a blunt with teeth around the shoulder. Third in from the left. The Ace Hex is great as well but costs a bit more. The Ace is a better roving head for stumps.

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The Tiger Claw (fifth in from right) gave me some horror story events with shots if they hit too far back and I use them on easier to kill bunnies.

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in reply to: browning wasp #8143

davidkeech wrote: Thanks Mr.Peterson.Good to be here.Thanks Ripforce and Stumpkiller for the info and pics.Really like that Back packer.

Rumor has it the Backpacker inspired Black Widow’s reverse riser design. Just what I’ve heard. Don’t know whether ’tis true.

I’ve got am older Explorer (62″ but pre Explorer I or II) and a Cobra II. Both excellent bows that have kept pace with more modern designs in performance and huntability. (aka “Fast AND Quiet”)

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in reply to: browning wasp #63411

I’m a great fan of Browning recurves. Harry Drake did the designs and Gordon Plastics produced the laminates – still the industry standard for fiberglass bow materials. Most had very good turn of speed and nice layup (more and thinner laminations in the limbs).

The Wasp was one of their shorter bows and their lest expensive.

Wasps are going for $80 to $125 or thereabouts. They’ve actually held their value better han the top end Brownings. Good, servicable hunting bows.

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in reply to: Public Land hunting ethics #62419

The reason I bowhunt is to get away from the kind of people who text. 😀

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in reply to: Primitive Rifle Kill, Okay to Post??? #54114

Nice! That’s a fine buck!

Next to traditional bows my flintocks are my favored hunting tools. I go after deer with a flintlock rifle and gouse and bunnies with a flint fowler.

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in reply to: Old broadheads? #54003

They look like Ace Standards. c. 1941 (ABCC #0058.000).

Not sure how long they were in production.

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in reply to: In the Market For a Recurve #51275

I find it hard to shoot too light of a recurve as release becomes critical. A heavier recurve leaves the fingers (tab) better and shoots flatter – helping when shooting at unknown distances. With your draw I would not go below 50# @ 28″ for hunting.

JMHO.

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in reply to: In love again for the first time #50131

Wood may not have a soul but it certainly has an attraction that warms the spirit. I shoot nothing but wood shafts.

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in reply to: Things seldom seen or never seen before #47918

I love seeing the HArriers and Goshawks, and also the Redtailed and Sharp-shinned hawks.

Unfortunately, I also raise free-range chickens. 🙁

We lose a couple, especially the young or bantams, every year to hawk predation. I was standing on our dseck watching the chickens and the one I was watching just exploded in a puff of feathers. When I blinked a couple times and what I had seen registered a red-tailed hawk flapped off carrying one of my bantams. He must have been doing 70 mph when he hit as I never saw the incoming swoop.

We got guineas, that supposedly are good watch-birds for hawks and seemed to be, and the coyotes and foxes nailed the guineas.

I never saw a fisher until we got the guineas . . . and in one year I saw five! They are to a chicken what Alien is to an future astronaut. Death on legs.

Oh well, the Circle of Life. And Death.

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in reply to: OK it finally happened and I need to vent #46822

HUNTRYX wrote: Took some precious time off from work, and got myself set up in a sweet little spot on some state land with a heavy trail headed into a picked corn field on an adjoining farm. I sat there for about an hour in great anticipation of the coming dusk when I heard the whine of small engines in the distance, moving closer. Pretty soon, here comes a dirt bike, then a 4 wheeler racing down the path within 10 feet of my sweet little spot. The kids riding them couldn’t have been more than 12. They spent the next hour (into the precious magic time,) goosing their engines down and then up every path on the state land. Vroomvroomvroom, on and on until dark. Don’t they have homework? I wondered as I packed up my stuff and walked back to my truck.

Hasn’t happened to me in 30+ years of bowhunting. Guess I’ll make a call to the EnCon folks to see if this is even legal– they sure tore up the ground.

End of rant.

Had a similar problem where I used to hunt. I figured out where the ATV guys tended to go and found some thick stuff about 150 yards away along a natural funnel. Worked like a charm. When the deer heard the ATVs coming they came to me.

Eventually that land went to a paid hunting lease – part of what prompted me to buy a home with some wooded land so I had some control over my destiny.

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in reply to: Things seldom seen or never seen before #46816

We get Northern Harriers that are very light.

aka Marsh Hawks.

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in reply to: Balance #44399

colmike wrote: 2. It doesn’t need support–it walked out of Africa 50,000 years ago and populated this planet

3. Ankle support–bull s..t the foot supports the ankle.

It didn’t transport a body 30% overweight and carrying 20 lbs of additional gear plus another five pounds of clothing. The more you carry, on you or of you, the better boot support you need.

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in reply to: Which brand recurve for beginner? #43287

Pearson, Browning, Bear, Martin/Damon-Howatt. Should be able to get a used one for under $150 that is in excellent shape.

That’s what I shoot.

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in reply to: Are these broadheads legal??? #43281

Wouldn’t be legal in NY. They’re barbed.

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