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in reply to: Recurve or Longbow… #10623

I’ve tried a couple different traditional bows; and frankly I lose the fine distinction between longbow and recurve with the flatbows, hybrids, reflex/deflex, etc. I find I shoot best with a high grip recurve – so that’s what I shoot.

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in reply to: How many bows do you have? #60277

Six recurves and one longbow.

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in reply to: Nugent, redux #56851

He wouldn’t be hunting on my property.

At least not with my permission.

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in reply to: Spectacles! #45745

I only need mine to see.

Now you’ll appreciate hats with brims – worn forward – learn to anchor without lifting the lens (and how the target appears) at the last fraction of draw and learn that “pick the center of the blur” is sometime the best you’ll get. 😉

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in reply to: Aiming Methods #42042

Focus on the target, draw and release. If there is aiming it is subconcious. I look down the arrow so I am certainly aware it is there (if it fell off or I forgot to knock one I would notice) but I do not work any up or down into the shot. I also practice every day (I have missed three days in the past 18 months – business trip).

Past 25 yards I use a point-of-aim for field shooting out to 80 yards or more, but never when hunting. I am point on at my draw length at 65 yards.

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in reply to: Looking for a good broad head #12164

I’m a fan of the STOS (plain ‘ol double bevel) and the Magnus II are also viceless broadheads.

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in reply to: Mother Earth News #46288

David Petersen wrote: Ironically, this past weekend, I received (through the magazine) several letters from disgruntled vegan MEN readers who think I’m evil for praising hunting as an honorable way to feed ourselves … and at the same time I’m writing responses to TBM readers who think I’m a liberal elitist because I set high standards for hunting and wildlife management.

Please pass the word back to MEN that, as a carnivore and a subscriber, I am offended and upset by all the images they feature of helpless vegetables just lined up innocently for the slaughter.

It’s just evil.

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in reply to: who carrys a backup gun #41628

Can’t legally carry any firearm while bowhunting for deer hereabouts. Other times I have either an Officer’s .45 ACP or the same frame with a Ceiner .22LR conversion slide & magazine.

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in reply to: trad bow for tall guys? #44464

I’m 6’3″ tall and draw 29-3/4″ (my arrows are cut 30-1/2″ BOP and the tip comes right back to the riser wood) and my two favorite bows are a Browning Explorer (62″ AMO) and a Browing Cobra II (58″ AMO). I also have no draw problems with my Martin/Howatt Dream Catcher (60″ AMO). Though I have had problems with a 58″ Martin Mamba that just flat stopped at 28-1/2″.

When I shot a compound I drew 32″ and used fingers release.

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in reply to: Whats you FOC? #23013

I suppose, and I do understand your goal, but to have a set-up that you are coinfident “will break any bone it it’s way” might encourage you to take iffy shots. I pass on bad angles because I don’t want any bone but a rib or two in the way.

The one I do worry about and it has caught me up twice is the spine from a treestand. I recently lucked by on margin because I had a 630 gr arrow with a small two-edged Stos 130 gr head that went through a vertebrae and on into a lung. I thought I had hit high in a rib but it actually made it into the spinal cord and on past. I couldn’t pull or push it out and snapped the head off with a pair of pliers so the butcher wouldn’t get himself on it. When I picked up my meat the butcher asked “what the heck are you shooting?”

Unfortunately, he dug out the piece of shaft still stick in it by sawing through the bone beside it instead of removing it intact. The bone with a section of Douglas fir shaft would have made a great conversation piece.

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in reply to: Dec/Jan issue #22210

Yippee! Just got mine this afternoon. All is now right in my small world.

So, what’s the scoop with the new Zwickey head on p.57???

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in reply to: Whats you FOC? #21058

Don’t know mine, so apparently it is not critical. I shoot a wood arrow with a single blade/two edge head that flies well. Shoots through deer, so I guess that formula works. 😉 Wood shaft + sharp traditional head = dead deer.

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in reply to: G'Day! #20665

Welcome! Looking forward to hearing about bowhunting from the land of nasties and bities!

I think I have all but seven of the TBM’s. I go back through them regularly. Certainly a treasure (and I am jealous as you must have all of the unavailable early issues!)

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in reply to: Question ????? #20055

Flintlock wrote: I just bought a Shakespeare Neceda model X-26, 45 lb, 58 inches long recurve. What arrows would you recommend I use with this bow? Any suggestions would be appreciated!

What’s your draw length? Do you intend to do a lot of stump shooting and small game hunting or just the occasional deer and a bunch of target practice? Are you going to “roll your own” or buy them finished?

I like Douglas fir which I 12″ taper myself and pretty up with simple leather dye and Sharpie permanent markers and Pilot metallic ink pens.

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in reply to: Dec/Jan issue #19750

TBMADMIN wrote: [quote=Stumpkiller]Mine still hasn’t arrived! It’s not fair.

Charlie, I guess your mailman isn’t finished with it yet. They all get mailed on the same day, but bulk mail doesn’t always get delivered on the same day. If you don’t have it by Nov. 1 please call Allie toll-free at 888-828-4882.

Don’t laugh. We live in one of those places the post office powers are shutting down. Bad news because the nearest post office is the local meeting place in the mornings for the old timers since the church/grange burned down.

Probably fell behind the seat in the mailman’s pickup truck.

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