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in reply to: Aerial Target Thrower Ideas? #34373

Sweet that would be awesome Robin! Thanks

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in reply to: Aerial Target Thrower Ideas? #34170

I have actually bought plans from a guy for $20 for plans on what seemed to be a pretty easy to put together launcher made from wood. Once I got the “plans” it turns out that its basically a picture wither the pieces spread out. He does have a part list but not to clear on some of the pieces. Then I am looking at the price and its going to cost right around $100 bucks for this thing…what I most likely going to do is take these plans and scrape them and build something new.

Those laporte throwers a freaking AWESOME! wish I had $5,000 to spend cause I will totally get that SOB.

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in reply to: broadheads for grouse and pheasant #32052

I would not have any dogs but that did also come across my mind before. I guess to I am thinking way to far about it. If you hit a bird with any type of force its going to take it out. I guess I have made up my mind on the fact that just about any small game broadhead will do the trick

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in reply to: where are the heavier bows at??? #31902

This brings up my next question. What would you recommend me to do to develop these muscles? I am thinking about getting a take down recurve so I can get multiple limbs that I can increase the poundage on. The only thing is I love the way that a solid bow looks like. I have seen there at the archery shot they have the rubber bands that you can pull back to increase the weight but I do not see myself using that I much as I would just taking the bow out and shooting it. Any suggestions?

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in reply to: where are the heavier bows at??? #28672

My bow is a 60lb bamboo saluki longbow, I am pretty sure that my arrow spine was off when shooting that thing but I got to fed up buying arrows that I desided to take the easy way out. I tried to bareshaft tune with that bow with 3 different field point weights 145 160 and 190 at 20 yards. 145 and 160 shot 3 feet to the left of the target and the 190 shot 3 feet to the right of the target. That was about the time that I tossed my hands in the air with wood arrows.

You maybe right about your reason for the lack of bows. That is my general opinion on the subject too. I am not saying that its a bad thing that people are shooting lighter bows but more or less I envy the shooters that started out with the 60-70-80lb bows. I know that my bow which I shoot would be able to take down any wildgame that is in my neck of the woods. It concerns me thou if I want to go after a different game if I would be able to take down larger game with my bow. I like to shoot my current bow but I think I may hang it up in the next couple of months and pull out my 60lb longbow and start shooting that again just to increase the weight, from there I maybe looking into a takedown recurve so I can switch out the limbs on it.

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in reply to: where are the heavier bows at??? #25432

I see where your coming from with that, my 60# bow I have had a heck of a time finding the correct arrows for that thing. I shot anything from light then shafts with 100grain field points all the way up to heavier shafts with 190 grain field point and those things would not fly correctly. Personally I do not care about how fast my arrow gets to the target. I would like to have as much punch and power in my arrow as possible and watch the explosion of blood as it hits my target.

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in reply to: where are the heavier bows at??? #24570

turok – I know that they are people shooting heavier bows, I myself want to keep on increasing the poundage of my bow. I currently have two longbows a 45# and a 60# longbow and I want to increase my weight up to 70#, I am debating on actually getting a take-down recurve so I can get multiple limbs for it and increase the poundage. I agree with everything you said, and I don’t think you can deny it. If you have more power and more force behind your arrow it will do more damage than one with less power and force. I am not saying that you cannot get a pass thru on animals with lighter weight but if I had the option I rather shoot the heavy SOB then the light one.

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in reply to: carbon arrow broke upon release #24563

I did shoot wood arrows for a short time. One day I will step up and start shooting them again but I first want to figure out what grain spine and all that stuff I need to use for my bow instead of buying a dozen arrows to find out that they are the wrong kind. I know I just have to get over the fear of shooting, and this is the first time that it has ever happened to me in 15 years that I have been shooting archery. I think the odds are in my favor.

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in reply to: carbon arrow broke upon release #24411

I went into the archery shop last weekend and asked one of the shop guys if he has ever had a carbon break on him. His response…”All the time. Did you get any fiber stuck in your arm?” I could not believe this, if this happens to be again I think I might switch back to the old aluminum’s. They way he said it seems like its happens quite a bit with those arrows. I have found myself flinching every time I shoot the carbons now. Not a good feeling at all, I will from now on thou check bend twist every arrow that comes in contact with something other than the target.

The good news is that the Gold Tip people told me is there arrows will not splinter they specialize in that so I guess even if it were to happen and go thru my arm I will only feel the pain on the shaft and not bits of shrapnel from the rest of the fibers.

I am happy that I am not the only person this has happened to but at the same time makes me nervous by the amount of people that have had similar experiences with it.

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in reply to: carbon arrow broke upon release #19898

So talked to a gent there at Gold Tip and he told me that it is a freak accident but it does happen from time to time. He said I could shoot the rest of my arrows and get them in a tight bunch and it may never happen again. He also said that when it does happen you have to hit the arrow at the right spot for it to break. Well I guess I either have a good grouping of arrows or else I am just a freak 🙂

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in reply to: carbon arrow broke upon release #19691

So I went and contact Gold Tip about what happened. I basically said that I was not blaming them for anything that happened but questioned why it did happen. They pretty much said what everyone is saying, inspect your arrows after every shot. They left me a number in which I plan on calling later today and see what other information I can gather and will pass on to everyone.

I cannot find all of the pieces of the arrow that broke only the front portion and the back portion the middle part is gone. Looking at where it did break its not splintering like i thought it wood. It looks more or less like what happens to a old dry branch when you snap it in two. I will let you all know what else I find out today when I call them up.

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in reply to: where are the heavier bows at??? #9966

I really would like to pull back a 70lb bow. I have tried to pull back 65lb bow and I get it back to my anchor buy everything is wobbling and my shoulder cannot wait for me to release the string. What is everyone’s strategy on building up to the heavier bows? More practice with it until I am more comfortable with it?

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in reply to: long bow #60866

Personally I would not buy a bow because it is a name brand of the bow. When I bought my last bow I was at an expo and shot every single manufacture that was there and the bow I ended up buying was from a small business guy that made the bow in his woodshop. I never heard of his company before nor did I care, this bow was meant for me and I love to shoot it. THe bow I got is a New Wood Longbow, it is a shorter longbow I am drawing back #50lbs but there is no stacking at all. I can shoot it for hours and it never gets old.

So my suggestion is go out and test drive some and see what you like. I have heard a lot of good things come from Black Widow bows but when I shot that I was not impressed at all. Shoot something that you don’t have to learn to like get a bow that you already like and master it. Thats my opinion on bow buying.

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in reply to: Help with removing inserts from carbon arrows #44857

Thanks doug that worked like a charm I heat up the tip dropped the drill bit in to three whacks to it saw the insert starting to come out add some more heat pulled with pilers and she popped right out!

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in reply to: Help with removing inserts from carbon arrows #43662

I was thinking about getting a thin rod to put down the nock end and tapping our the nock. I didn’t think that a simple drill bit would do the trick I am going to have to try it out tonight.

I sat at my stove heating the field point for quite awhile and twist and pulled with all my might and all that came out was a few curse words out of my mouth 🙂

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