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in reply to: How do you? #33994
I don’t know if I am the person to be giving advice, but I just ordered some carbons and went with the term 10 grains for each pound the bow is. I have an overall arrow weight of about 500 grains with 125 field point on. I hope that it works or else I just spent 100 bucks for nonworking arrows.
in reply to: Tips for Scouting New Land #18318I have looked at Google Maps and make down areas of interest for me. I do not have permission to go on the farmers land at this time. I doubt I will be able to get permission on the other property either since they are a Gun Club :shock:. That is a big concern for me is once the first weekend of November happens here in Minnesota, prime rut, the deer season is not open to guns. I have heard that even though the guns come out does not mean the deer are harder to get. IF they are being pushed I might even be lucky enough to have the gun hunters push them right to me. Here is hopeing. I will be heading out this weekend to get to know the land alittle better. I am hopeing that once a month till I feel comfortable with several gound blinds set up in different locations will be enough for me so get my season off to a good start. Here is hopeing
in reply to: Tips for Scouting New Land #17343That is great advice! I actually did find one bedding area when I was would walking the woods a couple of weeks ago and multiple HIGHWAYS and scat around there. I was thinking about heading over there this weekend to look for sheds but stomping around would not be the best thing to do. I will be hunting on the ground and what do you think a safe distance from there bedding would be to set up a ground blind?
in reply to: Tuning wood shafts #11708J.Wesbrock wrote: One thing to keep in mind with building wood arrows is grain orientation. Wood shafts are spined on the edge of the grain, so make sure you make your arrow so the grain runs perpendicular to the bow (i.e. With your bow straight up and down, the arrow grain runs left and right. If you make them so the grain direction is random, your spine will also be random. Aside from that, the tuning is the same as with any other arrow shaft type.
I never would have thought about that. I am still in a big debate with myself to start making my own arrows. I think it would be a blast but currently I do not have any space where I live…once I own a house and stop renting then I will get more serious.
in reply to: where are the heavier bows at??? #10680jgilmer wrote: I was there as well and was quite pleased. It used to be the other way around. and BTW I killed my moose with a 47 lb recurve
I had a blast down there and now that you say you killed a moose with a 47# bow you just made me move toward buying another bow!! Thank you!:D
in reply to: where are the heavier bows at??? #10582Moebow wrote: I noticed that too. Did you also see that there was not one Hill style longbow in the arena? I thought that that was kind of strange too. Seems to me that a Hill style bow fits neatly between modern recurve and R/D long bows and the self bows that were there.
I was hopeing to see alot of the old traditional D shape longbows too, I guess I should have gone to the Kalamazoo Expo to see those.
I had a great time down there last weekend and met alot of great people and shot some awesome bows. By far my favorite bow that I shot was the New Wood Longbows – Vangaurd bow. I am still hitting myself in the head for not getting that bow.
in reply to: where are the heavier bows at??? #10580I do not mind using a 45-50# bow, I was shooting all day on saturday and by the end of the day my shoulder felt good. Even though I enjoyed shooting those bows, the heavier the bow made for such a more powerful arrow and fast arrow, which in a hunting situation I would rather have that then the lighter bow.
Do you think that a 45-50# bow would be able to take down big game and still get good penetration? Yes I know that someone will respond saying that any bow would be able to take down an animal if you hit the right spot. So I could also rephrase it to….would you take a 45-50# bow to go moose hunting or caribu hunting?
in reply to: arrow length #61475I use to shoot full length arrows and they always worked for me. I have rescently recieved some arrows that were shorter and my eyes were opened on how much better they shoot. I am also the type of person that likes to make mistakes in order to learn from them. I still have a boat load of questions regarding arrows and spines, grains, weights, but I did learn that having a shorter arrow, is one thing that does effect the arrow performance.
in reply to: shooting hours per week #58994Looks like I need to get me a target 🙂
in reply to: shooting hours per week #58993I have talked with local law enforcment on the subject of shooting my bow in my backyard. I live in Minneapolis and they consider firing a bow and a fire arm which is the same as shooting a gun and that is illegal. I can drive 2 miles down the road and shoot at my outdoor range anytime though which is alot more busier than my backyard. I love going to that range when the weather is nice and the targets are thawed out. I never even thought about the basement of my house…I live in a duplex that share an unfinshed basement with 2 other families. I wonder if I could shoot down there and not upset them…looks like I need to talk to my neighbors :). Thank you all for the feedback it is great.
in reply to: NEW TO TRADITIONAL #51565I also will agree with the book as well. I have read it a couple of times and always find something new in it.
in reply to: OUCH…..my nose!!! #32005AHA! I finally figured it out today what was going on, I took the advice which you gave me and I made sure that when I was shooting my face was looking more towards the target and BAM still waked me in the nose. Next shot same thing, next shot same thing and now my nose was bleeding. It only took a few more arrows and my amazing tracking skills to realize that my nock had blood on it. At a closer look I found out that the open end of my nock actually had a sharpe edge on it and that is was catching my nose. Needless to same I am going to fix that problem tonight and hopefully get it fix.
in reply to: OUCH…..my nose!!! #24349I figure its going to be like a kid putting the fork in the light socket…..BBBZZZZZ!!! (Alright won’t do that again cause it hurts) I just don’t know that I am doing wrong, hugging the string to tight I guess. You should see my nose those its all scabbed up looking really nice. Only crappy thing is I can’t shoot for a couple of days now 🙁
in reply to: erratic wooden arrow flight #23411My grouping was roughly 8 inches to the left alittle high but not by much of the bullseye. I am very satisfied with the grouping too minus the fact that they are always to the left….well 94.78% of the time. One thing that I did differently the last time that I shot was really pay attention to my grip on the bow, and I have also been pulling the bow back alittle farther back then I typically do and the arrows seem to fly alittle better but still think that something is off with the arrows.
in reply to: erratic wooden arrow flight #19644So this is what happening now, I have a dozen arrows right now with differnet weights, 125, 160, and 190. I shot all of these and my arrows are flying more straight with the heavier weight, but they are all still flying to the left. The group to the left is a nice grouping 10 out of 12 arrows are within 10″ of each other.
So here is a follow up question would the reason why they still fly to the left be because the shaft spine being to heavy, or would it be just because I am newer to the sport and have not dialed in my hand eye coordination 100% yet?
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