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in reply to: Interesting Waste of Time #58961
Smithhammer wrote: [quote=donthomas]
Thanks to some well known basic flaws in human nature, there will always be more money in crossbows than in longbowsThis bears repeating.
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Yes it does, easy , quick, zero skill required….A shortcut to the fist pumping manic behavior that makes me want to puke.in reply to: Toxophile or Toxophilite? #57850Good move as I don’t seem to be coming out too well.
We do what we do as best we can and reap what follows.in reply to: Toxophile or Toxophilite? #57716Well then I guess it’s a good thing that I am RH shooting LH due to eye dominance. I can still shoot pretty well Rh though and have given thought to aquiring one of the old Bear dual shelf recurves so as to never be caught on a bad shooting position. problem with that is that I just can’t let go of that Shrew.
in reply to: Toxophile or Toxophilite? #57321Left handers are evil, that’s smart, it makes about as much sense as blood letting to cure illness and fear of black cats.
in reply to: Toxophile or Toxophilite? #56720David McLendon wrote: Left handed would be sinister.
Apparently you guys misundersttod that comment.
sinistrality, sinistromanuality, or mancinism) is the preference for the left hand over the right for everyday activities such as writing.
Shooting lefthanded, I would be sinistral.in reply to: Toxophile or Toxophilite? #55157Left handed would be sinister.
in reply to: good draw weight for small women #38229Hard to say, it depends on the person but I’d stay at 40#or below to start. Contrary to that however my wife took up shooting with me shortly after met about 24 years ago. She’s about 5’5″ and 120 and pulls 53#@25.5″ It’s pretty humbling since I had some nerve damage in my neck at C5 last fall that affected my left shoulder and bicep. She was easily shooting 53# while I struggled with a ’69 Bear Polar at 28#. Talk about motivation for a recovery, I’m not going to make it back to the weights that I used to shoot but I am back ahead of her again.
in reply to: New bow wait has started #27415brennanherr wrote: That’s a great looking piece of art work……how does it shoot? Makes me rethink the Black Widow idea I have been tossing around…
Black Widow’s are great bows, I have owned several and currently still have two recurves although they do have a price, but just before this Shrew arrived I sold my BW longbow. This Shrew will be my longbow from here on out, no more looking around and trying new things. I shoot this type LB better than any other and I have tried on a fair number.
in reply to: New bow wait has started #26790Dave is that an Abowyer head that I see on your arrow? If so and knowing what your main quarry is, how has that head performed for you on elk?
in reply to: New bow wait has started #26573Well said Dave, the grip is one of the main things that drew me to the Shrew.
My previous CH was very close in specs to this one so I am able to make a reasonable comparison between the bamboo and carbon and to me the carbon is noticeably faster shooting the same arrows. Not a huge afterburner amount, but it is quicker. The carbon/foam bow is not louder that the bamboo version but it does have a different sound, slightly higher pitched but not a ring like my Black Widow PAX had that was so hard to get rid of. It’ll be no trouble to get it quiet and I’ll probably do that this weekend. I am amazed at how good the joint is in the bow bolt, it is really tight. Holding the bow and looking right at the grip it’s hard to see the separation line and if you didn’t know that it was a takedown then you probably wouldn’t notice it.
I’m very pleased with it, I have an arrow solution worked up on the Stu Miller Calculator that will give me about 10.5 gpp and about 19% FOC with a 572 grain arrow still flying at good speed that should be adequate for what ever I might run into. Having the bow cut to center opens up quite a few more options with respect to spine.in reply to: New bow wait has started #26416
in reply to: New bow wait has started #25448Great looking bow Dave, I posted pics of mine ont the Leather Wall. I purchased a 1965 Bear Kodiak last week that is 51# and I am waiting for it to get here, also have a 60# 68 K-Mag in pristine condition with some of the best Shedua that I have ever seen. I do like those old 1960’s Bears.
in reply to: New bow wait has started #25165The wait is over and Gregg has out done himself on this bow. 54″ Classic Hunter cut to center, bow bolt takedown, phenolic riser with a nicely grained piece of ziricote on the belly side of the riser, carbon overlay on the nose of the grip, carbon foam limbs with gray stained curly maple veneers that also have some really funky figure running lengthwise as well, topped off with black gemsbok horn tips and a requested very dull non-reflective finish.
My previous Shrews have been bamboo cored which I really liked, but let me tell you that the carbon foamed model “ain’t your average Shrew”. There is a noticable difference, at 53@28 it whips an arrow out like a much heavier bow.in reply to: New bow wait has started #48698Homer I am actually right handed but left eye dominant, after a couple of years of trying all the tricks to cheat it, I just decided why fight it and switched. It was the single best thing that I have ever done with regards to shooting bows and shotguns. I was told that it may take several months to make the move, but it took only an hour and a half which tells me that it was needed. What took the longest was training the left hand to handle the arrow from quiver to string, that was very awkward. Now years later when I sleep and dream of hunting it is left handed.
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