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in reply to: A little shooting On an April Afternoon! #49437

TGIS! Good shooting guys.

Ripforce you wouldn’t happen to have a few more pics of that lovely Northern bow to show off would you?

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in reply to: Accuracy Questions #49431

Steve Graf wrote: If you are talking organic arrows, that’s another can-o-worms.

Ah my bad. Sorry Konrad I presumed that your question was about wood arrows. Might be that you were talking alloy/carbon?

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in reply to: ATVs on public lands #48379

Another well done article Dave!

Unfortunately this road/trail warrior epedemic can be found in Northern Alberta as well. Lazy oafs on ATVs cruising along farmer’s fields and cutlines with rifles on their racks, scoping anything that moves! And they have the nerve to ask why the hell I’m walking around spooking all the game! Fortunately when the snow comes most of these indiviuals don’t leave the comfort of their trucks, so a person can sneak into the woods and not be disturbed.

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in reply to: Carbon arrow shaft choice #48370

It has seemed to me that most carbon arrows are fairly evenly matched when it comes to durability (except for Grizzly Sticks), so that either one would do you well. My wife shoots Beman (2 years now) and has had nothing but good things to say about them so far. She accidently smoked a rock with one a year back (out of her 50# Bear Grizzly) and split her Judo tip along the ferrule, but did not do damage to the arrow itself.

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in reply to: Accuracy Questions #48362

I would rather shoot straight arrows that vary in wieght (up to 50ish grains) than a perfectly wieght matched set that were crooked. It has been my experience that even with a 50ish grain difference, the up/down difference in grouping is negligable (two to four inches). On the opposite side I have had crooked arrows do some very bizarre(sp) things, escpecially with broadheads attached.

I think this example explains it best though. If my wieght mismatched arrows drop a bit when I shoot a Deer at 20 yards, my double lung hit will be be either a low lung hit, heart shot or maybe even a complete miss. If my crooked arrows vary left to right my double lung hit now becomes a liver/gut hit, or shoulder shot and unfortunately probably never a complete miss.

And as far as you spine question goes, I find my accuracy suffers fairly equally whether my arrows are too light of spine, or too stiff. But at least if they are too stiff you can up tip wieght.

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in reply to: binoculars vs spotting scope #48340

I am going to put forward a third choice, a monocular. If you go to http://www.vortexoptics.com you will see what I am talking about. I purchased one of their Solo models at 8x magnification. They are extremely lightwieght, perform well for the price (under $100), and will fit in your breast pocket while being worn around your neck. No need for a harness and it is very easy to access without making a great deal of movement. Definately the way to go if you prefer to hunt mostly out of treestands or still hunt.

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in reply to: Tips from the old timer #47282

One thing to add about vaseline. Be sure and wipe it off your broadheads before shooting. If I understand it right vaseline is a blood coaugulent (sp). It also collects dirt and debree to help seal off the wound.

Troy

Good stuff, good stuff.

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in reply to: Tips from the old timer #46603

My favorite would have to be the use of duck tape to protect sharpened broadheads when in storage. Such a simple solution. And to add on to it a bit, I have begun to apply vaseline to my broadheads before duck taping them. It keeps the adhesive from the tape from sticking to the heads and helps keep em sharp (or so I was told).

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in reply to: Guerdon#2 is blooded… #45255

Here is a close up of the riser.

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in reply to: Guerdon#2 is blooded… #44253

I am enjoying it immensely. Hope to use it on the local Squirrels and Beavers in the next week or so (and there are even some rumours about some canned ham).

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in reply to: Hunting in the USA (Montana in particular)… #41466

Overbowed at 30 pounds eh! Sounds like we need to get the folks in your legislature some gym passes (which the could probably easily afford with the money they were slipped by crossbow manufacturers :oops:.)

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in reply to: Hunting in the USA (Montana in particular)… #35612

Thanks guys.

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in reply to: Purple Heart shafts? #33845

Thanks for the heads up on Hickory Troy. Where do you get recommend a person buying them from?

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in reply to: How do you? #33841

Thanks for the reply Troy.

So it mostly a trail and error thing then. Did you find a rough correlation between grains added and spine lost (example 25 grains causes 5# loss of spine) or did it vary to much to keep track of?

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in reply to: Purple Heart shafts? #30611

Thanks for the reply folks.

I had my first look at purple heart shafts last week and was very impressed with how heavy and durable they were. I know they are going to be quite expensive if I can find them, but I have a special hunt in mind for them. And this hunt will require heavy, preferably 650 grains.

I know I could easily get this wieght using alloy or carbon shafts, but I have fallen heads over heels in love with wood arrows and would prefer to stick with wood arrows when possible.

Perhaps there is another type of wood shaft that would allow me to achieve 650ish grains finished arrow wieght? I should also mention that they need to be spined 40-45? Perhaps it is not possisble to make such a heavy arrow with such a low spine?

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