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in reply to: This may be a dumb question but.. #56653

I do not think you need more than a set of silencers. I like wool.

Recurves are typically louder.

Raising brace height and shoot heavier arrows. Never less than 10gpp(my opinion)

You put limb pads on the tips of your recurve? it helps.

If it is a take down, sometimes some very thin padding under the limb at the riser helps too.

Good luck and have fun!8)

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in reply to: This ain't no bow. #56610

I also wonder what new “advancement” to “archery” equipment will be next. And rest assured, there WILL be a “next, best thing”:roll:

There is no longer such a thing as bow season…only hunting seasons that also allow bows to be used, and the definition of what a “bow” is, has been perverted to the point that makes me sick to my stomach.:(

Good point8)

I too feel the same way. Once they legalized crossbows in PA it screwed up archery. But they keep bitching about no deer when rifle season comes around.

I have no respect for people that kill an animal in archery with a crossbow in archery season. NONE. JMHO:x

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in reply to: Just wanted to say howdy .. #61261

Welcome!

Im a south western PAer8)

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in reply to: This ain't no bow. #38497

Steve, good point

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in reply to: This ain't no bow. #32501

I really hate how everyone wants to do it easier! No one wants to work for it anymore. I also hate how they call things like this and crossbows archery! They are not! Next thing you know, they will allow air bows to be used during archery season!

Onterio, I see you are from North Bay Area? I was just over the border in Quebec in 2014 hunting black bear. I will be returning to hunt moose fall 2016.8)

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in reply to: Arrow weight #31890

I have been playing with different arrows out of my Elkheart.

I am drawing 53# out of the bow.

One of my arrows is 605g 27%EFOC

Another is 699g 28%EFOC

Out to 20 yards I can not really notice a difference. I typically do not shoot past 20yards. I do notice a difference past 20 though.

I would hunt with both, I guess it just depends on what I was going after…8)

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in reply to: What motivates us to do what we do? #31852

What motivate me….being out there with the animals in their environment with out being detected. The beauty of nature and its creatures.

Maybe, someday, I will get a big one!8)

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in reply to: Where the Bucks Go!? #21143

eidsvolling wrote: And now for something completely different.

I’ve heard tales over the last few years of “monstah” bucks hanging out in dense cover at trailheads and parking lots during the firearms hunting season here in NH. They watch and know the patterns in the woods as well as any creature, and they’ve devised a strategy to hunker down and snicker as the orange army files past for distant destinations.

So I put this theory to the test on a couple of recent forays. Sure enough, Foray # 1 brought me to a scape within rock-chucking distance of a semi-busy road, tucked just behind a hill from where the orange army disembarks its various vehicles. As I stood there staring a bit too long at the scrape, I heard not a snicker but an ego-deflating snort from just inside a nearby woods line. Sigh.

Foray # 2 saw me fifty yards from the road at sunrise, heading down a snowless snowmobile trail. Up ahead of me, a scant hundred yards from the road, something with an inconvenient amount of headgear for dense woods leaped down from its trailside perch and dropped into a nearby cedar swamp, making a racket as it went. He didn’t go far, so we played cat and mouse for the next ninety minutes, while he watched me from various elevated vantage points, no doubt snickering each time he slid off to the next one.

I believe it. Mature bucks are mature for a reason.

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in reply to: Single bevel Question… #14630

Dr. Ed Ashby wrote: [quote=wojo14]Ed my set up is a 51# @ 27″ static tip recurve. ( I draw 27″)

Arrow is an Easton ACC pro hunter. 648total weight.

27.6% efoc. The 200gr Kodiak heads with 100 gr inserts shoot awesome.

I was hoping this would be good for Canadian moose this fall….?

Get it really sharp and I’d happily use that on a moose!

Ed

Good to hear!

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in reply to: DR ED ASHBY NEW BOOK #14612

Will do!

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in reply to: Single bevel Question… #62445

Ed my set up is a 51# @ 27″ static tip recurve. ( I draw 27″)

Arrow is an Easton ACC pro hunter. 648total weight.

27.6% efoc. The 200gr Kodiak heads with 100 gr inserts shoot awesome.

I was hoping this would be good for Canadian moose this fall….?

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in reply to: DR ED ASHBY NEW BOOK #62372

Just finished Dr Ed’s book.

Very fun read.

I hope to do at least a 1/4 of what he did.

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in reply to: Mike Mitten's article "Redefining Success" #60768

Mike’s story was great!

I just bought his book. I cant wait to read it!8)

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in reply to: Where the Bucks Go!? #47492

Greg, Nice post! So true. My plans exactly.8)

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in reply to: Where the Bucks Go!? #39343

Shotgun season started here today, and there were trucks parked on the roads along the WMAs. Audrey said she saw a group of 10 hunters with shotguns and orange vests/hats. Next week they will all be back at work, and the woods will be mine again. I’ve been out 2 days every week since Oct 20, and haven’t yet seen another deer hunter (a few bird hunters, but they stay in the fields), which is amazing since I’m huinting WMAs. Seen a lot of scrapes, does, and bucks that are too far away, and always hear snickers in the distance.

I feel the same. I hate seeing the orange army!

Can wait till they all go away and give my back the woods…

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