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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 25, 2007 10:11:31 GMT 12.75
Seasons only ten more short weeks away! I can't wait! I been shooting on and off ever since the season ended, but now I'm going to kick it up a notch. Lord knows I need the excercise and rather than Paws' walking in place routine I've recently adaopted, I'll get my extra excercise in fetching arrows down lane. In fact, a dozen rounds on the 20yd target is equivelent to a 1/4 mile hike. It ain't much, but it beats sitting on my ass AND I keep my form up on my bow. Ya'll need to get started tuning and tweeking and getting ready for the season. Count down's on!
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Post by geiyserq on Jun 28, 2007 3:04:10 GMT 12.75
I'm considering picking up the stick and string and giving it a go this year.
I havent bow hunted in about 7 years or so. I gave it up during my "fuzzy" years. Which ended over a year ago. I think I'm ready to jump in again. I got my act together and i have a large backyard to practice in!
My problem is I have a noisy PSE Thunderflight. Got it when I was in Ga. 19 years ago. It is one of the 1st generation cams, and has an overdraw. It was noisy enough to have 3 deer duck the arrow. I have fetched 1 stupid (or deaf) one with it though.
Think I'll lose the overdraw, and see what kind of new silencers they have out these days. I'd prefer to have a Darton or Mathews, but things ae just too tight to be shellin out the $ for a new bow.
Think next week I'll take it in for a tune- up, get some arrows, and start practicing. I have until the 1st Sat. in October to reivent this ole bowhunter!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 28, 2007 7:10:32 GMT 12.75
The Thunderflight wasn't a bad bow. Definitely lose the overdraw, pick up a set of limb savers, a set of Spiderleggs string silencers, a Limb saver S-coil stabilizer, and stick with moderate weight aluminum arrow.
Why aluminum and not carbon? The Thunderflight was built a LONG time ago, before the ultra light-weight carbons we're shooting today. It has a steel cable system which is notorious for failure with too light of an arrow. A cable job's only about thirty dollars, so it's not about the $$$ as much as it is risking a cable failure close to or during the season. So stay with a heavier arrow and a 100 grain Thunderhead!
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Jun 28, 2007 10:24:59 GMT 12.75
I agree with everything Toby said, EXCEPT with the choice of broadheads. I would use 100 grain Muzzy's. They advertise that they are bad to the bone, and I agree.
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Post by Paws on Jun 28, 2007 11:23:54 GMT 12.75
I've got 125 grain mechanicals that run the price of a shot up to around 17 bucks a pop. That's the one thing I really didn't give much thought to when deciding to go to a bow to extend season. One freakin bolt costs near the price of the deer tag. While I'm here though anybody got any suggestions on how to pack the crtossbow for easy carry and access without occupying the hands?
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Jun 28, 2007 11:47:10 GMT 12.75
Try a shotgun sling to carry the crossbow. It will free the hands and should be out of the way to allow the bolt to fly right.
$17 a shot? My Muzzy's cost about $10 a shot, not counting the carbon arrows they go on.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 28, 2007 17:03:32 GMT 12.75
Yep, definitely put a sling on it and never carry it that way at full cock!
Let's see. Easton ACC Carbon arrows $136.00 dozen or roughly $12.00 an arrow, tipped with a 100Gr. NAP Spitfire @ three per $36.00, or $12.00 a head. $24.00 per hunting arrow.
However, I started seven years ago with two dozen arrows and now have seven in my bow case. Each of those seven have passed through at least one deer and one hog each and been cleaned and reflectched. Those arrows ought to last me a few more years if I keep getting pass through and stop shooting hogs from treestands.
Hogs should only be shot from the ground so the arrow goes through and falls to the ground undamaged. But, from a treestand, they're so short that when the arrow pases through, it sticks in the ground with the end of the arrow still in the hogs chest. When he runs, he'll break the damn arrow every time!
Deer are tall enough that won't happen, but I stopped wasting arrows on hogs from a tree in order to make this last bunch of arrows last.
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Post by Paws on Jun 29, 2007 0:50:27 GMT 12.75
Carry your "previously shot" arrows in your stand for the hogs. Or maybe even get some cheaper shafts since you know thy are going to get busted anyway. I like the idea of the shotgun sling. I'll see if I can't rig something. Old Brian tells me he crawls on his belly with his bow cocked and primed on his back while he is hog hunting. Boy has got to be nutzzz! Damn it you guys done started the dog gone sphincter pucker and it ain't even officially summer yet!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 29, 2007 4:26:49 GMT 12.75
"Carry your "previously shot" arrows in your stand for the hogs." That's just it, ALL of my arrows are "previously" shot. Not one of them hasn't passed through a deer or hog at least once. I pick them up, wash them, refletch them, check the unibushing, nock, and insert, then put it back in the quiver with a new broadhead on it. I don't want to shoot cheaper arrows because I wouldn't get as much use out of them. I'll just pass on pork from a tree and ambush them on the ground.
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Post by geiyserq on Jun 29, 2007 5:53:40 GMT 12.75
Thanks for the advice guys!
I was never much on carbon shafts so I was gonna stick with xx75's. As for Broadheads, Muzzys arent the only ones I've shot, but they are the only ones I ever liked. I'll stick with those too.
Aside from the noise, my biggest problem has always been to find a sight that I could say truely fit the bow. (Its got one of those special PSE risers that make it difficult to correctly fit anyone else's sight on there.) I do prefer peep hole and pins though.
Been looking at equipment and 1 things for sure. All the prices are sure a heck of a lot higher than they wee back in the day. The price musta went up along with the popularity of the sport.
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Post by Paws on Jun 29, 2007 9:33:53 GMT 12.75
"Carry your "previously shot" arrows in your stand for the hogs." That's just it, ALL of my arrows are "previously" shot. Not one of them hasn't passed through a deer or hog at least once. I pick them up, wash them, refletch them, check the unibushing, nock, and insert, then put it back in the quiver with a new broadhead on it. I don't want to shoot cheaper arrows because I wouldn't get as much use out of them. I'll just pass on pork from a tree and ambush them on the ground. Man I wish I had that problem! Only thing these bolts have been stuck in is the quiver.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 29, 2007 10:34:25 GMT 12.75
G, PSE used to make a shim plate that fit into that slot so that any of the aftermarket sights will fit flush. I've many times just stacked a few washers behind the sight bar to mount them so that they aren't cockeyed.
I too prefer peep and pins. I use a Shurz peep sewed into my string and a Cobra Sidewinder fiber optic sight. I LOVE the fiber optics, they add a LOT of hunting time into the evening and early morning. They come with three pins, but I only use two. I set one at twenty-five and one a thirty-five and I'm good out to forty-five. They have them in the Bas Pro catalog if you want to see what thy look like.
Any of the new F/O sights are good, just avoid the ones built with plastic components. If you don't have a pro-shop anywhere nearby, take a look on e-bay. I've seen some really good deals on there.
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Post by geiyserq on Jul 3, 2007 6:24:19 GMT 12.75
Sorry, been away all weekend, but I'll look in the BP book tonight.
Thanks Toby
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jul 3, 2007 15:05:14 GMT 12.75
Haven't shot for a few days. I drug out the recurve the other day and my little brother Fred came out with me to shoot and after just a few rounds I was getting the "jelly-legs". Too hot! I gotta get back at tomorrow, though. I need to pull out the compound and sling some sticks with it as well. Still counting it down.... Saw three deer today in the feed pile, I got pland for at least one of them!
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Post by g8rhed on Jul 24, 2007 9:58:56 GMT 12.75
Had a family get together over the weekend and decided to bring a target and my bow along. I haven't shot it for a couple months. Well, one of the nephews decided it would be cool to shoot at a can....I told him I'd aim for the little red star in the bottom 1/2 of the "S" - (of course you can't even see that little star from 20 yds.) He was laughin' his head off that I said I was goin' to hit that star....he was still laughin' when I missed that little red star three times....
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Post by Paws on Jul 24, 2007 10:06:02 GMT 12.75
So much for needin' to tune the bow!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jul 24, 2007 11:51:01 GMT 12.75
I'd say your ready to go, G8r! Good shooting!
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Post by Paws on Jul 24, 2007 23:25:29 GMT 12.75
When I went into Wally World the other day I had a boonie hat and a shotgun sling (for my cross bow like you suggested), got so mad at the gun cabinets being taken out that I just left them sittin in the cart in the aisle. I suspect it will be a long long time before I go back in that store.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jul 25, 2007 10:35:21 GMT 12.75
And people wonder why internet shopping is on the rise!
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Post by Paws on Jul 26, 2007 2:21:40 GMT 12.75
Exactly right! I mean hell if you get impersonal service you might as well go totally impersonal and use the electronic "wish book." I wonder how much stuff got bought just because those guns were in there for folk to drop by and "look at" once in a while. I think Sam Walton's boys are running the business into the ground for a quick buck. I'm dragging out all my gear and cllothes to inventory what needs fixed, replaced or "resized"
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