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I am still with Perry on this one - bare shaft your arrows well and your fletching is not so important, get it right and you wonder sometimes why you put it on...

Dennis you are too argumentative to be bothered with.

Geez guys settle - like being a kindergarten teacher again. Dennis I am sorry to say you are at times just too verbose and vehement. Your opinion is yours fine, but in your own verbose and dogmatic way you shout down other opinion and have nearly chased me away from this site due to it. Chase may be...

easy way to know is to shoot some of the old arrows and some of the new at 20m using the same aiming point - be surprised if it was more than a couple of cm's

Dennis my sneer is not at any person but in the attitude I get all the time at shoots and yes even on here that trad bows should be shot with wood arrows and feathers or it is not trad. Well Kim I agree - it is not as "trad" as shooting wood arrows. Nor is using a laminated fibreglass bow...

Must be an oil of some sort that can be used on feathers, after all it works for ducks...

Not that there is anything wrong with this type of spine jig - a tried and tested system, but there is a simpler option. For those a little less technically inclined, a few years ago on tradgang there was a thread about the simplest jig I have seen and I have used it ever since. You put a wooden &qu...

Like everybody else I unstring when not going to shoot for an hour or longer, but a lot of that is heat in the summer, ease of storage etc. I still think that since there is wood in a composite bow that there may in time be some change, maybe not, but why risk it? If you have any skill at all with s...

though no longer practicing I will put my physio hat on and state that I see nothing wrong with this release method from a bio-mechanical perspective, and actually for the high anchor point she is using it will be better in avoiding any impingement in the shoulder.

cheers,

add me Ed Lomax B.PT, Grad Dip OHM from SA

and you should get a membership list of the Southern Field Archers in SA as well as they are an unaffiliated club with a lot of members.

I agree with Perry, and would like to state very simply that a finished bow is not a "living" thing and so you can not train it like a muscle. It has it's structure and all you can do is stress it, either within it's limits and so it will when released go back to it's shape, or beyond it's...

Steven J wrote:Bob,

String follow is not all bad.
Steve

I have a vague recollection that Howard Hill preferred a little string follow. Idea was that the bows are more "pointable" and "stable" in the hand.

some more on the Japanese half bows - here called hankyu as a proper name.

http://l5r.wikia.com/wiki/Hankyu

http://www.trocadero.com/MONTES/items/5 ... store.html

Not a lot on the net about Japanese bows outside of the kyudo standards, some on history of the laminating though - try starting here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumi I think that sort of length of history should keep the ABA happy... :roll: As for timbers, some of my friends in Japan are kyudo nut...

fat lot of good you buggers are eh. Man has a simple question and you all just say "suck it up"!! I learnt a good trick from a coach in Adelaide - partly because I was shooting real heavy bows and wrist slap though not regular was real nasty when it happened. He showed me that the way of g...

I use about 15% FOC and would rather have an overly heavy arrow and adjust for the trajectory than have a lighter arrow without the FOC

the arrow spine adjustments for length is confusing. If you take an arrow spined for 28" and need to draw 29" then it is effectively weaker than the stated spine. With every inch of draw beyond 28" yo uneed an arrow of approximately 5# heavier spine for a center cut bow. Less so the m...

Journalists are only trying to sell papers - not actually represent anything fairly. I was taken hunting as a kid, was always jumping out of trucks to get down rabbits. Always fishing and yabbying as well. But this is all tempered by being given pets and taught how to care for them, and stock animal...

nice hunting weight - for French!!

suppose it would be pretty good for piggies, camels, scrub bulls and buffalo...

ooh ooh, just what I need for March bunny hunt!!
Please write my name on peice of paper and do like my ex did every time I went away

a nice knife indeed!! and another excuse to get out in the bush now

Aye up - count me in.
looks like a good utility skinner.

when making strings for very heavy bows I serve the loops too. Not that hard to do when making the flemish strings, and with double the number of fibres of an endless loop string it should be even stronger. The serving is only going to stop the wear and tear, and has no effect on the strength of the...

that has got to be a typo as I have one and it is also 68" long. Not many 62" longbows can manage a 28" draw.

I anchor with my index finger on the front of my cheekbone. I found the corner of the mouth anchor to variable for me and decided against sticking a dirty old glove against an eye tooth. With the front of the cheekbone as anchor I still get a decent shoulder position for the hold and my eye is right...

try a one ended spine test. There was a thread about one on trad gang a couple of years back. Essentially a wooden bracket attached to a vertical board or wall. The bracket has to have about a 3/4 inch slot for the shaft to go into. Then hang a weight from the other end and measure the deflection ov...

gotta agree with Glenn after looking at those pics. The edge of the bamboo backing looks impossibly thick. It does not suprise me at all that it overpowered the belly wood with that thick a backing.

stump shooting is great, even better with a couple of mates. I used to roam a paddock kicking out half sized soccer balls to 15-30m and we would see who would be the first to hit them. Sometimes small toys would find thier way into the game :) Kneeling shots, peeking left or right behind trees etc. ...

While much in this thread is very good, some bits are not. Graham - without tension in the mid-traps, rhomboids etc the scapula (shoulder blades) would "wing", if the scapula are not winging then there is tension. Regardless of if they move closer together or not on release. Not a criticis...

Hue and others, please be assured I am happy with debate, just cautious of a "one size fits all" mentality. I am very much a fan of form, repeatable form. If that means you use back tension to get repeatable form then no problem. I am however cautious of excessive muscular tension in a ski...