[Earlmarne]

Heck yeah, I am an archer. I've hit a few 3d shoots but am a hunter.
Currently running a pse decree hd.
If I'm not in my garden I'm screwing around with my archery tackle

[Spaventa]

Originally Posted by MJPassion

Why I got both 40 & 55 lb bows. Hehe

Good luck w that shoulder.

Thanks, Im having another surgery on it at some point next year so thats when Ill need all the luck I can get - Im having it because the last surgery failed. Apparently reattaching torn deltoids isn't easy.
My backup bow will be my trainer bow for a year or two yet.

Originally Posted by bigganjabud

I got an armex 175lb draw crossbow

Nice, my friend has a crossbow. Ive seen the high end crossbows on youtube and they are VERY impressive. The accuracy at 200 yards with these things is surgical. It probably what Id prefer go hunting with to be honest.

Originally Posted by Earlmarne

Heck yeah, I am an archer. I've hit a few 3d shoots but am a hunter.
Currently running a pse decree hd.
If I'm not in my garden I'm screwing around with my archery tackle

Me too Im always finding something to do. Ive got Hoyts but I seriously thought about PSE bows in the past, several of them.
Ive got a 70# Carbon Defiant Turbo and a 60# Turbohawk , both are 30" DL. The Turbohawk was my first compound.

[Earlmarne]

I've run hoyt, bear, strother, and pse thus far.
Looking hard at the bowtech mag.
I'm a 30" draw also with bad shoulders. Swapped to lh last year to follow eye dominance n dropped to 60 lbs. Best move ever, don't see myself ever shooting 70 again.

[Spaventa]

Originally Posted by Earlmarne

I've run hoyt, bear, strother, and pse thus far.
Looking hard at the bowtech mag.
I'm a 30" draw also with bad shoulders. Swapped to lh last year to follow eye dominance n dropped to 60 lbs. Best move ever, don't see myself ever shooting 70 again.

If your left eye dominant, theres a good chance your not cross dominant, but naturally left-handed. Some people had it worked out of them by parents, education and living in a world made for right handed.

Ive always been fully left-handed and left eye dominant. Means gear is harder to find, logos are upside down etc but if you look at how overrepresented lefties are in the highest level of sports, you know theres more advantage than disadvantage

[Earlmarne]

I was raised by a marine. I learned to shoot a rifle with both eyes open n such.
Played hell as a child with sports figuring out what handed I was.
Shot my first 3 years rh with archery gear. Got pretty dang good but couldn't keep up with the pros around here. Freakin expensive move. Archery talk had some bug a year or so back n lost my user info. So now I just buy new, only good thing for us lefties is equipment cheap to buy used. Screwed on resale though. Got to wait 3 months for a new bow too.
Only thing I've found in my life that I could equate to a spiritual connection is when I'm out here chasing elk or in my garden

[Spaventa]

Originally Posted by Earlmarne

I was raised by a marine. I learned to shoot a rifle with both eyes open n such.
Played hell as a child with sports figuring out what handed I was.
Shot my first 3 years rh with archery gear. Got pretty dang good but couldn't keep up with the pros around here. Freakin expensive move. Archery talk had some bug a year or so back n lost my user info. So now I just buy new, only good thing for us lefties is equipment cheap to buy used. Screwed on resale though. Got to wait 3 months for a new bow too.
Only thing I've found in my life that I could equate to a spiritual connection is when I'm out here chasing elk or in my garden

I never sell anything. I have a left-handed daughter who will takeover my stuff when I'm past it. It will see her through till she finds her dream rig, and can afford it

I bought a release from AT classifieds. Went smooth, seller was great guy, thing was perfect and good price. Was pleased because not only is a obsolete, unavailable and rather unusual "relax" thumb trigger release, its anodised blue which is the highlight /detail colour I go for. Its Spot Hogg Cascade.
Id been using a Winn Freeflight relax trigger happily for a few years but wanted something handheld cos the Winn is lie a glove thing and you got to tae it off to pull arrows, piss, anything. Good for a backup though, its bomb proof.

ill say now, i don't and never have had any sort of target panic or anything - i just prefer releasing by letting go, rather than pulling on something that torques the release - when you finger release, you just let go and my releases are the same, effectively.

[Spaventa]

So I got that that Timberline no peep for my main bow but i want to put a single pin slider on my backup bow and ditch the IQ 5 pin - I hate multi pin sights I've decided. So I need the retina lock part, separated from the rest of the IQ sight. I came to the realisation that the only special part was a small magnifying lens. The rest is non specific really so I got the lens and came up with this using a length of blue fibre, a piece of rubber and a couple of inches of arrow shaft.



Ive figured out how it can attach to the extension part of my sight in just the right place. I can mount it there using lockable ball joint so it can be setup exactly and then locked securely. Ive ordered this one. When it arrives ill work out the rest.



The trheaded stud can go through one of the holes in the sight extension with nut on the other side and the arrow shaft fits in the nylon female part. just need to work out how the fibre needs to be routed and positioned.
Those joints only way lie 17 grams so very light for somewhat gives complete adjustability.

So now have the lens I can get more of them from a chinese supplier. They won't have the black dot on them but I can add those with transfers probably. Tiny black dot transfers can't be hard to come by. The lens is the special bit really so once I have a bag of them I can make these things for other people, for a small price of course

[Earlmarne]

Originally Posted by Spaventa

So I got that that Timberline no peep for my main bow but i want to put a single pin slider on my backup bow and ditch the IQ 5 pin - I hate multi pin sights I've decided. So I need the retina lock part, separated from the rest of the IQ sight. I came to the realisation that the only special part was a small magnifying lens. The rest is non specific really so I got the lens and came up with this using a length of blue fibre, a piece of rubber and a couple of inches of arrow shaft.

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Ive figured out how it can attach to the extension part of my sight in just the right place. I can mount it there using lockable ball joint so it can be setup exactly and then locked securely. Ive ordered this one. When it arrives ill for out the rest.

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That's slick.
I shoot no peep til I got my bow set up.

[Spaventa]

Did you guys ever hear of the rest that uses magnets so the arrow levitates? The guy who came out with it didn't do it right and it failed but I now exactly where he went wrong and how to fix it. He cut corners on the rare earth magnets, used tiny ones so there was only a tiny area where the arrow would levitate. Those Neodymium magnets are cheaper now so I thin its worth a shot. It has the obvious potential to be the ultimate rest.
The guy tried to mae the small magnets for with an insert in the arrow that was meant to extend the area on the arrow that would float. The point, or ferrule of a BH, imo, is the part you need to work with the magnets, not a weight adding steel tube inside the shaft.

[Earlmarne]

Havnt seen it. I run a hamskea. Do magnets react with carbon?