Same - a Hybrid hunter pro microtune. Have Trophy Ridge Revolution on the backup.
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Same - a Hybrid hunter pro microtune. Have Trophy Ridge Revolution on the backup.
Heck yeAh. I have the hybrid without the hunter deal. Sometimes wish I had the gaurd out hunting but hate worrying about fetching contact like I used to get on the trophy taker. Best dang rest on the market I've tried so far.
I'm particular as hell with my gear, tightspot quiver, axcel sights, black eagle carnivore arrows built out with 80 grains in the insert. German kinetic heads for elk ff360 vanes.
I found that saving money in this sport only hindered my comfort in the field
I'm particular as hell with my gear, tightspot quiver, axcel sights, black eagle carnivore arrows built out with 80 grains in the insert. German kinetic heads for elk ff360 vanes.
I found that saving money in this sport only hindered my comfort in the field
I'm with you on single pins. They are the cats ass. If I had more bows I would run em on everything but my elk bow. I build heavy arrows for elk though and don't want to screw with ranging and adjusting.
I had a black gold slider on my strother moxie. I have never had a more accurate set up
I had a black gold slider on my strother moxie. I have never had a more accurate set up
I shot traditional recurve for years when I was younger. There were not many choices back then. Wooden or fiberglass arrows and I remember the early broadheads that used the razor blades that came out of the old style dispenser.
In the late seventies up to about ten years ago I used several different compounds. Bear, Hoyt, PSE.
Now I shoot a Parker Tornado crossbow with scope. My old wounds prevent me from effectively shooting a compound or recurve. Fast and deadly accurate. Ive shot 5 deer with it this year and none have gone farther than fifty yards. They were dead within seconds. A couple were broadside shots and the others were quartering away shots. I like to get as close as I can before I take a shot. A couple of them were within 10 yards. The farthest I've shot a deer with the crossbow is 54 yards. I would say that is the extent of my comfort zone to take a shot. Double lung and heart shots take them out quickly and I always get a pass-through. Since shooting the crossbow ,I havent lost a deer with it yet.
In the late seventies up to about ten years ago I used several different compounds. Bear, Hoyt, PSE.
Now I shoot a Parker Tornado crossbow with scope. My old wounds prevent me from effectively shooting a compound or recurve. Fast and deadly accurate. Ive shot 5 deer with it this year and none have gone farther than fifty yards. They were dead within seconds. A couple were broadside shots and the others were quartering away shots. I like to get as close as I can before I take a shot. A couple of them were within 10 yards. The farthest I've shot a deer with the crossbow is 54 yards. I would say that is the extent of my comfort zone to take a shot. Double lung and heart shots take them out quickly and I always get a pass-through. Since shooting the crossbow ,I havent lost a deer with it yet.
Buy cheap, buy twice in my experience. I have the Accutouch Carbon Pro on the CDT. I also shoot BE arrows - I have X impacts for outdoor target. I shoot Carbon Express X busters for indoor and PSE Radial X weaves for everything else.
I loved Easton Flatline Surgicals but they dropped them from the line up. I heard they do it under another name but Id discovered alternatives by then.
I don't get why anyone wants multi pins. They claim, its easy to just use the next pin if the deer moves but I find it even easier to just allow for that in my shot placement - if the deer moves 5 yards away, I now to just aim an inch or two higher. With multi pins, you still have to guess but your guessing WHEN the deer moves to the RIGHT distance for the next pin - adjusting where you put a single pins gives you the choice of when and where.
I totally get that. Theres no arguing with the added certainty of a bolt from one of the modern Xbows. If your not comfortable shooting bows and arrows, its the obvious move.
Any of you guys tune your arrows? I mean spinning them before cutting, testing the spine before fletching and weight matching the points to the shafts?
I have 2 dozen new shafts but since they are top of the line 0.001 straight and I don't cut much off because of my DL, Im not bothering to spin or fuss about the weights.
I am however going to spine test them for fletching but I'm trying out FLO testing as used on Golf clubs. I got a laser arrow point/bore laser thing and going to watch the youtube again where the guy sorts arrows this way but wondered if you guys have done it?
Im just off to the to drill shaft size hole in bloc of wood. Ill clamp that somewhere to hold the shafts - love tinkering
I have 2 dozen new shafts but since they are top of the line 0.001 straight and I don't cut much off because of my DL, Im not bothering to spin or fuss about the weights.
I am however going to spine test them for fletching but I'm trying out FLO testing as used on Golf clubs. I got a laser arrow point/bore laser thing and going to watch the youtube again where the guy sorts arrows this way but wondered if you guys have done it?
Im just off to the to drill shaft size hole in bloc of wood. Ill clamp that somewhere to hold the shafts - love tinkering
I am
Thats what FLO testing is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFm5hpcm-5g
Its more accurate than a ram tester.
Manufacturers of shafts should find and mark the stiff side. Not on cheap arrows, but on their top of the range shafts, they should. People would get better results and stay with that shaft. Its an easy way to add value that buyers of premium shafts would be happy to pay.
Sure as shit.
Earlmarne, do you have any pictures of your Decree HD? how bout some bowporn in here? lol i got nothin and it horrible outside but ill post up one of my bows in a bit when I've done dusting it off lol I NEED a dust sheet to throw over.
This is quite cool because if you mention weed on AT... it don't end well. That place isn't really 420 friendly. Some seem to thin if you get stoned, you would be dangerous or stupid with a bow. I LOVE shooting in my yard when Im stoned as a bastard and taking hits between arrows lol It slows me down, helps me focus, shuts out the noise you know? Ive shot 4 Robin hoods in my life and was stoned every time. The ONLY time I forgot to noc an arrow and dry fired a bow was when I wasn't stoned, and it was because I was distracted by someone taking to me. that don't happen when Im stoned. That was my Turbohaw by the way. It didn't care one bit, never missed a beat or did itself any harm. It just gave the string stop an extra workout lol sounded fucing horrible though
This is quite cool because if you mention weed on AT... it don't end well. That place isn't really 420 friendly. Some seem to thin if you get stoned, you would be dangerous or stupid with a bow. I LOVE shooting in my yard when Im stoned as a bastard and taking hits between arrows lol It slows me down, helps me focus, shuts out the noise you know? Ive shot 4 Robin hoods in my life and was stoned every time. The ONLY time I forgot to noc an arrow and dry fired a bow was when I wasn't stoned, and it was because I was distracted by someone taking to me. that don't happen when Im stoned. That was my Turbohaw by the way. It didn't care one bit, never missed a beat or did itself any harm. It just gave the string stop an extra workout lol sounded fucing horrible though
Ive ordered the bits to build a few no peeps I can do 4mm, 6mm and 8mm diameter for the user to choose from. Smaller is harder to centre and therefore more accurate - IQ say that too on their website about the models they do with a smaller Retina loc.
The three diameters are housed in 3 different carbon arrowshaft sections, 2" long. The Fibre is held by a Neoprene insert.
As for optic fibre, I can do blue, red, green, orange or "aqua" which is blueish white and the brightest imo. I have the correct size black dot transfers for each lens size too.
When it all arrives Ill put together a little range of them.
Ive ordered 3 types of lockable ball mount for them to be installed on sight extension arms. All very discreet. Ill have to try them all out and weigh them etc. My solution here is super light so far
I thin my best idea regarding the loom of fibre is to instruct the user to wrap the length around the extension arm. I will supply the unit with fibre coming out sheathed for protection I guess.
I can do 4mm, 6mm and 8mm diameter for the user to choose from. Smaller is harder to centre and therefore more accurate - IQ say that too on their website about the models they do with a smaller Retina loc. The three diameters are housed in 3 different carbon arrowshaft sections, 2" long. The Fibre is held by a Neoprene insert.
As for optic fibre, I can do blue, red, green, orange or "aqua" which is blueish white and the brightest imo. I have the correct size black dot transfers for each lens size too.
When it all arrives Ill put together a little range of them.
Ive ordered 3 types of lockable ball mount for them to be installed on sight extension arms. All very discreet. Ill have to try them all out and weigh them etc. My solution here is super light so far
I thin my best idea regarding the loom of fibre is to instruct the user to wrap the length around the extension arm. I will supply the unit with fibre coming out sheathed for protection I guess.
