Front of Center, single bevel/double bevel, sharpening jigs? Micro diameter-5mm 4 mm? What is going on? I leave it for a few years and the world goes crazy! I had just heard about mechanical broadheads and now they seem to be obsolete. Oh well, i just got 2 packs of the same broadheads i shot in 1992 -muzzy 3blade. Time to hunt lol
When did archery, become nerd science class?
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It's gotten complicated. I'll just stick with my traditional bows.
I would like to try that at some point!
It's EXTREMELY addicting.
Mescalero
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A lot about the physics of archery, and everything behind FOC, single/double bevel, weight, etc. Dr. Ed Ashby on the MeatEater podcast. The good doctor's an entertaining Texan. He's all about penetration and pass-through.
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Ep. 284: The Archer's Paradox | MeatEater Podcasts
Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Ed Ashby, Garrett Schlief, Todd Smith, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: a doctorate in eyeballs; how young bull rhinos will not breed as long as old bulls are holding territory; hunting and eating anything that moved in East Texas; shooting...
sharpshooter
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I first heard of FOC and single/double bevel when I was into traditional archery.
It's humorous to me some of the lengths folks go to shoot a 150 pound deer. I was shooting through them and burying up in dirt in 1993 with some pretty simple gear. The game has not changed, but again, folks like to over-analyze and over-complicate things, and spend money on the latest and greatest, and that is what we see many times with archery gear for the sake of killing a whitetail deer.
Duck dogn
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Yes redblood I agree it's over the top with tuning now. I still shoot mathews switchback with Easton epic arrows. 100 grain mechanicals. I talked to a guy the other day that shoots precision strings, 400 grain arrows which is 200 grain boadhead with 100 grain inserts. Arrow is 100 grain. And a list of other factors..... forget that I will stick to my normal stuff with practice.
Buzzard Breath
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I'm guilty!!! I'm a tinkerer by nature. I just can't leave anything well enough alone. 2 years ago, it was high FOC and single-bevel broadheads. Last year I went back to traditional. This year, its a compound shooting a standard 408 grain arrow/head combo, but all my components have to have the same camo pattern. Who knows what I'll change next year. I just can't not do something different. It's not just with hunting either. I'm worse when it comes to fly fishing.
None of that stuff matters if you can't get on the deer in the first place. And I'm still learning to hunt, probably always will. I'll worry about equipment when I've mastered hunting.
BSK
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What's even more in vane is being able to get on the deer but being a lousy shot at live deer! I could drill a target all day, but on deer, I truly sucked! My first year bow-hunting I missed over 40 times. Only took a couple more fruitless and frustrating years to give it up.
A lot about the physics of archery, and everything behind FOC, single/double bevel, weight, etc. Dr. Ed Ashby on the MeatEater podcast. The good doctor's an entertaining Texan. He's all about penetration and pass-through.
Ep. 284: The Archer's Paradox | MeatEater Podcasts
Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Ed Ashby, Garrett Schlief, Todd Smith, Corinne Schneider, and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: a doctorate in eyeballs; how young bull rhinos will not breed as long as old bulls are holding territory; hunting and eating anything that moved in East Texas; shooting...
I just finished this one today. Dr. Ashby gives you a lot to think about for sure!
THEdonkey0515
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Its not just bow hunting its everything hunting related.
Advertisement and money rackets.
Some 20 year old on TV thats never hunted anything besides a private farm in Iowa. telling hunters what gear they MUST have to be successful. Alot of people eat that stuff up.
Advertisement and money rackets.
Some 20 year old on TV thats never hunted anything besides a private farm in Iowa. telling hunters what gear they MUST have to be successful. Alot of people eat that stuff up.
Mescalero
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"Resistance quadruples as speed doubles."
I'm hunting with a sharpened stick this year. Won't be any worse than my success with my $1200 bow. If the stick doesn't work....I'm throwing rocks.
A hydroflex 4000, double beveled, smooth face, mercury laced rock mind you
A hydroflex 4000, double beveled, smooth face, mercury laced rock mind you
Ain't that the truth! That's probably not far off from what I have at any given time, and I'm a minimalist. That said, I don't buy junk. I don't have a lot but what I do have is high quality, from my bow to my boots. Wince once so they say. I hate having to buy stuff over & over. Boots are the worst. Can't find a pair of boots anymore that'll last more than a season or two unless you're trading in your first born.
The difference between back in the day and now is the distance that people are trying to shoot them, I'll admit I like shooting out to 90-100yds just to say I did it in practice but don't believe I've shot at a deer over 25yds
Willysman
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Don't know how those poor old Indians got by with a string bow and flintstone broadheads.
