Archery

SHKnives

SHKnives

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I am seeing tons of fishing threads but not many archery threads so I figured I would start one. I am a long time bowhunter/3D shooter and have hunted all over including Africa and Canada. Love hunting anything but Whitetails are my passion. I have been hunting and shooting since I would barley walk. I have liked knives forever also but just got really into them about 3-4 months ago. I shoot Mathews Solocam and shoot on several different archery shooting staffs. I have my own little custom arrow making shop also. So who else here is a knife nut and an archery nut? Tell a little about yourself and why you love archery also.
 
Custom arrows...Awesome!
I shoot a Bow Tech General.
Only been bow hunting for a few years, white tails, black bear and Elk.....but didn't get an elk. You have to enter a draw/lottery system here for particular areas and I was scoping an area and setting my tree stand when I got busted by a nice bull and two cows and needless to say I was caught empty handed...still kicking myself since it was the only bull I saw all season.
Only ever hunted in Manitoba but I work at a lodge in Ontario in the summer.
Always loved the outdoors and I love bow hunting cause you really gotta know the animals and environment to become proficient, in the wild at least. It's a real hunt and there really isn't anything like it.
Where have you been in Canada?
 
Oh, and the Elk came out 15 yrds from me..... and broadside, even stood there for more than enough time to draw, aim and fire, maybe even twice...ugh
 
New Brunswick on a black bear hunt. Been twice now and killed one bear. Second trip was awesome even though I didn't kill a bear because I had several encounters with about a 400 lbs bear.
 
Nice, I have family in New Brunswick. Moose hunters, and there are plenty of nice moose down there!
Never seen and NB bear, were you waiting for a bigger one or couldn't get a decent shot?
 
Could not get a shot (he was old and very smart). Believe me he was a shooter! We hunted at Bett's Kelly Lodge, do you know of them?
 
And now he's a reason to go back, another year of growing and it will all be worth it!
I don't know any outfitters in New Brunswick, and unfortunately I don't make my way down there as often as I would like.
Spring bear?
 
The bear I killed was a spring bear but the big one was a fall bear. I prefer fall hunting (no skeeters lol).
 
I have been shooting 3d and hunting for about 6 years. Currently shooting a Bowtech Destroyer 340, and a Hoyt Vantage Elite. Both at 60 lbs. I shoot maxima blue streak select arrows, sword sights, carter releases and get my stabilizers from dead center archery products. I shot on there staff program last year and Todd is a great guy. I have only ever hunted deer with the bow because bear season in Sask seems to happen during my two busy times at work. I have placed first in Manitoba three times at their provincials, and taken third at sask provincials. Came in 14 at 3D Canadian nationals as well. What really drew me to archery was the precision of it all, and the tuning and practice that is required to excel. I also gave up gun hunting after starting archery due to the fact that the challenge is far greater, and the weather is nicer during that season.
 
I shot target archery in college- NAA and FITA style with a recurve stick bow. After college I got into NFAA field archery with my stick bow and with a compound. I really liked archery, for the challenge of it and because the equipment was interesting. I found that archery took a lot of time for practice, and it wasn't fun if I wasn't doing good so eventually my archery hobby lost out to other hobbies that didn't take as much time. I lost my local ranges too and that didn't help. I miss it and would like to get back into it some day.
 
I got into archery back in the late 70s while in the Navy. I couldn't bring any handguns or rifles on my ships for deployment but I could bring a bow. Go figure. :D

My ships would frequently pull into Subic Bay, RP and Yokosuka, Japan and both had on-base archery ranges I could use.

Mainly shot field/hunter/animal target field archery rounds (NFAA) and indoor tournaments where ever the Navy sent me and then back home in Texas. I would probably shoot 6-700 arrows per week. Great exercise walking back and forth to the target butts. Hunting was whitetail deer in Texas and muleys in New Mexico. Haven't shot a bow since 2002 after I screwed up the cartilage in my left (drawing) shoulder.
 
I'm relativley new to traditional archery, so would someone please explain to me why it is so hard to find feather fletched arrows in stores? I don't feel like dropping $80 on six arrows because I have to get them custom made locally. The bow I shoot a Bear Super Grizzly that belonged to my grandfarther. I was thinking about adding a whisker biscut, but that just seem wronged in my mind.
 
I.N.F.K said:
I'm relativley new to traditional archery, so would someone please explain to me why it is so hard to find feather fletched arrows in stores? I don't feel like dropping $80 on six arrows because I have to get them custom made locally.
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Because traditional archery comprises maybe 5% of the entire archery market, and compound guys don't shoot with feathers. Trust me - I used to feel your pain....until I just decided to suck it up and buy a fletching jig and teach myself how to fletch my own. It's really not hard at all (after a couple arrows you'll have it wired), and then you can truly set up your fletching the way you want - the desired angle, length, color, etc.

You can get a Martin J-8 fletching jig for about $45 bucks and it will last a long, long time.

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Smithhammer said:
Because traditional archery comprises maybe 5% of the entire archery market, and compound guys don't shoot with feathers. Trust me - I used to feel your pain....until I just decided to suck it up and buy a fletching jig and teach myself how to fletch my own. It's really not hard at all (after a couple arrows you'll have it wired), and then you can truly set up your fletching the way you want - the desired angle, length, color, etc.

You can get a Martin J-8 fletching jig for about $45 bucks and it will last a long, long time.
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So what would you recommend for arrow material wood or carbon? I still get a stray arrow every once and a while, so breaking an arrow is quite common for me.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
I got into archery back in the late 70s while in the Navy. I couldn't bring any handguns or rifles on my ships for deployment but I could bring a bow. Go figure. :D

Haven't shot a bow since 2002 after I screwed up the cartilage in my left (drawing) shoulder.
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Might I suggest switching to shooting right handed( did I just say that? I'm left eye dom too) Just to try other guys bows I would shoot right. Felt weird, but one day it wasn't so bad. You can retrain the muscle memory.
 
I.N.F.K said:
So what would you recommend for arrow material wood or carbon? I still get a stray arrow every once and a while, so breaking an arrow is quite common for me.
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Woodies are definitely sweet, but if durability is an issue, I'd go with carbon. Easier to tune as well, in my experience.
 
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