Hunters/archers

[Customizer1000]

Cheap? What arrows do you shoot?
I've got 7 deer out of one, so about a season and a half

 

[kmanxj5050]

I shoot aluminum still. I am a cheap bastard!!! And they hit way harder than light arse carbons. If i can kill deer with my 10 year old bow and aluminum arrows why upgrade?? If it's not broke dont fix it.

What do you shoot?

 

[Customizer1000]

Usually gold tip, last year got a dozen carbon express to try them out, most were not strait, so this season back to gold tip lol, what bow you shoot? #?

 

[Customizer1000]

Bear lights out, 315 fps

 

[kmanxj5050]

Golden eagle baby! Not Oneida.

I want a new bow. It will be a bear. Alot of people I know like them. And they're priced reasonably.

 

[Customizer1000]

Yeah I have 0 complaints about it, mine is a couple years old but I love it, I had a golden eagle many moons ago, I think my dad still has his

 

[Customizer1000]

Post up some Midwest trophys!!

 

[VAhasnoWAVES]

I don't know how soon some of you guys get into practicing with your bows, or if you ever stop practicing for that matter. But I saw a post in another section that reminded me of a trick someone once taught me.

When you're practicing, pay attention to which arrows are the most accurate/consistent. Usually each one has just a little bit of a difference that is enough to notice when you get down to brass tacks in accuracy/consistency. So when you figure out which ones do what, number them.

I used a sharpie on the fletches. The first deer I took with my bow was shot with my #1 arrow and I watched that thing fly straight as piss and hit exactly where I was aiming.

Just food for thought.

how are you going to tell them apart if you dont number them first?

when i hunted the naval bases in virginia, they wanted the last 4 of your social on the fletching. i also numbered my arrows with sharpie like you said. this is a good way to keep track of how they are flying.

I shoot year round, I was taught perfect practice makes perfect, when I shoot its only about 10 shots, and the first one better be dead on.

my father shoots year roud... i pick up my bow about a week before season. wax the string, throw a little oil on the cams, and let them fly. bow has been dead on at 40 yards fo rover 5 years.

i always shoot easton gold tips. and i always tune my own broad heads.

I shoot aluminum still. I am a cheap bastard!!! And they hit way harder than light arse carbons. If i can kill deer with my 10 year old bow and aluminum arrows why upgrade?? If it's not broke dont fix it.

What do you shoot?

aluminum has a tendency to bend. where as carbon will return to its shape. now, carbon is still dangerous to shoot. as it can splinter. my father has shot aluminum religiously for years. and he shoots a LOT. he has found that no shop makes a good enough adhessive for the fletching for how much he shoots. he has even had vendors give him boxes of arrows as well as personally fletch his... they still come off. i think its something to do with his rest. his mathews is maxed out at 65lbs, so it cant shoot much more than 300fps. :dunno:

Golden eagle baby! Not Oneida.

I want a new bow. It will be a bear. Alot of people I know like them. And they're priced reasonably.

come to the fawking archery shop and shoot a few! 2d video shoot!

know your draw? you should shoot my parker...

its over 5 years old, but shoots like its fawking scoped. maxed out at 70lbs, the draw break has more let off than my fathers matthews. its lighter than his matthews as well. and EVERYONE comments on how quiet it is. i never noticed until i shot a few other peoples bows.

its is a little bigger than his matthews, and most of the stuff on the market. as most companies are going to a smaller profile. but its balanced well, and when your 6'2"... who cares?

 

[kmanxj5050]

When you going to be up here again?

 

[VAhasnoWAVES]

this weekend maybe.

 

[XJosh95]

how are you going to tell them apart if you dont number them first?

It's really pretty easy. I would run the quiver and replace them into the quiver in order from closest to furthest from the bull and run the quiver again in that order. Then double check, then triple check, then quadruple check and then number.

 

[VAhasnoWAVES]

It's really pretty easy. I would run the quiver and replace them into the quiver in order from closest to furthest from the bull and run the quiver again in that order. Then double check, then triple check, then quadruple check and then number.

a little complicated, but now i see the logic.

 

[mako my day]

You guys are lucky. It took me 5 years of hard hunting to get my first doe. I archery shoot all year. Comfortable out to 70 yards. Took a boar at 80.
Maybe this season I will get deer #2.

 

[kmanxj5050]

Only does so far for me. My first deer was with my bow though. Never shot one with a rifle.

 

[Customizer1000]

Every deer I've got has been with a bow, get 3 to 4 every season including my buck, this was last seasons buck

 

[kmanxj5050]

Nice!

 

[Customizer1000]

And the buck I hunted for 2 years I found this spring

 

[kmanxj5050]

DAMN! That thing is huge! The deer down there are so much bigger! MI is over hunted

 

[Customizer1000]

Oh its over hunted here too, we get a lot of out of state hunters that shoot the first decent buck they see, fortunatly I'm in the grain belt so the bucks get big, if they are giving the chance, the two state record bucks, beatty buck and the jerman buck are both within minutes from me, the jerman buck is actually from a property I hunt, he put rubs on telephone poles

 

[terrehautian]

Can you hunt with a 22 rifle (not the legalities of it, can the gun put an animal down)? There is some circumstances, but I may get in my possession a 22 with a 8x30 scope on it.