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quote:Originally posted by Sean Butler: Now let's see a three piece!
heck, a four piece. why not? it'll work just fine!
-------------------- "Molon Labe" (Come and Get Them) ~ Instinctive Archer Magazine ~ TGMM Family of the Bow ~ NRA Life Member Posts: 8858 | From: NJ | Registered: Mar 2003
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My wife and I usually go backpacking for about a month every summer. I'd like to take along a lightweight takedown bow and takedown arrows, as I miss shooting my bow during the month we're gone. It would have to pay for itself, though, by harvesting enough small game to justify the weight of carrying it. We catch fish just about every night, and the weight of the fishing gear more than pays for itself, but even fresh trout gets a little tiring after 10 days in a row of it, and some roasted rabbit would be a welcome change.
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At the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Posts: 1915 | From: Sacramento, CA | Registered: Oct 2006
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that'd work out fine, mcdave. a cheap little 58" 3pc recurve, a six pack of t/d carbons, it'll all fit inside of about a 20-22" sack.
-------------------- "Molon Labe" (Come and Get Them) ~ Instinctive Archer Magazine ~ TGMM Family of the Bow ~ NRA Life Member Posts: 8858 | From: NJ | Registered: Mar 2003
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Is that a piece of all-thread beteween the inserts?
yessir, sorta - steel, 1-1/8", 8-32. i used a dremel w/carbide wheel to sheer off a machine screw's head to make it thread-only.
-------------------- "Molon Labe" (Come and Get Them) ~ Instinctive Archer Magazine ~ TGMM Family of the Bow ~ NRA Life Member Posts: 8858 | From: NJ | Registered: Mar 2003
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I've been going to a local archery range NJLOCO recently told me about directly from the job. That means I have to haul my gear with me all day, and to the range on my motorcycle after work. One of my 2pc longbows and a short piece of pvc tubing with 3 t/d arrows will slip right into the backpack I always carry.
These will make life much easier for me. Thanks!
-------------------- "Always feel the wind, and walk just like the leaves". ("LongBow Country"--Chad Slagle, "High, Wild, and Free"). Posts: 3961 | From: Sayreville, New Jersey | Registered: Feb 2007
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I have thought about the "two insert, threaded rod" method many times, but it's too sloppy for me. Unless you cut the threads yourself, you're at the mercy of mass produced (usually sloppy chi-com) hardware.....maybe if you faced the two inserts off in the lathe, then used screw tension to pull them tightly together....maybe. A tight slip fit is much better IMO, and gives you the option to make the joint as long as you want (2" in the case of the woodies shown previously). This makes the joint lest prone to breakage under shear force, and distributes the stress of the joint over a larger area.
I am probably over "engineering" the idea, but that's kinda in my nature.
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The other thought I've had with this idea in reference to carbons is to use a, for example, section of .500 spine shaft in the rear and a .400 spine shaft up front....maybe a 1/3 length rear and 2/3 length front.
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I think the article on making wood takedown arrows like Rob Taylor showed was in an old issue of TBM. There are times when hunting lions that it is nice to have both hands free and everything protected in a pack so when you slide downthe mountain your arrows or bow don't get hurt.
-------------------- "Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often and for the same reason" Posts: 1883 | From: Ryegate, Mt | Registered: Feb 2004
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Yeah, insert thread size is 8x32 and PDP makes an aluminum insert tapped all the way through.
Rob Taylor - The guy from Montana who made the T/D woodies also sold them commercially from his residence. I still have three I purchased directly from him years ago and may still have his name and address around if anyone is interested. At this time of year it may take me a while to dig out and find though.
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Z, Cool...I know (or am told) that he made quite a few sets of them back then. Steve (my friend) still has an unmolested dozen shafts, one of which was in my pics. -Rob
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I've been thinking about this little project for awhile and Rob's idea pushed me over the Edge.
I made a little takedown,carbon monopod for my pocket camera.It's called "the Rob Distefano Signature Series" monopod.
I did some extensive tuning and found that a Victory V Force HV3,.350 shaft was perfect.I also had one on hand that was snapped in the middle.The two pieces are 12" so it makes a 24" monopod.I cut the blades down on a MA-3 broadhead plus dulled them and the point and installed on an aluminum adapter.The other end for the camera,has a piece of 1/4"-20 stainless bolt epoxied in,with a shallow nut attached..I footed the point end and camera end.
You screw the upper end into the camera and stab the point into the ground.The small,3 blade broadhead seems to stabilize fine.Remember-pocket camera.If you don't like the angle,tilt the shaft and push it in the ground a little farther.
Weight is a hair over 1 ounce.It will replace my small tripod that weighs about 1 1/2 lbs.
quote:Originally posted by JimB: ... I made a little takedown,carbon monopod for my pocket camera.It's called "the Rob Distefano Signature Series" monopod....
dang, i dunno about that name!
that's a great idea! i wished i thought of that one! seriously!! i'm gonna make me one, too!
-------------------- "Molon Labe" (Come and Get Them) ~ Instinctive Archer Magazine ~ TGMM Family of the Bow ~ NRA Life Member Posts: 8858 | From: NJ | Registered: Mar 2003
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Hey this might be away to put all my broken arrows to use . Make one good arrow out of two broken ones . That camera idea is good.
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