Author Topic: ABC2: Time for Action (Read 5232 times)

Dean Torges · « **Reply #20 on:** March 27, 2007, 01:43:00 PM »

Got no argument with you, Brett, but if you will look back on the contest and its requirements, we are after a universal ambush bow, one that will suit the most hunters in the greatest variety of situations. My own draw length is 27, not 28. Bow design requirements are to an ideal, not to a person. This is a challenge beyond individuals. It is not a contest. It is a challenge to the bow itself, and only through that to the builder of the bow.

That said, draw length for longbows, unlike recurves or compounds, is an arbitrary matter, dependent upon shooting style and therefor in great part irrelevant to body size. You can make it whatever you want, even at your length of limb, because you can hold the bow to accommodate your intentions. Howard Hill thought 27" the perfect compromise after sifting through all concerns, so he made his draw length 27" and developed a loose-limb shooting style for the hunting bow that took advantage of that draw length.

In short, please don't let the requirements keep you from attempting an entry. It's good to "stretch" yourself. :-)

trashwood · « **Reply #21 on:** March 27, 2007, 07:46:00 PM »

Oh dang I may have shot my mouth of too soon. I just don't know if this lousy piece of trashwood and that poor old sinew will make a shooter or not. oh well all I can do is try to salvage sumpin out of it......

HE HE HE!

rusty

Dano · « **Reply #22 on:** March 27, 2007, 08:12:00 PM »

Oh my!! That baby LOOKS FAST

Dano · « **Reply #23 on:** March 28, 2007, 05:54:00 PM »

Come on guys, don't let Rusty scare ya'all off, let's see your entries.

Dean Torges · « **Reply #24 on:** March 28, 2007, 08:58:00 PM »

If Rutsy's scarin' them off with that (a CarQuest fiberglass repair kit sized with a blunt-nosed grade school scissors that's white-pasted to a soda fountain chair leg), then I hope no one ever comes up to them through two eyeholes under a sheet and sez Boo!

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"Carve a little hood, pull a few stings, and sometimes men faint." --Houdino

Dano · « **Reply #25 on:** March 28, 2007, 09:10:00 PM »

And the Drama BEGINS

Keith Deters · « **Reply #26 on:** March 28, 2007, 10:35:00 PM »

Rusty,

Looks like someone left your stave under a pigeon roost for too long.

trashwood · « **Reply #27 on:** March 29, 2007, 01:17:00 AM »

OH man I got problems. I brought the little dariling down out of the attic. I leaned her again the bedroom wall last night when I went to bed. Dang bow has got so much stored energy and potential the dang thing was glowing in the dark. Kept me awake half the night till I finally covered her up with a sheets.

I finally had to run two 18 gauge wires out of her and hook the house up to 'em just so I could drain enough energy off so I could get some sleep.

I can't say I blame 'em boyz for hidden out to the shed. I think we'as having some kinda nuclear fusion between the osage and sinew. Ya don't think call osage and sinew, thunder and lightening, for nothing do ya??

rusty -sinew physicist- craine

trashwood · « **Reply #28 on:** March 29, 2007, 01:20:00 AM »

hey ya boyz look toward Texas can ya see that dang glow in da sky??? yep that's her

rusty

trashwood · « **Reply #29 on:** March 29, 2007, 01:43:00 AM »

BTW Dean I'll send ya instruction on how to shoot the little bow. Ya gonna have to getcha on of these

http://www.mineralab.com/Inspector.htm

Now just hook your house electrics up to her till ya get her down to about 18 millirems. She be safe for ya to shoot then for a little while. If ya don't shoot her enough and she charges back up ya gonna have to hook her to your counties electric grid.

rusty

Brian Halbleib · « **Reply #30 on:** March 29, 2007, 06:26:00 AM »

Looking forward to seeing all the new entries this year. Folks are off to a pretty good start. Thanks again to Dean for developing and continuing this challenge.

-Brian
www.bowyersjournal.com

Dano · « **Reply #31 on:** March 29, 2007, 10:48:00 AM »

Dean, your going to have to create a new catagory for Rusty's bow.

Dean Torges · « **Reply #32 on:** March 29, 2007, 11:02:00 AM »

No. Just a new category for Rutsy.

Linc · « **Reply #33 on:** March 29, 2007, 02:03:00 PM »

I really think Rusty is believing his own story.

trashwood · « **Reply #34 on:** March 29, 2007, 04:27:00 PM »

Hey Linc........where is all the dang selfbowyers. I guess they all went to the Expo?

Dang I'm having to entertain myself here.???

rusty

Dano · « **Reply #35 on:** March 29, 2007, 09:12:00 PM »

Dang, Rusty!!! I think ya sceered em all off. But hey if Deans willin ta make a whole new catagory just for you, what the heck, come on guys.

crashcastle · « **Reply #36 on:** March 29, 2007, 09:28:00 PM »

well rusty i got that stave you gave me down to a blank and tillered to about fifteen inches as soon as wingnut gets some time were gonna but her on a caul

Dean Torges · « **Reply #37 on:** March 29, 2007, 09:59:00 PM »

Got me puzzled, too, Rusty. If this were a bbq competition, like Memphis in May, everyone who ever stuck a sharp stick in a piece of campfire meat would line up to enter the contest. Status, reputation, know-how—all irrelevant to the experience.

There will be an important announcement about the Challenge sometime next week, so be on the lookout. Meantime, some of you fellas who say you like classical archery for the personal challenge, well, ahhh......harumph...ah........geez, Louise.......uhhh..........

Dean Torges · « **Reply #38 on:** March 29, 2007, 10:03:00 PM »

Oh, my. LOL.

trashwood · « **Reply #39 on:** March 29, 2007, 10:15:00 PM »

Ooooooo I just got scared

rusty


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