HH bug got me ... Part One!

[Mudd]

Originally posted by swampthing:
Eye candy with the good light shine'in down.  

Beautiful bow and picture of it!!

God bless,Mudd

[MT Longbow]

I will try that subtle change tomorrow.

Thanks and WHAT A BEAUTY!!!!

Patrick

Nice shootin Mudd!

One double lunger and three into the boiler..

Was that a crouch or on your knees?

[Mudd]

crouch!

and it was easy for this old fat man either...lol

God bless, Mudd

[Overspined]

Swampthing, I think the second grip looks pretty good. Don't be afraid to play a little bit more when you are fresh. Try to get the feel of that thumb knuckle pressure point as Rob shows, you can squeeze the grip, but you don't have to. Just get that grip right and you will find quiet release, good arrow flight (assuming spine is right) and a settled bow with just a tiny bit of vib in comparison to a R/D bow. It can take some monkeying around.

[Nate Steen .]

Swampthing...

that exact grip, the second photo, is exactly what Hill and Schulz preached, which I try to follow and teach.  Nothing against what works for other shooters, but with the bowhandle in that position in the "Y" between the thumb and first finger, you can actually open your fingers and shoot.  You don't need a death grip on the bow to keep it in position.  All the lower finger pressure does with your hand in that position is keep the heel down and keep the bow from flying out of your hand upon release....kinda like a bowsling...

If you squeeze your fingers toward the bowback (with the finger pads between the knuckles, not the finger tips), you are squeezing 180 degrees from the belly of the grip....therefore you aren't torquing the bowgrip.  When you grip the bow like photo 1, it's hard not to grip the bow with the fingertip pressure in order to control the bow and that will torque the bow with the heel down grip style.

looking very good swampthing....no wonder your arrows flew straight.  It's actually pretty simple stuff.  You grip a straight grip longbow just like a hammer handle.  mucho control and shock absorption....try hitting a nail on the head while gripping the hammer like your first photo.....it makes your wrist very tired....lol

[Looper]

Beeyooteefull bow, Swampthing. And your second grip photo, looks just like my grip.

Mudd, now that you have found the one, just go ahead and send me those other bows.  I hate to see a man suffer with temptation so close at hand. On second thought, make sure they can handle a 31" draw, no sense in giving them false hope. Nice shooting, by the way.  I think your first shot would have gotten that hogs attention just the right amount.

[Nate Steen .]

Looper,

I've got an idea for the next fun shoot, but I'm not real good at the photobucket thing...talk to me....it'd be a real-life shooting test perfect for stickbows....

[Looper]

I'm all up for good ideas.  The thing is, though, that the winner of the round gets to decide which shot to take.  So, for this week, go shoot a score higher than a 32, and I'll help you develop your idea.     You've got til Friday evening to post a score. Mudd almost had it.

If you're talking about doing an entirely new fun shoot, I'm up for that, too.  We could do it in conjunction with this one, or wait until it plays out and start a new one.

I really like to practice real life shots.  Tonight, for instance, I missed a shot on a coyote.  I was on my knees and he came trotting by at about 27 yards.  I made a good shot, but that bugger dodged my arrow. I mean literally.  I shaved some fur off the front of his chest. He had no idea I was there and right as the arrow got to him, he made like Barry Sanders, and juked right out of the way.  The funny thing is that he didn't run off, he just bounded a few steps away and went back and sniffed the arrow.  He caught me moving when I went to knock another arrow and sneaked away.  He couldn't figure out what I was, so he went about 50 yards and sat on a little hill and stared at me for about a minute. He just sat there like a dog would sit at your side.

After a little while he stood up and started to go downwind of me.  The neighbor's dog saw him and started barking and spooked him off.

I was really pleased with the shot, though.  It came off exactly like I wanted and went exactly where I was looking.

Oh, and keeping with the theme of this thread, I was shooting a Hill Halfbreed 69" 45#@29# drawn to just shy of 31".  The arrow was a 620 gr surewood 60-65 full length, with a 145 gr Eclipse broadhead.

[Looper]

Originally posted by sunset hill:
Looper,

I've got an idea for the next fun shoot, but I'm not real good at the photobucket thing...talk to me....it'd be a real-life shooting test perfect for stickbows....

If you need me to, I can walk you through the photobucket process.  It's really pretty simple. In the mean time, if you have a pic you want to post, just email it to me or Mudd and we'll put it up for you.

Just last week following some prodding by Mudd, and after much procrastination,  I did a search and found a cool and easy alternative to PhotoBucket.  

It is called Imagelinky.

http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=102487#000000

[Rik]

Whew, after a week-long vacaton, I am worn out!

I spent the last week visiting an old friend on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. He is a fellow Hill Fanatic, and amongst other things, has quite a collection of Howard Hill bows.

Every day we grabbed a few bows and went shooting prior to the day's canoeing or hiking trip.







I am sure none of you will be surprised to learn they all shot extremely well. Shooting feathers off was the game of the day.



P.S. British Columbia is a BEAUTIFUL PLACE!

[Mudd]

Rik... How cool was that?... Way!... I'm saying....

Thanks for sharing.

God bless,Mudd

[Rob DiStefano]

awesome showcase of longbows, rik!  

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Very nice mob of bows, Rik!

[droz il]

I really like um.  

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Ok ok, I really think its time for  a Hill sub forum      

208 pages that's got to be some sort of a record!  Although I'm not a Hill style fan, The interest is awesome.  

[Wannabe1]

Awesome like up there Rik! Thanks for sharing. Makes me squirmy to get in the woods.  

[Ben Maher]

The fourth bow from the left ... I want I want I want ..... !!!

[Rik]

Ben,

That bow is the second from the bottom in the first picture. It's the finest looking longbow I have ever seen, and I put close to 500 arrows through it.

Craig told my friend that it is "dark bamboo." It is laminated bamboo, not the standard flat bamboo lamination like my bows are. The handle and tip overlays are beautiful, highly contrasting bacote.

I have never seen a better looking bow, period. I would love to chronograph it to see if it shoots as well as standard bamboo, but I can tell you this, it puts a heavy ash shaft exactly where I am looking, and it hits hard.

I might be able to show a close-up photo later, but I have to get unpacked. I got home at 11:30 last night, and had to get up at 5:30 to go to work. Gotta catch up first. . .