HH BUG GOT ME - Part Two!

[Linwood Hines]

Will be saying a prayer for ya Charlie.

[Linwood Hines]

I briefly met a gentleman at the Pre-Spring Arrow Fling, in Tannehill State Park, AL. I was asking around about Nate Steen's quivers, as I was thinking about ordering one (I did, btw).  He was toting a HH style bow, and wearing one of Nate's quivers (light tan color, if I remember correctly) and offered for me to try it on.   I want to apologize to that gentleman, in that I was being rushed to leave by the guy I rode with, and should have at least asked his name.  If you are that person, please send me a message - I'd like to say hello and properly say thanks for the offer, now that there is time.

I put some tapered cedars together for turkey's out of my 53 @ 26" Morningstar.  They are 27"bop with 145 grain Grizzlies and 48 to 50 pound spine, they are within a grain up or down of 451 grains and they fly real pretty.  I already know what a Grizzly does to turkey, but they are bit lighter than what I thought they would be.  Will they be okay at 8.5 grains per pound or are they too light for the bow, considering it has a fast flight string on it?

[Rossco7002]

I think you're good to go with a set up like that Pavan. I like to shoot an 8.5 - 9 GPP arrow out of all my Hills for the flatter trajectory. You've got more than adequate arrow and bow weight for turkey's too.

[Brianlocal3]

So how do you fellow ASL shooters taper your arrows?
The new TBH mag has a good article on the old school way of Doing it.

I use a device called Wapiti Archery.

[JDBerry]

Pavan, not a problem. Rule of thumb, Fly good-shoot um.  .....James

[WESTBROOK]

Brian, ya got a belt/disc sander?

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=116898#000000

[Brianlocal3]

Eric,
I do not, but plan on picking one up sometime
Thanks for the link

[Paul_R]

Thanks Westbrook!

In case any admin types are reading this, I think that link should be in the how to section.

[Charlie Lamb]

Moved to HowTo.

[Charlie Lamb]

I'm selling my old Big Five and took these pictures for the buyer. Thought I'd share before I send it away.
   
   
   
   
   

Wow, 30" draw on that Big 5.  That bow would pull about 63 pounds is all for me.  I wonder what my old 89@27 would have pulled at 30".  About those tapered shafts.  My first ones that I did started out as 100# parallels and we tried the directions from my raggedy old Hunting The Hard Way back in early 70s.  Even though I was building houses, I did not have a belt sander, so we tried hand tool directions to make barreled shafts.  Six of those attempts were a disgrace to everything Acme cedar.  Absolutely without a doubt, the goofiest flying arrows that ever flew. I wonder how many Hill messed up before he got his technique down.
  I bought tapered ancient arrows for my wife, the taper runs most of the length of the shaft when they are cut to 27" bop.  They are less than 18/64" at the nock. They are magic, she fired two of them through a buck.  I attempted to copy that 26" taper last year. With a belt sander and a jig on a lathe, it takes a perfect shaft  to pull it off.  Out of the dozen cheap cedars only 6 did not have flared grain.  I ended up with 4 shafts that look okay, but have not fletched them yet.

[centaur]

Didn't know you were selling bows, Charlie. If that one was only 20 or 30 pounds heavier, it would be perfect   . My shoulder hurts just looking at that one.

[Charlie Lamb]

I'm not sure I'm really selling bows per se Pat. I just know a guy that this one would fit just right.
This bow was ordered for me back in the 80's by a guy that must have thought I was a bull... I traded work for it.

30" was my draw length with a recurve and didn't realize the conversion back then. I shoot 28" with a Hill style bow and at that draw length the bow pulls 75#.

At 75# it was right in the ball park of the recurves I was shooting in those days.

Here are a couple of pictures of it in action.
 
Shot a hundred ground squirrels with it one day. The picture only shows half of what my buddy and I got that day. He got 120 with his compound.
     

Hunting jackrabbits in the winter. Western Wyoming.      
   

[Mike Mongelli]

Charlie, Did you get that bow in the 70's or 80's?  I believe that is John Schulz handwriting.  Nice bow!

[Rossco7002]

Just had a new Miller Old Tom and a 7 Lakes Nite Lite show up in the mail today! One for me, one for my oldest daughters birthday.

[Rossco7002]

Here's a pic:

 

[MT Longbow]

What color on the back of that old Tom?

[Rossco7002]

Brown glass Patrick.