HH BUG GOT ME - Part Two!

[ron w]

Nice T/D.......I have 2 and love'em!

[Overspined]

With the Hill back quiver I started using a different kind of leather that’s already soft to bend but still thick enough to handle broadheads. I’ve loved it and sold a bunch. Kind of already broken in feel. I use a heat gun and sno seal or something like that to waterproof it and all..it’s just more expensive than raw leather veg tanned.

[Hoosierarcher88]

Tw thats a beut of a takedown.

[Wannabe1]

Thanks Justin! I'm really going to enjoy her once I get some woodies made up for it.

[evgb127]

Nice stick!  Congrats! How’s the grip feel?  It looks thick.


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[Hoosierarcher88]

The grip does look a good bit thicker than the one on my shelton. I like the idea of a 2 piece takedown but worry that the grip would be too big considering i have smaller hands

[Wannabe1]

Believe me, I have a small hand but, this grip will work for me. It is tad thicker than all my other HHA bows but, not by much and again, I can make it work.

[Deno]

I was going to ask if the hill style quivers flattened out. From the pictures id seen they looked like they did instead of hold the round shape. So if my thinking is right then something more flexible like bickskin should make a good quiver

Buckskin may be too flexible.  5-6z veg tanned leather will better. After I make mine, I soak it in hot water and fold it over the back of a chair.  As long as the shape is oval and not round,  It will hold the shape.

Deno

[ny state land]

I have been using these Hill style fletchings for Paul Julan and they really grab the air. What fletching style do you guys like and do you think the bigger feathers reduce performance?

[Hoosierarcher88]

Im a big fan of shield cuts in 4-5". Not that the style offers an advantage over other shapes, i just like the look. Id really like to give some lower profile bananas a try, used the full height magnum cut for years and shots within 30 yards they really steer well

[WESTBROOK]

I'm not too fussy (I like'em all) 5-5 1/2, shield, parabolic, nanner, dont care. Thats why I bought a feather burner...make whatever ya like at the moment.

[Hoosierarcher88]

My arrows i just got in from rose city. Different colors but they shoot really well. Couldnt pass up the deal and the broadheads were already mounted.

[Deno]

Nice arrows Justin.



Deno

[dragonheart]

I most of the time shoot 5.5" parabolic feathers on woodies.  My favorite was a 5" parabolic, burned higher profile in the back.   

[dragonheart]

New Sunset Hill Longbow...Yew, black glass, figured walnut handle.  Gettin in the groove.

[Wannabe1]

Nice shooting and a great looking stick! Congrats.

[Hoosierarcher88]

Worked a little on the eskimos last night to get them ready for deer season. Still havent gotten down the whole sharpening a curved edge thing down yet but ill get there. Im ready to sling a zwickey tipped woody out of a hill bow at sonething brown. Been putting in practice out a bit further like suggested and doing good. Still prefer to limit shots within 20 yards but out to 33 im hitting great.

[two4hooking]

Nice looking Sunset!  Love the black glass and gloss finish. 

I like 5.5 inch high back parabolics.  Longbow throws a heavy arrow well....not worried about loss of performance.  I want an arrow to straighten out NOW!

[pavan]

I have some 60-65 Acmes with RW 5.5" feathers that were a half inch too long.  I shortened the dozen and put the 190 Ribtecs on 9 of them and 190 grain field points on three.  This afternoon I checked them against some lighter Acmes with 145 grain points and four 4" LW feathers.  I put a marker in the yard as a definite secondary and shot from a chair.  At 24 yards, with my 'sunset', the heavy arrows are at the bottom half of the baseball and the light arrows tend to be on the top of the baseball, with two out of the six I was shooting changing teams, but not always the same two.  I now have two 60-65 with 190 grain field points and four, out of six, four fletched 55 Acmes.  What good does aiming at an arrow do for us anyway, I have never even once, shot a deer that had an arrow in it for me to aim at.  You may not hit it the first time you may not hit it even the eighth time, but sooner or later if you keep shooting at an arrow, you are going destroy it.  I should add that the recovery distance of the two was not seeable to me when I was shooting, they both flew straight as far as i could tell.

[dragonheart]

I like to shoot more than one arrow when practicing form.  The form sequence, all the steps from stance to follow-thru I will practice and shoot 3 arrows.  I rarely shoot more than 3 arrows anymore at a backstop and NEVER shoot at a bulls eye.  I agree with an interview I read with Louie Armbruster (Zebra longbows, accomplished target archer) where he vowed to never shoot at a "spot-bulls eye" once his archery focus was only on a hunting shot.  For general practice, trying to actually hit something, one arrow is best in my opinion.  The form work I like to shoot more than once.