Hey guys and gals. I am new to the forum and interested to see what is going on around here.
The first time I shot a bow is when I found an old longbow in my grandfathers garage around the age of 8 or so. I made some simple arrows from shoots I found growing in yard.
Then I got into archery when I was in high school. I was a reader of a primitive archery magazine and a prolific poster on their forum. That is when I built my first longbow, which was around 16 years ago, and shot it a lot for a few years.
Anyway, I piddled around here and there over the years with a few different bows, but didn't do much with it as I had injured my shoulder and it would tend to dislocate on me with heavier weight bows.
Just a few weeks ago I ordered and received a new Bear Grizzly 45# Recurve. Wow this is a nice bow. It is very smooth drawing and seems to not bother my shoulder. I have only shot if a few hundred times in the past few weeks, but I am really liking it.
She is wearing brush buttons and some homemade string silencers made from some of my wife's left over wool yarn.
The color of the riser is not as red as I had hoped from seeing pictures on the net, but it is a nice shooting bow none the less.
I am still working on getting it tuned right. I am shooting some full length (30") GT XT Hunter 3555 carbon arrows out of it with 4" left helical fletching and a 125gr FP. I already had these arrows for another bow and they seem to work fine.
I am going to order some bare GT shafts to do some bare shaft tuning before fletching them up. Do you guys think I should stick with the 3555 for this bow?
Anyway enough talk here are a few pictures.
I just went out and did a little snap shooting at 16-18 yards and got this group and picture. My fingers were freezing as it is quite cold up in northern Minnesota right now so I did not stay out long. I was also using a homemade tab, but not sure it is giving me the best accuracy.
Here she is indoors after some frozen fingers. :D
Dave