Hi
My wife says I go through too many arrows.
I just keep saying its Dr.Ashby's fault.
Now she's complaining about feathers!
How many arrows are you guys/gals going through in a year?'cos if I can find someone how goes through more than me, them I can point and say "see I'm not that bad"
Roeman
Roeman,
I don't wreck that much a year, but tell your wife, I own about 500. Complete and shafts counted together ...
Rule number #1 you can never have enough arrows,,ok ....glad we got that straight..LOL :)ps the response ya want back from ya wife is, YES DEAR! :biglaugh:
Don't know how many I go thru in a year,but I have roughly 10-12 dozen in various stages of completion in my shop.
Arrows are like sex - if you want for them to wear out you'll only have a couple.
Huh?
It probably IS my fault. :readit:
Ed
TGMM Family of the Bow
No such thing as too many arrows.
Too many bows. Too many .22s. Too many places to hunt. Too many days in a vacation. Too many pistachios in a bag.
There is such a thing as too many eyes counting how many of whatever I have! :eek:
About every ten years I tell Clark that we sure could use the space that all those comic books take up. That's as far as it goes. He paid for them. I respect that. They are his (except for my Elektra ones).
Besides, if I push it, he counters with some unconnected and fallacious argument about how the spare bedroom is taken up by all my shooting stuff, and half the floorspace in the living and dining rooms are covered with arrows and bows and cabinets to hold supplies and books and beads and leather and you can't use the microwave because the feather burner is in the way and...
Ya see how he gets? :confused:
Killdeer :rolleyes:
And Killdeer just proved that "the perfect woman" is not a total myth!
:notworthy: :notworthy: :clapper:
Ed
TGMM Family of the Bow
All I was doing was talking to Ed at Alaska Bowhunting about the Grizzlystiks and EFOC and she walked past and said "FOC!!!" Now I know what FOC is, and I don't think she was using it in the same context.
Thanks for all the work you'v done Doc,when I look back at 125grn heads and alloys inserts and then then look at my cabons with 425 up fornt at 675grns. big change in a few years,thanks again Dr. Ashby.and talking of Grizzlystiks what do you think of them DR.
Well... arrows are better than bullets. Most the time you can use them more than once without any additional expense!
OkKeith
Robert, all I can say is that on heavy bone impacts the GrizzlyStiks are the most durable of all the carbon shafts I've tested so far. Must add that I have never personally used the Sitka version, but Cher has. All I've used were the Alaskan, Safari and Big Five.
I like that Ed Schlief CONCENTRATES on trying to develop arrow components designed from the ground up for HUNTING ARROWS. He doesn't make 'target arrows' and then try to dress them up to promote them as hunting arrows.
Do I think there's room for improvement in the GrizzlyStik shaft? I think so, and Ed keeps tweeking the design, trying to improve them. Are they the arrow shaft for every shooter? Decidedly not.
Their biggest negative, to me, is that the tapered design has to be bare shafted by cutting them down from the front, rather than the rear. That means the insert has to be removed and reinstalled every time I shorten the shaft. The AD's share that problem. Is it a BIG problem. I don't think so.
BTW, Cher has lots of arrows too - but not nearly enough! :archer:
Ed
TGMM Family of the Bow
Killdeer,
:notworthy: :notworthy:
:biglaugh:
Has too many arrows ever really been defined? My wife tried but it ain't like "too much to drink" or "too much to eat". I mean those have a physical result. She tried the "cost too much" but when I suggested the money could be used for another bow, that ended that thought. Really, if one can stand in one spot and launch 250/300 arrows just to watch the beauty of arrows in flight, why not. Time you go fetch them all, you be rested and can do it again. Makes good use of an old golf cart to use as a quiver tote.
That's like saying you are having too much fun.
Thanks for your thoughts no the Grizzlystiks Dr.
I'll be getting a few sets of each weight sent over for testing soon.
Looking forward to trying out the insert weights, 20&50grns, and they can be combined. 74grn insert and 2x50grn weights,125grns adaptor and 190grn head on an Alaskan or Safari out of 60# @27 3/4" Border longbow sound like fun to me.
Roeman
Shows what I know. I never thought about cutting an arrow from the back. Always assumed you had to take out the insert and cut the front again.
Wow...guess that explains enough about me....
-Charlie
well tell your wife that if she wants to help you get rid of some tell her to send em to me i only have six shootable ones left and ive givin up on carbon so ill trade you my carbons for some wood. Bet youll never hear your wife say that :rolleyes:
Killdeer,
WOW! :clapper: Have you got any single sisters? :D
Too many arrows? Nah..I've been know to change to a totaly different arrow setup..2 or 3 times a day :biglaugh:
I don't go through to many since building a bigger backstop ;)