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Title: Best advice you have recieved on Tradgang
Post by: John Krause on June 05, 2013, 08:40:00 PM: What's the best advice you have received on this forum? Hunting, bow set up, arrows, hunt advice scouting, shooting etc.

What is the best that made you better or turned on the light?
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Post by: threeunder on June 05, 2013, 08:48:00 PM: That's tough. I guess the thing that has helped me the most is reading all the posts I can find about form.
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Post by: LoneWolf73 on June 05, 2013, 08:52:00 PM: "one" Shot shooting session. As real as advice comes.
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Post by: Bruinbow on June 05, 2013, 09:00:00 PM: I have experimented with arrow shelf material for about 4 mo. and I have even asked the Trad Gang what they preferred and the most common answer was Velcro . Well I haven't found a thing that can beat it but as far as the price it can't be beat . Thanks Trad Gangers .
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Post by: LoneWolf73 on June 05, 2013, 09:02:00 PM: Also appreciate the ELK threads like Fitness, DIY Hunts, Gear Lists, Elk Tips. I have learned alot and DIY is fairly easy.............until your sucking air thru a straw in the Mountains. LOL.
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Post by: LoneWolf73 on June 05, 2013, 09:03:00 PM: Bruinbow ever try Beaver tail as a rest? Works great on my Cari-bow Silver Fox.
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Post by: Mudd on June 05, 2013, 09:13:00 PM: Stay away from the Bow classified forum....lol

God bless,Mudd
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Post by: moleman on June 05, 2013, 09:30:00 PM: Sloooowwww down on my shots! Seems shooting to fast can become a horrible habit but since slowing down my shots, my shooting has improved greatly.
Thanks to those who are wiser than I !!!!
:notworthy: :notworthy:
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Post by: pamike on June 05, 2013, 09:35:00 PM: If you want to try some different bows check out the classifieds!!! I think my wife would have a different answer......

Seriously - I have got a ton of great advice BUT Joel Turner's suggestion to call him to teach me how to use a physcotrigger and mantra has COMPLETELY changed my shooting ability. Thanks CLICKERMAN!
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Post by: damascusdave on June 05, 2013, 09:52:00 PM: A while back I started a thread in the collecting/history section about 1960 Bear Kodiaks...Wade Phillips came out to play and I learned an awful lot about those bows in a big hurry...I think there were well over an hundred posts on that thread and I think we advanced the knowledge base considerably...just wish I could find that thread again
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Post by: wisconsinteacher on June 05, 2013, 10:30:00 PM: If you are going to go trad go 100% or nothing. I have not touched a compound in over a 15 months and shot 2 deer my first year with my Grizzly.
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Post by: nineworlds9 on June 05, 2013, 10:55:00 PM: "STOP BUYING SO MANY BOWS CHUCK!!!" :knothead: haha, actually just the opposite, we're all a bunch of textbook 'enablers' around here!

Gotten some great advice on shooting. This place is hours and hours of reading enjoyment. My favorite site on the web bar none, hence my high post count in less than a year. My post count doesn't even scratch the amount that I've read and learned...and of course shopped! Hey my logic is at least its not clothes or shoes :laughing: :laughing:

In all seriousness the tips and knowledge on this site have led me from initially sitting in a stand seeing nothing to hunting on the move and actually spotting game almost every time I go out in recent memory. That in itself is priceless.
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Post by: Stumpknocker on June 05, 2013, 11:01:00 PM: I have learned tons here, but would have to say that rotational draw and shooting form refinement top my list.
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Post by: bretto on June 05, 2013, 11:06:00 PM: Always stand up wind of KsBowman!!!
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Post by: halfseminole on June 05, 2013, 11:35:00 PM: Simply learning what a proper draw looks like. Us mountain boys sometimes just go with whatever we figure out, but to see a proper one up close (even in a picture) was like a light turning on in my head.
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Post by: Archie on June 06, 2013, 09:46:00 AM: I learned a lot about bareshafting here on TG.

Another big one was when someone posted that the best way to find arrows lost in the grass in the backyard is to take off your shoes and socks and feel for them with your bare feet. That one has saved me a lot of time and frustration!
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Post by: TRAP on June 06, 2013, 10:41:00 AM: It's a toss up between 2 suggestions I received from fellow TG members.

First one, "don't get started collecting broadheads". I didn't listen, and now, 500 broadheads later.....

Second one, the real bowdoc told me if I could find a way to skive the front edge of my feather rests they'd sell. I did and now I can't make them fast enough. Lol

Trap
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Post by: britt on June 06, 2013, 10:56:00 AM: Get help from Rod Jenkins. Go to his clinic.
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Post by: Alexander Traditional on June 06, 2013, 11:03:00 AM: The best ways to open up nocks. With boiling water or filing them a little. It seems so simple,but I don't know if I ever would have thought of it on my own.
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Post by: Zradix on June 06, 2013, 11:08:00 AM: KEEP IT SIMPLE
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Post by: Bowwild on June 06, 2013, 12:27:00 PM: Stu's Calculator.

I've "met" a lot of fine people on this forum. These folks have helped me "find" some really great recurves. I hope to stay in contact with some of these folks for a long time.

If this was my final post on Trad Gang the one thing I'm sure I'd continue to use that I found here would be Stu's Calculator. It is so much better than any charts I've ever used especially for adding or deleting components to the shaft.
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Post by: Jakeemt on June 06, 2013, 02:37:00 PM: Moebows shooting form posts/videos and Terry Green in hunters of Tradgang volume 1. Awesome advise has really helped me in the accuracy department.
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Post by: Stone Knife on June 07, 2013, 05:59:00 AM: Don't buy a Howard Hill bow, I didn't listen and ended up buying three ;)
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Post by: Tajue17 on June 07, 2013, 08:05:00 AM: that David Miller makes the #1 traditional stickbow period,, and to never buy one because you will sell ALL your other bows and shoot nothing but millers... it was good advice so I never bought one ,,,T
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Post by: Red Beastmaster on June 07, 2013, 08:26:00 AM: I learned that I am not alone.
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Post by: fnshtr on June 07, 2013, 11:38:00 AM: It wasn't exactly advice... but met Doug Treat on here and went on my first diy pack in elk hunt with his help. He turned out to be a great friend and now I'm hooked on elk hunting.

Met many other great friends on here as well. More than a "cyber community" here. It's a VERY special place!!
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Post by: Sam McMichael on June 07, 2013, 05:30:00 PM: None of the advice I have received here is original, but it is the constant reminders of several simple truths that is so valuable. Pick a spot, hunt the wind, use very sharp broad heads, and practice, practice, practice all need to be repeated daily. In short, a constant review of the basics keeps me from becoming complacent.
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Post by: John Krause on June 07, 2013, 07:27:00 PM: Sam,

You speak the truth.......
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Post by: DDyer on June 08, 2013, 09:31:00 AM: Go hunting at Ray Hammonds Hog Heaven :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bud B. on June 08, 2013, 02:03:00 PM: I'll tell ya John, when I got back into traditional archery after a long absence I stumbled onto this site (internet wasn't around when I stopped shooting back in the early 80s) and that little voice in my head said to register and log in. I have to say that listening to that little voice was the best advice by far...otherwise all the other great advice might not have ever happened.
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Post by: Hawkeye on June 08, 2013, 02:08:00 PM: "You should probably consider taking up knitting, or something!"
Title: Re: Best advice you have recieved on Tradgang
Post by: Bowwild on June 09, 2013, 08:26:00 AM: Another thing I learned and the reason I took advice from a friend in Harrodsburg, KY to check out Trad Gang.

There are more respectful people on net forums than I thought.
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Post by: Mudd on June 09, 2013, 08:34:00 AM: I believe there's a ton of subliminal learning that takes place here as well.

Things like... give a man a fish and he can make a meal... teach a man to bow fish and you can forget about seeing him for a whole weekend at a time...lol

God bless,Mudd
Title: Re: Best advice you have recieved on Tradgang
Post by: Centex on June 09, 2013, 08:54:00 AM: I recieve a lot of advice fro tradganger Green when we shoot. Yesterday was all about hill bows and anchors. Rob patiently puts up with all of my questions. We adjusted my anchor to be lower and farther back and last night I was stacking arrows. He did give me the hill bug which I am assuming is only sated by an empty wallet. Thanks Rob and thanks TG for helping me find a mentor 40 minutes from the house.
Title: Re: Best advice you have recieved on Tradgang
Post by: jcp161 on June 09, 2013, 04:02:00 PM: Terry Green's form clock and using a double anchor point. If I didn't get anything else from here, and I have, that would have been enough.