Just curious what everybody is carrying with them this Fall. I'm still looking for my first trad kill and I'm trying to be prepared for just about anything. First, I have a couple Simmons Interceptors for deer and hogs. Next are a couple small game heads. One is the Forge Converta Blunt I got from 3riversarchery paired with a 125 field point for 200gr total. The other is a 100gr carbon express 4 blade that I modified for small game. It has a 44mag case behind it to add weight and give a little blunt force trauma behind the blades. It comes in at 193 gr total. And of course, a couple 200gr practice points. I haven't actually weighed them, but based on component weights, the total arrow weight should be around 550-575gr. Delivery system is my new Flatwoods Custom Longbow I got a few months back: 47#@28", 64" long.
I showed you mine,now let's see yours.
Matt
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Pretty bow! My quiver will be filled with Simmons Interceptors and 200 grain VPA 3 blades...and a couple of blunts, of course!
Are you actually going to shoot dem purty arrows?
Not going to post pics of mine as I'm not sure what bow I'll be taking into the woods. Too many to choose from and besides, my arrows are too blah.
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I've got a Big Jim's takedown Buffalo bow that's 54@28"
My arrows are Gold Tip 5575,cut to 29 inches. I've got a Big Jim three blade if I see a deer,and then some Cutthroat for hogs. I always carry a cheap glue on like the Magnus for rabbits and squirrels,and i've always got a few field points as well.
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No pics, but I'm taking my Easton Axis trad shafts with VPA 3 blade 200 grain heads, some cutthroat 160's on adapters, and will have some VPA small game thumper as well.
Riding in a Thunderhorn Lynx or Absorkee quiver by Tim Roberts of Farr West Leathers.
Flung from my Tall Tines recurve @ 61#
Thanks guys. That Buffalo TD is beautiful.
Yes, I am shooting those arrows. I actually just got through stump shooting with them this afternoon. They look great in the picture, but believe me, they have a lot of mistakes when you look close. They are my first attempt at cresting and feather splicing and between lack of practice and cheap paint and brushes, I managed my fair share of screw ups. They actually came about kinda as a joke. I decided to try pink feathers last season after someone showed me how well they showed up. My dad and brother started picking on me before I even glued any on, so I decided that if I was going to get picked on, I might as well earn it. I worked these up and got myself a pink/brown string with pink/brown silencers for my recurve that I hunted with last year. I was also thinking I might use them to help convince my wife to try a recurve since my recurve from last season is just 42#. When I got my new longbow this year, I tried a few arrows I already had and these being the heaviest were by far the quietest. I tweaked the side plate a little and got them shooting like I wanted and now I have two bows that are tuned with the same quiver full of pretty arrows.
Legacy 1916's with Magnus Stingers (either 125gr or 150gr depending on which bow), 3 5" feathers (2) white 1 barred yellow.
Wood all the way! 55-60# with 125 gr Zwickey with 3X5" fletching. For another bow I use, the only difference is that the spine is 50-55#.
Also taking Zwicky Eskimo 125 grain on cedar arrows. I have an old school Kwikee Kwiver but just for transporting arrows - I take it off when I get into my blind then set my arrows behind me for quick access.
I do the same thing Robert :biglaugh: I thought I was the only one. I actually a lot of times take mine down in a MTM case so the broadheads don't have to go in the foam and get dull,and then take them out and set them behind me.
efa bow quiver year round
Using the same arrows I have had for a few years now. 30inch 55-60spine cedar shafts with 3 4.5inch turkey feathers for fletch and a Zwickey Eskimo up front and a Boehnig Classic nock in the back. The complete arrows weigh 500 to 515 grains.
Put another guy down for 125 gr Zwicky eskimos on cedar shafts (still got some Kustom King ones along with a set RMS Gear built for me). Soap Creek's hand made back quiver and a Howard Hill Archery Wesley Special will all debut this season. Though im thinking long and hard about possibly going light on the deer this year and banking on pigs. I live in a great pig area thats just so/so for deer, (plenty of them, but small and skittish, plus we're all QDMA here at ft Benning). I figure, theres deer all over the U.S., but good pig land is regional, and sooner or later Uncle Sam is going pluck me out of my Dixie paradise and post me somewhere else. "Carpe Porcus"....
Easton FMJ 500's tipped with the old Bear razorheads with broadhead adapters.
Legacy 2117s with 150 woodsmans
GT hunter 500, first few inches footed with DRT 125.
Shaving sharp Stingers! I love them, the deer...not so much.
Full length Easton Axis Full Metal Jacket, .400 spine shafts with a 75gr brass insert and 150gr German Kinetic broadhead!
Bisch
Easton FMJ 340 with a 165 glue on Simmons Tree Shark mounted on a 125 grain steel adaptors, they weigh in at 695 grains. Shooting them out of my 62# Schafer Silvertip recurve!
Surewood Douglas fir 60-65 spine with 160 grain VPA 3 blades and 3-5inch feathers.
I'm taking my bow and some hunting arrows :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
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These are attached to a new quiver, I'm trying out this year!
Thanks,
One quiver will have 1918s with original 160 Grizzlies and some shoot at anything broadhead arrows and two blunts. Another quiver will have Surewoods with 160 Hills and a couple of shoot at anything broadheads and a couple of blunts. Another quiver will have Surewoods with 160 grain Grizzlies with the same, another will have Microflites with Schulz Hunter'sheads and the same as the others. I am leaving the options open for the new bow that is coming, an ambidextrous JD Berry Pluto, I am betting that it will like 45-50 cedars with 145 grain Grizzlies, but I have plenty of arrows to make adjustments if needed.
I`ll be using the 300 Beman "Bowhunter" ICS shafts, weighted internally with nylon rope, and Zwickey Deltas, and/or Magnus-1 broadheads.
Same set up three years running
I will be using the field quiver as well. I find the bear takedown is a little heavier than I like with a bow quiver. I would have liked to put water buffalohorn for the nock reinforcments because the black would have looked better,but I just used what was on hand for these arrows.
Good luck to everyone this fall!
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Shooting sticks and stones.
Osage self bow, self made arrows fletched with turkey and goose feathers from Michigan and stone points.
Nice looking arrows veneficus. What wood did you use to re enforce the nocks?
Nice , Jon! Sticks and stones!
I too get teased about my pink arrows! Grizzles 200 gr 58# spine arrows all hill style.
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This year I am going to try some Surewood shafts, tipped with good old Zwickey deltas. In the past I hunted with Goldtips, but wanted to try it with wood this year. They fly like a dream out of my new Yellowstone hunter, she is a beaut at 60" 60 pound at my draw....let's have a great, safe year folks!!
I used osage orange for the nock reinforcments. Osage is everywhere here.
340 FMJ's with 75gr Hit brass insert and 165gr Simmons Tree Sharks.
Gold Tip traditionals 7595 cut to 30.5", 100 grain inserts, 100 grains of screw in weights behind the insert, 125 grain snuffer, 3 - 5" parabolic left wing feathers and a luminok. Right at 700 grains.
Without going into alot of personnel detail, 3 or 4 broadheads and a judo on my matched woodies.I use a side quiver,easier to go through thicker cover and less noticeable movement when grabbing an arrow.
going with a bit different this year, Alaskan Forgewoods with hunters heads and Ace Super Express heads.
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and a couple of bows, New Schafer Silver Tip and Cari-Bow Silver Fox longbow.
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and this side quiver( the one on the right).
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and this knife
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.600 gt trads at 29 1/4 with 225 grains up front. shot from a toelke whip 46lbs at 27"s
Gold Tip 35/55 with 100gr brass inserts and 175gr Eclipse Wolverine up front..550 grains total..Shooting extremely well out of my ACS 55# at 28
For my elk hunt next week, I'll be using Abowyer single bevel brown bear, STOS two-blade and Zwickey Delta 4-blade heads, one of each in the quiver, with an ACE hex head for stumping. The arrows are Easton Axis and weigh about the same -- 600 grains, give or take a grain or two -- and have roughly the same high FOC. Will be shooting them out of a Morrison Shawnee or ACS longbow.
My Toelke Lynx will be shooting 30" tapered Sure wood Douglas fir, 75-80, with 190 grain Ribtek broadheads.