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PowWow / Re: BCY-X?
Last post by Pat B - December 15, 2025, 10:55:47 PM
Contact Chad Weaver(LBR here on TG). He is a BYC rep so if it's available Chad would know.  :thumbsup:
#2
PowWow / Re: Improved, Spine-O-Meter Ma...
Last post by Kelly - December 15, 2025, 10:13:37 PM
Besides it being an 18 year old thread his scale is way off. With deflection being on the right and pounds being on the left .520 should be 50#, not 61# like it shows in the picture.
#3
PowWow / Re: Improved, Spine-O-Meter Ma...
Last post by Kirkll - December 15, 2025, 09:40:16 PM
Quote from: buffhunter on December 15, 2025, 11:47:53 AMDo you still make the spine-o-meter mark 11 and if you do how much are they selling for ? Would i be able to get plans,diagrams and measurements to make my own if you don't sell and make them anymore?  Thanks

 do you realize this thread is 18 years old?
#4
PowWow / Re: Arrow flight has changed w...
Last post by Jack Denbow - December 15, 2025, 06:24:33 PM
I had the same problem with a slide on quiver. I sold that sucker and bought a Great Northern and the problem went away. That was more than 30 years ago. I have been using Great Northern quivers ever since.
Jack.
#5
PowWow / Re: Beating target panic
Last post by Burnsie - December 15, 2025, 05:42:15 PM
Quote from: Rob DiStefano on December 13, 2025, 10:09:43 AMI'd beaten target panic perhaps twice in my lifetime of shooting that goes back to the mid 1950s. 

There was a time, a few years ago, when I just could not overcome TP.

I searched around the 'Net for help and found Joel Turner's website, signed up, and literally in less than an hour my TP was gone ... for good ... hasn't returned ... doubt it ever will.

So these are big words, but they're my words and my experience with learning to employ a "mechanoreceptive trigger" in my shot sequence that was the distraction that disconnected my brain thinking and allowed a push/pull release to naturally happen, whilst my actual aim remained the same as it always had been - focused solely on a pinpoint of the object I wanted my arrow to penetrate (aka "instinctive aiming").
Joel Turner is the real deal - some guys poo-poo his methods, but he has helped many.  I drove up to Michigan for one of his elk calling seminars years ago before he got really well known.  At the end of the of the elk calling portion of the seminar he went over shot mechanics and his method of making the "perfect" shot. My brother and I had a long conversation with him and by the time we left, he had given us coordinates for elk in SW Colorado - we have been going there since 2013.
#6
PowWow / Re: BCY-X?
Last post by Arctic Hunter - December 15, 2025, 05:40:31 PM
I've found some. Thanks everybody.
#7
PowWow / Re: BCY-X?
Last post by JohnV - December 15, 2025, 05:07:25 PM
Plenty for sale at eBay.  Not sure if it is the particular string material you want.
#8
PowWow / Re: Beating target panic
Last post by Orion - December 15, 2025, 04:34:59 PM
Agree that TP is a mental issue, but a couple of things can contribute to its development--too much shooting, competition and a bow that's too heavy. I was pretty good back in the day, winning most of the area shoots I attended. But I shot a lot, shot heavy bows, and eventually, the pressure to keep winning also began to get to me. My tp never exhibited itself in an early release, but rather and inability to let go of the string. I've worked on all kinds of shot sequences, mantras, clickers, etc., and most work for a while.  Like McDave, I'd say I have control over my shots about 80% of the time, but still manage to fall apart at the shot on occasion. I've only been at it 70 plus years.  I'll keep working on it.  :goldtooth:       
#9
PowWow / Re: Beating target panic
Last post by Jim Wright - December 15, 2025, 03:42:11 PM

Some years ago I was a better than average shooter and did well in 3d shoots. Diagnosing myself which I know is not generally reccomended, I self perfected and over-perfected my shooting into target panic but do not currently suffer from it.
What I discovered that helped me the most while I was recovering was that when it really got difficult, I benefited from not shooting at all for 3 to 4 weeks. When I returned to shooting it always amazed me how much better I was than when I had ceased shooting.
#10
PowWow / Re: What weight point?
Last post by Mint - December 15, 2025, 03:12:50 PM
You might want to try the Simmons MAKO at 125gr. My friend shoots a 38lb recurve and got amazing blood trails with them.

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