What did you do today?

Living_waters · January 12, 2012, 10:03:00 AM

Sweet DVS, I only have 3 afternoons left to hunt, I signed up for a flintknapping class at cahokia saturday so that knocks out my only whole day left to hunt.
Dont know if it is prophetic or not but since we didnt have any backstrap in the freezer I laid out a turkey breast for supper.

DVSHUNTER · January 12, 2012, 10:15:00 AM

Thanks all. I have been shooting like mad the last part off the season. I only was able to hunt seven times this past season and took two deer, so no complaints here.
LW- good luck!

Now that me bow.season is over im back to building.

Living_waters · January 12, 2012, 11:00:00 AM

OK now you just sucked all the wind out of my sail LOL 7 times 2 deer? Have you tried letting them off the chain and then shooting them like we do down here in the bootheel LOL jk

DVSHUNTER · January 12, 2012, 11:44:00 AM

I jist shoot the little tasty ones. They are easier to handle all oround. Besides i have three mounted and no more room till i move.

Living_waters · January 12, 2012, 02:38:00 PM

I like the gourmet deer also

Stiks-n-Strings · January 12, 2012, 02:42:00 PM

MMMMMM! young tender vittles.

Stiks-n-Strings · January 13, 2012, 04:10:00 PM

Cut an osage log today and gonna rough out a boo backed hill style bow that I glued up yesterday.

Roy from Pa · January 13, 2012, 04:17:00 PM

Here is a tasty one for ya DVS..

DVSHUNTER · January 13, 2012, 05:55:00 PM

Way to go roy!

Living_waters · January 13, 2012, 07:16:00 PM

Dang you all, either they are tied up or your shooting them in the yard NO FAIR.

DVSHUNTER · January 13, 2012, 11:28:00 PM

Roy shot hit his with a car and took a picture with his bow. The driveway is a dead giveaway.

I cut up my deer today. My wife requested deer burger so thats up for tomorrow.

Diamondback59 · January 13, 2012, 11:35:00 PM

dang dvs haha quit pickin on ol worry haha hope i aint gtta hog tie ya both in elk camp lolol glad u got that buck haha save me a lil steak lookin to be 2 more weeks befor im outta here worked on the take down handel s tonite ya im still peeved about em lol brock

DVSHUNTER · January 14, 2012, 07:32:00 PM

That pretty much tells me i wont like one of them sleeves then brock. Thanks for the heads up. I will just wait till you come up with something.

Me and the boy finished up the deer tonight. It was noce to have some help.

KellyG · January 14, 2012, 07:42:00 PM

I bought a grain scale and found out that my first attempt at them primitive arrows came out at over 100grains different for the 4 I still have. One was 730gr then 715 I thought that was cool it was the first 2 I weighed. Then I put one on that I thought was lighter and it was 584gr. Then the last was 630. Oh well don't tell the deer I killed with one of them that he was killed with such a mismatched set of arrows.

DVSHUNTER · January 14, 2012, 10:32:00 PM

Kelly, perhaps that would explain the miss on the first shot? Thats good to onow though. I really want some cane shafts eventually.

KellyG · January 14, 2012, 11:06:00 PM

Naw DVS I had practiced with all the arrows and was comfortable with them all at that distance and could keep them all in a pie plate at 10yrds easy enough. I just missed.

I will try to keep my arrows closer to weight though just for longer shots.

KellyG · January 14, 2012, 11:07:00 PM

Naw DVS I had practiced with all the arrows and was comfortable with them all at that distance and could keep them all in a pie plate at 10yrds easy enough. I just missed.

I will try to keep my arrows closer to weight though just for longer shots.

DVSHUNTER · January 15, 2012, 01:13:00 AM

Fair enough kelly. I was just giving tou a way out.

stringstretcher · January 15, 2012, 05:52:00 AM

Kelly, what did you make your arrows from?

SEMO_HUNTER · January 15, 2012, 12:23:00 PM

I finally took the leap to making endless loop strings and built my jig last night. Made my first string this morning for a "new to me" Horne's Brush Bow. The bow was making some noise that silencers wouldn't get rid of so I figured it was the string, so I took it off and measured it and it was only 2" shorter than the AMO length.....much too long and it was already twisted to the max. My first string turned out real good except the loops were bigger than I intended. All good though it works great and wouldn't you know it......at proper brace ht. of 7.5" and a pair of cat whiskers it's super quiet. Plus it hits right where I'm looking and didn't seem to notice any loss in performance from using my old school B50 Dacron either.

The jig turned out great and Rob's tutorial in the Resources section made it fairly painless. I think I'm done with Flemish twist strings, I like the endless loops much better and I haven't noticed near as much stretching so far.
Kind of a fun way to spend a weekend when it's cold/wind blowing a gale and it's one of the things I had on my "To do list" anyway.

Now I'm gonna make a big pot of deer chili. :p