Hope and Faith Sarrels of 2014

[fnshtr]

Picked up Ms. Hope this morning from the post office. Sure is pretty. Feels real good in the hand. Hope (no pun intended) to shoot her this evening.

I've had a jinx on me with turkeys... hoping that all changes in the coming days!

I'll do my best to keep the mojo going.

[elkken]

Good luck Wayne ....  

[fnshtr]

Thanks elkken.

Good luck fnshtr!

Bisch

[fnshtr]

Thanks Bisch...

I was sick two days this week and didn't get out with her until today. I was curious... but will have no problem shooting her out of my Primos GroundMax blind.

Pretty dead out today... no gobbling at all. Still enjoyed the morning.

[K.S.TRAPPER]

Hope Wayne is having some luck with Hope!      

Tracy

[fnshtr]

I've had some close calls... but no shots taken yet. Worked a longbeard for 2 hours Tuesday morning, he hung up at 50 yards. Don't know if he could see my dekes or not. Had 7 jakes in to about 25 yards yesterday, but no shot.

Love to shoot Hope while coming out of the woods. Real pleasure to shoot.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

[bofish-IL]

After reading Curt's (Guru) post about needing someone to use Miss Faith for the month of May I contacted Guru about trying it out.  Only problem is everything is out of season this late in May. My quarry was going to have to be some of the Mississippi River Carp, Gar, and Buffalo toward the end of May.  I also planned on seeing if I could connect with some of the jumping Silver Carp in the Illinois River.

Well all plans do not work out as we plan. Two days before Faith arrived I was admitted to the Hospital due to medical problems. So the chances of using Miss Faith for bow fishing look slim.

I will say one of the first things I asked my wife to do after being released from the hospital was to bring the package up from the basement. It has been many years since I shot a longbow. I have shot recurves for 25 of my 30 years with traditional equipment.

So for many days while I sat on the recliner with my leg propped up on pillows I held and admired the workmanship of this bow.  The wood grain on the limbs is fantastic.  The grip although somewhat smaller than I like, it still felt good in the hand and looked good. It is absolute torture to want to shoot something so bad and not be able to do so.

After a week and half I was given the OK to go to the range and shoot a little but was warned not to overdo it. The first couple shots did not hit close to where I was looking.  I then slowed down and concentrated more. Then after about 5 more shots it was apparent my recurve arrows spine was to stiff for the longbow since they all hit to the right about 4 inches.

I found the 23/64 tapered cedar shafts I had recently made shot well from Miss Faith and I was having a good group at 15 yards. I was really impressed at how easy it was to pull and hold the 60" bow at anchor. I was also pleased it shot the arrows with some authority.

Unfortunately I was only able to take her Bow fishing once and shot 5 Buffalo fish and 1 Gar. Attached is a photo of the biggest Buffalo at 17.5 lb.

 

I could not walk the local range due to a bum leg for their 50 - 3D target shoot.  I did however shoot Miss Faith at the standing Elk from 20 yards and had a decent group with the 5 arrows. I just wish I could have put her on some more action.




Early next week I will ship her on to the June Shooter.

[fnshtr]

Congrats bofish-il!!

While I did not take a turkey with Ms. Hope, it wasn't her fault. Had lots of fun with her. My 400 spined carbons were a little stiff for her.

Real nice bow... thoroughly enjoyed her.

Big thanks to Tradgang and Bob Sarrels for the opportunity.

Also want to thank Nittany Rider as he was supposed to have her for May but wasn't able to take her due to a physical problem. (Hope you are much better now).

Hope is on her way to Jim Dussias (tarpon nut). Good luck Jim!

Wayne (fnshtr)

[Bud B.]

Bofish-Il

What are the specs on your tapered cedars? Length, Point weight? Your draw length? I may order up a set from Wapiti since you got yours flying so well. Nice group!!

I have Faith in Sept...our deer opener is the second Sat in Sept and I'll be recently RETIRED!!

 

[bofish-IL]

Bud all I can tell you is, I had a bunch of POC cedars that I had spined around 60 to 65 lbs. before I tapered them. I never checked the spine after I tapered them. They had been laying around for a year or more  but were cut to 28.5 inches with a 160 gr. point. 4 fletch My draw is 27"

Good Luck with Miss Faith

[Bud B.]

That's good. I have quite a selection of woodies  

Thank you.

[Guru]

I received Miss faith from Elmer last week. Didn't get to do anything with her for a couple days.

When I did finally get to handle her a bit it was easy to see she was a fine weapon!

Smooth, and FAST!!!

So with some time today, I finally got the chance to catch up a bit...

One thing I really needed to do was get caught up on our Miss Faith story.

I'll get right to it....

Last Saturday I ran my first ever Spartan race. So needless to say I was starting to get pretty sore Sunday morning when it was time to get up and go hit the river.  

Cade had had a big day as well Saturday and decided to pass on Sunday...Big Mistake!!

It turned out to be one of my best ever bowfishing outings....I hit the spawn perfect!

A few teaser pix and a video I threw together quick...
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Here's the video...
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRGNdfkpqj0

[bofish-IL]

Nice video Guru. I like the lead in and the way you made it. I didn't realize you shot left handed also. I bet all those rocks are hard on tips especially on misses.

You know you could of showed a few misses to make the rest of us feel good.

If you don't mind me asking what type of camera did you use to video this. Was it mounted on your hat or what?  Good Job.

[Soonerlongbow]

Is August still open for Faith?

Congrats bowfish-IL and Curt!

Bisch

[sheephunter]

X2 what Bisch said!

[Bud B.]

Originally posted by Soonerlongbow:
Is August still open for Faith?

Page one shows chinook907 has it for Aug.

[chinook907]

Yes I'm signed up for the Faith bow in August.  Anyone know who has Faith in July ?  Page 1 shows it as no one; if so I'd take her a little early just for more practice time.