HH BUG GOT ME - Part Two!

[Brianlocal3]

Your right, you need a tournent bow, a squirrell bow, deer bow , turkey bow....well you get the point. LOL

[far rider]

There I was poking fun while James was working Rob into a Vixen, minding my own business....well, sorta...and before I knew it.....BAM!!!

What's this?????

[far rider]

oops....double post...compooter slow!

I gotta go to a thing at my son's high school. Back in a few.
Then the evil will be revealed!!!!!

Brian I hope your wrong. While I intend to keep at least one right hand bow and one shorter back up left hand bow, I am committed to being a one bow bowhunter. I even gave away my shotgun.

[far rider]

So while I slumber at night, the evil Empire, aka Mudd's Merry Men and accompaniment are hard at work, toiling for my Hill soul. Hard they work posting and chatting amongst themselves like a scene from MacBeth. "Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble" were chanted time and time again. From darkness somewhere in Mudd's very land comes the calling from the bowels of bowdom. "Go northwest, northwest" comes the call. "The bow you seek is northwest".

I awake night after night, sweating, dizzy and disorientated. What could the dream mean, what is this magical land called "northwest". Each day I busy myself with work, with chores. At night I drink coffee and dare the night to approach. It comes all the same and the dreams with it.

Night after night the dreams come until suddenly a message from this land called Missouri and with it the key to it all. Like the wishful guitarist who stands at the crossroads anticipating Ole' Scratch, I await the offering.

As I awake one starry night I realize it's not a dream, but reality and opportunity. KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK comes the pounding on my door. Who am I to resist such temptation? How is a mere mortal to withstand the constant onslaught? "Come in, Come in" says I.

Then, as if the fog lifts, the moon steps aside and the "North Star" shines with all the answers there revealed in wondrous lines of symmetry and glorious form.


       

     

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North Star takes its place along side such greats as Wesley, Halfbreed, Redman, and Cheetah.

Tim

[antler chaser]

Good looking bow far rider!
I'm curious,while we are on the brace height subject, I have always pondered if you have a  longer draw if your bh is higher? 31'' plus.I seem to run 6''3/4 to 7 so how about you long draw HH shooters, what do you run for a bh?

[Brianlocal3]

Far rider,
Now that is a bow introduction, but I must say you may want to leave the egg nog alone for a little while. LOL. You have picked up an absolute stunning bow.  Those limbs are mesmerizing.

[Mudd]

I fear that we disagree...rather than a " nightmarish dooming" you got a "Blessing".

Your "Morning Star" not only has beauty but it has added "Mojo" from two of us.

It is true that it's total deer numbers has been diminished by one but there's a bunch left it for the future.

Enjoy!!

God bless,Mudd

[RC]

My homemade string follow nabs #6 for the year.

[far rider]

Great doe there RC. Looking forward to seeing you at the Hog fest this year.

Good question there Steve. I draw long and am interested to see the answers.

Brian, you can't imagine how lucky I was on this one. Just fell out of the sky....no pun intended.

Tim

[Overspined]

Significant noise comes from the string hitting an arm guard with a low brace. Helping my dad tune his bow, it took a few shots to realize that the noise was from that and not the arrow. We hunt so we took care of that real quick.

PAVAN, 20 fps for 1" of brace??? Really?  Cut your bow nocks in backwards on any longbow and I doubt you lose 20!        

[Overspined]

That is what John said for his bows, I got that letter around here somewhere.  I believe that he said a max of 6" for my bow, so that is where I kept it.  I do not know if that would apply to a thinner cored bow, I could see how it could restrict a thick cored bow, if the brace was too high it could prevent the whip end tips from following through.  I did see how brace could affect speed once with my son's Timberline that 3/4" made about 10 fps according a chrono. He was experimenting trying to get a lighter head to fly on some shafts that were just a bit too stiff. He let the twists back out and went with a heavier head.  Different bows have different mechanics. I could believe that the reverse trap of your Northern mist bows would have quite different mechanics than a Schulz.

I could not find the personal letter from John, but I did find the sheet that came with one of my Schulz bows.
To get the maximum efficiency, the bow should never be braced higher than 6" nor less than 5&3/4" fistmele. A higher bracing can cause a loss in speed of up to 20 fps. The nocking point should be approximately 1/16" above horizontal.

[cahaba]

Good info guys and gals.

[Ric O'Shay]

Congrats on #6 RC! Looks as if I won't be able to get back out till after Christmas. I'll try to find the mojo that came with Keeper Kat.

[Brianlocal3]

RC,
The deer have joined ranks and are official putting you on the terrorist watch list in the swamps.  You are like the Carlos Hathcock of the swamps

[Blaino]

Originally posted by antler chaser:
Good looking bow far rider!
I'm curious,while we are on the brace height subject, I have always pondered if you have a  longer draw if your bh is higher? 31'' plus.I seem to run 6''3/4 to 7 so how about you long draw HH shooters, what do you run for a bh?

I draw right at 30" and shoot my 70" Wesley at 6"... started out around 6.75" and backed it down until the bow said "right there" and that turned out to be 6"

Don't worry with number until your bow is set up the way it wants to be shot and then write them down for later reference.

[Gordon Jabben]

I now have my new NM Whisper bow and have done a little shooting with it.  I played around with the brace height and there was a noticeable drop in speed when I raised the brace height from 6 1/2" to 7 1/2".  How much, I don't know but you could tell it was slower.  It certainly was whisper quiet at the higher brace height.  I think it is as quick as any Hill style bow of the same weight at the lower brace.

[smoke1953]

For me when the bow turns quiet everything else is secondary.