Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on August 22, 2009, 06:31:57 PM
Wishing all a successful and safe season. Looking forward to reading everybodies hunting stories and viewing all your pictures also. On that note I am going out to shoot a little before it gets dark. :)
Post by: ELKBURGER on August 22, 2009, 06:38:13 PM
Post by: firedog on August 22, 2009, 06:42:34 PM
Post by: ELKBURGER on August 22, 2009, 07:03:49 PM
Post by: rooselk on August 22, 2009, 07:20:33 PM
Post by: Matt on August 22, 2009, 07:51:43 PM
Post by: Crunchy on August 22, 2009, 07:55:09 PM
Post by: 7mag. on August 22, 2009, 09:54:16 PM
Post by: Matt on August 23, 2009, 10:09:06 AM
Post by: 7mag. on August 23, 2009, 11:44:32 AM
2 weeks is even better. shot good last year it will shoot good this year. Why waiste good shots on practice. :dunno:
:chuckle:
Post by: ICEMAN on August 23, 2009, 12:34:50 PM
Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on August 23, 2009, 02:11:41 PM
Don't worry Iceman I have rifle hunted my entire life since 11 years of age. Does the words Pray and Spray ring a bell.
Unfortunatley there are quite a few archers who carry that over from rifle hunting into archery hunting. WOW!
If we are going to be successful at our chosen method of hunting practice is absolutley necessary. It just so happens that it takes a little more practice to be successful at archery than it does rifle hunting. :twocents: I have done both for a long time and I have nothing against rifle hunters. All I am saying is I have done the pray and spray and it does not work. Unless you get out and practice all types of shooting with your rifle, prone, kneeling, standing, leaning on the limb of a tree, laying over your back pack, leaning over a large boulder etc, etc, etc, you are not gonna be ready. From what I have seen over the years, being that I am also a rifle hunter, The majority of rifle hunters sight there rifles in the last two weeks before the season opens and they don't practice shooting otherwise during the course of the year. Hence my comment. :dunno:
Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 23, 2009, 02:14:15 PM
Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on August 23, 2009, 02:15:24 PM
Post by: mossback91 on August 23, 2009, 02:30:26 PM
BUT I saw these Monster bows at the bow shop and :o :) dude shooting 47lbs out of one was shooting just as fast as a 70 pound bowtech :yike:
I want one!
Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on August 23, 2009, 02:40:47 PM
Post by: Matt on August 23, 2009, 04:24:39 PM
"Rifle hunter mentality" ?
If I can hit a pie plate at 60 yards better that 50% of the time then I can hit an elk. :EAT:
Post by: mossback91 on August 23, 2009, 04:42:26 PM
You and me both........Once my financial situation improves we will be there!!!!!!!!!
I didnt even look at the price :(
Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on August 23, 2009, 06:09:11 PM
"Rifle hunter mentality" ?
If I can hit a pie plate at 60 yards better that 50% of the time then I can hit an elk. :EAT:
If you are shooting at a pie plate your are screwing yourself out of an elk IMO!!!!!!!!!!
At 60 yards you should be shooting at a target the size of a DIME :dunno: Pie plates destroy archers abilities!!!!
Post by: mossback91 on August 23, 2009, 06:12:24 PM
Post by: WonkyWapiti on August 23, 2009, 06:28:03 PM
Post by: demontang on August 23, 2009, 08:12:28 PM
Post by: elkman11032 on August 23, 2009, 10:24:01 PM
but I am dead on and cant wait.... gonna start tuning broadheads this week.. mmmmm tomorrow morning... ya that sounds better
elkman
Post by: Dadbear on August 23, 2009, 10:27:02 PM
Post by: Matt on August 24, 2009, 07:45:03 AM
"Rifle hunter mentality" ?
If I can hit a pie plate at 60 yards better that 50% of the time then I can hit an elk. :EAT:
If you are shooting at a pie plate your are screwing yourself out of an elk IMO!!!!!!!!!!
At 60 yards you should be shooting at a target the size of a DIME :dunno: Pie plates destroy archers abilities!!!!
Can't see a dime at sixty yards. Besides an elk is huge, you can't miss them even further out.
Post by: Matt on August 24, 2009, 07:46:24 AM
Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on August 24, 2009, 09:21:23 AM
Yep that's the rifle hunter mentality all right. You nailed it!
Post by: SpokaneSlayer on August 24, 2009, 09:26:42 AM
Post by: BULLBLASTER on August 24, 2009, 09:30:55 AM
Post by: Angus on August 24, 2009, 12:44:05 PM
Post by: JBar on August 24, 2009, 07:16:41 PM
Post by: PolarBear on August 24, 2009, 07:24:15 PM
Post by: Matt on August 25, 2009, 07:11:20 AM
Post by: boneaddict on August 25, 2009, 07:15:29 AM
Post by: Hillbilly270 on August 25, 2009, 07:31:10 AM
Post by: WonkyWapiti on August 25, 2009, 12:58:49 PM
Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on August 25, 2009, 03:59:21 PM
Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on August 25, 2009, 08:54:28 PM
Of course that was with one of them crappy cheap "Wasp Bullets"!
Post by: uplandhunter870 on August 27, 2009, 05:39:22 PM
Been practicing for a while now and my fletchings are showing wear on them. I shoot with the odd color up. why are my fletchings hitting my rest? its driving me crazy.......i have a trophy taker and the experts at cabelas just moved my nock point up along with the rest so it would lay down flatter. think they could be hitting the plastic arrow alignment hooskerdoo that is out beyond the rest? Or am i supposed to shoot with the odd color fletching down? thanks,
i had the same problem Hillbilly a while back. i tore off that arrow alignment thingy that helped a bunch but still had some fletch contact so i put the arrow, odd color up, on the string and ever so slightly twisted the arrow and shot until i didnt have any more fletch contact.
and i shoot year round, launching sticks is just too much fun to do once a year! everything is shooting lights out. just need to shoot my broadheads over the weekend to make any slight adjustments that may be needed
Post by: xXx Archery on August 29, 2009, 07:02:25 AM