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Lots of snake activity where I am just North of Rockhampton. Have seen coastal taipan, browns and lots of tree snakes. Watched a black headed python strike a frog too...... need to get a camera. So, yes a good season for snakes this year I think. I wouldn't worry about snakes while you're sleeping, ...

I have had a very generous offer to try out some woods that I can play around with, so now patience I suppose.
If anyone knows the centreshot distance of the Mind 50? cheers,

That riser is very appealing to the eye mate.

Thanks for that info dmm and GrahameA, being new to all this I have been thinking long and hard, and also researching. What a great asset this forum is! So, I won't consider carbon because shooting off knuckle, I won't have the time (yet) to sort out a set of wood arrows, so I have decided that allo...

No worries, thanks Jeff. I have just been doing some forum searching and others have reported carbon arrows being hard to tune ie unresponsive to point weight changes. Is this one of the reasons you don't like carbon arras? If wood arras are the easiest to tune I will be going that way for sure? If ...

it's one of those recurved korean 'horse' bows, totally symmetrical, can be shot left or right handed. will be interesting...... and heaps of fun compared to my bloodwood selfbow

Thanks Rod, I'm thinking they might need a bit less spine to bend around the handle, as there is no shelf at all.

Jeff, Thanks mate. I'm near Rockhampton, Q. I think there is a bit of a bowhunters and also archery club based in the area. I will certainly be organising something soon. I was thinking of going for carbon arras, as they should remain consistent for longer? Although I would prefer all natural materi...

Hello all, I have just signed up here, hope all is well. I have loved archery ever since I was a small boy. I used to make a lot of selfbows back on the farm out of branches, with bullrushes as arrows. Anyway, the point is I have never actually picked up a proper bow in my life, so I have been looki...