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Damn those Montana bows are beautiful!!

Thanks Chase,

I'll check those out too and I've also contacted a couple of Australian bowyers too. I like the idea of supporting some of the local craftsmen too and Aussie timbers are some of the most beautiful in the world.

Thanks

Simon

Ben,

What are those Silvertips like to shoot, they're fine looking bows. How much do they cost?

Cheers

Simon

Ok so my custom bow STILL isn't here and they haven't even started building it and they can't tell me when they will start either so it's been about 16 - 17 months already without any work starting. So they have now offered to give me a deposit refund but I'm still gutted, the wait and the image I h...

I'm planning to have a go at making a pyramid board bow in the next few weeks and I would prefer to use native hardwoods rather than cheap smelly imports (like me) :wink: . Anyone have any ideas what the best timbers are? I know spotted gum is one but any others too (particularly Victorian species)....

Yes Murray CMA may have funding but that is my point, there are certain areas that have been given higher priority funding and one of those is the Murray CMA with a number of huge projects funded, however other areas haven't been so lucky so this plan may not be applicable across Aus only in certain...

Mardi Gras arrows!! I think thats taking OHS and hi vis to the extreme.

Dennis, Thanks for that, a very informative and insightful post from you as always. I've been using that deeper hook since this was first posted and haven't had any problems with my fingers, I think my improved grouping was more to do with increased training as opposed to the deep hook and the lack ...

The farmer could see a return for his efforts by grants and tax breaks given to him for returning his land to the animals of Australia The funding for those sorts of grants have all but dried up unless landholders have properties in areas that have been earmarked by feds and state as being in high ...

bloody feral weed!! Not sure about the timber but the tree when I see them always seem to be falling apart.

I wonder if albinoism in the roos is becoming more common due to the lack of natural hunting pressure (natural selection) from dingoes and man? Because they're not exactly the best camo when hiding from predators.

beautiful animal!! But the devils are the bane of my job at the moment they munching little bleeders

I gave up smoking about 20 years ago , doc told me that my asthma was so bad that if I didn't give up smoking it wouldn't be a case that I might be dead in a year it would be a certainty , I just put the packet I had in my pocket in the bin and the other half a carton stayed in the cupboard for ano...

I'm still interested Leigh, just started a new job so waiting for pay to come in in a week or so and I'll sort it out. I'll pm you when it does.

Simon

Hi Dennis, I've been thinking about using dowel for awhile now. A mate gets bails of the stuff from a manufacturer in Melb who sells it for about $100 a bail (enough to fit in an oil drum) because they're all too short for bunnings. What timber are you using, the pines or the vic ash/tassie oak dowe...

fantastic photos and beautiful birds!!

Here's one I made from venison from a mates farm. Rich Mans Lancashire hot pot 4 Med sized Potatoes 1 large onion handful of mushrooms (I hardly weigh things out) venison (better if its the crappy cuts and still on the bone as it adds flavour) Oysters Bacon tbl spoon of butter Cup beef stock or veni...

Steve, Should take a maximum of about an hour and half from Tulla airport, I work down there and it takes me about 1h 15min to get home (Ballarat) in rush hour but I take the back road via Toolern Vale. Last time I spoke to Wayne it was on but that was a few weeks ago, its starting to get nice up he...

Looseplucker, I agree not interested in the whole trophy thing after all the lions head looks much better left on the animal than on the wall. I think originally the idea of trophy hunting of big game in Africa was about population management and creating an alternative industry for local communitie...

Sounds like a nice clean kill and the fella didn't even realise, good work!

Goat makes great Curry

Damn right, best ever curry I had was slow cooked goat on the bone!

Simon

Grahame, Very generous of you to donate a bow to them, if their obsession with Archery is anything like the Nepalese then they will sure as hell treasure that gift. Looked like fun! They said it was different - the opoosition stand downs near the targets and yell at you to try and put you off. Love ...

Interesting article here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_ne ... 993557.stm

Who would be game enough to hunt a big cat with a bow?!!?!

Leigh, Will we be doing some work on the staves in the workshop? I probably won't be able to come down during the week to work on the staves because of work so be good to get something done in the workshop. Certainly excited by this development though!!

Simon

Hi Grahame, All across Sikkim, India and Bhutan archery is hugely popular. Where we have the footy oval/cricket oval in towns and villages they have archery ranges. A friend of mine is Limbuan from East Nepal/Sikkim and they have frequent festivals related to archery. She said the reason towns were ...

Thanks Alan, I was planning to use acetone until you posted this!! Water will do just fine for me.

Hue, will give the paint a go and if thats a total failure then I might consider the wraps. Moreton, thanks its reassuring to know others have had success doing it. I wanted to get woods but I had some advice here and there that ended up putting me off a little bit, well at least until I stop killin...

Thanks guys, I've got myself some paint, not sure if it will stick but if not then they'll look pretty for the first few hours of shooting at least. Should I paint first and then fletch or fletch and then paint around it? I'll be painting by hand on a battered old arrow to see how it goes if not the...

Hi guys, been thinking of getting into wooden arrows and making up a set of nicely painted and fletched arrows for the up coming Ballarat shoot in October, only problem is that I'm still hitting the odd inanimate object that isn't the target (trees and the odd rock) so it could be expensive for me. ...

I thought the same about the asymetry of the points but at 62,000 years I think time has taken its toll. Its also possible that once some of them were past their use by dates as points then they were re knapped as other tools, if that is the case then it's likely to be mentioned in the paper. It cou...

"But the long gaps in the subsequent record of bows and arrows may mean that regular use of these weapons did not come until much later. "Indeed, the concept of bows and arrows may even have had to be reinvented many millennia [later]." Or perhaps early low density populations would ...