Ozbow

Welcome, John! I have made more than one selfbow and Glenn has made at least 2 that I know of, so we are interested. It's pretty hard not to make 3 if you can find the wood, so we are on your side. You will find that this site will be a minefield of info to help you and anyone who knows anything at ...

Erron,
I will send you the final copy which I posted today. It is a public document now, so there is no problem with publishing it.

Dennis La Varenne

Thankyou folks for what you are doing for us Vics. All is appreciated. I have just posted the final draft of the submission of the Shooting Sports Council of Victoria in my position as Secretary of that organization. It seems that there has been a cosiderable groundswell against the proposed regs fr...

Erron, It wouldn't make a scrap of difference to me. I think that we have a remarkable resource in this site for the preservation and dissemination of trad business and skills. As a group, we cannot afford to lose this tenuous connection with our past. It was wonderful how trads jumped in at the dro...

Erron, What you have posted here is fine. I suggest the following small amendments. 2nd para - which has been brought to my attention by the Shooting Sports Council of Victoria. I consider that it completely refutes all of the justifications of the RIS for the proposed regulations. and later; I woul...

Erron,

Yes, the postal address should be St Andrews Place, and yes, you certainly can email your submission to Chris Shea at his email address.

I will email you the VicNats submission tonight, Wednesday.

Dennis La Varenne

Erron, I have posted a bit on dynamic spine on the thread about Tusker Concordes which Glenn Newell may like to review. He is correct in his explanation of the two terms. Static spine is what is registered on a spine jig and dynamic spine is its actual behaviour in the bow up until it straightens ou...

Jackrat, In addition to the above, by way of further explanation about the reduction in dynamic spine, you can actually break an arrow by putting an excessively heavy weight on the head of an arrow. I have done it for an experiment. You can try it using a lump of lead as a head if you like but put o...

Jackrat, These posts advising on your arrow/head combination are pretty much correct. Stickbowhunter and I used to judge the arrow making and craftsmanship awards at the Maryborough Longbow Muster for years and after some research, we devised a set of 9 criteria, 5 of which guaranteed arrows which w...

Jackrat, That is an excellent idea about the replaceable tips. It would add considerable strength to the arrow just behind the head as well. MIK, what's with the camo arrows???? Aren't they hard enough to find as it is??? The critters will see you moving through the bush long before they see arrows ...

Gilnockie, Further to the above, I believe that Howard Hill overcame his problem of with bamboo nodes by gluing parallel-ground laminates of bamboo together and backing this stave with another laminate of outer bamboo with the rind and nodes on it. He the glued his handle block on it and simply trea...

Gilnockie, As MarkP has just posted, Soapwood is probably not an option for you because it is not commercially available. Mine was cut whilst I was in Qld. But, I am looking around and trying out Vic hardwoods when I can. I have rarely backed any of my selfwood bows, and when I did, it was only beca...

To all - On this matter of the regulatory impact statement (RIS) put out by the Justice Department of Victoria, proposing to make crossbows, all manner of swords and imitation explosives as prohibited weapons, you can read all about it in the RIS document which can be downloaded under the Justice De...

To all - The above quoted document warning about the intentions of the proposed Control of Weapons (Amendment) Regulations 2003 is from the office of the Spokesman for Police and Emergency Services of the Victorian Nationals Party, Dr Bill Sykes, MP. SSCV stands for Shooting Sports Council of Victor...

Erron, The bit re not taking front quartering shots was taken from the ABA submission on allowing deer hunting using bows in Tasmania. It was part of a suggested Code of Practice , not a Code of Ethics . The two quotes you have taken from my post are examples of each - the former is a code of ethics...

No worries Jackrat. You've got a pisser of a signature old son. I wish I had thought of it. I don't mind people disagreeing with me at all, so long as they can put forward an alternative argument which someone else can test out to verify it. I am happy to admit I am wrong on an issue if it can be de...

Jackrat, I am not put offside by a differing opinion. Away you go! That is what we are about here. The end result is that if it can be proven to work for many/most people rather than just for me, then the proposition is valid. In the following, I am talking only about straight handled longbows and p...

Q1. Yes, it would stop lower feather wear. That is a classic symptom of the nock point too low. Q2. Lower profile feathers work if they are longer. It is the feather surface area which creates the drag effect to keep the arrow's **** behind its head. Also, if the bow/arrow weight goes up so must its...

Wood for me. Is there anything else? I seem to remember some coot talking about this new fangled deal of arrrows made out of tin or plastic or somesuch. Not sure if I believe it though. Can't see as how a bloke can plane down a bit of aluminium bar stock to make a dowel. I reckon someone's having us...

Butch Speer, the points system we are talking about is the Douglas measuring (trophy scoring system) similar to the Pope and Young or the Boon and Crockett systems in the USA. For some trophy (bone) collectors, their accumulation for the Weatherby trophy or a bowhunting equivalent over there becomes...

To Mik from Gippsland, what everyone else has been saying about not mixing feathers on the same arrow is correct, but I seriously doubt that shooting 3 lefts and 3 rights into a group will make much difference unless you are an Olympic archer shooting at long distance . . . or Byron Ferguson. With r...

Is hunting a sport??? No, it isn't. A sport is a game, usually competitive with a winner and loser, principally as an enertainment. I realise that this can apply to a lot of the hunting as it is done today with the emphasis upon accumulating hunting award fly-bys. In another post, I have made a coup...

Erron, Griffo, Glen and others, Thank you for your kind thoughts on my post. Erron, do what you think is appropriate in regard to it, including the other material. One or two of the sentences are a bit cumbersome and need rewriting for clarity, but obviously, it seems to have been understood. I did ...

Erron and others, I am writing this rather longish post in response to some of the opinions expressed on this thread (I believe that is what these sites are referred to). Happily, I find that most of them express a concern for the animals that we hunt which is refreshing in today's perverted hunting...