2021 Rokslide Cold Bow Challenge Question/Comment Thread

[Billy Goat]

I want!

Come to the shore. Long history of it back in the market days.

Now you just look at them in a museum.





Of course a little corn in the water helped.

 

[robby denning]

Come to the shore. Long history of it back in the market days.

Now you just look at them in a museum.





Of course a little corn in the water helped.

aren't those like 2 gauge or -3 or something?

 

[Billy Goat]

aren't those like 2 gauge or -3 or something?

Mostly 2 gauge. Some 4.

I'm not sure that an 8 gauge isn't technically a punt gun. I mean, they were outlawed.

 

[robby denning]

Mostly 2 gauge. Some 4.

I'm not sure that an 8 gauge isn't technically a punt gun. I mean, they were outlawed.

I was thinking you’d probably want to be pretty far back from those ducks to make sure you had anything left to eat


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[Reburn]

I was thinking you’d probably want to be pretty far back from those ducks to make sure you had anything left to eat


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Was quite a bit easier in those days with lead.

 

[Billy Goat]

Was quite a bit easier in those days with lead.

Don't forget the corn and live "callers".


Everything was easy back in the day.

Well, except living.

 

[Rodéo]

Very pumped to have won a prize this year! Very much looking forward to trying out pyro putty.

Thanks again to @robby denning, rokslide, the mods, and everyone who competed in the challenge! CBC is one of my favorite parts of rokslide and I look forward to it every year (even though I sucked this year).

Cheers!

 

[robby denning]

Hit my first 3D of the year. Shot Ok compared to the pack but a little better for me than usual. I’m usually about middle of the pack but out of 200 (or 220 if counting 10x ring) shot 183 on the A course and 176 on B (did a bunch of dumb stuff as I got tired, like I would range it and then forget the range and hold wrong).

But i’m about 500 arrows in for the year now, and the CBC definitely got the rust out for me.

Feeling like I’m getting back to where I used to be before I took the winter off. #ThatWasDumb

Hit a little low on those three!

Hope you guys can get out for a few shoots. It’ll help you a lot.


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[bbckfh]

You know what else I learned from this...? That I’m going to have to re-learn my bow completely.

My brothers came to visit and, being the first bow any of us have owned, I let them shoot. The older brother lost an arrow and a nock at ten yards. The younger brother dry fired it and now I need new strings (hopefully not more).

So after it goes back to get checked out and re-strung, I’ll get to retune it from the ground up.

Thankfully, as my targets here show, I’m not so advanced that that won’t be a significant bump in the road.


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[Reburn]

You know what else I learned from this...? That I’m going to have to re-learn my bow completely.

My brothers came to visit and, being the first bow any of us have owned, I let them shoot. The older brother lost an arrow and a nock at ten yards. The younger brother dry fired it and now I need new strings (hopefully not more).

So after it goes back to get checked out and re-strung, I’ll get to retune it from the ground up.

Thankfully, as my targets here show, I’m not so advanced that that won’t be a significant bump in the road.


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Bows are like underware and wives. Best not to share.

 

[robby denning]

You know what else I learned from this...? That I’m going to have to re-learn my bow completely.

My brothers came to visit and, being the first bow any of us have owned, I let them shoot. The older brother lost an arrow and a nock at ten yards. The younger brother dry fired it and now I need new strings (hopefully not more).

So after it goes back to get checked out and re-strung, I’ll get to retune it from the ground up.

Thankfully, as my targets here show, I’m not so advanced that that won’t be a significant bump in the road.


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Dang, the crack of a dry-fire sounds like money burning. How’d he dry fire it?

I had to learn the hard way to never draw my bow without an arrow on it. Just too much can go wrong. I’ve also noticed when I’m around new guys, especially the kind that want to show you how strong they are, they always want to draw my bow. I will not let them touch it without an arrow on it.


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[robby denning]

Bows are like underware and wives. Best not to share.

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[bbckfh]

Bows are like underware and wives. Best not to share.

Yeah, “it’s all in the family” doesn’t apply to quite a few things.


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[Billy Goat]

Bows are like underware and wives. Best not to share.

Can we have a nomination for post of the month??


Epic....

 

[Billy Goat]

Hit my first 3D of the year. Shot Ok compared to the pack but a little better for me than usual. I’m usually about middle of the pack but out of 200 (or 220 if counting 10x ring) shot 183 on the A course and 176 on B (did a bunch of dumb stuff as I got tired, like I would range it and then forget the range and hold wrong).

But i’m about 500 arrows in for the year now, and the CBC definitely got the rust out for me.

Feeling like I’m getting back to where I used to be before I took the winter off. #ThatWasDumb

Hit a little low on those three!

Hope you guys can get out for a few shoots. It’ll help you a lot.


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That known or unknown?


Big difference.

 

[Jimbob]

On the topic of SHARING bows:


A bunch of years ago I sold my old bow to family friends. He was new and I set it up and gave him lessons so all good right?

A couple of weeks later they tell me how they were all out shooting the new bow. Their aunt couldn't pull the bow back so

HE DREW THE BOW THEN WITH THE HELP OF OTHERS PASSED THE BOW AT FULL DRAW TO HIS AUNT SO SHE COULD SHOOT IT.

Miraculously no one was injured and no equipment broke. This took the idea of sharing a bow to a whole new level.

 

[sndmn11]

HE DREW THE BOW THEN WITH THE HELP OF OTHERS PASSED THE BOW AT FULL DRAW TO HIS AUNT SO SHE COULD SHOOT IT.

Miraculously no one was injured and no equipment broke. This took the idea of sharing a bow to a whole new level.

When I was in college I saved up and bought myself a Mathews Switchback. I was checking out the rest timing on my Trophy Taker by drawing it back with fingers and no arrow on the string. When I peeked my head around to the shelf side for a side view the string rolled off the idler and out of my fingers for a dry fire. The D loop made an L cut 1/2" x 1/2" on the inside of my wrist on top of the radial artery. Seeing that guy pulse and exposed made me faint and I hit the table breaking my nose. Lesson learned that day on a few different things.

 

[thegoosano]

These last two posts just gave me so much anxiety


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[robby denning]

That known or unknown?


Big difference.

Oh always known for me bud. I like my arrows This shoot isn’t a competition but a personal best but there’s some guys that go unknown.


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[robby denning]

When I was in college I saved up and bought myself a Mathews Switchback. I was checking out the rest timing on my Trophy Taker by drawing it back with fingers and no arrow on the string. When I peeked my head around to the shelf side for a side view the string rolled off the idler and out of my fingers for a dry fire. The D loop made an L cut 1/2" x 1/2" on the inside of my wrist on top of the radial artery. Seeing that guy pulse and exposed made me faint and I hit the table breaking my nose. Lesson learned that day on a few different things.

Dude!!!!!!


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