When I lived out there the Springs wasn't so bad as I hear it is now. 09-12. I had long weekends to play in the mountains so spent as little time as possible in the city. If I could've swung it, I'd have moved over to Woodland Park. Not sure how it is around there now, but a buddy that lived...
37 yards (paced off), whitetail doe. 55# Robertson Mystical from a tree.
45ish yards cottontail bunny in a horizontal rock crevice while hiking into a fishing spot in the CO mountains when I lived out there.
35ish yards Blue Grouse head shot on a game trail while hiking in with rifle toting...
I've carried bows up to 66" for many years without any problems, even shooting from trees while sitting down. With that said, I prefer something in the 62-64" range nowadays. I only draw 28" but the extra bow length is smooth-drawing and accurate for me. Less of a butt pucker factor while...
Thanks! Nice chunk of gold you have there, should get you a nice bow out of that for sure.
As for the beaver tail, it depends. I have a rawhide one tanning with the orange bottle stuff but I've only used already tanned ones I find on Etsy, eBay, etc. if it's a whole tail, there's some good...
Thank you! I've been shooting it a lot at my deer shabin 3D course and it's a nice, well balanced shooter. Pretty fast, I'm happy with how it worked out. Might be my go-to for turkey and deer this year.
I haven't tried hickory yet. I had a neighbor give me a big log that I cut, split and sealed but it had sat outside too long and was powdery wood. No good for bows. So all that work for smoker chunks lol
I dove in 3 years ago after wanting to do it for a long time, lots of reading and watching videos before I tried (besides as a kid with sapling bows, etc)
I learn something new every time, especially from the failures (2). I started with gnarly osage staves and learned a lot quickly, the nice...
Osage static, 66" (64" NTN) 49#@28"
Back and belly stained with vinagroon, Canebrake rattlesnake skins, beaver tail grip, walnut/whitetail antler tips.
Home-rolled PO Cedar arrows. Great shooting set.