Traditional Bow Hunting Equipment
My sealant finally cured hard enough to move on to next steps with my wooden arrows build. Last night I carefully examined each arrow’s end grain so that I could orient my arrow nock grooves and string perpendicular to the grain, with the runners facing up. I made a small reference dot at the end …
Last night I stayed up late and put a new center serving on the Omega longbow. 6 3/4″ of BCY Halo serving thread. Worked out just right – and at lunch today (yesterday now) I was having a hard time missing the bullseye at 20 yards on my homemade target consisting of a chicken feed …
Dinner tonight was a bottom round roast, eye separated, from a young deer killed last October. After removing all fat and silverskin, I rubbed the roast with kosher salt, cracked peppercorns, garlic powder, Hungarian paprika and brown sugar. Then I popped it into the Brickmann Smoker grill for two hours over some soaked hickory chips …
I’ve been shooting a lot of GT traditional carbon arrows out of the longbow lately – which doesn’t seem so “trad.” Since I just bought a 50 year old vintage recurve, I thought I’d build a new set of woodies. This morning I put the second coat of Sikkens Cetol on these 55/60 tapered port …