mattys281

Too cool! Congrats to the little man!

Wow! Helluva day! What kind of call you using?

Ive yet to try it (and probably never will, cuz whos got that kind of time), but theres a concept that if you flute the barrel a certain way you can actually control which way a barrel will flex during the discharge of the round. In theory if you can manipulate it to flex in the exact same direction every time, it will be more consistent. Just spitballing ideas, but with straight cut fluting it would be pretty easy to accomplish and if you orient the flex so that it only moves vertically you could potentially tighten up some horizontal variations in your grouping at longer ranges. In theory.....

Happy birthday c&s. Hope its memorable and spent with the people you like best.

Lion tag and a jack rabbit call or even a squeaker in your pocket should be all the evidence you need to avoid a hassle. Easy peasy.

Awesome bull! Congrats to him!

Congrats on your goat. Man, thats a long time to wait on a tag!

Congrats! Real nice bear.

Congrats to your dad and all involved. Awesome trophy and memories those boys will be retelling for the next 70years!

Sounds like you had a good time. I keep thinking I want to give it a try, but never seem to get around to it. I hear it's a lot of fun.

Nice! helluva whitetail!

So after my diamond bow took a dump on me a couple weeks ago, I went back & forth between repair or replacing it. In the end, I decided to do both. I like it enough to not want to retire it yet, so he's currently at Bowtech getting warranty work done, and in the mean time I went shopping. I've been eye-balling Mathews No-Cam's online ever since they came out, as I think this is probably the most innovative bow I've seen in the last 10 years at least. After a few days of watching different bows on ebay & checking out AT, I came across an ad Texas Archery (www.thebowzone.com). They're clearing out this year & last year models to make room for the 2017 bows, so they have some pretty slick deals going on. I picked up a brand new in the box 70# 29" No-cam HTR for $750 to my door. That's a hard deal to beat and the shipping was fast (showed up in 5 business days). I've had it for a couple weeks already, but didn't get time to put it together & start playing with it until today. This bow does not disappoint. It's not incredibly fast (only about 7 or 8 fps better than my Black Ice), but it's incredilby smooth on the shot and quiet. If you're in the market for a new bow, I highly recommend talking to these guys, could save you hundreds.

http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/68064-looks-like-im-in-the-market-for-a-new-bow-rip-tank-rip-my-friend/ Limb gave out on it. Just got it back the other day, and I have to say that overall I'm very impressed with bowtechs response time. When I first contacted them on a Saturday morning, they responded to me with return instructions within 3 hours. Pretty impressive for a weekend. Then when I shipped it to them after a few days I got the delivery notification from ups. The following morning I had an email from them saying it was fixed and had been shipped back already. Less than 24 hours to fix and send back. Overall, I think bowtechs warranty work is 1st rate. They stand behind their products and haul butt to fix your gear if something goes wrong. But.... the very best customer service is the one you never need. Hopefully I never need to find out how good mathews warranty is. Broken limb:

The greedy pay twice. I had one of their spotters a coupe years ago, returned it inside of a week. Overrated is the polite term.

Thats a great looking bear. Congrats!

Happy birthday! Hope its a great one.

A year or so ago I had a guy thats a partner in a custom rifle manufacturer over in cali approach me about fluting some barrels for them. I asked him point blank is the gain really that significant? He said it does lighten them up a little (obviously), greater surface are is supposed to help with heat dissipation (although theyd never actually tested it), but mostly people just think it looks cool, so it helpsto sell rifles. If it were my money, I'd invest in something that would gain me more than cool looks, unless you plan on swapping the barrel anyway, then what the heck, whip out the credit card and go crazy!

Nice! Two down, only about a hundred million to go...

My usual guy is MIA so I need some one to help me evaluate and advise on a project in my home shop. Please txt msg at (602) 908-2931. Thanks. matt

Thanks for the tip, I'll try to get in touch with them.

Thats outstanding! Hopefully they'll be off the street for a while.

I like it a lot. Its the smoothest shooter I've ever had. Its a little heavy for my taste, but its very quiet and shoots so smooth that it feels slow. Virtually no string jump at all.

Most, if not all, manufacturers recommend to back the limb bolts out before pressing the bow. Do not skip this step! Otherwise you are likely to over compress the limbs in your bowpress and this WILL damage them. You may get away with it a couple times, but you're still damaging the limbs. Mathews recommends 5 full limb bolt turns from bottomed on my No-cam, and I think Diamonds recommendation was 4x turns on my old black ice. If in doubt, contact the manufacturer. Also, find a bow press that presses from as close to the cam axles as possible, like an EZ press or one of those giant X-bar thingies with the wheels. Limbs are designed to flex across their entire length, so once again you can damage them by apply force to the wrong part of the limb. Don't put your high-dollar bow in some POS cheapie press that can ruin it. I have a brand new EZ press I just bought and have changed about a million strings, if you are in the Phoenix area and want some help feel free to stop by. I'm out in Avondale.

This is why she is going to steal the election. I'm not so certain. I think he has a better chance conducting himself as he did tonight then he would name calling and flinging mud. 80% of the voters are already decided to this side or that. Now they compete for the voters that are undecided and thinking it over. He has to present himself as a leader, not as a brawler. Next weeks polls will be interesting, I think he may have gained some.

You find some nice ones out there. NIce buck!