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I watched what I could while doing a set up on my lathe, but it was hard to hear over the sound of the american economy being boosted in my garage. From what I heard, I felt like trumpnado did pretty good. He had some bite about the gov pissing money away and making incredibly poor trade deals, back up with the statement that his personal income was $695m last year, and isnt that who you want making trade deals and dealing with the budget??? Hillary resorted to personal attacks, but I felt like trump actually presented himself as having something to offer. Bit as I said, I only heard maybe a third of it.

Everybody knows that the most basic aspect of bow maintenance is to keep your string in good condition, keep it waxed, and replace it when it's worn out. Simple right? Well, this one got me recently. My string has always been well waxed, and was not damaged any where. Still basically looks brand new, so I hadn't realized how long it had been since I changed it. Turns out it's been about 2-1/2 to 3 years. So I take my bow out to do some shooting a couple weeks ago and it just feels sluggish. I notice that my arrows are fishtailing a little and while my 20-50 pins seem ok, my arrows are dropping like a lead balloon between 50 & 60. I go home and break out the tools. Chronograph shows 261, on an unfletched arrow. That's down from my previous reading of 275-280ish with a finished arrow. Ok, so maybe the string is shot. I measure the brace height & ATA, both are exactly to spec. But then I put it on my bow scale, and here's the tell-tale sign. Draw weight on my 70# bow is reading 57# with bottomed out limbs. Put a new string and cable on it, and now I'm back up to 68# and throwing 'em out there at 285-287. I couldn't tell you how many strings I've changed over the years, but I have never checked before & afters on it (probably because I never had a chrono before). I find it really weird that the string is strong enough to maintain the bows geometry, but then when you pull it it stretches like an old rubberband. Guess you learn something new every day.

Hes an incredible bull! Congrats!

Sweet! Whens the buffalo bbq???

Great bull and awesome summary of the hunt. 27 is a great unit.... and elk definitely are aholes! Lol! Did you see any bears in person while you were hunting there? I usually see one or two during the august deer hunt. Theres a couple of them over there.

Outstanding bull! Congrats.

Seems like theres so many good manufacturers anymore, its really kind of overwhelming. Im not a real fanboy of any manufacturer over the other, but I'd say dont get wrapped up in the speed craze. I would not buy anything with less than 6" brace height or shorter than 32" axle to axle. I have a 29" draw length and have tried shooting a 30" bow and in my opinion it was too short and had too sharp of a string angle at full draw, it made for a very harsh unforgiving shot. I personally like an arrow set up that shoots about 270-280 fps. For me that seems like a good compromise between being fairly flat shooting, forgiving and quiet. As for broadheads, stay away from anything with aluminum in it. There are a lot of all steel heads out that offer very real advantages. First, no matter what the advertiser says, absolutely nothing with aluminum in it is ever going to hold up as well as a steel head if it hits bone. Also, steel heads typically have a much shorter profile which means they dont change the overall length, spine and f.o.c. of your arrow as much as an aluminum one (compared to field points), so they are easier to make group with your field points.

Thats awful! Dishonest people usually like to brag and show off, hopefully some one will hear or see something.

Not so much to me. Most of the really old ones ive seen had a bit of a sway back and the old roman nose. This guy looks like hes right around the summit, but not to far over the hill. Im certainly no expert though.

Awesome bull! Congrats.

You guys put so.e awesome bulls on the ground. Congrats on a great hunt.

I think that wind thing applies to everywhere in Arizona no matter what youre stalking. Creed, you definetely have more restraint than I, I would've got trigger happy and let fly at one of those little guys by day 2. better luck next time.

These guys have to be stopped!

Awesome trophy!

Incredible work on an amazing deer. Im jealous!

That's my dream hunt right there. Amazing! did you guys go DIY or have an outfitter?

Wow! What a great bull, especially for a first. Congrats!

Incedible animal. Glad to see a diy guy shoot to the top of the list, at least for a year or two.

What an awesome bull! Congrats.

Awesome buck! Congrats! No way I'd let that guy walk if I had the chance at him.

Awesome! Nice job! Thats cool that your kid got to do it with you, he's got some good stalking skills already.

Do you have a group rounded up already and what kind of dates are you looking at?

heck, its a discussion forum about hunting, he started a discussion about hunting. At 4 pages, seems like a few people found it interesting enough to throw their .02 out there.

You bet. Any time you want.

Sounds like one helluva an ole man to have. Glad to still have some of our 'greatest generation' with us, and I hope you celebrate at least a dozen more with him.