galiuro mountain man

I use my pins themselves as a rangefinder, if I dont have time to get to my laser one on my hip. Heres how to do it. Find something that is the same size as the chest broadside of what you will be shooting. #D targets are the best, but a box or a pillow will work too. Set it in a safe dirction in case your bow goes off. Step out 20 yards, pull back with an arrow (dont want to accidentally dry fire) and put your 20 pin on the top of it. Your bow will be different than mine, but against a coues body my 20, 30 and 40 pin all are within the chest area of an average size deer. Now 30 yards, do the same exact thing, pull your bow and line your 20 pin with the back of your target or whatever you are using. My bow at 30 my 20 and 30 are still on the chest of a coues deer and my 40 is right on the bottom line under the chest. Now 40 yards, do it the same way. My bow the 20 pin is on top and the 30 pin is just off of the chest. 50 and up for me is a little tricky, so I try to use a rangefinder for that. One thing that will make it easier (and make your groups tighter) is to have sights that have a round guard, center the sight guard in your peep instead of each individual pin. It is also easier to find a spot to pick to shoot because doing it this way because you dont have to change your anchor point for each distance, so instead of focusing on a pin your focus is on the animal. Then when the right pin gets to that spot, let it rip. Also make sure you practice this with each different size animal you go after. You dont want to try this with elk using the same amount of pins on the animal, get a refridgerator box and cut it to the size of an elk. I know on elk at 40 yards just about all of my pins are on fur. I learned a lesson in December with big mule deer, I should have practiced for them. Also any time you get a new bow it is good to practice this. Hope this helps GMM

This is a long one!! I have done a lot of testing with a shooting machine, spin tester with dial indicator and spine tester on which is better. I used top quality carbons and aluminums (one dozen each for this test, will try to test more during the summer). The aluminums were supposed to be straight to about .001" I could only find one that was even bent this much. The carbons were supposed to be straight to .001" also, I found two that were at .002". This was on full length shafts, and one of the carbons was perfect after I cut them down to 28", taking some from both sides, the other carbon and aluminum one that was bent to .001" still. At this point they were tied. Spine on full lenght shafts was a close one too, all of the aluminums were spined where they said they were. All but one of the carbons was perfect, the only one that was off ended up being the one with the .001" bend after cutting. I found the stiffer side on all of the arrows and put that down (same side the cock vane is on)to start and shot groups bare shaft out of a shooting machine at 25 yards and tuned the nocks to get the tightest groups with aluminums and carbons. This was hard because of the two different types of arrows, they needed the bows set up slightly different. I first started with the aluminums in my Outback, and the carbons in my Switchback. Once I got them all tuned I set each bow up to shoot the other type of arrow to verifythe arrow nocks were tuned for the best groups. I glued on fletchings, I put the cock vane as close to the stiff side of the shaft as I could according to the nock, most of the arrows didnt need much nock tuning, so it was fairly simple to figure out how I should glue them on. I had to wait till the next day (aluminum arrows fletches had to dry), then went to 40 yards and shot 100 times with each type of arrow. The aluminums grouped better than the carbons, carbons 1 1/2" and aluminums 1". I was grouping by shooting a paper target and pulling arrows out of it between each shot, and a group was 6 arrows. This went on for 2 days, one day aluminum and the next carbon. I went to work for the next four days. I continued to finish the next hundred shots with the bows swiched. This is where it got interesting. The aluminum groups were starting to get larger. I remeasured all of my setup on my bow, nothing changed. I then swiched bows again, and the aluminum groups were still getting larger. They ended up at 2 1/2" for a small group, and 3" for a larger group. The carbons were still 1 1/2" to 2" consistantly. What happened? I rechecked straightness, all arrows were still as straight as they were when I started. I checked nocks, all good. I then checked spine, I found all of the carbons to still be within 2 percent of advertised, but the aluminums were between 2 and five percent of the advertised. After the arrows were shot so many times, it was actually shooting the spine out of them, the aluminums were getting weaker. The flexing of the shaft at every shot was making them weaker. I decided to test this more so I put away the carbons and shot the aluminums, by hand so it was faster, untill I had to go back to work (I had a job with a weird schedule). I probably shot them a couple hundred times each. Remeasured spine, but not much changed, so the aluminums spine weakness got to a stopping point. What I found was the aluminums were more consistant with what was advertised right out of the box. Carbons are more durable, but I didnt notice the spine issue when shooting by hand, I am not as consistant as my shooting machine. I dont think anyone can notice this shooting by hand, I just thought it was interesting. Oh the cabons weighed in at 372 to 376 grains and the aluminums were 420 to 423 grains, the carbons FPS was 301 Outback and 304 Switchback. Aluminums O 292 S 296. The carbons ar quite a bit louder and the bows vibrated more, but that comes with speed. I didnt have any consistant way to test penetration, but the both seemed to be close. Which ones did I choose? Carbons, for the simple fact I can put them together faster. I dont have to wait as long for the glues to dry. I know there are fast setting glues for aluminums also, but I havent had very good luck with them. Sorry I was so long winded!!! GMM

Holy "coues", thats a cool lookin rack. It would be awsome just to see something like that running around somewhere. GMM

Went out again today. I checked out another place and saw nothing. It is a really good looking area, but no sign what so ever. I called it a day early because I was snowed out. Icouldnt even see 30 yards at times. Most of the time it was around 50 to 60 yards. I had to do some work to my truck anyways so it was good I came home early. Sunday and monday I will go out, and I have a pigalina tag also, so hopefully I have a story then. GMM

Well, I am getting shots, just keep misjudging distance. I have had 3 shots at 3 different big mule deer, and have been barely missing low. I will connect though, I am going to try again tomorrow. I am going into a new area so we will see how I do. I did call one of them in though, he was grunting and mad, tearing up trees. This was after I had shot once, and I was calling him back. About the time he got back close enough he realized his does had walked off. So he turned and walked away. Then on Christmas afternoon I was able to watch 2 big bucks fight. I tried to slip up on them, but I had to take it easy because the does would bust me, and when the does were out of the picture, they quit fighting. I almost called them in too, but they stopped at about 100 yards from me. GMM

Its all about the money. If they know they will get more people to enter the draw they will change it. It will get more people to put in, and have to buy a non refundable license, even if they arent drawn they have to pay for a license. Some of them wont even use the license.

Wife has a cow elk tag, so I will be going after that. Unit 28 or 32.

If you are still looking for a bow, now is a good time to buy one, all of the shops are trying to get rid of the 2006 models and make room for the 2007's. You may be able to find a good deal. Also a lot of shops buy back or trade bows from customers, so they may have a bow dirt cheap. I have seen bows that have barely been shot for less than half the new price. Also, one other thing to think about is a few of the bow companies have a more economic line like Hoyt has Reflex and Bowtech has Diamond, they offer some of the same things, just at a better price, some of the bows from a couple years ago are in this line with a new name, at half the price. Hope this helps GMM

I shoot the Scott Rhino, I dont Know what they are calling it now. It is one of the rleases made for the string loops. GMM

I would get the string replaced, and have the wheels pulled off and lube them and the axles with graphite. While someone is doing this, they should be able see any cracks or other problems. Shoot this bow and see if you really like it, then try a newer one later if you want. you will be amazed how much different, and nice the new ones are. GMM

Its easy to make your own bow. I have a couple, and I just need to get motivated to get my ash and bamboo one done. My favorite shop is my shop. I dont trust anyone else with my stuff. I even take my press with me when I go on long hunting trips and vacations when I will be doing comps. GMM

Most of your low poundage childrens bows dont have enough power to break limbs or cables/ strings. Most of the time they are the bows that are 10 pound draw or lighter. GMM

What part is moving? If there is a screw coming loose put some bowstring wax on the threads and it will hold it for a long time. It will also help keep the screws from gauling and getting stuck. I usually put wax on all of my screws at least once a year, usually the beginning of summer after all the spring hunts. Hope this helps GMM

Well summer is here and in a short time it will be deer season again. It is time to get out the bows and start getting ready for the season. I got a new bow for this season and have been shooting it, I love it. I have been shooting way better with this bow than any other. I will be doing some scouting and finding new areas to hunt (cant have too many) in the next couple of months. I hope to find a couple of the bucks I have seen in the past couple of years. I will be setting up cams, and trying to get photos while I am out there (I always carry a camera, but I forget to get it out of my pack when I see something). Hopefully I can get some pics up. GMM

Its not boasting, its awsome. I told everyone about mine when I got my award from P&Y. No body got mad at me, I was just excited, and I would imagine you are too. Just keep on postin GMM

I also shoot all year long. I usually go out to the range nearly every day. Well last week I didnt get to, so I will have to make up for it this week.

I ended up getting a Switchback. I still have my Outback, but it is now a backup bow. I had the chance to get a SB when I got my OB, but I thought at that time the OB was better. Oh well, the OB was a great bow, I got 1 deer, 1 javelina, and a bunch of rabbits with it, but I am so much more accurate with the SB. I hope I can get into the deer like I did a couple of years ago. If so, the hunt will be even better, deer running all over, and not really paying attention to me. What ever this season is like, it will be fun. GMM

I am using g5 montecs. They are the toughest, and the easiest to sharpen I have found. GMM

My computer at my shop was hit. I had 5 or 6 variations of the trojan virus. Windows caught it and started downloading anti spyware on my computer. It cost me $25.00, but I have no more viruses. My home computer wasnt effected. GMM Ooops

These people dont think, that is what makes them dangerous. The only thing I fear running into in the forest is a whaco like this. GMM

I shot him in unit 28. I am going to do a shoulder mount. This was the first pig tag I have ever had, so I am pretty happy. GMM

I havent been able to post anything in a while, been busy, but here is my archery javelina I got the last day of season. I was about to give up after a whole month of hunting and not finding any javies. The last day I ended up hitting this big boar at 6yds with my Outback. The hunt was kind of wierd, we found lots of them before season, and this was the only shot I had on a pig this year. I saw lots of small bucks and one mulie my hunting partner and I call Buckzilla, we hunted him about half the month, but I never got any pics of him, but August will come soon enough. Rough estemation puts the buck over 200", somewhere. But here is the pig, he was all alone and field dressed over 55 lbs. (all my scale went to).

I have him at my taxidermist right now, should be done soon. GMM

Nice pigalena. Great pictures too. GMM

That is awsome, I have a 4 year old daughter that I cant wait for "her" first hunt, but I dont want to rush it. I know she will be 10 before I am ready, and definately a teen before I can ever be ready for it. Tell him congrats on a great pig, and good luck in the future. GMM