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I never understood why SO MANY people like that staged B/S...
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Surfin´ Bird .....ehm I mean Surfin´ Bear
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Arrows again:
Who think about to use arrows if the SHTF, should buy them now! They are cheap to get from china and don´t use much space to store them. Even when they have a screw at the end, it can be flattened and fixed into self made wood arrows. There are arrows around with 3 or 4 razor blades fixed on it but they are not to recommend! The blades are a one shot and break easy and if fragments still sticking in the flesh, you can hurt yourself very badly in mouth or stomach if you swallow them! Luck for you - you shot an animal and think you will survive now and die later on infected cuts in mouth or inside your body
Classical points like on the attached pics are the best! They last long and can easily be sharpened again. Also with their weight you will be on the right side to make wood arrows with the correct weight and a good FOC. You can get those points from china for less than a $ on many sources.
I haven't had a bow for a long time. Remember those aluminum are a on target heads? I think those would be pretty good for a lot of hunting actually.
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Don´t know which ones you mean. Can you post a pic`?
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Practice points that are usually the weight of hunting blades.
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Yup! they are common. This are steel target points (aluminum is not heavy enough and damage easy if you hit hard targets), not good for hunting larger animals. You need points with blades so animals bleed out faster. Those on the pic you shown goes through without making many damage. If you don´t hit an important organ or artery, the animals run too far away and may die a painful and slow death.
Btw: Trapping is much more effective than hunting
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Could be used for hunting with crossbows but only if you know what you doing (aiming on the heart)! Means you have to know the animals anatomy and exactly how to dial in the scope and hit a 2" target up to 50 yards (it´s easy at prone shooting). Up to 50 meters and more the complete bolt goes through lager animals and the vanes making more damage in fact as the point and damages most time when the bolt goes as example two times through rips! And you need a detector to find back the bolts
For hunting smaller animals like rabbits up to 50 yards, I would prefer an more precise air rifle with minimum 16 joule. A box with 1000 pellets costs under 10$ so no need to waste good arrows which costs more than 10$ (all others are just rubbish)
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View attachment 1654649 Too close for comfort.
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My very first thought: I would n´t swim nude there!!
"Snap" and your 
are gone... 
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My very first thought: I would n´t swim nude there!!
Yea, Sharks aren't choosey when it comes to a meal.
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Guess it depends on WHO hangs his into the water - right?!
into the water - right?!
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Here is a good method for testing crossbow bolts for precision.
Sight in and set a target on 50 Meters. Install a spirit level under your scope or at the part that holds the bows to make sure you hold the crossbow always straight! The scope mount of a crossbow sits much higher as on rifles so every turn to left or right puts your arrow out of center.
If possible make that test without much wind.
Mark 6 arrows at the vanes with numbers from 1 to 6.
Use the attached sheet that I made to write in where the bolt hit the target (you can mark different shots with one arrow at the same target). Now you can see when a bolt doesn´t hits the right spot and you can sort them out. Some times it is simply your own fault but if the arrow hits always an other spot than the bulls eye you know that something is wrong with that bolt!
I´ve tested all my match bolts with an rotating arrow tester and all looked very very good. Than when I shot them and there was a few which had a deflection up to 10 inches and hit not where i aimed, even when this bolts goes every time to the same spot outside the v-bull. Could happen because the vanes or something else but they are real not to use.
This test is easy and make a lot of fun, specially when you know later you have real perfect material to "work" with
An other important tip (also for rifles). Many people pull the trigger from inside the bent finger and this is wrong, specially if you have a more heavy trigger like on crossbows. Always just use only the tip of the finger Otherwise on hard triggers you pull to much to one side.
Forgotten: one vanes should have an other color so put the number there and than put always this other colored vane into the crossbow rail ! The vanes can have an effect on the flight and if you put it different ways into the rail you don´t get a correct result!!
Sight in and set a target on 50 Meters. Install a spirit level under your scope or at the part that holds the bows to make sure you hold the crossbow always straight! The scope mount of a crossbow sits much higher as on rifles so every turn to left or right puts your arrow out of center.
If possible make that test without much wind.
Mark 6 arrows at the vanes with numbers from 1 to 6.
Use the attached sheet that I made to write in where the bolt hit the target (you can mark different shots with one arrow at the same target). Now you can see when a bolt doesn´t hits the right spot and you can sort them out. Some times it is simply your own fault but if the arrow hits always an other spot than the bulls eye you know that something is wrong with that bolt!
I´ve tested all my match bolts with an rotating arrow tester and all looked very very good. Than when I shot them and there was a few which had a deflection up to 10 inches and hit not where i aimed, even when this bolts goes every time to the same spot outside the v-bull. Could happen because the vanes or something else but they are real not to use.
This test is easy and make a lot of fun, specially when you know later you have real perfect material to "work" with
An other important tip (also for rifles). Many people pull the trigger from inside the bent finger and this is wrong, specially if you have a more heavy trigger like on crossbows. Always just use only the tip of the finger
Otherwise on hard triggers you pull to much to one side.Forgotten: one vanes should have an other color so put the number there and than put always this other colored vane into the crossbow rail ! The vanes can have an effect on the flight and if you put it different ways into the rail you don´t get a correct result!!
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Guess it depends on WHO hangs his
So are you saying your "bait" would be irresistable? Or that it is a huge offering which would satisfy a shark?
If we go swimming nude and sharks show up, I will be sure to hide behind you ;p
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LOL You crack me up
I know EXACLTY why you would swim behind me! You simply expect that the sharks laughing to death after they saw my
.....Grrrrmmmff
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Buddy, better you swim at first and SHOCK THEM TO DEATH 
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