Here it comes Laz

[Pei]

Did you bother reading the article? This isn't the government it's just some Doctor's writing in a medical journal.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
Correct.  My competition bow I can break 275 fps with.  I've seen guys around 350, but thats some expensive stuff.  Those guys never see the woods really, they just live for competitions.  The 1000 fps thing was an extreme exaggeration, designed to see how many I could catch.  Damn you Capn lol.

My hunting bow clocks around 260 or so. I would like to step up, but I've recently seriously damaged my right arm, so I can't draw my current bow right now, my right arm won't hold while my left draws. My bow is only a 35% letoff, it's a very old PSE, I've had it nearly 20 years. I'm hoping I can rehab my arm and get back on the weight bench, but since passing 40 I don't heal as well. I don't even know what I did to it. But it has a real cool looking bruise that runs from my wrist to my elbow, then crosses my bicep and turns under to my armpit. It comes and goes because I can't take more than a week or so out of the shop.

[Maverick]

Originally posted by Pei
Did you bother reading the article? This isn't the government it's just some Doctor's writing in a medical journal.

Clue here,

Who do you think the doctor wants to make and enforce the ban???

[StarOfAfrica2]

Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
My hunting bow clocks around 260 or so. I would like to step up, but I've recently seriously damaged my right arm, so I can't draw my current bow right now, my right arm won't hold while my left draws. My bow is only a 35% letoff, it's a very old PSE, I've had it nearly 20 years. I'm hoping I can rehab my arm and get back on the weight bench, but since passing 40 I don't heal as well. I don't even know what I did to it. But it has a real cool looking bruise that runs from my wrist to my elbow, then crosses my bicep and turns under to my armpit. It comes and goes because I can't take more than a week or so out of the shop.

I broke my left arm almost exactly 11 years ago, and it is still not as good as it was then.  There are bows now with a letoff that makes it feel like you are plucking harp strings instead of pulling a bow string.  Almost no effort to hold it at all.  Of course, they are unusable for hunts if you are going after trophies.  They have regulations on how much letoff you can get away with.

As for the injury.......WTF??  If you have that big a bruise, and it "comes and goes", you better get that looked at.  You could have torn important stuff in there.  Even thinking about that makes me cringe, and I've been banged up and cut up in just about any way you can think of.  Hope I'm wrong and its nothing serious, but you should still make the time.  Like you said, things dont heal as fast anymore.  It's your body, and while you dont get any extra points at the end for turning it in all nice and shiny, you should at least be comfortable in it if possible.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

My brother and I both pulled a "Charlie Daniels" (getting your arm caught in the driveshaft of a farm implement), my brother before Charlie, and me after. Both of us broke our left arms, and are left handed.

As to my right arm, I know I tore something, I'm trying to get it to heal. However, I own my own business, and I'm the ONLY engine builder/shortblock machinist there. Needless to say, I can't take 6-8 weeks off without going out of business. It's getting better, it just takes a while. The bruise comes back if I get careless and over do it.

There are no laws here about let off, you just can't have a mechanical device to hold the string in the drawn position. My bow is a 35% letoff, being 20 years old. These days, 65% is more common, especially on the high draw weight bows. The only thing allowed with a mechanical hold are crossbows. You have to be disabled to use a crossbow here in archery season.

If it ain't healed by July, I'll skip bow season this year, because two months is the minimum I consider to be enough practice time. Archery season starts in September here.


If it doesn't heal in time, I'll just do more muzzleloading and revolver shooting. It will keep me out of one hunt I want to make though, the hunt at AEDC, the Arnold AFB area. There are some nice deer, and it is a 3 day hunt close to home with a nice camping area.

[Krusher]

Police in Scotland have said people should have to register to buy knives in a bid to tackle some of the worst knife crime in Europe.
Senior officers want shoppers to produce identification and then have to wait for a period of up to five days for the knife to be posted out to them.

In Scotland last year, 51 people were stabbed to death.


BBC link

[lazs2]

I hope I don't live long enough for government to make my world completely safe.

lazs

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Krusher
I thought this was an onion article when I first read it.

BBC link


A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase - and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings.

They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.

The research is published in the British Medical Journal.

I feel the call to ban knives in Britain coming fast! Man stabs wife 112 times

[Pei]

Originally posted by Maverick
Clue here,

Who do you think the doctor wants to make and enforce the ban???

I'd like to make the government to change the law so I get free booze and super models every weekend but it ain't going to happen either.

[Seeker]

Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts

There are no laws here about let off, you just can't have a mechanical device to hold the string in the drawn position. My bow is a 35% letoff, being 20 years old. These days, 65% is more common, especially on the high draw weight bows. The only thing allowed with a mechanical hold are crossbows. You have to be disabled to use a crossbow here in archery season.

 

What's "let off"?

[-tronski-]

Originally posted by Pei
I'd like to make the government to change the law so I get free booze and super models every weekend but it ain't going to happen either.

I'd vote for that...

 Tronsky

[Shuckins]

Seeker, "let-off" refers to the percentage of reduction in the force necessary to hold an arrow at full draw provided by a compound bow.  For instance, if a bow's draw weight is normally set at 60 pounds, with a "let-off" of 40%, the pull necessary to hold that bow at full draw has been reduced to 36 pounds.

There are some modern compounds that offer "let-off" substantially greater than 40%.

Regards, Shuckins

[Seeker]

Thanks.

I understand the explanation; but not how it works.

If it takes 60lb draw to bend the bow to the required amount; how does it take to hold it extended?

I've done a little bit of archery; but many years ago; and only on flat face long bows (albeit glass fibre).

[Shuckins]

Seeker, the cams on a compound bow typically come into play when the bow is at half draw, dramatically lessening the amount of force needed to pull the string the remainder of the distance to full draw, and to hold it there.  The draw weight that is listed for compound bows is the weight that the archer is required to pull at the start of draw, with "let-off" being the difference between that weight and that required to hold it at full draw;  ergo 40% of 60 lbs.

Regards, Shuckins

[Skydancer]

If you have to you can outrun a mad man with  knife.

I've yet to see anyone outrun a bullet.

Sorry, no comparison.