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Whitetail Bowhunts - 2006
Bow
Setup - Part #2
Paying close attention to your bow and everything that goes with shooting it is extremely important. I will never forget the disappointment I felt years ago when I drew on a big 8-point and my only sight pin slid downward to the bottom of the pin's slot. Or when I drew on a bomber buck and an arrow fell out of my bowquiver and clattered through the tree's limbs to the ground. Or when I bent my wire arrow rest walking though thick brush and had to stick my index finger up to rest my arrow on to take my shot. Or all the times when a deer heard my arrow slide across the various arrow rests I've used. Or when my release locked up and wouldn't shoot. Or when another release occasionally let go of the arrow during the draw. Or when the cord broke as I drew with my new, big deal release and I bloodied my nose ... and the trigger of the caliper stuck in my left arm. Yikes! Honestly, most of the above instances were strictly my own fault. Things would have been different if I would have made certain that my sight pin was screwed in tight enough, or my arrow was in the bowquiver securely, or been watchful to keep my bow and wire arrowrest from snagging on brush, practiced enough to know I needed another arrow rest or release. The day's of my caviler attitude towards my equipment are over a decade gone. Now I pay attention. I get everything set up right and check it regularly. Here is my hunting setup for this 2006 Deerhunt:
BOWTECH Tribute:
This is the Binary Cam bow with the Smooth Draw module. I am not a technical guy and I couldn't tell you the whys and what-for between a singe cam and BowTech's new binary cam. BUT I can tell you how the BowTech Tribute shoots and performs in the woods. The Tribute is a short 31.5 inches. That's a plus in a treestand and even better in a ground blind where you might bump the roof with a longer bow. It draws extremely smooth. The break over is very subtle and in fact it is only noticeable when I tried to notice it. (A pleasant change from the bump of most single cam bows.) Set at 64 pounds this BowTec bow shoots flat, flat, flat. I can hit out to 27 yards with my top pin -- I like that a lot. I'm shooting 64 pounds because I can draw it very slowly when needed and it is enough poundage for anything I hunt. Frankly, I don't know how fast it shoots but it is faster than any other bow I have shot (and my BowTech Patriot shoots over 260 FPS with my hunting arrows). So the Tribute is sending the hunting arrows down range extra fast. In my experience BowTech bows are always very quiet when you draw and impressively quiet when you shoot. Accuracy is important and a key part of it is how well your arrows group. And one of the things that immediately impressed me about this bow was how tightly my arrow grouped. I like that too. The BowTech Tribute is a perfect hunting bow: quiet, fast, light weight, smooth and very accurate. Jim Fltecher FLATHEAD
Release
The Flathead is engineered for shooting with a string loop. It features a "forward trigger design that helps get you back valuable draw length". It also features the Fletcher's exclusive self-locking, over-center trigger design. It gives the release a smooth, fully adjustable trigger pull. And the Flathead's inset hook works great with a string loop. The Flathead comes in two wrist-strap styles, the deluxe buckle strap and the deluxe velcro strap. And it is available in black or camo. In less technical terms the Fletcher Flathead is one swell shooting release with a string loop. Smooth to the max. The trigger has a subtle curved shape and fits my finger nicely, I like this shape better than straight triggers. I chose the leather wrist strap model. A velcro strap is available and I've used it on other Fletcher releases and it is just as good. (My only reservation about the Velcro is it makes a faint creaking noise during the draw when it is brand new. But it goes away when you shoot it so you can practice the noise out of it.) A top quality release aid for bowhunting in every respect. But that's how Jim Fletcher Releases does business. DIAMOND Quick
Release Bowquiver
GRIM REAPER BROADHEADS
You can have your bow tuned perfectly, but a broadhead can make all the careful tuning worthless if it won't go where you aim ... every time. And many modern broadheads take on wind noise as they head toward their intended target. The Grim Reaper RazorCut as well as the original RazorTip don't wander around on the way to the target. They go straight to where you are aiming. And they don't make any extra wind noise either. From this bowhunters perspective I find the RazorCut and RazorTip cut a wide and deadly wound channel. I get great penetration with these broadheads too, equal to or better than any broadhead I have shot in the last 30 years. The wide cut and deep penetration of these broadheads equals shorter blood trails. I would, and often do, recommend Grim Reaper broadheads to anyone. They get it done. MORE TOMORROW... 2006 Bowhunting.net Deer Hunt Sponsors
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