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Aug 23, 2021 Last reply: 4 years ago 27 Replies
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The general idea works great. I've got a Diamond Infinite Edge. The draw weight is easy but setting the draw length requires messing around with the cams. This year's Infinite 305 say it can be set without a bow press. The name comes from 305 FPS where the Edge claims 310. No big deal for me. I also needed to tie in the peep.

My recurves are right handed but I was having a little right eye problem and decided to see how the other half lives with a left handed compound. No big deal since I shoot long guns right handed and handguns left handed.

I got new glasses so I can kick the cataract surgery further down the road so I took the recurve out for the first time in three years. You wouldn't want to be anyplace down range for the first few but it came back pretty good. I like that bare bow feeling where the arrow goes where you're looking without all the fancy stuff.

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Welding and plasma cutting stuff that you can find at estate sales are sometimes good deals. I know the AFL-CIO doesn't want me to say that, though.

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OK so you are wearing a mask, shut the f*ck up if I am not. You think you are protected.

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I got it apart w/out a press ... getting it back together is another matter . I'll need to either make or buy something . But I did manage to machine a couple of "washers" to hold two of the pulleys . Mine have a sleeve so the screw doesn't bear directly on the limb where it's mounted . I think this thing is going to need some tuning once I have it back together .

I'm just the opposite , I shoot pistols and bows right handed , rifles left . I'm actually cross dominant , left handed with a stronger right eye .

I haven't had my recurve (or compound) out for a while . My backstop keeps getting turned into mulch for the garden . When I got this bow I was intending on giving it to my neighbor . I'm starting to waffle on that , I might ... well , he's going to get it .

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OK do what you want, just leave me out of it.

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Yeah, they need some tweaking. It took a couple of passes to get the draw length where I wanted it.

I am, or was, cross dominant too but a little macular hole problem with my right eye rained on that parade. Surgery helped but if I look through a scope the cross hairs aren't exactly a cross. I've gotten better at figuring out where the actual cross would be.

My parents never cared about me being left handed but my father taught me to shoot a rifle right handed. I doubt it was a conscious decision, just how he learned, The Western Field semi-automatic .22 tended to reinforce the decision.

Guitars and banjos are the same. I never thought about it, just did it like everybody else. I'll never be good at bluegrass because I don't have the speed for rolls. No big deal since I prefer the Dock Boggs style

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He plays the melody he is singing so it's never a super fast tempo. Sometimes he does the roll and upstroke between verses, sometimes mostly the upstrokes.

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The Timber Rattlers played at the festival yesterday and I was watching the banjo player. No way I can do that. Hell, I can't even play a guitar like that.

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On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 22:06:45 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest...

It gives you an excuse to use your booger hook to fish that lunger out...

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On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:08:17 -0500, Snag posted for all of us to digest...

Go to a GOOD auto parts store and look for door hardware they have plastic washers and stuff. ACE may have some too... But if machining is your forte, go to it.

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