AHAMO ARCHERY CLUB October 12, 1999 October 1999 Newsletter CLUB OFFICERS President: Bill Arledge (393-5371) Vice President: Dustin White (402 235-2646) Secretary: Dave Wise (498-0186) Treasurer: Dave Holthouse (291-0211) Trustees: Mike Vandeman (332-4625) John Terfone (738-1692) Sergeant at Arms: Robbie Valeika (328-8753) News Editor: Lee Pereksta (592-3856) 3D Coordinator: Jack and Dustin White (402 235-2646) Indoor range phone (734-7272)
October 4 Club Meeting News
Club Meeting highlights
The October meeting was attended by 7 members. We discussed purchasing a new bow press and scale, Officers for 2000, a workparty to clean and paint the indoor lights, and had a seminar on bow tuning and string repair. Dave Holthouse won the incentive drawing for $7.00.
New Members
There was one new member voted in at the meeting; Nick Dubas - welcome to the Ahamo Archery club.
Key Dates to Remember
Tuesdays: Indoor Leagues Oct 14: Thursday, workparty at indoor range Nov 1: Club Meeting (7:00)
Workparty to clean and paint the indoor range lights:
We discussed the lights at the club meeting. Many of the bulbs are burned out and the florescent light fixtures are a little dirty. There will be a work party this Thursday (10/14) to clean and paint the fixtures and replace the bulbs. If you can make it down, bring a couple of rags, and a ladder if you have one to bring.
Indoor Leagues
There are about 9 members in the first league of the year. Come down to the range on any Tuesday and shoot along or join the league. You don’t need to be on the league to shoot along with the club members. It’s a good opportunity to tune up your skills a little, and to check out the equipment our members are shooting. Leagues are fun to shoot in.
Hunting season news
I heard a rumor that Rich Chandler shot a nice buck already. Rich, please confirm this with me so you can get credit for the annual deer harvest awards.
If anyone in the club gets a deer, I need to know so I can put it in the newsletter and keep track for the annual deer awards. All club members that harvest a deer receive a nice plaque for the first deer shot while a member, and a plate for the plaque for any additional deer shot in the years that follow.
Please bring your 1999 rack down to a club meeting if you would like it measured for the club big buck contest. These are ‘unofficial’ measurements used for club awards only.
My season has been a little slow so far. I’ve been out four times and saw deer two of those times. I could have shot one doe, but passed on it. I won’t hesitate to shoot that deer if I see it in December, or if I see one that size during the Special Fontennelle hunt. I’ve been to Gifford’s once, and saw three deer that were all small and very skittish.
3D News:
Believe it or not, there’s an indoor 3D coming up in November. The shoot will be November 14th with set up for the shoot on the 13th.
Broadhead shooting at the indoor range
We are allowed to shoot Broadheads at the indoor range. There was a stacked foam target that was being used for that purpose, but it was getting so torn up that it was moved to the back room. You are still welcome to shoot broadheads, but bring your own target (pieces of 3D targets work good for back stops).
Do not shoot broadheads into the cardboard at the indoor range. You may not get the broadhead out, and the cardboard will get ruined. When you shoot at 3D or other foam targets at the indoor range - please clean up when you are finished. The foam makes quite a mess when you pull your arrows out.
Club Meeting Seminar
Bill Arledge gave an excellent seminar at the last club meeting on bow tuning and string repair. I learned a couple of things I plan on putting into practice. One of which was where to make your measurements from for knock and peep site placement (I never would have thought of taking those measurements from the axle). I also learned a new way to tie off a serving. Thank you for this excellent seminar Bill.
Be at the next meeting for a seminar on basic shooting form.
Women's Archery Program
Bill has two women participating in a Women's Archery program. If you would like to participate, please contact Bill.
Internet
The internet is a very easy medium to use for notifying members of upcoming club events and for sending out the newsletter. If you are not currently receiving a copy of the newsletter on the internet, please send me an Email and I’ll add your address to my club news distribution list. - Send it to hunterlee@msn.com and just ask me to please add you to my club email list.
Club members on the Email distribution list will still receive a paper copy of the newsletter - unless they ask me to discontinue the paper copy. I would prefer to send only the Email news because it costs about $6.00 per year to distribute the newsletter to a single member. If you would like to receive only the Email news, please let me know (again at hunterlee@msn.com). Email news is sent out a day behind the paper newsletter but arrives a day sooner.
Newsletter Articles
If anyone has a newsletter article, or even some equipment they would like to sell, please let me know.
Recipes for the newsletter
Please send me your favorite wild game recipes. With so many hunters in the club I know there must be a lot of good recipes we can share with each other. My favorites are simple ones - Deer Steaks, Deer Roasts done in a cooking bag, Deer hot dogs (Stoysich makes excellent hot dogs), and Deer meat in Tacos or spaghetti. I’ll bet there are a lot of excellent recipes out there, so please send me yours (by email, regular mail, or just give me your recipe at a club meeting or club function).
Article on Arrow Tuning
Bob Ragsdale is a very excellent source of archery information. He is published in many magazines and has an excellent web page for sharing his information. If you want to go out and browse his web page and pick up some good information, go to: http://domino.htcomp.net/ragsdale.nsf One of his articles that I thought was excellent was in response to a question someone asked about bare shaft tuning and fletching types.
Bare-Shaft-Planing-Test good out to 18, will any type fletching help at longer distances?
Dear Ryan,
The purpose of obtaining the best possible spine, in my mind, is to eliminate as much need for tail drag as possible. In a bare shaft test for example, when they impact very close together such as yours at 18 meters your fletching obviously has little to do. So actually, the excessive size for extra surface drag is not as necessary as when the arrow is departing erratically and needs to stabilize quickly.
Like so many others, I prefer to use the smallest possible profile, size, thinking it may reduce the adverse effects of a cross wind, no different than we expect a small ACC to not be effected as much as a big 2312 for example.
Spinning arrows, done by spiral or helical vanes or "spin wing" designs serve to MINIMIZE, not eliminate, the adverse effects of a blemished arrow. That is, if arrow number 8 has been dinged/damaged and may miss impacting with the others by 2 inches, if the arrow is spinning enroute it may only miss by 1 1/2 inches, so they may have value as a mild insurance policy since you can never be sure when an arrow has been damaged and may have changed.
As for expecting that changing from fletching A to fletching B instantly adding a few points to your score at longer distances, that's about the only way you'll ever know. In the same weather, fletch 6 one way and six another and alternate and shoot all of them and then compare their groups! Even if it is just an accident, there will be a certain value in using the "winning" fletch because you "know" it is making a slight improvement.
To assure that you have the best nocking point and centershot possible for your present bow-to-spine situation (very, very few ever even approach a perfect match) may I suggest you first touch-up each of them by shooting at a vertical and then a horizontal thin line at greater distances. The entire procedure is contained in a response to a question by "Oneshot on 08/22/99" and which can be found by entering MUST READ in my SEARCH WINDOW.
After this, if you feel it has made an improvement, I'd suggest forgetting the bare-shaft planing test altogether but if you do decide to try to accomplish it at greater distances by working with your bow peak weight, centershot and nocking point, be certain not to move back more than 10 meters at a time. That is, you can actually keep the bare shaft in the red or gold all the way out to 90, IF you can get the bow weight totally correct, like compatible down to a quarter of a pound. Think about it, the angles at which the arrow is waiting in the bow at full draw is also very crucial so it must be continually confirmed each time the bow peak weight is altered in the direction making it more compatible to the arrow. So departure angle touchups (nocking point and centershot) must also be perfect, not just the bow to shaft spine.
Most archers are quick to jump to conclusions or unsubstantiated claims by others. PLEASE let me suggest to you that it is NOT WISE TO MAKE ANY CHANGE WHAT-SO-EVER without first asking either yourself or your mentor, "IF I MAKE THIS CHANGE, HOW MANY POINTS AM I GUARANTEED WILL BE INSTANTLY ADDED TO MY ACCURACY LEVEL WITH THE SAME AMOUNT OF EFFORT ON MY PART?"
You asked, and now you have another person's point of view. Hope this helps you further enjoy your archery recreational time, mention my name when next you, your group or your business has need of an instructor, speaker or product evaluation.
Bob Ragsdale
Corporate Sponsors
Please Patronize the corporate sponsors of the Ahamo Archery club.
Ahamo Corporate Sponsors include:
*COUGAR LANES *FULL DRAW ARCHERY *WILDLIFE CREATIONS *JENSEN TIRE COMPANY (707 N. 120th St.)
Upcoming Tournaments
Upcoming 3D’s October 24 Stuart November 7 Stuart 14 Ahamo 3D with special kids setup 21 Stuart December 12 Ahamo 3D with special kids setup Upcoming Target October (none) November 13-14 President/Secy (300) (Woods and Waters) 21 Ahamo Turkey Shoot (300) December 5 Robinhood-Fremont (300) 19 Ahamo Turkey Shoot (300)
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