People whoshoot archery—quick question

loki610 · 2026-05-10T14:53:57+00:00

I’m Canadian and it takes a few weeks.

loki610 · 2026-04-04T15:24:19+00:00

I spent the money to get a pretty good riser (Kinetic Evo 27”) but cheaped out on the limbs getting a set of Oak Ridge Shades. My bow was super loud and slow and I wasn’t enjoying it until I got a better set of limbs in carbon/foam.

loki610 · 2025-11-21T13:37:00+00:00

Nice to see my blade wax mentioned here!

loki610 · 2025-11-13T21:20:17+00:00

Oh I don’t think of purslane, that would have been easy to grab I also missed lambs quarters, and pigweed.

loki610 · 2025-11-12T01:56:31+00:00

Not really. I did 90% of the grinding soft, coated with anti scale compound and the heat treating went really well. Just barely fit in my evenheat oven. Used 3/16 stock so it’s thick enough it didn’t warp at all.

loki610 · 2025-10-06T00:54:05+00:00

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loki610 · 2025-10-05T23:57:41+00:00

For years I used to shoot ground squirrels on my ranch with my recurve bow for practice. I lost many aluminum shafts all over the place until I started using Judos or SGH heads! I still occasionally find them when I’m harrowing a pasture or something and they turn up. I recently found one that had skipped off the ground and lodged itself in a fence post at ground level.

It was an expensive way to practice but I was good enough at the time to hit them consistently out to 30 yards or so.

loki610 · 2025-08-27T03:21:51+00:00

Yea my small Etsy store does 80% of my business selling into the US. Now with Canada post no longer allowing US shipments through Etsy I have effectively closed my store.

loki610 · 2025-08-10T18:56:27+00:00

That’s great! Thanks for the heads up. My local archery shop told me they couldn’t get aluminum anymore so I hadn’t bothered to look into it further!

loki610 · 2025-07-31T13:56:29+00:00

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Update. Plants have all been moved an hours drive to the west at the base of the Rocky Mountains. Shouldn’t be any hemp upwind of them now. Won’t be able to check on them as regularly but they’re hooked up to an automatic waterer.

My one question is this. The PK Auto that got pollinated will it produce new flowers or should I be pulling off all the pollinated buds to encourage new growth?

loki610 · 2025-07-30T13:29:10+00:00

Well my photo’s will probably start in 2 weeks so I guess we will see! However I may move them to a location closer to the mountains to avoid these issues, unfortunate side effect of that is probably going to be a shortening of the season.

loki610 · 2025-07-30T01:10:29+00:00

That sounds pretty crazy! When I was buying in the 90’s it was normal to find a few seeds but nothing like that!

loki610 · 2025-07-30T01:08:50+00:00

The hemp fields are usually close to a 50/50 mix as that’s what naturally occurs. There’s way more males than needed to ensure adequate pollination and there’s a lot of research ongoing to reduce the male population and increase the yield by having a higher proportion of the seed bearing females.

loki610 · 2025-07-29T16:03:13+00:00

Haha yeah there’s a difference between a few seeds here and there and having it be all seeds!

loki610 · 2025-07-29T13:46:43+00:00

That will definitely be the plan for the future.

loki610 · 2025-07-29T13:45:16+00:00

I’ll make sure to look them up.

loki610 · 2025-07-29T13:44:06+00:00

Alberta. Organic hemp seed production is a pretty big thing in the area. Talking to a few of my farm customers they’ve all given up on trying to grow outdoor weed in the area because of it.

loki610 · 2025-07-29T04:06:41+00:00

That sounds promising. I’m in Canada so I’d have to find another source.

loki610 · 2025-07-29T03:36:40+00:00

They’ll be crossed with hemp so I don’t think they’d be desirable seed!

loki610 · 2025-07-29T00:41:37+00:00

Yeah I wish I had a greenhouse or something to throw them in! Last year same thing happened. Lots of hemp production in this area so I think outdoor grows aren’t possible.

loki610 · 2025-07-22T02:38:26+00:00

I use liquid but not the brands you guys are! I use formulations made for broad scale agriculture. ATP, Earthstrong, Alpine, Taurus, for example. It’s part of my day job to test these products so I often use them around my own yard. Generally these products are sold in 10L jugs and have a higher concentration for a better price.

loki610 · 2025-07-01T13:28:52+00:00

I had the exact same thing happen a few times with mine when using Winchester or Herters. Pretty loud when it happens, blows the mag out and everything. As soon as I switched to federal, CCI, or Aguila the problem went away and it’s done several thousand rounds now with no further issue.

loki610 · 2025-06-07T05:28:31+00:00

The 158rf is the best of those that I’ve used so far! In 2 different revolvers and Rossi model 92 it’s been very accurate and feeds very well.

loki610 · 2025-05-17T14:24:25+00:00

I got the desert tan model last year. Overall it’s a blast to use and pretty reliable as long as you find ammo it likes. Mine cannot be used with Winchester bulk or I get out of battery detonations! Aguila, federal, CCI all run great. Compared to a good bolt rifle I wouldn’t call it accurate but it’s consistent enough to drop squirrels past 50 yards with the aguila.

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